keepthefaith

Congratulations on overcoming the stereotype. More should follow your lead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3owMAs2t2Fo Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis offering taxpayer funded help for fair wages for even the undocumented.

I like variety but not all variety. For example, I find British people to be mostly hilarious and fun to be around. On the other hand I don't like the stereotypical stubborn French (or French Canadian) attitude. There certainly are racial stereotypes that play out in real life. When a person encounters stereotypical racial behavior and then judges that other person based on witnessing that stereotypical behavior, is that person a racist? If I hire a Brit because I don't want to deal with a stubborn French person (who exhibits those qualities in an interview) am I a racist for doing that?

Unfortunately I don't have time to take your approach. I'm quite busy providing for my family, for my employees and their families and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in taxes personally so that many others can enjoy the freedoms and entitlements our country offers. Somebody has to do it.

That's one. One thing that we've agreed on ever. Baby steps.

That might be the line of the year so far.

They are outrageous numbers. If we look at expenditures in all areas of government (local, state and federal) we'd probably easily find 33% or more that could be cut.

It was a total setup and the Congressman fell for it. They probably filmed another hundred and he was the only one that bit hard. Tough break for Etheridge.

We're terrible as a society at teaching good nutrition and health and so many people don't give a **** about either one. It's not hard to eat healthy, but you have to be committed. Most aren't.

I've had to remove the word "progressive" from my vobabulary since the leftmost liberals adopted the term for themselves. For sure teachers need to be fired more often than they are, but where you find concentrations of bad students you'll find a lot of bad parents. Both parents and teachers need to be held more accountable for student performance and dropout rates in many areas, but that's a pipe dream.

Libs will understand the difference and support both. If the wealthy have an obligation to support the unproductive, what obligation do the unproductive have to support themselves?

It may be time to split our nation into 2. Liberal minded nanny staters on one side, conservative self sufficient on the other.

...and ass kissing = Reed

I'm not looking at the rock situation alone. I'm looking at the bigger picture. Our country is going broke. Illegal immigration is costing us a lot of money. The border is trouble and we are literally being invaded by people with low morality, low levels of skill and low expectations. We have enough of this already. This is the biggest no-brainer going. Send them home, lock down the border and tell the Mexican President that we'll be ready to talk when he's ready to respect our laws, culture and people.

!@#$ Mexico. Really, fukk'em. We need a President with the balls to tell them to go home and stay home and to lock down the border. We've got our hands full as a nation already with our own citizens and Mexico has zero leverage in the relationship.

Her winning the primary is best. She'll be easy to campaign against in fall. She's toast.

While there is room to question the poll itself, the results line up nicely with the fiscal performance and policies of the majority in Washington. No coincidence or surprise to me.

I'd wager that you're very concerned how your $20K is being spent and that the Feds are collecting $20K from you but spending $30K.

Not anymore. Imagine how many 1099's Exxon will be issuing in 2012 in compliance with the health care bill.

This President is so far out to lunch it's embarrassing. I can't recall in my liftime any President that was so untruthful, so biased and so out of touch with common sense.

Yes. It's ridiculous to generate a 1099 for goods or services that are sold to a company and invoiced by that supplier.

We can't continue the upward spiraling cost to make everybody "comfortable". The numbers say that loud and clear and we all know that there are millions that abuse the system. Many people have to feel pain in order to act. Being unproductive when you could be otherwise should be painful, not comfortable. People need to go to family for help before they go to the government. People need to know that having kids and raising them well is expensive and if they can't afford it, they shouldn't have kids. We need to reward productive behavior and punish unproductive behavior. That's the only way we'll get change. We're doing more of the opposite. We're creating a dependent class and buying their votes with other people's money. That said, we have to find ways to increase jobs not at the expense of taxpayers. When an economic downturn occurs, we have to know that we can extend some rope to those in need while also knowing that it's truly temporary. If governments were more fiscally responsible overall, taxpayers IMO would have little or no objection to extending help to those truly in need. For now the Feds are spending like drunken sailors, adding Federal Government jobs (which creates more defecit spending) and extending greater benefits to the unproductive at the expense of those that are productive now and in the future.

Shouldn't be that tough. Those with handcaps can be separated from those that are able-minded and able-bodied.

You might be right because the standards of what is impeachable have certainly evolved since Nixon. If we applied the same standard to Obama, we'd probably find a half dozen impeachable offenses. Frankly, I think he's guilty of treason.

At some point, reporting primarily through the leftist lense will cost the news and print media a lot of money. As the population awakens (and it is awakening) to the reality that Obama and co. are moving fast in the wrong direction fiscally, domestically and internationally - viewer and readership will migrate away from those that continue to report with a left bias. I'm sure that the rising Foxnews ratings and circulation decline are putting a lot of pressure on a bunch of media outlets. Sooner or later they have to cave for financial reasons. That day may have come for the Times.