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[kandrathe]

It looks to me like he's managed all that far better than most senators.

He's smart, but whether he uses that gift for helping the people, or for his own gain is yet to be seen.

There is a difference between ideology and partisanship.

Yes, to be blind to cognitive dissonance, or to be blinded by loyalty. For example, do you *really* believe we can spend our way to prosperity? Do you *really* think driving the US deficit another trillion or two a year deeper per year will help get us out of debt? Because that is the "crack" that party is smoking at the moment.

When you can rewrite the second law of thermodynamics? As a species, we don't get to stop working, period. We're like a big shark, gotta keep on swimming. Living takes energy. Living in a society takes more. Living comfortably in a society takes more still. That energy isn't going to produce itself, no matter how you structure your society.

Ok, then let me redefine the equation. I transform a cheese sandwich and some carrots into Kinetic Energy consumed by a Corporation. Through a complicated series of transformations, a small portion of that energy is returned to me in the form of Potential energy which I deposit in the bank. Along the way, stockholders who contribute potential energy, get a small return on their investment, and the government consumes a significant portion of everyone's potential energy.

My complaint is that due to how that equation is structured, there is not enough potential energy stored when I will no longer have the kinetic energy to get out of bed.

If you're calculating in nominal terms, then you're almost certainly much richer than in the 90s, but most of that is inflation.

The reality is that 20 years (and maybe 30 years) of savings and investments have vanished (or it never existed). But, we still are paying today's rates.

This is what is making the "Tea Party" crowd angry enough to crash the "Health Care" debate. Don't be confused (as are most in the press it seems) that the crowd is composed of Republicans.

The conversation on the one side is marching along with their 2006 campaign ideology about creating more government services, and the other side of that debate are the people freaking out about losing their likelihoods, homes, retirement savings, college educations for their children, and a ton of other stuff. The conversation for the latter group is much more along the lines of what we are talking about here, which is; how should the equation be written? You know that I'm on the side of seeing a bit more of my Kinetic Energy stored for my own Potential uses.