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16 years ago @ FOX10tv.com - WALA - Herman Thomas Trial: J... · 0 replies · +1 points

the judge neilson interview video will not play all the way through. i can't make a comment until see the interview, because "there are to sides to a story." please fix that problem immediately so i can e-mail u my thoughts. thanks

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - mongoose · 0 replies · +1 points

Wall Street takes the money of American investors and basically loses all of it, and that's the *clean* policy; the government wants your money to DO SOMETHING BESIDES MAKE MORE MONEY (that is, provide services that mean something - are tangible - to millions) and *that* is "adding mud" to the floor?

I think not.

Well-written rant, however:0

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - mongoose · 0 replies · +1 points

You really cleared that analogy up...

"No, if we wielded mops, the most productive thing we could probably do is use them as weapons, and knock them unconscious so that they can’t create a bigger mess than they already have."

Assuming that your interpretation that healthcare and regulation and taxes are "mud," while mops are power or money, is correct, the above statement is the most productive thing you could do...?

When conservatives had the mops, as it were, they were too busy creating unjustified wars and wiretapping citizens to regulate Wall Street correctly (not that they would have wanted to anyway, of course), so now we have the "mess" of years of playing around with (that is, risking) the money of the American people in derivatives and other dubious financial practices.

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - New President and Vice... · 0 replies · +1 points

OIC?

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - Co-Admin · 0 replies · +1 points

Grats:)

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - "Level of Class" · 0 replies · +1 points

I fail to see how the admiration of the female form and being able to speak without censorship are signs of "immaturity."

Too bad, though. I like KRFournier and think he would have added an interesting dimension to the opinion perspective.

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - Liberalism · 0 replies · +1 points

Negative. True, politicians should not cave to special interests. However, that doesn't mean that it's "OK" for corporations to exploit anyone or anything. Exploitation is, by definition, wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Also, by this logic, you should have no problems with individuals that take advantage (that is, "abuse") of the welfare institutions in our nation. After all, they are only "exploiting a flaw in the system."

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - Liberalism · 0 replies · +1 points

"See, Liberalism operates on a rather poorly constructed theory that hinges on a few inaccurate maxims.

1. Most people that are rich were born wealthy
2. Most wealthy people got wealthy by scamming others
3. Those that inherited money began with an unfair advantage
4. Most people that have fallen on hard times were merely unlucky or were born poor and at a disadvantage.
5. Having a one class system is superior to a 3 class system."

lulz. Praytell, what maxims do conservatism operate by?

1. All changes to the status quo must be resisted.
2. Money is not a means, it is an end in-itself. If it happens to be my own personal money, it is *the end* of ends.
3. Government NEVER works. If it did, it was a fluke.
4. If you don't have money, it is obviously your fault; actual circumstances - including but not limited to education, race, health, and socio-economic situation - are secondary to a theoretically pre-achieved "equality of opportunity."

In view of your characterization of liberalism, is this very far from the truth?

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - Liberalism · 0 replies · +1 points

I would say that I have "slipped through the cracks," although my circumstances are nearly the complete opposite of what you have posited here. Besides, do you really think that the CEO and the welfare-recipient "receive equally"?

16 years ago @ DDO Fans - Liberalism · 0 replies · +1 points

And finally we arrive back at the root: the profit motive, or, as anyone with a moral compass would agree - greed. There is more to life than money - like integrity, self-respect, and a clean conscience.
Wall Street bankers and CEOs across the board make 400 times what an average employee makes. Is there any rationale for this?
Some things are worth doing based on the moral merit of the action, and not what it "costs" in dollars and cents. In my opinion universal healthcare is one of these things. Seeing how the US is the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn't have UH, and we are the wealthiest nation, doesn't speak very highly for the moral character of the US.

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