tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post6773053088992792068..comments2024-03-28T03:05:37.670-06:00Comments on The Barb Wire: Is Right-Wing Media Preoccupied with Muck-raking These Days??Barbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-67081213492432781882010-03-10T16:01:13.647-06:002010-03-10T16:01:13.647-06:00This is supposed to be a news announcement from 20...This is supposed to be a news announcement from 2025? How cynical about CEO's --and not funny to malign Walmart like that. <br /><br />You KNOW very well that if China goes after Taiwan, the GOP in charge would intervene (if we are able)--but the liberals don't want us to send any military abroad. <br /><br />I think that's a likely risk predicted --that our technology and investment in China could someday be used against us. You had better hope for the continued spread of Christianity in China and the availability of Bibles there --because that is the humanizing, civilizing force for countries who would previously gun down their own student protesters and jail their religious and political dissidents.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-62491223956404320182010-03-10T13:57:25.533-06:002010-03-10T13:57:25.533-06:00This just in from Reality News:
The American Work...This just in from Reality News:<br /><br />The American Worker Subsidizes China's Conquest of Taiwan<br /><br />2025:<br /><br />In recent development, The Red Army of China has seized hundreds of Walmart Widget factories in Order to Turn them into Tank Factories for their upcoming invasion of Taiwan. When Joe Walten, heir to the Walton estate was asked about the US commitment to Taiwan and how his company was an enabler of China's recent military might, his answer in typical shortsighted CEO fashion: "I don't give a crap, We've recently divested our labor costs into India and so this setback in China shouldn't effect our bottom line too much". Meanwhile the US economy, already in years of recession took another blow as China is now in the process of wholesale sell off of US treasuries. The greenback shudders in it's final death throes. Now back to you Tom with the latest American Idol results!stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06187937248190953487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-36222946517249383812010-03-08T09:37:50.464-06:002010-03-08T09:37:50.464-06:00At least half of the people I know are dependent o...At least half of the people I know are dependent on the gov't --all the retired are receiving and did pay in --but inflation and longer lives and healthcare have cost far more than they've put in. It may be conservative to say that Many or most of the nation's children of single moms and the moms are supported by gov't. The ones I know are. All the natural disaster victims get help.<br /><br />http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/4/15/215126.shtml?s=lh<br /><br />2007 statement: <br /><i>Slightly over half of all Americans – 52.6 percent – now receive significant income from government programs, according to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfield, N.J. That's up from 49.4 percent in 2000 and far above the 28.3 percent of Americans in 1950. If the trend continues, the percentage could rise within ten years to pass 55 percent, where it stood in 1980 on the eve of President's Reagan's move to scale back the size of government.</i> <br /><br />I wonder if they are including national defense employees and other gov't employees including teachers on local pay and state retirmement programs --which they have paid into but, like social security, they get back more than they invested and more than the funds usually have earned. Retirees all live on the income (pension investments) of the younger workers and on borrowed money, indebting tax payers of the future for eons.<br /><br />I like that there are tax credits for the working poor to help them out ---especially with children --and social security and medicare and help for the needy; every retiree is on it; but we have to strenthen the economy in order to sustain our programs. <br /><br />"It's the economy, Stupid!" THAT is the point. If there aren't working tax-payers, there are no programs, just a bankrupt gov't. Gov't should be an enabler to working people, to business and economy --without letting businesses on the dole abuse the system with exorbitant salaries and firings to feather the nests at the top.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-64978313233357209362010-03-08T06:54:08.397-06:002010-03-08T06:54:08.397-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.mud_rakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786611698569598023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-19468047520888990422010-03-07T14:21:39.753-06:002010-03-07T14:21:39.753-06:00"That gov't is best which governs least.&..."That gov't is best which governs least."<br /><br />Of course gov't isn't all bad, Muckly. We need it. We are proud of our form of gov't and our freedoms protected by that gov't.<br /><br />But I am very concerned when the majority of the people think Uncle Sam is their provider.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-34223415788016822122010-03-07T09:14:13.104-06:002010-03-07T09:14:13.104-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.mud_rakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786611698569598023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-60569547134064131592010-03-06T13:02:02.723-06:002010-03-06T13:02:02.723-06:00It's not good when people think gov't shou...It's not good when people think gov't should provide everything.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-69367061795424108472010-03-06T11:51:47.736-06:002010-03-06T11:51:47.736-06:00This title caught my eye. There has been a lot of ...This title caught my eye. There has been a lot of "muck-raking" lately. In either case I believe that hard work breeds a working capital and a strong economy. You have to have labor! Over the years in America we have grown from a hard working country (up at sunrise ready to go), to a culture of apathy and easy come easy go, get rich quick schemes. Money comes easier than ever today, and it breeds laziness. The media is just as guilty as anyone in promoting this attitude, as well as the negative stories they constantly portray.Andrewhttp://whatisthebible.comnoreply@blogger.com