I’m glad you didn’t make your son give his sister part of his candy. If he decides to share some, great. If not, he “earned” it.

trek’s last blog post..In which Neatnik hides

As far as “fair” goes- in our home, that word is banned. If any of the kids say it you hear a whole lot of “ooooh, you said fair…”

Big insurance companies = big corporations. You’ve admitted yourself that the healthcare system needs reform. Do you honestly thing these people would adequately take care of the underprivileged? While it’s easy to cast aspersions, I think you’d be better suited to stop stereotyping and become a little better informed about what’s actually going on. Kyle’s examples are simplistic and stereotypical, and not at all what most people have experienced. It’s time to find solutions instead of just complaining.

It’s a brutal game, though, in which a single strike makes you a loser. And that brutality explains another strain of anger beginning to bubble up from the newly bankrupted. People like Paula Stevens and Joseph Zachery weren’t flipping houses or lying on their loan applications. They didn’t pile up mountains of credit-card debt. They worked hard for what they had and shared their modest portions with others. Each readily admits to making occasional mistakes with money, but even Warren Buffett has made occasional mistakes with money. Their bitterness stems from a feeling that they’ve held up their end of the social contract, but now the terms of the deal have been rewritten by malign forces. “It’s a different world and a different time,” Stevens said ruefully. “Even if you work hard you get laid off.” Zachery put it this way: “It’s not the United States anymore. Those at the top have sold out the bottom for money.”

It shall be very interesting.

regardless keep up the good work.

Could not agree more. I have no problem paying my fair share in taxes to live in this country. That is not what my original post was about.

As an aside Kris you are partially correct congress under Bill Clinton National Homeownership Stragegy” help feed into the subprime crisis, but it represents only a small portion of the whole problem (I have a visual link, if I can find it I will post it.

Personally the best way to get poor people into decent housing is education, education which leads to better employment and regulations (and education) which prevent large corporations from taking advantage of the poor and ignorant-

Had Kyle stopped there, people would have supported his decision. Instead he applied the typical right wing agenda to prove why a social safety net is evil (note this doesn’t mean that there aren’t better methods of improving the life of the poor or that the current means are good) and the only reason the poor are poor is that they’re lazy bums who need to get a job.

Case in point, with the crisis devastating state budgets the first thing to be cut are programs which the poor rely on. The only budget being increased, Corporate Welfare. Don’t know about you but I don’t we should be paying companies to move jobs from one State to another.

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