A man wrote a letter to the NY Times that,of course, never got published. The letter has been circulating around the Inter Net and has been read by at least 500,000 people. The person who wrote the letter, Lou Pritchett was a vice president from Proctor and Gamble (retired) and he admitted it to SNOPES:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp

Originally Posted by Keedy

A man wrote a letter to the NY Times that,of course, never got published. The letter has been circulating around the Inter Net and has been read by at least 500,000 people. The person who wrote the letter, Lou Pritchett was a vice president from Proctor and Gamble (retired) and he admitted it to SNOPES:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp

It is scary...it really is ! I can tell you that since the press fell in love with him in Iowa I have been scared and it has just gotten worse. The more I read about his past and his growth and training, the more I feared.

I suggest you read todays Investors Business Daily today and the editorial about how this administration is just plain not being truthful about jobs for example BUT he says them so pretty !

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArti...29439208568423

Bucco
Thanks for the link. Where is everybody? Outside playing? lol

Here is a link for 30 conservative columinists for your reading pleasure:

http://rightwingnews.com/


Keedy

All of the links are interesting. But all I see is ideas that might have worked say 50 years ago when times were simpler and companies were smaller. Then there was competition and free markets worked. Today one company supplies and sets the price of vast numbers of products. Companies do not build market share by offering better products are lower prices, they buy market share by buying the competition. How about the deal that most wholesales tell the retailers the price they can sell something at or the retailer will not have items to sell. Where is the competition in that. I also see what has happened to the Banking industry when left to their own devices. We are all paying for the cleanup. There have been a number of independent studies that have proven that deregulation of anything ends up costing consumers in higher prices. It has not promoted competition.

Originally Posted by rsetterlund

All of the links are interesting. But all I see is ideas that might have worked say 50 years ago when times were simpler and companies were smaller. Then there was competition and free markets worked. Today one company supplies and sets the price of vast numbers of products. Companies do not build market share by offering better products are lower prices, they buy market share by buying the competition. How about the deal that most wholesales tell the retailers the price they can sell something at or the retailer will not have items to sell. Where is the competition in that. I also see what has happened to the Banking industry when left to their own devices. We are all paying for the cleanup. There have been a number of independent studies that have proven that deregulation of anything ends up costing consumers in higher prices. It has not promoted competition.

What about Fannie May? What good is regulation when the Barney Frank's of the world are watching it?

Joke of the day:

What does Obama and God have in common?

Answer: Neither one has a birth certificate.

Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone...this joke is making the rounds today. Alot of talk about a possible messianic complex that some psychologists attribute our commander.
I wouldn't dare to post this joke in another forum but since this forum is the rough and tumble world of politics...

Originally Posted by Keedy

Joke of the day:

What does Obama and God have in common?

Answer: Neither one has a birth certificate.

Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone...this joke is making the rounds today. Alot of talk about a possible messianic complex that some psychologists attribute our commander.
I wouldn't dare to post this joke in another forum but since this forum is the rough and tumble world of politics...

To Funny.... I got emailed these today..

""""President-elect Barack Obama plans to close Guantanamo, you know, the big holding center, the big prison, the interrogation center in Cuba. He is going to close that down. And Dick Cheney - I thought this was interesting - Dick Cheney said, 'Oh, fine, sure, I'm going to buy it and turn it into a vacation home.'""""

""""There was a historic meeting in Washington this week. Yesterday, Barack Obama and all the presidents met at the Oval Office. Did you see it? All the living ex-presidents were there. Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney. All of them were there.""""

Originally Posted by GMONEY

To Funny.... I got emailed these today..

""""President-elect Barack Obama plans to close Guantanamo, you know, the big holding center, the big prison, the interrogation center in Cuba. He is going to close that down. And Dick Cheney - I thought this was interesting - Dick Cheney said, 'Oh, fine, sure, I'm going to buy it and turn it into a vacation home.'""""

""""There was a historic meeting in Washington this week. Yesterday, Barack Obama and all the presidents met at the Oval Office. Did you see it? All the living ex-presidents were there. Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney. All of them were there.""""

Funny!!!

I am relatively new to this forum and enjoy the nice people who post here. This morning I started reading the Sticky about personal attacks and somehow ended up in threads from last October.I found this one very prophetic:

According to snopes this is true.
Letter to the editor from a cuban.
Dear editor, Times- Dispatch

Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice.
On june 30, I celebrate my independence day, and on July 4 I celebrate America's.

On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba, and a few months later, I was in the United States to stay
That I happened to arrive in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress.
I've thought alot about the anniversary this year.
The election year rheroric has made me think alot about Cuba and what transpired there.
In the late 50's, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, and they where right.
So when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.

When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him.
They never questioned who his friends were or what he believed in.
When he said that he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed.
When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said,' Praise the Lord'.
And when the young leader said, I will be for change and I'll bring you change, everyone yelled "Viva Fidel".
But nobody asked about change, so by the time the executioner's guns went silent, the peoples guns had been taken away.
By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungery, and oppressed.
By the time everyone received their free education, it was worth nothing.
By the time the press noticed, it was to late, because they were now working for him.
By the time the change was over, more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts,and inner tubes.

You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the most fortunate Cubans.
And now I'm back to the beginning of my story.

Luckily , we would not fall in America for a young leader who promised change- without asking, What change? how will you carry it out? What will it cost America?

Would we?


Manuel Alvarez Jr.


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I can understand how this would inflame a loyal supporter of the candidate ..so close to election time. But here we are 8 months later and I was wondering if this article still seems preposterous to his followers?

You are so right. Who would ever want a new leader that promises change.

I guess that depends on what the change is. So far it stinks.

The takeover continues.

"All large institutions should be subject to regulation by the Fed, administration officials said. The proposal also would create a council of regulators with broad coordination responsibility across the financial system."