tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post3854215282929141227..comments2024-03-19T22:06:41.165-04:00Comments on fromtheeditr: Ken Cuccinelli: Where We're Going With the Right?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217963475185024609noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-40989090615313049422010-12-16T10:00:53.446-05:002010-12-16T10:00:53.446-05:00Anonymous (and I HATE it when people use this blog...Anonymous (and I HATE it when people use this blog without having the courage to identify themselves), FRONT is not anti-anything, Republican included. This is my blog, not the FRONT's blog. This is not reflective of the magazine. My business partner Tom Field is on the right and I am on the left politically, but I don't think either of us is anti-anything except maybe stupidity, which we define differently.<br />I'll say this again: FRONT is politically neutral. It is a business magazine, not a political voice.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04217963475185024609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-88023505712276268672010-12-14T21:21:54.543-05:002010-12-14T21:21:54.543-05:00Good article, Dan, tho I don't go too left or ...Good article, Dan, tho I don't go too left or too right these days. If you're gonna criticize dumb shit that people do, no need to use kid gloves. You don't.<br /><br />I can't help but thinking, this ain't even party politics anymore. There's some kind of extreme desperation coming out of the right more than ever. And the left is lamer than ever. It's almost like the Romans not getting enough blood sport at the Colleseum. Hungry beasts versus unarmed captives. And I'm afraid things will end similarly as it did for Rome.<br /><br />Basically, they want their slaves and eat it too.<br /><br />Sad that Cuccinelli's and seemingly all GOP's constituents feel that way. Didn't they call themselves the Moral something-or-other? Wait til next year when they repeal the minimum wage because it obstructs the free market.Star City Famehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03905856495820546786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-32032757095347561022010-12-13T12:15:50.802-05:002010-12-13T12:15:50.802-05:00I am shocked and disappointed to discover that FRO...I am shocked and disappointed to discover that FRONT is an anti-Republican publication.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-30252794469350428282010-12-13T07:49:26.717-05:002010-12-13T07:49:26.717-05:00Mary/Sarah:
A couple of points:
Receiving Social S...Mary/Sarah:<br />A couple of points:<br />Receiving Social Security payments is not mandatory. If you don't want it, you just don't sign up.<br />Republicans are opposed to SS and always have been. They have worked in a stealthy fashion for years to undermine it and continue to do that. The latest "stiumlus" package (the budget compromise) can ultimately hurt Social Security and could result in it needing to be restructured or subsidized. At that point it would become part of the budget. We have to make some clear national decisions on our priorities for SS, Medicare and Medicaid. They are wildly expensive, but necessary in a country that cares about its people.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04217963475185024609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-92781029555088452010-12-12T20:15:15.991-05:002010-12-12T20:15:15.991-05:00As it is structured, Social Security is essentiall...As it is structured, Social Security is essentially a mandated savings account that is carried forward from generation to generation, with benefits varying based on contribution. If it becomes means tested, the people who are now yelling that it should be means tested will start yelling that it is welfare for people who don't deserve it. Believe me, everyone would choose to be well off if they could. But Social Security is not the question here, because it has no impact on the budget or the deficit at all. Mr. Cuccinelli apparently thinks that the need of the wealthy to avoid paying taxes is more important than the need of the other 98% of us to have food on the table, a place to live, and some measure of peace of mind about being able to take care of the simple needs of our families for health care, living expenses, and education.Sarah Williamshttp://www.thirdlayer.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-51261895259688354022010-12-12T18:55:30.869-05:002010-12-12T18:55:30.869-05:00RE:"Social Security, for example, should not ...RE:"Social Security, for example, should not be paid to the rich who don't need it, even though they paid for it."<br /><br />My grandparents, well-to-do old-time Republicans, thought this way. They were always bewildered by the fact that they got social security when they didn't need it. And they made a point of paying social security for their housekeeper, when few people did that, and no one checked. They considered it part of her wages.<br /><br />--Mary BullingtonHow to contact Mary: marybullington53@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08174581825078147922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-23272221518089670662010-12-12T12:05:39.238-05:002010-12-12T12:05:39.238-05:00...and then step on it....and then step on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com