Post by hal9000 on Aug 1, 2009 1:32:53 GMT 9.5
Hello everyone! I found this place thanks to wvpeach1963. She suggested this place because the other forum was infested with a bunch of unsophisticated blowhards. From first glance here it seems like this place is going to be fun as a much more sane group seems to reside here.
A bit about myself. I am from the United States in the Detroit area. I used to be a very diehard Libertarian, ultra-conservative that listened to Rush Limbaugh and believed that private enterprise was the end-all-be-all answer to all of the worlds social ills. As far as I was concerned, everything the government touched was a failure and all it ever wanted to do was enslave you.
Let's just say that I have very much changed my mind about all of that. I guess that I just grew older and wiser and have had enough experience in Corporate America to wake me up.
I currently favor the Keynesian mixed economy economic model that we have here in the United States, but we seem to have it pretty corrupted and backwards at the moment. We need to roll back the corporate influence that in currently enjoyed by corporations. And i mean roll it back big time!
I am in favor of a single payer "socialized" health care system that we so desperately need here in the US. However, it is amazing how Americans are somehow brainwashed into believing that somehow these private, for-profit health insurance companies are anything but parasites.
Actually, in all I think that it is proper for the government to provide a big social safety net in a lot of areas.
I am extreemely pro second amendment (pro-gun) as I believe that it is one of the most important rights a citizen can have.
Anyway, these are the broad strokes. I look forward to discussing may issues and learning what all of your views are in the future.
Glad to be here!
A bit about myself. I am from the United States in the Detroit area. I used to be a very diehard Libertarian, ultra-conservative that listened to Rush Limbaugh and believed that private enterprise was the end-all-be-all answer to all of the worlds social ills. As far as I was concerned, everything the government touched was a failure and all it ever wanted to do was enslave you.
Let's just say that I have very much changed my mind about all of that. I guess that I just grew older and wiser and have had enough experience in Corporate America to wake me up.
I currently favor the Keynesian mixed economy economic model that we have here in the United States, but we seem to have it pretty corrupted and backwards at the moment. We need to roll back the corporate influence that in currently enjoyed by corporations. And i mean roll it back big time!
I am in favor of a single payer "socialized" health care system that we so desperately need here in the US. However, it is amazing how Americans are somehow brainwashed into believing that somehow these private, for-profit health insurance companies are anything but parasites.
Actually, in all I think that it is proper for the government to provide a big social safety net in a lot of areas.
I am extreemely pro second amendment (pro-gun) as I believe that it is one of the most important rights a citizen can have.
Anyway, these are the broad strokes. I look forward to discussing may issues and learning what all of your views are in the future.
Glad to be here!