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Reply to Eradicating Terrorism: The Glorious Strategy in Politics PolMach Forums

Totally got me!

Reply to Eradicating Terrorism: The Glorious Strategy in Politics PolMach Forums

You think attacking the terrorists environment decreased the chance of further terrorism? The Israelis have attacked Palestine over and over. Doesn't seem to be working. If you don't want to repeat history, learn from it. How is a terrorist group ever completely elimated? Not by destroying training camps. Not by attacking and holding/occupying land. You either catch 100% of the group and detain or eliminate them... Or you integrate them. If yo

Reply to Another way of looking at taxes in Politics PolMach Forums

Wow! I cannot fathom why the republicans are not trumpeting the 4 million net job figure over and over! Suspicious...

Reply to Why I'll be supporting Kerry in Democrat PolMach Forums

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Zell Miller, Waffler in Politics PolMach Forums

The following is a speech given by Zell Miller. Introduction of Senator John Kerry Democratic Party of Georgia's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner March 1, 2001 It is good to be back in Georgia and to be with you. I have been coming to these dinners since the 1950s, and have missed very few. I'm proud to be Georgia's junior senator and I'm honored to s

Reply to Why I'll be supporting Kerry in Democrat PolMach Forums

I don't hate your view, but it's likely because I lived in Europe for years. One of the reasons I knew G.W. Bush would be awful diplomatically is he had never traveled outside the U.S. before getting elected. I know my travels have broadened my understanding of the world. Many Americans are too narrow-minded and ignorant to grasp how our actions are perceived by others. As the most powerful country in the world, we should walk very softly. It's ha

Reply to Another way of looking at taxes in Politics PolMach Forums

If knowone else posted the data before I get home I'll put it up. Thanks, Lee! This is one of the reasons I love forums like this.

Reply to Another way of looking at taxes in Politics PolMach Forums

I have to say, Lobo, your figure is MUCH more accurate a reflection of my tax burden than Draginol's 42%. The reason, as you point out, is the important contribution of capital gains in lowering my tax burden. Draginol also included 8% in sales tax which makes no sense at all to me unless he spends every dollar that he makes every year. Some Americans do. What you didn't address, for people who are self employed, is the 15.3% on the first

Reply to Another way of looking at taxes in Politics PolMach Forums

Little Whip, Let's use Wal-Mart as an example of big business. A town has local stores which pay say $15 per hour. The town gives tax breaks to Wal-Mart to build a new store, but they don't give the same tax breaks to the local stores. Wal-Mart moves in and people choose to shop there because the prices are cheaper (partly due to labor costs, partly due to the tax incentives, partly due to economies of scale). The local stores go out of bu

Reply to Putting One's Money Where One's Mouth Is in Politics PolMach Forums

I hear you, Gideon. It is terrible to be on welfare. I have never been there myself, but those I work with are. Just talked with a woman not five minutes ago who is on welfare. Last night her baby was taken from her because she didn't have formula. She meets with her caseworker later today to see if she can get her child back. Totalitarian is a spot on description. I would say I have seen the abuses secondhand. Please do not put words i

Reply to Putting One's Money Where One's Mouth Is in Politics PolMach Forums

if they promoted fund raising events such as I suggested, the money could increase quickly. They do. I just did a quick google search on Sarandon. I see Susan Saradon has traveled to Africa and raised money for Unicef. She may not raise as much money as you want her to, or devote her efforts to the c

Reply to Putting One's Money Where One's Mouth Is in Politics PolMach Forums

Gideon, The basic premise of your argument is that you feel people who believe in welfare should be the ones to provide it, not the government. Let's use your logic in other scenarios: 1) The people who run up the deficit (Republicans) should be the ones who then owe the money. 2) The people who think we need to be in Iraq should be the ones who go occupy it. 3) The people who think the wealthiest America

Reply to The P-P-P-Patriot Act in Politics PolMach Forums

RATM4EVA, just because people vote for a law doesn't mean it is a good law. Prohibition? The thing I hate about the Patriot Act is the concept you can invade people's privacy if you have suspicion they will commit a crime. It used to be you could invade privacy if you had suspicion they had committed a crime. Slippery slope.

Reply to The horror of our debt. in Politics PolMach Forums

! Whoops! This makes a lot more sense. You meant it would be totally unacceptable, not that it is not possible. : )

Reply to CO2 in atmosphere on the rise in Politics PolMach Forums

The government already does heavily subsidze fusion research, and most physicists see fusion power plants as several decades off. Not heavily enough in my opinion.

Is there a Search Function to the Forum? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

If so, where is the button or how do I access it? Thank you in advance for you help.

Reply to CO2 in atmosphere on the rise in Politics PolMach Forums

I absolutely agree with your four recommendations, Draginol. A fifth would be to have the government heavily subsidize research into nuclear fusion power plants. That is the long term holy grail for energy. And I too am frustrated that the majority of environmentalists do not see that we have to make hard choices. An energy crisis is looming. Dependence on oil is dangerous to our national security and economic vitality. The risk of nuclea

Reply to CO2 in atmosphere on the rise in Politics PolMach Forums

Thanks for educating me, Paul!

Reply to The horror of our debt. in Politics PolMach Forums

Paul, I totally agree with you. Defaulting on our national debt is indeed a potential option, but an absurd one. We have to reign in spending and this is why we need Kerry in office. G.W. Bush, unlike his father who had the courage to raise taxes when it was politically unpopular, doesn't have the gonads our country requires in this situation. His father fought in WWII and had guts. G.W. was a coward in Viet Nam and he is being a coward o

Reply to The horror of our debt. in Politics PolMach Forums

Some of the idea's users have posted on this are absurd. First and formost, the government can not default on their loans. Sandy2, I disagree your assertion that governments cannot default on their loans. Third world nations have done this before. It could happen to the US. Let me give you

Reply to CO2 in atmosphere on the rise in Politics PolMach Forums

Paul, I'm confused about the effects of CO2 you have listed. Can you provide links that CO2 levels are poisonous? Maybe you mean CO (carbon monoxide) which is indeed lethal. Perhaps you mean that we can't breathe 100% CO2, but really what you are saying is we need O2 to survive. I also don't understand how CO2 causes ozone damage. Can you provide a link for that point? I certainly could be ignorant, but I've never hea

Reply to Iraqi Soccer Team's Response to Bush Ad in Politics PolMach Forums

(why is it that the ones least informed on these things or say the most disgusting vile things such as what Patrick say are always on the left?) That is not true. The left does not have a monopoly on ignorance. David Duke was ill-informed and said vile things. So did Hitler. Rush Limbaugh

Reply to The horror of our debt. in Politics PolMach Forums

Americans don't need to worry about their national debt. If it becomes too large and too draining, the US will simply declare it's not going to pay it back, and just take the repercussions of such a move. After all, there's nobody to stop them. OMG! That is so ignorant! Do you have any idea

Reply to CO2 in atmosphere on the rise in Politics PolMach Forums

Bill Joy (co-founder Sun Microsystems, Chief Scientist [until he recently quit the post]) "Our problem is no longer "going faster," getting to the future as fast as possible, but rather dealing with limits - limiting our own greed to avoid disaster in the environment and limiting what rogue individuals and state

Reply to CO2 in atmosphere on the rise in Politics PolMach Forums

I wouldn't think of shaking your "faith". I think in a system as complex as this Earth, with the small slice of data we have, it takes a lot of faith to believe that you can actually come to a conclusion. I think there are many conclusions one can come to when viewing the system. For example,