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To: SilentZ who wrote (336472)	5/5/2007 10:39:10 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1576160

I agree... but don't expect a thoughtful rebuttal from Steve.

To: SilentZ who wrote (336472)	5/5/2007 11:52:25 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576160

Those points made you are hardly a hard core or even a majority liberal. Taro

To: SilentZ who wrote (336472)	5/5/2007 1:39:19 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576160

You're exaggerating positions... I view it differently. I think you're nuancing positions based upon your disposition. Similar to my repeating that the end justifies the means. Such as it isn't perjury because of why perjury was committed and/or because it was Clinton, yet Scooter gets hung for trying to answer the interrogator's questions. Scooter would have been better to have used the Hillary defense: "I cannot recall". Or Exxon is bad because President Bush and Cheney are oilmen. Or Walmart is bad because they have successfully blocked unions, while at the same time, driving some of their unionized competitors out of business. Yet Microsoft gets a free pass while gouging customers at 30% margins. I am for raising taxes when it helps accomplish something beneficial. Saying that cutting taxes in government always helps is tantamount to saying that cutting costs in business always helps. Things may be different here than where you are at. Message 22864411 Message 22856271 I cannot seriously consider any politician justifying tax increases by saying the government is broke. Another example is the complaint Bush is spending too much money. The democrats' solution with their $124 billion military spending bill is "well, if Mr Bush is going to blow money, we're going to join him and blow the peoples' tax money too" by adding 24% unnecessary pork to it. The choice for me today is Bush cutting taxes and fighting terrorism or the democrats raising taxes and funding their special interest projects, in addition to cutting our security needs. I am not for destroying corporate America. I am against giving corporations the same rights as private citizens and assuming that corporations inherently do things that benefit society as a whole. Corporations that have employees benefit society. Walmart here pays about a buck more an hour than any burger flippin joint. If the efforts to destroy Walmart were focused on decreasing outsourcing, I think the benefit to Americans would be greater. I've noticed over the past few months Walmart has been raising prices, so I start my errands by going to Dollar General first. I don't think that Israel is the biggest problem in the Middle East, but I do think that Israel does cause some major problems in the Middle East, and that out of all the problems in the Middle East, the ones that Israel does cause are the ones that are most easily controlled and rectified by the United States, and thus are ones that upset me a lot. I don't recall your suggestion for what Israel should do. I propose that if Israel would disappear tomorrow, the Muslims in the middle east would continue fighting and hating the west. If Scotty or Geordi would show up with power converters for everyone, violent Islam would continue to grow. I think most of the "liberals" on this thread would agree with me on most of those points. Everyone is for "reasonable" gun control. The thread's discussion should be based upon each one's view of "reasonable". It's become predictable for me that certain posters voice opposition to anything someone posts because they posted it. I about fell out of my chair the other day when Baked Alaska agreed with me on a post I made. That's my point when I bring up Frito Pies or I when try to get ted post his position on an issue other than reacting to other's posts without exposing his position. There's plenty of other things to talk about, even if it is suggested solutions from people who post problems all the time. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming....