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what's wrong with diversity and self-esteem?

You don't really need a Princeton professor to tell you what has happened.

The offspring of the dope smokin' hippies from the 60s and 70s who were instilled with their parent's values of 'anything goes counterculturalism' and anti-establishment mentality has matured and are now school administrators, lawyers, judges, presidents, and ex-governors of Ill.

"what's wrong with diversity and self-esteem?"

As individual character traits there is nothing wrong with them. When forced by government decree the result is educational mediocrity, higher taxes and stifled business growth.

"Everything is presentation and appearance."

Hence the result of the our last presidential election. The markets have firmly rejected his policies. Every time he makes an economic speech or tosses billions more at a failing company like AIG the markets tank like they did yesterday. Wait till he unveils universal health care, the Dow will plummet.

I must agree with you, Hugh and Dan.
I'm also sure there is more than a grain of truth in neo's comment.
TV has shown with slick packaging you can sell people anything, encluding things they don't need, want or that is not good for them.

The market will crash this year. And don't think these commies don't have a Plan B.

"The market will crash this year"

This year? Try this week. Dow down below 6800, lowest it's been in over 14 years. Obama has not done one damn thing to instill confidence and has promised to spend more money than all past president's combined. I think he actually wants things to grow to depression era poverty so that he can be seen as the great savior with his socialist polices that will keep us from starving. He's Megalomaniac Marxist traitor.

Or he's the Anti-Chirsto . . . prepare yourselves . . .

I'm putting this on here to show that we are not ever going to do what it would really take to iron this country out.

And more than anything else, it hurts me to no end that Neo will never get his new tahoe...

from "Apocalypse Now" :

Kurtz: I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.

Could we please put to rest the fallacy that the U.S. no longer manufactures goods ("The manufacturing base is no more. There is no need to create, design and manufacture things.")?

Without a doubt, U.S. manufacturing has taken a tremendous hit since the recession started last year. However, prior to that manufacturing production was growing; see http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/ipg1.gif and http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/default.htm . Employment in manufacturing has declined, but manufacturing capacity (the manufacturing base) and output had both been growing. Manufacturing production will recover after we exit this recession.

All this bellyakin bout president Obama. president Obama be the greatest president ever elected in the history of this country!

i bet all this complanin be comin from white folk who sets there in their high rise offices eatin them fancy fish eggs on them little bitty round buttered crackers while there secertarys flaunt their wares at them!

You jes wait! I's gonna have me a maid and someone to do the washin fo me befor this is finished!

Breakfast with the Obama's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I11w-rl6iaY&feature=related

You may be on to something hugh, however I think Obama is in way over his head and is letting congress run all over him. Nancy Pelosi wrote the 'stimulus bill'. Despite Obama's promise of no earmarks, the current spending bill contains billions in earmarks. Where is the 'change'? Oh that's right, the change was borrowed for more spending.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_spending

Dan, He's overseeing a change from prosperity to poverty, from capitalism to Marxism. Obama is sitting on his ass running is mouth pushing social programs and not doing a damn thing to help business and industry. His petulant irresponsibility puts Nero to shame.

Obama's spending plan will put us in debt more than all prior president's combined. How's that for confidence, competence and intelligence? He makes George Bush look like Einstein.

hugh, remember this Obama ad from the campaign regarding predictions of excessive spending by McCain?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwupV_02UOY

Talk about being wrong.

AIG loses $62 billion last quarter so Obama tosses them $30 billion more yesterday, then the Dow falls 300 points.

It's like spending millions on a terminally ill patient so they can live an extra month or two.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2896233154_1e03acf20b_o.jpg

Hugh, I'm afraid your Nero analogy is pretty good. He burned Rome so he could rebuild it his way--and then blamed the fire on the Christians. If I see the president with a fiddle in hand, I'm grabbing the kids and escaping to.....well, is there anyplace left to go?