"Colonel Kurtz" wrote in message
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On 27-Sep-2010, "nom=de=plume" wrote:

Oh yes it does. You can't help yourself but to put us down. If you're
just

doing it for sport, it's time for you to move on. You gave up. Quit. Good
for you. You made a nice business decision, but don't pretend that you
care
about the US.

This is a great country, and we don't need critics with no vested
interest

trying to bring us down.

Try to appreciate that the U.S. IS down, it needs to reverse the trend to
maintain the best standards possible.

I explained the solution. What's your plan?

You explained nothing about a viable solution. You just ranted about "taking
back" the country. Meaningless.

We're in a recession. They've happened before. The current administration is
doing all it can (anything less would be political suicide) to turn things
around. The Dems in Congress are doing _some_ of what's needed, e.g., the
last effort was today with the small business loan bill that Obama signed.
They aren't doing enough and are afraid of their own shadow for a couple of
reasons. One reason is that they're cowed by the frenetic ranting and
threats from the Reps/Teabaggers. Another is that they have been
historically (although inaccurately and incompletely) viewed as tax and
spendthrifts.

We need to continue along the path of economic reform. We need to
reintroduce and reinforce regulations that have been removed, gutted, or
ignored. We need to reduce the military budget in a responsible way (we
don't want to add to the unemployment roles by dumping a bunch of people on
the street), we need to continue to extricate ourselves from two wars, we
need to stop funding some of the European/Asian military bases, we need to
expand healthcare coverage, tax the top 2% more, reduce the size and scope
of the biggest banks, increase our infrastructure funding, and most
importantly stop listening and start ignoring blowhard naysayers and
fundamentalists.