Big Companies & Politics

Common sense should tell you that the board of directors of the big companies are just like the politicians, they elect the CEOs, presidents, all officers and approve all V.P.s, while all the time saying it is good for the share holders. When the company goes belly up, they have already sold their stock months ago or enough to good like they knew nothing about the collapse. The board of directors take no heat, just the officers. This is not unlike the political process of today. We elect the President, Senators and Congress, the Senate and the Congress are like the board of directors. They can support the President or not but the thing is, that they get to blame it all on the President, just like the officers of the company blamed. They never come back to their districts and tell the people that they helped the pass the bill that was no good, no instead they will say the President went in the wrong direction and wouldn't adopt your amendment to the bill. See how it all fits, see how it works, we keep electing the same board of directors, that do the same thing over and over again. Until we start electing better Senators and better Congress, we have no hope of coming out any better. The President will still make deals with the Senators and Congress, just like the deals made to the board members, to feather their beds, the only ones that get taken are the shear holders(voters). We need to start putting the blame where it belongs, just like the board, nothing can go anywhere without the votes of the board(Senate & Congress) and these are the people that are also making the policy, to be voted on. Just like the COEs, the President can be made to think about policy, if the Senators and Congress(members of the board) where honest and thought about the share holders(voters) greater good. I heard a Senator say, " That he was elected to do what he thought was right." He was elected to do what the people that elected him think is right, not his own thoughts. This is what is wrong with the system, some have the belief that when elected they and only them have some stake in the out come. We need to start at our polling places and elect the Senators and Congress that will think about the people elected them, what is good for them, not deals made to feather their own nest.
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Viet Nam and Afghanistan

Common sense should tell you that at this time there is now comparison, at this time. The little know fact about Viet Nam, was the loss was because the Johnson administration didn't have a clue for strategy. They would switch again and again, hoping to hit on something that would work. The Johnson administration is the ones that lost the war. The tried and tried to come up with something that would work and ended up confusing themselves so badly they had to just stop and look for some kind of political cover. Saying the war could not be won therefore it should not have been started was their way out. Simply confused themselves into no will to win.
We have not yet reached that point in Afghanistan, as of yet. We may, I hope not. Speaker Pelosi keeps talking about corruption in the Afghanistan government, she said the same about the Iraq government as well. We need to know this is for her political cover. We have enough corruption within our own government and should not keep bring up corruption in newing formed government under terrorist on slot. The key to winning any war is will to do so. We have the equipment and the manpower but do we have the will. War is not something that can or should be put on a clock, it just won't happen on a prearranged time table. You will never win heart and minds, peoples trust are anything if you don't follow through with your promises. Political corruption within the Afghanistan government will not have any bearing on the outcome of the war only if the country can survive after the war is won. When people can stop ducking bullets every two minutes they may be will have the time to pick better leaders. Get politics out of the war, get people save and have the will of your conviction. May be not tomorrow but it will come to pass.
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The Economy and World Liking Us Better

Common sense should tell you that there can't be a recovery of any kind if unemployment is 10% or better. The administrations says that the stimulus is working, as a matter our Vice President Biden, says it is working better then one could have imagined, of course he has a job. The housing market will get worse, no one has a job to keep their payments up or to buy a new house. The banks can't lone money to anyone that doesn't have a job. Money will still be tight no one has a job. I can tell that the stimulus is working after all the stocks on wall street are doing better, but people that have stock have jobs. If the President doesn't find the key to jobs all of this will fade. Our economy can not survive with a 10% unemployment and may get worse and stay that way for a long time. Regardless of ones political party, you can't believe that without jobs the economy will recover, you have to know it will be a slow death. The administration words of a slow but a sure recovery are just words. The cash for clunkers worked but now it is over and the auto manufactures are right back in the same place, no one has a job, no one can buy a auto. The problem is that there are no jobs on the way, universal health care does not create jobs, only raises taxes. Cap-n-trade will not create jobs, it will raise energy cost to two or three times what they are now and the worst thing is, in the bill is billions for unemployment payments, they know it will lose jobs. Someone please tell me how in a few years that we will not need to sneak into Canada as illegals to work and send money back to America. Afghanistan not going will, no troops from NATO, no help from Russia or China on Iran, Iran with a bomb or at least knowledge of how to build one, take missiles away from our friend, does not help Israel and no jobs in site, I guess I would rather go back to the world not liking us so much, at least most of us where working. The only thing that this administration has accomplished is high unemployment and it looks like they are good at it because all say more is coming. The best thing about this accomplishment is that it was not one of his campaign promises, it was his little surprise, SURPRISE.
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