Political experience? Dr. Ben responds.
our government was meant to hire the unexperienced,
to get real representation -- as I understand it -- and this man
could really help in that regard. . What Do You Think??? -- j
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to get real representation -- as I understand it -- and this man
could really help in that regard. . What Do You Think??? -- j
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I prefer people who Think. Trump is too un-atheistic for me, too, but he does seem to have successes and business management skill that resulted, at least in part, from Thinking.
Obama certainly doesn't/didn't, and the Democrats speak with a united voice of Bigger, More-Intrusive Government (and Socialism as The Solution.) Just another cult.
So, Socialism or Theocracy, AGAIN. I voted for Obama 1 to try to keep a Theocrat out of the WH. I voted against him the second time in an attempt to keep a socialist/economic-asshole out of the WH.
Unfortunately, by that time, the American Masses preferred the theory of Tax The 1% Is The Solution.
Very sad. I may have to write in John Galt next year..
I think that his claim of no political experience is a response to widespread loathing of politicians as a class. Voters seem to crave for "non-politician politician". In my experience, you cannot spend a lifetime in a large organization, business or other without being exposed to a lot of politicking. There are differences, of course. But politics and politicking are part of human nature. Ask Socrates or Aristoteles.
EDIT: Added voters craving sentence.
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If political experience is so great how did we get to this point? I say no thank you. Perhaps we could do better with a little less. Carson is right, our founders were not professional politicians... though it is clear some learned very quickly.
Respectfully,
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.... still looking for the "Disagree Button."
how would he compare with Hillary? -- j
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he will endure it. . this is a sad process. -- j
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I was there when it happened and if you think Carly is worth defending, I can give you some history and facts from the trenches about why I look at her with nothing but contempt. I would only vote for her if the only alternative were Ms. Cankles. She is a looter of James Taggart quality and position.
None of this was known to me. Looks like you had lots of first-hand knowledge of Ms. Fiorina. Can you give me some sort of outline without going into deep detail. I can do that for myself. But I'd like just a short look-over to get into what you posted.
Next, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard ran HP, they mandated that 12% of gross revenues go back into R&D. The company used to have deep roots in the university R&D departments all over southern California. They were the pioneers in nanotech before it became cool. Under Carly, R&D spending plummeted to less than 2% of revenues, devastating product development - the backbone and legacy of HP. The partnerships with university were terminated, and HP became a consumer electronics manufacturer. Ironically, at the same time Fiorina (a History major, not even an MBA or tech guru) re-branded HP as "HP Invent".
She was the mastermind behind the HP-Compaq merger where she personally raked in $40+ million in bonuses, then Compaq CEO Michael Capellas raked in a cool $30 million, which less than two years later was written off on the books as over a $2 BILLION loss. And she personally pushed the merger despite opposition from the Board - led by Walter Hewlett. More than 2 in 3 HP employees opposed the deal. The deal passed with the slimmest of margins after Carly threatened a major bank/stockholder that HP would pull its holdings if they didn't support the deal. During the whole thing, Carly openly bragged that the deal (and the bonus) were going toward her political ambitions.
She personally purchased two new top-of-the-line, Gulfstream corporate jets despite HP having one only a few years old. She was the only one allowed to use them and they were kept on standby for her. At the same time, she was laying off 15,000 employees because they were too expensive.
That's just a few to start with.
And not that I supported Barbara Boxer, but she absolutely destroyed Fiorina in their Senate race when she pointed these very same things out to the voting public.
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Jan
by calling him a liar over 2 or 3 things ... doing the best that
they can to run him off. . I hope that he does them in with
a direct-to-the-people campaign like Reagan-- j
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http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/11/po...
Can an Honest inter-lectual (integrated) thinker with a fast healthy mind beat the best manipulator?
Theo-electrically... he should.
Someone so caught up in Jesus stuff cant be trusted to be a rational person.
You may not like his religious views, but this is a very rational and thoughtful person. I'd certainly take him over the more spur-of-the-moment Trump, the establishment Bush, or many of the other candidates. The only others that hold a candle to him are Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Bobby Jindal.
translator for the god statements. . it is a process of demurring
and calm, quiet confidence when he gives credit to God.
those who receive 67 honorary M.D. degrees need to
have a way to show humility, else others will think him
to be a haughty stuffed shirt. . don't you think? -- j
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years ago, by saying that I thought that Jesus was
socialist and I did not like socialists. . since this pastor
was himself a socialist, he started arguing for the social
value of socialism. . we got nowhere.
I was wrong, by the way. . Jesus -- according to reports --
did the "give to caesar" thing and depended on personal
choice for charity and support of family, church, etc.
the point of view appears to be this::: take control
of your life and be faithful to your brothers and sisters
in humanity. . separate your finances from the government
to the extent that you can, and manage your life by making
good personal choices.
that I agree with;;; let's do it!!! -- j
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and old husbands' tales blended with politics and fear of the
physiological unknown (banning pork, for example),, etc. . my take
is that Christianity is relatively good and sometimes
innocuous when the perpetrators stay away from the
intimidation and guilt stuff, focusing instead on the do-good stuff.
in the long run, we will all know if there's an afterlife,
for example;;; in the meantime, how about being responsible
for your actions??? . that, I can live with. -- j
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Fiorina has two major corporations she has headed and neither did well with her at the helm. See Lucent Technologies first, then HP and the disastrous Compaq merger. I worked for HP while she was there and I want no part of that woman or her policies.
You are obviously encouraged to make your own decisions.
Which is exactly what MUST NOT happen. Government needs to do a lot less than it does. If the only way to make that so is to throw more monkey wrenches in the works, I'll throw them.
I'd rather have Sanders as president than Trump.
(If she'd been smart she'd have kept HP's one money-making product -- printer cartridges -- and hived off everything else. Instead she tried to cure their ills by merging with Compaq.)
She got snookered because she wanted a big fat "we're number one in the PC business" on her resume. And look what is happening now.
To this day, this series of collapses is my biggest source of doubt against trusting the marketplace. Mainframes (especially DEC's) were secure against hacking and viruses, and businesses that used them can be trusted with our personal data. The PC craze was built partly on discarding all that safety -- and we're all regretting it now. Maybe in another 50 years the marketplace will recreate the provable safety we had in 1970 -- thus reinventing the mainframe.
Don't mind me, I'm just a bitter, obsolete mainframe programmer.
It's one of the reasons that the Space Shuttle carried laptops rather than upgrading the integrated computer system.
I'm not going to apologize to those who think all cultures have value or are equal. They don't, and they aren't. Multiculturalism is a key part of the destruction of society.
A good culture is to a society what good topsoil is to a country's food supply.
Dr. Carson may not have all the attributes required of the job, but I'll assume that he will learn quickly. His obvious intelligence, patience and years of wisdom should more than offset any political experience that may be lacking.
ers been local legislators?
---Still, I don't think experience is all. I don't think it
is better to marry a prostitute than a virgin.
--Experience at doing what? Passing more laws
that violate the rights of the people?