[Lexington Green]

Compassionate people don't persecute sick and dying people for smoking medical pot.... Nazis do.

[listenhillary]

Your turn to read my two cents.

[Willie Green]

Government should be studied intensively. How it impacts our lives, how much it costs, who pays the taxes and where the money goes...
Economics should be taught as early as possible in my opinion. Starting with budgeting, managing money, importance of savings, how to balance a checkbook, credit, pitfalls of credit...

Bush Seeks Increase in National Debt Limit

"I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."

--Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

-- Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, May 28, 1816

"We are infinitely better off without treaties of commerce with any nation."

--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1815.

[pabianice]

If King were alive he'd be suing the NAACP for fraud and racism.

[boris]

Liberals are insecure about their own morality and compassion. In fact, deep down at their core they disbelieve that they possess these virtues.

This insecurity causes them to commit ever-more-outrageous acts of "conspicuous compassion", in order to demonstrate to others -- and secretly to themselves-- their moral superiority.

But the black hole within the souls of liberals can never be sated. It will eat the world--consume the universe--if not thwarted.

All of this would be sadly amusing were it not for the fact that the left discovered they could force others to pay for their displays of "compassion". Thus was born Forced Compassion (tm). Forced compassion is NOT compassion. It is easy to be "compassionate" when someone else is paying the tab.

Let Teddy Kennedy and Jane Fonda bankrupt themselves, take up the lifestyle of Mother Teresa, and give all they have to the poor. Then they will have the moral stature to lecture the rest of us on the inadequacy of our compassion and charity. Otherwise, every word that drips from their smarmy mouths will be met with the whisper, "Hypocrite" in every ear.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Here is my profit, here is the 5% of the profit.

Since determining "profit" is a very time consuming, expenxsive, and somewhat subjective number, here is a better idea. Let's get rid of the income tax all together and just have a sales tax.

[backhoe]

I liked what you had to say- it's "close enough" to what I believe myself.

[Valin]

Bump

[Jim Noble]

>>We must break the cycle of dependence through education<<

Is there any evidence from history or social science data that this is possible?