Quote: "The quality of life in China is improving tremendously while ours is in decline."
I've been saying it for years, we are trading China our standard of living for theirs.
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Quote: "The quality of life in China is improving tremendously while ours is in decline."
I've been saying it for years, we are trading China our standard of living for theirs.
Politicos and pundits are afraid of saying that becuase the Jews will play the anti-semite card.Quote:
Our sole reason for being in Iraq and Afghanistan IS Israel.
I work hard enough to be successful, thank you very much, and I can speak for myself.
If you're happy with a government that works against you--tax cuts for billionaires, no health care, lack of investment in infrastructure, deteriorating educational system, unnecessary wars for oil, trade policies that ship good-paying jobs overseas--well, you got it. It's just a shame that nations far poorer than us, like China and Poland, have come further in 20 years than we have in the past 60. Maybe it's because we're too busy groveling the government to "give" us pennies in tax cuts that we waste on Skoal and Chinese underwear at Walmart, while other nations are focused on making dollars that they invest for the betterment of their entire society.
We need to have a National Corner, where people who want to make excuses can go to brood and pout. That way, we can be rid of the regressives who want to take us back to the 19th Century, and we might be able to catch up to the First World within the next 50 years.
Wrong.
I would bet that you probably also believe that half of your social security taxes are paid for by your employer.
Wrong again.
Whether they're called "employer" taxes or "employee" taxes is nothing more than a sleight of semantics, because in the final analysis YOU, yes YOU - pay for ALL of them in the form of lower wages and/or higher prices.
Hem and jimm please source your facts...
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats...of_israel.html
I would be very happy to see the Chinese pay an import tax, and also to see products that are manufactured by companies who do not adhere to the same EPA standards we do be banned from import.
Show me a sports franchise that received a bailout. Convince me that a banker/executive who pushes paper from one table to the next has as much talent as a professional athlete. Show me where these corporate fat-cats are forced out of their "career" at the age of 30-35 due to aging and physical ability. And yet the upper tier of corporate executives make hundreds of millions more than the upper tier athletes will ever realize. All the while, two of the major sporting leagues are subjected to SALARY CAPS. {Funny metaphor here: Baseball, which has no salary cap - gives the fans [read: citizens] the same thing over and over - Yankee championships. Seems fair to the other teams and fans, eh?}
Ticket takers.......... are you referring to the fans? Wouldn't the fans be the proverbial equivilent of the citizens to the corporations? You should be thinking of the pine riders, assistant coaches, water boys and janitors if you would like to maintain your strawman comparison.
Not sure if you were trying to discount the original idea or what, but ....... thanks....... I guess.:confused::confused:
Chineese, Koreans, Taiwaneese........ etc. I think that everyone can agree that poor governmental legislation has eroded/eradicated the american worker. Too bad our parties can't work together on thsi one either. Corporations are rewarded with power and profit directly by sending jobs overseas. When will we all wake up? When will somebody win office and change this.
Can anyone actually tell me an upside to offshoring? Humor me.
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
I think about this trade issue often. One has to ask why. Why can so many see the problem and it is not being addressed? Do we the people have little say anymore? Do our politicians have that little freedom left to govern? Our current President promised to attack it on "Day one" or some such nonsense. He isn't doing anything. All he is doing is working his ass off to get a healthcare system for big insurance, that mimics no fault car insurance. Overpriced, under-qualified and mandatory. This guy is bad news folks.
I can't stand when people say,
"It is up to the citizens of the United States to vote the best people possible into office. It's the publics fault if they vote the wrong guy/gal into office."
For the record, the public is known for casting undereducated votes. Second, candidates make promises they have no intention of following through on. Not just Obama either. It's a plague in Washington. What do we do?
{disclaimer} Although this thread has been entirely jacked, the "lone senator" has since gone back on his vote, and therefore leaving the original thread subject otherwise obsolete.
What do we do ?
Great question, I think the way the system is currently set up unless you have strong campaign finance reform to get all of the money out of the political system we are looking at elections that are the lesser of two evils rather than the best candidate. Our elections will be increasingly based on who has the best talking points, and who can tag who with the best scare tactics.
As a people we don't want to deal with the many shades of grey that most issues are, it requires too much thinking. too much analysis. It needs to be simple, to be either black or white. That way it will fit into ones simple partisan mindset.
Our educational system has dumbed us down to the extent that critical thinking skills are not as important as being able to read about what your favorite candidate likes to eat in People magazine, or how good they look on TV.
We have been dumbed down to the extent that we will vote for issues that are against our own best interest at the drop of a hat.
The people tried to combat this with term limits, it didn't work. I don't fully blame the voter, they can only pick from what they are given.
To quote Howard Zinn: if the gods had wanted us to vote, they would have given us candidates.
I know the idea of limiting the right to vote has been brought up here before. Seems to have been a very touchy subject and instigated some heavy back and forth.
I think a solution does lie in the goal of creating a smarter, more educated voter. The type of voter you can rely on to cast an educated vote. Or moreso, putting the better candidate into office who speaks for the people and is not swayed by money or power. And the last thing I would want is to have a popular, ethical politician have to leave office because of term limit. [[Although it's safe to say we haven't come to the bridge yet :o)
The question remains: Who do we let vote? Or more importantly; Who do we not let vote?
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The question remains: Who do we let vote? Or more importantly; Who do we not let vote?
high school/GED graduates?
Not necessarily the black card, but if you look at the massive amount of illegals coming into the country, many go straight into the workforce without ever getting an education, so requiring a voter to be educated would knock that entire block of voters right out of representation....
....as if they had the right to vote in the first place
This is why the "dumbing down of America" is so important to those in power.Even if we had a more educated voter,there will only be choices that are bought by big money.That's why the supreme court just decided that corporations should be granted freedom of speech rights,as if it was an individual.This way huge corporations can buy the hand picked puppets they want and there will be nothing we can do about it.
Sstashmoo,you are a fekkin moron.I had to leave Detroit back in 1987 because I was tired of working my balls off for wages that I couldn't live on.I finally landed a job heat treating steal for $6.25 per hour and managed to save up $6000 after working there for 4 1/2 years and living in flop houses so I didn't have to spend much to survive.When I moved from Detroit,I had $6000 to burn while I built a new life in a mid sized east coast city.Now I can't find work in that city,although I'll have better luck than if I was back home trying to find work.I have built a fairly good resume in the IT field,but they just aren't hiring right now.Go door to door offering to paint houses?YOUR AN IDIOT! There is so many handy men/women in this town you can practically trip over them.My Grandfather was an Engineer working under Charlie Sorensen at Ford motor company,do you think I could get a job at Ford when I was applying back in the 80's....no way.
If things don't shape up,people will have no choice to take to the streets in organized mobs.I pray to god it won't be like Germany in the 30's.It needs to start with a "no mercy" policy to those that are found to be corrupt.White collar crime should be treated as harshly as blue collar crime.
Quote: "YOUR AN IDIOT!"
It's you're an idiot.. Man that's one of my pet peeves..
And hopefully you save up enough to buy a keyboard with a spacebar.