Republican Party Voters See GOP Heading In Wrong Direction: ABC News-Washington Post Poll

it is you who is unwilling to face the reality that, while you may have indeed been a hard-working and willing participant in the workplace, conscientious and forthwight, persistent in you efforts, there were others, many of them, who gamed the system, and still do for disability in particular, but in a multitude of other ways. Without community oppribium and moral leadership from church and political leadrers, role models and community leadrers, there is no chance of getting priorities correct, rewarding those who try, and providing a safety net worthy of the name for those in transition. It is the non-tryers, the ones with NO moral values except self-serving ones, licentious in nature, narcissistic in outlook, uncaring of others in relation to "me first" and the "devil take the hindmost."

I, too, have been unemployed, got sick, lost a business that was profitable, with good employees, and am not disabled myself. I live within my budget, in very reduced "circumstances, and am mlotly positivve, I think. My perspective come from a place where I had a little bit, then nothing very much.

I see the system for what it is. I do agree on what I think is one point you were trying make; that is, there is too much ofmonopoly practices in business and government, too little transparency in regulation and business practices, particularly in major industries like communications (cable and telco) food production, big pharma, ecducation, and most of all health care.
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How To Prevent Hunger In Upcoming Decades? Try Precision Agriculture

Most people aren't saying that we CAN'T do it; we can. perhaps, The real quesation is are there alternatives, and SHOULD we take the path of ever-increasing populatiuons needing ever-increased food "donations" and other resources, holding back others from increasing their standards of living
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How To Prevent Hunger In Upcoming Decades? Try Precision Agriculture

Perhaps you are missing the point. The ever-increasing demands for foodstocks, resources and other assets to suppport ever-increasing population pressures is a Malthusian cliff-sooner or later.

Better to reduce population pressure by increasing population management incentives and planning, which also provides more per-capita food AND higher standards of living as a result. What good is it to feed ever-increasing numbers of por mouths all over the world when alternatatives provide a better path, not only for populations residing in continually food-pressured areas, but for those of us who around the world who donate and contribute.
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People Getting Dumber? Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests

You mostly have no argument from me, excepting the diference of opinion in whether business exists to provide social "goods." I more thn agree with the lack of transparency and manipulation of the system to allow actual and quasi-monopolies, "rigging" of preferences, incentives, even actual grants and giveaways to business (and recently to nonprofits that are in reality businesses). I too, hate the loophlole that allows business to get credit for profits earned and taxes paid in overseas operations, but which allows unlimited deferral and accumulation of those profits in other countries, rather than some kind of minimum return of profits to U.S. parent companies. I understand the theory, that those profits may be needed for expansion, acquisitions, and other corporate expense, but the reality and experiental history indicates a gaming of the system. Much of today's tax code has been developed to provide government (or business) designed incentives to support or protect business. Just take THE CASE OF DICTATED ETHANOL USAGE IN MOTOR FUELS IN WHICH UP TO 40% OF THE U.S. CORN CROP GOES TO ETHANOL PRODUCTION, WHILE ETHANOL IMPORTS ARE RESTRICTED TO "PROTECT" ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND, PRIMARILY (WHO WAS THE INSTIGATOR OF THE ETHANOL IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE)! You might ask yourself this: Who benefits from the increasing numbers of poor and minority populations-just follow the money. Right! Government and mostly nonprofits benefit from inducing and supporting these populations.
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U.S. Workers Trail Rest Of Developed Countries In Vacation Time: Report

I won't apologize for being a capitalist supporter of free markets and enterprise. In fact, using your (specious) logic, we should-the professional and achieving classes- by paying higher taxes (already the highest in developed world, except Sweden) and giving away profits to charity. Your obvious choice is Communism, and mine is not. We see how Communism and Progressive Socialism have workeed around the world, and somehow capitalistic free markets work better, provide more employment, and higher standards of living. We can agree that elements of Socialism have dragged down the American and other economies so that class distinctions-caused by these very elements-present a less than desireable societal situation. WE ALREAY HAVE A SOCIETY WHEREIN 50% OF THE MEMBERS PAY NO TAXES. WHAT PERCENTAGE WOULD SUIT YOU SO THAT SOCIETY PROVIDES WEALTH TO EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF ABILITY OR NEED? 80%, 90% 100%? iF YOU KILL A FREE ENTERPRISE SOCIETY WITH CLASS EQUALITY, ALL WORKING CLASSES EVENTUALLY SUFFER-SEE USSR 1920'S-1990'S

i WOULD ALSO STIPULATE THAT WE CURRENTLY DOING A LOUSY JOB OF ECONOMIC TRANSPARENCY, AND THAT TOO MANY QUASI-MONOPOLY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES EXIST, TO THE DETRIMENT OF COMPETITIVE PRICES AND MORE CONSUMER CHOICE, BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND AS SMALL BUSINESSES (SOME 25 MILLION IN U.S.).
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U.S. Workers Trail Rest Of Developed Countries In Vacation Time: Report

Let's redefine greed to "seeking highest return on invested capital to better my company and society."

Seeking profit through good management practice is not venal, not greed. There ARE greedy people; I have no love for them or their practices (like the quasi-monopoly enjoyed by cable and telco over infrastructure used for entertainment, the Internet and communications), but I repect and appreciate the need for business to return profit to investors, otherwise what's the point of investing?
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U.S. Workers Trail Rest Of Developed Countries In Vacation Time: Report

There will always be a labor class, an underclzass if you will. We can't or won't all be business owners or professionals. To somehow postulate that it the "duty" of a free enterprise society-the basis on which our country was founded-to become socialistic is to offer the ridiculous as a solution. Better torecognize the reality of a free marketplace and work to build more, not less, entrepreneurial spirit through education and workplace-education partnerships that develops higher-paid skillsets for a modern marketplace, rewarding those who make the effort. In the Met Life commercial Lucy insists that "it should be five cents" when that flies in the face of the reality of providing an insurance benefit at a competitive price.

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