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Tell me about it, RM.

Wattree — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:01:56 +0000

Tell me about it, RM.

But what I don't understand is, why would he want to be in a party like that in the first place!!!? I would join the Republican Party of they told me they'd give me Mitch McConnell's job tomorrow - with a raise.

Danny,

Wattree — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:30:42 +0000

In reply to I think there's enough

Danny,

There's nothing wrong with our economy. Corporations are making more profits than they've ever made in history. The GOP/corporate alliance is purposely strangling the American people in order to make the American middle class more accepting of a lower standard of living that's more in line with the global economy. That's why they're sending our jobs overseas.

Conservatives - both fiscal, and their little clueless army of social conservatives - are dangerous, because they don't have a sense of limits. And their economic theories haven't worked since before the great depression.

Their still trying to feed us Reaganomics, and that's what has destroyed the middle class. Ronald Reagan is in competition with George W. Bush as one of our very worst Presidents. He tripled the national debt (created more debt than ALL of the presidents from George Washington to himself COMBINED); He was treasonous - He made a deal with Iran to continue to hold American citizens hostage until AFTER his election against Jimmy Carter, and then repaid them in arms; he flooded our inner cities with crack to fund his illegal war in Nicaragua; and he destroyed our industrial base with Trickle-Down economics. So let me revise my initial statement - he was worse than Bush. He should have been impeached and imprisoned - in fact, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney should all be cell mates. Now, I'm not dumb. I know that Nixon and Reagan are gone, but they should put a plaque with their names on it in the cell.

Damn You, Obama! Unemployment Down In EVERY State For The First Time In 30 Years

Conservatives who claim Obama has ruined America and destroyed the economy are...

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Well drawn distinctions. They

moat — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:16:22 +0000

In reply to I think there's enough

Well drawn distinctions. They remind me of this essay by Keith W. Diener where Hayek is quoted in an interview saying:

civilization rests on the fact that people are very different...and unless we allow these differences to exist...we shall stop the whole process of evolution...if you try to make the opportunities of all people equal you eliminate the main stimulus to evolution....What you explained to me about the meaning of affirmative action is the same dilemma which egalitarianism achieves: in order to make people equal you have to treat them differently. If you treat people, so far as government is concerned, alike, the result is necessarily inequality; you can have either freedom and inequality, or unfreedom and equality.

Hayek's point of view doesn't seem to recognize there other ways to rig the game than through the law alone. One of the many virtues of Diener's argument for the need of the anti-discrimination laws is that he makes them within the context of Hayek's own arguments, showing where they come to an impasse, rather than appealing to an opposing theory (such as Keynes) to do the thinking for him.

I think there's enough

Danny Cardwell — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:58:41 +0000

In reply to Danny,

I think there's enough distance between social conservatism and fiscal conservatism to make a distinction. I have no use for social conservatism. It's like they run from libertarianism when it comes to the choices people exercise in their personal lives. However, In the realm of economic theory, I feel that having the constant threat of austerity in the form of Austrian economic policy is something that can be useful in certain areas of financing the government. I would rather live in America with defense spending cut 20% than raised 2%. The problem is that too many conservatives view defense spending as utterly vital- to the detriment of domestic issues. I know brothers who are big on Hayek and Von Mises they studied the theory so far down the rabbit hole that their theoretical approach to the economy has no viable counter balance. It's the same way with some of our Keynesian friends.

There is an amazing story

rmrd0000 — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 03:08:39 +0000

In reply to We Might Need (smart) Black Conservatives

There is an amazing story that a White Rublican state auditor in Missouri committed suicide because there was awhispher campaign that the auditor was Jewish. The head of the state's Republican party says that he may have told others that the auditor was Jewish. The auditor feared that being labeled Jewish would ruin chances for election to higher office in the party.

Former Senator John Danforth brought up the anti-Sematism at the eulogy. This is 2015. If the party treats Jewish people this way, Blacks and Latinos can forget it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/03/jack-danforths...

Well at least they voted to

rmrd0000 — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:25:51 +0000

In reply to They have got to be convinced

Well at least they voted to fund the DHS

They have got to be convinced

Resistance — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:20:05 +0000

In reply to I don't diagree that action

They have got to be convinced that Americas sovereignty is at stake.

A hot button issue, members of the Rights Tea Party coalition (the activists) get all fired up about.

For the good of the country we must come together, or were all screwed..... FOREVER .

Americas military might is not for the defense of financial overlords who view the world differently

They are not one with US. They want US to serve them.

My original link did not work

Confessions of an Erratic Marxist - YouTube

Go back to the video and beginning approximately 1:18:00 Agreements ....

1:19:00 IMF

1:22:00 "Not accepting compromise:

1:24:00 The Undemocratically elected....... are going to control everything.

I don't diagree that action

rmrd0000 — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:33:21 +0000

In reply to It is clear you didn't watch

I don't diagree that action is needed. The problem is that if one side is willing to let things collapse rather than compromise, there can be no solution. Republicans remain fixed. Obama and Democrats are the ones accused of caving in to opponent's demands. How do we break the Republican reluctance to compromise?

Danny,

Wattree — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:21:40 +0000

In reply to We Might Need (smart) Black Conservatives

Danny,

I sincerely believe that "smart Black conservative" is an oxymoron. A conservative is one who embraces, supports, and promotes traditional American values, and any Black person who promotes "conserving" traditional American values is, by definition, an idiot. A "smart Black conservative" is the perfect equivalent of saying a "smart Jewish Nazi." There's no such thing. Conservatism, by definition, is anti-Black. Conservatives are dedicated to maintaining the status quo, which means, White supremacy - period.
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conservative

adjective con·ser·va·tive \kən-ˈsər-və-tiv\

Believing in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conservative

It is clear you didn't watch

Resistance — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:18:04 +0000

In reply to Working with them assumes

It is clear you didn't watch the complete video or you wouldn't make your comment.

All citizens of the world are are running out of time, in fact WE in fact, may already be too late.

WE have no alternative........ we are in NO position to make demands.

While we fight amongst ourselves, they are solidifying their position and strangle hold, we may never be able to escape.

Only misery awaits us.

The Tea Party supporters, conservatives and the left MUST be made to see, every ones future depends upon working together,

The Squid has its tentacles on our faces and we are all going to suffer; Republicans and Democrats; everyone; but the blood suckers

A 2009 Rolling Stone article [15] by Matt Taibbi likened investment bank Goldman Sachs to

"a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,

relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."[15] Although the metaphor was faulty, since vampire squids do not suck blood or have a "blood funnel", it was later used by other critics of Goldman Sachs, such as the Occupy Wall Street movement.[16]

[15] Matt Taibbi (2009-07-09). " "The Great American Bubble Machine | Politics News". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2013-05-19.