Comments on: Write Your Promises Into The Bills http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:04:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: greensmile http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-10026 greensmile Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:12:25 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2346#comment-10026 "jobs creation act" did't say it would create jobs in the US did it? A tax break on profits made overseas will surely create jobs somewhere, just not here. “jobs creation act” did’t say it would create jobs in the US did it? A tax break on profits made overseas will surely create jobs somewhere, just not here.

]]> By: rimone http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-10025 rimone Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:21:24 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2346#comment-10025 'The American government should never, ever trust corporations.' lol, shame on you--the business of America is business. ‘The American government should never, ever trust corporations.’

lol, shame on you–the business of America is business.

]]> By: Larry Jones http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-10024 Larry Jones Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:19:02 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2346#comment-10024 If the beneficiary corporations didn't already control the media and thus the entire debate on this, it would be a huge issue. You are suggesting that the government manage the economy more than it currently does, and for the good of the people. I'm with you there, but can any government be trusted to make the right decisions on such management, especially when corporations are stuffing their campaign coffers? I agree that a free market is basically a good thing (incentive to create and work, hope for the future, etc.), but we are glimpsing today the end of that road: corporations have (inevitably) grown so huge and wealthy and cunning that they are writing the laws themselves, and guess who they favor? Today they are pretending that their actions will create jobs (or whatever story they think they have to tell). Unless there is some kind of extreme electoral turnaround in this country, tomorrow they may be able to abandon the ruse, and just do whatever the hell they want. If the beneficiary corporations didn’t already control the media and thus the entire debate on this, it would be a huge issue. You are suggesting that the government manage the economy more than it currently does, and for the good of the people. I’m with you there, but can any government be trusted to make the right decisions on such management, especially when corporations are stuffing their campaign coffers?

I agree that a free market is basically a good thing (incentive to create and work, hope for the future, etc.), but we are glimpsing today the end of that road: corporations have (inevitably) grown so huge and wealthy and cunning that they are writing the laws themselves, and guess who they favor?

Today they are pretending that their actions will create jobs (or whatever story they think they have to tell). Unless there is some kind of extreme electoral turnaround in this country,
tomorrow they may be able to abandon the ruse, and just do whatever the hell they want.

]]> By: Mike Meyer http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-10023 Mike Meyer Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:14:15 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2346#comment-10023 CHIEF SITTING BULL once said "All men from Washington are LIARS." Mike Meyer asks" Why am I still paying these people?" CHIEF SITTING BULL once said “All men from Washington are LIARS.”
Mike Meyer asks” Why am I still paying these people?”

]]> By: Dr. Pants http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-10022 Dr. Pants Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:22:48 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2346#comment-10022 I wonder how much body armor $104 billion could buy. Hell, I bet the U.S. government spending that money might have created a few jobs, even. I wonder how much body armor $104 billion could buy. Hell, I bet the U.S. government spending that money might have created a few jobs, even.

]]> By: Fred Loch http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-10021 Fred Loch Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:00:52 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2346#comment-10021 This happens, folks, beause in this country we lack a class consciousness and an understanding of the labor/capital debate. Americans by and large place a quasi-religious faith in unfettered capitalism, while failing to perceive, here in the USA, the ever-increasing gap between rich and poor, the destruction of the middle class, lessening opportunities for upward mobility, increasingly unavailable basic services (most significantly, healthcare). We are distracted by religious issues and militaristic adventures, bread and circuses, and are retreating ever more into an uninformed nationalistic cocoon while the social consciousness of the rest of the world is expanding. This happens, folks, beause in this country we lack a class consciousness and an understanding of the labor/capital debate. Americans by and large place a quasi-religious faith in unfettered capitalism, while failing to perceive, here in the USA, the ever-increasing gap between rich and poor, the destruction of the middle class, lessening opportunities for upward mobility, increasingly unavailable basic services (most significantly, healthcare). We are distracted by religious issues and militaristic adventures, bread and circuses, and are retreating ever more into an uninformed nationalistic cocoon while the social consciousness of the rest of the world is expanding.

]]> By: Joe http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-10020 Joe Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:05:54 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2346#comment-10020 Word. Word.

]]> By: almostinfamous http://www.thetalentshow.org/2006/04/13/write-your-promises-into-the-bills/comment-page-1/#comment-10019 almostinfamous Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:48:54 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2346#comment-10019 as a wise person once remarked, people welfare ought to come before corporate welfare. but.. that would be ... SOCIALISM! and we all hate them godless socialists. as a wise person once remarked, people welfare ought to come before corporate welfare.

but.. that would be … SOCIALISM! and we all hate them godless socialists.

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