Just curious..... are you married and if so do you have children?
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I worked with a guy who had two children and between the four of them they ended up at their doctors over 75 times in the year that I worked with him....Nothing particularity wrong with any of them. They just believe in better life through medicine. I feel sorry for these people.
Believe it or not there are plenty of parents that don't have that 1950s mentality of better life through a doctor and a pill. However these people are usually educated, liberal and sensible when it comes to medication.
Did you grow up in the 1950s? A time when smoking was good for you, Mother's milk was bad and Americans were encouraged to use every drug known to mankind to cure any ills.
Yes I did.....smoking was not thought to be GOOD for you (just not thought to be as bad as we know now)...I was a tit baby (so was the rest of my family) and only went to the doctor when I had stuff like measles, mumps, chicken pox or something broken......was given alot of old time cures for colds, headaches, ear aches and belly aches....which usually worked.....I think the take a pill for everything is a more modern approach...not the 50's and 60's. I've raised 3 boys and rarely did we take them to the Doctor.
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I saw the list they had where they ranked the presidents. For the most part it's fairly accurate. I do think Reagan #10 is way too high on that list. But what really blew me out of the water was Bush at #36...You've got to be f'ing kidding me. To even suggest he would be that high is incredible.......He should be dead last without a doubt...followed closely by Nixon and Harding.
more change we should've believed in... http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/02/16/d...ush-secrets-2/
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle5748716.ece
my how things are changing... :rolleyes:
Just read where Chrysler wants another 5 billion from the government.
They were already granted 4 billion in December and there is no need to throw good money after bad...that's business 101.
In fact if that entire 4 billion hasn't already been turned over why give them any of that money either.
Give me .0001% of that 5 billion and I'll create a business that actually makes money.
Since this thread's about Obama and whether he'll be able to bring change, it reminded me of how Black people at work are so serious about him. I mean of course I'm Black too, but people at work get offended even if someone makes a joke about him. But I think the fact that he's been elected shows that tremendous change has occurred. I never thought it could happen because of the history of race and status in this country, and still don't trust that the klan or even just the Lee Harvey Oswald's are cool with it. But Obama convinced enough of White America to vote for him that now he's president, and I think he's got to be a dynamic personage to have been able to do that.
I disagree. I think that many blacks incorrectly assume what you stated. His support by many whites was reactionary. Many whites voted for him because they thought that he was going to bring home the troops and end the war, have a transparent presidency, and bring about a massive overhaul of the political system in Washington.
The question now is: is he really doing any of that?
Just my thoughts. Am I still entitled to those?
Iraq is gonna get a rethink. It has to. There is still no stability there and what needs to happen is full UN and NATO involvement in reconstruction, policing and security.
Unfortunately, Cheney made sure everyone else was cut out of the deal and it's gonna take time to get that trust back from everyone else.
You can't just ship those guys all to Afghanistan and you can't just pull them all out and leave it at that. He will be wise to listen to the generals who are running the show and going with their advice on getting out.
I think he is running a transparent presidency.
I think the overhaul in Washington was actually McCain's campaign battlecry, but I don't think either of them has the power to make that happen.
the lobby groups are what they are and they will tooth and nail fight for what they want and they will pocket as many congressmen and senators that they can on a federal level and have already done so at the state level.
no one, not obama, not jesus christ himself can rid washington of corruption. Or any other political arena. Politics is all lies and dirty business. rarely does anything universally good come from it and we should mostly be thankful that there isn't aristocracy outright and blatant slavery anymore and that has more to do with people in grass roots movements forcing change and not some head of state doing anything.
you got that right, obama is going to need an excuse to send as many troops off as possible to ensure they won't be around when martial law is declared in america... UN and nato troops will have no qualms firing on american civilians, where as american soldiers would.
cheneys reaping the spoils of his money invested in operating and running private jails and citizen detainment camps.Quote:
Unfortunately, Cheney made sure everyone else was cut out of the deal and it's gonna take time to get that trust back from everyone else.
again you got that right, just keep the whole operation in a state of delusional limbo until everything else is put into place back home here.Quote:
You can't just ship those guys all to Afghanistan and you can't just pull them all out and leave it at that.
true, but listening to generals would amount to a ruining of the plan to keep troops bogged down and away from american martial law.Quote:
He will be wise to listen to the generals who are running the show and going with their advice on getting out.
nice understatement.Quote:
I think he is running a transparent presidency.
both are just poster boy smokescreens that divert the attention away from the truth of the matter.Quote:
I think the overhaul in Washington was actually McCain's campaign battlecry, but I don't think either of them has the power to make that happen.
corruption at its finest... and to think people put up with this crap.Quote:
the lobby groups are what they are and they will tooth and nail fight for what they want and they will pocket as many congressmen and senators that they can on a federal level and have already done so at the state level.
a few nice sized meteors, a few earthquakes, a tsunami or two, and i think that might do the trick.Quote:
no one, not obama, not jesus christ himself can rid washington of corruption. Or any other political arena.
which is obviously a good enough reason for not involving yourself in it at all then.Quote:
Politics is all lies and dirty business.
yet how many suckers fall in line, buy the hogwash, and cast a vote deluding themselves of the truth...Quote:
rarely does anything universally good come from it
slavery is alive and well... they call it debt and don't worry, the people will get sick and tired of being stepped on. :)Quote:
and we should mostly be thankful that there isn't aristocracy outright and blatant slavery anymore and that has more to do with people in grass roots movements forcing change and not some head of state doing anything.
President Obama promises 4 square meals for all, unicorns for the children, and peace over the entire globe. I have nothing against the man, but he does seem to be making a lot of promises that he may not be able to keep.
I think you bring up some good points. I believe that Obama and his transparent presidency is being greatly affected by the lack of transparency in his partisan Congress. However, I will have to agree with Uki concerning Obama's transparency. A bit vague and shadowy to me. I believe that there is a well orchestrated "good cop bad cop routine" taking place between Obama and Congress.
Even he is scaling back those promises. Of course he did it AFTER the election.
Contrast Obama to a great President with a proven record of economic success, Ronald Reagan. While Reagan spoke of the greatness of the American people, how Americans overcome obstacles, how America is the greatest country on earth, and that a new day was coming for America, Obama speaks of it getting worse and how only HE (and government) can fix it. We all know Reagan turned around an economy MUCH WORSE than what we have now in under a year, let's see how well Obama does with the opposite approach and the opposite rhetoric.
The only thing 'transparent' about the Obama administration is that they haven't been able to hide the fact they are a bunch of lobbyists and tax cheats.