I think it has been proven more time that not that the person holding themselves out as the 'ruler or yard stick' most of the times don't measure up.  By the way, everyone's opinion is valid.

As long as we have a two party political system there are bound to be different opinions.  Heaven forbid if we had more than two policital parties, not a damn thing would ever change or get done.

Oh, this is just my opinion, valid as anyone's. 

Yeah, America.

So, the Earth is flat? That's the opinion of the flat Earth Society now. (They still exist). If all opinions are suppose to be valid.

We have a five party system. Works just fine. Your system is a republic (Yes, it is) while ours is a democracy,

Hardly.

 So scharchuk you are basically saying the most rich, powerful and influential society in human history has no idea what they are doing. Well that's your opinion ... Oh wait maybe the earth is flat.

And to say that Philly does not have a valid opinion is just BS. What are you the pope. 

Not anymore. Money can not buy true happiness no matter had many lies you've been told. You don't realize just how close you truly are to the edge. Reagan/Bush (Sr./Jr.) have really screwed you into a deep hole. I mean it. So deep your great grand-kids couldn't get out of it.

(BTW, remember Rome? They rotted from within from the same arrogance that you are showing.)

If it is based on actual facts and not manipulated ones then sure his opinion would be valid, but from the post 30 years of history it will should the it is invalid.

Is it your opinion that the pope is flawless? What's your proof? Everyone is entitled to have their own opinion, no one is entitled to be correct. You have to earn it. As we all know the right-wing propaganda of the last 30 years has tried to hide, or distort, the truth that is showing itself all too well now. I feel sorry for what is about to happen to America by its own hand........

In your opinion.

    I laugh at your brutal reality.

     A rose by any other name is still a rose. A nation in decline is just that. The effects of November 2009 are still being felt. 'Bank of America' is foreclosing on 400 some odd thousand homes in 23 states. That many more without a home. Granted most bit off more than they could chew but ...... loans were easy to get, The banks handed them out at pretty good rates then came the recession and the banks had to 'pay up' as it were and the money wasn't there. So now they're going after all those who can't keep up the payments for whatever reason to recoup their losses. Those two big mortgage houses went belly up and took the whole damn world with them. Those two big mortgage houses live on Wall Street in the good ole' US of A. American companies screwed it up for everyone. It so happens that most of what they did to get where they were prior to the fall was done during the Bush administration, Jr. not Sr.

     So, in some respects Sharchuk's point is valid while in others it is not. Philly0381 voiced his opinion as is everyone's right according to the first amendment or was it the fourth, Anyway ... the right to speak freely and say what's on your mind, valid or otherwise. You have a right to voice your opinion. Everyone has. No one person can deny them that. So, for the record, both opinions are valid, to each person. They need not agree. There is evidence to support both views and you can find that in the news. Every day.

     A tiny glimpse. Health care is a joke. Affordable housing is a joke, Social Security is a joke, The government is a joke too. That's not all they have in common either. This too ...... none of them work! My two cents. 

ad spot to be Philly ... You posted as I was writing mine. Oops!

Everybody send starkers all your old smelly six day old socks, the ones that stand up by themselves and whatever stinky, rotten, moldy oldy type stuff you got so he can be at his absolute corruptible worst. There, that's a good plug ... right?