"Seriously though, the U.S. once voted for a Catholic president (JFK)... once!"
One JFK was a very bad Catholic (the thing with Marylin Monroe). For some reason many people think that if a Catholic becomes President, the US will become a vassal of the Pope. Now if these people realized that the Pope is not the political figure he once was, they would understand that the Pope is a spiritual leader.
" It says nothing to the fact that as previously stated, blacks with higher degree of education are less likely to get hired than white high school drop outs."
Why would a higher educated person want work in job where a high school dropout would get the same job?
If want to put money into the economy you let the consumer do it not the government. By letting people spend their money on what they want or need is the best way to stimulate the economy not a trillion dollar plan that will take 2 years to work. The economy will get fixed quicker with the consumer rather than with the government.
"To simplify the problem I think democracy is starting to break down. Journalism is the backbone of a democracy. Without an informed public it ceases to exist."
Are you saying that the majority of the media is biased?
"At least with a strong central government, the people have control over it democratically. Right now our government is in a stranglehold by big business over which we have no control."
The government can not handle it. All the people who know what they are doing are in the big buisnesses and not in the government.
" We need to demand that congress take steps to fix the media like bringing back the Fairness Doctrine and breaking up the monopoly on news."
And sacrifice free speech?
We have a big economic crisis that should be the number one priority for the US, but we can not neglect threat of terrorism that can strike at any moment. We need to fix the economy while maintaining the defensive measures that have kept us safe for the last eight years.
People should be allowed to immigrate to the US, but only if they do so legally. Amnesty should not be given to those who come here illegally. They should be sent back. Those who come here should be skilled at something and should learn to speak English enough to get by as well as they should all pay taxes.
"I also must ask if you know how long it takes for a tree to grow? They don't spring up over night that's for damn sure. Reforestation would take decades if we began right now."
Well, how long does it take to develop new forms of fuel?
If you read my arguement you would realize that I said only take parts of the Parks.
Do you realize that FOX is the only news network that has both political parties on their shows? The other news networks rarely invite conservatives on their shows. CNN and NBC only want to have Obama people on to bash conseratives or promote Barack Hussein Obama's terrible plans for the United States.
Letterman needs to make sure his jokes do not cross the line and he didn't. If he needs to make jokes about someones kids to get viewers then he does deseve to have a show. The media would skip over a story about Obama's daughters smoking crack in an alley to report a meaningless story about a polar bear drowning. It will hide anything that would harm Obama and his friends.
The point is that if one of Obama's daughters got pregnant the media would not make fun of her. It would say that it is okay to get pregnant in high school. They are only doing it because Palin is a conservative. Letterman should have known which daughter was at the Yankee game before he made the joke. He crossed the line and he isn't being punished.
Humans have been eating animals since the beginning of time. Meat is a very good source of protein. We could eat other things but meat is very accessible as well as good tasting. God gave us these animals for our survival, we need to respect the animals that we eat, in other words we should not kill more than we can eat.
Late-term abortions should not be legal because the baby is viable outside of the mother and is alive. Anyway the mother has come so far why should she change her mind and have an abortion when she could give the baby up for adoption in a month or two.
"Israel has made life incredibly hard for the Palestinians since the creation of the Jewish state."
In David Ben Gurion's speech declaring independence for Israel (May 14, 1948) he said that if the Palestinians stayed on their land nothing would happen to them. The Arab countries told them that the Jews would murder them all and most Palestinians fell for it. So If you are going to blame anyone for the plight of the Palestinians blame the Arabs in Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.
That is what the Hamas says. If Israel does kill civilians it is by accident. The terrorists are cowards and hide amongst women and children making it hard for the good guys to take them out. The accidental deaths of civilians is the fault of the terrorists.
"How can we equal between F16 , tanks, apache, military ships ....etc with small handmade rockets ????
This is not Fair !!!"
All I can say is that you should have thought about that when you fired rockets into a country with the most powerful military in the region.
I was watching Glenn Beck the other day and he had a man on that made a really good point about the governmentizing of GM. He said Obama wants to be the new Lincoln except Obama is a saving the wrong Union. Lincoln saved the country, Obama is trying to save the Auto Workers Union.
"The rich will generally not spend money for philanthropic ends. They do it for tax breaks."
Even if they are doing it to get tax breaks the money they give is substantial. The US of all the nations gives the most money to charity. The government should take your money to give to people that are already getting money through charity.
"I'm kind of getting annoyed with all of these anecdotal tales. Furthermore both of your fathers parents were college graduates so I'm not really sure what your point is. I was saying that people born into poverty most of the time do not get out."
My point is that my father's parents both graduated from college yet they were working poor. All eight of their children payed their own way through college and graduated. They came out of poverty and became successful without government handouts.
I would ask them if they are sure and then I would probably comfort them. It is really hard to know what you would do. But like like to think that I could do it the right way. I would probably ask my my family how they handled it when they found out my uncle had AIDS
"People end up in poverty mostly because they are born into poverty and have no real way of getting out. If they are poverty and were not born in poverty it is usually because they have a mental of physical disability and many are veterans."
My father grew up in a family of ten. For a while they lived in house with just one toilet. His parents were both college graduates and his mother came from a wealthy family. People born into poverty do have a way to get but they are being tought that if you are poor the government will take care of you. This is a country where everyone can succeed. Society today does not encourage people to be wealthy. If some makes too much money they have their taxes raise to help someone who is too lazy to work. There are people that need welfare, but there are many who don't.
