Made a few posts over on Wotmania. First time posting here.
You may not like to hear this, but corporate greed is a good thing. That "greed" is what we need to stimulate the economy. That "greed" helps create jobs. The "greedy" corporate types pay a majority of the taxes in the country. Those greedy corporations provide the majority of charitable donations. Those same corporations generate wealth for stockholders, which often includes mutual funds and 401k investments by the average Joe.
Wide brush you are using there. Many of those "ivory tower dwellers" got there by busting their ass and making the right decisions in life.
Who might these ivory tower types be? Doctors? Lawyers? Business men? People who took calculated risks to get to where they are. People who accumulated a lot of debt to get educated while living on a shoe string budget and praying it will all pay off. Yah, dam ivory tower types. Should have have to live like everyone else who refused to take chances and started a job right out of high school.
You beat that straw man! Cause those ivory tower types obviously have no sympathy for single working mothers. Strange how they are also donate the most to charities. But for the sake of righteous anger, lets forget that.
Really, living though a recession for two years will alienate people when many of those same people have lived through decades of prosperity made possibly by capitalism?
"What have you done for me lately" Forget about the seventy plus years of prosperity capitalism has given us, and lets focus on the bump in the road. The short-sightedness of your post is amazing.
So many problems with that statement, I don't know where to begin.
If you think that money is the end all be all of life, then you have more serious issues than can be addressed in a single post.
Socialization does not mean less disenfranchisement with the system.
Take France for example. Riots in 2005-2009.
Massive sickouts by unions that bring public transportation to a standstill.
Astoundingly high unemployment for young french men and women. You have to wait for someone to die before you can find a good job, because their laws are so protective of the workers you cant fire anyone!
I could go on, but since this is my first post, gonna call it a night.
before corporate greed loots and destroys my country.
You may not like to hear this, but corporate greed is a good thing. That "greed" is what we need to stimulate the economy. That "greed" helps create jobs. The "greedy" corporate types pay a majority of the taxes in the country. Those greedy corporations provide the majority of charitable donations. Those same corporations generate wealth for stockholders, which often includes mutual funds and 401k investments by the average Joe.
That should concern any thinking person, even (especially) ivory tower dwellers nestled in gated communities usually paid for with corporate welfare to those same people who decry the waste and corruption of a single inner city mom getting food stamps.
Wide brush you are using there. Many of those "ivory tower dwellers" got there by busting their ass and making the right decisions in life.
Who might these ivory tower types be? Doctors? Lawyers? Business men? People who took calculated risks to get to where they are. People who accumulated a lot of debt to get educated while living on a shoe string budget and praying it will all pay off. Yah, dam ivory tower types. Should have have to live like everyone else who refused to take chances and started a job right out of high school.
You beat that straw man! Cause those ivory tower types obviously have no sympathy for single working mothers. Strange how they are also donate the most to charities. But for the sake of righteous anger, lets forget that.
That ends in total anarchy and complete social break down, or the disenfranchised grow too numerous to deny.
Really, living though a recession for two years will alienate people when many of those same people have lived through decades of prosperity made possibly by capitalism?
"What have you done for me lately" Forget about the seventy plus years of prosperity capitalism has given us, and lets focus on the bump in the road. The short-sightedness of your post is amazing.
"money is the ultimate expression of power. " POWER is the ultimate expression of power
So many problems with that statement, I don't know where to begin.
If you think that money is the end all be all of life, then you have more serious issues than can be addressed in a single post.
That's why Europe socialized; they saw the worst abuses of laissez-faire capitalism and dictatorial communism. The Depression, WWII and the Holocaust showed them they could neither demonize achievement through industry nor reduce society to industrial serfs, because both roads lead to the guillotine. We can debate the relative merits of American vs. European models, but how often does anyone, Muslim or otherwise, fly a plane into a European building AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME?!!! The answer isn't communism or capitalism, because the government in both serves an elite few rather than the people, and sooner or later they'll bite the hand that steals their food. Socialism isn't about secular humanist morality, it's about cooperative enlightened self interest; morality is encouraged, but only Common Sense is required. If America doesn't remember its Common Sense soon it will see more people who can do what the first American colonists did: Cross the Atlantic to get away from this garbage. And, of course, more laws to prevent people taking anyone with them when "Falling Down. "
Socialization does not mean less disenfranchisement with the system.
Take France for example. Riots in 2005-2009.
Massive sickouts by unions that bring public transportation to a standstill.
Astoundingly high unemployment for young french men and women. You have to wait for someone to die before you can find a good job, because their laws are so protective of the workers you cant fire anyone!
I could go on, but since this is my first post, gonna call it a night.
Plane Crash Suspect's Online Diatribe
- 18/02/2010 08:50:36 PM
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Definately not to start a fight about anything regarding anything....
- 18/02/2010 11:05:50 PM
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We'll never know his ultimate motivation for sure but I suspect he would take great pleasure in...
- 19/02/2010 12:47:22 AM
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He made his motivation chillingly clear.
- 19/02/2010 03:22:28 AM
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It's a growing sentiment in TX and other "red" states....
- 19/02/2010 04:03:00 AM
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Ya'll realize dude ended his suicide note by quoting Marx, right?
- 19/02/2010 04:42:01 AM
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I had to drive by there yesterday...
- 19/02/2010 03:17:42 AM
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I have to respond.
- 19/02/2010 04:38:40 AM
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one point
- 19/02/2010 05:30:46 AM
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With subsidies and tax breaks some pay negative taxes despite healthy profits.
- 19/02/2010 05:52:40 AM
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Re: one point
- 19/02/2010 06:07:42 AM
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bankruptcy is hardly a bailout
- 19/02/2010 06:48:02 AM
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besides...
- 20/02/2010 12:58:55 AM
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A LOT of things are different depending on whether a corporation or human being does them.
- 23/02/2010 11:41:15 PM
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Welcome to the fray. 
- 19/02/2010 05:49:08 AM
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- 19/02/2010 05:49:08 AM
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Not to endorse Joel's love declaration to socialism, but you're not exactly one to talk re: strawmen
- 19/02/2010 04:21:50 PM
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There is a huge difference between greed and motivation, drive, and ingenuity.
- 20/02/2010 01:07:12 AM
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Then fucking go already, and stop trying to impose this dream society on the rest of us
- 19/02/2010 02:21:30 PM
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When you work for the IRS you take your chances.
- 19/02/2010 02:23:00 PM
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are you fucking kidding me?
- 19/02/2010 02:34:11 PM
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Yes, because you are so easy, and I am out of shoe-throwing range.
- 19/02/2010 02:46:27 PM
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Re: Yes, because you are so easy, and I am out of shoe-throwing range.
- 19/02/2010 03:00:56 PM
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are you real person?
- 22/02/2010 04:40:28 PM
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It can be hard to tell.
- 23/02/2010 11:09:51 PM
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So I guess that makes it 80-1 for the month of February.
- 19/02/2010 08:42:15 PM
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As charming as ever I see. *NM*
- 20/02/2010 01:08:22 AM
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Look, I think Dragonsoul take the Muslim thing too far occasionally
- 20/02/2010 05:40:58 AM
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Weak is all hes got.
- 20/02/2010 08:36:27 AM
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I've noticed that while everynametaken is a quality poster...
- 20/02/2010 10:14:09 PM
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I find that he tends to do it when he wants to argue a cause...
- 20/02/2010 10:16:50 PM
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I don't bother with you because you don't actually want to hear what I or anyone else has to say.
- 21/02/2010 12:37:40 AM
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In denial much?
- 21/02/2010 01:38:31 AM
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Again, if you think thereligionofpeace.com is a serious source then you are simply sad.
- 22/02/2010 01:06:55 AM
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Is it?
- 20/02/2010 10:26:16 PM
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Exactly. Besides that I don't take his source as a source at all.
- 21/02/2010 12:21:15 AM
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Well that's quite selective.
- 21/02/2010 12:35:07 AM
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Whoopty-fucking-doo!
- 21/02/2010 12:42:28 AM
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If Dragonsoul brought it up out of nowhere, then it's not an issue
- 22/02/2010 11:12:57 PM
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