Jackson and I have decided that Patty (our Chihuahua) must be a Democrat; She gripes at the other dogs for doing exactly the same things she does, she has an over-inflated opinion of her own importance and yet still insists that we provide her with food, shelter and safety. And if it were up to her, the organization that provides for her welfare would be even larger and more prosperous simply so that it could take better care of her.
The_Kansan: Jackson and I have decided that Patty (our Chihuahua) must be a Democrat; She gripes at the other dogs for doing exactly the same things she does, she has an over-inflated opinion of her own importance and yet still insists that we provide her with food, shelter and safety. And if it were up to her, the organization that provides for her welfare would be even larger and more prosperous simply so that it could take better care of her.
Come On Kansas.....Patty just knows a good deal when she sees one. Does she want regulations on the banking system and a National Health Care program as well?:-)
The_Kansan: How dare you deign to tell me what I think, you pathetically ignorant wretch! That's the problem with Democrats - Because they've lost the ability to think for themselves, they assume that everyone else has too!
And the other rhetoric you spouted in your reply to me is just further evidence of your ignorance. Beyond what is in my profile and what little I've mentioned here, you don't know a single thing about me, least of all how hard I work, how much I make or whether or not I have good health care. And yet you continue to make idiotic judgements and un-founded observations about me.
How dare you?!!!
Poor dudes for Republicans BS? No, that's smart, hard working individualists for common sense!
Geez! You poor benighted, mis-informed anachronism. Tell me something - Did your parents have any kids that lived? Idiot!
P.S. Please excuse me for briefly sinking to your level!
Come on Kansan! Be serious with your self..... What does those rich and super rich people to do with you any way? A hard worker who have a decent life but still is not rich and never gets rich either ..... Repube party is good for the fat with the heavy pocket and not a common dude as your self is it?
Obama knew exactly what he talked about mentioning the Bittered clinging to their guns and stuff, and instead of actually "listening" to the message the man sent out, the Bittered got even more Bittered and they became Angry and the Hatered Rised.... it is just a simple and a very strange Fact what Obama talked about that day and a good way begining to think about what one beleives in and Why?
Of course you are an honurable man and have worked hardly all your life and life has not been easy all time.... but still.... a whole life of hard working and still supporting those who "like you" as a supporter just because they know you feel bittered and are kind of angry about some Hispanics and others who have more money than you have?
I am sorry I do not know much about this kind of politichal beleife Kansan..... either you are the employee or the employer, either you are rich or a hard working man with a propper income and never becoming able to experience true luxury in your life as the rest of us.......
My poor childhood and my own never being rich, an dmy personal touch with poverty, made me think this way and I did not have any difficulties to understand the reasons of poverty and who to blame and I became left winged of course..... this is the "Normal" way I beleive and the way you beleive Kansan is some how abnormal and out of touch with the reality.
All that with all respect and yeah.... I have met many other americans thinking as you do.... I beleive it is sad and it is because the working class movements have never been as strong as they have been and still are in Europe, and because of that repubes succes to get many guys in your poisition on their side...... Hard working honurable americans who work and working hard and still life is some how hard ...... and still they "beleive" a republican Regim is "the answer"
Not personal at all Kansan.... You have my respect ........ I am jsut wonder and will keep staying wonder about this in my eyes "Funny" fact regarding many american voters.
Hot_Single_Dude: Come on Kansan! Be serious with your self..... What does those rich and super rich people to do with you any way? A hard worker who have a decent life but still is not rich and never gets rich either ..... Repube party is good for the fat with the heavy pocket and not a common dude as your self is it?
Obama knew exactly what he talked about mentioning the Bittered clinging to their guns and stuff, and instead of actually "listening" to the message the man sent out, the Bittered got even more Bittered and they became Angry and the Hatered Rised.... it is just a simple and a very strange Fact what Obama talked about that day and a good way begining to think about what one beleives in and Why?
Of course you are an honurable man and have worked hardly all your life and life has not been easy all time.... but still.... a whole life of hard working and still supporting those who "like you" as a supporter just because they know you feel bittered and are kind of angry about some Hispanics and others who have more money than you have?
I am sorry I do not know much about this kind of politichal beleife Kansan..... either you are the employee or the employer, either you are rich or a hard working man with a propper income and never becoming able to experience true luxury in your life as the rest of us.......
My poor childhood and my own never being rich, an dmy personal touch with poverty, made me think this way and I did not have any difficulties to understand the reasons of poverty and who to blame and I became left winged of course..... this is the "Normal" way I beleive and the way you beleive Kansan is some how abnormal and out of touch with the reality.
All that with all respect and yeah.... I have met many other americans thinking as you do.... I beleive it is sad and it is because the working class movements have never been as strong as they have been and still are in Europe, and because of that repubes succes to get many guys in your poisition on their side...... Hard working honurable americans who work and working hard and still life is some how hard ...... and still they "beleive" a republican Regim is "the answer"
Not personal at all Kansan.... You have my respect ........ I am jsut wonder and will keep staying wonder about this in my eyes "Funny" fact regarding many american voters.
ZIP it DUDE! Enough is Too much! You don't know your Rear from a Hole in The Ground.
You need to seek help for your OBSESSION. And I am NOT Joking. You have gone Over the Line.
ttom500: Come On Kansas.....Patty just knows a good deal when she sees one. Does she want regulations on the banking system and a National Health Care program as well?:-)
Only insofar as it applies to her, Tom. She doesn't really care about the consequences to the rest of us.
Yes in deed! am doing my best and the old war monger dude is as angry as never before!
People say his face will fall totaly off soon and they wil have to raise taxes any way just to fix him
I was reading your answer to Kansan above and wondering about why it is that so many ordinary hard-working Americans don't believe in organising to get a fair price for labour. They have been sold a dream of individualism in which everyone works hard and sticks up for themselves and there is virtually no government. Somehow this is meant to achieve paradise of fairness and freedom. Unions are bad, taxes are bad, immigrants are bad, intellectuals are bad and it is all someone else's fault!!
Somehow in that imaginary world you don't help the needy and the poor, you don't pay extra tax to look after the sick and yet everyone is a Christian.
ttom500: McCain's got a flush out program.....how do I know that? I wrote it for him. The week after he got it.....he began to talk of a "Temporary Legal Entry".
It works this way.
We open some of the close miltiary bases in the SW near the border. To apply for the program.....all they do is show up at a border entry point. Given avialable program slots.....they are bussed a center.... for 30 days they go thru medical, background checks, route to citizenship.....eventually qualifing for entry.
ICE deports some 296,000 illegals annually. When ICE makes a deports a group or when a employing sponsor needs some workers....the employers go to the processing centers and draw them out. Now they are legal to work with a green card, have a drivers license, and we know that they are not terrorist.
What is going to happen....is the flow north is not going stop simply because we put a fence up. They are going to build up at those Mexican cities and towns along the fence. There they are at the mercy of the drug cartels that tunneling the fence or cutting it. They still need a mule to to get them thru to inside the country. That mule now has to use one of these drug method to get them inside. They are open to extortion.....bribery....assault....and murder when they work with drug cartels for crossing into the country.
So we open the border at the check points.....bring them in for 30 days.....while they are cleared. We keep them alive and keep them from the dangers of being forced to work with a drug cartel for crossing.
In the meantime.....we don't give driver licenses (ala Barrak Obama) to them. Note the spelling.
Hey ttom! Sounds like a good way to reduce illegal immigration, terrorism and offer them better protection at least on paper... However, it's not that black and white if we consider some negative impacts for worker's rights and small and big businesses taking advantage of workers who are willing to work for unfair wages and possibly below the minimum wage line. Are there any loopholes that benefit the employers? I've heard some bad stories how green card immigrants were taken advantage of in a non-democratic way by employers.
So are the employers who go to the processing centers to select approved green card residents going to offer a minimum wage jobs for these approved immigrants? And isn't it taking jobs away from American citizens while the small and big businesses get to save money by paying these green card workers unfair wages instead of paying more fair wages to American employees?
Fallingman: I was reading your answer to Kansan above and wondering about why it is that so many ordinary hard-working Americans don't believe in organising to get a fair price for labour. They have been sold a dream of individualism in which everyone works hard and sticks up for themselves and there is virtually no government. Somehow this is meant to achieve paradise of fairness and freedom. Unions are bad, taxes are bad, immigrants are bad, intellectuals are bad and it is all someone else's fault!!
There a some unions that are really strong in America. The union that is associated with UPS workers is the strongest in the country I think. UPS workers are paid well, they get 12 sick days a year paid at 100 percent, and they do get between 2-5 weeks of vacation depending on tenure.
I agree, it's ludicrous that the union movement is weak in general in America and in general, does not have much influence. The middle class workers are the ones who suffer from a lack of union influence. They will more than likely never be rich, yet they support (indirectly) measures and action that only promote and protect the rich. Polarization in motion!
Fallingman: I was reading your answer to Kansan above and wondering about why it is that so many ordinary hard-working Americans don't believe in organising to get a fair price for labour. They have been sold a dream of individualism in which everyone works hard and sticks up for themselves and there is virtually no government. Somehow this is meant to achieve paradise of fairness and freedom. Unions are bad, taxes are bad, immigrants are bad, intellectuals are bad and it is all someone else's fault!!
Somehow in that imaginary world you don't help the needy and the poor, you don't pay extra tax to look after the sick and yet everyone is a Christian.
I think you have a hard struggle ahead!
Falingman, the main reason is that our Union have a history of failing the working person. Early days of Unions here....they organized with the fist, the club, and the gun. Sure it is not that way to day.
But today, a Union.....take the Teamster Union......will force management into a position of paying such high wages and benefits.....that it hard for the company to be profitable. The Auto and Airline industry are both good examples. Why is Detriot having trouble with foreign competition in making and selling cars? Part is the aged infrastructure of the factories. Another is the cost of American Union workers.
A great example in the Airline industry is TWA....Howard Hughes old Airline. The workers at TWA decided to Unionize....and then got major contract increases. But then came competitive airline ticketing. TWA cannot compete.
Both McCain and Obama are saying the American worker is the best in the world. I don't know man....the Japanese, the South Koreans, even some in China.....are very skilled, dedicated, and hard working. American worker is good, no doubt about that. But he gets overpaid when compared to some foreign workers. That is why work and jobs have gone overseas.
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