Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by Buster

Then get ready to have more restrictions on your car and utilities, as well as the highest taxes in the world.


edited to add:


I demand a recount on the vote! The Nobel Prize was stolen by Gore.

I'm not rich but I'd gladly pay more taxes if they want to start using them effectively. (i.e. not on funding ridiculous projects and insane defense contracts)

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I'm not rich but I'd gladly pay more taxes if they want to start using them effectively. (i.e. not on funding ridiculous projects and insane defense contracts)

You're probably in a BIG minority on that one.

How about we start using the already too-high taxes collected on useful things like defense and the environment only instead of research on animal sex and condoms for kids, funding one-sided public radio and TV stations (NPR/PBS) and building bridges to nowhere.

The Bridge to Nowhere: A National Embarrassment

We pay MORE than enough in taxes, but it's misappropriated and misused. We don't need more tax hikes, we need new representatives, but so many people vote for incumbents simply because they're incumbents.

[Monksdown]

or dont vote.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I'm not rich but I'd gladly pay more taxes if they want to start using them effectively. (i.e. not on funding ridiculous projects and insane defense contracts)

The problem in DC is not the amount of money they have but how it is spent and all the wast that goes on. I'm not willing to give them another penny of my money if I do not have to. Thats coming from a person who just 2 days ago was told after all the taxes I paid last year still owes them $6,800 and I'm like you I'm far from rich.

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I'm not rich but I'd gladly pay more taxes if they want to start using them effectively. (i.e. not on funding ridiculous projects and insane defense contracts)

I think that's the important part of what I wrote.

Re: Gore's potential policies putting a stranglehold on American corporations

American Corporations are putting a stranglehold on Americans. Special interests and lobbyists are the new policy makers, not the average citizen. If Gore wanted to put much more strict rules on, say, automakers, I'm all for it. Or if he were to force manufacturing firms to cut down on pollutants by appreciable margins. OR say improving health care so that we have a system the most advanced nation in the world deserves. Would such changes be extremely difficult? YES. Would maintaining this status quo on the road to hell be easier in the short term? Possibly. Is everything going to cost more? YES, it will regardless of policy, make no mistake. Are jobs going to be outsourced? YES. Unless there is policy written to counteract that. Say what you want but keeping american jobs in america was supposed to be a bed rock principle of this administration. Tell me that's happened.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I think that's the important part of what I wrote.

Re: Gore's potential policies putting a stranglehold on American corporations

American Corporations are putting a stranglehold on Americans. Special interests and lobbyists are the new policy makers, not the average citizen. If Gore wanted to put much more strict rules on, say, automakers, I'm all for it. Or if he were to force manufacturing firms to cut down on pollutants by appreciable margins. OR say improving health care so that we have a system the most advanced nation in the world deserves. Would such changes be extremely difficult? YES. Would maintaining this status quo on the road to hell be easier in the short term? Possibly. Is everything going to cost more? YES, it will regardless of policy, make no mistake. Are jobs going to be outsourced? YES. Unless there is policy written to counteract that. Say what you want but keeping american jobs in america was supposed to be a bed rock principle of this administration. Tell me that's happened.

I get so tired of this complaint that American Corps are out sorcing jobs like we have no blame. What kind of car do you drive, who made your toaster, lamps, furniture, etc... We as Americans have been out sourcing jobs for a long time so if you home is full of out sourced goods then stop complaining.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by BigSKINBauer

i dislike all the candidates for presidency, republican and democratic, right now. Gore would get my vote if he were to run. He has a responsibility to run. I get upset with the fact that he preaches change but when he has the power to step into a position where he can make a difference, he passes.

He was VP for 8 years and what changes beside inventing the internet? What would Gore do if he was in office?

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by firstdown

He was VP for 8 years and what changes beside inventing the internet? What would Gore do if he was in office?

Nothing beneficial.

High taxes, suffocating environmental constraints on American corporations forcing them to charge us more or go under (or move to China/India/Mexico) and he'd probably treat terrorism like the President he served under, so back to Americans being murdered worldwide with nothing being done about it.

He's a puppet to some scientists with an agenda. If he wasn't getting rich with his "The Earth is Burning" tour, he wouldn't do it. He obviously doesn't really care about the environment with his lifestyle.

Besides, where was he in the 1970s when we were entering an ice age?
Another Ice Age? - TIME

Oh yeah, he was inventing the internet.


He saw a financial opportunity and took it. He's no hero.

[saden1]

Originally Posted by Buster

High taxes, suffocating environmental constraints on American corporations forcing them to charge us more or go under (or move to China/India/Mexico)...

I take it you would be for a national health care system then? Cause that's one huge factor that's killing American corporations (except for Pharmaceuticals and HMOs of course).

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by firstdown

He was VP for 8 years and what changes beside inventing the internet? What would Gore do if he was in office?

Inventing the internet? LOL!!!!!

[4mrusmc]

Originally Posted by BigSKINBauer

i dislike all the candidates for presidency, republican and democratic, right now. Gore would get my vote if he were to run. He has a responsibility to run. I get upset with the fact that he preaches change but when he has the power to step into a position where he can make a difference, he passes.

Then how can you support that?

[BleedBurgundy]

I've LIVED all over the world, under different forms of government and there is a lot to be said for the way other countries do things. We don't have a monopoly on good ideas in the U.S.

[dmek25]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I've LIVED all over the world, under different forms of government and there is a lot to be said for the way other countries do things. We don't have a monopoly on good ideas in the U.S.

what a great quote. i cant believe people around here are saying that the Nobel prize is insignificant. what a great accomplishment for Mr Gore. and tend to wonder if the people that believe this are also the same ones that threw Mr Kerry under the bus for serving our great country in Vietnam? and BB, it makes me smile when someone overlooks party affiliation, and tries to put the best man in the white house. no, im not saying that Gore is the best candidate. but right now BB isn't seeing anything out there he likes

[4mrusmc]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I've LIVED all over the world, under different forms of government and there is a lot to be said for the way other countries do things. We don't have a monopoly on good ideas in the U.S.

Oh really, well that maybe true, but why do so many people want to come here for a better life? No other country in the world can claim that. And I too have lived in other countries around this world, and this is the best place to be bare none.

[saden1]

The politicians are a reflection of the people. When you have people like Hilary and Rudy talking about each other in their respective party debates instead of the merits of why they should be elected you have to wonder about the public. People don't vote their conscious anymore, they vote for whose they think is the lesser of two evils.