"I want you to know that what you're doing is making a sacrifice for the next generation -- a sacrifice you may not have chose to make" - B.H.Obama commenting on the GM nationalization and the subsequent, politically motivated closings of dealers who had given to the RNC.

It seems us who work and are conservatives are busy "sacrificing", while those who subsist off the government teat are the ones "benefitting".

Behold, the "change" PrezBO has brought to this once-proud nation. Socialism.

Secondly, no one is talking about regulating your landscaping business. Go over leverage yourself on some new lawnmowers.

However, the financial services industry is an industry that DOES need regulation. Otherwise, we revert to the 1800's when banks took people's money and then claimed to go bankrupt.

Casinos are more heavily regulated than the insurance companies! The gov't is more adept at protecting degenerate gamblers than society as a whole??

Use your head, man, think!

"Making money for the shareholders cannot and should not be the bottom line!"

Who do you propose that we work to make money for? I tell you what. I'm making money for my family. If me and a friend of mine want to go into business together, then it is our freedom to do so. If we fail, we go out of business. If we succeed, we make money. If we make BIG money, someone may one day buy me out, or we may hire new people, or we may go after more business. I don't see a problem with that. After all, who decided to take the risk of failing in the first place? Me.

A little piece needs to go to the government, because they made it possible for me to work and also keep my private property. They also protected me from other countries invading and seizing my property, and either killing me or turning me into a slave. They should protect our borders and protect our free and private contracts.

I'm also thankful to others. Others helped encourage me, support me, and even kicked me in the pants more than once. When I succeed, I also donate to charity. That is also my freedom. Only I should have the real freedom to charitably give my money away. And you can bet I will be picky to whom I give that money.

But someone that never took on the risk with me, and never worked in the trenches with me, has no right to tell me how to run my business, nor to whom I will give my charity to. They don't deserve the privilege and they certainly don't share the respect I have to give.

Who else should I make money for? You? The man down the street? Or whomever Barnie Frank decides? I don't think so. And who would have the audacity to say that decision is no one else's but mine?

ok. here goes....

as the romans and greeks before us learned too late, when apathy sets in and gubmint takes over, the society plunges head first into the cesspool. we have lost control of our gubmint and I don't mean just recently. almost since it was established, those in power yearned for more power, we gave it to them!

if you try to steal a whole pie you will be seen however, a bite here and a bite there soon the pie is gone and no one suspects anything. oh there is that loud mouth couple of folks but they can be shushed by the thieves and their pals.
thieves= politicians
pals=media, big business, dumbasses.

can any of you fine folks find fault with my statements so far?

the options are armed revolt, not going to happen. or a complete shake up of our current make up of the gubmint system.

single terms, no perks, absolute transparency.

NOT GUNNA HAPPEN!!! why not????

DUMBASSES!!! that's why not!

doom and gloom ahead? you bet your ass! we are lost and recovery is not an option.

oh! osamabama is over kissing his stinkin' muslim masters asses as I type. need more proof than that?

Please tell me something the government oversees that isn't a total bust. Even the best military force in the world has been reduced to a PC cluster**** because of Congress' posturing and indecisiveness. They function best when they are released to do what they do best (then castigated for it later). Public education? Veteran health care? IRS? Border security? What does the federal government do that can't be done better by private industry? And if you think the government isn't screwing you every bit as much as corrupt business owners, you are extremely naive. You are snickering at your own idiocy.

To: Joyce
I agree with you 100%. We definitely need more accountability and transparency in our government, too.

That's why I was fighting so hard against the "default setting" of secrecy and utter lack of accountability throughout the Bush administration... I assume you were doing the same?
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Yeah I've been yelling about Bush for some time but he is gone and not much can be done now on that. HOWEVER Obama is here now and doing three times WORSE so where do you stand on his accountability?

"Plus, without government pressure, GM likely would not have made some critical restructuring moves."

Uhh, with NO bailouts, GM would have received TONS of free market pressure.

Remember Enron? They asked the Clinton administration for bailouts, and got them. They later asked the Bush administration for bailout and got $0. They finally went belly-up and were washed out by the free market faster than an Obama bankruptcy proceeding, since they were no longer on taxpayer-funded life support.

I agree with you 100%. We definitely need more accountability and transparency in our government, too.

That's why I was fighting so hard against the "default setting" of secrecy and utter lack of accountability throughout the Bush administration... I assume you were doing the same?

Just think you help put the socalization of America into place. Sure Obama,Bush and Cheney are different people and the 2 parties have different names but the agenda of neo-con/Roman empire government expansion is the same. The only way to combat this stuff is to turn your tv off, pick up some Frederic Bastiat,Michael Badnarik and John Stossell books and not allow the propaganda media to convince you that voting for Libertarians or traditional conservatives(like Ron Paul) is a waste.If you believe in small govt, vote that way no matter what. Keep in mind the Republicans at this point simply like to tinker with socialism(as we saw with Mccain and Bush) the Republicans have nothing to do with small govt anymore. The Patriot Act is our proof.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

The Statists can only succeed if the achiever's and producers sacrifice themselves to the collective.

Statism has ALWAYS FAILED, inevitably there will achiever's and producers willing to be enslaved by the Statists and it will collapse on it own – but only after great suffering.

There HAS to be a way of fighting Statism before it's TOO LATE.

When are WE THE PEOPLE going to stand up and STOP this madness? Isn't the government supposed to be working for US? Not the other way around.......

This is more Change we can believe in. Smart people and those with the means right now are probably moving their capital offshore. Who knows if Obama will come and confiscate it?

Oh and for reference:

Definition of Statism from the Merriam-Webster online Dictionary.

Concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry.

Statism
Function: noun
Date: 1919

Concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statism


Statism

The practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy.
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People shouldn't be allowed to vote unless the have a basic understanding of civics – especially those definitions.