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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 (121014)	1/2/2012 4:31:22 PM
From: tonto	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224694

Leverage buy outs almost always require corporate restructuring. It is not a republican issue, it is part of receiving financing to make the acquisition and democrats and republicans make the same decisions regarding restructuring. Your comment is ridiculous.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121014)	1/2/2012 4:33:41 PM
From: TopCat	9 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224694

It's called MANAGEMENT, Kenneth. It's really sad that you don't understand more about business and economics.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121014)	1/2/2012 4:57:29 PM
From: locogringo	10 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224694

Republicans see nothing wrong with laying off workers to make rich people richer You must have links and verification for that asinine statement, and I would like to see them. Otherwise it is only your liberal opinion, and quite an ignorant opinion, at that. OR....Are you saying that the unions in the steel mills and auto factories are all Republicans?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121014)	1/2/2012 5:17:35 PM
From: MJ	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224694

Democrats see nothing wrong with taking companies out of the USA. Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton in the 1990's refused to support keeping Zenith Corporation in the USA. Clinton stood by while the LGE and Bon Mo Koo took over 51% of the company and took Zenith to bankruptcy and then to South Korea. Zenith was an American household name. No Longer. American workers lost jobs, investors lost and Americans lost with the patents of Zenith going out of the USA. Now those patents are used to sue American companies that are said by LGE to infringe upon the American patents that were stolen. Go to the Zenith site on SI and read---------(Oh by the way how about Loral and China, another Democrat move-------and Bill Clinton?).

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121014)	1/3/2012 7:51:45 AM
From: chartseer	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224694

In the 1990s with Clinton as president jobs were so plentiful that if one was laid off many other employers flocked to hire you with a better position at a higher salary with better benefits.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121014)	1/3/2012 8:10:30 AM
From: FJB	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224694

Partisan Trends: Number of Democrats Falls to All-Time Low Monday, January 02, 2012 The number of Republicans in the country increased by a percentage point in December, while the number of Democrats fell back two points to the lowest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports. During December, 35.4% of Americans considered themselves Republicans. That’s up from 34.3% in November and just below the high for the year of 35.6% reached in May. At the same time, just 32.7% of adults said they were Democrats, down from 34.9% in November. The previous low for Democrats was 33.0% in August of this year. rasmussenreports.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121014)	1/3/2012 8:23:43 AM
From: JakeStraw	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224694

With a median net worth of $891,506, Congress members are nine-times wealthier than the average American household - and some Congressional leaders are exceedingly richer. In fact, a recent analysis of financial disclosure forms showed Congress members' collective net worth was more than $2 billion in 2010 - a 25% leap from 2008. If members of Congress are that rich, then why are average Americans footing the bill for so many of their luxurious perks? Just look at what a member of Congress gets in addition to base pay of $174,100 a year: Three-day workweeks. A 401(k)-like plan that "matches" up to 5% of its input. The chance to choose from 10 different first-rate health plans and access to an on-site doctor. A full pension. Retirement benefits. Gym memberships. Car service. Free parking at two regional airports. Free flights to almost anywhere in the world. And a per diem travel allowance of $3,000 per trip.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (121014)	1/3/2012 11:50:04 AM
From: longnshort	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224694

Alan Colmes Accuses Rick Santorum of "Playing With" His Son’s Corpse Liberal tolerance on display. by John Hayward 01/03/2012 18 Comments Liberal commentator Alan Colmes made a strong bid to end his undistinguished career Monday, during a Fox News segment in which he and Rich Lowry of National Reviewdiscussed Rick Santorum’s surge in the Iowa polls. In the course of offering his Really Deep Thoughts about why the Santorum surge wouldn’t last, Colmes mused that people would bail on the former senator from Pennsylvania once they “get a load of some of the crazy things he’s said and done, like taking his two-hour-old baby when it died right after childbirth home and played with it so that his other children would know that the child was real.” Lowry stepped up to the plate and tore Colmes to pieces without hesitation: What actually happened, for the benefit of anyone foolish enough to accept Alan Colmes’ warped and hateful fantasies as the final word, is that Santorum’s son Gabriel had a fatal defect detected early in the pregnancy. Rick and his wife Karen wanted to bring Gabriel into the world despite the towering odds against him, but Karen developed a potentially fatal intrauterine infection. Birth was induced prematurely, and Gabriel only survived outside the womb for a couple of hours. The Santorums slept all night in the hospital with Gabriel, then took him home so that his brothers and sisters could meet him. The bond between the family and their lost child became the subject of a deeply personal book, Letters to Gabriel, authored by Karen Santorum. Mother Teresa wrote the forward. Alan Colmes should try reading it, instead of spending all day welding his brain shut with garbage from far-left blogs. The confrontation between Colmes and Lowry is an instructive lesson in liberal “tolerance.” Colmes whines endlessly about the supposed closed-mindedness of conservatives, but ten seconds in to a discussion about Santorum’s electoral prospects, he drags out the tragic death of Gabriel Santorum – which happened in 1996 – and unleashes his disgusting caricature of the incident. It wasn’t a random slip of the tongue. He couldn’t wait to bring this up, and probably went into the interview proud of himself for being among the first analysts to predict that swing voters momentarily charmed by Santorum will head for the hills when they learn how his family dealt with this fifteen-year-old tragedy. For an ostensibly “tolerant liberal,” Colmes is deeply, disturbingly obsessed with cultivating intolerance for this unusual act of devotion. Somehow an army of other commentators, on both Left and Right, have been able to hold forth on the Santorum surge without painting a picture of the candidate “playing with” his lost son. If there was any point in bringing Gabriel Santorum up at all, surely a sensitive, compassionate, tolerant liberal who talks for a living could have found a more sensitive way to describe the situation. Or is Colmes dumb enough to assume that merely being a liberal provides perfect insulation against charges of intolerance, even when he acts like a hatemongering ghoul? Welcome to 2011, Alan. That won’t work anymore. On behalf of the conservative writing and blogging community, I guarantee it. Besides being a “cheap shot,” as Lowry characterized it, Colmes’ comments were one of those “dog whistles” liberals love to natter on about, when they’re trying to insinuate that harmless comments by a Republican are encrypted with secret racism. This particular dog whistle is aimed at the militant feminist, pro-abortion community - which is small, but surrounded by a much larger constellation of thin-blooded liberals who accept social and political programming from it. The message is that Santorum is the most deranged of anti-abortion religious extremists. If he becomes President, maybe you’ll all be forced to bring your dead children home from the hospital. Colmes went on to offer an apology to Rick and Karen Santorum for his “hurtful comment,” which he said they “graciously accepted.” Santorum discussed the incident with Sean Hannity, and gave Colmes an awful lot more credit for good intentions than I’m prepared to, even as the memory of his lost son made it momentarily difficult for him to speak. Whatever other disputes I might have with Santorum over policy, and however long the odds against his winning the GOP nomination, I don’t need a single heartbeat to decide whether I prefer his philosophy in the White House to that of Alan Colmes. What the Santorum family did in 1996 was unusual, to be sure… but I thought tolerance was all aboutaccepting the “unusual.” And while the method they chose to express their love was out of the ordinary, we would be a better nation if that love was commonplace. It matters that Gabriel Michael Santorum lived, both within and beyond his mother’s body. It’s a pity that grown men and women need that explained to them, having long ago talked themselves out of understanding it. John Hayward is a staff writer for HUMAN EVENTS, and author of the recently published Doctor Zero: Year One. Follow him on Twitter: Doc_0. Contact him by email at jhayward@eaglepub.com.