The problem is half the world wants different things out of a government. You can break everyone down into two categories.

1. To create a world where each year, everyone has the opportunities to live a better life then the life they lived last year.

2. To create a world where each year, everyone is guaranteed a better minimum standard of living then the standard they had the last year.

To achieve either of those, is to sacrifice the other. Until everyone wants the same thing, we will never achieve anything.

While you could say that it is a matter of semantics, I have always seen the difference between people who support capitalism and people who support socialism based on how people would define equality. People who are supporters of a more capitalistic economic system tend to favour the concept of equality of opportunity whereas supporters of socialism tend to favour the concept of equality of outcomes. In both cases there is a realization that the ideal outcome can not be met at the current time, but you see their view of equality showing up in issues all the time.

Using education as an example, if you had two students with roughly the same academic record that both wanted to go to University but one was from a wealthy family and the other was from a poor family you would (likely) have to different views of what makes this a fair or equal situation. If there is a way for the poorer student to go to a university which is not too unreasonable (possibly going to a local school while living at home and working with some debt and/or scholarships) then he has the same opportunity for higher education and most people who believe in equality of opportunity would have no problem with this situation. In contrast, someone who believes in equality of outcomes would think that this situation could only be fair if money was no longer a consideration and the poorer student had the same exact access to education as the wealthier student.

How. The. Fuck.
Unions were necessary back in the day, but they do no good except to scam in today's ever greedy society.

Obama is prbly just pissed that his transparency is transparent enough to let the public see the Dems shenanigans.

Romney will beat him in '12.

Good post, although when I said everyone has the opportunity to live a better life, I meant the poor person has more opportunity each year, and a rich man has more opportunity each year. I did not mean to say they each had the same opportunity, just that each was improved.

The thing is that there will never be a perfect society. There will always be people who can never be pleased. It seems like everyone hates the current administration in lieu of the fact that it is an improvement over the previous one.

But that's just it. It's not an improvement over the last one. Take everything you hated about Bush, and look at how Obama has acted with respect to the same issue.

War, Economy, Bank bailouts, Wall Street, Wire tapping, Gitmo.. every one of them are just as bad, if not worse, with Obama then they were with Bush.

Nothing is better today, then it was the day Obama took office... nothing.

I suppose you're right, but complaining on the internet is not a good investment of time by any of us on this issue. The problem nowadays is that even if the candidate is bad nobody is holding the government and it's many deformed feet to the fire.

And thats your typical response.

Umm.. you cut out where I explained myself from my response, while the quote I quoted was the entire post.

How can you change my response, and they it's my typical response?