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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (83757)	5/11/2010 10:26:13 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224750

uk:NHS-funded survey finds Hitler a cool leader.. news.sky.com USA already has bloated gov bureaucracy wasting tax revenue -adding even more gravy train leeches is one of the many reasons voters are outraged at Dems.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (83757)	5/11/2010 1:04:50 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224750

Small-business hiring continues to show little sign of a recovery, despite recent efforts by Washington to stimulate job creation. April marked the 27th consecutive month in which small businesses either shed more or the same number of jobs that they added, according to a monthly survey to be released Tuesday by the National Federation of Independent Business, a trade group in Washington, D.C. Since July 2008, employment per firm has fallen steadily each quarter, logging the largest reductions in the survey's 35-year history. Going forward, more small-business owners say they plan to eliminate jobs compared with those that expect to create new jobs over the next three months. The latest study was conducted during the month of April and reflects responses from 2,197 U.S. small-business owners. The findings follow the Labor Department's report on Friday showing that the overall U.S. economy added 290,000 jobs last month, although the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.9% from 9.7%. Last month, businesses that employ fewer than 50 workers increased their payrolls by just 1,000, while businesses with between 50 and 499 workers added 17,000 jobs, according to payroll company Automatic Data Processing Inc. William Dunkelberg, chief economist for the NFIB, says more small businesses aren't hiring because demand for their goods and services isn't yet strong enough for them to justify bringing new talent on board. "If you don't have any sales, you don't need to hire anybody," he says. (See related article, "Entrepreneurs Remain Wary.") In March, idiotObama passed legislation offering two new tax credits designed to encourage employers to hire unemployed workers or individuals only working part time. One exempts employers from their 6.2% share of the Social Security tax on wages paid to qualifying employees between March 19 and Dec. 31 of this year. A new hire retention credit is worth up to $1,000 for every unemployed worker hired between Feb. 3, 2010 and Jan. 1, 2011 and retained for at least 52 consecutive weeks.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (83757)	5/11/2010 2:06:09 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224750

And your point is? Sure we are a republic. A republic isn't a very precisely defined word, or perhaps it would be better to say it has multiple definitions. One of which is "a state without a monarch". That definition seems totally irrelevant to my post, so I guess you might mean the other common definition, a state where the people, or at least a significant subset of them, have an impact in determining the government's leaders. But even that 2nd definition is fairly irrelevant. Sure we have an impact (a wide subset of the population gets to vote), but that still doesn't imply or suggest, that "the government is us". I might have more impact on what some local store carries, or even whether it stays in business, by what I buy or don't buy there, than I do on the election of a president or a senator. Does that mean that "the store is me"? Of course not. The fact that you can impact some organization does not mean that organization is you. The government is separate from any person, and is even distinct from the general population, or eligible voters, or those who actually voted. "The government is us" theme is often used to argue that government abuses aren't really abuses, but that's nonsense even if the government was the same as us. If 99 people out of a hundred vote to abuse the remaining person, the fact that he got a vote on the issue doesn't mean that something outside of him isn't abusing him.