Sniperchoke - 12/1/2009 9:44 AM
I'm sorry to hear that Possum obviously trusts the wrong people/organizations. I don't recall 100's or perhaps even thousands of people perishing during the Enron scandals as did when people trusted the Federal Gov't to save them from Hurricane Katrina. Katrina happens to be a perfect example of what can take place when the citizens rely on government control i.e. socialism. At least in the private sector you don't have all your eggs in one basket so to speak. The diversity of the private sector inherently protects from the few corrupt companies by spreading the risk to their competition. Look there will always be corrupt individuals in the private sector but a crook is a crook and more regulation is not going to prevent him from making immoral or illegal decisions. You can also apply this concept to the second amendment. We lose innocent people every year because we have a right to bear arms. This is the sacrifice the country makes in order to have freedom and I think it is a necessary sacrifice.
Doc1 - 11/30/2009 11:43 PM
Take a stroll in your favorite store and try to find Levis jeans, you can find them at a huge price, they are very popular but they are all made over seas, there is not one pair of jeans, no matter what the brand, that is made here, none. Check on carharts, the same story, wranglers, same story, lee jeans, same story. You ask what has happened to these factories? They are sitting empty, employees laid off to try and find other means of employment. Greed is the answer, pure and simple greed.
</p>Doc1 - 11/30/2009 11:04 PM I appreciate the history lessons. My question or the way I see things now a days is that there is very little produced in the USA, almost everything we use every day is imported from china, this means all the US dollars are going to china instead of staying here in the US, after a while we are going to run out of US dollars. Go into any store anywhere and try to find at least one item that is made here in the US. If the products are made here, so are the jobs, most jobs that are found are in the service industry, not manufacturing. All of our clothes and part of our food is imported, probably 90% of our oil, all of our electronics. I could go on and on but you get the picture.
Sniperchoke - 12/1/2009 11:46 AM
Possum you are smart enough to know that they all intertwine. If gov't has all the power and control over the economy and the private sector is more or less ineffective then who do citizens have to turn to in times of crisis but Gov't. Once you create a society dependant on its gov't that can lead democracies to morph to fascism and dictatorships.
Sniperchoke - 12/3/2009 5:34 PM
If you agree with Gov't run healthcare that is politicians making life and death decisions for you. If you agree with Gov't controlling the largest corporation in the world in GM and telling CEO's of companies how much they can make then that is more Gov't control. If you agree with the gov't controlling a large part of our financials then that is more control. Now these are all liberal talking points and if you agree with these points you do not want to make your own decisions. And thanks for comparing me to a mass murderer I will just compair you to the ultimate socialist Stalin.
