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Re: What difference will it make?
kgsbca: So the politicians should stay out of this, if they know what is good for the US economy. They probably won't, though, for if the company is acquired by a foreign owner, they will lose a valuable source of local campaign contributions, and we know that is the most important issue for politicians. No one yet seems to have noticed ...
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Moneybox
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Saphireyes
on
June 28, 2008
The hidden nature of America's power
In all honesty, American power in the global sphere will continue to erode no matter what foreign policy we put into place. Empires always crumble. What's the nature of power? Max Weber proposed that it was the ability to inflict violence against others. Well. America has 12,000+ nuclear warheads, enough of which are mounted on three stage ...
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Foreigners
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socsci387
on
June 3, 2008
Affordable? Subsidized? Equally loaded
I think the adjectives ''affordable'' and ''subsidized'' are equally loaded. ''Subsidized'' assumes that the most important aspect of this housing is that someone else is helping to pay for it. Implicitly, it says ''the recipients are freeloading.'' It assumes unstated conservative free market premises and ideologies. ''Affordable'' assumes ...
Posted to
Press Box
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bcamarda
on
May 29, 2008
Apples and Oranges...
On the surface, anyone who looks at the price of gas in other countries would seem like a bargain. Realisticly they are comparing apples and oranges in an attempt to justify greed. I cant buy gas from another country. Its geographically impossible. So it makes no sense to compare the price of gas in London England to my local service station. The ...
Posted to
Moneybox
by
techrat
on
May 22, 2008
Re: See no evil, through a veil
Ms Schmidt, you propose a false dichotomy with biased terminology intended to elevate your moral and intellectual position. 'Free vs oppressive system' is such an example. As I have mentioned elsewhere here on the Fray, true ''freedom'' is beyond human reach- it is a utopic ideal. It would arguably be more accurate to call the matter of wearing ...
Posted to
Faith-Based
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Usama2
on
May 12, 2008
When moms have the freedom
I am so happy my husband supports my desition of staying with my child at home. I just couldn't leave him in childcare. I tried 3 different center after I actually visited like 15. It was just so devastating. I came home to cry all evening for leaving my child with who know who... We couldn't afford for me not to make money, we need my income. But ...
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Number 1
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ptiffany
on
May 10, 2008
what mommies do
Lots of moms who have decided to stay home because they just can't leave their babies in daycare, either because they find the separation too hard or because after having to pay childcare fees and gas they don't really bring much money home, they are doing GPT sites from home. I am one of them. No, I didn't believe in those sites at first. My ...
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Moneybox
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ptiffany
on
May 10, 2008
Greenspan said THAT??
Integrity is about wholeness. Greed is about dividing and conquering for the benefit of ME ME ME. Capitalism is not a bad thing in and of itself.. yet it has manifested with government assistance and decreasing regulation, The Corporate Being has become a huge monster creating profit for the sheer desire for profit with little concern for the ...
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Culturebox
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M. Steinberg
on
May 2, 2008
Capitalism run amok
One of the sad factors underlying citizens ever-worsening conditions is the conviction that our democracy (republic) as a form of government is synonymous with capitalism, a form of economy. Capitalism might have had its inevitability written into the Constitution, but the good ol' founding fathers would freak out if they saw this speculative ...
Posted to
Food
by
era
on
April 27, 2008
GREED IS THE ONLY SELF-CORRECTING SIN
Well-Well here we go again the same old line; leading to the same old game with might I say the same inevitable outcome. This is the talking down and the dumbing down of America. It is the wall street magicians old slight of hand trick. How this works is simple: get taxpayers to focus on the retoric; while they are distracted by happy talk, we ...
Posted to
Moneybox
by
Topflight
on
April 27, 2008
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