WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Bill Clinton jokes that since he's not the president anymore, nobody listens to him.

"I can't run for anything," Clinton said Tuesday. "The good news is I can say whatever I think."

But since he's the only Democrat who's been elected president in the past quarter century, many Democrats are willing to listen when Clinton talks about how to win.

Being a small investor doesn't mean that you don't have a voice in how mega-corps operate. One of highly effective tools used by individual investors is the shareholder resolution, which has been increasing over the years. According to the Investor Responsibility Research Center, number of shareholder resolutions has gone from 721 in 1999 to 1,163 so far in 2004.

One thing that I'll agree with the Socialists is the fact that the wealthy benefited the most from Bush's tax cut and his tax cut wasn't as effective has he wished it'd be in improving the economy.

This is where the agreement ends. Your typical Socialist will use this fact to make you feel helpless in order to gain support for their cause. I will tell you what Socialists won't so that you can actually learn something from it.

An average car will lose 25% of its value (some better, some worse) per one year of normal driving. That's a bad news for the person who bought the car new, a good news for someone who's buying used.

Car manufacturers make billions of dollars per year. That doesn't mean that you need to be one of those people who contributes to their profit. Make yourself richer instead by buying used and let the other person spend his/her own money foolishly.

If you get screwed by a company, don't just sit there and be mad. Even if that company is a gaint mega-corporation, you have the resources do make things right.

While I believe that no one can be totally unbiased as all of us grew up with different values and experiences, here's one political website that I believe is fairy balanced.

OpenSecrets.org

Granted, I'm not fan of the Socialists, but I'm open minded and I am willing to listen to the opposing view. The problem with most Socialists here on Slashdot is that they either refuse to product any proofs to back up their claims or use a blatantly biased source as a proof. Using sources such as rationalrevolution.net and mindfully.org to argue for being a socialist is like using peta.org to argue for being a vegetarian or using nra.org to argue for gun ownership.

The reason why I dislike Socialists is that they want the government to do things for them that they can do for themselves. Do we really need more government intervention in our daily lives than we have now?