Thread: Warning from the past.......

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I totally disagree that the President has little ability to fix things. Much of it depends on his reputation and the respect he commands from Congress and leaders of other countries. How they see him is how they see us.

Also, I am not an economist, but I do know that any time you buy more than you sell you are going to be in trouble. Right now America buys a lot more than we sell to others, which affects the value of our dollar and our ability to put people to work here.

We need to quit meddling in other peoples business and concentrate of the problems we have here at home. We think nothing of sending billions to other countries or dropping mega buck bombs on others, but millions of people at home here are without healthcare and too many children go to bed hungry at night. Call me an idealist, but it just doesn't add up to me.

Don

We're borrowing money by the wheelbarrow load from the Asians to fund all the current programs, including the war. All I hear is "we need more money, more money, more money". So taxes go higher and higher, new taxes are implemented and Joe Sixpak has less and less disposable income. We're placing debts on our children and grandchildren that will become unbearable for them.

And I'm really, really tired of hearing people bash the "evil" corporations. Where the hell do you think jobs come from? Poor people don't hire employees. Companies hire employees. And they're doing their best right now to find employees who aren't riddled with drugs. And they're doing their best to produce a product or service that is competitive in a world market, all the while struggling with overtaxation and government rules and regulations.

There is only one cure for this drug problem and that is to pass legislation that allows a police officer to draw his service weapon and dispatch any individual on whom he finds illegal drugs. On the spot. Period. End of problem. Call for a meat wagon to haul 'em off to the dump. We simply cannot continue to spend the money to try to rehabilitate these vermin and spend money on the "war on drugs". It's ludicrous. Like Larry the Cable Guy says....."get 'er done".

If you want more of the same, just keep votin' for those socialist Democrats......

I just heard the statistics that one percent of Americans are in jail right now, think about that, one out of every one hundred people!!! That is staggering to think about, and I bet 99 percent of those are somehow drug related.

Now this is one area John Q Public has to take the blame for. People tend to obey only those laws that they consider important. "What harm can it do that I smoke a little harmless weed," they say. They don't realize that every person who does any form of drugs, either illegal or abused prescription, is contributing to the problem. If we were somehow able to erase all drug use a lot of our crime would disappear and we wouldn't have employees who have to be screened periodically to make sure they are clean. The drug problem costs this country a big chunk of change, and affects all of us in one way or another.

Don

So many fallacies, so little time.

Whether or not I agree with the current war, that power is vested to the President by our constitution. Stealing the profiits of private corporations is not. Neither is feeding "needy" children, or paying utility bills, or for that matter doctor bills. So if you think we're in touble now, maybe, just maybe it's because we've been sceding more and more of our personal responsibilities to the "government" for the past 75 years.

The notion that trade deficits by themselves is bad is another B.S. belief. We've had a trade deficit for most of the past 230 years, not just recently. The most recent time we didn't have a trade deficit? The Great Depression. Is that the model to aspire too?

Children hungry in this country? Gee, I guess the fact that 50%~ of scool children get "free" breakfast and lunch isn't enoughh? And how come the number one health concern for so called poor people is obesity? I must be stupid when I think that those things are the opposite of hunger.

Look, you guys are my friends so I don't want to wound you, but all I hear is how much our society has deteriorated in the last several decades. I don't disagree. But identifying the legitimate cause is the challenge. During that same time period have we had more or less power bestowed to the political class? Logic tells me the demonstrated outcome is the more we give them the further we decline. I just don't see how intelligent caring people can want more of the same decline. You know I love old sayings, the one that fits most here is "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".