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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from rhaacke]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The way that all citizens can help with the economic turnaround is by striving to be productive and by living within their means. The give away, something for nothing mentallity is the biggest reason that the world is in trouble. It doesn't matter if it is the rich or the poor that are getting the &quot;freebies&quot;. It is the &quot;freebies&quot; that are the problem. Eventually someone will have to pay for them. We've spent to the point where any honest economist will tell you that there is no way we will ever be able to return the full value of our debt to our creditors. Giving away more money we don't have to pay people for jobs that don't need doing will not change that. If it did we would only need to run some more money off a printing press to make everyone wealthy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from emilymhanson]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think you would be a great protest vote.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Gradivus]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[No use running as an independent; your policies and proposed solutions are decidedly Democrat Party. You're a Clinton Democrat suffering under an Obama presidency.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from nchrist]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[can you post some kind of initial &quot;Scott Adams for President&quot; poster art that we can put on our Facebook, Google , etc. pages.  Maybe it could link back to your blog so that when someone sees it they can click on the picture to learn more about your candidacy via your writings here.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dougdb]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Of course I'll vote for you.  Actually you converted me years ago because, to this day, I still don't set my alarm for anytime that is divisable by 15 and that has been a very long time.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from hankfu]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott since you mentioned Bill Clinton, do you also intend to follow his strategy of doing nothing worthy of note and taking credit for any random positive event that occurs during your administration while blaming all negative events on something the opposition did?  Worked for Slick Willy, why not you?  Republicans and Democrats as you rightfully point out are all part of the same system like &quot;professional&quot; wrestling.  Bad guy one day, good guy next, everyone gets a turn at wearing the belt.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dogbertforking]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You should just run as a Republican so we can learn from the media of your scandalous past.

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from outdabox]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, while you have some good ideas, there is already one candidate who fits the bill &quot;none of the above&quot; and is consistently ignored by the media as a result. Someone with decades of experience and a consistent message. Someone who is not afraid to upset the status quo and has a real plan to turn this country away from the precipice it's on. He's not Hollywood enough for most, but is a true statesman and deserving of trust. Him, I will vote for. Ron Paul for President.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Hazden]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[So we would replace Obama with a different wealthy liberal?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from dfhagen]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you seen Brewster's Millions? 
http://movieclips.com/3ZV5-brewsters-millions-movie-none-of-the-above/]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from shinobun]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You make me feel like voting for you...

However, I don't think you're tall enough.
Have you noticed that every candidate and Obama are at least 6 feet tall?
(Except for Bachmann, which is why she can't win.)

Also, anybody who is rational/practical enough to vote for you,
will realize that the ROI of voting itself is too low, and won't even bother to go to the booth.  :p]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from sjanlaird]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think the extra employee should get to wear the purple bracelet. That way everyone knows who the office &quot;spare&quot; is.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tkwelge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&gt;Note that most people that don't like this post are put down by the &quot;sacrifice/ color bracelet&quot; thing. I would put it that it is not the government that is broke (each people gets the government that it deserves), but that there is something wrong with morality. The sense of community is fading. And we know where that comes from. 

Constant violent threats as a means of running society?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from BobNL]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Note that most people that don't like this post are put down by the &quot;sacrifice/ color bracelet&quot; thing. I would put it that it is not the government that is broke (each people gets the government that it deserves), but that there is something wrong with morality. The sense of community is fading. And we know where that comes from.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from tkwelge]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[&gt;For starters, I would ask every citizen to contribute to our economic turnaround in whatever way each of us is best suited. I'd ask rich people to hire a few more people than they would otherwise prefer. For the unemployed, I'd ask them to actively work on their job skills by taking classes, volunteering as unpaid interns, or whatever it takes. And I'd ask everyone to exercise daily and eat right, to keep our national energy high and our health care costs low.

Or we could realize that we're not the borg collective.  How do you define an economic turnaround? Why do people have to work?  If you find a job that you love and you think it pays well, have at it, and I'm definitely not against retraining yourself, but the idea that people need jobs or to be productive (productivity of course is defined loosely as contributing to arbitrary aggregates like GDP) is missing the point.  JObs are a means to an end, not an end in and of themselves.  

We could &quot;solve&quot; most of our problems with a philosophical awakening rather than technocratic fixes (that are actually just another form of philosophy being slammed down everyone's throats).  I don't even understand what it is that Scott is trying to accomplish.  It just seems like a bunch of shuffling around of resources in order to placate an angry mob of materialists who are wondering where their corner office is.

That's just it; the OWS crowd is not &quot;slackers.&quot;  They are hard working individuals who have been told all of their lives that if you study and work hard, opportunities will follow.  Over time, people switched from trying to accomplish real goals to simply trying to maintain a materialistic lifestyle, and extend it as much as possible.  This is the problem with neoliberal economics being sold to our children as the  only philosophy.  All real meaning has been stripped away, and we are now just Sisyphus, rolling the bolder up a hill for eternity.  

The truth is that you don't need the house and the car.  You don't need the retirement cruises in the bahamas.  You don't need to live to be 80.  None of these things are intrinsically good in any objective way.  It isn't worth enslaving yourself to the government, corporations, or anybody else to simply chase a materialistic existence.  We've spent so much time focusing on our own materialism and technocratic metrics that we have all forgotten the big picture.  Now we squabble about whose country has a 3 year higher life expectancy, a slightly lower infant mortality rate, or 5% higher PISA scores.  

Your life can be whatever you want it to be.  It doesn't have to be this way.  Maybe our problems are mostly philosophical rather than technical?  

I'm rather blazed, so this may sound like a rant, but I'm just trying to get a point of view across.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from bob202]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I know this is off the subject, but I couldn't find your &quot;True Tales of Induhviduals&quot;. If you discontinued this, shame on you.

Anywho - I have to share this email excerpt from my boss: &quot;Please note that while this [meeting] invitation is for 2:00 â€“ 2:30, plan to be there 2:15 - 3:30&quot;.

I have no explanation for this - or even a smart remark. But I can't know this all to myself.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Ecks]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hey Scott, do you have any semi-accurate numbers for how many unique, real people read your blog?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Homerhoff]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Your end goal is at least somewhat related to what has happened in Canadian politics over the last 20 years.  An upshot, grassroots party with roots in the conservative west sprang up to become very popular.  It created a lot of upheaval:  the country became more geographically divided, the left (the Liberal party) became more centrist, and the right became splintered.  For about a decade the Liberals were almost untouchable.  Interestingly, the right coalesced under a new version of the Conservative party, and now the Liberal party is trying to regroup, having suffered its worst defeat ever in the last election.  Both sides have had their timeout, and though some would disagree with me, I would say it's knocked both main parties down a peg or two in the process.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from cpbrown1]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott Adams for President
    Vote Different]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Phantom II]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[p.s. so you won't think I was swearing, the words that the blog censorship program replaced were b l o o d - s u c k i n g.  The sentenced should have read, &quot;Scott's self-aggrandizing efforts would be much better placed if he used his not-insignificant prestige to try to persuade people to stop thinking of the government like their parents and think of it more like a big fat b l o o d - s u c k i n g leech.&quot;

I still wish he could change the stupid blog software.  Enough said.]]></description>
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