Cary L Nickel Profile

Farmington, NM

Farmington leads US in percentage of mobile homes

Have you seen what a pack of Marlboro's goes for in U.S. now, thanks to Obama's tax increase on tobacco?  (3 hrs ago | post #90)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Wow. Leftists really DON'T have any core values, do they? They will just twist anything any way they want in attempts to make their argument. So you consider Wal-Mart to be a "mom and pop" business? That's bizarre. Are you anti-union as well? http://www.iqunion s.org/walmart-unet hical-work-practic es.html  (3 hrs ago | post #165)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

How Sam Walton achieved success, and how the company is run today, are in no way related to each other. McDonald's used to actually be owned by a couple of guys with the last name of McDonald too...but that doesn't mean they serve the best food.  (8 hrs ago | post #163)

Farmington, NM

Farmington leads US in percentage of mobile homes

Aw heck, I wasn't going to spoil the fun for my earlier antagonist as he or she went off the do their own investigation, but since your all going to spill the beans, I might as well give: I, too, thought the tires were there just for weight to hold down the roof. But turns it's not just weight of the tires that does the job. Because the tires are there, they break up the force of the wind blowing across the surface of the roof, causing the air to swirl around the tires. The swirling air cannot develop the lift necessary to remove the roofing. Apparently, if you strapped tires along the leading edges of an airplane's wing, the plane wouldn't be able to fly for the very same reason. See, I told you it was all scientifical and junk!!!  (9 hrs ago | post #88)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Did you not read post 152?  (9 hrs ago | post #161)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

You still haven't addressed your belief that Wal-Mart deserves to decimate the mom and pop business' in each town it does business in because of it's global business model. Nor have you addressed your belief that mom and pop deserve to go out of business because they can't compete with Wal-Mart. Instead, you diverted all of the attention to me, personally. Why is that? Since you believe in "personal accountability ", then you agree with me that government should not be involved in the private sector, correct? Government should provide a level playing field for all private sector business, no more, and no less. Then the private sector can sink or swim as warranted, correct?  (14 hrs ago | post #158)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

It's your party, and you cry if you want to.  (14 hrs ago | post #157)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Thank you for making this thread all about me, but I really don't warrant all of your attention. This thread is about what government should, and should not, do. Mistakes by Republicans? Reagan supporting amnesty for illegals. He even admitted it was a mistake later in life. Bush supporting the bank bailouts. I said let 'em fail. Good thing a Democrat did? John F. Kennedy tried to return the United States to lawful money...but it might have gotten him killed. Now, if we are going to discuss anything further, it should probably be current news, and the fact that it is being learned that the Obama Administration has become the most corrupt White House we've had for decades.  (14 hrs ago | post #156)

Farmington, NM

Farmington leads US in percentage of mobile homes

I've seen that myself, and often wondered why. Then I did a bit of internet research, and the answer surprised me. There's a scientific principle behind the practice, and it isn't what most people think. But I'm not telling, because I don't want to ruin your personal sense of discovery. As for my tires, they're firmly attached to my vehicles. And contrary to your theory, I have no fear of people stealing my tires. Quite the contrary, I have found people are afraid to steal my tires, because I always travel armed.  (22 hrs ago | post #80)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Just like a leftist: It's never the government's fault, it's always the private sector's fault. I guess the fact that these companies already had branches in other states, or started in other states and opened offices here when the business climate was favorable, doesn't matter to you either. Know your history: The first major oil and gas strikes took place in the northeast and upper midwest. Pennsylvania, Western New York, Ohio, Northern Indiana. That was oil and gas country in 1900. Your business theory supports the idea that Wal-Mart is a superior retail establishment, and deserves it's place in the community, because they are able to undercut local mom and pop business due to their worldwide business model, regardless of economic conditions or the area's tax structure. So, the mom and pop's deserve to fail if they can't cut it when the state raises their taxes and Wal-Mart comes to town, eh? Interesting perspective from the supposed "Party of the Little Man".  (23 hrs ago | post #152)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Another reason to never vote Democrat: Today's Democrat Party is the last bastion of institutionalized racism left in this country. Democrats merely moved blacks from the plantations to the projects.  (23 hrs ago | post #150)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Those Republicans are representing their constituency and doing exactly what they were elected to do. And your nonsensical view belies your ignorance once again. The left's insistence upon over-regulation plays right into the hands of multi-national corporations, which can afford to pay the increased costs. Conoco-Phillips, BP, and Halliburton have held on longest in San Juan County precisely because they have a world-wide business model. It's the small players who either went out of business or vacated New Mexico first, because they were the ones who couldn't afford the increased costs New Mexico levied against them. The Democrat Party and multi-national corporations have a symbiotic relationship that cannot be refuted. You are simply deceived, which is nothing new. It's time you wise up.  (Yesterday | post #146)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Again, your ignorance of the natural gas business is telling. Do you have natural gas service in Santa Fe? Natural gas prices, to the consumer, are very, very low. They have been for several years now. Now is not the time to legislate the industry out of New Mexico over faulty science, phony data, scare tactics, and a zeal to subsidize so-called "alternative " energy. I know leftists don't like being called leftists...but you are what you are, and I call them as I see them.  (Yesterday | post #145)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Thanks for vote of confidence, but they'll never get me down. I believe in the free market, and in personal liberty, and I know that modern government is killing both. But time is on our side. Someone has to pick up the pieces when it all goes wrong. And I have no doubt, whatsoever, that it WILL go wrong. The leftist house of cards cannot continue to stand for much longer.  (Yesterday | post #142)

Farmington, NM

Farmington city council strikes down proposed Albuquerque...

Wrong again there Lobo. I've voted Libertarian, I've voted Reform, I've voted Independent, and I've voted GOP. However, I will NEVER, EVER, EVER vote for anyone who associates his or her self with the traitorous modern Democrat Party. The modern Democrat Party represents everything vile in the United States, from infanticide to death panels, from coddling criminals to punishing job creators and successful people, from gun control to legalizing drugs, from limiting personal liberty to over regulating everything under the sun, from causing inflation through insane monetary policy to creating the conditions for high prices on everything due to manipulating the market, today's Democrat Party is wrong on every issue, and wrong for America. What's more, it would appear from almost daily news reports that today's Democrat Party, and the people who lead it, are the most corrupt of any we've seen in decades.  (Yesterday | post #141)