No-I would be forced to fund speech I may very well find repulsive. I dont think it is any of the Goverments business how i spend my money. if I want to give money to a canidate it should be of no ones concern other than mine and the canidates
I have to agree. If your worried about the interests of poor people why not become involved in creating a PAC specifically geared towards that purpose? The un-born can’t raise money themselves yet you still have pro-life groups that work to give them a voice. If you don’t believe the poor have a voice, give them a voice and find like-minded people that feel the same.
What is their message? What is their proposed solution?
that’s like saying you’re against funding roads because it forces you to help people get to abortion clinics
If they were against crony capitalism in general they would be marching in many other places besides financial institutions. This is something they have control of outside of the people who have possibly hijacked the movement. None of them apparently care to protest right outside of Washington D.C where campaign funding policy is made, and where all the recipients of that funding reside. This alone should make you wary of the movement and make you question how many honest people are down there without a far-left agenda.
No its not-it is saying it is a violation of my free speech rights to be forced to fund speech I find repugnant. I am always troubled how willing people are to give up their freedoms in the name of “fairness”
Roads have lots of other uses, and getting to abortion clinics is far from a primary use of roads haha. What other purpose does financing someone to run for office have other than to help them get their viewpoint out there? Never mind if this viewpoint spits in the face of all of my morals, and they use the stage to be a proponent of committing acts I find to be on par with murder.
I’m sorry but this is absurd. Whether the economy is growing or not it is stupid to get ourselves in the debt we are in. If peak oil is truly here that will have its affect, but to blame the current economic crisis on that is crazy. The debt is the obvious problem, as well as the fact that our future debt will be even higher with current policy. Oil prices are following the economic trends right now not leading them. When we get some good economic news and the market gets a little boost, oil prices go up. When we get bad news and the market gets hit prices go down. Whether oil is a problem or not, it is overshadowed by the debt and current policies that track us putting ourselves into even further debt.
Yep, exactly the reaction I expected. As you say, when we get good news oil prices go up, and bad news causes prices to fall. So what does that tell you? It tells me that we are in a vicious cycle where economic growth will be stifled by rising oil prices each and every time those “green shoots” appear. When oil gets too expensive, the growth ends and the economy turns down. It’s called the “Bumpy Plateau” or the “Undulating Plateau”. Google it. And to say that “oil prices are following the economic trends not leading them” is forgetting your history. Remember the summer of '08? Oil spiked to $147 a barrel BEFORE Lehman defaulted, the market crashed, we bailed out the banks, etc… $4 gas was what pushed millions of Americans from living paycheck-to-paycheck into defaulting on their unaffordable mortgages. And cast your mind back to how oil spiked dramatically earlier this year, just as most economists were praising the economic “recovery” and the success of QE2. Of course there wasn’t a real recovery, just another bubble in stocks and commodities, but that oil spike…well that killed the “recovery”, and now we’re seeing the effects. Oil leads, the markets and the world economy follows.
Yep, exactly the reaction I expected. As you say, when we get good news oil prices go up, and bad news causes prices to fall. So what does that tell you? It tells me that we are in a vicious cycle where economic growth will be stifled by rising oil prices each and every time those “green shoots” appear. When oil gets too expensive, the growth ends and the economy turns down. It’s called the “Bumpy Plateau” or the “Undulating Plateau”. Google it. And to say that “oil prices are following the economic trends not leading them” is forgetting your history. Remember the summer of '08? Oil spiked to $147 a barrel BEFORE Lehman defaulted, the market crashed, we bailed out the banks, etc… $4 gas was what pushed millions of Americans from living paycheck-to-paycheck into defaulting on their unaffordable mortgages. And cast your mind back to how oil spiked dramatically earlier this year, just as most economists were praising the economic “recovery” and the success of QE2. Of course there wasn’t a real recovery, just another bubble in stocks and commodities, but that oil spike…well that killed the “recovery”, and now we’re seeing the effects. Oil leads, the markets and the world economy follows.
Haha I’m sorry I’m not buying it. People did not get into mortgages because they had to pay $50 more a month, if even that much, to keep their car filled up with gas. That’s a problem that could be solved by getting rid of cable insteadThe credit problem started way before oil shot up, and people were making stupid decisions regardless of how much they were spending on gas.
I assume you meant to say “…people did not get into trouble with their mortgages…”? Yes, some did. You really give the average American a lot of credit for making good financial decisions, Nate. I’m sure there were plenty of people who missed a mortgage payment “just to get through the month”…precisely so they wouldn’t have to shut off the cable, and because they probably didn’t understand that it placed them in default. They probably didn’t know what default meant. You’re telling me that the same country which watches a show called “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader” is full of people who understand financial contracts…please, Nate. MANY people skipped that mortgage payment and thought they would be allowed to make it up, with some penalty, the next month.
“Safety” is also common as an excuse for sacrificing liberty.
Actually, we are NOT out of “cheap oil”. [Actually, the more appropriate expression would be “cheap energy”.]
What I am witnessing a LOT of is a set of misplaced priorities.
Actually, the government and the mainstream media are in agreement with you, but the truth is not there.
Thanks for finding the link to this column.
Shale oil may be plentiful, but cheap? I thought maybe you were kidding until you kept posting it. Do you work for them or something? Shale oil is NOT cheap compared to conventional crude oil. Neither are the tar sands. Neither is getting crude from offshore or the arctic. Cheap is what we had for 100 years…you drill a hole on dry land and the oil flows out. That’s what our economy is dependent on, not shale.