Aroddo... this is way out of line. No one should post {as vStyler so rightly put it} repulsive stuff like this. You need to back off language and hateful language like this.

v...thanks for seeing this first and saying something. I'm surprised the Mods haven't lit into this.

In fairness to Aroddo, he was quoting psychoak.

Then why are they laboring so hard to proscribe how we live our lives?  What we should think?  What we should say?  What we can't say?  Being illiberal in the name of liberalism makes no sense, unless liberalism (defined as individual freedom, anyway) is not the goal.

No difference imo.

Excellent...then you're going to love the government plan just fine.

Bravo! And the general (0-10) only has to give 30+ years (He/she could retire @ 20 years but would be lucky to have made Colonel in that amount of time) while the congressman gets his 174K for being a noob. Sure the general gets housing, so does the congressmen while in DC. Oh and that congressman... he doesn't have to serve for 20 years to a pension, just win one re-election and he's covered for life. Also if an officer is past over for promotion 3 times (at any point of his career) he goes home. I know it's not a pesky re-election, but hey. Your noob congressmen gets the same vacation as a career congressmen, about 3 or 4 months off for the year. That general gets the same vacation as a private - 30 days a year. Also check your congressman's perks, his/hers medical is the same as it is when active and after they retire. The General has to go to the VA. Lets recap:

                             Congressman                                        General (0-10)

pay                $174k starting day 1 - increase each year    $184K after doing 30+ years adjusted annually by congress

retirement     Full retirement after 2 terms (8 yrs.)             retirement at 20yrs. but nowhere close to reaching 0 -10

paid vacation  months                                                        30 days

Housing         Paid for while in DC                                       full housing on base, allowance if off base

perks            all the military gets, plus                                military, Medicaid upon 65 years old (usually the age @ retirement)

Allowances   ????? Best kept secret in DC                          Based on location, special skills or status

You decide which is more valuable

Because czars are not vetted by congress. Heck, you could end up with a racist, communist as part of the presidents policy making advisors...wait... isn't that want happened? What's next? Appoint a tax cheat as secretary of the treasury? Oh wait that happened too! But at least the tax cheats in Congress got the final say on that one.

It's true Obama ended the already won Iraq War....my hero. His "focus" on Afghanistan is winning him scores of followers in his own party...not. But it must be nice that media such as NBC doesn't show the anti- war protesters like they did so often for Bush. Good to have GE in your back pocket Mr. President.

Sorry for all the catch up posts...back from Bahrain.

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/04/14/tomo/index.html

Beck's chosen style is to be humorous and over-the-top, just as Limbaugh's is to be pompous and self-righteous. This is done simply to irritate the left. Clearly, it works like a charm, because no matter how they try to marginalize them, or how often they say these men should just be ignored, they, themselves seem incapapable of doing either.

Many, especially younger, people get their "news" from "pundits" such as Jay Leno, David Letterman, Janenne Garofalo, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Is Beck really any better or worse?

Yea... I think so