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Goppy1 year ago
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amervtrn1 year ago
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The dumbocrat dribble and kindergarden whining is unbelievable. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. Racism knows no color. There are White racist,Black racist,Brown racist, ECT. To some it is a hatred, to some it is distrust, and to others it is a tool of deceit. The last thing the USA needs at this time is an Amateur. There is no time for on the job training. More Socialist debt is definitely not what we need. Research what and who you vote for, check your resources, do not buy into the hype, think and reason for yourself. Being what one "Goppy" called an old f*rt, I have already survived this type situation (Carter), and really shiver at the thought of having to go through it again. Therefore the inexperience definitely concerns me. The Socialist leaning is a big red flag. Obama's record shows nothing to recommend him. Pretty words and rhetoric may soothe the soul but do nothing to solve problems. The fairy tale he is preaching comes direct for the Socialist Handbook.
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swvmd1 year ago
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Try reading anything legitimate and you'll see McNasty is another McFraud just like Shrub-Dick. Rolling Stone has an in-depth article complete with interviews with former classmates, peers and fellow POWS all of whom describe this petulent
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elitist as an opportunist and core scumbag. It's factual which is something the media has avoided dealing with since repuked spin replaced actual reporting. He's another conservative clone with a fictional persona adopted shamelessly by himself and now pitched to the media and the nation by the same Rove apparatus that gave us W.-
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amervtrn1 year ago
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You consider Rolling Stone research?Research what and who you vote for, check your resources, do not buy into the hype, think and reason for yourself.
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For those fighting the party wars.
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.-Alexander Pope
If your 20 and not a Liberal, You have no Heart. If you are 40 and not a Conservative, You have no Brain--Sir Winston Churchhill-
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GWHayduke1 year ago
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Amervtn's parroting of Churchill's statment is a very good example of one's inability to think rationally and for him/herself.
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Discrediting Rolling Stone and any other dissenting view as "hype" while embracing the most extreme similar views is par for this putt-putt course.
His claim that he is not 'fighting the party war' and 'do your own research' bears a shocking resemblance to this exchange:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUOFTPbxuWA
Funny how the Nobel winner was dead on in his assessment, while the radical, partisan hack turns out to be nothing more than a yelling lunatic with ZERO credibility.-
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reidgator1 year ago
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Oh, please do not give Krugman any credit.
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He as been predicting "recession" for 7 straight years. He even predicted recession during Clinton's administration. Sooner or later, recessions will come. And "Chicken Little" will sit back and say "I told you so."
But, if you insist on giving Krugman credit, then, this is HIS explanation for our current finacial crisis: (NYTimes, July 4, 2008)
"At the top of my list of causes for the lousy economy are three factors: the housing bubble and its aftermath, rising health care costs and soaring raw materials prices."
Note that even Krugman does not blame Bush.
So, does this mean YOU will stop blaming Bush? After all, Krugman won the Nobel Prize for Economics, thus, he muuuust be right!!!-
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reidgator1 year ago
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You may have a degree, but, you are not educated.
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So what if you did not mention Bush. You brought up Paul Krugman and his Nobel Prize.
(Did you even know his name? I know your resources are limited to videos and comic books. You know, lots of pictures.)
I simply responded that Krugman does not deserve the accolades he is getting. He is a "Chicken Little". I used his analysis of the Bush economy to get you to rethink your praise of him.
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Beau78901 year ago
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Could you specify what in the article you object to, amervtrn? There is no mention of racism, and certainly no mention of socialism. Further down, your comment implores people to research candidates--if you researched Obama, you'd find nothing socialist.
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And even if you did, could you tell us why socialism would produce worse results than the situation we now find ourselves in? (Please do that without confusing socialism, where the government tries to provide a basic standard for the survival of its people by providing services, and communism, where there is no private ownership of anything and the goal is that all people earn an equal amount.)-
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Mdiar1 year ago
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socialism, where the government tries to provide a basic standard for the survival of its people by providing services
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I can't really agree with that definition. That's just good government. We've reached a point where anything not laissez-faire is "socialism". The fact is, few places are socialist in this day and age and yup, Obama certainly isn't a socialist.-
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Beau78901 year ago
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I didn't mean that so much as a definition of socialism as a description of what it accomplishes, and as a way to contrast it with the radical no-oversight, no-accountability capitalism espoused by today's Republicans.
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But I agree whole-heartedly with your statement that "we've reached a point where anything not laissez-faire is 'socialism.' The fact is, few places are socialist in this day and age and yup, Obama certainly isn't a socialist."-
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hyperbola1 year ago
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Actually I disagree. We DO NOT have laissez faire and have not had it for a long time. What we have is corruption. What happens depends on who you know and who you pay off in "government". The screams of "freedom" are just a means for covering up corruption.
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Beau78901 year ago
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You're right, too. We don't have a free market, but many of the benefits of the government's manipulation of market forces do not go to ordinary citizens. Still, there are many who would call any kind of restriction of free markets "socialism."
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But I have to ask--do you think an unregulated free market would be a good thing (even if the effects of all corruption were removed)?-
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flyonthewallzz1 year ago
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That is a trick question Beau:
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Lets say someone forms a corporation and puts rat poison in a bottle and sells it as baby food.
With our current regulation all the folks that gave the dude the money to set up shop are protected from the law and can lose only the value of the stock they bought, if they where not smart enough to sell it before the crap hit the fan.
The dude that thought of it may face a fine or even some prison time, He gets to keep his earnings and house and the profits from before he was caught.
Just for the sake of what I might consider a pure "Free Market" and the company and share holders where not protected by the state chartered gift of limited liability.
A jury could then asses damages that would reach into the pockets of shareholders, and there would be no need to label or check or regulate the product. It would be bad business to sell poison or pollute water or air and investors would have to be very careful about the type of activity they became involved with. The huge pools of money create cartels and monopolies, with stockholders blindly looking only towards returns on their investment, and sleeping soundly knowing that even if there money is causing harm, they are not going to get hurt as long as their timing is good.
Stock market is not Free Market.
So yes I do think an unregulated free market would be a good thing.
But if industry is given protection it has to be regulated.
We have to know if the baby food has rat poison in it, and since the the folks selling it are protected, we are stuck trying to keep up with them.
Weights and measures, Patents, are forms of regulations that exist in our Constitution, and our government is mandated to enforce them.
OOPs my thoughts are drifting: time to hit the Reply button,
sorry for the ramble.
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jordan111 year ago
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You're deflecting. What do you think about a man with questionable mental health starting rumors that you bought? You were used. One would think that would make you angry, and you'd start assessing the kind of people you promote. But noooo. Here you are fighting to the end that you weren't wrong. Absolutely pitiful.
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JEBUS081 year ago
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at least obama has a positive message - what does mccain have, just a bunch of hate filled implied attacks against the opposition - and i would rather have a socialist debt, which would at least benefit citizens in terms of health care and social security, than the current debt, which benefits huge corps
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