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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Our Country
	Date:	2/25/2011 10:57:55 AM

"The stock market gains." Still 2,000 points below its historical high but good news that it is slowly recovering and hopefully will continue to do so.

Will still continue to be volatile and corrections.

"People participating in democracy by exercising their freedom speech.
" Gee, I don't recall you celebrating the tea party and in fact you made quite a few derogatory comments about these people. Nothing to say about the bused in union thugs using all the violent language and putting the Governor's face on Mubarak and Hitler bodies? I am all for this exercise of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech but only if it applies to all groups, even the ones you don't like.

"And pubic employees are now the new "enemy". So much easier to crush
than the bad guys in Afghanistan and Pakistan." Public unions have lost the public trust because of their pillaging of government coffers in collusion with Democrats that in turn reap the benefits of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars supporting their reelection. Besides, the Governors of states are not responsible for national security. That is the Messiah's job and one that he is doing poorly in my view. So some of the Governors are limiting the power of public unions. If people don't like it they can move to another state that loves the public unions.....except none of them have any jobs because these states are so anti-business they have fled to more hospitable states.

"The Republicans are in control of the house and are going to solve our
deficit problems by unfunding Planned Parenthood and NPR." Oh there will be a lot more that will be cut that these programs but these are two that need to go away for sure. The GOP has proposed $61B in cuts this year. The total funding of NPR and Planned Parenthood is but a tiny fraction of that amount. And all this is just the beginning.......

"People in the Middle East are toppling old dictatorships for democracy." Lets hope so but I think it is way too early to make this statement.

"Despite the high price, gas is still plentiful." High prices caused by government intervention in free markets, plentiful gasoline caused by private companies doing what they do best, even in the face of government interference.

"Consumer confidence is returning and people are returning to their old
spending habits." Agree that consumer confidence and spending are slowly improving but still low when compared to historical trends. Biggest problem is the lack of improvement in the jobs index which is still lagging for obvious reasons. Also, oil price surges could dampen consumer spending. Lets hope oil prices stabilize and begin to go back to normal levels soon.

"It's all a matter of perspective. Our country is healing!" I would agree that we are making progress although much slower than it needs to be and still fraught with danger. A step in the right direction in November which will hopefully culminate in more change in November 2012 that will work. So I agree with you Hound, there is reason to be optimistic and we are slowly eliminating the cancer of Democrat rule of Congress and the White House.