Yes, he loves to talk but what politician doesn't? Sometimes he's guilty of gaffs, but he is far from mean-spirited like shotgun Cheney who is literally undermining national security efforts.
[quote]Please tell me in your mind where it is ok to make a profit and where it is not ok?[/quote] In my mind profit is defined by the net gain after total costs. The problem, however, is that along the money trail everyone dips into the till under the guise of costs rather than theft, causing costs to skyrocket and profits to diminish or artificially inflated. I'm simply asking for a economic system of greater integrity whereby prifits are real and then used for modes
The so-called war on drugs has never cut off sufficient thug revenue. with war on terror we occasionally freeze assets to little avail. With these terrorists there's a third option--energy independence.
Insurance peddlers have drummed fear into the hearts of physicians to justify their outrageous premiums. As for reform tortwise, except in the grossest scenarios I have always advocated reasonable compensation and not left to the whimsicality of jurors.
[quote]Reality bites, doesn't it? With most of the world willing to work for far less in real purchasing terms (since it's a huge increase in purchasing power & standard of living for them), what did we expect? [/quote] There's no doubt we benefited after WWII as we were the only industrial power not bombed out. So for a time we became the world's producers. But we also rewarded the globe with foreign aid, particularly the Marshall Plan, so we saw it coming and was ready for global compet
, [quote]Simply put, do you have proof?[/quote] Unfortunately conservatives do but mostly from sites that exist for only one purpose: to find idiotic or exaggerated expressions from illiterate lefties who get their jollies by being blind to realities. They seldom fare we
[quote]Exactly, when a Union becomes parisitic in the relationship it actually begins to defeat the very purpose[/quote] Too simplistic. The essence of bargaining rights is to compromise. It worked well for sixty years in auto manufacturing until workers were being threatened by Japanese autos, yet management did nothing to face the
[quote] Unions would not have sucked their hosts dry[/quote] There is simply no rational argument—you’re either for or against unions. The sucking action you heard is coming from both sides. Management wanted and got enormous productivity while willing to pay for it. The
[quote]You dont work for altruistic reasons. You work for things (money being the common bond to get them). Same way with banks. They are not altruistic, they are out to make money.[/quote] But banks and Wall Street are prone to inflate their importance by shamelessly inflating true worth beyond recognition.
[quote]Doc, congress won't be happy until ALL Americans can have mediocre health care, themselves excluded.[/quote] You're probably right as long as we do nothing to improve entry into the medical profession and stop perceiving it as eliteism.
[quote]I know - classic liberal ideology. Make everyone poor and equal.[/quote] That's an old slogan applied to communism--don't over do it, good doctor.
Great come back.
In my youth I enjoyed working for the A&P and later driving laundry and postal trucks. Comparatively they all paid well. Today, any job is welcomed, especially if its' supplemented by a spouse or partner. Of course not all manufacturing jobs are better oaying either. In the old days there was security and an opportunity to advance. A gal behind Macy's counter had dignity while dreaming of becoming a purchasing agent.
Even with a long history of failure, eh? It's obvious we can't go on with horrendous collateral damage any more than to wipe out crime here we bomb ganglands across the country.
KO should stay with sports exclusively; I could never imagine Red Barber doing Gabrial Heatter. What mainly bothers me about Keith is that he has no show without Fox--he's obsessed by its personalities.
Arguably he's trying to end the wars Bush started and includes their costs in the budget rather as supplements. He at least broached the Gitmo disaster, though I feel he's bungled it. Though he has done a poor job in healthcare, it will pass with flaws but it will be improved on. The economy is tediously retur
[quote]He mastered the TelePrompter.[/quote] Gotta give you that!
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. After all these half-baked wars from Korea to now there simply is no solution to proactive rogues in this nutty world. In our own county we can't even wipe out druglords, perverts and the Mafia, let alone Islamic crazies. As some have suggested, give up trying before we totally drain our monetary and human treasures and concentrate on the nut cases here.
Though the 25th should have been invoked during the last administration, thank the good lord it wasn't. GW's redeeming factor was that he was defense against Cheney.
Where did Reich's optimism go? To begin with the unemployment figure will drop by next Nov. because the stimulus will kick in more. Of course, I would rather see a greater share of employment go to serious manufacturing jobs, but that will not happen anymore since we are so damnably attached to foreign made gadgets. Still--no matter how sad symbolically--an increase in hiring at Kmart, Wallmart, and Burger King will help the deceptive figure of unemployment, which for too
As my license plate once read; "Don't blame me; I voted for Mc Govern." In the primaries I voted for Hillary. Still, did it ever occur to you that Obama is a hell of a lot better than GeoW?
Duke Wayne, did you also not have auto and life insurance?
Yes, but which is even more ridiculous in such low population states where there are more senators than representatives.
How do you account for the most productive years in the fifties? Besides as doc implied hardly anyone paid this marginal rate; it encouraged greater endowments, charities, reinvestment, wages and salaries.
I'm happy he's back. Liberal life is more interesting with Rush and Fox thriving.
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