Sotu '06

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Is it rather just a matter of who?

Well, that's a nice implication, isn't it? Last I checked there aren't a whole lot of white people in Africa or Haiti living in poverty that I described as true poverty. So, no, ISM, it isn't who. I would accuse you of not caring about non-Americans, but that would be ridiculous.

I think I also said that I wouldn't want to live below the poverty line here in the US.

I also don't think I said any problem ion the US should be ignored. I just find it amazing that some Americans think poverty is bad here when the concept of true poverty is so unknown here.

My perspective is certainly limited in some areas. No doubt.

If you think I'm stupid for thinking we have a liberty crisis, well, OK then. I don't see it.

Health care - or rather insurance issues - could be better. Always could be. But I see no crisis. I see increasing life expectancies every time such statistics are taken. I don't see widespread disease.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

So, he said it, but didn't mean it.

Well, that is disturbing. I realize I share differing opinions on how to solve the problem than most here, but basically retracting isn't one of them.

Strategically, though, I'd talk about getting off mideast oil all the time. We are the bread and butter of OPEC, and without us buying from them, prices go way down, and they get much less money. I think such rhetoric forces OPEC into keeping production up.

[scaeagles]

I'm a big fan of Thomas Sowell (economist, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Hoover Institute). A column on poverty from a few weeks ago.

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/colu...10/181665.html

And another well known economist (former professor at George Mason University), Walter Williams -

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/colu...04/180969.html

[MickeyLumbo]

sotu 06 was the most uninspiring hour of blah-blah-blah i have heard in a sotu.

"the state of the union is strong" - i don't think even he believed it when he said it.

not impressed at all.

[SacTown Chronic]

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