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Originally Posted by Quicksilver

I don't vote but I just might vote for you.
Family ought to get some perks ya know....... :thumbup:

Thanks, my BFAM...I think I look better than Jerry.
I know I'm taller. :D

Maybe even better looking....:D

The real deal???

Seems to me there needs to be regulations and oversight that take into account human nature, including the inevitable tendency of some people to make an easy buck off of someone else's good intentions.

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Originally Posted by Eric5273

As much as people don't like to admit it, the real world is just a more complicated version of the old video game "Sim City". Everything the government does to oversee the country has an effect, some good, and some bad. This greed that has developed in our society is not a random happening. It is a result of our system for decades, and it may have no quick fix. It is a result of kids growing up in a world where money is the most important thing and people are judged based on what they have and not who they are or what they do. It is the essence of capitalism.

Anyone see Hardball on msnbc this afternoon....They were showing Mccains' taped response to the bailout failure

Chris Mathews then stated .. it's clear Mccain is reading from cards and has no idea what he is talking about..this issue is to complicated for politicians...

pretty blunt statement

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Originally Posted by inglebert

Chris Mathews might as well be running the Obama campaign. There is a reason MSNBC pulled him from the convention coverage. His bought and paid for by the Democrats.

It wouldn't have made any difference if Daffy Duck said it if it's true... :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Quicksilver

It wouldn't have made any difference if Daffy Duck said it if it's true... :rofl:

McCain is too old to use a TelePrompter like Obama.

Did I just say that? :wow:

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Originally Posted by Quicksilver

regulations and oversignt = socialism

capitalism = no regulations and oversignt. ;)

Americans need to make up their minds which one they want. If they want socialism, then a lot of changes are in order. If they want capitalism, then have capitalism. But don't pretend to want capitalism while slipping socialism into the mix. Last time I checked, "free market" did not include government regulations and oversignt.

That's right E, it means NO regulation :rofl: :tsk: :rolleyes:

You got the socialism part right though :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by Eric5273

That is an extremely polarizing position. Regulations are simply laws, and you are saying therefore that it is not a free society because there are some laws on the books? That is like saying that we don't live in a democracy because I can't vote individually to set my own speed limit. Capitalism in its purest sense is pretty theoretical, I don't think many would take it to the extreme that a mixed economy with a few regulations to stop theft and fraud is actually a form of socialism. But I guess it helps sell fear.

There is a point at which market intervention is such an influence that it becomes the dominant force, but laws in and of themselves do not make a society socialist.