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Posted on November 21 at 7:14 p.m.
Bob Friedman: Let's see. A capatalist economy has never responded well to socialist solutions. Let me run this by you and, please, take off your conservative blinders. Our economy, right now, is responding to your "capatalist solutions." Alan Greenspan said no regulations on investment banks were necessary because their business is so sophisticated, it would regulate itself. We are seeing the fruits of Greenspan's economic prowiss. The financial, housing and manufacturing crisis we are facing is a result of the failure of "unregulated" capatalism. You may not know this because of you myopic view that is so opposed to anything "social" or smacking of entitlements. Western European nations practice various blends of socialism and capatalism and are doing much better economically and socially than the good old USA. FDR's programs didn't prolong the depression. The problems we faced then were far more serious and far reaching than we face now. Because of FDR, we can now provide unemployment insurance, food stamps for the poor and many other temporary solutions to keep the boat from totally sinking like the Titanic. The federal government has the tools to fight a global financial crisis brought about by--yes, you guessed it--republican/conservative policies. If we are to survive as a country, we need to adopt an economic approach that includes a mix of socialism and capatalism. Unless we do, we will continue the spiral downward.
Posted on November 17 at 12:26 p.m.
Bricklin75: You couldn't be more wrong about unions. Your comments and feelings about unions reflects the republican "dumbing" of Americans begining with the Reagan years. The reason this country is trailing every other western, industrialized nation in living standards is because there are very few unions keeping "bottom line CEO's" in check. Reagan and the republicans since him have just about bankrupt this country. No, the problem is not unions, the problem is the lack of unions.
Posted on November 13 at 8:19 p.m.
Brenda Walker: Where to begin? To answer you last regurgitation first: George W. Bush is a stupid and stubborn man. He is myopic, more religiously fanatic than the muslims you like to rant against, posessing a Napoleonic complex and last, but certainly not least, totally in dinial about just about everything that happened during his presidency (it hurts to use the words presidency and George Bush in the same sentence). He has disgraced the presidency beyond belief and deserves to be in prison. With regard to health care, no, Bill Clinton couldn't get the job done because republikans don't want anything done for ordinary citizens by the government, they only want big bailouts for their Wall Street cronies. The Clintons didn't get it done because of republikans and look where we are now with health care-we are third world status for the average American. You obviously listen the Rush Limbaugh and are drinking his toxic kool aid. Please, open the door and look where the US is now and where the world is now. Republikans look to the past, liberals look to the future, where reality is. And lastly, please don't list two places where you live. Nobody cares and if they did, they would invite you to go back to the other place.
Posted on November 12 at 8:48 p.m.
GoneFishing: Do you have "Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Faux News" tattoed on your forehead? It seems so because you never have any rational posts. You are so polarized, you negate anything you say. Don't you realize that? I guess not. You freely consume the kool aid. Rest assured, nobody takes you seriously and if, by chance, they do, they also have the same tattoos on their forehead. The world has moved on, but you haven't.
Posted on November 12 at 11:30 a.m.
Bruce Holecek's Lunacy: Eddie, I agree with you 100% and frankly, after studying the 2 amendment, I don't think it "protects an individuals right to bear arms" at all. Bruce, your letter is not only freightening, it is shear lunacy. The NRA is a despicable, anarchist organization that should be banned and would be in any civilized country. Guns should be controlled severely and I will continue to correspond with elected officials and push them to enact more stict gun controls. In the end, we will prevail or this country will fail.
Posted on November 11 at 7:54 p.m.
DinNaples: I too am a Viet Nam vet (three tours) and this is the ultimate tribute to veterans. When soldiers loose their lives for nothing more than the ego of a president, something drastic has and should be done to bring this basic fact to the brainwashed normal American. Riccio is doing that. It is nothing less than a local Viet Nam wall. Soldiers lives need to be saved, not thrown to the wolves like most of you republikan neocons want. The last necessary war was WW2 and if you can face yourself in the mirror, Viet Nam was as useless as Iraq. It was concieved and conducted because of a presidents ego. I am a liberal Democrat, but I cut to the chase when it comes to soldiers dying. LBJ was as much at fault as Bush is. Soldiers don't need to die to fill a president's ego.
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Posted on November 11 at 3:47 p.m.
Pianoman: You show your true republikan, deferment waiving character with those comments. Riccio is one of the few contributors to this "forum" that makes sensible, true and valid points. Not the kind of republikan hate and racism that you spew.
On PHOTOS: Veterans Day display features more than 800 crosses
Posted on November 4 at 11:25 a.m.
Election 2008: I too am happy this is all ending today. Hopefully we will move forward with Obama and not continue the spiral downward with McCain, but one thing is clear. George W. Bush will go back to the state that deserves him and, with luck, we will never hear from him again. "W" and his Republicans have probably done more harm to this country than the Civil War and WW2 combined. Without a doubt, the Bush years are and were the darkest in this country's history. George, Good Bye and Good Riddance.
Posted on November 3 at 11:30 a.m.
Is the little "Tin Soldier" back under another alias?
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Posted on November 22 at 7:58 p.m.
I see the neocon faithful are railing at my comments in an earlier post stating the fact that this economic crisis is a direct result of capatalism gone wild and on steroids. Yes, unregulated capatalism was behind the drive to sell mortgages to people who didn't understand the rediculous "legal" language in housing contracts. I have bought and sold many houses in my lifetime and the amount of paperwork is criminal. The driving force behind these deceptive sales practices was GREED. I don't know who invented greed, but republicans have perfected it. You that defend unregulated capatalism are obviously oblivious to it's consequences or that breed of republican who would let people die because they can't afford health care-which, unfortunately is probably the majority of republicans. I don't feel sorry for you because your beliefs will come back to destroy you, but you are a pitiful bunch.
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