Woman Goes Nuclear At California Town Hall Meeting

I thought this was interesting, she has some good points..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fv ... Am6Qck5v78

Outdoor. I don't see any evidence that anyone in the liberal branch of the Democrat Party is the least bit interested in fair competition or the free market system. It simply doesn't fit in with their or the current Administration's "reality".

What was that line in Lost in Space (remember that show).....for the Democrats when you say "fair competition" or "free market", they respond with , "It does not compute. It does not compute". They are simply wired differently.

Even if wired differently, this is the kind of feedback needed to motivate the more timid folks to speak out as well and bring awareness to the masses. Good for her.

If we only had politicians that could comprehend this.

Martin Ent Inc wrote: If we only had politicians that could comprehend this.

They comprehend this just fine. They can't control free markets. They loose power. That's not going to happen.

Yeah, the teabagger message gets picked up and parroted from the Chamber of Commerce and the astro-turf groups just fine... Then, there's "reality"...

Regulations, Taxes Aren't Killing Small Business, Owners Say

WASHINGTON — Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation.

"Government regulations are not 'choking' our business, the hospitality business," Bernard Wolfson, the president of Hospitality Operations in Miami, told The Miami Herald. "In order to do business in today's environment, government regulations are necessary and we must deal with them. The health and safety of our guests depend on regulations. It is the government regulations that help keep things in order."

McClatchy reached out to owners of small businesses, many of them mom-and-pop operations, to find out whether they indeed were being choked by regulation, whether uncertainty over taxes affected their hiring plans and whether the health care overhaul was helping or hurting their business.

Their response was surprising.

None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it. Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath.

"Higher taxes are not good for business, but some of the loopholes and deductions should be looked at," he said.

The answer from Rick Douglas — the owner of Minit Maids, a cleaning service with 17 employees in Charlotte, N.C. — was more blunt.

"I think the rich have to be taxed, sorry," Douglas said. He added that he isn't facing a sea of new regulations but that he does struggle with an old issue, workers' compensation claims.

Douglas told The Charlotte Observer that he's hired more workers this year, citing pent-up demand from customers.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/01/1 ... lling.html

[sarcasm]Yeah, boo-friggin'-hoo... The idea of the folks making more than $250K having to cough up an extra 3.6% --ONLY ON THE PART OF THE INCOME THEY MAKE OVER $250K --is sooo "unfair."....[/sarcasm]

The service industries are hardly the epitome of industry in the U.S. The regulations on manufacturers of durable goods are concerns in the economy.

We've been asking the same question of Rick Perry for a long time... "Service industry jobs" are hardly the epitome of job-creation, are they?

Of course, service-industry jobs are not the only jobs referred to in the article, but you've already proven that you don't read anything but the headlines...and usually only the ones presented to you by the likes of FauxNews--so we shouldn't expect anything more.

Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath.

Ya, lets make sure everyone can buy a house and everyone can get a high payiing job, no matter how much they DON'T qualify.

Uhhh, Bill? That's how we got here in the first place. And it isn't the first time this happened. Post WWII - how many returning soldiers got home loans they couldn't afford just on the basis that they were veterans? Same with jobs. Eventually, they lost homes and lost jobs, and the 1950s were not the idyllic time that people seem to think they were, thanks to TV.