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America In Peril

We have become so incensed at acquiring cheap Labor, goods, medicine and toys that we expose our citizens dangerously just to save a buck. I am thoroughly convinced when the word deregulate is mentioned in the government it is synonymous with thievry. The congress voted to deregulate the drug industry in purchasing active ingredients for our medicine and we find out that they went to china for cheap ingredients. China gave us anti freeze as the active ingredient for a blood thinner called heparin that killed 95 people in the U.S. and guess what we are still purchasing the same goods from china, a spokesman for the drug industry said that it is much cheaper than when purchased in the states and that the F.D.A. needs to do a better job in it's analysis  of medicine. This is the same country that sold us toys for our children laden with mercury and diseased cat fish. And they are on the most favored nation trading partners list.

Congress also voted to deregulate the financial institutions so that we would have a free market system and now we discover that it is only free as long as the investors are making a profit and when that cease it becomes the responsibility of the tax payer to bail them out. We find out that both Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac are failing financially and the federal government has to put up billions of dollars to bail them out of a bad management situation, but now we find out that the head of Freddy Mac will receive a salary this year of 19 million dollars even thought the institution can't cover all it's obligations. Now we know that deregulations or no rules to the game end up in chaos

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A Battle is not a War

John McCain keeps talking about he knows how to win a war simply because he advise the president to send more troops to Iraq. 20000 more troops were sent to Iraq and the sectarian violence did decrease but now we face the problem that if we withdraw them the violence may start over again. If you listen to John McCain you would think that we won the war but it was only a battle.

He keep repeating the mantra that he knows how to win a war and nobody ask him what war did he win, he spent the entire vietnam war as a prisoner of war and he fell for the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and they did not. So where did all this commander in chief potential come from?. His military records indicate that even though he flew combat missions he was never commander of a combat squadron. Does merely being a military officer automatically qualify you to be president of the U.S.?. I think not all military people have to operate within military instructions that has been handed down for eons, irregardless of your rank there is still a standing operating procedure that you must follow. There is a great difference in leading a nation and leading a military unit and they are mutually exclusive. Remember Ross Perot vice presidential running mate and Alexander Haig.

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America Held Hostage

 How does it feel to be held hostage by a system that has abused you and misused you under false pretense. We have heard the capitalistic cry of let the market be the determiner  of our supposedly free market system and then we find out it's only free when the powers that be are making huge profits at our expense. But when bad managers reach the peter principle then the federal government must step in with our tax dollars and determine the market. Our present condition exposes the fallacy of republicans who swears by the free market system and then step in to pass legislation that dumps the responsibility of bad decision makers on the government that they disdain during profitable times.

Let it be reminded that our present economic condition was not caused by natural disasters of any kind but by greedy men placed in important position trying to make all the money they can at the public's expense. They stock market has fallen from a high of 14000 in November to a low of 11000 in July, just think of what your social security check would be now if we had done what President Bush and the republicans wanted us to do  by tying it to the stock market you would be receiving about 22% less this year.

We have bridges falling and not being repaired, 48 million people who can't afford access to health care, wounded veterans who can't get proper health and mental care and we say with a straight face that a financial institution is to big to fail. How ludicrous is that.

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Capitalism on a slippery slope

Bear Stearns and now Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are on the verge of financial disaster. I was always taught that the capitalist system was based on risk and reward, you risk investing a certain amount of money in a project for the reward of the profit you will receive when the project is completed or sold. Now we find out that capitalism is slowly slipping toward socialism for a few. Why is a for profit enterprise backed by the government and labeled to big to fail. and where is the risk involved if the federal government is going to bail the investors out.

All organizations fail from the top down, shouldn't we allow them to fail so that we have the opportunity to choose better managers with a vision who are more efficient and effective at running a corporation rather than bailing them out at tax payers expense. The Secretary of the treasure Paulson said that you don't throw the baby out with the bath water and I agree but some time the bather should be thrown out for doing such a lousy job.

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How not to Treat a Terrorist

The United States has been branding Iran as a terrorist nation that is dangerous and causing instability to the middle east. We have been advocating that other nations support sanctions against them and low and behold we find out that we are the leading exporters to them in cigarettes, mechanical tools and designers clothes.

Doesn't that make us hypocrits and the exports increased tremendously under the Bush Administration and he's the one that said they were a member of the axis of evil it's quite obvious that the reason we have lost so much creditability in the world is that we speak out of both sides of our mouth. We are going to participate in the openining ceremonies of the olympic in China which is one of the biggest violators of human rights in the world and the excuse we use is that sports and politics shouldn't mix but don't they both involve people.

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Over Staying your Welcome

Isn't it an embarrassing moment when the host feels like the guest has over stayed their welcome and publicly via the news media ask them to leave. Nouri Al Maliki via a news release ask the U.S. to set a withdrawal date. The U.S. has consistently accused every American who insisted on a with drawl date as a cut and run politican and that setting a date to withdraw would only give Al Qaeda more time to prepare to take over Iraq. We must remember that Al Qaeda didn't come to Iraq until after we invaded it.

Have we taken on the attitude that we must be a nanny state? if you look back over our history and every war we have been involved in except Vietnam we are still their care taker for as long as they let us stay. Europe,Japan, Korea and possibly Iraq. Is it our condescending attitude toward other nations or do we feel we just need some body to take care of. We have enough problems at home like health care,education, infrastructure decline, energy and global warming to solve rather than taking on another dependent