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Megaprogram, does it matter who posts it? How about responding to content? What exactly in this opinion piece is wrong?
Sorry about that megaprogman, now since you made an issue about posting the opinion piece how about giving us your opinion as to what is wrong in that piece and what you disagree with.
Take your best shot and be specific
In order to have overgeneralizations you have to cite specifics and you haven't. What is it specific in that article that is an overgeneralization as you see it?
We have eliminated all criminals in America — they are now called sick people.
The government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and does almost nothing for the victims.
What the article attempted to show is how upside down this country has become and why most people now believe we are headed in the wrong direction. The author expresses the point of view of many in this country today where personal responsibility seems to be lost in today's Democratic Party and in fact both parties who seem more concerned about getting re-elected or campaigning for their next job vs. doing their existing job
Yes exactly. But its using overgeneralization and emotional rhetoric, which, in my opinion only serves to increase the emotionality of a position and not the logic of it.
Maybe you could rewrite parts of it so I could see what you mean. You know, in a more logical, less emotional, less generalized way.
Well, I would have to contact the author to get the events that he was referring to since I don't know what all of them are. I don't care enough to do that. However, if you are unable to follow the thread, thats fine.
Has America become the land of the special interest and home of the double standard?
If we lie to the Congress it’s a felony and if the Congress lies to us it’s just politics.
If we dislike a black person, we’re racist and if a black person dislikes whites it’s his First Amendment right.
The government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and does almost nothing for the victims.
In public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK but you’d better not use the word “God” in the process.
You can kill an unborn child, but it’s wrong to execute a mass murderer.
We don’t burn books in America — we now rewrite them.
We got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming adherents “progressives.”
We are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea.
If you protest against President Obama’s policies you’re a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your First Amendment right.
You can have pornography on TV or the Internet, but you’d better not put a Nativity scene in a public park during Christmas.
We have eliminated all criminals in America — they are now called sick people.
We can use a human fetus for medical research, but it’s wrong to use an animal.
We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don’t want to work.
We all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology.
We still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct.
Parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games.
The land of opportunity is now the land of handouts.
The similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.
And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who’s at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes, and tells us the problem is solved so incumbents can get back to their reelection campaigns.
What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave?
todays conservative ideology=help and fawn over the rich, screw the working man/the poorOrion, there are certainly problems in both the Democratic and Republican Parties but the one ideology that makes all the sense in the world is the Conservative Ideology which right now is closer to the Republican point of view than the Democratic point of view. It is all about personal responsibility and consequences for choices made, neither is in the Democratic dictionary or vocabulary.
Most are general principles and an example of what this country has become. Thanks for the attempt at a response. Most of them I disagree with but it serves no purpose. It was an opinion piece that was designed to generate discussion and it did that. Sorry that you don't see what "progressives" have done to this country and the direction this Administration is taking us. Much of what was written I agree with and I see NO leadership from this Administration in any area, it is study the issue, create a commission, demonize anyone that disagrees, politicize all issues never letting a crisis go to waste, threaten law suits, and do anything possible to destroy incentive and individual wealth creation.
You can have this Administration. By the way, here is what Obama thinks of Louisiana Obama To Louisiana: Drop Dead. Imagine if this was Bush. Hope Obama has a great vacation in Maine after telling everyone to go to the Gulf Coast.
Orion, there are certainly problems in both the Democratic and Republican Parties but the one ideology that makes all the sense in the world is the Conservative Ideology which right now is closer to the Republican point of view than the Democratic point of view. It is all about personal responsibility and consequences for choices made, neither is in the Democratic dictionary or vocabulary.
Most are general principles and an example of what this country has become. Thanks for the attempt at a response. Most of them I disagree with but it serves no purpose. It was an opinion piece that was designed to generate discussion and it did that. Sorry that you don't see what "progressives" have done to this country and the direction this Administration is taking us. Much of what was written I agree with and I see NO leadership from this Administration in any area, it is study the issue, create a commission, demonize anyone that disagrees, politicize all issues never letting a crisis go to waste, threaten law suits, and do anything possible to destroy incentive and individual wealth creation.
You can have this Administration. By the way, here is what Obama thinks of Louisiana Obama To Louisiana: Drop Dead. Imagine if this was Bush. Hope Obama has a great vacation in Maine after telling everyone to go to the Gulf Coast.
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