so where will the penalty taxes that the uninsured pay go? not to the insurance companies. not to the hospital emergency room that's required by law to treat the uninsured. it all goes to the treasury for congress to spend at will.

my yob mon.

lose the negative such as this:

"PS As of this posting, all nudgers will be blocked. If you're not brave enough to send a message, you're not brave enough to be anyone's knight, least of all mine.
I do not accept friend requests. I am here for a husband and that is all.
Since I hate my state's culture anyone from here or part of the culture will also be blocked without any remorse.
Replying does not always mean I'm interested. Sometimes it just means I need to talk to somebody besides the ogres."

men look at a profile to see if a woman has what WE WANT. besides, what ogre will admit to being an ogre. stay positive.

looks good. pics are great. like that you don't go on about what you don't want. a very positive attitude.

i don't see that the op put, 'if you had the power' into the mix. there are limits to the powers of government and what somebody can accomplish.

federal judges are life appointees.

the markets rule. always have. always will. a government cannot legislate wages any more than it can legislate the cost of living. even in such socialist countries as china and vietnam capitalism is a growth industry.

not to answer for conrad but he did suggest that the "real capatilist country" doesn't exist. yes, we enjoy or ss checks as well as social progrms like medicare and welfare. any great country will realize that some will fall through the cracks of any system and the country owes it to those folks to help out. trouble is, many in america and especially those in more socialized countries begin to feel entitled and lose a sense of personal responsibility.

a government cannot legislate us out of a bad economy. the markets rule. always have. always will.

agree mh. i feel quite free too.

"legalize freedom". now there's a sound bite that many americans can and will actually sink their teeth into. as p.t. barnum once quipped, "nobody ever lost a dime betting against the intelligence of the american public" and my guess that ron paul learned the lesson well. might even work this time.

but light does not always travel in a straight line.

hmmmmm. what objects have THEY found that far out? i suppose i could be less than up to date on the topic but i'm not aware that anybody has found anything further away from us than a galaxy that is 13 billion light years away and thought to have been in existance for a little less than 400,000 years. hense, a 13.75 billion year timeline.

what this country needs, imo, as president at this time is a leader. ron paul is not that. as you just said, no president has ever pleased everyone which is exactly why we need somebody who can gather the opposing factions that are in power and form a strange bedfellows coalition. something like ike did with such arrogamt and diametrically opposed, full of themselves egotists such as roosevelt, churchil, stalin, de gaulle and co. so the job can finally get done. eisenhower didn't win the job as allied supreme commander because he'd convinced everybody he could win battles. hell, he'd never seen a day of combat in his life. but he was the best man on the planet at getting people to unite with him and go out and kick butt. he never get's credit for defeating romel in north africa nore the ivasion and victories in cicily and italy but ike was the brainpower behind that too. ron paul keeps selling folks with ideas that the president has no constitutional authority to even come close to making happen. sure it all sounds great but that only works with sound bites.

oh geez, i didn't mean to say i'd vote for barry. guess it did sound that way, huh? no, i'll jest prolly scribble in colin powell/bob gates like the last several times and waste my vote once again. unless like you say we're all in for a surprise or two.

the choices do suck. i've never voted for a democrat but see no other choices this time. devil i know, devil i don't kinda/sorta thinkin'.

well folks, we live in an elected republic and as such we have congress and legislatures that represent us in deciding what is and is not legal. i keep saying this but few seem to get it but it does no good whatsoever to ***** about what should and should not be on places like dating site forums. therein lies the biggest problem with our political system. so many take in the political and media sound bites as if it's all air to breathe but few take the time to work the sytem which allows many that do work the system and succede simply produce more sound bites that'll keep them in power but of course nothing ever changes. the powers that be on both sides know full well that what p.t. barnum once quipped is true, "nobody ever lost a dime betting against the intelligence of the american people."

hell, the guy's so long in the tooth i think he must have been around before the founding fathers and hasn't gotten around to reading what they wrote. funny how americans are easily sold a bill of goods that can never be delivered. as p.t. barnum once quipped, "nobody ever lost a dime betting against the intelligence of the american people." ron seems to understand that as well as p.t. did. hey, he musta been around back then too, huh leigh?

yes of course, my point was that science does not even consider genesis to be anything but a fable. i think of evidence as something that supports a particular theory or concept as this disscussion has gone. the god fearing will always come back with, "prove it ain't so."

seems in florida it is.