I wish I had access to the audio from the local radio ad for John Edwards here in the Mason City, IA, market.  It features a guy who lost his job when a factory closed.  The guy says we need Edwards in Washington to stand up for the little guy.  Obviously business owes its workers jobs, and if they close a plant, the only conclusion you can draw is that they're screwing the little guy.

I don't find that refreshing.  I find that manipulative and cruel.  It gives people false hope.  It also means there are people who don't understand that it's up to them to take care of themselves.  Unfortunately, people lose jobs.  Sometimes it's unjust, but most of the time it's just life.  No one in Washington can guarantee that it won't happen to you or me or anyone else. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

This isn't a Nanny State...

 "What's that? So now you say 'Life sucks!'"

Well, 99% of life is what you make it, so if your life sucks, YOU suck!"  - Suicidal Tendencies, "Gotta Kill Captain Stupid" 

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

I'd say that asking Hillary Clinton -- or any politician for that matter -- to "fix my life" is foolhardy . . . and sad.

Not sad...pathetic.

This is what many citizens have come to expect from government....what are you going to do for me???

Jeez, look at Hillary Clinton's Christmas ad...all the "presents" she's going to give the American people..uiversal pre-K, universal health care...oh, AND a tax break (that's if she doesn't do a "Bill" and whine that she worked on that harder than anything else in her life, but couldn't do it!). That's the name of the game...who's got the most goodies.

Years ago, Sir Keith Joseph, a British gentleman, commented that Britain was becoming a "pocket money society."

The money quote. from a speech by Liam Fox, MP:
First, the Labour Government was appropriating more and more of
people's take home pay. It was turning adults' earnings into little
more than children's allowances.
Second, as well as leaving people with less and less of their own
money, Labour was taking out of their hands the important decisions
that affected them and their families. From the education of their
children to saving for retirement, the big decisions increasingly
became the function of a so-called benevolent state. Like pocket money,
people's earnings were there to be spent on the trivialities of life;
not the serious stuff.

Sound familiar?

I was contemplating every evil and good world shaping person from Hitler, Stalin to Lincoln, Reagan.

None of these people ever uttered the term, HOW IS GOVERNMENT GOING TO FIX MY LIFE.

Sure the dictators will promise the bleating sheep of socialism and communism a bed, a potatoe and a nice grave to die for, because people never understand that Eurasia sucks in being a place where caste systems control lives in cartel's control all the cash and land so no one ever has a chance at being a billionaire unless you are George Soros who is a funded communist meant to wage war on the western nations to so screw up their governments and resources that communists can then tell Iowa sheep, "We will fix your life".

I was reading again the Civil War.........no not that dolt Ken Burns leftist weirdo garbage, but the real policy decisions taken, the real policies President Lincoln set for blacks, the real policies President Andrew Johnson implemented for blacks and the real polices General George Custer carried out for blacks in Texas.

Yes General Custer was a shaper of the American Civil Rights movement which will probably shock most people. He was sent by the Government to march across Texas in 1866 to bring order to that slave state. The people cherished him and in policy he soon found freed blacks unwilling to work and DEMANDING THE SAME THING IOWA DEMOCRATS ARE.

General Custer, who was a Democrat of all things and voted Republican, told the blacks the Army was not going to feed them nor was the government, so they were to quite following it around and were to go back to the former plantations and go to work as hired workers. And they did just that and set the foundation of the successful families which America now sees.

I will be the first to admit that I rely on God one thousand percent for running the life He gave me. If I don't know how to run my life.........the last thing in this world is a group of idiot people in government trying to "fix my life". The world is full of dolts who always know how to run someone else's life and ten times out of ten it will only bring misery and failure.

As each year goes by, I become more convinced that I do not want the people of Iowa or New Hampshire picking who will lead this nation as they are so screwed up they always pick wrong and it falls to the later states to try and undo the "fix my life" attitude those rather over blessed in material wealth Iowans seem to suck tit on to quote a Lincoln phrase.

Iowans have got to figure it out. Life is a mix of 90 percent drudgery, 9 percent misery and 1 percent joy. The Russians had a proverb which went, You are born, you suffer and then you die.
You can't fix life, because God made life here a strenuous struggle in order to grow a Spirit in people to change them into Spiritual children who will never die.

So Iowa and Democrats face the fact that life is a pisser most days and your "fixing it" is turning it into the Niagra Falls of urinals for the rest of Americans.

Flush the toilet, pretend you have a good life, say your prayers, be a good citizen, obey the 10 Commandments and enjoy what you can.........that is life.

Merry Christmas............Jesus was born in a barn and put in a feed trough. That ain't great but that is life and He turned out ok without Rome or the Jews fixing it.

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The best way any politician can fix my life is to stay out of it! They can do what they are supposed to do, keep the military strong to protect the nation, deliver the mail, enforce ALL THE LAWS and keep their hands off my money! If they stick to that it would be a start! MERRY CHRISTMAS

Wasn't it Renaldus Magnus who said: "The most feared words in the English language are: Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help!"?

I'll call a psychiatrist.