Tuesday April 22, 2008, 2:22 am
It is really sad to accept that the IMF's real goal is to create dependancy instead of the opposite. I am happy that South America is getting out of that list, little by little. ~

Tuesday April 22, 2008, 11:27 am
Well, you know what people are saying. We kill brown good.

Thank you

Tuesday April 22, 2008, 12:15 pm
This is just too sad to even contemplate at the moment. How could our country play a role in creating THIS? I just hate the US right now for many more than one reason.....

Tuesday April 22, 2008, 12:55 pm
If you wish to help, go to http://www.whatiffoundation.org/index.asp this group was talked about in the article.

Tuesday April 22, 2008, 1:33 pm
I thought the junior senator from Illinois cared about people of African descent. Maybe if they can't vote for him he doesn't care about them.

As a conservative and Objectivist I believe in free enterprise - for all. I believe in the right of every citizen of the world the opportunity to live life as they see fit, free from oppression.

I oppose crops for fuel. Does Senator Clinton approve corn for alcohol? Does Senator Obama support corn for alcohol?

Friday April 25, 2008, 8:05 am
Daniel I noticed the conservatives are trying to make this so called food shortage problem work in the favor of the big oil industry by telling people that the food shortage is because of raising crops for fuel.Bunk ! Complete BS ! Stop subsidizing farmers not to grow crops ,have fair trade and stop giving large corporations," who I am sure don't need the money,"money not to raise animals for market and plant fields.Aslo why are people like David Letterman being paid subsudizes when he only has a small herd of cattle and not a working ranch or farm? End all the government hand outs to the very rich and start growing the crops needed to feed the poor !

Friday April 25, 2008, 8:15 am
I am pissed ! Daniel you really went up my A-- with that statement !
Its you f--k--- conservatives idiots who helped give us Bush who has all but totally distroyed this country ,put us in this never ending war ,ruined our reputation in the world ,made us the most hated country and broke every law in the Constitution and the Geneva Convention with his illegal torture!
Are you a F--k--- Millionaire ? Because unless you are you damn fool the party you glorify will do just about as much for you as it will do any of us that aren't in their financial bracket .Your party is the big corporations that run this country and cause the pain these people in Haiti and other third world countries suffer.
I notice all your negative comments in these posts and it seems you lack attention and this is your way of getting it.Well I will not give you any more attention after this ,,you dim wit .

Friday April 25, 2008, 8:24 am
Daniel you said,, I believe in the right of every citizen of the world the opportunity to live life as they see fit, free from oppression.
Then why do you belong to the most oppressive party there is ,,not to say the Dems have been doing much better lately,,but the conservative party is totally for the big corporations and making the rich richer,,they are certainly not for the oppressed here in this country ,"just look at what happened with Katrina

Friday April 25, 2008, 8:33 am
I am sorry Mark for hijacking this thread but I am so angry at the people who still have the gaul to support this Bush administration and the Republican party that produced him.Even with our ecomony in the dumps and every other disaster that has befalled this country under Bush they still have learned nothing and that really does make me very upset .
We are all capable of wrong action from time to time but when we learn nothing from it and continue to make mistakes that hurt the masses I just am not very tolerant of that !

Friday April 25, 2008, 9:25 am

I understand your anger, Linda, but you are correct when you say, "...not to say the Dems have been doing much better..." I suggest you get hold of the late Walter Karp's classic book, Indispensable Enemies." The reason we have a two-party system is because they need each other. The job of the Republicans is to represent the big corporations. The job of the Democrats is to co-opt the left so that there cannot be any effective opposition to the big corporations. The book is often referred to as "U.S. Politics 101" and nobody interested in U.S. politics should participate without having read it.

Notice that the big corporations donate to both parties, usually slightly more to whichever party is in power. If there was an opposition party, they would not get donations from the big corporations they opposed. We don't have an opposition party. We do have some small third parties, but in a two-party system that doesn't have proportional representation, they cannot influence the agenda. If they gained power they would likely become just as corrupt as the pro-corporate parties because power corrupts.

Everybody who votes, no matter who they vote for, is helping support the Bush administration, the Republican party that produced him, the Democratic Party that twice conceded to him, voted for everything he wanted, and is still protecting him from impeachment, and the big corporations to which both political parties are beholden. Voting gives the impression that people in the U.S. are happy with this totally corrupt system and don't really want change.

Please read this:

Witness to a Crime

Half the eligible voters in the U.S. don't bother to vote in our sham elections. Listen to the commentators discuss which candidate the delegates and super-delegates will select and ask yourself why the voters don't get to make that decision. The founders didn't trust ordinary people with the right to make important decisions so we are not allowed to vote directly for President or Vice-President, or to directly recall or impeach federal officials.

Of those who vote, that is the 50% of eligible voters who are unable to understand that the popular vote is merely symbolic and doesn't actually count, much fewer than half vote for conservatives -- as you'll see if you read the link above. But it doesn't really matter who people vote for, it is the corporations that decide (by bankrolling them and giving them media coverage) who the candidates will be, and the corporations that decide (by rigging the elections and hacking the central tabulators) who the winner will be. Whoever that winner is, they are then so beholden to the corporations that helped them get "elected" that they have no choice but to advance the corporate agenda.

If we had an opposition party, people could at least express their opposition by voting for it. We have no such party. Only when people realize that the system is totally corrupt, withdraw their support from it, stop trying to work within it, stop participating in it, and begin to oppose it, will we have any possibility of change. Until then we'll just have the two parties taking turns representing the corporations and ordinary people with no power or representation at all.

Friday April 25, 2008, 1:06 pm
Mark I will read that book !
I admit I don't know everything about politic's but I have always known that the Republican party was blatantly for the big corporations .
The Dems I do admit I used to like them because they did push some bills through that helped the poor and middle class ,,but I haven't seen much of that lately either.
I agree fully that we need a opposition party but I don't see that happening in the near future and I honestly don't think that just not voting will bring that about either.
In reality anyone who pays taxes is supporting the Bush administration !
I think people have to refuse to support this government right down to not paying taxes before they take any notice of how the people feel in this country and what their wishes are for an opposition party .
Canada does have an opposition party and it used to work pretty well ,but as it looks right now they can't seem to make any headway with their new Primier to make the changes they want either .
Power corrupts and it corrupts completely !