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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 ...
    Posted to Moneybox by 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 ...
    Posted to Foreigners by 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 by 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 by 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 ...
    Posted to Number 1 by 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 ...
    Posted to Moneybox by 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 ...
    Posted to Culturebox by 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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