Comments on: It’s Friday Afternoon, Must Be Bad News

By: olbroad

olbroad — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:38:02 +0000

Yes, I checked out your blog. 'nuff said. And I wasn't being political in my response. You are left, and I right.

What prolonged the Depression? And no, I don't think it was a good time, although, if you heard the stories my dad had to tell, they had a great time. They didn't know they were poor, and they worked hard, but that's neither here nor there.

Government intervention made a bad time, a WHOLE lot worse. Hoover screwed up, and Roosevelt took it to the goal line. Pretty much kind of the current situation. Bush screwed up, and Obama is going out of his way to turn us into USSA.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:31:44 +0000

Please don’t politicize my comment system comment. That comment is coming from a fellow blogger. It has nothing to do with politics. I was just giving you friendly feedback. I made that suggestion, because I thought it would encourage more people to comment if they can fix mistakes. It was the same reason I gave you a digg.
At this point we should just agree to disagree. I mean we can’t even agree about how our country was dying pre-1948. I mean you just said that the great depression, was good time. So on that note, I bid you farewell and look froward to your next blog post.

By: olbroad

olbroad — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:19:45 +0000

I happen to like my comment system, but because someone from the left says it's not good enough for them, I should change it, right? Pfft!

In answer to your question: this country, BEFORE the left started the erosion of the Constitution. And to a degree, many years since. We have ups and down, but we have never been a failure, till now.

Your examples of socialism (pizza) don't ring true. No one is forcing you to eat pizza. You choose to share the cost. Key word: CHOOSE.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:53:34 +0000

By the way, You might want to get a better comment system. It is driving me crazy that I can’t fix my grammar errors.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:50:45 +0000

To answer your question about being shut out. The stem cell debate and timetable for an exit strategy from Iraq would be another. I would also say the Patriot act is another, but Democrats went along with that one.
On socialism, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but we have been socialist since 1948. Before then we were a starving dying country.
By the definition of socialism; if you sit down at a table with people and all of you order a single pizza to share, and then you split the bill, you are a socialist.
The government has subsidized even our food. They currently subsidize health care. This means that our current insurance companies make a profit because the socialism, I mean taxes subsidize them. We already pay for socialized medicine because they give them tax payer dollars, then they still charge us and refuse treatment, even though we already give them our money.
Capitalism only works with socialism and neither work by themselves. Just look at Mexico, that a pretty darn capitalist place, and it sucks ass. There are many examples like Mexico and they are all third world countries.
Here is a challenge. Show me an example of a solely Capitalist country that has any economic power in the world, and a standing army, and educated citizens.
Even if we were hunter gatherer tribes, we would still be socialist because we would share in the kill.
If you have a country that is Capitalist but has no forms of socialism, then you have a country that is ruled and own by corporations and that is defined as Fascism, you know, Hitler.
Sorry to rant all over your blog, but I am sick of hearing the boogy-man word “socialism” being pushed, when people are confusing it with Communism, and they are very different things.

By: olbroad

olbroad — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:27:50 +0000

I have no problem calling out the Republicans when they behave like spoiled children. However, I do not remember, nor could I find any reference to the Democrats being shut out of the political process during the 8 years of which you speak. If you have a link or something, I'd be more than happy to check it out.

I'm not sure what you consider 'making our country better'. Better than what? The foundations of this nation were pretty dadburn good to start with, I see no reason to go down the road to socialism. I rather like the U.S. Constitution, and would appreciate those in D.C. to stop using it as toilet paper.

As for that Republicans and name calling? Are you freakin' serious?????? And by the way, I'm not a Republican. I tend to call weasels, weasels, no matter what side of the political spectrum. These days, the biggest weasels are on the LEFT side.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:59:02 +0000

“Shutting out the other party doesn’t make him, or the Dem “leadership”, look very mature, or wise. It actually makes them appear like petulant children.”
As a liberal, I must say that it wasn’t like Republicans were listening to any of us for the first 6 years of Bush and the last 2 of Clinton.
While I agree with some of your points about the bailouts I just want to make sure that you realize that your quote above, applies to republicans as well.
By calling people who act with out listening or even considering the opposition “petulant children,” you have called the republicans petulant children as well.
Maybe in the future we can have debates without trying to vilify people who are on the same side, after all, we all just want to make our country better.
Maybe when republicans stop calling liberal names, maybe people would listen to them more. In real life though, it is probably the other way around.