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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: kormac who wrote (144046)1/22/2011 4:46:17 PM
From: Sweet Ol  Read Replies (1) of 206101
 
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Kormac, by and large I agree with you. The key is to find the middle ground between protecting the rights of the vast majority and too much regulation and entitlements.

The sad thing is that in last 50 years of increased socialization and regulation that we have on the one hand created a welfare class and at the same time failed to prevent large companies from becoming a pox on society.

By the welfare class I mean all of us who demand our entitlements ( SS, Medicare, tax breaks, in addition to all the usual suspects).

And then we encouraged companies to ship jobs offshore and hide their profits outside the USA. We allowed corporate executives to run the public companies primarily for their personal welfare. We created the Federal Reserve and left the fox in charge of the henhouse!

There are all sorts of out of balance and distorted things going on in our economy and our governance. It is going to take a long time to straighten them out.

It seems hopeless at times, but then I remember Churchill's quote, "Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others."

Blessings,

JRH

P.S. It is a good thing today is Saturday or the Big Dog would be on our tails!

P.P.S. So far in January I have played more golf here in Tulsa that I did last year in Naples.
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