Originally Posted by pjwky

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Sure, we got a real efficient war going in Iraq: I didn't say we were efficient, I said that is what the average American wants it government to be shifting billions of tax payer dollars to private corporations, paying their employees 4 or 5 times what one of our soldiers makes, and supporting their PR branches to lobby for a longer war, permitting their failures which endanger & kill our troops: NOT TO MENTION PUTTING THOUSANDS OF US TROOPS & IRAQI CITIZENS IN HARMS WAY! Yeah our government sucks no doubt about it but that is completely off topic

And its really great forward looking efficiency to decrease funding available for Community Colleges & Technical Colleges, while at the same time increasing the length of prison sentences for youthful drug offenders. once again our government sucks, so what
The real issue here, is what sort of Nation do we want to be? It may be an unpopular thing to say, but capitalism in a democratic nation should have limits. Profit is the driving force behind capitalism: the public wellfare must be the driving force within a democracy: I think the public's state is already too pampered, the government needs to do less not more without a vibrant society to serve & sell thing to, corporations would be non-exsistent. ....pjwky

Originally Posted by pjwky

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Sure, we got a real efficient war going in Iraq: shifting billions of tax payer dollars to private corporations, paying their employees 4 or 5 times what one of our soldiers makes, and supporting their PR branches to lobby for a longer war, permitting their failures which endanger & kill our troops: NOT TO MENTION PUTTING THOUSANDS OF US TROOPS & IRAQI CITIZENS IN HARMS WAY!

And its really great forward looking efficiency to decrease funding available for Community Colleges & Technical Colleges, while at the same time increasing the length of prison sentences for youthful drug offenders.

The real issue here, is what sort of Nation do we want to be? It may be an unpopular thing to say, but capitalism in a democratic nation should have limits. Profit is the driving force behind capitalism: the public wellfare must be the driving force within a democracy: without a vibrant society to serve & sell thing to, corporations would be non-exsistent. ....pjwky

Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45

Interesting

Proof please of all these incidents.

Originally Posted by BO Nafide

I know Iraq has become a chinese finger trap. It is the U.S. government that is the problem. They have the purse. If they would put their footdown, (like they should) all this bullshit with halliberton would stop. Halliberton will cut corners to make more profit for as long as the customer, the government will let them.

Left alone (with a very rare exeption) markets will balance out. The economy is like the enviorment. Screw with one part and you screw up a whole lot you never intended to screw with.