The Wal marts of this country refuse to provide basic health insurance for full time workers while paying them extremely low wages. While unions can be a giant pain, their original intention was to give workers basic rights that owners refused to provide.

There certainly is a balance and this cartoon is just a extreme stereotype. Lots of unions are now realizing unless they compromise on previous terms, the companies are going to shut down and everyone will lose their jobs.

Just a thought- maybe if corporations had voluntarily provided more basic benefits to their workers to begin with, unions wouldn't have gained the traction they did in the US and become the monsters they have.

Ok, brainy conservatives, I need some help understanding something. I just noticed today is officially Surround Them Day.

First of all, it is great to see conservatives taking time out of their busy schedules to organize protests and even take to the streets for what they believe in.

But onto my point of inquiry and where I need some intellectual direction.

You hold Glenn Beck in high esteem. I have spent some time analyzing Glenn Beck's Nine Priciples and need clarification because depending on how you interpret them, I may agree with all of them.

In all, I have three specific questions.

First, let's review The Nine Principles:

1. America is good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

Right off the bat, interpreting them as I see fit, I agree with all of them. However, we may see different meanings in the same words. Three of them in particular deserve some clarification.

Question #1 –
Do you agree with these clarifications?

Principle #2 – I believe that all citizens have the right to freely worship God as they please, provided they do not infringe on other citizen's rights.

Principle #7 – I believe that under no circumstances that income taxes are considered charitable donations.

Principle #5 is the one that really causes the biggest confusion. Every rule references “I, Me, and My” except for #5 which instead references “YOU”. Because of this, Rule #5 can clearly directly conflict with all the other rules. (As an aside, Justice is not blind, nor is it always fair. Conservatives can site plenty of cases in which people have been convicted of crimes they did not commit. This is probably the one statement out of all the principles that is unequivocally false.)

Question #2-
Is the use of “YOU” instead of “I” intentional?

Question #3-
Does Rule #5 (abiding by the laws of our nation or facing the penalty) actually determine and limit what your actions are when committing yourself to upholding the other eight principles?

While I may not agree with most of what I read at your site, I always hope to be enlightened. Today is no different.

Ok, brainy conservatives, I need some help understanding something. I just noticed today is officially Surround Them Day.

First of all, it is great to see conservatives taking time out of their busy schedules to organize protests and even take to the streets for what they believe in.

But onto my point of inquiry and where I need some intellectual direction.

You hold Glenn Beck in high esteem. I have spent some time analyzing Glenn Beck's Nine Priciples and need clarification because depending on how you interpret them, I may agree with all of them.

In all, I have three specific questions.

First, let's review The Nine Principles:

1. America is good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

Right off the bat, interpreting them as I see fit, I agree with all of them. However, we may see different meanings in the same words. Three of them in particular deserve some clarification.

Question #1 –
Do you agree with these clarifications?

Principle #2 – I believe that all citizens have the right to freely worship God as they please, provided they do not infringe on other citizen's rights.

Principle #7 – I believe that under no circumstances that income taxes are considered charitable donations.

Principle #5 is the one that really causes the biggest confusion. Every rule references “I, Me, and My” except for #5 which instead references “YOU”. Because of this, Rule #5 can clearly directly conflict with all the other rules. (As an aside, Justice is not blind, nor is it always fair. Conservatives can site plenty of cases in which people have been convicted of crimes they did not commit. This is probably the one statement out of all the principles that is unequivocally false.)

Question #2-
Is the use of “YOU” instead of “I” intentional?

Question #3-
Does Rule #5 (abiding by the laws of our nation or facing the penalty) actually determine and limit what your actions are when committing yourself to upholding the other eight principles?

While I may not agree with most of what I read at your site, I always hope to be enlightened. Today is no different.