Bammy isn't a crook.  From a moral perspective, he's probably a decent guy.  He's just clueless, and dedicated to bringing us down the path to either socialism, or at least his "progressive" view of America.
The more I see of him and Biden, the more I wonder how any thinking person could have voted for them.  This wasn't an election for the most popular kid in the senior class - this stuff matters far beyond whose belly gets fed tomorrow, who does or doesn't have health insurance, or what the minimum wage is for those at the bottom.
If we don't quit worrying about the bottom feeders, we'll all be there.  Wee need to start advancing the notions that made America great, not those notions that will dumb us all down to a common denominator.  But a common denominator is what his kind of people want.

I understand your feelings, but they do not accomplish the common good of our being a great, powerful, leading nation again.
As for getting screwed by a major company, what do you mean?  Labor is a resource, just like raw materials.  Labor and materials are used together to make the company's output.
What is a fair share of taxes is subjective - but a producer isn't really taxed in any country as taxes are only a cost of production, paid in the end by the purchaser of the goods or services.
I would suggest to Lost Artist that if he feels like he hasn't accomplished what he wants by age 34, do some self examination, figure out what it is he wants, and go after it.
Not everyone will be a business tycoon, I'm not stupid enough to think that all will be.  Being a good employee is honest, worthwhile effort, and is to be commended.  If your employer isn't rewarding you, or treating you like you want to be treated, then either change jobs or seek self employment.  Just don't sit and whine about it or vote for fools who promise you the land of milk and honey.

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 03/05/13 at 14:51:35:



this starts from the top, corporations used to value their employees and promote from within, etc. . .  today all they do is cut costs and ship jobs overseas.

corporations do a lot of good things, but they don't advertise those things, not as much as they should.

but there is human nature to want the bad things, that's where the drama is, people believe bad things about other people much easier than they believe good things, like welfare queens, if you're poor you're considered part of that group, even if that's not the case, you are considered a taker, part of the "47%" even if you are working to improve your life and are as conservative as they get, your own party will throw you under the bus to make a divisive statement to galvenize the base

anyway, I'm probably full of crap, but leadership starts from the top, the poor can't lead the rich

Srinath -What we have in charge may be willing, but a long way from from capable.
When will you realize that GWB has been out of office for 4+ years?  It's Obama's debacle now.
He has spent billions if not trillions in mis-guided efforts simply because he's not a businessman, never has been, never will be.
When you say "corporations" do this and do that, it's over generalization.  Like all things, there are good and bad corporate leaders.  You cannot paint with such a broad brush - doing so detracts from your points.  
You are an intelligent man - please write like one.
We need business people ( male and female ) leading us; not just someone whose only credential is "community organizer".

Maybe it is Obama's mess in your opinion ... Maybe Bush's mess will take more than 4 years to sort out ... maybe it wont ever get sorted out. We're still sorting through Teddy Roosevelt's mess as you guys look at it.

We may need a businessman/women to run the country ... if we can find one that isn't primarily focussed with lining his pockets ... else an inept fool would have to be the lesser of 2 evils compared to a crooked genius.

So far all the options presented have been inept crooks. We have chosen a inept fool over an inept crook, and I'd say its the better choice.

Capable - is relative my friend. RMoney was capable ... of lining his pockets, helping his cronies and giving away huge tax breaks to the rich, the super rich and uber rich and shafting the rest to do so. Very capable of that ...

We need a non crook running us ... maybe the best would have been community organiser.

I can go into details, but it is going to get too long and boring for anyone here. You'd have to work through the generalities ... there may be good and bad corporations, but of late the ones that are successful are all the ones who are more crooked than the next ... Walmart, google, all of big oil, big pharma, big food, big gun etc etc etc are all violating every possible rule there is and paying off people to look the other way.

You know maybe we should float a pettiton to get warren buffet in as president ... but sadly paying that man 450k/yr oughta be a crime.

Cool.
Srinath.

SkyHigh wrote on 03/09/13 at 09:48:16:



One more of those brilliant Pat McCrory type republican ideas where he balances the budget by cutting the unemployment by 1/2 and leaves welfare and other junk alone ... he knows his target demographic ... gun toting welfare cheats ... and those that dont vote for Republicons, working people, yea cut them off at the knees, when they die off we'll be fine, we just need tax dodging corporations and welfare receiving, gun toting bible thumpers.

We need to stop giving away tax breaks to corporations based on empty promises and bogus accounting of "created jobs" ... and we need to tax the uber rich, the ultra rich, the super rich and the very very rich to the tune of the working man. Budget cuts are about gutting the working person by depriving them of benefits.

Cool.
Srinath.

Yea, its that great philosophy "You dont want to be found dead with unused bullets" ... only you're fighting a fire, and you've shot all the firefighters.
Yea nothing should expire at the end of the year and it shouldn't get revised downward if you didn't use it etc etc.

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Srinath.