As i sit here in my very quiet kitchen, i'm considering what are the issues that face all us in this country... but more than that i wonder about the twisting of these issues and how hard both sides have dug to make it all so confusing...
GM and government ownership... Yup the US govt. now holds a huge stake in the once mighty GM (so does canada) and there has been no shortage of republican/conservative out cry of "SOCIALISM!!!!!" yet the workers only own 15% and that's the key to a socialism, worker self owned/managed... Neither side addresses the real good and bad of this... good workers do now own 15% and the government will eventually be bought out of its shares, one can only assume when things are better... One therefore has to assume the government would make a profit and this should bode well for us the people. The down side... for now, this is expensive and it is us the people who are paying. Had we not done this though, job loss and income loss would have been devastating and felt by everyone...
HealthCare: Does anyone know what president FIRST proposed universal health care? ANSWER: RICHARD M. NIXON!!! hardly a liberal, in no way a socialist... eneough said. those against universal health care should try going without it.
The WAR: i think the draw down is an equitable end to a war that was illegal at best. and was the beginning of our worst financial woes as we tried to fight a war, for the first time in history without tax increases and sacrafices at home... the spending killed us..., let's remember the cost line of the war was removed from the budget by W.
my status... hmmm... nobody seems to notice or care... you're all poopy-heads...