If Fox used the viable candidate standard, they'd stop covering the Republican debates, period.

Last Wednesday I watched as a quarter million dollar printing press was loaded onto a truck destined for recycling in China.
The press belonged to me. I learned to run machines like it working as an apprentice at a dingy factory in Richmond, California. I worked two fucking jobs, sometimes 16 hour days, living in one room at a hotel in downtown Oakland, sacrificing everything so that I could someday buy my own, become my own master, and possibly make the "American Dream" come true.

It's not that the machine was obsolete. It could still produce a profit. But the profit was squeezed beyond human capacity: by needless local government taxes and business permit fees, OSHA regulations and subsequent insurance standards that added thousands to operating costs, clean air regulations that made me pay offset fees for pollution no greater than a family car produces, artificially high ink and paper costs that foreign producers aren't forced to bear, and finally foreign competition from backwater asshole countries like Vietnam who rely on virtual slave wage labor.

My business, and life partner and I have worked 12 hour shifts each, 24 hour days at times. It's not that we are lazy. We still have one machine to see us into old age.

But forget about paying wages to anyone.

And we are supposed to support globalists in the Republican Party? Or socialists in the Democrat Party, like possibly Obama?

I thought it was the duty of government, perhaps the only justification for its existence, to protect the citizen, not just from physical attack, but also from economic attack.
If that is the case, our government as constituted has failed miserably.

Is there really a dimes worth of difference between the two political parties? This is NOT nihilism, but cold, hard reality.

And the one who purports to be the populist, Huccabitch, is what we are supposed to vote for? Sooner I should slit my throat.

I thought it was the duty of government, perhaps the only justification for its existence, to protect the citizen, not just from physical attack, but also from economic attack.

You are so right Frank. If America had a National Socialist government you would have been protected.

M. Simon:
You are so clever at sarcasm - to zero in on the weak point of my post. Of course I do not advocate protectionist policies, the kind of policies advocated by the Buchanan wing of the Republican Party, or the union base of the Democrat Party.

But also, I know first hand the results of World Bank advocacy on behalf of developing countries. The most favored trading status bestowed on China.
And, the endless regulations and taxes imposed on businesses here - at the same time.
If you're big enough to hire an advocate in Washington, to pay off, (I mean bribe) a few politicians in DC, no sweat.
Otherwise, tough luck fella.

You want straight talk?

You and I have only one thing in common: the protection of this country from attack by Muslims.
Otherwise, you might as well be that old Trotskyite from Berkeley that I suspect you once were, the one with the funny hat, Leon goatee, and penchant for Molotov cocktails aimed at cars and store fronts.
(Oh yes, I was there when Wheeler Hall was fire bombed, and Reagan lined Telegraph Avenue with Guard Troops.)

As far as I can see, this country would be insane to elect a man raised in a Muslim school in Indonesia a mere 6 years after 9/11. But also insane to elect a woman who embraced Arafat and his wife. Or a bigoted preacher from Arkansas that raises spawn who enjoy killing dogs.

This is my last post at this site. I really don't belong here. My knowledge is not from reading Friedman tracts, or juggling my ethics to practice law.
It's from living daily that thing which you pretend to advocate: free market capitalism.
And unfortunately after 40 years of struggle, I've learned that my government is now my enemy.
Good luck to you both.