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You don't understand insurance.
Clinton actually ended the big deficits Reagan maintained.
Some people have no affinity for reality..
The fed gov owes the Social Security plan money. Not only has the cost of running the military state created by conservatives absorbed all the money from the SS taxes, it has sunk this country ridiculously into debt.
You are really not making any sense in this one.
The conservatives spent all the money collected from social security, and all the money borrowed, primarily on the military
nd medicaid, which is a subsidy for illegal immigration, which also occurred primarily under repub admins.
Clinton didn't end Reagan era big deficits? I wonder what twisted logic you have to come to that conclusion
Lies, liars, and damned liars.
Originally posted by poet1b
Clinton actually ended the big deficits Reagan maintained.
Some people have no affinity for reality..
This is the truth
Clinton didn't end Reagan era big deficits? I wonder what twisted logic you have to come to that conclusion.
www.cato.org...
Recall that it was the Clinton White House that fought Republicans every inch of the way in balancing the budget in 1995. When Republicans proposed their own balanced-budget plan, the White House waged a shameless Mediscare campaign to torpedo the plan — a campaign that the Washington Post slammed as “pure demagoguery.” It was Bill Clinton who, during the big budget fight in 1995, had to submit not one, not two, but five budgets until he begrudgingly matched the GOP’s balanced-budget plan. In fact, during the height of the budget wars in the summer of 1995, the Clinton administration admitted that “balancing the budget is not one of our top priorities.
Originally posted by djr33222
Redistribution systems exist within every government. It is nothing new.
I pray for the day when there is gun control.
There is nothing wrong with a welfare state on the verge of socialism (sorry if I scare people with that word ). Look how well that corporate capitalism thing turned out after all.
This whole farmhouse American pride thing needs to go.
Originally posted by djr33222
Redistribution systems exist within every government. It is nothing new.
Originally posted by djr33222
I pray for the day when there is gun control.
Originally posted by djr33222
There is nothing wrong with a welfare state on the verge of socialism
The Bolsheviks requisitioned grain from the peasantry, made private trade in consumer goods and "speculation" illegal, militarized production facilities, and abolished money. These measures were responses to economic conditions beyond control.
Peasants seized and redistributed noble lands and held small plots of land under twenty acres. Grain requisitioning and outlawing all private trade in grain brought famine in 1921 that claimed 5 million lives.
Large scale rebellions required military intervention and artillery. Peasants resisted forced collectivization by slaughtering their livestock instead of turning it over to the farms. Stalin launched an attack on kulaks, well to do farmers, meaning "tight-fisted -ones." Kulaks were not any better off than their neighbors, and the term was used for those hostile to collectivization. 1.5 million peasants were uprooted, their property confiscated, and resettled to inhospitable reaches of the Soviet east and north or to poor farmland. Their land and posessions were distributed to collective farms or to local officials bent on the "liquidation process of kulaks as a class." Being forced into collective farms or the exile of productive members of society didn't produce more food. Famine spread senselessly across the southern region, the most productive farming region in Russia. The only famine in modern times to occur without natural causes cost 3 to 5 million lives. Famine stricken regions were sealed off and allowed people to starve, while the Bolsheviks had grain reserves in other parts of the country that were sold overseas for currency and stockpiled in case of war. Resistance to Soviet power never happened again, yet the state was forced to dispense small private lots o! ! f land to peasant families that provided 50% of the nation's crops from a small fraction of the land.
Originally posted by djr33222
This whole farmhouse American pride thing needs to go.
We need to do everything possible to make this society less violence oriented, petty, and polarized.
And we'll see how many criminals want to carry a gun illegally if it were an automatic life sentence.
Don't talk bad about welfare, you should care about your fellow man.
YOU should care, not the government.
Just the fact that you think higher taxes is the government stealing from you and giving to subhumans who don't deserve assistance is the problem right there.
You don't want universal health-care, free college education, or a much more peaceful society?
I feel like Americans are just uber greedy, resentful and envious of other people, afraid of their neighbors, etc... and this stuff really gets in the way of a better country.
Good. Give the Government EVERYTHING you own then.
I pray for a day where people know their rights, and will fight for them.
The Bolsheviks
Don't tell me what to do.
Don't tell me what to do.
Ah yes the fabeled social engineering of the environment to suit the individual instead of people adapting. That was priceless.
Had no idea people had so much contempt of their fellow citizen to tell them they are inferior and need someone else's help to make it in this world. They don't, and they never have needed anyone's help.
Originally posted by djr33222
I will.
Originally posted by djr33222
I think there are many rights more conducive to happy living other than every person having the right to own a large capacity firearm.
Originally posted by djr33222
Marxism is an ideology. So is capitalism. In theory they are both good but in practice they can be mismanaged.
Like I said, YOU should care more about your fellow man
Don't you realize there are billions of poor people that were born into destitution.
You are certainly free to live your farmhouse American fantasies if you wish.
The future will prove you wrong though and you will have to deal.
Originally posted by djr33222
reply to post by sonnny1
The ills you see in the government I see in the people. A sick government is only the reflection of a sick people.
Actually the past 70 years have proven me right THERE IS NOT enough FIAT CURRENCY to go around and the only thing some people want to do is create a dependency based society.
many of members in capitalistic societies see the rich as having earned their wealth through hard work and education, while seeing the poor as lacking in skill and initiative. Marx rejected this type of thinking and termed it false consciousness, explanations of social problems as the shortcomings of individuals rather than the flaws of society.