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• • 02 Oct 08
  • 10:06 pm

  I oppose the bailout, the rescue, the whatever we are going to call it today plan that rewards failure both at the corporate and personal levels. I despise the idea of the .gov dictating what a CEO can earn. Who the hell are they or anyone else to tell me how high I can rise? I equally despise the "we must" mentality to corporate welfare. Finally I don't want the .gov stepping in an arbitrarily deciding that a valid contract between a CEO and his company is summarily invalidated. Since all three of those actually conflict with each other the only …

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• • 20 Sep 08
  • 4:24 pm

  Bailouts are Anti-Constitutional. When the .gov decides to forgive every individual American who is indebted to the government no matter the debt or the reason for not paying it; then Corporate Welfare might become a good thing. I am very angry at all of the 545 People in Government right now. http://the--realist.blogspot.com/2008/08/545-people.html

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• • 24 Sep 08
  • 8:27 am

  I don't believe that it is un-constitutional (violated IOW) but when you read the document from preamble to the last amendment you get a sense of what it's about in total. Limited Government, maximum liberty to the people, and state sovereignty are the tenets. So it is surely against the spirit if not the letter. I wish you were right because we could sue and there would be a chance of it being overturned. Instead, the commerce clause has simply been inflated...... again. Mores the pity.

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• • 24 Sep 08
  • 10:19 pm

  I oppose the bailout period. I believe that business should be minimally regulated, preferably at the local level vice the fed. Business should be darwined just like anyone else. I would like to see the various regulatory heads and the appropriate congressional committee members investigated to determine if their action or inactions are criminal. Of course what I want won't happen. I mean they have literally found congressmen with cold hard (ill gotten) cash in his fridge and didn't even get removed from office let alone jailed. Hmmmm sounds like we are essentially in agreement.

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• • 14 Sep 08
  • 1:26 pm

  I cannot believe what I am reading. The posters here are so anti-wood if you will that they fail to notice the tree let alone the forest. Those who have traveled around the world and lived in other places long enough to observe actual cultural and conditional differences please raise your hand. Those who raise their hand, and demonstrate simple integrity, will admit that the United States of America is the best place on Earth for an individual to live. This, those with integrity will admit, is the one place on Earth where you can do pretty much as you please. …

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