Great we can all have a Pow Wow......

Seriously though, I would like to know if Ms. Warren thinks our countries two party system is working and if not how she would propose fixing it. As a middle class white suburban family I do not feel either the Republican or Democratic Party represents me. From my perspective, the Republican Party is all about helping the rich get richer and giving huge tax breaks to multi-billion dollar companies and the Democratic Party is all about creating bigger government and giving out “handouts” to people without requiring them to better their situations and when they do claim to represent “the working class” it is always for Unions that have huge PAC committees. Who represents the middle class that carries this country on our backs????

I don't think its fair that the oil companies are getting all these tax breaks despite making billions of dollars in profits, while the average Joe or Jean is out of a job, or having great difficulty putting food on his or her table. What are you going to do about this unfairness?

Question for Elizabeth Warren: As a senior, I am very concerned about the future Medicare. I am very worried about Scott Brown's seeming willigness to move toward privatization of Medicare to cut the federal budget. Please explain what you will do to protect my Medicare benefits.

Question for Elizabeth Warren: Scott Brown has claimed that health care reform has brought “no substantial additional benefits to Massachusetts.” This does not ring true with me. People I work with in Attleboro now have their under 26-yearolds covered. Their elderly parents are getting a $250 rebate on prescriptions and the list (http://www.healthcare.gov/law/resources/ma.html) that makes a lie of this statement goes on. I am worried about this attempt to try to mislead the public. If you tell a lie over and over again, people begin to believe it. Remember when Scott Brown said the stimulus created "not one job" in MA? He's not new to making these kinds of claims that fly in the face of the facts. How can we get the press to push back more forcefully when false claims like this are made?

Question for Elizabeth Warren: What legislation can be enacted on campaign finance reform which would limit the influence of corporations and other special interests.

Question for Elizabeth Warren: The U.S. currently has the worlds #1 corporate tax in the world. This seems to be a trend of why companies are routinely looking to outsource or move their headquarters elsewhere. Should the focus be to reduce govt spending or continue to make corporations pay their "fair share"? Just seems taxing isn't the root of the Washington D.C. problems.

To be clear I don't like the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but to have a monopoly in the state of MA, like the Democratic Party has had is completely wrong. We need more diversification not less.

Professor Warren: The USSC has rued that the Affordable Health Care Act "mandate" as a "penalty" under the Commerce Clause is unconstitutional. It is only constitutional if is is a tax. POTUS has said it is a penalty, and not tax. Therefore, its enforcement is unconstitutional. Would you vote to impeach POTUS for enforcing legislation which he acknowledges to be unconstitutional? Would you vote to repeal the AHCA, which, according to DNC dogma is based in part on a penalty, and therefore unconstitutional? If the answer to these questions is "no," how do you reconcile this with the oath to support our Constitution which you will take if you are elected to the Senate?

Well Steve, Scott Brown has been nothing bad breath for women, the poor and the middle class. Big Oil and the wealthiest 1% have certainly found him a "breath of fresh air, however, so you are right to that extent. Where is the "diversity?" Brown has been a lock-step voter with The Party of No against the interests of most Americans. He only votes off the party line when his vote means nothing and he gets permission because he can use the vote to try to continue to fool the folks back in MA.

Wow. Your comment reads like you were singing The International and marching around your computer waving a red flag. Big oil and the wealthiest 1%. Those are really bad characters in your book, it seems. You hurl them at the Senator as insults. Being for Big Oil is bad. How are we supposed to heat our homes this winter? Big Coal? New nuke plants? The class warfare platform that POTUS and Prof. Warren are running on is the one that produced starvation in North Korea, financial disaster in the USSR (including Chernobyl), and a country-wide ecological sewer in East Germany. FDR turned a a recession into the Great Depression that lasted nearly a decade with his "soak the rich" policies. JFK ended a recession by lowering taxes and saying, " A rising tide raises all boats." All Ms. Warren's "Flea Party" produces is vandalism, violence, and mountains of human waste. And, last time I checked, she's still proud of them. Class warfare is and always has been between the Makers and the Takers. She's with the Takers 100% of the time. At least Big Oil produces things we need and jobs for people who want to work. She thinks those are bad activities, I guess.

Nope. Not nonsense. Common sense. History has proven it over and over. Socialism fails when the intelligentsia (the self proclaimed brilliant ones) run out of other people's money to spend. (M. Thatcher quote.) Either the leaders find a nearby nation to attack and plunder, or society descends into misery and poverty. Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The smug, self proclaimed elites believe that all those failures are irrelevant, because they are far smarter than the socialists who tried the system before. "We are the ones we have been waiting for," means just this. We are such geniuses that we will succeed where socialism has failed, and our workers will actually live in a paradise rather than the usual hell-hole. Arrogance, narcissism. and the heartfelt belief that anyone who disagrees with them is a fool are the breed standards. Your posts might qualify you for best in show.

Capitalism is like a teenager. Powerful, exuberant, capable of great things. As long as it is watched very carefully. This isn't about capitalism vs. socialism, it is about applying rules to the rich and powerful, to Wall Street and the banks. Ms. Warren's career has been all about that, and that's why they are funding Scott Brown. Like teenager, they don't want any rules.

Are you kidding me? Are you really comparing electing Elizabeth Warren to creating another North Korea? Are you really saying that standing up for the 99% of America will lead to the downfall of the USA? Do you really believe anyone who would not vote as you would, aka millions of Democrats, are "smug, self-proclaimed elites" and an arrogant, narcissistic "intelligensia"? Ad hominems and this sort of extremism indicate that your comments are fast approaching Godwin's law. Clue: class warfare has been waged by some on the right for years. It sounds like this -- "The upper class deserves lower taxes more than everyone else deserves bridges that hold, schools that are sufficiently staffed, fire trucks etc.".

Where does your Tea Party group meet?

Ms. Dyer. I wasn't saying electing the professor was going to turn us into NK. I was pointing out that socialism depends on taking wealth from those who have it. When they run out, the capitalist system collapses because the govt has sucked all the capital from it. North Korea was one of a list of spectacular fails that resulted
from socialism taken to its logical conclusion.

Mr. Naughton: I don't belong to the Tea Party. I don't think it exists. The term was coined to mean meetings and protests of small government conservatives. Some opportunists attempted to grab the name and put themselves in charge. They don't speak for me, and I think the vast majority of people like me feel the same.

Carol Ann: Capitalists got their capital by playing by the rules that made America the economic engine of the world. Socialists want to remake the rules by following Marx's program of taking from each what he can produce and giving to each what he needs. Great concept if mankind is noble and honest. Alas, we're not. Too many of us are lazy, and say, why produce as much as we can when we're going to get only what the commissars say we need? Resenting having your paycheck confiscated, to be passed out to the commissars' buddies is a normal reaction, and I don't think it's childish.

Stuart: I'm not following you. Any country that taxes its people is taking money from those who have it in order to redistribute it for things the country needs. Just because you don't agree with where the majority or our representatives votes the taxes to go, doesn't make us socialists. For example, I don't want my money to go to the war in Afghanistan but that's what we told our elected representatives to do with the money. You may not like the idea of providing health care to the uninsured, but that's what we told our elected representatives to do with our money. We're a republic and so we elect our representatives. We're constitutional and thus we agree to be governed as spelled out in the constitution. We have social programs for the sick, handicapped, young and old. That does not magically equate to having the central government own the oil companies, phone companies, tv stations, electric companies etc.

By the way, socialism as a concept was theoretically intended to more equitably distribute property and labor. The concept is not inherently evil. For example, the need for agrarian land reform (a socialist cause) fueled the Mexican Revolution. Whose side would you have taken?

First Stuart, you have made an assumption that socialism is about redistribution against the will of someone. That was/is not the case with monasteries. Everybody was all-in with the idea from the start that there would be no private property, only community property. It's the same way today for people who join religious orders or any other community where the social contract is for only community property. Really Stuart---Work hard and you keep what you earn? I have a 4 letter word for you to demonstrate the folly of that assumption: FORECLOSURE. It happens all the time to people who played by the rules; people who had the income to support their real estate investment. Then catastrophic illness strikes; unanticipated layoffs take place; there is a death or a divorce; ---you name the unanticipated viscisitude of life to fill in here. Then, of course, there are the children of foreclosure and then perhaps resultant homelessness who are just victims of the process. Mix in the unconscionable investment schemes that destroyed our economy after 2007 and resulted in innumerable foreclosures. Whose fault was that?

Back to my summer reading suggestions: Check out Robert Owen, a highly successful British factory owner who advocated a form of socialism. PS: "Emperor wannabes" are highly unlikey to favor socialism.

Apple Computer: 1) http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-07-28/tech/30049957_1_cash-balance-apple-debt-ceiling. Article entitled: "Apple Now Has More Cash Than the U.S. Government."

2) http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-29/tech/apple.cash.government_1_ceo-jobs-apple-cash-balance?_s=PMTECH. Article by Brandon Griggs of CNN from July 29, 2011.

@Jeanne Dyer -where you mention bridges in your post above, see if you can follow my train of thought here below. It was from a prior post, but appropriate here as well. The post was for proposed tolls on the new Sakonnet River Bridge, Tiverton, RI. As an example:

Dual Technology Patent Transfer Licenses are available from: 1) http://www.ONRGlobal.navy.mil/orta_training/nswcih_busplann_03.pdf. Entitled "Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division" and 2) http://www.ih.navy.mil/ttrans/-technology transfers and inventions. Or go along to 3) http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2009smallbusiness/Byman.pdf - The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, Small Business Opportunity -Key Points of Contact c/o Mr. David Rego at david.rego@navy.mil or Dr. Theresa Baus at theresa.baus@navy.mil. Technology Partnership Enterprise Office at 1.401.832.8728; Patent License Agreements; Dual-use Commercialization Leverages NUWC R&D; Exclusive and Non-exclusive Licenses available; License Agreements in conjunction with CRADA to support transition to commercial products.

Or consider working with other groups too, such as Space X at: 1) http://www.spacex.com.

Consider Dual Technology Patent Transfer Licenses, to help offset or completely pay for the new bridges, maintenence costs etc., thereby eliminating the need for tolls. The technology is just sitting there, put it into use.