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[quote=wolf213;216613]Sorry it has taken me some time to respond, I have been extremely busy as of late... anyways it is good dialog to have, and while we might not agree on somethings, its good to see each others point of view. Smart people take into accounts both sides of an issue before making up his mind about it.

I have watched Rodger and Me and Bowling for Columbine. Michael Moore isn't attacked because he's a fat slob, he's attacked because he edits his movies and takes quotes out of context to present his point. I take everything he presents with a grain of salt.

Sure, he has a point of view. Who doesn't? How much information gathering does a person need to do before he makes up his mind? Todd Helton will never hit 49 homers again. I'm sure of it. I just wrote it. Done. Made a decision. I listen to Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore (if he had a radio program) and I agree with Moore more often. Period.

But it's the people in the middle who will decide this election. That kills me. They don't care. They can't make up their mind and yet the future of the country is in their hands. Go figure!



As for Rush and Beck and Caplis, et al... they are all blow hards as well... and I don't care for them too much. However I do think Caplis makes some good points every now and then, and Craig Silverman is usually spot on in his analysis as well. Dr. Laura is an idiot.

As much as the Right has the radio, the left owns TV... so considering more people watch TV then listen to talk radio, I don't think you want to venture down this road...

I'll venture. Who is liberal on tv anymore? Only Keith Olbermann on the cable networks and who watches mainstream tv anymore? Again, if you care about the news you'll get cable or you will go to blogs or both. Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, all of Fox News, they are all Conservative. Dan Caplis is a crusading Catholic anti abortion rights activist who is unlistenable. You're better off listening to NPR at that time, or music, or sports talk if you're stuck in your car. And Silverman is a wimp. Doesn't make strong points. He is Alan Colmes to Caplis' Hannity. The weak little brother - a sellout.

I get paid for my job as does everyone else who works. I provide a service and get paid for doing it, thats how the free market works. I am in a way selling my services and getting a profit in return (my paycheck). If I don't provide a good enough service, then I will not get a good profit in return. If I don't improve my services through education or job training, then my pay will reflect it. For you information I too have a Government job, while being a full time student as well.

Profit? What are they teaching you kids these days. Words matter. You sound just like Incredible. You get paid a wage or a salary, not a profit. Do I have to grab a dictionary? Profit is something you make when you sell something like a widget. It's what's left over after cost of making the widget. Then you figure in how much profit you want, add that to the price of the widget. Do you want a 3% profit or a 17% profit? What will the public pay? How greedy are you?

If your job is picking apples, you get paid by the hour, or by the bushel. You get paid a wage, or a salary. Your boss makes a profit when he sells the apples at market. If you repair computers you get paid by the hour most likely or by the job. Again, where's the profit? The client has a broken computer. He hires you to fix it. Pays you a price for your service. Profit?


The reason we should trust the free market??? How about the fact that its been working for well over 300 years now.

And periodically it fails, like in 1929 with the Great Depression.

Again, who benefits from the "free market"? And how is it free anyway? Why are jobs being outsourced to foreign lands? This is done by CEOs who make these decisions so pollution controls can be ignored and workers will be employed at slave wages so more PROFIT will be made by the capitalists. Why aren't bikes still made at the Huffy plant in Buffalo? Why aren't tee shirts still made in Nashville? Labor is cheaper in Guatamala and China. Capitalists want to make 17% profit rather than 3%. Greed.



No, but I would love to put limits on it so that some girl with 5 kids can't make a living off of it. Too many people abuse the system right now, and thats what needs to be fixed. Put limits on how long you are allowed to receive benefits. I don't want my hard earned money to support some sluts kids who refuses to stop spreading her legs.

Sterilize them? What would Hitler do? Put them in ovens? Bush ignored Katrina victims. Is that the Repub answer to poverty? Of course we need welfare reform. Who opposes that? A jobs program? Repubs want private industry to solve these problems. Privitize poverty? That won't happen. We need a modern day FDR and McCain isn't him.

I get my news off of a magnitude of sources. Not just the liberal media or Air America. I don't shop at wallmart for much of the same reasons you do. I also don't support companies who are engaged in a new form of slavery called illeagle immigration.

Good for you wolf. And it ain't easy to "buy American" anymore. Just about everything I own is made in Communist China or elsewhere except for my postal uniforms. We need new leadership, change, to turn this around. McCain is just Bush's third term.