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Nick commented on the article |Yes, there is division of the people by government and the corporations that sponsor their "reps".
Yes. Education doesn't teach the critical thinking which leads to innovation.
Yes. We have lost industry/manufacturing in this country to often exploitative outsource.
Yes. Now our mortgage industry, housing prices, industries, banks, Social Security, Medicare and our entire government has been drained.
Yes. Medicare. The president lives in public housing and all the reps have public health care. Public health care (single payer) is the most efficient/effective way to treat people. Economists, doctors, nurses not on the take, all say its the best bang for the buck. 18-19,000 people die every year because of not having health care. Compare that number to 911. It is a crisis.
Now comes the tough part, there are other things you wrote I don't agree with, but lets concentrate for a second on the fact that I agree with you on all the above, which constitutes the majority of the domestic issues. That is huge because as you'll see below there are at the same time, what might be considered fundemental differences. We all should strive for mutual ground. It shouldn't be a lost concept. Not giving up your beliefs but working together where you can. That concept has even aired in my lifetime. As an educator, finding ways to work with students and people where you can is huge, don't give up. It is I believe democracy, "the practice or principals of social equality" - Oxford, as in equal treatment under the law, etc.
I don't really understand what you are saying about prop 8 but a gay family, legally able to see a dying relative in the hospital just doesn't sound like ta big deal. No one is pushing anyone to be gay? Or to be married, right?
Dairy Queen or Wasilla vs. Harvard Law Review, hmmm, which would require the most responsibility to run?
"mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders" - What's your source, I'm curious? It seems highly unlikely given that the private army is now 250,000 active in Iraq and Afghanistan. - PBS, Moyers
150,000 in clothes, is like Jon Edwards's expensive haircut. It is the moment where the bosses allow venting of class/caste based anger.
"Obama will
divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign
the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed
coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again."
– Isn't that what all politicians do? 2 votes short in the senate was it necessary to give the repub.s 1/3 of the stimulus in tax breaks (or for a family with 3 kids, which is better $300 or school lunches)? Were they going to filibuster? There is little difference in the 2 parties. The Dems are the caring Ying, the Repubs the protecting Yang. They have different bosses but it is the same corrupt system. Perhaps the Dems need the schools fail and the Repubs need terrorists, both to remain relevant and needed. Lets look at the last 30 years. What did the Dems fight caringly for in health care (I mean fight not a first lady who should've been collecting money for the poor, botching what was the main job of a 2 term president)? And what did the Repubs do in 80' but fund the Taliban sect which grew into Al Queda? - Wikipedia
Or how Clinton botched industry/manufacturing here by having Gatt go to WTO and passing NAFTA which ruined workers rights to the south and made it impossible for America, with something as Marxist, as Tomas Paine's minimum wage concept to compete. Meanwhile the Repubs invented and guided the economic policy/ideology, deregulation=just do anything (continued by Clinton and Obama) which led, and is leading this melt down.
A "conservative" isn't consevative!
Isn't it conservative to adopt the ideology of the squreil putting nuts in the tree for winter. Consevative isn't tossing it all on the crap shoot.
A "liberal" isn't liberal.
Isn't it liberal to make opportunity costs? For example, if Obama was a radical liberal he'd maybe have made the (good) bet on sustainable energy (which is more "inevitable" than Iraq was, oil taking 2000 yrs to make = finite) instead of the mere pitance equal to the last bit of funding for Afghanistan? His green energy guy said 10 times that amount was needed for upping the electric grid. Van Jones isn't Condie, he didn't work at Cheveron. NSA's or Cheveron exs do make energy decisions. Where is the current NSA a former employee of?! Repub & Dem admin, same position & corporation. Paulson of Goldman Sachs, which sponsored Obama. Did they have an idea about Geithner, did they pick him? Mere speculation of course. If I really researched the money trail, I probably wouldn't even run fumbling to the dictionary to see if there was a word democracy.
The word exists and the knowing poses a certain challenge.
I'm not saying no politician ever did anything positive. Wouldn't it be the best goal, to not induce suffering?
Daschle is no prize having jumped to the drumbeat in lockstep for war all the way. What do I know though, I waste my life reading about this stuff. a new way forward dot org -
Nick commented on the article |
Hi Jack,
Respect is something that must be desired for anything other than continuing the religious, enthnic and racial, hatered, wars and violence.
If you think these astranged, earth-bound co-inhabitants should befriend us, that's nice but it is silly if you think that should happen, without us befriending them.
As a species we have laws of interaction.
Before and after 911 the US was supposed to be advanced enough country, that it would honor its international agreements. To say that, is not, being an apologist. The US does not have a state religion. That is one of the reasons for its original independence.
Ignoring our obligations under international law, we started what was far beyond the correct police act targeting 911 Al Queda participants. We should have looked in Afghanistan and not taken a month to get there. But that is history.
Now we continue to attack countries that do not present an immediate threat, break weapons bans, commit genocide or engage in other criteria under international law for military invsion. There is much corruption around. When we say it is ok to dismantle the law, ONLY a downward spiral can result!
If I am an apologist for desiring justice, I'm sorry.
ps - I also apologize to those who wanted this post to be about business. -
Nick commented on the article |
Finally according to PBS there are now 250,00 private contractors in Iraq and Afghan. This is NOT Americas war any more. It is the corporations, if there was doubt earlier. The are multinational and we are all frogs in the slowly warming pot. Time to turn off the gas.
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Nick commented on the article |
Hi Sharif,
Colonialism, yes, an endless subject it would seem.
Which was my point. If you are suggesting I am missing an aspect of colonialism please point it out.
If you some how for a second, mistook that I was actually suggesting it when I wrote: "Maybe we should have just killed all of them a long time ago..." you were wrong. You might note, what I wrote seconds earlier. You could look up irony. It is sometimes used darkly when people have no other way to deal with a topic, especially typing into a 400pixel textbox. I hope that it didn't freak you out. I suppose I can see how, having read the guy above me it might be hard to know. But you'll see I use his words and then add a = before my paraphrasing his indication.
Whatever it is, I am sick already of the intelligent "nice guy", who is so seductive, obfuscating the issues and doing the same killing and colonization. Think Cheveron's office in Iraq and that the current and former NSA were from Cheveron. I am not looking forward to the next bad cop. -
Nick commented on the article |Where did you get the $135?
Does this go beyond the price of an IPhone?
If you create a market for human trade by offering a demand (the $135) more trafficking will occur. People do stuff for money.
The answer is unclear, their is corruption all over the world.
Law enforcement could help or join in collusion. -
Nick commented on the article |
I guy in my neighborhood was delighted when we were bombing Baghdad. And I doubt that was the only instance. So I am afraid just because CNN doesn't show that sort of thing doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Also you said, they said, they hate America. That is a country, not a religion like Islam.
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Nick commented on the article |
Check out a new way forward dot org.
I remember that NYT article about the town in Texas that was building a road for track houses, clearly no one needs. When they should be building public transport (or something innovative) and not requiring people to drive longer distances. -
Nick commented on the article |
The difference is we are killing them. Who cares if they burn a flag or say hurtful things. They are being murdered in three countries. We are murdering them. Get it!
"And I don't want to hear that America has done all these evil horrible things to the Middle East." = Do you have any clue what horrible things might have been done? Do you even have any idea what is going on in this country with the banking industry? You better love your muslim brothers, because they might just rendition your asZ over there, if you don't chip in enough tax to keep covering their investments!
We have sacrificed more of our own soldiers in Iraq than Americans died in 911!
There was no link between 911 and Iraq. I can't even believe I am wasting my time.
"We have sent 10's of trillions of dollars to the middle east in Oil purchases" = Maybe we should have just killed all of them a long time ago to get the oil, they were going to treat their people badly anyway, right?
You are a painfully stupid dumbasZ.
I am a jew and I hate Obama because he hasn't said a thing about the civilian death toll in Gaza, nor did he after he was elected, before he was inaugurated. That is not peace. So don't think you know a thing, unless you are saying he was full of it because we supplied them with illegal weapons they used or renditioned people to Egypt. I volunteered for him because I didn;t want Palin in charge when McCain died, leaving us a worldwide religious war.
So what is your source for 20-15% of the vote? Or are you just a child who gets off on making things look a certain way? Usually it's only around 50% of people who vote. More voted than usual. If I didn't know you were a dumbasZ, I'd provide a source.
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