"These are the times that try human's souls, or if we don't have them, minds." These words were lifted and rewritten from The American Crisis, Tom Paine (1776). I intend to write comments mostly discussing articles from newspapers and other random probably politically-oriented material. To me this is a time that truly try us. I believe our country -- our way of life, which is increasingly being copied by other countries which want to increase the standards of living of their citizens, and their own wealth and power -- is under attack from those very persons who have benefitted from it. These are the people who are unable, for whatever reason, are unable to succeed in our free-enterprise system, and try to gain success and power through other means within our free-enterprise system.
I strongly believe that most people act according to their own perceived self-interest and those those who are truly "altruistic" number maybe five hundred in our country of 304,394,060 (estimated 6:36 PM EST June 21, 2008). And I don't know any of them. Now I don't mean those who state they are, but those that truly are. Well it's noon here in Seattle and time for my union-mandated lunch break. Maybe more later today, maybe not. This is, after all, a first practice run.
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