(01-14-2014 06:40 PM)BCBronco Wrote: (01-14-2014 06:06 PM)gobaseline Wrote: No seriously.
I simply shared some facts, asked questions and some musings that aren't original and are not unknown.
Policies matter, but are simply the fruit of the ideas.
That is where the battle for the mind is.
Along the lines shared on the article and my comments do we agree, part ways and why?
Seriously? Seriously? Seriously I have few answers, and if I did, I ought to do something with whatever sacred answers I think I might have. But since the system and the individuals within it are for sale, I think I'll keep my "wisdom" to myself, focus on my little corner of the world, and do the best I can do.
Geo-politics and national politics are beyond me. I'm not brilliant, but I'm self aware, and I know that Obama, Bush, Carter, Reagan, Ford, Clinton and the rest, regardless of political orientation, are more qualified to run the country than I am.
And if I truly think not, then I've got an obligation to run for office, rather than ranting and bitching about men and women who have the courage, or the ego, or both, to run for office and live out their convictions in the glare of the public eye. Whether it's Ted Cruz, Obama, Ted Kennedy or Sarah Palin they've all made more of an impact than most and I can respect that. It's much easier to criticize than to do the work.
Seriously.
In short you pose that the human condition is flawed, be it those in and with power, those in "their little corner", those with sacred answers and those bitchin and complaining. Tell us something we dont know!
I read this article and asked why now? Why not earlier? Why when shovel ready wasn't ready should this promise (zone) be any different on the heels of other promises like having the most transparent administration in history (their words) and you can keep your plan and doctor if it best suites you (his words)?
Answers? There are plenty. The right ones? I dont know. But to take seriously these attempts to equalize is just bogus theory.
I have kids and grandkids and I'm mad as hell and Im not taking it anymore.
I told you all Obama was and is an empty suit. I live in the state that gave us this Professorial Genius. I wrote that he sold out and left out to dry one of his best buds, Forest Claypool when Claypool was running for the head of Cook County (Chicago) literally running against a
corpse! Obama sided with the corpse and then the corpses son so he could leverage that political capital.
Jobs come from a stimulated economy not from a government edict or decision to redistribute income.
Tomorrow everyone gets the same income. $50,000.
I guarantee you in 10 days the wealth disparty amongst the recipiants would be as wide as from here to Pluto.
Some would spend it on immediate gratification blowing it almost immediately. Others would save it or invest it. Others stuff under a mattress. And in 10 days time all the equality would be unequal again.
Common Sense says you dont equalize you incentify. You allow the use of engine of freedom to create, generate opportunity.