Let the free market decide. If people are willing to work for less, all the better for the business owners.

If you're so certain of your prognostications, Mr. Batzel, put your money where your mouth is. Let's make a bet.

I presume you mean Hebrew, since that's the original language of the Old Testament. The New Testament was originally written in Greek. If you'd like to give me a history of the term "retzach" and its various translations and interpretations, I'm all ears. We both have access to the same book. Our interpretations are our own. And, for most people, those interpretations conveniently reinforce and support their political beliefs.

Show me a devout Christian Republican who votes against environmental stewardship and care for the impoverished - and votes for the death penalty and continued war - and I will show you a poser and a liar.

*Citation needed*

If, before you were born, you could select your ethnicity and gender, which would you choose? Which combination would give you the easiest path through life? I'm guessing not many people would be willing to trade in their white privilege for black skin.

As much as you might like to speak in generalizations, neither party has a monopoly on military action. Both are equally invested in maintaining the status-quo military-industrial complex.

Brief comparison: Obama: Presided over the killing of Bin Laden; the ousting of Qadaffi (no U.S. casualties); constant drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan; the end of the war in Iraq; democratic revolutions in Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain. Bush: Presided over the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil; the beginning of two wars (one disastrous, the other a bit less so); a fundamental realignment on U.S. attitudes toward detainment, intelligence gathering, and torture (largely continued by the Obama administration); the capture and killing of Saddam Hussein; numerous other successful military strikes.

Anyone recall George W. Bush "spiking the football" on an aircraft carrier with a huge "Mission Accomplished" banner behind him? Anyone? Your selective outrage is outrageous.