You know those suburban neighborhoods where they buy up a few houses then trear them down, put in winding cul-de-sacs and then build a buch of big *** houses right on top of each other? They are doing the same thing to farm land on the outskirts of towns where the suburbs fade to country. Only the houses are a little bigger and on larger pieces of land. They are making towns run into each other so there is no senic farmland anymore, just city/suburb/spaced out suburbs/suburb/city. Pisses me off.

 

You know those suburban neighborhoods where they buy up a few houses then trear them down, put in winding cul-de-sacs and then build a buch of big *** houses right on top of each other? They are doing the same thing to farm land on the outskirts of towns where the suburbs fade to country. Only the houses are a little bigger and on larger pieces of land. They are making towns run into each other so there is no senic farmland anymore, just city/suburb/spaced out suburbs/suburb/city. Pisses me off.

 

You know those suburban neighborhoods where they buy up a few houses then trear them down, put in winding cul-de-sacs and then build a buch of big *** houses right on top of each other? They are doing the same thing to farm land on the outskirts of towns where the suburbs fade to country. Only the houses are a little bigger and on larger pieces of land. They are making towns run into each other so there is no senic farmland anymore, just city/suburb/spaced out suburbs/suburb/city. Pisses me off.

 

Personally, I really enjoy finding out about news in other countries. And that is one thing I LOVE about the internet and TV is how they cover the globe now... that's why it's called "Globalization". (http://www.ifg.org/) We need to work together as a world, not a country. The U.S. right now is like that friend that always means well, but in the end just keeps stepping on his own dick. You can't blame the U.S. for what they are doing over seas, and for what we want to accomplish. But what you CAN blame the U.S. for is BAD TIMING!!! It's about time we take a step back, look into the mirror and fix ourselves. It will take a **** load of reform, but when it's all said and done, all of those reforms will become dusty, and tucked away nice and neat somewhere b/c society will take care of itself. There will NEVER be a perfect society, but when people are held more accountable for their actions people have a tendency to listen to their conscience a lot more.

And if you don't believe me... imagine if EVERY SINGLE ONE of the "higher" up political figures were thrown off whatever committee they are on b/c of their criminal records. I could search the internet right now and come up with about 2 dozens elected officials with rap sheets that include serious felonies like embezzlement, REPEAT DUI's, drug and alcohol convictions, etc etc. There should be no excuse for this **** but yet the U.S. allow these people to work their way into some of the most POWERFUL positions when they, themselves can't even respect the law. I don't mind an elected official that has been in a little trouble in his day, but if you have a FELONY then the same rule should apply for them as it would to any other Joe trying to get a job busting tires but can't b/c he has a felony. Double edged sword that really pisses me off.

 

I don't care about the people, I just hate how you go for a ride and it goes city/suburb/spaced out suburb/ suburb/city. They are buying up farmland and building the same sickening cookie cutter houses they are putting up in the suburban sprall of america just on lots 2-3 times the size.

 

I like living in a nieghborhood with nice people but i do see what your saying!!

 

This is actually a very good point of which we just discussed in my last english class. Many people refer to the 50's as the golden era. However, it has been suggested that it was in actually a era of opression, family problems, disparity, and disregard for personal feelings of women. Everything was kept very hush hush, but this didnt mean that things didnt happen.

Still, the problem with the internet is what used to involve risk of being caught, such as searching playgrounds now can be done from the safety of your own home. There was a case recently involving a death caused by internet harassment. However, nothing was done to prosecute the parties responsible for the harassment b/c there are currently no laws governing internet harassment. The internet is a very wide vague area which people choose to use for crime. I am not saying communism is the answer OBVIOUSLY! however, what I do suggest is tighter regulation and rules concerninng problems associated with the internet. I mean lets face it I was looking at **** sites before I was 18 EVEN THOUGH it was supposedly against the law. They need to find a solution to these problems, what that solution is i dont know, however we need to work towards regulating things UNTIL we cant regain a majority control on society and return to equalibrium.

 

I think right now the US needs to focus on its own interests. Part of that is what is going on overseas. We have to ensure the supply of oil isn't interrupted so industry can keep chugging along and our economy can keep going. As far as the globilization all that has meant is that 3rd world countries get all our money by undercutting our labor and products. I think we need to reduce our federal taxes on our citizens and increase tariffs on foreign goods.

 

I doubt that... whenever a person like this has to expose themselves, it takes away their anonymity and they are not as likely to commit such crimes. My gf's grandpa is a detective for Falmouth PD in Mass, we had a long talk about **** like this and he specifically told me the guys who are willing to reveal themselves to the public are FAR more of a danger than the guys who hind behind a computer. The sick ***** who sit at home and search this **** on the internet they get off on what they see, but the guys that actually act on it are the guys that are truly sick. Again, if you take away this sort of **** on the internet you will weed out MANY of the people who just don't have the ***** to go out into public and take that risk. Some of these pedophiles are successful people, and even the THOUGHT of them getting caught in pubic will ruin them, and they won't risk it so they'd rather just sit at home and feed their appetite by staying hidden behind a computer screen.

 

I like living near nice people too, but that **** pisses me off. I go out to the middle of nowhere to ride and clear my head because there is no traffic or suburban sprall. It pisses me off when I see it spreading like a cancer on the land.

 

Trade is a very very touchy thing. Raising tariffs on imports would have catostrophic effects on our economy before it would do any good. if you increased costs to business in the form of tariffs on imported goods;considering all good are imported for most companies..the costs would be passed down to the consumer, and when the consumer refuses to buy at those levels the companies will go bankrupted and the economy will tank!

 

Yeah back in the good old days when women knew their place.

I think parents need to protect their kids from the internet and monitor what they are doing instead of the goverment doing the parents job for them. Just like when you were a kid and they taught you about strangers around the playground. Same deal only online.

 

Completely agreed. Only problem is i cant find that nice clear rode to clear my head like you, so i used to improvise. There was a road sandwhiched between to forest preserves by my house that nobody really drove on at night, I used to go drive out there if i needed to clear my head. Other then that traffic in the city or suburbs goes 24/7...

 

yes but more dangerous.

on a dry month, you can walk across the rio grande

 

exaclty, howver the problem is in some respects kids know more about the internet then the parents do. SO they weasel there way through passwords n around firewalls and its nutz.....the stuff we used to look up online in school and the ways we could get around firewalls n **** was nutz. Somehow, you can go to some website that reroutes you to another server so no matter what the firewalls are on a work/school computer you can still look up whatever you want. I think its gonna take a very active role by parents to work together with their kids to rectify this situation!

 

It is touchy, but it will put the money back in americans pockets instead of sending it overseas. The companies will have more incentive to stick with a domestic good vs. buying it from overseas. Yes you may have to pay a bit more for a Wii or a toyota vehicle, but it will increase demand for blue collar workers/ middle class which has always been the backbone of our country and is dissapearing.

 

Physically watch your young kids on the internet then or do like my parents did and tell them "it's a nice day go outside and play or you are grounded and you can stay inside all you want."

 

in a long run aggregate supply/demand curve yes but not in near term outlook. The amount of companies filing chap. 13 will cause things to have drastic negative effects before you see the economy rebound and get back on the domestic dependence track

 

When I say Globalization, I mean specializing not uniformity. Every country specializes in products... China, Japan makes electronics, US has great agg supply, who knows what Canada is doing and Mexico supplies cheap misc goods. But I definitely agree that our labor is DEFINITELY being undercut due to the heavy influx of illegal immigrants taking jobs away. And yes, our current Tariff reform extends back to 1994 and needs to be updated... BIG TIME!!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General...iffs_and_Trade)

 

Plus if Mikes work can keep him from viewing photobucket, there has to be software out there that will block your kids.