To start off with, the head of the Republican party stated from day one that their prime objective would be to make sure Obama was a one term President no matter what the cost. They would make sure that nothing would get done and all Obama's work would be derailed. They were not interested in making sure the people or economy was taken care of, just derailing Obama. Unfortunately, the people, the real tax payers are the ones who paid the cost. We lost jobs while the corporations sat on tons of money. We lost our homes while the banks sat on tons of bailout money they arranged to get as Bush left office leaving Obama no legal recourse but to let them have what was done before he took office. We are at the lowest dependence on foreign oil ever in history, our energy demand is also at the lowest but the corporations which back the Republican party have refused to lower the price of gas while attaining record making profits. Obama tried to push for better gas mileage but was derailed by Republicans.

The problem with social security is that Bush and his buddies borrowed the money to fight the pissy little wars rather than raise taxes for them. Consequently the money is dwindling, and the debt is artificially high as they owe the money to our SS fund. I don't know what people you are referring to who should not get SS but there s plenty of money left there by people who work all their lives and don't live long enough to collect it. Anyone who is killed in a car accident and has no minor children leaves their money in the pot. Any unmarried person who dies before collecting leaves their money in the pot, as do all gay people these days. In order to collect SS, you have to pay into it if you haven't paid into it there is a separate fund known as SSI, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a Federal income supplement program funded by general tax revenues (not Social Security taxes): It is designed to help aged, blind, and disabled people, who have little or no income; and it provides cash to meet basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter.

You have a point when it comes to campaign reform, it has not been reformed in 35 years, and again any attempts at reform have been stalled by the Republicans. Just this year they stalled a bill to disclose campaign contributions. Ron Paul one of the others ie not R or D says that campaign reform is unconstitutional. A conservative Supreme Court has established that corporations are people so until we fight the Citizens United, reform will not come.

People in the US generally are wasteful consumers who are spoiled and have no gratitude for their lifestyle. They want everything, new, shiny, and cheap, there is never enough for the lower middle class and up. They often feel entitled like you. You feel you are entitled to your opinion and you obviously like to complain but you don’t know what you are talking about.

May you produce offspring everytime you have sex until you die. May you have to hand pump the milk from the mother's breast to feed the child. May you be forced to breathe the fouled air that comes from not going green. May your family bleed from the violence that stems from the war on drugs that would be better fought with legalization and rehab. May your son go to prison for having sex with his 16 year old girlfriend as soon as he turns 18. May all you daughters be raped and get pregnat because their bodies thought it was okay. May your brain atrophy further so that you cease to be able to bother the rest of us with your drivel.....old gypsy curse on people like you

"Recreational sex"? Many of these ladies are married, and if they didn't engage in sex their husbands would get really cranky. So why begrudge them at least the choice of not getting pregnant every year? And your insurance costs would go UP if it had to pay for her pregnancy, delivery and then insure another child.

Corporations are owned by shareholders- if your a shareholder and think the guy managing often hundreds of thousands of employees is paid too much sell the shares. You don't get to dictate what salaried shareholders can pay the people they hire to manage their company- goofball. A-rod gets paid $100,000,000 a year to hit a ball but that seems reasonable to you i beat. And what about movie stars- should we decide that the most a movie star ca get paid is $1,000,000 a movie? Shareholders elect a board and that board hires management and pays them what they feel is necessary to get the most talented guy - like a steve jobs- that can build the company - and which also makes it possible to hire employees as well make a profit for shareholders.
Hiring an incompetent and inexperienced manager can result in horrible consequences as America has discovered in the four years that a community organizer- really he was just living off his wife's real job of course- was hired to run the largest organization in the world. Managing a giant organization successfully takes incredible and rare talent- no less than playing the violin at concert level - you clearly have no understanding of business and economics and corporate structure. You probably even went to college- taking greek classic classes does take its toll doesn't it?

This issue does come up, but I think the problem is that we don't know what to do about it. No matter, Americans are much more concerned about how the poor use their meager food stamp allotments.