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3 Democrats Drop Plans to Seek Re-election

Whats so special about a 35 hour work week?Seems like a way to reduce peoples incomes if you ask me.

But the government we'll keep our incomes the same while reducing our productivity. Don't worry, they know what they're doing! :lol:
 
Least we aren't fragmenting because our party has been half in bed with the Christian Right since the 70s. :rofl

Yes, the Democrats are monolithically disgusting.

That you're proud of this speaks volumes.
 
Not really - socialism is supporting government ownership of the means of production, social democracy is supporting a "free" market tempered with social values.

Which means you support fascism, since "free" markets are government controlled.

Free markets are not government controlled.

I'm someone who willingly puts their hay in the pile to pay my debt to society, actually.

Good for you.

Most of us haymakers don't owe society anything. It's what being adult is all about.
 
Oh come on, I barely go a day without hearing someone whinge about taxes in this country.

You deliberately missed the point.

My taxes are wasted on:

Corn Alcohol subsidies
Socialist Security
Public Education
National Endowment for Non-Commercially Viable "Artists"
Amtrak (the loss shown on a train ticket from LA to San Antonio is almost twice the cost of a commerical airline ticket)
Welfare
Housing Subsidies
Agricultural subsidies intended to keep the cost I'm paying for food high.
Bridges to nowhere.
Pork, Pork, Pork, and so much more Pork I've been wishing we required congressmen to be jewish so we'd get less pork.
An thousand page list of things the Constitution does not allow.

If the US government obeyed it's own law, the taxes in this country wouldn't be very high at all.

Perhaps if people weren't so politically apathetic we *could* have things like NHS, the Shinkansen, 35 hour work weeks, etc.

Who wants anything as stupid as fascist medicine? And it's not the government's job to regulate the length of the work week, anyway. You want to work fewer hours, go right ahead, make a deal with your boss.
 
France produces much of its materiel - not to mention their films are superior due to government subsidization. :lol:

That's strange.

I didn't know Miyasaki was French.

I was certain he was Japanese.
 
True, speed is a factor, but the point remains. Privatize roads and you just end up with a monopoly that leaves much to be desired with no means for the consumers to change it.



Funny that, it's the laissez faire monkeys who don't understand that competition can only survive in a regulated environment. Otherwise you get corporate oligarchy where only the executives benefit and everyone else suffers.

Lets hope you have your Buy N Large shares purchased in advance. :2wave:


Its funny, but the people who refer to capitalists as "monkeys" don't have a clue what appropriate regulation is. For some reason, these ignorant people think it means "government control" and other forms of fascism/socialism.

The rest of us recognize that true capitalism is based on limited government to protect the peole from the criminal types of behavior socialism and anarchy naturally produce.
 
As said, much of their social unrest guarantees the success of their infrastructure - keeps the government under the hammer so to speak.

The other half of it is due to poorly integrated cultural minorities that stir up **** because they can't drop their archaic blood faith and embrace Enlightenment attitudes.

You don't mean "Enlightenment attitudes", you mean socailist attitudes.

The Constitution of the United States, blatantly pro-freedom and hence anti-socialist, the visible peak of the Englightenment.

Nothing enlightened about socialism.
 
Because we live in a regulated economy and not a Laissez Faire one? :lol: Not to mention there is a cap on how unskilled your workers can be before they become financially undesirable.

There's no cap on how unskilled workers can become before they are financially undesirable.

The United States has too classes of completely unskilled people:

Illegal aliens and public school diploma holders.

Illegal aliens find jobs.

Public school diploma holders refuse to work for wages offered.

Ergo, they're not financially undesirable, they have a warped view of their importance.

Since people completely lacking in skills can find jobs in the US, there is no basement below which so-called "financially undesirable" people are classed.
 
I disagree....
I really doubt that working the assembly line in an auto plant is a picnic like so many seem to think......:naughty

It's boring.

Other than that, and the lack of ants, it's pretty much a picnic.
 
Are you talking about Corporate American?

No,I'm talking about those that do not want to get a job,pay for their own health care,energy,housing and food....They expect Government to do it for them.

The Banks?

A few of those as well....However,alot of the banks were forced to take the bailouts.
 
No,I'm talking about those that do not want to get a job,pay for their own health care,energy,housing and food....They expect Government to do it for them.

Do you have any stats or demographics regarding these folks -- or is that just your general perception of anyone not currently employed for whatever reason?

A few of those as well....However,alot of the banks were forced to take the bailouts.

Forced, how so?
 
Heartless Americans give more to charity than any other country in the world.

And heartless Republicans give lots more than the loving Democrats.
 
And heartless Republicans give lots more than the loving Democrats.
Democrats make up for it by giving away other people's money.
 
And heartless Republicans give lots more than the loving Democrats.

I certainly hope every Republican who makes that observation gives generously to charity. I doubt it though.

Republicans only give more to charity because they encompass the evangelical population, whose churches are highly refined charity machines. Republicans outside the social conservative demographic aren't remarkable for their charity. Indeed, libertarians are among the least giving of Americans, which is what you would anticipate of people who are constantly arguing laziness and government handouts are the main cause of poverty.
 
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Indeed, libertarians are among the least giving of Americans, which is what you would anticipate of people who are constantly arguing laziness and government handouts are the main cause of poverty.
Proof?

7890
 
Proof?

7890

There was once a website that comprehensively detailed charity by both geography, religion, and political ideology, but it has been buried under an avalanche of partisan articles. Social conservatives in evangelical populations were highest, libertarians were lowest. Or maybe Christian liberals and libertarians were about equal and atheistic libertarians were lowest.

However, on intuition, there is no reason to believe libertarians give a great deal to charity. The Republican charity numbers are inflated by the systematic charity of the evangelical church network; libertarians would only be party to that to the extent they are participants in the evangelical culture, which they generally are not. Libertarianism is dominant among a completely different kind of American. Evangelicals, for example, are much more favorable to both imperialism and to government welfare and intervention than libertarians.
 
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Do you have any stats or demographics regarding these folks -- or is that just your general perception of anyone not currently employed for whatever reason?

General perception?No,it's the reality I see every day among people I interact with.....All of which happen to be Democrats.



Forced, how so?


"Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500), Bank of New York/Mellon (BK, Fortune 500), Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500), JP Morgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) and Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) - all 'mega-banks' that the government forced to take bailout money - say they want to return taxpayer funds "as soon as practical.""


Bankers: Take your TARP money back - Mar. 27, 2009
 
"Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500), Bank of New York/Mellon (BK, Fortune 500), Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500), JP Morgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) and Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) - all 'mega-banks' that the government forced to take bailout money - say they want to return taxpayer funds "as soon as practical.""


Bankers: Take your TARP money back - Mar. 27, 2009

The government has taken back the money. 'Force' is a tricky concept here, since the banks were willing to take every dime (and needed to in order to survive) but wished to do so with the minimal amount of increased government control possible. Of course, they were basically bankrupt, so whether or not what the government does counts as 'force' in spirit is questionable.

In good times, banks are the ones who 'force' government to do things.
 
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Least we aren't fragmenting because our party has been half in bed with the Christian Right since the 70s. :rofl

No, you're just rendering yourselves utterly irrelevant by ignoring the majority of Americans and shoving your radical leftist agenda down our collective throat.
 
No, you're just rendering yourselves utterly irrelevant by ignoring the majority of Americans and shoving your radical leftist agenda down our collective throat.

So, if the Democratic Party doesn't tank in 2012, or if they have a comeback in subsequent years, what would you have people make of this statement?

Americans aren't libertarians. Most of them probably aren't psychologically capable of being so.
 
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