Thoughts?
found this in the comments:
[quote]The problem with Farrell is displayed here in his OWN biases…the ones that he feels everyone else has, but certainly not him…! Nah.
In his reason #1 - he has ‘conservative Republican or liberal Democrat’ labeled… nice generalization there, champ. (He then follows this shortly with “All else is tuned out.”)
But he really needs to stop and think. That is to say there are no conservative Democrats…or liberal Republicans. Really? Thus Farrell is exactly what he rails against…a textbook ideologue.
He cements this myopic view of things by using the term ‘conservative’ in a derogatory manner in his 'reasons 4,5,6,7,8,10, and 11.
He also throws around the term ‘conservative ideologues’ and a free-spending Congress as if one has to precede the other…without realizing he’s describing an oxymoron.
You see, if the CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS in Congress the ‘last 8 years’ had indeed ACTED like conservatives…then he couldn’t describe them as blank-check deficit spenders… (Perhaps the simplicity of this escapes Farrell?)
Put it this way - Paul, just because you have 4 wheels and park in the garage…it doesn’t mean you are a car.
(A conservative - that doesn’t act like a conservative - isn’t a conservative. Whether he’s a Rep. or Dem. is then irrelevant…)[/quote]
I do not think it socialist, I think it a failing Republic and if they do not start paying for what they have we will be a bankrupt Republic.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
I do not think it socialist, I think it a failing Republic and if they do not start paying for what they have we will be a bankrupt Republic.[/quote]
What do you envision America looking like, if it becomes a bankrupt republic?
[quote]GumsMagoo wrote:
pittbulll wrote:
I do not think it socialist, I think it a failing Republic and if they do not start paying for what they have we will be a bankrupt Republic.
What do you envision America looking like, if it becomes a bankrupt republic?[/quote]
Russia
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
GumsMagoo wrote:
pittbulll wrote:
I do not think it socialist, I think it a failing Republic and if they do not start paying for what they have we will be a bankrupt Republic.
What do you envision America looking like, if it becomes a bankrupt republic?
Russia [/quote]
That sounds about right. A few ultra wealthy and everyone else scrambling for the crumbs.
I am not sure because, it would be the largest bankruptcy in history; I am guessing they would try to convince us, all is well. There would be run away inflation; Wages would drop because there would be more workers than there was work.
If the Government owed you money, you could kiss it good bye. Crime would be up, public services would be down, I would guess some states would step up and some would be total confusion. Just a guess.
[quote]GumsMagoo wrote:
pittbulll wrote:
I do not think it socialist, I think it a failing Republic and if they do not start paying for what they have we will be a bankrupt Republic.
What do you envision America looking like, if it becomes a bankrupt republic?[/quote]
Mexico
[quote]Mick28 wrote:
GumsMagoo wrote:
pittbulll wrote:
GumsMagoo wrote:
pittbulll wrote:
I do not think it socialist, I think it a failing Republic and if they do not start paying for what they have we will be a bankrupt Republic.
What do you envision America looking like, if it becomes a bankrupt republic?
Russia
That sounds about right. A few ultra wealthy and everyone else scrambling for the crumbs.
Please explain how this happens.
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Like Marx suggested.
The destruction of the middle class through inflation and a progressive income tax.
The 10 points of the Communist Manifesto:
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
- A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
- Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
- Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
- Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
- Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
Note 2,4,5 and 10-
Plus you still owe me a reply:
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
I do not think it socialist, I think it a failing Republic and if they do not start paying for what they have we will be a bankrupt Republic.[/quote]
It is failing because they are trying to take care of peoples’ every need. These social programs that do not work (only creating more dependence) cost a lot.
So the only way to get the budget under control is to cut a lot of social programs and get back to the funding only the constitutionally mandated programs like: defense, infrastructure, and education (not constitutionally mandated, But IMO important).