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Nude, Thanks for sharing your story. I know that even in an anonymous forum like this one, revealing personal stories is not easy. If you took offense to my statements about life experiences, I apologize. They were general statements to make a point, nothing more. I'll tell you my...

Nude, Well, I'm glad that your life experience with being homeless allowed you to be more compassionate to the homeless. Good for you. Now, maybe we'll wait till you have a few more life experiences that will change your mind on a few other things. Perhaps if you lost your health...

Nude, Okay, you made your point. All government aid is wasted because we'll never break the cycle of poverty and need. But then you stated you will be giving your $600 refund check to a homeless shelter. Why? These are the same poor you don't want the state to be helping out because...

Nude, You are generalizing all federal aid as programs to find a solution to problem. I am sure you don't really think that, but your argument is based on that premise. There is a constant flux of new people who need assistance. There is a constant stream of temporarily out of luck and a...

Nude, you said: "We all agree we shouldn't bail out a corporation that fails, so why does it make sense to bailout even one person who either made a bad choice, had some bad luck, or just doesn't want to put in the effort required to move up in life? More to the point, we have been feeding...

In certain graduate schools, students who drink alcohols do better than non-drinkers. So, more beer for the high schoolers and grade schoolers! Get them started early.

"It scares me that OCPOP and Green Cactus expect the govt to take care of everyone." Great, I like instilling fear in people. As I tell my thirteen children every chance I get, I'd rather be feared than loved. Just the other day I told the youngest one that if he doesn't toe the line I'm...

" "But in the spirit of Fox News and "fair and balanced" reporting" you mean as in totally conservative skewed, deceiving and Giuliani supporting??? Please, let's not use "fair and balanced" and FOX in the same sentence again." Sigh...But, alas, nuance is lost on the young.

Mino, it was not my intention to take your comment out of context. It was merely a rhetorical question, my reactionary reaction to your reactionary comment. It bugs me when someone blindly drinks Grover Norquist's "all government is bad" kool-aid. Most of my colleagues and many of my...

"anything to give me more money and the govt less is always a good thing" Mino2126, think about that comment for a minute. Are you advocating that we should have no government altogether? How about national defense, police, SEC, public education, medicare? You are essentially saying that...

From the article" "Historically, seniors don't become net sellers in Arizona, Florida and Nevada until they reach 75. But the opposite is true in 13 other states -- Alaska, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio...

"Why does everyone think rich people should pay more? Do rich people use more government services?" This is unequivocal. Just one example: National defense. If you were a homeless poor living in abject poverty, you could care less if Mexico invaded our country. You'd still be poor...

What?!! My thirteen children won't be getting a rebate? How about my dozen or so dogs and cats? They feel hardship too. F___in' govment. Are they heartless?

If you think the housing price will bottom in 2011, think again. http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/news/la-re-lew10feb10,0,5165011.story The gist of the story: "Now, 78 million boomers are about to enter their twilight years when homeowners tend to become sellers rather...

They say if you are not a liberal before the age of 30, you don't have a heart. But if you are not a conservative after the age of 30, you don't have a brain. I suppose that means I lack a brain. Many people have suspected that for a long time. I will say, I considered myself firmly in...

At the risk of having the IHB crowd breaking into the chorus of Kumbaya, let me just say, I think that the central tenet of liberalism is that we are in this together. In a way, what hurts one of us hurts all of us in some way. There was a time when resources were scarce and you had to go kill...

I can, maybe, see where an argument could be made to stay in Iraq and stabilize that country to a reasonable level before we pull out. However, with hindsight, it's mind boggling to me that people are still arguing that going into Iraq in the first place was the right thing to do.

"However, I dare you to look at any of the public worker unions whether fireman, cops, teachers, prison guards, or plain old state, county or city workers and miss the bereaucracy and waste." Medicare and the VA(vet admin) run much more efficiently (at least in terms of administrative cost)...

NSR, Also, I would argue that the bottom 50% does not get a free ride. If you packed them up and sent them to Antartica, who would buy the goods that were produced by our corporations, who would mow your lawn for 20 bucks, and run the assembly lines that make our corporations great?

NSR, Well, I suppose if you were in that top tier, and couldn't stand the system, you could move to a different country(perhaps, a communist country or theocracy and join the ruling class) or you and the other top tier folks could try and get the majority of the people into that top 5% so...