Fairness

The complaining hoping someone near hears, sounds an awful like the wingnut fringe of the Republican Party today. But they keep complaining about the same thing ... media bias. It's the same old story from the 80s but apparently they think and oldie must be a goody.

Then of course you have the fearmongering that has been going on in the past 10 years. Their newest target is of course the health care system. I mean how dare the government give people a choice of insurance. How dare they. Then, of course, they also like to declare that the government is trying to force a Canadian style health care system on Americans. But the only mention the bad things (which is the MO of the new Republican Party, only pick out the bad things, not matter how minuscule, and ignore the rest). What they don't mention (because it would ruin their argument is the Canada's health care system ranks higher than America's, as do several other countries that use "social" medicine.

They like to argue as well that the United States doesn't need socialized medicine, but what they conveniently never mention is that we already have socialized medicine with medicare and medicaid, not to mention the Veteran's Administration.

Conservatives only pretend to care about fairness, as long as it's fairness to the haves. They couldn't care less about the have-nots, one bit, and actually blame everything that is wrong with society on the have-nots, in a weird attempt to help themselves sleep better at night.

What is fairly unhealthy is calling anyone who criticized Bush in the smallest way un-patriotic and anti American, but feeling free to not even mention the president by name, and considering yourself a patriot. You elicit the worst in people and then criticize them for daring to disagree with you.

You stop at nothing in an attempt to scare people about their government. Have you no shame. You call those of us who dare disagree with you as pitiful and then YOU WILL yell and scream when someone calls you a name.

So, Mr. Eldridge have fun circling the drain, it has been fun yet at the same time sad watching you slowly lose your mind. At least I'm honest when I call someone on their lies and spin, you hide behind the Bible and actually try to make the claim (much like Bill O'Reilly) that you don't attack.

Without further ado let the attacks on me commence.

Sam,

Excellent stuff, as usual. Ever notice, on the national stage, that the female Democrats and liberals are really a hideous looking bunch, and yet the Republican and conservative women are usually babes? You want to talk about envy, I mean really, when Maureen Dowd is the best you have. That's bad. Even the Hollywood liberal women are hags. To moral of the story, liberalism makes you ugly.

Sorry about that Sam, couldn't help myself. These workers in the vineyard were envious. You nailed it, (or Christ nailed it) some workers saw other workers getting more than they thought they deserved. These first workers thought they were owed something, that they had a right to more wages, simply because someone else got a better deal than them. One of the first things I remember teaching my children was that life is not fair. I thought everyone knew this. Apparently not liberals.

Also, I have heard this Scripture used when discussing how some Christians feel, when they have tried to live good life before God, and some other guy, lives like hell all his life, yet repents in his last days, and gets to meet Jesus. That kind of envy is just as ugly, and stupid.

Keep up the good work.

SAM,

While you are into this concept of fairness,

please don't forget the Executive Committees of those banks which have received about TWO TRILLION in bailout money -- and rewarded themselves with $50-MILLION each in special bonuses as a reward for running the world's economy into the ditch.

Let's not forget the corporate executives who are still flying to vacation destination luxury resorts in those corporate jets -- all supported by tax deductions.

Far be it for us to forget that paragon of the Republican Party, now housed at Public Expense at Butner Federal Prison in North Carolina -- Good Old Bernie Madoff. Ol' Bernie got sent to the joint with the best medical service for older inmates. A new, ultra modern facility with three meals daily, warm sleeping at night, exercise and recreation facilities and a great library. A bunch of his victims are flipping burgers and cleaning toilets to survive. Now that's fair.

Charities that provide for orphans, children's medical services, cancer research and treatment and veterans -- are closing because of Bernie's Republican FAIRNESS.

How about those of us who will pay huge taxes to cover those NO-BID, SWEETHEART CONTRACTS for Haliburton, Kellog, Brown & Root, BLACKWATER and the other favored NO-BID contractors.

Known GOP fraud and overbilling -- listed by U.S. Army Auditors in public reports and the WALL STREET JOURNAL -- somewhere in excess of $35-BILLION up to now.

Now that's fair that those of us who started work in the fields and with the livestock before our sixth birthdays and continued with 80-120 hour weeks for six and seven decades -- should be nailed with taxes to support a bunch of fat GOP swindlers???

It's fair that those of us who wore the uniform, froze our rears off on Korean Mountains, and slogged through Southeast Asia jungles should be taxed to pay for the corruption created by your revered DUBYAH AND THE DRAFT DODGERS.

When DubYah, Shotgun Cheney, Paulson and the GOP's financial geniuses came up with the first bailout -- I didn't like it.

But, fairness aside, the option was allowing another total economic collapse.

It ain't fair, but Sam is still rolling down the road with his big rig, while former auto workers, bank employees, carpenters, plumbers, roofers, dry wall crews and landscapers are scrambling for a few bucks to feed their kids.

Sam, the second bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives was a subsidy bill for wealthy Philadelphia businessmen who were already operating a highly profitable monopoly business -- and wanted the new government to sweeten their pot.

[The first bill passed by the House contained the Rules of the House, establishing how that august body of wealthy, land and slave owning gentlemen would conduct their business -- in the absence of teamsters, stevedores, blacksmiths, field hands, dirt farmers, seamen and all the other riff raff, which did not qualify as property owners.]

Guess what, every Congressman in that first House

considered himself to be fair, and actions of the House to be fair -- and over in the Senate, an even wealthier and more privileged group were certain they were even more fair than the House mob.

From the Colonial Governors appointed by the thieving English Royals to maximize profits from the colonies, through the First to Last Continental Congresses, and starting with the first U.S. government under George Washington --- through 1932, EVERY ACTION of the U.S. Government was expressly designed to fatten the pockets of special interests.

Railroad land grants, the homestead programs, Oklahoma's Land Runs, Mining Claims -- all geared to funnel profits to specific wealthy interests.

When FDR and the 1932 Congress, faced with almost certain internal revolution and several popular armed uprisings, began passing and implementing laws to help the "Poor Working People" -- that was the first time in U.S. history, the wealthy special interests were not the beneficiaries of every governmental action.

Since then, during war time, every "defense" industry and contractor has operated with some form of special consideration. Cost Plus Contracts have been standard.

Build IT, don't worry about the cost -- Uncle Sam will pay your costs, plus 10% operating margin.

So these imminently fair Fat Cats, pay themselves five to ten times their normal income, pile on the expenses with overpriced purchases from every brother-in-law and other relative -- and the working stiff taxpayer worked for OPA frozen wages and watched blue collar income tax soar to more than 50% -- to support federal subsidies for rich men.

Fairness Sam, stick to writing of your life on the road and quit trying to be a political scientist -- Your thinking is simplistic beyond belief.

You parrot the blather of Than Franthithco Thavage, Limburger, Bombast Beck and Confused Coulter.

Use your informed native intelligence to communicate your real world, where you have a lifetime of experience and quit trying to claim half vast knowledge of global economics and geo-political mechanics.

P.S. If you think Sams political beliefs are beyond belief you had better get of the farm more often.

Steffanie - you makin' the milk come out of my nose. You have a hilarious way of cuttin' through the bull.

This country was built on capitalism and it USED to be guided by Christian principles. Once the guiding principles were eroded, the system began a subtle and then a more steep decline.

What is needed for this country to wake up is happening right now. Humankind must realize that the answer to our problems lies with our Creator who endowed us to empower ourselves. Gov't needs to just stay the heck out of it.

Transplant, Common Sense is your best beat.