What an amusing cluster of half-baked responses to a well researched article. Let's look at a couple of them: Big Government = Bad Government: This is a classic ruse by right-wing apologists whose goal is to eliminate any government that gets in the way of private profit. Is profit a bad thing? Of course not, and no one should begrudge a person who by a combination of skill and perseverance (and perhaps a bit of luck) have managed to make a good life for themselves. But when that profit comes at the expense of others who play by the rules - …
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Tim Brown is the chief editor of Common Sense Magazine, a former news director for NBC Radio's "The Rock Report" and a speech coach at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA.
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SEIU Fights Banks Over Bonuses
One of the largest unions in the country may alter corporations' executive pay practices. more
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He’s the President, so Show Him Respect: This gem is tossed out by “scorp” as an answer to the author’s assertion that Bush is “taking broad liberties to subvert the Bill of Rights” – as if questioning the president’s motives is itself subversion. This smacks of the same fascism as the Ari Fleischer comment that we should “watch what we say…”. Okay, scorp, let’s look at this one more carefully and see if you or the author is full of it: Free speech, right to peaceably assemble, redress their grievances to the government, right to a fair, speedy and public trial …
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That's an amusing statistic, Wangle. I came across another one the other day: Forbes ran a piece on the most medicated states. It turns out that the top 10 states all voted republican. Not that I'm making a link mind you, but still we could find a few jokes in there somewhere. But let me be polite enough to respont to scorp's last posting -- I think you missed the paragraph where i laid out a brief case for why our current president has taken liberties with our rights. I mentioned a number of them a few of which you took …
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Democratic Socialism -- not such a bad thing in practice, but it's unfortunate that the word socialism is always taken at its extreme. When it was first explained to me in a poly sci class all I could think of was Joe Stalin and Chairman Mao -- ruthless secular demigods that were gonna make us give up everything to The State. No thanks. But I had the wrong definition. The State is actually supposed to be We the People - you know, bottom up government that is run by us -- and uses our tax dollars to invest in our collective …
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Check out Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" and you'll understand that class war has been going on for a long time in this nation of ours. You'll also get a good idea of why socialist idea were not enacted in the US. It wasn't that We the People didn't want livable wages, protection from abuse, a fair deal. It was that when our ancestors fought for these things they were impeded every step of the way by the ruling class and their government enablers. This is not to say that government doesn't work - government is a …
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