Tea Party protesters are civil, bathed and decent.
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Rue: True enough, clearly there would have to be some removal of the wealth of the oppressors before power could even be taken back, let alone returned to the community.
THIS government is not the means to do that, though. You can say you're going to tax the rich, and heck, I like the idea, but ultimately they're just going to exploit the loopholes they've helped to create.
Any redistribution of wealth that the federal government suggests not only is probably just an illusion to soothe the discontented larger population, but probably in the end will just serve to widen the gap between wealthy and poor. That, and I don't trust the government when it gets into a confiscating mood.
The National Socialists (Nazis) ended up being fascists and put the real socialists into concentration camps, you know. All of their seizures weren't made with THE PEOPLE in mind, to redistribute the wealth, but THE NATION.
Fortunately, I like to think that the powers that be will eventually screw themselves over and take themselves out. War kind of messes with my sense of morals.
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China can't do to us anything that we don't allow to happen. We have abundant natural resources - including food and wind- if we use them wisely. Militarily... they can't touch us without extreme cost. And they can only turn us into a third-world country if we play their game.
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
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Sure seems like our feet are tapping while they're strumming those instruments and playing those flutes. Especially with corporations pretty much dictating our policy.
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If we get into the battle of the cheapest production, we will surely lose. Until we get to the realization that the captains of industry and commerce are selling us down the river we'll continue tapping our feet.
I have several ideas on what we can do quickly, but I have to get to work.
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
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I had changed my sig line for the one post to read this: "A capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with" but it disappeared.
Anyway, that was the point of my post. Capitalists are NOT interested in production, in providing goods, in innovation --- NOT in society, in the environment, in long-term viability -- NOT even in long-term business plans. They are interested in profit - the more the faster, the better - by any means necessary. That is ultimate capitalism: money making more money.
That is how WE have handed China its new role as our master.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20090409/pl_rasmussen/capitalismsoci
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rasmussenreports.com Rasmussenreports.com – Thu Apr 9, 8:37 am ET
Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.
Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Thirty-somethings are a bit more supportive of the free-enterprise approach with 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better.
Investors by a 5-to-1 margin choose capitalism. As for those who do not invest, 40% say capitalism is better while 25% prefer socialism.
There is a partisan gap as well. Republicans - by an 11-to-1 margin - favor capitalism. Democrats are much more closely divided: Just 39% say capitalism is better while 30% prefer socialism. As for those not affiliated with either major political party, 48% say capitalism is best, and 21% opt for socialism.
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I have several ideas on what we can do quickly, but I have to get to work.
Sell-out! Capitalist tool!
(By the way, I'm typing this while I'm at work.)
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
No, I'm a gubmint drone!
Anyway... before I say what I think we should do, specifically, I think we should sit down and think about what WE WANT. Not what we don't want, or are afraid of, but what we really, really want.
And I'm going to start a new thread on this cause its' getting way too long!
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Quote:Well, I appreciate the comment. When one straddles idealogy, one becomes both. It is the tragedy of our modern polarized society that we are instructed to only debate in binary ways. Red or Blue. Choose!!
Originally posted by Kwicko:
In short, you've proven yourself both a worthy adversary AND a worthwhile ally.
Well, I choose the third color in the flag.
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FYI, the person you are addressing is "Kwicko", not "kwiklip". That's me, it has been for the past 10+ years. This is an interesting thread and I will be posting in the future. I don't want to be referred to in an inflammatory context that I have never even read.
kwiklip
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