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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (222813)	4/26/2013 8:53:51 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542214

Bloomberg just had a report from VISA on what parents spend on average on their children's prom night--$1139. What?!

To: epicure who wrote (222813)	4/26/2013 9:47:24 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542214

And I'm to the right of you... interestingly about the same as the "normalized" male / female difference - about a 1/4" on my 15.5 laptop screen. But, still way left of center . My fiscal conservatism is what sends me right. I like social freedom, but also worry that socialism leads to dependency. That is just common sense to me..the skills required to do things oneself do fade. I'm reading an interesting book which includes an anecdote about a European stranded in Korea for 29 years. When he re-met his countrymen years later - he was not able to speak his native tongue for almost a month - he spoke fluent Korean and lived Korean. If someone can lose their native language in one generation, can you imagine what they can lose in two?

To: epicure who wrote (222813)	4/26/2013 12:30:23 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542214

As Obama said to Hillary: "you are left enough" <<And they think our world is fantasy. I would argue that right wingers do have some very big areas of fantasy, but so do lefties. Neither side is perfect." No one is talking about perfect. we are talking about: "in general". <<I don't happen to like rigid social norms,uber powerful corporations and xenophobia- which is why I'm considered left. But I do not agree with welfare as it is now, and I'm pro-family (although I'm pro any kind of family)- for logical resource-related reasons, rather than religious ones.>> What does pro family even mean? I am for people living life however they want as long as it does not hurt society. Who cares if someone wants to live alone, or with a partner, but no family? Earth would be better off with less families-lol. <<So even though binary tests force me in to a left position, I'm really not as left as many of you here- which is why occasionally you disagree with me. >> Well, stick around and maybe you will move left-lol.