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Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
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In short I'm able to id truth on just observation alone and have a unique and uncanny way to connect things using reality, logic and common sense and am not afraid to let someone in a position of power know of what I see. Hence why most of what I speak of is not ramlbing or rabble but come and draw from my experience.
Any person who aligns themselves with a hateful group is a racist as when the racial slurs were being tossed around in 09 - 10 and there was not one peep from any of the chapters, none of the elected people have come out against it. Your group is a bunch of racists. You are judged by the company you keep.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
The Healthcare reform law was needed as too may are one debilitating illness away from financial ruin, Without it in force if you were diagnosed with a previously undiscovered ailment today the insurance company could drop you and there'd be nothing you could do about.
You are holding to ideaologies so much that it's clouding not only your judgement but you entire common sense.
Being against protections from entities who cannot be trusted is just dead wrong.
If you have coverage then you have THE CHOICE to opt out. The only thing this mandates is that all Americans are to have insurance of some form.
What we need is the laws we already have on the books enforced, it was the lack of enforcement of regulation and the law that allowed this mess to occur. Remember, what is being seen today wasn't done overnight but systematically over time.
To attack this movement makes you a pawn and foot soldier of the banks because that is who owns and controls the GOP and via avenues like Fox News issues the daily marching orders. It is sickening and Anti American!
I am sorry and care not if you like it or not everyone in the GOP is all for privatization of every aspect of our Gov't and want to eventually privatize the military, privatize social security, privatize the postal office, maintain private control over our nations money. The Treasury and The Federal Reserve shall not be privatized, USPS will not be privatized, The Military will not be privatized. Imagine if a private company owned and ran The TSA? Why stop at the Federal level, why not privatize police departments, fire departments? Never going to happen!
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
Any person who aligns themselves with a hateful group is a racist as when the racial slurs were being tossed around in 09 - 10 and there was not one peep from any of the chapters, none of the elected people have come out against it. Your group is a bunch of racists. You are judged by the company you keep.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
It is true the Communist and Socialist parties are trying to align themselves with this movement but have thus far been met with resistance. We want no part of them. The KKK won't dare to show up in their garb.
Originally posted by nenothtu
Reagan was a democrat until 1962, when he switched parties at age 51.
You were saying something about "preposterous"?
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
That is communism and yes it is a brutal zombie system. No arguement there except you think socialism and communism is the same thing. That is were the dishonesty BEGINS on your part and MANY OTHERS! I have lived in socialist european countries for many years so I have first hand knowledge just like you alledge to have lived in cuba.
Humm... I wonder who said "socialism is but a stage to transform a capitalist country into communism"... Oh yeah, it was Karl Marx.
The Fourth Phase: Socialism
Marx has never used the concept of state socialism. He usually used "socialism or social society." Marx meant by socialism the stage that follows capitalism. Socialism, according to Marx, entails the removal of social inequalities through limited social and government ownership of property and the means of production and distribution, and the redistribution of wealth and resources through high taxes and confiscation. For Marx, it is a transitional stage between capitalism and communism.
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www.chsbs.cmich.edu...
Perhaps it is you who is extremely ignorant on this topic? Just a thought.
State capitalism
From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The term State capitalism has various different meanings, but is usually described as commercial (profit-seeking) economic activity undertaken by the state with management of the productive forces in a capitalist manner, even if the state is nominally socialist.[1] State capitalism is usually characterized by the dominance or existence of a significant number of state-owned business enterprises. Examples of state capitalism include Corporatized government agencies (agencies organized along corporate and business management practices) and states that own controlling shares of publicly-listed corporations, effectively acting as a large capitalist and shareholder itself.
State capitalism has also come to refer to an economic system where the means of production are owned privately but the state has considerable control over the allocation of credit and investment, as in the case of France during the period of dirigisme. Alternatively, state capitalism may be used (sometimes interchangeably with state monopoly capitalism) to describe a system where the state intervenes in the economy to protect and advance the interests of large-scale businesses. This practice is often claimed to be in contrast with the ideals of both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism.[2]
There are various theories and critiques of state capitalism, some of which have existed since the 1917 October Revolution or even before. The common themes among them are to identify that the workers do not meaningfully control the means of production and that commodity relations and production for profit still occur within state capitalism. Other socialists use the term state capitalism to refer to an economic system that is nominally capitalist, such that business and private owners gain the profits from an economy largely subsidized, developed and where decisive research and development is done by the state sector at public cost.[3]
Marxist literature typically defines state capitalism as a social system combining capitalism—the wage system of producing and appropriating surplus value—with ownership or control by a state. By that definition, a state capitalist country is one where the government controls the economy and essentially acts like a single huge corporation, extracting the surplus value from the workforce in order to invest it in further production.[3] Friedrich Engels, in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, argues that state capitalism would be the final stage of capitalism consisting of ownership and management of large-scale production and communication by the bourgeois state.[4]
This term is also used by some advocates of laissez-faire capitalism in reference to a private capitalist economy controlled by a state, often meaning a privately owned economy that is subject to statist economic planning. Some even use the term to refer to capitalist economies such that the state provides substantial public services and regulation of business activity. In the 1930s, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini described Italian Fascism's economic system of corporatism as "state socialism turned on its head".[5] This term was often used to describe the controlled economies of the great powers in the First World War.[6]
Originally posted by nenothtu
Don't look now - the Federal Reserve is and has always been privatized, right from it's inception. Ditto the Postal Service. Look it up. The TSA and indeed ALL of Homeland Security should be abolished, as should the federal Reserve. Again, I give less than a damn about the GOP, or what they want.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
reply to post by Chance321
Any person who aligns themselves with a hateful group is a racist as when the racial slurs were being tossed around in 09 - 10 and there was not one peep from any of the chapters, none of the elected people have come out against it. Your group is a bunch of racists. You are judged by the company you keep.
Originally posted by TheImmaculateD1
reply to post by Chance321
STRONG EMPHASIS UPON THE FOLLOWING AND CANNOT BE EXPRESSED ENOUGH :
Unless it comes from Occupy Together, Occupy Everything, #Occupy Wall Street, NYC General Assembly or any of the countless official "Occupy" family of sites it does not speak for this movement and the movement will not endorse any site outside of our family of sites. Adbusters does not speak for us, Tides does not speak for us, no union speaks for us, The American Socialist Party does not speak for us, The Communist Party does not speak for us neither does any group that has decided to join us under their own free will and volition but even those groups and our partner firms do not speak for us! We speak for ourselves!
This is the fundamental difference between us and The Tea Party!edit on 1-11-2011 by TheImmaculateD1 because: (no reason given)