We have had bailouts before, and yet here we are. The people do want a permanent government fix, short term bailouts have become acceptable sadly, but that does not translate into a mass denouncement of capitalist ideals by the American people in my mind.
As for salaries, I do not care that the CEO makes 400 times more than the bottom worker. The bottom worker is most likely a janitor making minimum wage who did not go to school (which was free). I wold openly argue that the CEO is 400 times more valuable than the janitor, and should be paid accordingly.
I will not take it a step further. I am in favor of having free public schools. That said you are not entitled to anything because of that education. You must make the most of your education and get a job on your own.
I am not convinced that all conservatives are against public school, from what I understand of the argument they are against the government mandating what public school they must attend. Their argument is to take the property tax that pays for schools in many places and instead have the parents use that to pay for school. The premise is the same, and creates the same problems I think as the system now, so I prefer to stick with what we have.
In my mind asking to take everything a "step" further is ridiculous. Why not take health laws a step further and ban smoking and alcohol. Why not take pollution prevention a step further and ban all driving?
I am not going to read the book, I simply do not have the time right now with work. That said, I think the reason no one in the United States cared much about alternative energy is because the price of gas was $1.50, not because they were somehow unaware that one day oil would run out.
Oil shale and offshore are being looked at seriously because it is now potentially profitable. Oil shale is much more expensive to get out of the ground, so why bother when gas was $2.00? People knew about these deposits long before two months ago, there was just no incentive or reason to take the oil out of them before.
It can be fixed. It should be opened back up to individual buyers. Not these government mandated HMO monopolies. That is bad for business and bad for prices.
And as I mentioned earlier, you need to explain how anyone in this country does not have access to healthcare, because as I explained they all do, or it was a personal choice that caused them to not get insurance.
I am not sure what "truths" you presented, but I laid out how every American can have access to healthcare as it is, so what exactly is the huge "crisis".
I could care less what party decides to drill, but to assume you have to only go after alternative fuels (long term solutions) with no short term fixed (such a pumping) is moronic. Increasing the supply will lower the price in the short term, I fail to see how this is a bad idea. And for the record, the question of drilling in ANWR is not new, it has been debated in this country for well over a decade, it just has more importance placed on it now.
I mean that he should not end the war, but I fear that he will regardless. Arguing that there should never have been a surge because there should never have been a war is lunacy. We have to accept the fact that regardless of if there should or should be a war, there actually is a war and how to win it needs to be addressed. I think McCain addressed that with the surge, while Obama has stuck to arbitrary timelines.
People are bankrupted to because they lose their job, I suppose we should government mandate that no one can be fired right?
Yes, Iraq has been calling for a timeline, but you will notice that Maliki then runs to the UN and asks for the mission to be extended. He is a politician as well, and there remains a lot of disagreement in the Iraqi government about the US troop presence. Maliki wants to keep his job, so he pushes for Iraq to take over, but at the same times knows that they cannot take over at this point, so then asks the UN to extend the mission and continues to talk about "conditions on the ground." He is balancing his own political situation.
