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To: ballsschweaty who wrote (68599)	9/5/2007 1:50:16 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 116555

from government and corporations. ---- didn't you mean to write "from government corporations."

To: ballsschweaty who wrote (68599)	9/5/2007 2:46:15 PM
From: bigfishy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

"It's time for the individual to stand up and take responsibility for their own lives and stop depending on the handouts from government and corporations." I think you got it backwards as usual!!!! It's LARGELY the other way around. Corporate welfare is the largest most egregious welfare there is. The Government takes upwards of 50% of every dollar I make, (by the time all the little subtle taxes are removed), which of course fund corporate welfare, along with myriads of other "good ole boy" programs, benefiting MOSTLY good ole boys like you.

To: ballsschweaty who wrote (68599)	9/5/2007 3:24:23 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Those benefits were never hand outs. They worked for them with the sweat of their brow and the companies made fine profits most of the time when those wages and benefits were in effect! How do you feel about the sweat shops of the early 1900's when they worked 8 year old kids 12 hours a day for pennies (read Charels Dickens)?; or chain gangs in the south for 50 years after the civil war where false charges were brought against blacks and then their labor was sold to plantations (almost alldied within 10 years); or the complete subjagation of workers by the "steel" and other large corporate monopolies in the early 1900's. Do you know your history? Do you know how bad it was?; or do you just not care? I say balderdash to that Horatio Alger nonsense.