Well, a little foresight would indicate it's not a funny thing. The point I'm trying to make -- and obviously failing to do so -- is that your line of reasoning is similar to those who believe their wealth will inure them to the effects of global warming. Ain't going to happen, friend. Just so, as the society becomes ever increasingly barbaric - with the psychos and sociopathic criminals at the top poisoning society - and the exponentially increasing poverty - you had better be very well armed on your daily commute to work. The point being, you may now have a job, albeit temporarily, but when the economy is losing 100,000 full-time jobs a month, and the jobs being created are majority part-time (and usually one-time only temp or contracting) jobs, the fewmets will shortly hit the fan.....
united states was the country to lead the world in free market economy once, but then it grew complacent. the importers then became the exporters now.
You've got to be Chinese?? Right? Perhaps Punjabi or Filippino, but probably Chinese. Why? Absolutely no depth or erudition to your thinking.
You've not read any articles a/., right? Especially not the one just posted -- the article by Paul Craig Roberts?
I mean, there's never been any such thing as a free market economy, don't you have any knowledge whatsoever??? This will be my last post to/. as I've noticed the vast majority of sharp people no longer post, and the remainder are completely pattern-challenged!
Not for long - or until I find your address and pay you a visit. You either didn't RTFA or have zilch comprehension level. Just the sort of moron IBM hires temporarily until they've offshored....
People weren't as locked into the cycle of college > corporation meritocracy as we seem to be today.
What planet do you live on, freak? This is the same old mindless rant/diatribe that is posted every few weaks. Everyone to be an entrepreneur?
Our country was founded upon the idea of entrepreneurship Perhaps you'd better reread the Federalist Papers again, chump. Your arguments are for coporations to practice labor arbitrage -- as the article correctly stated -- perhaps your reading comprehension was exceeded by the level of the article. This country was not established so corporations - which only exist within the security of the nation - could enjoy the fruits and benefits of this country - while trashing its citizenry by taking advantage of them -- then shipping their jobs off to the least-cost labor market -- what eventually happens to them is what happened to Stanley Tools, now a Chinese in-all-but-name-only company....
As the economies of China and India starts creating their own internal I.T. infrastructure, they won't be supplying the U.S. with workers.
It's obvious from your post you are both math-deficient and economics-deficient. You somehow think that all the jobs which have been shipped to foreign countries will somehow still exist - that we all live in a stasis field of inertia and the American economy won't change for the worse - that all those jobs will miraculously reappear here somehow -- much the same way Dorothy would click her magical slippers and return to Kansas.
I got news or you Toto, we ain't in Kansas anymore.....had you been a bit more educated and well-read, you would see the glaringly obvious fallacy to your mindset....
Brilliant -- you have exactly described the crux of the problem -- unfortunately, as long as management is considered even remotely competent -- and that seems to still pervade the PopKulture -- it appears this society is headed for complete doom. I've never seen a competent organization that couldn't be screwed up by management....In the meantime, far too many generations of people who were at their peak have been completely wasted....
The proper term is "evolve to adapt" not "adapt to survive" - but then I wouldn't expect a completely superficial nimrod like you to know that difference.
(think Silicon Valley, 1999) Oooohh, that's such a coooool phrase -- but whenever a f*ckwit begins a phrase with "think" - it means said f*ckwit hasn't ever bothered thinking - gee, it is such work, after all..
In fact even though my entire IT organization is in India I'll soon be looking for a Systems Engineer in the US because I'm not happy with what I find in India.
So, if I understand you correctly, the IT industry can be almost wiped out in America, but no problem (this poster has to be a SoCal dude) you'll find a Systems Engineer off any shelf, of any convenience store, you happen to walk into. Which is why all those numbnuts and Bushtards who shipped the machinists' jobs overseas - suddenly can't find any skilled machinists --- hmmmm, I guess it would be too difficult for them to understand that one??
A most intelligent and lucid post, good citizen BWJones. But what I would take issue with is the quote from Mr. Roberts: Paul Craig Roberts quotes a number of formerly pro-globalization economists who are now seeing the light of the harrowing of the US middle class.
While I have the utmost respect for Mr. Roberts as an economist - and his need for tact - and would strongly suggest that those economists were not blinded any lack of critical thinking skills so much as they said what they were paid to say - that is, many of those chairs are endowed by corps which have an agenda to achieve. And, not to be overlooked, it is far easier to get someone in a foreign country, or have a foreign replacement worker, program back doors into financial services programs than take the chance you have an ethical American coder working for you.
Everyone I know whose been hired over the past several years is hired as a project manager - today primarily an office coordinator - while the actual coding is done over in India, China, or Eastern Europe. This goes for those companies considered both popular and high tech/bleeding edge - and more so for all new startups!
For anyone that has forgotten, you could get an IT job during dot.com if you could just spell cumputer^Wcomputer.
This is such a tired, boring and incorrect canard -- most dot.coms did not hire IT people, the IT people were in the extreme minority there, just as they normally are in the majority of organizations, except, perhaps, in those purely technical companies (but even there, it's questionable). Actually, the trend in offshoring IT/engineering jobs began with Jack Welch, at GE, back in 1985, but it dramatically increased starting around 1999 - 2000, with every year showing exponential growth.
If there's no such thing as a conspiracy, then why oh why are dozens of people convicted of it each month in the American legal system????? Oh, sorry, didn't mean to add a bit of logic to the discussion.....
Fact: President Bush removed grave security threats in Afghanistan and Iraq, leading to unpresidented economic prosperity in the US.
These are truly hilarious comments - poverty in America going up over 1 million per year for every year Bush has been in office -- I guess the arithmetic is far too difficult for you as you can't add up the increasing KIAs and wounded in both Iraq and Afghanistan (and are still clueless about Osama).
Woof, good boy, go fetch...woof, good boy, roll over now....woof, good fellow -- now stop that!!! Quite licking yourself again and again.....
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As I read it, I'm reminded of the similar need for lebensraum in 1930s Germany...
What should, perhaps, be an even greater reminder is the Nazi connection of the Bush family -- Prescott Bush having some of his assets seized for helping to finance the Third Reich -- under the Trading With the Enemy Act -- the Nazi connection of Karl Rove's grandfather, having served as the head of a regional Nazi party during WWII -- and some of Rumsfeld's relatives, who fought on the side of the Third Reich during WWII.....or perhaps it's simply genetic....
Looks like the obvious must once more be belabored to this Kool-Aid Manski.
Yup, thousands of New Yorkers, and others, murdered. Yup, later now many, many thousands of innocent Iraqis murdered. Yup, numerous innocent Afghans murdered. Yup, American (and other countries') soldiers killed needlessly, and far too many needlessly wounded for life. Yup, Bush Administration sets new record (previous record set in World War I) for war profiteering. Yup, more than just war profiteering --- humanitarian disaster profiteering, security industry profiteering.
Hmmm...Blackstone Group (along with Silverstein Properties) profits off of destruction of World Trade Center. Hmmm...Blackstone group pays $870 million in cash for maker of prosthetics -- sure they'll make plenty they can sell to American military wounded, and any Iraqis and Afghanis. Just another of 923 "coincidences" -- but then all these lowbrow "coincidence theorists" can't do the math. No more habeas corpus ("What's that?" they say, never heard of that food). American ports owned by Dubai ("What's wrong with that?" they say, just as they don't question over $500 billion spent and still no Osama!).
Surely none of these posters have ever held down knowledge worker jobs? They certainly don't seem like it.....
Thank you, thank you, thank you for pointing out what should, once again, be ever so obvious. After I have again and again pointed out the various crimes against humanity of this Bushtard, which far exceeds his predecessors, none of whom I would defend, the very fact that fairly recent and accurate rumors are now stating that Bush and Company are making torture videos - and I'm sure - making a profit off of said hideous videos - sets his ilk apart.
The fact that the pop-culture-American-McMedia refuses to print the majority of news - such as when Kissinger was first suggested for appointment to the 9/11 Commission, why would anyone suggest an individual (Kissinger) who was a paid registered agent for Saudi Arabia and China???? Next there was little reportage - and certainly no followup - as to Thomas Kean's appointment - Kean being a director of Amerada Hess, an oil company in a venture with Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia - and GEE WHIZ, what a surpise, their joint venture was a pipeline that had to hook up with the now-existing Afghanistan oil pipeline.
If there are any questions concerning this - anyone asking them is just too damn stupid and will not receive a reply. (Google "Thomas Kean" + "Amerada Hess" )
Reading is fundamental - first you read the FTA, then you'll figure it out for yourself - somethings far too many Americans aren't capable of anymore. Which is why this Bushtard tyranny now rules. This FTA now makes legal foreign ownership of American ports, period. Could have sworn I already stated that. God, no wonder I consider at least 1/2 Americans to be stinking, candy-assed traitors.
JFK was assassinated when he was in full zeal for the Vietnam War. There goes that theory. He started it! His successor Johnson screwed it up royally, heaping shame on all of us.There goes that theory.
Obviously, your ignorance of history equals your overall ignorance -- check the facts, jack, the first bunch of military advisors were sent in by Eisenhower -- that fact is unassailable. Declassified State Dept. memos from about a year ago indicate Kennedy was strongly thinking of pulling all American military out of Vietnam before his reelection campaign.
As is always the case when confronted with facts, you neocon illiterates always refuse to address said facts. Instead you jump to another tangent, easily argued - but why bother - as you'll fail to answer that one (because you never, ever even took high school physics V = G * T, etc.) and just jump to another. I can easily tell you never programmed as any form of symbolic analysis is way beyond you -- you remind me of a kid named Tommy Cobb, always claiming he wanted to join the Marines as soon as he finished high school and fight the commies. Of course, he had to take a year off first to right his expensive - daddy-given motorcycle across country. Of course, he injured himself - so he would say - and therefore was 4F (of course...). You can always spot a rodger-dodger, sonny....
Somehow, after the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement was passed Friday a week ago - making the ownership of the majority of American ports (I believe the number is 21) by Dubai - now legal and official (Dubai never divested, they just waited for this bill to pass in our - America's - outlaw congress), and with the recent passage of the Detainee Act (also known as the habeas corpus rollback act), this particular government grab at citizen's monies should rate very low on the moral radar...
Well, posts such as these by SeattleGameBoy recall that any form of involved, sophisticated and analytical thinking is becoming rarer and rarer in America, it behooves me to point out two very obvious points:
On Censorship: Not too long ago a reporter was fired for photographing some draped coffins of deceased soldiers returning from the occupation of Iraq. The very fact such a travesty would occur today leaves no room for debate -- we are living in a time of almost absolute censorhip. Such a thing has never and would never occur during previous wars.
On 9/11/01 Conspiracy: When the attorney who is representing the country of Saudi Arabia in the lawsuit brought by the surviving relatives of the victims of the destroyed World Trade Center has an office in the White House, you know, that place at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., USA, then one should obviously realize something truly monumentally evil is taking place. If the ramifications of such an event must be explained to you, truly you are beyond help and intellectual redemption.....
Your comment is both so ignorant and simpleminded I can't believe you've posted it to/. or any other board. When I was growing up the only Mexican immigrants I came in contact with were all legal. Only when the corporations began illegally hiring, and now going down to Mexico and illegally recruiting, did we have an illegal immigration "problem."
This greatest generation crap is growing mighty tiresome as if there were truly anything greatest about them, why do we now end up with tyranny, beginning many decades ago --- I was too young to urge for real investigations of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy, but I'm certainly cognizant of the fact that each was assassinated after their views and actions changed with regard to the Vietnam War. Eisenhower, far too late (at the actual last day of his presidency) warned of the military-industrial-complex -- now military-industrial-corporate-congressional-prison -complex -- which has successfully assumed almost full-control of the USA. [I have striven to have a full and proper investigation, as a responsible adult now, of the 9/11/01 attacks, as I would never lend credence to a commission with an oil man, Thomas Kean (a director of Amerada Hess, involved with the Afghanistan pipeline project), aboard.
No, I would say this greatest generation, one nimwit recently heard down at an American Legion speech given by Geo. W. Bush, saying that Bush had never lied about anything. Obviously, this Bushtard had but two neurons left to assimilate data with. And anyone who would accuse anyone else of excessive spending after this Bushtard has completely empitied the treasury, spent over $500 billion and still can't find his buddy and family friend, Osama, surely can't perform even the simplest arithmetic.
I think you may be (supposition on my part) looking at this from a different, more concentrated angle. With the establishment of Total Information Awareness (which does include OnStar as you made mention of) which is composed of 51 to 60 commercial databases (most under official contract to the US government, some unofficially) combined with NSA and NGA, pretty much allows complete access on all financial, lifestyle (pay-per-view, subscription orders, magazines, newspapers, etc.), communications (landline, cell, e-mail, etc.), tracking via toll roads, commercial camera access throughout cities, towns, roads, and secure buildings, etc., etc. And the access to IXPs pretty much precludes any real need for ISP involvement.
I believe you are somewhat mistaken - with those people who go by the label democrat - are in actuality, Globalists (the Clintons, Lieberman, Murray, Cantwell, perhaps Boxer and McDermott, and a number of others). The rollback of the majority of those laws which came into being during FDR's reign, to forestall a future "Great Depression," took place in the Clinton Administration (the Financial Services Modernization Act, various banking acts, etc.).
Now, if the dems win overwhelmingly, and those Globalists can be rightfully purged from the party, then and only then would I, and many others, agree with your assessment. Just look at who voted for the Detainee Bill this Thursday (a k a, the habeas corpus rollback bill).
Just look at who voted for the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement last Friday. (And if you think those oil-rich Omanis were protesting in the streets for the Great Satan to send them our stinking jobs, you really need to do some further reading....) And FYI, with the passage of that US-Oman FTA, Dubai now legally and officially owns the majority of US ports - so much for security...
Well, there have been numerous reports (to anyone paying attention) that NSA has sniffer programs at the IXPs throughout America.
And your note will only reach your representative, if, after being vetted through their constituent-tracking database, it turns out you rate as a high-roller donor (normally, that would be $100,000 and greater). If not, and you are a lower-bracket donor, it may possibly be read by one of the AAs (administrative assistants, definitely not an LA - legislative assistant). If you've never donated, it won't be read by an actual carbon-based lifeform, but instead, their automated response system will generate a standard, nonsensical letter or e-mail to you.
No thanks necessary for this often-repeated, tedious explanation to the masses.
Wow!@ So they could find me easily since I only go to/. and f**kingmachines.com. Man oh man, I guess I should go to more web sites. On the other hand, I bet it's even easier to find that Congressman Foley from Florida, who only visits the "pretty little boy" sites (which I'll bet is owned by a neocon company).
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RTFA, if you code, and that's a mighty big assumption, if it equals your reading comprehension you are in some serious do do, mei mei.
Well, a little foresight would indicate it's not a funny thing. The point I'm trying to make -- and obviously failing to do so -- is that your line of reasoning is similar to those who believe their wealth will inure them to the effects of global warming. Ain't going to happen, friend. Just so, as the society becomes ever increasingly barbaric - with the psychos and sociopathic criminals at the top poisoning society - and the exponentially increasing poverty - you had better be very well armed on your daily commute to work. The point being, you may now have a job, albeit temporarily, but when the economy is losing 100,000 full-time jobs a month, and the jobs being created are majority part-time (and usually one-time only temp or contracting) jobs, the fewmets will shortly hit the fan.....
You've got to be Chinese?? Right? Perhaps Punjabi or Filippino, but probably Chinese. Why? Absolutely no depth or erudition to your thinking.
You've not read any articles a /., right? Especially not the one just posted -- the article by Paul Craig Roberts?
I mean, there's never been any such thing as a free market economy, don't you have any knowledge whatsoever??? This will be my last post to /. as I've noticed the vast majority of sharp people no longer post, and the remainder are completely pattern-challenged!
Not for long - or until I find your address and pay you a visit. You either didn't RTFA or have zilch comprehension level. Just the sort of moron IBM hires temporarily until they've offshored....
What planet do you live on, freak? This is the same old mindless rant/diatribe that is posted every few weaks. Everyone to be an entrepreneur?
Our country was founded upon the idea of entrepreneurship Perhaps you'd better reread the Federalist Papers again, chump. Your arguments are for coporations to practice labor arbitrage -- as the article correctly stated -- perhaps your reading comprehension was exceeded by the level of the article. This country was not established so corporations - which only exist within the security of the nation - could enjoy the fruits and benefits of this country - while trashing its citizenry by taking advantage of them -- then shipping their jobs off to the least-cost labor market -- what eventually happens to them is what happened to Stanley Tools, now a Chinese in-all-but-name-only company....
It's obvious from your post you are both math-deficient and economics-deficient. You somehow think that all the jobs which have been shipped to foreign countries will somehow still exist - that we all live in a stasis field of inertia and the American economy won't change for the worse - that all those jobs will miraculously reappear here somehow -- much the same way Dorothy would click her magical slippers and return to Kansas.
I got news or you Toto, we ain't in Kansas anymore.....had you been a bit more educated and well-read, you would see the glaringly obvious fallacy to your mindset....
Brilliant -- you have exactly described the crux of the problem -- unfortunately, as long as management is considered even remotely competent -- and that seems to still pervade the PopKulture -- it appears this society is headed for complete doom. I've never seen a competent organization that couldn't be screwed up by management....In the meantime, far too many generations of people who were at their peak have been completely wasted....
The proper term is "evolve to adapt" not "adapt to survive" - but then I wouldn't expect a completely superficial nimrod like you to know that difference.
(think Silicon Valley, 1999) Oooohh, that's such a coooool phrase -- but whenever a f*ckwit begins a phrase with "think" - it means said f*ckwit hasn't ever bothered thinking - gee, it is such work, after all..
In fact even though my entire IT organization is in India I'll soon be looking for a Systems Engineer in the US because I'm not happy with what I find in India.
So, if I understand you correctly, the IT industry can be almost wiped out in America, but no problem (this poster has to be a SoCal dude) you'll find a Systems Engineer off any shelf, of any convenience store, you happen to walk into. Which is why all those numbnuts and Bushtards who shipped the machinists' jobs overseas - suddenly can't find any skilled machinists --- hmmmm, I guess it would be too difficult for them to understand that one??
While I have the utmost respect for Mr. Roberts as an economist - and his need for tact - and would strongly suggest that those economists were not blinded any lack of critical thinking skills so much as they said what they were paid to say - that is, many of those chairs are endowed by corps which have an agenda to achieve. And, not to be overlooked, it is far easier to get someone in a foreign country, or have a foreign replacement worker, program back doors into financial services programs than take the chance you have an ethical American coder working for you.
Everyone I know whose been hired over the past several years is hired as a project manager - today primarily an office coordinator - while the actual coding is done over in India, China, or Eastern Europe. This goes for those companies considered both popular and high tech/bleeding edge - and more so for all new startups!
This is such a tired, boring and incorrect canard -- most dot.coms did not hire IT people, the IT people were in the extreme minority there, just as they normally are in the majority of organizations, except, perhaps, in those purely technical companies (but even there, it's questionable). Actually, the trend in offshoring IT/engineering jobs began with Jack Welch, at GE, back in 1985, but it dramatically increased starting around 1999 - 2000, with every year showing exponential growth.
If there's no such thing as a conspiracy, then why oh why are dozens of people convicted of it each month in the American legal system????? Oh, sorry, didn't mean to add a bit of logic to the discussion.....
But wait, what about this?? But no, that can't be right, that might cause people to begin thinking conspiracy ...
These are truly hilarious comments - poverty in America going up over 1 million per year for every year Bush has been in office -- I guess the arithmetic is far too difficult for you as you can't add up the increasing KIAs and wounded in both Iraq and Afghanistan (and are still clueless about Osama).
Woof, good boy, go fetch...woof, good boy, roll over now....woof, good fellow -- now stop that!!! Quite licking yourself again and again.....
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What should, perhaps, be an even greater reminder is the Nazi connection of the Bush family -- Prescott Bush having some of his assets seized for helping to finance the Third Reich -- under the Trading With the Enemy Act -- the Nazi connection of Karl Rove's grandfather, having served as the head of a regional Nazi party during WWII -- and some of Rumsfeld's relatives, who fought on the side of the Third Reich during WWII.....or perhaps it's simply genetic....
Yup, thousands of New Yorkers, and others, murdered. Yup, later now many, many thousands of innocent Iraqis murdered. Yup, numerous innocent Afghans murdered. Yup, American (and other countries') soldiers killed needlessly, and far too many needlessly wounded for life. Yup, Bush Administration sets new record (previous record set in World War I) for war profiteering. Yup, more than just war profiteering --- humanitarian disaster profiteering, security industry profiteering.
Hmmm...Blackstone Group (along with Silverstein Properties) profits off of destruction of World Trade Center. Hmmm...Blackstone group pays $870 million in cash for maker of prosthetics -- sure they'll make plenty they can sell to American military wounded, and any Iraqis and Afghanis. Just another of 923 "coincidences" -- but then all these lowbrow "coincidence theorists" can't do the math. No more habeas corpus ("What's that?" they say, never heard of that food). American ports owned by Dubai ("What's wrong with that?" they say, just as they don't question over $500 billion spent and still no Osama!).
Surely none of these posters have ever held down knowledge worker jobs? They certainly don't seem like it.....
The fact that the pop-culture-American-McMedia refuses to print the majority of news - such as when Kissinger was first suggested for appointment to the 9/11 Commission, why would anyone suggest an individual (Kissinger) who was a paid registered agent for Saudi Arabia and China???? Next there was little reportage - and certainly no followup - as to Thomas Kean's appointment - Kean being a director of Amerada Hess, an oil company in a venture with Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia - and GEE WHIZ, what a surpise, their joint venture was a pipeline that had to hook up with the now-existing Afghanistan oil pipeline.
If there are any questions concerning this - anyone asking them is just too damn stupid and will not receive a reply. (Google "Thomas Kean" + "Amerada Hess" )
Reading is fundamental - first you read the FTA, then you'll figure it out for yourself - somethings far too many Americans aren't capable of anymore. Which is why this Bushtard tyranny now rules. This FTA now makes legal foreign ownership of American ports, period. Could have sworn I already stated that. God, no wonder I consider at least 1/2 Americans to be stinking, candy-assed traitors.
Obviously, your ignorance of history equals your overall ignorance -- check the facts, jack, the first bunch of military advisors were sent in by Eisenhower -- that fact is unassailable. Declassified State Dept. memos from about a year ago indicate Kennedy was strongly thinking of pulling all American military out of Vietnam before his reelection campaign.
As is always the case when confronted with facts, you neocon illiterates always refuse to address said facts. Instead you jump to another tangent, easily argued - but why bother - as you'll fail to answer that one (because you never, ever even took high school physics V = G * T, etc.) and just jump to another. I can easily tell you never programmed as any form of symbolic analysis is way beyond you -- you remind me of a kid named Tommy Cobb, always claiming he wanted to join the Marines as soon as he finished high school and fight the commies. Of course, he had to take a year off first to right his expensive - daddy-given motorcycle across country. Of course, he injured himself - so he would say - and therefore was 4F (of course...). You can always spot a rodger-dodger, sonny....
Somehow, after the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement was passed Friday a week ago - making the ownership of the majority of American ports (I believe the number is 21) by Dubai - now legal and official (Dubai never divested, they just waited for this bill to pass in our - America's - outlaw congress), and with the recent passage of the Detainee Act (also known as the habeas corpus rollback act), this particular government grab at citizen's monies should rate very low on the moral radar...
On Censorship: Not too long ago a reporter was fired for photographing some draped coffins of deceased soldiers returning from the occupation of Iraq. The very fact such a travesty would occur today leaves no room for debate -- we are living in a time of almost absolute censorhip. Such a thing has never and would never occur during previous wars.
On 9/11/01 Conspiracy: When the attorney who is representing the country of Saudi Arabia in the lawsuit brought by the surviving relatives of the victims of the destroyed World Trade Center has an office in the White House, you know, that place at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., USA, then one should obviously realize something truly monumentally evil is taking place. If the ramifications of such an event must be explained to you, truly you are beyond help and intellectual redemption.....
This greatest generation crap is growing mighty tiresome as if there were truly anything greatest about them, why do we now end up with tyranny, beginning many decades ago --- I was too young to urge for real investigations of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy, but I'm certainly cognizant of the fact that each was assassinated after their views and actions changed with regard to the Vietnam War. Eisenhower, far too late (at the actual last day of his presidency) warned of the military-industrial-complex -- now military-industrial-corporate-congressional-prison -complex -- which has successfully assumed almost full-control of the USA. [I have striven to have a full and proper investigation, as a responsible adult now, of the 9/11/01 attacks, as I would never lend credence to a commission with an oil man, Thomas Kean (a director of Amerada Hess, involved with the Afghanistan pipeline project), aboard.
No, I would say this greatest generation, one nimwit recently heard down at an American Legion speech given by Geo. W. Bush, saying that Bush had never lied about anything. Obviously, this Bushtard had but two neurons left to assimilate data with. And anyone who would accuse anyone else of excessive spending after this Bushtard has completely empitied the treasury, spent over $500 billion and still can't find his buddy and family friend, Osama, surely can't perform even the simplest arithmetic.
I think you may be (supposition on my part) looking at this from a different, more concentrated angle. With the establishment of Total Information Awareness (which does include OnStar as you made mention of) which is composed of 51 to 60 commercial databases (most under official contract to the US government, some unofficially) combined with NSA and NGA, pretty much allows complete access on all financial, lifestyle (pay-per-view, subscription orders, magazines, newspapers, etc.), communications (landline, cell, e-mail, etc.), tracking via toll roads, commercial camera access throughout cities, towns, roads, and secure buildings, etc., etc. And the access to IXPs pretty much precludes any real need for ISP involvement.
Now, if the dems win overwhelmingly, and those Globalists can be rightfully purged from the party, then and only then would I, and many others, agree with your assessment. Just look at who voted for the Detainee Bill this Thursday (a k a, the habeas corpus rollback bill).
Just look at who voted for the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement last Friday. (And if you think those oil-rich Omanis were protesting in the streets for the Great Satan to send them our stinking jobs, you really need to do some further reading....) And FYI, with the passage of that US-Oman FTA, Dubai now legally and officially owns the majority of US ports - so much for security...
And your note will only reach your representative, if, after being vetted through their constituent-tracking database, it turns out you rate as a high-roller donor (normally, that would be $100,000 and greater). If not, and you are a lower-bracket donor, it may possibly be read by one of the AAs (administrative assistants, definitely not an LA - legislative assistant). If you've never donated, it won't be read by an actual carbon-based lifeform, but instead, their automated response system will generate a standard, nonsensical letter or e-mail to you.
No thanks necessary for this often-repeated, tedious explanation to the masses.
Wow!@ So they could find me easily since I only go to /. and f**kingmachines.com. Man oh man, I guess I should go to more web sites. On the other hand, I bet it's even easier to find that Congressman Foley from Florida, who only visits the "pretty little boy" sites (which I'll bet is owned by a neocon company).