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Freaking laughable Terrell Shaw after Obama dumped BILLIONS into failing solar companies who donate to him....America had decided...your dream is over....change is coming in a big way
Terrell Shaw
It's a very close election, Luke. You could be right in your prediction. I still prefer our position to yours in the "horse race" but it ain't over.
Some of the solar investments have worked and some haven't. There is no evidence of preferential treatment of one company over another. Of course Democrats support solar energy companies.
"These people" stand for achievement, going out and working every day, ... and a society that works, Josh. The trickle-down, top-down approach of the right has been tried and didn't work. When we have built a strong middle class we have thrived. During the recent recession, for example, the rich folk by and large got along just fine while most of us experienced pretty severe losses.
I think you, and many on the right, have a mistaken idea about what "these people stand for." It is very American to recognize the efficacy of BOTH a strong free-enterprise system AND measures to ensure our common welfare. Whether it is the Erie Canal, postal service, Transcontinental Railroad, Social Security, Interstate Highway System, Medicare, or Affordable Healthcare, we have always striven to strengthen our nation through collective action as well as individual achievements. "These people" (the President and I, for example) laud Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and all the other inventor/entrepreneurs/business folk whose individual enterprise has helped to build a mighty business engine that helps to make us all prosper. But we also recognize that the great infrastructure of public works, public education, public roads, public heath efforts and protections, public-sponsored efforts of all sorts, and the people who worked for these folks, were a big part of their successes.
Josh, are you unaware of the welfare reforms of the Clinton administration? There is a much larger corporate welfare problem. This President has been a great example to poor kids to get off their bottoms and get to work to realize the American dream.
We alwats have ti watch out for unintended conseqyences of our well-intentioned effirts on all sides. There has been and will be welfare fraud. But we have greatly improved that sutuation over the last couple of decades. (Please excuse the fat fingers- I shouldnt try to text!)
Jim May
When I hear "business people" I often think of my self--small business, entrepreneur for 26yrs.I don't think the current political situation cares about most businesses. The irony is the big money (Kock Bros, International Corporations, etc) control the government, make it serve their interests which, buy definition, is to make profits. Everyone needs to make a profit in business but that does not mean the biggest kids on the block should be controlling government with their money and dictating social policy on health care, education and who dies in war (poor and lower mid class) and who does not--about everyone else, but particular young people who go to private schools, live in the best neighborhoods, etc. Corps shout "Government doesn't create jobs! No excavator, G.I. Bill veteran, defense contractor, or (given Bush's high priced drug plan that passed) can the big parmacy companies. Ironically the big corporations want to USE GOVERNMENT to create the kind of capital that benefits their international corporate interests whether or not it is good policy. I think the direction that our society is going, spurred on by flag-waiving, anti-government voices, is thoroughly not patriotic or good American citizenship, to say nothing of the new testament
Terrell Shaw
I am also a former small businessman. My wife and I gave everything we could to our firet try (1975-77) and again on the 2nd (1988-99). I have grest repect for and appreciation of the struggles of entrepreneurship!!!
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| I would add :the recession did not become depression, the President is a Christian and with his beautiful Christian wife is raising his two lovely daughters as Christians, a war has ended, bin Laden is dead, and the Dow has doubled. |
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| Yes, we have a ways to go, but I won't be part of giving control back to the folks who put us in the mess we were in four years ago. We are much better off than we were before the two stimulus bills, healthcare reform, the rescue of the auto industry, the killing of Bin Laden, the better regulation of wall street, the recovery of our retirement funds in the stock market, etc., etc., etc.
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