Rosewren's Comments (122)

“I don't care if he has had only a year, he has had time to draw a line in the sand and take a stand on something. He has not done this and probably won't so if it is okay with you to support nothing it is not for me. He had plenty of opportunity to make it very clear where he stood and so far it has been with banks and corporations and letting a faux Democrat Lieberman who campaigned against him have the power that he should have wielded himself. You earn respect, it is not something you get by title in this country. No progressive is disrespecting the office of president here, it is the President that has disrepected the faith that people put in him.”

“You have caught the essence of his problem "ambivalence".”

“"He can't seem to muster the passion to fight for any of what he believes in, whatever that is. "

Truer words never spoken.”

“I do agree with you. I worked for him but he certainly wasn't my first choice.”

“I have always believed that it is better to have fought the good fight and lose than to compromise everything to get virtually nothing. At least you can walk away with self respect and the respect of those who supported you and come back and fight another day.”

“sounds more like a blight on Arizona. I visited Arizona in 1980's, beautiful, doesn't sound like a nice place to go now.”

“Nah, he works for Lou Dobbs, whho has made the man famous.”

“He sounds like a good reason to steer clear of Maricopa County or move if you are already there. This man sounds like he wants his own country with him a the dictator.”

“The picture of RFK is so stark and tragic.”

“I think they were thinking more than warm.”

“That is essentially the way I think Einstein saw it. The only thing that survives is that other like minded people take what another person has done and builds on it. In that way mankind continues to evolve and learn how to manipulate the universe to accomplish new things. But if something destroys that record or another person never has that thing you accomplished communicated to him in a way that he can understand it, it would be lost until someone else thinks of it. I think the only thing that lives on from one person to another is their influence and that is sort of perpetuated unless it is proven wrong.”

“The GI Bill enabling men to get a college education and the economy switching from a war economy to making appliances, cars and etc made the t0's great, but I still remember that there was a recession that hurt a little in 1958.”

“She did not say Obama, but most of his appointments did.”

“BOA's customers paid that back thru higher credit card rates and excessive and miniipulative banking fees.”

“You just got a tax cut, hello.”

“Try Costa Rica.”

“You are sure right about that. Some people don't have a clue about what is going on except fir court tv and the sports channels.”

“Well that will only happen when Congress votes for it. I don't think the present bunch would do it.”

“I know a upper middle class family with one child who is going to college right now. He remarked to me once that he did not agree with the idea of everyone who was capable of going to college have government grants etc. He has to pay for his college education he said, actually his dad is paying, and these people should pay for theirs. I tried to explain that having an educated populace is good for him, eveyone else and the country as we would be more innovative, skilled etc. He just couldn't see it. He is majoring in political science so he has been sadly brainwashed somewhere along the line. Poor schools and education is going to cause our nation some really serious problems as well as all the other garbage.”

“Smart of you. That drywall they have been importing from China is crubling in the new homes recently built. Of course you never know what other harmful stuff could be in materials, they don't care as it is not their citizens losing out.”

“You are "just sayin'..." with a whole lot of other people, but I guess most of our representatives expect our word to be accompanied with large amounts of money.”

“What gets to me is that in China and other countries it isn't just free adults taking our jobs, they are using slave labor still. Children chained to the floor for 14 to 16 hours a day to make stuff, and maybe being paid 40 to 80 cents an hour. How can a free country compete with that, These free trade agreements at least should have guaranteed some parity for wages. When the free trade agreement was signed with Mexico, it drove Mexican farmers out of business, the labor was working and living in filth in the Baja Peninsula, and the only jobs that really paid well went to the Americans that moved down there. I read just the other day that China is becoming concerned because the cheaper labor jobs are being given to Mexicans now because they are paid less than the Chinese. The whole think is ridiculous. If they would just agree to raise wages everywhere and build, buy and sell in their own countries and only import what they don't have and export their excess we would all all be better off. Also the hate level would go down.”

“The Dems did not have a majority in the Senate or even close to 60 t o break a filibuster. Four of the democrats now are that in name only and have been standing with the Rep.”

“Most people know it goes back to Reagan and to some extent even Nixon.”

“The playing field has changed a lot since the 50's. Then, the bank, the corner grocery store, the school, your job was close by. Cities were like a lot of small communities bunched together. It wasn't perfect then but now, you can't even talk to the person who has your mortgage, when you call for customer service you might be talking to someone in India or Latin America. Back then most business was conducted face to face, now you rarely see the face of the person you are having to deal with.”