Did you ever consider telling your daughter "NO!" when she asked you to pay $11K per semester for college? You can buy an equally thorough liberal indoctrination at much more reasonable rates.
Where did I get that amount? From conversations with my relatives and friends from high school.
Reading comprehension problems, Richard? I wait until AFTER they fall then WALK to them.
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Nope, I'm generally a conservative, although I do take what might be called very liberal stands on civil rights and freedom of speech. What I am NOT is an idealogue or partisan extremist.
You obviously despise all Republicans---one wonders if you are completely enamored of all Democrats? Or can you see that both parties leadership exists only for the purpose of self-perpetuation and that both parties contain some fringe factions that don't reflect their average members?
BTW, felony charges don't only happen to Republicans. That pendulum just happens to have swung to the right at the moment.
That last sentence was completely inane and totally non-responsive. In your world does 2 +2 = fudge?
So you live in the fifth largest metropolitan area in the US and your wages aren't sufficient there? Have you considered living somewhere else besides the fifth largest metropolitan area in the US? Maybe you can earn a decent living elsewhere.
If I lived in a toilet I wouldn't have the right to complain about the smell. If you live in an area that is beyond your means then perhaps you should relocate to one that isn't. They do have U-Haul in your town, don't they?
I am beginning to see that, feel bad to have a battle of wits with an un-armed individual.
Flip flopper.
I can't stand it when crooks take my hard-earned money and sign multi-million dollar pork barrel projects in exchange for hundred of thousands in campaign contributions.
Point? none.
Republicans are completely in power, proving the assertion that 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'.
This is true. If the price of gas is still 99 cents a gallon, honda and toyota would be non-existent.
Don't believe that. That's a bunch of lies. They (exxon and all the rest) want more profits.
Do you believe the oil companies can control the prices, outside the market forces, to increase their profits? If they actually could do that the price of gasoline would never go down, it would only ever go up. ;)
mike hunt
If companies did not continually want more profits, they would do a disservice to their owners (shareholders) and lose their reason for existence. Don't blame them for doing their duty just because you are not smart enough to own their stock.
Mark wrote:
(Okay time to start throwing a little mud...) ;-)
...Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the true and ETHICAL PURPOSE for starting, maintaining said business was to PROVIDE A SERVICE, from which you make profits to CONTINUE providing that service.... Not providing whatever service, JUST and SOLELY to make profits for the owners/shareholders etc? That's the problem with these faceless and greedy corps. Since there's hardly any 1 person to place the blame, they become profit oriented ONLY and they forget or ignore their whole function/purpose... that being- PROVIDE A SERVICE for consumers to consume... Not make PROFIT of those that own/run the corp. The profits are the END sum of providing something of worth. NOT the end all end of why you exist. If that were the case, then why don't the leaders of said corporation just start up their own Britt World Wide "legal" "pyramid" scheme, which basically provides little service at all, except making money for an elite few and relying on the REST of the masses to keep them rich? So... if said corp made say ~2.5billion/yr in profit, and could NOT make anymore than that; do you think for 1 minute that some people wouldn't be trying to figure out how to make MORE, and then MORE and MORE more more more every year, yet providing the same service... hell eventually they would just LOVE for you and I to pay them for little if NOTHING at all! lol Just give them money for being another faceless-corporation, b/c "they" (who? The elite few) are (and or feel) entitled to living the way they want to live...... USA = continent of sell outs. The people that run this country and these corps, don't give a crap about the masses and families that make up their corps. They'd ship 90% of our jobs overseas if they could for MORE profit... Geehs. This is what I love about this brain washing of the middle and lower classes. People with no, or hardly any affluence sticking up for these corporate clowns. These people don't give a shit about you nor I. But somehow the mindless middle class dreamers are conned into believing that they TOO are going to make it BIG BIG BIG and become some affluent, worldly traveled millionaires. HAHA Yeah right, better start playing the lottery! All the while distancing themselves, hating and belittling the people in their own socio-economic class, as if, they are better somehow b/c of their wanna-be affluent day dreaming? Better check up on who you elect - for they (the elected ELITE) don't give a crap about you, nor what your living-check-to-check-lifestyle / class cares about. Wanna-be Republicans you are! Haha or should I say (r)epublicans, because all you are and are going to be to the REAL elite, are little r's. Shit, out of you so-called reps, HOW many of you have been or were invited to a nice $5000/plate dinner to discuss the party's current status and future? ZERO! I'm going to make that bet... Therefore, they don't give a squat about YOU, nor your ambitious day dreams. And YOU are NOT a real/true "Republican." Last time I checked about family values and all this other capital "R" political soap boxing - the country is even MORE divided on issues AND actual policy of education, class, health and overall welfare than EVER in the history of it. So much for Republican leadership paving the way for a united, well-being, and worldly respected United States of America... HAHA! Lastly... the Dems aren't exactly a party of honest Johns either... but they haven't shown their hegemonistic side like the big Reps at the moment. Haha stay poor little republicans!
---Workers unite!
The philosophy that led to my fortune was to follow the business theory that says if one starts a business they must make a product, or offer a service, that will attract new and retain current customers. If one does that, profits and growth will follow. If not you will eventually go out business, period.
mike hunt
Your ignorance is so profound I don't even know what to say to begin to educate you. Try taking some basic business classes. If companies offer a good or service that is in demand at a price people are willing to pay that is above the cost of production, then they tend to make money and stay in business. If they don't then they tend to go out of business.
Try to remember that the wealth created by those with personal ambition and drive is what creates the money the politicians steal from us in taxes to drive the welfare state. It's funny how the Libs love to complain about "big business" and the success of those with a better idea, but they are always looking for more ways to steal from the "wealthy" and distribute that wealth to buy votes from the poor.
The top Libs -- Kerry/Heinz -- are "weathly".
I think they invented welfare to keep ambitions down and protect the Old Money.
Republicans are new money and respect drive and entrepreneurialism.
Of course, some people just inherit it.
Your "fortune," Okay since I know about some real wealth, just what do you consider a "fortune," and don't give me any poser upper-middle-class $300,000K/yr BS. I'm talking million/Multi-million dollar income. Don't say fortune and actually mean "nest egg." As further proof, just what type of stock/investment portfolio do you have? What type of Yacht (Hatteras, Ferretti, Jefferson, Cheoy Lee, a Cigarette maybe?) , luxurious amenities to you possess? Multiple seasonal homes? Precious paintings or art d=E9cor? Global trips to multiple countries, staying at 4-5star hotels? Don't reply back with that clich=E9d "I'm not into materialistic trivialities, I'm just a plain old guy with BANK!" Bs. Can you drop $20,000 on anything you feel like purchasing this week? - THAT is a REAL "fortune," not someone on google groups pretending to have a fortune and really having a couple hundred K stashed away from a few tacobells or small time business ventures. Prove your affluence and true membership in the (R)epublican party, TEN HUT!
BTW- I'm still waiting for an answer about those $5000/plate invitations you've gladly made use of... hrmmm what did you guys talk about at the dinner/meeting - world domination possibly?
Cheers ;-)
You didn't answer my question, top poster.
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