If Free Trade is so great...

Then why don't the companies that support it abandon all of those protectionist ideas of "trade secrets," non-compete clauses, royalties and intellectual property? Isn't that what they are asking us to do? They want us to give up some of our market share of labor, skill and income. So why shouldn't they?

Unions are only one facet of Occupational Birth Control. Include the American Medical Association's restricting medical schools and lawyers controlling membership in the Bar Association, just for a couple of examples.

Dear Rahm,

Don't let the door hit ya', were the good lord split ya'. Ahh bye-bye.

With luv from an f'n retarded progressive,

N

I say we call Tom Coburn's bluff. He says he doesn't want to set up another gov't bureacracy to hand out the relief money to the Haitians, why not get a non-profit to do it or have some people put something together and do it themselves? Or maybe have the American Red Cross deal with the administration of the relief funds. That wouldn't cost anything. And he couldn't complain or hold up the funding.

Do Not Be Fooled

I want to share with you how insidious our politicians are in having our people go into immoral and wrong wars. The American psyche craves to be killed in these wars because it is a glorious death for the fatherland.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20017993-503543.html

Do not let yourself be fooled by the lunatics running our asylums in Washington, D.C.

Seems to be a time delay lately getting the daily blog up. Can't wait for the show to get settled in.

Keep up the good work support personnel of the Thom Show, we can wait patiently well you get everything sorted out. I know its got to be tough to get everything into ship shape.

N

Just testing

Our trumpting of terror alerts highlight the way lunatics are running our D.C. asylums!!!

Statistics!

More American soldiers are committing suicide in Iraq than who are being killed in combat!!! These soldiers are refusing to kill God's children!!! Is this fact comparable to refusing to fight in order to stop our federal government's murderous ways???

President Obama said the Democratic voters should buck up. It's the Democrats in Washington who need to buck up. The Democrats' base bucked up and got the Democrats the majority in 2006, but the Democrats said they couldn't do anything because they only had a slim majority and there was a Republican in the White House. The base bucked up again in 2008 and got the Democrats a bigger majority in Congress and the White House; but the Democrats continued caving, backpedaling, and being outmaneuvered by the Republicans and the blue dogs. It's bad enough that the Democrats in Washington are angering and demoralizing the base; but you would think that they would at least stick up for themselves in their own best interest. But their first impulse has been to backpedal; such as abandoning ACORN while by contrast the Republicans engage in voter caging, dumped voters off the rolls in Florida in 2000, etc,. and the Democrats won't even investigate election fraud. Another example is the White House abandoning Van Jones while by contrast George Bush made egregious recess appointments like John Bolton. Still another example is the Democrats took impeachment and investigation off the table; by contrast the Republicans have put impeachment on the table if ---God forbid--- they gain the majority, and even if they fail at impeachment, there is little doubt that the GOP would lay siege to the White House and to the Dems in Congress. The Democrats need to stop trying to avoid conflict with the Republicans; the Republicans are not going to let them avoid conflict, so Democrats might as well deal with it.

Thom, there's a reason the government runs certain "industries".

Responding to your "Winger" guest, we can't have dozens of private mail companies, all with their own trucks, clogging our traffic and covering the same routes to deliver local mail to different customers in the same neighborhood.

Likewise, individuals can "sign up" for service by a private fire department that only puts out the fire on YOUR home and ignores your neighbor, or does both homes and then sends the neighbor a hugely inflated bill for service by a company they never signed up with.

People that think we can "privatize everything" just aren't dealing in reality.