Actually, you are right about that one. I don't have a single pair of shoes left that would need to be tied. However, my master's thesis is about knot theory, so whenever I do have to tie my shoes, I can just look up how to do it. That's what I do whenever I have to wear a tie. Which reminds me, I do have one pair of dress shoes left over from the time when I used to partake in the rat race. I just don't wear them anymore.
ax, I am pleased to hear that you want to live in a free America. Free to do as you please. Free to start your own business, and live your dreams. I just hope that you do not dream of opening a grocery store next to a Wal-Mart, or a burger joint. Nor your own bank, or a filling station, or pharmacy. Just to name a few long lost American dreams. Lost to the "big boys" who will crush you and your dreams. I did not realize that longing for an America where a man could open a neighborhood business and contribute to his community while providing for his family was a marxist concept. I apologize for being wrong. You say that no one is working you to death, nor cheating you, nor lying to you - how about your father, your brother, a cousin, maybe an uncle, or a friend, a neighbor. Are they all exempt from what millions of other Americans experience? ax, you somehow think that because you "trade" a small account, that you have escaped, that you are "one of them now". You aren't, but there is nothing I can do to convince you otherwise. So be it. If you are like most, one day you and your dreams will be crushed. But I am sure that your new found friends will bail you out. So I guess there is no reason to remember where you came from.
I've been reading more US history lately and biographies of founding fathers. If you could plop down Jefferson, Adams, Washington, or any of them into modern America, can you imagine what they might think. Surprised, amazed? And probably apalled. Consider Jefferson's vision of what America could be and what we've become. g
Are you kidding? Look at all the real world examples of what the rich and powerful do with their wealth and power. Altruism is for poor people. Enlightened self-interest is a myth. g
Ah, good Wally, this just needs a little editing. Just substitute Republican for Democrat at the end there. Really, there is nothing on the left to match the shrill, whining screech of the right-wing haranguers on the AM radio dial. Obviously this is a growth industry right now, just like televangelism was a while back. They are all a bunch of Junior Goebbels. Ed Abbey once said that all conservatives are ass-kissers by definition. True. g
ges, get enough dems in power and you won't have any free markets to trade. And that is "Ass Kickers" not "Ass Kissers". You got it backwards.