No worries.
I would even contest that America has more service business than any other single category of small business nowadays but I'm not sure. I'll bet it's close though.
As far as your opinions, there are SO many people here whose every opinion can be found, simply by turning on Glenn Beck or Rush, it's hard to tell. When someone says everything about this bill is bad or ineffectual or exactly the same as the other ones, it certainly smells of the "Rushies".
You know the type: Bush wars good. Obama bad. Bush tax cuts good, Obama bad. Bush gets credit for Iraq Victory, Obama gets no credit for OBL... and so on.
Mindless drones who couldn't come up with an original opinion if their life depended on it.
My apologies for just assuming you fell in that category, based only on your views regarding a single subject. You're right. I should not let the other Internet People influence me that way.
And in all due repect, you are jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions to assume that those of us who don't agree with you are simply parroting Limbaugh, Beck et al. For those of us who haven't listened to either Limbaugh or Beck in months, if we do agree with Limbaugh and Beck, who is copying who? Or maybe it is that we all have the same information, apply our own individual reason and intuition to analyze it, and all arrive at more or less the same conclusion?
Do you get all your information from Huff post or Daily Kos or Salon.com which would explain your point of view as reflecting theirs almost right down the line? Or do you get as much information as you can about a subject and form your own opinions about what it means?
If everybody in a room adds 2 and 2 and gets 4, it does not necessarily mean any have copied off each other or been taught or influenced by the same instructor. It merely means that all in the room were able to work the problem and arrive at the correct answer.
There IS a best answer for almost every question.
Regarding the part in bold. Hmmm. Let's look at that and see if there's a difference between me (and other Independents) and Right (or Left!) wing parrots.
Does Huff / Kos state emphatically and often that:
Obama is a poor president and ineffectual leader? Look around at my posts. I do.
ObamaCare sucks and is the worst piece of legislation passed in decades? I do.
Pelosi is a screech hag and hypocrite / Reid is a crook? I do.
Labor unions are as often the cause of jobs being shipped overseas as executives? I do.
Christians are discriminated against?
The time for Affirmative Action is over?
We should eliminate over a dozen fed agencies and put those responsibilities solely in control of the states?
I could go on but I think you get the idea. Your assertation that I "get all your (my) information from Huff post or Daily Kos or Salon.com which would explain your point of view as reflecting theirs almost right down the line?" is pretty much blown out of the water. That would be the Independent part...
As far as
"There IS a best answer for almost every question.",
As a man much wiser than me wrote:
"Only a fool believes that one party or political ideology is right all the time."
You really think that all those people, coming to the exact same conclusion on every virtually issue, had nothing to do with Right or Left Wing media targeting their thoughts for influence. Yeah. Okay. If you say so.
Sure. And everything is still Bush's fault...
And it is also wisdom that is able to discern example from accusation. And understand that a question mark is different from a period. I specifically chose Huffpost, Daily Kos, and Salon.com because all do at times express opinions that do agree with those points you have enumerated. And they also express opinion in opposition to all those points. There is a general mindset between the three however: left is good; right is bad if not downright evil. And. . .conservatives would never arrive at the conclusions or opinions they hold if they were not guided by the right wing media.
Not to mention that neither the left wing media nor you recognize, notice, or acknowledge that NONE of the rightwing media agree with each other on every single point or issue, nor do those of us who consider ourselves right of center but are not in the media agree with the rightwing media on every point or with each other on every point.
You do not hold a monopoly on independent thought.
Your dichotomy is false because 'all those people' don't come to the "exact same conclusion" by taking the same path to get there. But when we are pretty well unified on a conclusion, the large majority of us have a reason for defending it and can defend it with more than sound bites and can articulate a rationale that supports a principle rather than just trashing an opposition.
It has been my observation that most, not all but most, of those on the left cannot do that. They will accuse those on the right of all sorts of 'ignorance' or 'sins' or 'evil' or whatever, but they cannot articulate a rationale for WHY they see those on the right as wrong.
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