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The funny thing is that most of the people that are members of "the party of the rich" happen to also be the ones that argue that our country was founded on Christianity. Jesus, of course, spent much of his life urging people to have compassion for the poor and to give to the poor. He said "it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

Given the teaches of Jesus, it's a genuine mystery how the republican party has managed to get so much support from Christians.

Easy, Junicon. Moral values with regard to abortion, gay marriage, etc.

Also, while you may not like it, the GOP pandering to corporations has actually produced more jobs than any democratic platform. Ever. Look up job creation statistics when Republicans have a majority in Congress and you will see that this is correct. When businesses are less restricted by government interference (i.e. close to "pure" capitalism, which has dangers of its own), they tend to grow more and hire more as a result. The opposite is true when they are penalized with new taxes, fees and regulatory restrictions-- they grow less and hire less. So, while you may have some issue with the pandering to the rich and the corporations, historically at least, it has actually provided more for the common work-a-day man than the Democratic party has-- by giving them a job, rather than a hand out.

Not that I making a defense for the GOP, at least not intentionally. I just wanted to point out why people continue to support them.

It's real easy to "create" jobs, WMG-21. What's hard is to create jobs in a sustainable fashion.

Here ya go: Let's do an example the way the federal government does it when in Republican control. Let's say I own a small business. I "create" a $50,000 per year job by borrowing $200,000 from a bank and then hiring someone for 4 years. Woohoo! I "created" a job! 4 years down the road, I sell the business and the new owner comes under fire when he has to raise prices or cut someone else's salary to pay for this loan.

The Republicans don't "create" jobs, WMG. They just borrow them from our own future. That's why we're in the position we're in today.

Dan, you have a very narrow, very inaccurate view of how the business world works. By your own description, the "small company" you have invented had no product and no profitability-- something that no one would have purchased from the original owner. When you take out a business loan, you pay it back with the profits of your company. Eventually, you pay it off and (with luck) you're company continues to increase in size and scope, with fewer loans needed as you go forward (even huge, multi-billion dollar companies take out loans to build new infrastructure, etc). When Democrats are in office, they tend to "bite the hand that feeds" and apply additional regulatory fees and taxes that make it harder for the small business to pay back their loan and for larger corporations to expand operations/increase hiring.

The way the GOP creates jobs is nothing like the way you describe. They simply get out of the way.

(Again, not an intentional defense of the GOP-- they have plenty of skeletons in their closet ghastly enough, but I'm always so surprised that Democrats demonize corporations and restrict them in every possible way they can, and then have the gall to wonder where the jobs are... guess what, guys? They went overseas where they don't have to deal with being demonized and blamed for the countries ills by the politicians and their constituents stupid enough to take them at their word-- the politicians of the guys overseas, on the other hand, bend over backwards to accomodate those new businesses-- because it gives their people jobs).

Consider this from Intel's CEO:

"every business in America has a list of more variables than I've ever seen in my career." If variables like capital gains taxes and the R&D tax credit are resolved correctly, jobs will stay here, but if politicians make decisions "the wrong way, people will not invest in the United States. They'll invest elsewhere."

Take factories. "I can tell you definitively that it costs $1 billion more per factory for me to build, equip, and operate a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States," Otellini said.

The rub: Ninety percent of that additional cost of a $4 billion factory is not labor but the cost to comply with taxes and regulations that other nations don't impose. (Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers elaborated on this in an interview with CNET, saying the problem is not higher U.S. wages but antibusiness laws: "The killer factor in California for a manufacturer to create, say, a thousand blue-collar jobs is a hostile government that doesn't want you there and demonstrates it in thousands of ways.")

How will money solve the problem????? Well, how about the fact that money buys food... and food is a well-known cure for starvation.

Good grief, did I really just have to explain that to someone old enough to be using the internet?

Okay dillio1973...how does your comment help the children that are starving now?

If money could EVER solve the issue, then it would have been solved LONG ago ... I rememer seeing these pictures pushed by UNICEF long ago "MANY years ago... Are you so ignorant to tell me that from then on these people have seen no money ? If so Im positive that the millions who have donated to UNICEF in the past 30 years would like to know that. MILLIONS of dollars have gone to this area of the world.. I'll be willing to bet BILLIONS have went to this area that Billions with a "B" ... Did money ever solve the issue ? I feel for the starved, but i'm smart enough to know that money is not going to solve the issue ! Anyone who says money will solve the issue is a fool ...

So dillion1973: your position is that, unless every single starving person in the world can be fed, there is no point in giving money to help starving people?

If I understand your incoherent post, you seem to be arguing that, since there are still starving people in the world, all the money that has been given to feed the hungry has been wasted. It should be obvious, however, that it's better to help some starving people -- even if you can't feed every last starving person on earth.

Countless lives have been saved by money that has been donated to buy food.

Elizabeth122...you are completely right...people have to look at the big picture...but we have to take step 1 and we can hope that will lead to more steps.