I'd probably be an Independant except then you can't vote in the
primaries in most states...
JJJN wrote:
Hi Mike,
I am responding to this post as a matter curious interest. I wonder if
this country would be in better shape if there were no such thing as the
Party system. For example, I have steadily been drifting apart from any
affiliation and instead just looking at the issues, hearing out and
researching them, and deciding what my view point is, and I no longer
care if my new perspective crosses a party mentality whatsoever. I am
usually just a listening post anymore, and spend more time thinking out
what I have heard to dissect it from several perspectives. I find this
to be rather eye opening and enlightening but also scary as some of
those sacred beliefs can get trashed and replaced. Anyway I was just
wondering what your response to this might be as I respect your opinions
and viewpoints along with others on this list.
Jim
Mike Weaver wrote:
Outside of my little nest here on the East Coast I feel like a
stranger in my own land. I go to the Midwest to visit family and I
cannot and do not talk to them about politics.. I have come to
realize, after 40 years, that they won't and probably can't change. I
prize family above rhetoric. I have finally learned it is better, in
some cases to be happy than to be right. OTOH, I did not live thru
what they did: WWII, most of them have been working since they could
walk, and did not have the benefits I have had.
My father left Arkansas in his teens, got a degree, was drafted and
got a PhD. He moved East and saw to it that his childred all went to
college and grad school. We have all travelled overseas and in some
cases lived and/or worked in the 3rd world. As Mark Twain said:
nothing is as deadly to prejudice as travel.
I have to agree with pretty much everything you say. Except, we have
no real foreign policy, nor do we really have an energy policy. We
have a bully policy.
No wonder 90% or the world is mad at us. I don't blame them.
OTOH, the French are not without warts - look at West Africa. I am
also interested to see what happens with Western Europe with regards
to their economies.
The Western European countries are belatedly realizing you can't just
conjure an economy. You have to have money before you can have
generous social programs. This what Germany and France are wrestling
with now. I personally think a realistic economic base - fewer
regulations in some cases - in France it's pratically illegal to start
a small business, and God help you if you fail - you can expect to
investigated for fraud no matter what happened. Complain about the
USll you want but you can start a business w/o fear of gaol. This one
of the thing we do have to offer as a model for other countries.
This country has a ways to go in terms of social programs. I still
can't believe we don't have SOME form of national health. The current
system is collapsing. My sister is a doctor and I can tell you the
current program is failing. I also believe that we need some form
child care - if both parents must work there must be a safe place for
their children. Europe is miles ahead of us here.
I rattle on...
Mike
Hakan Falk wrote:
Mike,
Ugly is your addition and I love Americans, the only thing
that I do not like is their foreign policies, energy policies.
and the political/economy corruption by the US corporations.
By the way, I also like the French. My daughter in law and
grandchildren are French.
Hakan
At 23:21 14/10/2005, you wrote:
!! What about us ugly Americans?
Hakan Falk wrote:
I really like this list and its members, including the French
and Canadian French. LOL
It is fun with the sparks and the humor.
Hakan
At 20:52 14/10/2005, you wrote:
I generally take a shower once a month whether I need it or not.
(in the summer of course, in the winter we can take snow baths every day)
PS for all you foreigners..... underwear can be
recycled four times (inside out, back and front)
this is of course common sense to Canadians but
I am sensitive to the international nature of this list.
Joe
Frantz DESPREZ wrote:
Mike Weaver a écrit :
M. Falk:
As a person with (minor) French ancestry, I am shocked and offended at
your suggestion that the French do not bathe regularly.
I challenge you to defend yourself in a duel of honor. Shampoo at
fifty yards, the first one to achieve a glossy sheen to be declared
the winner.
I name as my seconds Vidal Sasoon and the Breck girl. If the first
duel is not satisfactory, we will rinse and repeat.
Prepare to meet your suds.
M. Weaver
M. Weaver,
I am very grateful of your sollicitude, but be careful, scandinavians
are famous for their weapons of mass desinfection.
They could invite you into a steam bath until you've been cooked, before
roll you in snow or dive in icy water.
None a civilized gentleman as you surely are can resist such a barbarian
treatment.
And since Volvo refused to married Renault, we are in bad t(h)erms.
M. Desprez
( with half of my ancestry from Normandy, so Hakan is maybe a cousin of
mine)
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