To attempt to state that either Republicans or Democrats desire a socialist state, or a Capitalist state of economy is intellectually dishonest. Each party is corrupt, disloyal to the Constitution and has been since the Elected Government of United States surrendered its authority to Coin and Regulate money to the Federal Reserve, and enacted the Income Tax system, both of which occured at roughly the same time in the early 1900′s.
The Republic of the United States no longer controls its destiny, but is controlled by European and International Bankers; the Controlling members of the Federal Reserve system. The Federal Reserve is a private entity that goes about its business creating profit for its members while citizens of the United States eat their own.

To Watch the Republic commit slow suicide is painful enough, but to also see its citizens so blinded by pettiness and greed they hasten the day is too much. I left the USA 7 years ago and lived in Europe, Costa Rica and now in Asia.

Costa Rica is ok, i lived there for several years but is increasingly politically instable. The drug trade is starting to infiltrate Government and Businesses, so be aware there is risk. China has its drawbacks like any other, but is stable and very inexpensive to live. Most of my neighbors are European business expats. As long as you dont involve yourself in Governmental affairs, you can do anything you like. There is greater individual freedom here than anywhere ive lived so far, people leave you alone to do as you wish. It may sound counter intuitive, but in China you live as you like as long as you dont attempt to affect the system of Government.
Its strange to watch USA move towards a more “socialist” economy due to disastrous decisions made the last 25 years, and watch China move to “capitalist” economy due to strategic decisions made in the same time frame. Thinking that the USA is in trouble today because President Obama was elected is ridiculous, the situation has built up over the last decades.

So keep blaming “democrats” and “republicans” while The U.S. banking system is hollowed out and transferred to Europe. There was over 2 trillion transferred to Europe during 2007 and 2008….where did it go, who recieved it, and why was the Federal Reserve allowed to transfer these funds without legislative approval or supervision? How much exposure to derivatives is the U.S. banking system asked to underwrite..? those are creations of European Banks, not U.S…..so why is the American Taxpayer insuring European Bank losses?
These are the questions the taxpayer should be asking.

Dave, I was of course describing the condition of our American society, not the GOP. You are either too stupid to comprehend that or you are a spoiled, attention-seeking child who can’t make a point without copying, pasting and twisting something someone else has written. You pick.

What a moron.

pervasive ignorance, apathy, mendacity and superstition now rule over reason and liberty.

That is the best description of the GOP I have seen in some time.

Kudos.

Peace.

DS

They don’t call it the “slippery slope” for nothing, Jim, and America is picking up speed, not putting on the brakes. I don’t plan to be standing in the way.

Rush Limbaugh may have been the first to go public with news of a feature of the stimulus bill buried deep in the bowels of its 778 pages that is far less stimulative and more consequential for Americans’ health than any other part of that monumental proposal.

The plan is to begin rationing medical care ala the U.K system in which patients are evaluated and a government bureaucrat determines if and when medical treatment is necessary.

“The bill’s health rules will affect ‘every individual in the United States’ (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. . . . One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and ‘guide’ your doctor’s decisions (442, 446).” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs.

National health care is on the way, folks, that same national health atrocity which Hillary tried to perpetrate on the American people in 1993. She flopped miserably but it’s baaaack!

The same types who run the Postal Service will be determining whether we really need that appendectomy, that stent, that transplant, that gall bladder surgery or whether it can wait a few months–by which time we may be dead which will save the system a bunch of money.

This afternoon (Tuesday, 2-10-09) Sen. Arlen Specter (nominally, a PA. Republican) told Fox News, “We are not going to let the federal government monitor what doctors do.”

Specter, one of only three Republicans to succumb to pressure and vote for Obama’s pork-laden, nearly-trillion dollar stimulus bill added, “This is one of a number of provisions that has popped up that we have to revise and be very careful about.” …

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)