Wait and see what we have coming up! From July 30 to August 5, America will see what it’s like to have to fend for itself without the contribution of conservative Americans. You’ve heard of a “day without a Mexican,” well we are going to have a WEEK without a conservative.

If you are a TRUE conservative call in sick from July 30 to August 5. Do not go to work, do not go to the store, do not contribute to the economy in any way. Then they will see what happens to a country that laughs off conservative values!

The above commentators are also correct in calling attention the the inept and/or corrupt practices of corporate firms. This is something I never understood until several positions (including my own), were terminated at my previous (medium-sized) firm last April. The amount of wasted money and lost productivity as a result of terrible business decisions was something to truly behold! Having previously worked for sole proprietors failed to train me for the fact that business is just about as inefficient as government.

Dear commiestooge, are you utterly unschooled in the history of the mortgage fiasco? Or do you have as poor a memory as Barney Frank who is living proof that every village MUST have an idiot. Apparently so, since Barney Frank, poster child for economic ignorance has not learned a tiny little bit from the destruction that liberal/Democrat/left-wing policies can cause. It was the Dems who forced lending institutions to make sub-prime loans and insisted on both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do so. And Frank is trying to jolly those institutions into doing it again! Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it - and Barney Frank is living proof! What I do not understand is how he keeps being reelected? Surely his state can produce better than him?

After I graduated College I went to work for a division of American Express that was run like a 3rd world banana republic: managers promoted based on favoritism rather than ability; some employees were favored above others. Everything was a crisis; nothing ran smoothly. After 3 years I left for Coke and a $3K raise.

This was my rude awakening to Corp America; and it’s no wonder why the Japs ran rings around us in the 80s & 90s.

Let’s see: free market. Does that include Microsoft bringing in thousands of foreign IT workers on H1-B as American programmers collected unemployment?

And the mortgage fiasco where everybody passed the buck on bad loans so they could get a piece of the pie?

Please!

I had not heard about Wilcox before reading this. When I consider the troubled attitudes and outlooks of many of the eighteen and nineteen year olds that were my responsibility as a supervisor in the Navy, the issue with the single-parent families and broken homes really comes to light and makes more sense. I think there is a place for Wilcox’s ideas in a conservative agenda that can “win again”.

The challenge is, if the Republicans adopt a position of being market-friendly versus business-friendly, then where will the funding come from for their campaigns? That’s how we got into this mess, because the only people who got elected were the ones who took $$$ for the corporations.

It’s really up to the grass roots to mobilize- so your post is just what is needed.