I will not ask about Dubya then for the sake of my own sanity and blood pressure.
What can I say. We've all made mistakes.
The future of the Republican Party.
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What can I say. We've all made mistakes.
Clinton and the GOP managed to deregulate a lot which led to our recent crisis, which is why I'm not a huge Clinton fan.
Knight Templar
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The more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war. Preparing a strong military doesn't mean you advocate warfare and you full well know it.
I believe the U.S. govt. should not advance and protect any group of people. Everyone should be treated the same.
And the world today is not the industrial revolution. Corporations don't spend their days thinking about how to work people into an early grave anymore.
What kind of fantasy world do you live in?Can anybody explain to me why people adore this Berlusconi-esque clown who had no skills or competence at all? How can especially fiscal conservatives speak in awe about this fellow while being unaware of how skyhigh he has driven public deficits?
I respect all pre-Reagan Republican presidents after WWII, even Nixon, but with RR the decadence and not-give-a-shit-about-what-actually-happens-in-the-real-world attitude started. You can basically view him as Bush junior's predecessor.
Like Blair Clinton gave legitimacy to the Reagan and Thatcher revolutions, à la only Nixon could go to China, only a left-wing politician can implement respectively in this case give legitimacy to a right-wing agenda.
Obama is probably even worse. After all not caring about how fire-safe the house is can happen to anybody but not caring about it after it has already burned is quite irresponsible.
That's true, contemporary work safety is hardly comparable to sweat-shop-like working conditions.
I think the problem of big corporations lies in their influence upon government. You see it most clearly in the case of the financial industry but also in the case of industries that can potentially damage our biosphere, e.g. oil companies, enterprises that manage nuclear power plants or food companies like Monsanto.
Corporations aren't evil, they are often more productive than small enterprises due to scale effects. But when they harm part of our biosphere they should have to pay for it just like you and I have to pay for it if we have an accident and harm the car of somebody else.
In other words, this is not some socialist anti-market rhetoric (although many stupid and shrill lefties make it sound like that) but pro-market rhetoric. If you damage something, pay for it, if your market power becomes too large your company will have to be split up.
Big differences between corporations and markets. The corporate state seems to have more in common with communism than with the Western ideal of liberal democracy and free markets.
To do that we'd have to allow gay people to marry, finally give women equal pay, stop trying to deny them certain medical treatments, and pretty much every other plank in the Republican platform.
If they are in the same position as a man, doing the same work, then yes.
Is that really so hard to comprehend?
Absolutely. Anyone doing equal work should receive equal pay, no matter what their profession or gender. Work is work whether you possess male genitalia or female. This isn't rocket science.
I'll never understand the Right's near hatred of women. They're literally half the population, but they shouldn't be paid as much or get to make decisions about their own body. Do they think that they have a deadly vagenda planned?
Because it's a great election strategy.
Oh, wait...no it isn't
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-shows-obama-making-big-gains-female-voters-170245867.html
Anyway, the answer is that the right wing fundamentalists still want to punish Eve. It's really just about that sophisticated.
Well they are always blaming the victim. They should go after that God they're so crazy about. He made Eve, stuck her in the garden with curiosity and a willingness to believe snakes, he also tossed in a gossipy talking snake, and then never tried to stop a moment of it despite being all-knowing and all-seeing.
Well, I think this nice lady has a firm grasp on the subtle complexities of these issues...
Seems really excited about it too...
Knight Templar
Commodore
Where do you get the idea that the "right" hates women?
I assume you know that about of the babies aborted are female?
and I assume you know that every aborted baby had a father as well as a mother.
If a woman wants to have one, it's her decision because she's the one who has to carry it for 9 months. I'd personally prefer that it didn't come to that, but I don't force my beliefs on people. If you don't want one, don't have one. What happens to you, if someone else does something you disagree with?
Of course. Same position, same pay. What the hell else would you pay them?
Knight Templar
Commodore
I don't want to live in a society that recognizes elective abortions as a legitimate decision. It wasn't the society and nation I was born into and it is not the one I want to live in.
I want my country back.
Well, it's a good thing YOU will never have to elect whether or not to have an abortion, then, isn't it?
