Sir;... Does the freedom to work anywhere you want equate with working any place that will hire you for minimum wage, and no benefits??? Because if that is the case, we have to define freedom as slavery.... If freedom is choice, and what we have is no choice the the dictionary must be wrong... Stop the presses... Time for a new republican dictionary....Thanks... Sweeney

Sir;... Even if you forget about the last 60 years, and count the capitalist system as beginning as a world wide phenomenon with the black plague -that for the first time in history freed great quantities of capital -because it was the labor of many generations, and the subsistence of the half of the population that died; still, capitalism isn't much... That was the first time wealth really began to flow, because it was free to flow... But; even this meagre success built upon death has been often repeated by wars since, and it does not hold a candle to the world wide success of socialism which was universal among all primitive peoples... Sure, it does not advance technology at a great rate, but all later knowledge, agriculture, physical sciences, technology was begun and advanced by people living communally... Do you think people invented democracy???Democracy is only political equality, while socialism is economic equality... The democracy of the Greeks and Romans and their respective commonwealths were shadows of the past... Having little technology and surrounded by enemies, people survived with advanced social organ ization rather than advance technology... So long as technology remained primitive, people remained communistic, but when technology allowed for the accumulation of wealth, democracy and communism languished... Since the survival of every living human depended once upon a long dead socialism, how can the flash in the pan of capitalism compare???It makes great advances and gobbles up resources and people...Because it is built upon injustice, and yet keeps the peace with law, it make the international injustice of war inevitable, and capitalism feeds on it.... So the success of capitalism is not that it has improved the human condition because, as in Rome, and Greece, it is reducing the population to slavery...The great success of capitalism is that it has survived, and has not killed off the entire population through warfare... Not much, I know, but the clock is ticking, and either capitalism will die, or we will...Mr. Bush hasn't got any bragging points... Capitalism doesn't even work for him... Obviously he doesn't understand the rules of his own game... Would any one else spend the capital they should invest???Thanks...Sweeney

As usual, Larry misses the point. Larry has been a Bush/GOP fan for the last 8 years. Ace Greenberg, Bear Sterns, said many times, “Don't be wrong for long”. Bush cannot show anyone the way. He lost his way 7 years ago. It is like the sightless showing the sighted. Bush has been wrong on the Iraq War! Bush declared war on social issues such as abortion. Bush wanted prayer in schools (shame on Bush).Wrong on the economy. Helped Oil prices triple as he and hiss buddies had a vested interest in raising oil prices. You might as well call the VP, Hal Burton. Oh and Halliburton supplied a long list of products to the US Military as well as oil equipment.
The GOP (the term makes me laugh) has spent more money than all the Democrats ever had. They spend money like they are Nuevo riche. They wasted the Clinton surplus and now are helping out their bank/Wall Street buddies. Why isn't the DOJ suing the banking executives for all of their obnoxious salaries and cash bonuses while they loaded up their companies up with trashy assets? How does America feel about Bush? They hate him. Bush shows the way? The way down!!!! Larry-shame on you! You are so hooked on the GOP that you have lost your way. Maybe Bush can help you find your way.