Obama's Nobel

I know that this topic has been and will be beaten into the ground today and for the days and weeks to come but I feel the need to get my thoughts out there.  I don’t understand, in the slightest, why Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  It makes no sense.  Keep in mind that he was nominated not two weeks after his inauguration.   He had done nothing then and still has done...

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Keep Track of Your Government

I know I am not alone in my grievances with our beloved government.  I hear people all the time voice their complaints and usually these conversations turn into heated venting sessions.  The question I have is, if you have so many problems with the way things are (or aren’t) what are you doing about it? Fortunately we live in a nation where dissenting views can be expressed.  Actually I...

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The Health Care Reform We Need

With all of the talk and debate about what our government should do to reform the current health care system, I thought I would finally weigh in.  I sat out for a while because I felt I needed to be well educated on the measures they are proposing before I spoke up but I realized that if I did this I was, in a way, validating that there was a need for government intervention.  Our health care...

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To Nationalize or Not to Nationalize

Quick question: {democracy:7} Please try to summarize your reasons for your vote in the comments.  Thanks for your input. Brian

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Bright Spots in the Gloomy Doom

What is with all of the junk going on these days?  It isn’t enough that our economy is trying to tank.  Now we have a potential pandemic of some pig virus.  One party is about to have a free pass to do what they want in the Senate (please note that I don’t think it a good thing for either party to have this kind of weight to throw around).  Our government is passing out money hand...

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Where does it stop?

So here we are.  Our government is handing out billions of dollars to banks, the auto industry, and other major financial institutions attempting to shore up weaknesses in our financial system and economy.  Now they are taking a company (GM) that is not government owned and forcing the CEO to step down and the company to reorganize.  Not only are they being forced to reorganize they are having...

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