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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (524841)10/31/2009 6:33:53 PM
From: Brumar892 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1577594
 
1 Single motherhood as the norm aka breakdown of the nuclear family

The divorce rate is higher in the red states than the blue states. How can that be the fault of liberalism?


Worse than divorces is never marrying in the first place.

2 Poor public schools that fail to educate

Agreed.

3 Schools that do educate but mis-educate by spreading false ideas of history, economics, and science

I am sorry......more people in this country believe in evolution than not.


But they're all taught evolution. Furthermore, people who reject it know as much or more about it than those who accept it. Its not mis-education there, its simple rejection.

4 Crime

Agreed.

5 Substance abuse

6 Racial antagonisms

Agreed.

7 Stifling of free enterprise

Given all the corruption and exorbitant salaries that exist in industry, I would say its the opposite.


Auto company bondholders were recently stiffed. The government is retroactively tearing up compensation contracts in the financial industry. Many employers are fearful of hiring people because they don't know what taxes and mandates will be put on them in the coming year - see a recent post on the Coyoteblog in which the blogger a small businessman sees that the House bill will slash his margins. The government is trying to get legislation passed that will impose massive cost burdens on industry by requiring them to buy carbon credits.

The government has long been harmful to private enterprise ... but its worse than ever now.

8 Government mis-allocation of resources (example, the wasteful ethanol industy created by government policy)

Our country is too dependent on oil. You would prefer the gov't does nothing to correct the matter? I certainly don't.


Ethanol doesn't make financial or energy sense. Nuclear would but liberal greens campaign against it. Democrats recently prevented the Yucca mtn waste storage site from being used.

9 A cultural elite that despises the majority of the country's people and the things they hold dear (do an internet news search for Larry David for an example)

I never heard of Larry David but I see he co produced Seinfeld.......one of the most popular shows on TV. Who exactly is this cultural elite you so fear?


People who mock the faith of tens of millions of Americans.

10 Epidemics of sexually tranmitted diseases

Yeah, well.....STD have been around since man first birthed himself onto the planet. I don't think they are going anywhere.


No, they're becoming more prevalent. Now we can't prevent people with an incurable fatal STD from entering the country.

Good for you.......you don't think the US is perfect. You had me worried there for a while. ;-)

I specifically said the US isn't perfect in my first post on this subject. The whole 'US is perfect' meme was an attempt to distort my position.

The system our forefathers created, though not perfect, seems the best on earth I know of. Its led to unprecedented liberty and prosperity for > 200 years. Furthermore, America has been a bastion and defender of freedom and decency against the worst and most murderous tyrants human history has produced. Tens of millions, no hundreds of millions, are alive and free today because of America's efforts. The US is by far the most benign world power in world history.

Why do so many liberals like Gore Vidal and Michael Moore despise America and Americans so much?

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