Blame It on the American People

[Freewill]

look at the bright side Willow- you only got 1449 days 'til the next Presidential election

Maybe

What do you mean?

I attempted an inference about a third term that is all. I apologize for not picking my words better.

 

[uscitizen]

look at the bright side Willow- you only got 1449 days 'til the next Presidential election

Hillary!

Yeah maybe a dynastical election Hillary vs John Bush.

 

[Moonglow]

What do you mean?

I wouldn't put anything passed Obama.

Passed?

Like flatulence

 

[Moonglow]

Too many people voted based on what was best for them individually as opposed to what was best for the country. Different metrics for how they decided that, but in the end we are moving further away from personal responsibility to take of oneself and towards more dependency on the state to do it for us. Rights and freedoms come with responsibility, if you ain't willing to accept the latter then you don't deserve the former.

well we see tha Mittens didn't deserve anything.

 

[Dot Com]

Too many people voted based on what was best for them individually as opposed to what was best for the country. Different metrics for how they decided that, but in the end we are moving further away from personal responsibility to take of oneself and towards more dependency on the state to do it for us. Rights and freedoms come with responsibility, if you ain't willing to accept the latter then you don't deserve the former.

Not getting your point, maybe you could elaborate. Wall Street doesn't vote, people do. If Wall Street and the insurance companies were all that powerful, Barack Obama would not have been re-elected.

Wall St's & Insurance co's "self interest" were some of the primary drivers that got us to where we are toady- global recession.

 

[MostJadedGamer]

the American free enterprise system is based on voluntary exchange for mutual benefit, and he claimed instead that it is based on the rich exploiting the poor… and on profit-seeking businesses looking for every opportunity to cheat their customers on the far side, and their employees on the near side.

Well it is mainly about the rich exploiting poor, and businesses seeking profit at any, and all costs. Without any regulation the rich would literally kill the poor, and make most of the country poor. See See J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie.

This is why the free enterprise system must be heavily regulated. Otherwise 90% of the country would be in poverty, and workers would be killed all the time like they were during the Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie era

Never underestimate the love of money. It makes people do anything.

I suggest you get your Bible, and read chapters 19-21 of Judges, and see how insanely bad it gets when there is no law, and everybody is free to do what is right in there own eyes.

Too much freedom is a very bad thing.