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i'm certain that the local police retain the firepower necessary.
Were they ever solved locally?
So your solution is to just put the poor in jail? What about civil rights?
If they weren't whose fault is that? The Founders had it figured out, power belongs closest to the people and thus the people get the govt. they deserve. Instead of accepting responsibilty for failure people like you pass the buck to the Federal Govt. who by it size simply cannot solve local problems but it does give you an outlet to divert from personal responsibility.
So your solution is to just put the poor in jail? What about civil rights?
Oh that must be why they dissolved the Confederacy.
Can you explain to us what wall street is currently doing that is making the rich richer at the expense of the poor, elderly and middle class?
says the man who has evidently not read the federalist papers.
of dirty hippy protesters? they have all the rights afforded them at kent state
Oh that must be why they dissolved the Confederacy. :roll:
Now can you answer the question I posed or not?
Didn't realize that our Founders dissolved the Confederacy. Why don't you answer the question, in your world what is the role of the state and local governments as well as charities?
So why not a Confederacy?
Didn't realize that our Founders dissolved the Confederacy.
I don't think killing citizens will work out in the long run.
i believe the approved spelling is: 'Con-federa-saaah'
Uh I asked you a question first. Can you answer it or not?
What does Wall Street have to do with the problem? You really think the poor are investing in Wall Street? I have an alarm in my house and have yet seen Wall Street enter my house to steal anything. Sorry you had a bad experience with Wall Street as it probably isn't a place you should be investing. Your argument is bogus and makes no sense. Your outrage over Wall Street is just another excuse people make to divert from their own failures and acceptance of personal responsibility.
Wall Street/Atlantic city same agenda different place. Speculators drive up the price on life essential needs that even the poor require to sustain life, Bankers "predatory lending" focus on people who do not have the ability to pay off loans why because it is extremely profitable, hedge funds. Goldman Sacks 622.000.00 per year average salary all of that money comes from some where? The Wall Street bail outs where did the money come from was it tax payer money? You are in voluntary denial. Wall Street tanks 10 of thousands of people see their pensions shrink, where did the money go? If you want to know why they are demonstrating against Wall Street follow the money trail
Your support of Wall Street just means that you feel no remorse even when you realize that people worked hard for their money, I wonder why? For your information my savings where invested in low interest bearing accounts that were not subject to the ups and downs of stocks that are manipulated by Wall Street Brokers, my two pensions were not effected.
The difference between you and I, you have no compassion for others I do, you replaced the we in we the people with I the person. Wall Street should be shut down or heavily regulated maybe the occupy Wall Street protests will be the beginning of the end and the rich parasites that are sucking the life blood out of our economy will have to do some thing productive to earn a living
Sorry, Earl, I cannot deal with people like you who always blame someone else for your own failures. My idea of compassion is giving people actual help that makes them no longer need assitance. My compassion is giving to individuals not the govt. bureaucrats that waste money and keep people dependent. Your idea hat Wall Street takes from people is foolish and is just another diversion from your own failures. No one forced anyone to invest in Wall Street so that argument of yours is foolish.
Not sure what creates people like you but the fact is we have a 3.7 trillion dollar budget, 90 million Americans no paying any FIT(mostly people making 50k or less) and a 14.6 trillion dollar debt due to spending in the name of compassion that never generates compassionate results. The people sucking the blood out of the economy are liberals whose entire purpose in life is to keep people dependent. You are an enabler of that kind o activity.
It's also filled with people who are so full of themselves that they assume everyone envies them and so deluded that they think everyone who disagrees with them must be welfare mamas.
Nothing makes me happier then knowing that people like you can't deal with people like me, some of us count our blessings and some of us count our money, some of us know that there but for the grace of God go I and some of us think that they are god which are you.
After reading your posts for the past month not sure which one are you. Sounds to me like you talk alot but do very little always expecting someone else to do it for you such as giving to those truly in need. You seem to be one that expects the govt. to do it for you. I know which one I am and I can honestly claim that you don't have a clue.
Food speculation: aFood speculation: 'People die from hunger while banks make a killing on food' | Global development | The Observer
As food prices soar again to beyond 2008 levels, it becomes clear that everyone is now being affected. Food prices are now rising by up to 10% a year in Britain and Europe. What is more, says the UN, prices can be expected to rise at least 40% in the next decade.
There has always been modest, even welcome, speculation in food prices and it traditionally worked like this. Farmer X protected himself against climatic or other risks by "hedging", or agreeing to sell his crop in advance of the harvest to Trader Y. This guaranteed him a price, and allowed him to plan ahead and invest further, and it allowed Trader Y to profit, too. In a bad year, Farmer X got a good return but in a good year Trader Y did better.
When this process of "hedging" was tightly regulated, it worked well enough. The price of real food on the real world market was still set by the real forces of supply and demand.
But all that changed in the mid-1990s. Then, following heavy lobbying by banks, hedge funds and free market politicians in the US and Britain, the regulations on commodity markets were steadily abolished. Contracts to buy and sell foods were turned into "derivatives" that could be bought and sold among traders who had nothing to do with agriculture. In effect a new, unreal market in "food speculation" was born. Cocoa, fruit juices, sugar, staples, meat and coffee are all now global commodities, along with oil, gold and metals. Then in 2006 came the US sub-prime disaster and banks and traders stampeded to move billions of dollars in pension funds and equities into safe commodities, and especially foods.
Lets see you support the rich stealing from the poor so that they can then give it to the poor, do I have that right?
I am just guessing but it appears that others "occupy wall street demonstrators" see it differently then you do, it appears that some are catching on and under stand how Wall Street is nothing more then an opportunity for the rich to continue to plunder the economy of our country, I think the end of the unregulated scam called Wall Street is coming, 2012 will be the end
I feel sorry for you, always putting blame on someone else yet never doing a thing to help those that you claim you care about. I cannot believe you ever worked in the private sector. Your articles and you are a waste of time, never offering anything but opinions and never offering a solution. You apparently have no problem with govt. taking personal income and redistributing wealth. Govt has been taking personal income from individuals and today we have more in poverty than anytime in history. Where is your outrage over a govt that steals more and wastes more than Wall Street?
I think his argument is more concerned with most public corporations' primary concern of driving up the bottom line. Of course, corporations did not force these people to invest in their companies; however, society as a whole is invested in these companies, and likewise the other way. Let's take everyone's favorite case-in-point capitalist company in Wal-Mart. Why should they afford their employees adequate health care and pensions when that money could be invested elsewhere having been derived from profit instead of written off as an expense or put on the books as a liability?Your idea hat Wall Street takes from people is foolish and is just another diversion from your own failures. No one forced anyone to invest in Wall Street so that argument of yours is foolish.
I don't think anyone will contend that government (and its spending) is very overreaching at this point in time; otherwise, I think they're just not realizing the vastness of the bureaucratic structure in this country. Considering the vast amount of wealth that individuals have tied up in the capital structure of major corporations, I don't find it necessary for a good chunk of the population to pay taxes where they have not sustained anywhere near as great a benefit from this country's policies, resources, and citizens.the fact is we have a 3.7 trillion dollar budget, 90 million Americans no paying any FIT(mostly people making 50k or less) and a 14.6 trillion dollar debt due to spending in the name of compassion that never generates compassionate results.
Are vampires are liberals, but not all liberals are vampires.The people sucking the blood out of the economy are liberals whose entire purpose in life is to keep people dependent. You are an enabler of that kind o activity.
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