RCTjunkie said:
1. Technically we are all animals, and if so, why should humans be more importaint then other animals. Because we evoled more? If you, however, are not an Atheist, please continue. 2. The poor got that way because they did not try in life. If they tried, everything would be hunkey dorey for them. 3. The government would FORCE people to give to the poor, and keep 50% of the cash to themselves, while if people willingly gave to a church, it would be a more meaningful gift and >90% would go to the poor. 4. How can you be pro-choice with that sarcastic remark? 5. I agree, Iraq wasn't handled in the best mannor, but death rates have gone down significantly, the country has stablized so much since we started, and we should wait for a solid victory before we pull out too fast. Can you honestly say Iraq was better off under Saddam? Now they control their own future and have a democracy... 6.Are you pro Russia? That does not work for anyone. Was East Germany better off then the west...are the people of North Korea better off than those in the south? How many examples do you need? Conclusion: Socialism is a proven failure - just open a history book. Even one written by the left can't hide the truth. Now with Barack, we are headed for the same failure repeated over and over through history. The greater good is capitalism, hands down. It is just the truth proven again and again.
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I'm gonna let you in on a few secrets:
1. The Republican Party (the religious party) is the same one who takes such a hardline stance on helping the poor! Kind of weird huh!
2. This is just the dumbest statement I have ever heard, so I am not going to acknowledge it.
3. The government ALREADY does this! And domestic welfare programs in their entirety each year excluding SS cost less than 4 months in Iraq!
4. Because it is sarcasm...
5. The thousands and thousands of people who are now dead and the over a million who have left the country after we invaded were better off, and so were their families.
6. I'm not pro-Russia, or pro-anything for that matter. I just think it is sickening that the richest country in the world treats its poor so callously.
Actually democratic socialism is still incredibly popular and a commonly practiced ethos. But saying that democratic socialism is actually like "socialism" is like saying that the U.S.'s form of "capitalism" is anything like true capitalism.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
