Komodo9mm
@cox.net
| reply to guitarzan
Re: This is the start of a series of headaches for Big Business
I'm fine with people owning guns--Franklin said it best, giving up freedom for security (security being lack of guns in this case) deserve neither. [technically you can use that quote in several ways]
That said, I am wholly against public being able to own assault weapons. Unless of course, you are a mercenary, military etc. The only thing you're going to hunt with one of those bad boys are other people... or if you have a 50 caliber rifle, a wild M1 Abrams that strayed too far from its herd. |
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hahahalame
@adelphia.net | reply to guitarzan
A protest vote always proceeds a landslide. The 1995 local government elections in Britain saw Labour make massive gains, in 1997 there was a landslide. |
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Komodo9mm
@cox.net | reply to guitarzan
A perfect government would be much like Norway or Sweden's. Take the good ideas from both socialism and capitalism, and mix.
Those are two countries who have higher standards of living than the U.S. |
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komodo9mm
@cox.net
| reply to guitarzan
Abortions: Safe,legal, and RARE.
Banning abortion wouldn't make them go away, only education can do that.
Personally I don't agree with abortions, but I'm willing to let them stay, because my wife is more important than an unborn child. If my wife was pregnant, unconscious, and the baby was a risk to her health--you bet I'm going to have it terminated.
As a society we have already determined that embryonic life is not as important as other human life. The simple fact remains that by and large, there are almost no cases of funerals being held for miscarriages (called natural abortions). What do we do with these dead embryos? We flush them down the toilet.
I'm neither a democrat nor republican, and I'm not too thrilled about pelosi, but am very enthralled about the message sent to Bush: Ride the conservative/liberal fence or else.
With republican presidents, you want a democratic congress, and vice versa, or else you end up with a ship that flies too far right or left (right, in the case of the last 6 years.) |
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useradvocate
join:2006-11-11
Chesterfield, MO
| reply to Idjk
Re: This trolls stupid post...
As a retired SWBC employee I agree. In the day we had an unparalleled support structure and cared about our customers and employees.
The company has changed, as all companies have. Pre 80's Health Care was affordable and headache free too. The MBA's took over business in the '80s and the greed is good factor became the norm.
It has been downhill since the "Personell Department" became "Human Resources". Remember, in these times humans are a resource to be used to fatten bonus checks and the bottom line. For the most part large companies are sweatshops, complete with Machevelian management. |
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PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
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| reply to karlmarx
Re: This is the start of a series of headaches for Big Business
And like that is going to actually happen under the Democratic Party?
As a longtime registered Democrat, it merely means we have exchanged one set of masters (the board members of corporate America) for another (the union bosses of both corporate and governmental America). I'm expecting three things to happen *before* the current Bush's term expires in 2008:
1. A tax increase *will* get pushed through (that will impact a much greater number than merely the top five percent of income-earners) and it will be attached to a bill that the President dare not veto.
2. Governmental spending will increase by an even greater amount (and will be papered over with more borrowing).
3. More money will be *earmarked* for border security, but it will NOT be used for more Border Patrol officers, extending the tours of National Guardsmen patrolling said border, or even more fencing (visible or otherwise). Worse, it won't even be used to deport illegals we've already caught. And, most shameful of all, it will be the Republicans that get blamed for it. |
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