Letters to the Editor
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HealThisNation
You are very wrong about Bill Gates. He is a die-hard Republican and has given enormously to the GOP. Also, urged by local chirstians, he came out against insurance for gay partners. He voted for George Bush.
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Not bad mouthing you. Great posts. CArry on.
"Rufus
I think you do not know that I was writing to someone who was worried that Obama does not represent her because he is, she worries, either conservative or progressive. I was saying he wasn't, and using his tax policy as an example. i was not defending Republican tax policies. I was explaining what they were and howe they were not like Obama's. OK?
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Just adding on to your great point, for others here. I would never tell others how to blog. Do you.
Great posts. I look forward to reading them in the future. That is the great thing about the internet. It is limitless. An end to one is just the beginning to the next person. The deepest thought may just be scratchign the surface for another.
Unity and growth are the goals. Helping others is the only reward. You have wandered into a verbal battleground. :)
Hopefully you rub off on propogandists for profit, or fun. People who blog and do not believe what they say. They spend all day playing the devil's advocate, or the devil, or the devil's slave for profit.
Great post's again. Sorry if I offend. I can just do me, as you can just do you. I should not appologize as you should not. Those suppressing truth and growth are the ones who should appologize.
We all have our parts to play. Or are we foot soldiers in our own personal wars? Or kings of our own universes?
My goal is the same as yours, differant tactics. To make people who have never thought for themselves, think. How do you explain to a blind person what the color blue is?
Change cannot come over night. Healing of this great nation, cannot come over night. It takes work.
oh, and silencing those who divide us for profit power or worse, fun or bordom.
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Clinton- A dixiecrat?
Where are you on this, Joan Walsh?
Is this the argument you've been making in earlier posts, i.e., that Clinton appeals to the white, working class in a way that Obama does not, and in a way that makes her "electable' and him not?
Ms. Walsh, seriously, where are you?
I , like Brazille, am a little grumpy (as opposed to wealthy). My grumpiness is with the tenor of the Salon perspective.
I, too, even factoring in my tendency toward undue and unnecessary patience, expect more.
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yes we can
Conservative isn't a synonym for Republican. Often it is. A conservative doesn't support progressive tax rates, capital gains, or estate taxes. They vote Republican,
Other people also vote Republican. Gates had in the United States and I think still has in Europe huge antitrust issues. Since they go to the heart of Microsoft, he has a very compelling reason to support an administration which is positively oriented to business. If I were Gates, I would vote to keep my company as protected as I could from antitrust actions for as long as I could, and if I wanted to counteract social ills i would do it through my foundation.
But voting Republican does not equal conservative if the person doing so has progressive ideas about taxes and social welfare, His credentials are very well established as a redistributionist. He redistributes as much of his money as he can, as fast as he can.
These labels sometime are not as descriptive or as useful as they seem to be. Which was my point, in the long post: Obama crosses the line, admires some Republican approaches to markets, has liberal views on social policy.
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Not the MicroSoft Gates, but his father...
and I really don't think either Gates, Sr. or Buffett qualify as particularly liberal. Both are more conservative than not. (I already knew how rich they were, the foundations, modest inheritances, etc.)
My point was that once upon a time being Conservative (or Republican did not preclude common sense in financial matters.
They both think that tax rates are out of whack. And that's just common sense.
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yes, but
"yes we can
Conservative isn't a synonym for Republican. Often it is. A conservative doesn't support progressive tax rates, capital gains, or estate taxes. They vote Republican,
Other people also vote Republican. Gates had in the United States and I think still has in Europe huge antitrust issues. Since they go to the heart of Microsoft, he has a very compelling reason to support an administration which is positively oriented to business. If I were Gates, I would vote to keep my company as protected as I could from antitrust actions for as long as I could, and if I wanted to counteract social ills i would do it through my foundation.
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The republcains allowed their party to be hijacked. They did nothing. They allowed, along with many moderate democrats like di fi clinton reid, bush and the neo-cons to right their own checks.
It's not all the neo cons fault they got everything their little hearts desired. Who stood up to them? The "good" republcains? When and where? The clinton di fi pelosi democrats? When and where? The only people who stood up were progressives and liberals. And we did it at great risk. Leaders lead when most needed. Cowards hide in the basement when the bad man comes knocking. Not only did the moderates and "good republcains" do nothing then, where are they now? Fighting those that gutted this great nation, or enabling them.
Also, I forget my main point on the gop and their taxes.
It is relative. If you subtract medical and school/college, as government programs. That is the big ones. Medical and schooling. That pays for taxes.
But I am a democratic socialist. If I had my way houses would be sold at cost too. :) People wouldn't be slaves for their whole lives paying back medical housing and school bills. It is a trade. Taxes or slavery. I'll take taxes on earned income. Better than endentured servants for life any day. If the money really does trickle down rather than being safe in banks, their would be more money for taxes. In turn more money for the government. Get accountability back in govnerment and what is impossible? Nothing.
Treason and bribery in govenrment. That is the jumping point. Tresaon and bribery in govenrment being held to account again and we fix this democracy.
Treason and bribery were the gratest crimes in ancient republcs. There was a reason for that. Democracy cannot function with treason and bribery in govenrment. Not possible.
That is the start. Baby steps. first things first.
Yes we can. :)