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The dumbing down of America has been in progress for some time now. It started with the the popular concept that as kids we should not distinguish between winners and losers in school sponsored activities, it continued when schools abandoned the practice of singling out their winners for...

I thought this was the USA, not Venezuela, Cuba, China, Russia, or any other you country that routinely pulls this crap. WTF is this country coming to?

The right to an armed revolution is not explicitly documented in the constitution. However items such as the right to keep and bear arms, the right to freedom of assembly, right to freedom of speech and others when combined provide the necessary framework for armed revolution. I am not...

I would not say that he is a loser. It's just a different philosophy. One philosophy is based on personal responsibility and personal freedom and the other based on institutional responsibility and institutional freedom. In general my observations are: Those that can prefer personal...

Our country was born out of armed revolution. Our founding fathers were wise enough to grant rights to the people under the Constitution that make armed revolution possible whenever government becomes oppressive and stops serving the interests of the people and the nation. You should...

Hell, if all it takes is to do some grandstanding and pandering to the public and then give trillions in handouts and bailouts, sign me up. A nutt less monkey could do that. I find it odd that the author and the OP equate pandering, bailouts, and handouts with leadership. A true leader...

Myself and most others that actually pay taxes do not have representation. Government represents and serve those who elect them. When the majority of the country pays no taxes and elects those that promise the most from government I fail to see how I have representation regarding how my...

A dog is a great warning and will deter some criminals but not all. I recently had an experience where my dog alerted me to an intruder outside my back door. What deterred the person was the slide action on my Remington 870. I used to live in a high crime area and still have to drive...

1) I like to hunt 2) I like to target shoot and shoot skeet/trap for sport 3) It's my constitutional right to be able to own firearms 4) The vast majority of my fellow men and women are good natured people who I have no fear of and feel no need to limit their access to firearms. 5) There...

So its really the people you are scared of, not the guns. It's a shame that you and other "ban the guns" people are that scared of your fellow man (or woman). Just because you are scared of them does not mean that I am so why should my choices in life be ruled by your fears.

Out of curiosity, why are the people who promote gun bans afraid of an inanimate object?

Me and my family are much happier. There are no questions about that.

I can't speak to teh 70's since I was the oldest and born in 1978. However growing up in the 80's/90's we were a single income family with 3 kids (a fourth if you count my friend who lived with us). Dad made good money (right in the middle of being middle class) 3/1/5/2 1700 sqft house...

I agree the overhead really muddies the water in determining costs. If the overhead is not factored into the $75/hour then it costs even more per hour to build cars than one would think. That would put the burdened rate for a UAW member beyond the current outrageous level to the unthinkable level.

Price a comparable benefits package for a family of four and post the numbers.

The $250 - $500 is what the employee pays for a family. The company pays much more than this, usually 3-4 times that amount. There are other benefits other than just health insurance: disability, life insurance, AD&D, unemployment, retirement (401k matching) etc. $20/hour for benefits is...

The $60/hour figure is total expenses (salary, benefits, and overhead) On average for total expenses to the company: Auto assembly line worker - $75/hr Engineers for the next generation of space vehicles - $60/hr Granted the auto worker only "sees" $25/hr when the aerospace worker...

Boeing and Lockheed engineers make less than civil servants. Unless you are in the top most senior positions.

Just for grins, the top notch engineering talent designing the next generation space ships for NASA have burdened rates in the mid 50 to mid 60 $/hr. Assembly line worker with no appreciable skills or education burdened at $75 versus a highly skilled highly educated rocket scientist...

The only people who need government to save them from themselves are those who have no sense of personal responsibility and have never grown up.