Arianna appeared on a special edition of "Larry King Live," along with radio host Lars Larson, libertarian author Larry Elder, and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, to discuss the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency.
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I also agree that it was completely slimy to use Natasha Richardson's death to malign universal healthcare. These right-wingers are completely shameless as well as clueless.
I think the Republican Party should adopt the ostrich as their mascot since they have their heads buried so far in the sand.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090429/D97SCPI00.html
There's very little difference between the democrats or the republicans.
It's Coke and Pepsi.
The basic problem with today's republican party is that they are so immature and they remind me of something Paul Krugman wrote. I am not a big fan of his but, I do remember him writing that the republicans are like watching Beevis and Butthead snickering.
It's true.
I saw a clip of Rick Santorum talking about Specter's switch and he described as Specter pull down his pants and wiggling his butt at the gop.
Come on! That is just so Jr. High. these are suppose to be serious, adult people and they act and talk like they are 12.
I live in London and believe me I know why Conservative's are scared of comprehensive societal health Care. It's because people will love it, and as such will never let it go. Furthermore, reforms to it will be resisted, that's the down side. Yet, Imagine my disgust when the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan disparaged the National Health Service (NHS) to FOX NEWS' Sean Hannity, after his famous youtube outburst. I was hopping mad. The NHS has the status of a secular religion in the UK, and like any religion, it's loved and taken for granted by the masses. Hence, the NHS has it's problems, in fact they are legion, and somewhat unrelenting...but it's also one of the greatest things about Britain, and a source of genuine pride for UK citizens.
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She does present a compelling argument. We gave the banks the money where is the flow of credit? Why are we rewarding bad behavior and getting nothing in return?
Personal responsibility, I keep hearing that from those who are not personally responsible for mass outcome. An F is what Elder gives, but what would he do if he were president and how would things be 100 days into his leadership model?
I am a proponent of radical change. Let the banks fail. Help foster an environment where surviving banks do want to lend. Rethink how money flows to the common person from the top down. Determine the bottlenecks to flow. Get rid of waste and unnecessary redundancy. Oil that which squeaks. Replace that which leaks. Community by community America should rebuild itself. Each community should look around, identify its' problems, galvanize the people in creating a plan of sustainability and revitalization, and set to work on the shovel ready projects that come out of that deliberation.
The president ain’t me, he is bound to disappoint if I were to judge through such a limited filter. My expectations for myself are higher than those I harbor for any president. This is an outgrowth of the serenity prayer. I do not control the president, I control me.
As it is with "The whole world economy', the truth may be over the head of most of us, we simply may not be able to handle how candy is made in this American chocolate factory. If you simply look at the clues it is troubling. The truth might stop hearts and cause widespread uncontrollable gasping, wheezing, and coughing...and then there would be the tears, the wailing, the moaning and groaning. We know we are being gangstered. If most can escape life without knowing the details of how comfort is provided, that is good enough for them. After all we were born to work and consume. All the rest if for our entertainment and distraction as we burn in the hot flames of someone else's hellacious vision of heaven on earth.
Does the name April Glaspie ring any bells?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11376.htm
I think you are wrong. All the critics of the TARP miss the point. The reason the initial help was given was keep the banks from failing. At the time there was a real threat of a domino effect. TARP was successful. It did what it was suppose to do, which was to stop the financial meltdown and keep banks like Citi and BoA from going down. It these two would have gone down we would been in a much more difficult place now and a place that would have likely cost the government and the economy a lot more.
You are also largely wrong on bank lending. You cannot expect the banks to be at high levels of lending at this point in the economic cycle. With or without the credit/mortgage crisis the banks would have cut lending as they always do during a economic downturn.
How can anyone truly be close to "content" with anything going on politically/economically/socially when every single day after day, around the world, some 30,000 human beings are starving to death or dying in misery because they are too poor to stay alive?
I'm not expecting our president to solve all this. But we, citizens with conscience, are expected to act if we have any morality left in us. TIME TO STOP BEING COMPLACENT.
Fortunately , there is an extraordnary teacher for humanity who will appear publicly on TV very soon, to inspire us to do just that - take action and solve the most pressing problems around us.
His solution?
Instead of a system centered around the principles of greed, division and fierce competition, how about working together as nations, seeing humanity as one family with superficial differences but who ultimately have the same basic needs to survive. He will address this insane picture at the moment where the "rich parade parade their wealth before the poor". The answer is through nations sharing the excess they don't need so others may simply live. Maitreya says: "Sharing is divine. When you share, you recognize God in your brother."
www.WakeUpMankind.org
By not having children the government would have to find a way to make sure they continue to
exist. Easy fix!