BobR wrote:

On Dec 4, 8:45 am, Norminn wrote:


Stormin Mormon wrote:


Subsidized: Where the government takes money, by force, from the citizens.
To pay for something that the citizens don't want to think they are really
actually paying for.


I'm sure California could have lower energy prices, if they raised taxes to
pay the difference. Then, they could be just as socialist as Albeeta.


How is giving my money to big banks NOT Socialist? And why do Socialist
countries have a much
higher standard of living than we do?



By who's measure? And if you think they are so damn great, why don't
you move your butt there and shut up?


I like to express myself and I like living where I'm free to do so. I
should have phrased the statement
about Socialist countries more carefully......... a lot of
them.......Scandinavian countries?....do much better
than we do. Our healthcare is not only grossly expensive, it is hugely
wasteful. Our public education
system is horrible. What weighs on both, and on the economy, is greed
and irresponsibility. Last
time I filled the gas tank of my car, the price of gasoline was $4/gal
and everyone was howling for
the gov't. to do something. PEOPLE need to get off their fat arses and
solve the problems; take
responsibility for their debt/spending, and for their fuel consumption.
Take responsibility for their
brats who need $1,000 in crap every Christmas so's they will stop acting
like little monsters who
want what they want when they want it.......the blue hair for school,
the trip to rave clubs every
weekend, the sorry excuses for vandalism and misbehaving in school.
"Children learn what they
live".The idiots who spent 10 years obsessing about Bill Clinton's sex
life have gotten what they
deserve. The religious zealots who vote on the basis of one narrow
issue have voted us to disaster.
Lots of folks think in terms of sports figures being "role models" for
their children......how about
the dope in the White House who can't even speak in complete sentences?