Every man in America is now legally and financially responsible for the children of any women he has ever been to bed with.

Why not just save time and effort all around and create a govenment stipend for every mother in America from the time she first gets pregnant until her last child finishes college. Since we all seem to be collectively responsible for every womb we've every been within 30 feet of we might as well spread the risk.

Since I've already paid off the evil grasping bitch who used me to get her first two children I'm not even saying any of this out of self interest, but out of compassion for the rest of my gender who are destined to be used and disgarded once their biological purpose has been served.

But it's a little disengenous to compare a million dollar a year stock trader to a $15/hr assembler, isn't it?

Ideally workers should be represented by unions that are at least as strong as the shareholders with management caught in the middle. But that doesn't really apply to professionals making over a half million a year.

If I'd just stolen the last two presidential elections and then lost one despite all of the illegal thuggery and voter intimidation I could muster I'd figure the other side had to be doing something crooked, too. So what are these peopel accusing ACORN of, being better election thieves than themselves?

Over the years I have learned, every time I heard a Republican accusation of ANYTHING to look and see where they were going it themselves. This is just one more example.

I'm not sure why Texas, but I do know that mountain passes, preferrably fairly near oceans are the perferred places to put wind farms. Not open prairies. California has had wind farms at Tehachepi and Windy Point for a generation. They should probably be looking at Trukie and Donner as well. They're gonna need both wind and solar and so are the rest of us eventually.

The "dirty" energy sources are already sunsidized far more than wind or solar can ever be. They get to make a huge mess anywhere they want (have you been anywhere in Appalachia recently) and then don't have to clean up after themselves. If coal companies had to replace the mountains they blew up, or clean up the streams and rivers they foul or or put the land they stripmine back the way they found it nobody in the central US could afford to turn on a light.

And guess what? We ain't ever gonna run out of wind or sunshine. Saudi princes don't get to by baseball teams because of people heating their homes off of Columbia Gorge wind power.

OK Siemans AG is making a lot of money up here and probably in Texas. It should have been General Electric or Hewlitt-Packard, but Reagan screwed that up for all of us and now Europe, not the US, is the world leader in clean energy. But we still could be if people like you stop acting the fool and get with the program.

We had a president who raised taxes and tried to balance the budget just 9 years ago. The right spent his entire tenure in office trying to find a reason to impeach him. Thye finally settled on concentual sex between two adults and some of his own party went along with it.

Income and payrol taxes will NEVER balance our budget in the current economic conditions because everybody in this country with a really stable income isn't working primarily for wages. The capital gains tax needs to be increased to match income tax brackets and SSI and Medicare taxes need to be levied on capital and interest income just like payrol income. Otherwise the middle and working classes are going tohave to, as usual, take on the whole burden alone and we've already seen how that works out.

Everybody on the left was looking for another FDR. Well FDR didn't follow a President and Congress that had spent the better part of a decade doubling the national debt and moving the manufacturing sector, and all the good jobs with it, off shore while ensuring that the people profiting from that move didn't have to pay any taxes on those profits.

Obama is in the position of having to fight his recession, two wars, not one, and an out of control budget all at the same time. He's having to do it with a tax base that doesn't expand with the stock market anymore, because only the working class is paying their fair share of taxes. And all of these problems are ones he inhereted from the last administration. FDR had almost a decade between taking office and fighting WWII. He also had the whole country contributing to his war effort, not a few hundred contractors in it for the money and no draft. And WWII still almost bankrupt this country.

Looked at that way, Obama has to do a better job than FDR or he was doomed to failure before he took office.