J. Merle Stanley and other complainers...do some research, don't just spew your hate message to see your post up here.  This country is on the correct path, in spite of the many, many problems left by the last administration.  You all complain and give us your "tent city" mentality, but I have yet to read anything constructive from you...and this goes back prior to the election.  Let's hear your plan, let's see you do something for this country that will make it better.  Why don't YOU run for an office....oh, I see, it is much easier for you to write your hate messages than to do something positive and constructive.  You all have become jokes on these sites!!

I see the right wing nuts are out in force today. Don't you guys have jobs? I thought you were all hard working do it on your own types. So why are you worried. You're working and making a good living, right? You listen to nut bags on the radio and TV and aren't bright enough to dismiss the hate filled garbage they spew. Losing isn't fun but lashing out by calling your opponents Fascists or Nazis or even Communist or Socialist shows your own lack of knowledge and history. The more you people do this the stupider you look. So keep it up. Just like during the campaign the more you attack Obama the stronger he gets so bring it on.

People talk about leadership. When was the last time we had a true leader in the White House? Certainly not for the last 8 years and before that one needs to go back a ways too.

Funny how all these people complain but offer no alternative. They have no solution. Thus they have no credibility. If the "loyal opposition" comes up with a workable solution different from what President Obama and the Democrats are proposing than they will have credibility, show they are willing to work for the people and not just be obstructionists, saying no, no, no, and only party oriented while the nation and our people go to hell in a handbasket. Let's hear your alternative or shut up. I am so sick and tired of the whining and carping just to whine and carp. If I want to hear that I'll teach kindergarten.

When we drop the us and them attitude and change to a WE attitude a ton more stuff can get done.

In 8 years the economic plan of the GOP got us where we now are. It has been less than 2 months of this Presidential watch and already the GOP is blaming what exists on the present President. It is typical American instant living and instant gratification needs. It just won't work that way.

To  Jill F. Tulsk, OK:

*plays tiniest violin in the world for all the victimized  rich  people*

Cry me a river Jill, cry me a river.

Nobody is asking the rich people to do ANYTHING for poor people. We are asking the rich people to quit stealing our money, start paying their taxes, and create jobs with living wages.

For your education:

“Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans — those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 — receiving their largest share of national income since 1928, analysis of newly released tax data shows.”

“While total reported income in the United States increased almost 9 percent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 percent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping $172, or 0.6 percent.”

“The new data also shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans. Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html

Don't worry Jill, you won't have to "share the wealth", just pay your fair share.

I hope all the rich folks are as worried about you as you are about them.  If the last 8 years are any indication, then I doubt it.

The primary deficit I am worried about is the deficit of human empathy and accountability from the ruling and media class in this country.

How dare you burn the house down and then complain that there is not enough money to build a homeless shelter.

It takes alot of nerve.
Nashville_fan (Sent Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:35 AM)

Amen, Nashville fan, you said it and said it well.  The utter lack of empathy and humanitarianism in the GOP platform is utterly shameful.  

California has 0% property taxes.  Thanks Governor Ronald Reagan.  
Brian Crooks, Naperville, IL (Sent Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:03

Actually, Brian, California has a 1-1/2% property tax, I know, I pay it every year.  That being said, it's very clearly too low, due to Prop 13, to keep up with the demands of education & healthcare.  

But we can thank Ronald Reagan for all of the tent-cities that we see under freeway overpasses, in the parks and on our streets everyday.  And it's not just due to the current economic downturn, it's been this way for years.  The homeless population in my state is, in MHO, one of the more shameful stains on our nation and culture.  Many, many of those homeless are vets from Viet Nam and the middle east.  Many, many of those homeless vets are suffering from PTSD or a whole host of other mental and physical disorders.  Thanks to Reagan, we have no state hospitals that care for these individuals.  Yes, there's the VA, but if you make too much money, or have any other coverage, you can't use their services.  And that doesn't even count for the thousands of physically and/or mentally challenged homeless that are not vets.  

Where is our compassion??  Where is our empathy??  Where is our humanitarianism??  If the GOP base is so stuck on the idea that we cannot use a decade old, fertilized egg that has been in the deep freeze for years, that will never be implanted into a woman's uterus, and therefore never become a baby, to advance science, simply because it would be murder in their eyes, where is all of this "God given compassion for those who have already been born and given of themselves to this great country??  The hypocrisy is astounding to me.

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