[quote who="just john" reply="2" id="1906880"]My favorite Obama ad claims that McCain will not cut taxes for middle class families. Then later, he claims that he will cut middle class taxes by three times what McCain will. 0 x 3 = 0 Yeah! I still have mad math skills. [/quote] You truly are genius. [e digicons]:beer:[/e] I emailed this to my mother-in-law. Not that she'll read it..
[quote who="Artysim" reply="20" id="1905902"]Here's a whacky idea: 4) Standardization of voting practices. Having soft-touch Diebold voting machines may be the way to go, but the notion that these machines use "proprietary" software that the government isn't allowed to see is complete and utter BS. I'm a complete moron, by my own admission, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out what a complete farce, and potential disaster is in the making when voting ma
The New Deal was never discussed as a positive in any of the history classes I've taken. I think it had it's good and bad points, though (at least in respect to Agriculture). I live on a farm with a large berm that was constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority during the period in question. We still have some problems with erosion, but it is a lot better than it would've been otherwise. On the other hand, the Soil Conservation Service encouraged the use of kudzu to help fight erosion, and
OMFG! That was how my grandmother was, too. She went ape over Bill Clinton, though when you talked only issues, she was more conservative. I think she voted Democrat because of the Civil Rights movement (as many Southerners did), to be honest. She hated Blacks and Republicans.She was born dirt poor in 1915 Arkansas, and went through much suffering. I can't fault her for that, but I wish she'd been more willing to accept people who were different. She was the product of her upbringing, without
[quote who="Artysim" reply="9" id="1900604"] Universal healthcare is not a bad thing. Conceptually, it goes against the grain of free markets, self-made men and pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps, so it has been demonized as an evil boogeyman symbol of communism. Thanks to the shenanigans we see unfolding with the vaporization of some of the biggest banks in the U.S these last few weeks, the argument that private is always better than public has been revealed to be an ideo