It was a big fight. DuPont spent a lot of money trying to block regulation; until they found a replacement chemical.

Then they conceded the fight (because they could concede and still make just as much money).

I don't think there's any way to avoid that. You'll never get someone who agrees with you 100% unless you run yourself.

The things I look for are:
1) Competency
2) Good character
3) Won't mess up the world by starting wars
4) Won't mess up the economy with weird domestic policies (privatize social security, for example, or a $20 national minimum wage).

Someone who systematically kills millions of people deserves a worse name than 'assholes.'

You have to balance that against the fact that there will probably be Republican control of one or both houses of congress. Any time either party gets too much control, they go crazy, including payouts for constituents, etc.

In any case, how would you see him compared to Hillary?

Bernie Sanders........who says, "no single financial institution should have holdings so extensive that its failure would send the world economy into crisis. If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist."

I can sure support him on that. Paul Volcker says the same thing. Reading through his Wikipedia entry, I don't agree with him on everything, but he seems like a clear-minded and decent guy.

Is there any candidate who does not support H1Bs? Serious question.

Wow, thanks for the query. It has all kinds of entertaining things to see [last link is barely sfw].

btw, if you ask me (and no reason you should), then I would say what Paul Volcker said (who is more qualified than any of the bankers trusted by Obama). He said, "Any bank that needs money from the government should be closed down, or broken into pieces and sold."

That is exactly what should have happened.

That's been done.

Calling a president Hitler is obligatory.

Would you say they are.......Opportunists?

It's not an excuse. You're the one in the crappy situation who has to live with it. Sorry, mate.

That's not how government pensions work.

If you add it all up, you'll find that the taxes you pay are not enough to cover the pension + healthcare now + healthcare after retirement. That's why Portugal has a problem.

Yup.

Blaming Americans is just an excuse; the EU is bigger than America, they don't need to be pushed around.

In this case, it was European companies that were pushing. But it's easier politically to blame America. Just like US presidents always blame their predecessors for anything bad that happens.

Microsoft has one of the best internal test setups in the industry, complete with mirrored windows etc.

They failed anyway.