I'm sure some politician will get a touch of "its huge cash reserves" and bow the knee to their whims.

I'm actually SHOCKED to hear the have "huge cash reserves" - I constantly hear about them having cable and internet outages and bandwidth problems. They obviously aren't intending to use those funds to better their product.

Dang it, dude, you actually started an intelligent (I hope) discussion instead of 'loud capping' with something like:

"'High fat foods make you dumb': that explains how I end up on Slashdot after pizza for lunch."

Just because a bully becomes a victim doesn't mean the bully gets changed from being who they are or what they've done.

Ah, it's refreshing to have a great laugh before Noon.

Typical.

The Social Security System, which I would love to see abolished, if not privatized, isn't the only system abused by the U.S. Congress.

Actually, the core issue is that someone holding the purse strings thinks the work is worth $18 million dollars.

Yeah, gravel roads aren't a requirement for that to happen... but I can believe it'll happen more often... unless they travel slower on gravel and it just doesn't happen without higher speeds.

Both their and your motivation sounds like 'capitalism at work' to me.

Whether Republicans or Democrats are up in arms about this or not, the real problem is that, while both parties have been WELL aware of this/these loopholes, it only now that President Obama is calling them a "scam".

That, label, in itself, is a scam. This label comes from a lawyer, who like all lawyers, liberally use laws to get around things like: regulations and, sadly, justice.

Of course people with poorer backgrounds and lack of access to education will tend to embrace all the stuff that the Mullah/Priest/Minister indoctrinate them with.

Like this story about an embalmed man being raised from the dead?

Either these guys are a bunch of liars or a dead man was raised back to life. The freedom to believe is yours.

God, by definition, is able.

So, it's up to you to decide whether you believe the definition of God: whether God is able to do such things or not.

You might then have to decide whether God would do such a thing or not.

Besides that, and more importantly, what is harder to believe: Jesus of Nazareth was born of a Virgin or that he died for the forgiveness of everyone's sins?

These are all miracles after all.

Congress might be working on that already.... and they should.

"-1 Offtoppic"

Sour pusses: that was funny even though it did include 'first post'.