Sep
15
This Says It All
Filed Under American Politics
This is intended at least partly in jest.
Two pieces of evidence accounting for the real sentiments of the Democratic left.
- Speaking to the AFL-CIO (the American T.U.C.), Hilda Solis said:
“I am proud and humbled to be your humble servant as labor secretary,”
Glad to see a member of Obama’s government sees herself as a servant of the Trade Unions. Funny. I thought that she was a servant of the American people.
2. Osama Bin Laden has kindly suggested a reading list to the American people, a list of three books he says support his worldview. One of the books – President Carter’s ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’. I wonder if we’ll see that recommendation on the book jacket. Jimmy Carter as recommended by Osama Bin Laden. That’s got to hurt.
Maybe next we’ll see Bin Laden recommend Michael Moore’s film “Capitalism” in which he describes capitalism as “evil” (as he charges moviegoers at the Box Office).*
* Ronnie. does this explain it? Have you been watching Michael Moore recently?
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Cabbie.
Capitalism is a system of economic activity based on the generation of profit. It isn’t evil. Calm down.
Ronnie
I was joking.
No Cabbie, you’ve set me off now!
Ronnie
Well this will be fun. I’m game.
Anyway Cabbie. It’s Capitalists who are evil. The ism is just something that people write about.
When maximising or defending your profits, all means are justified.
Ronnie
But the same is true of big goverment-ists. They are prepared to sacrifice individual freedoms in the name of the general good.
Who’s general good?
Ronnie,
How can you defend Capitalism and hate Capitalists…its on in the same.
Elitis and socialists believe they know what is good for everyone…the ‘general good’. But of course, they don’t. Socialism in all its many forms has always failed.
I’m sorry An American. I don’t have the time to argue with your certainties about everything and I wouldn’t succeed anyway.
I will say this. Capitalism seems to be the only way we have found so far to create wealth based on a value that we give to resources, services and products. So far so good. Some of those involved in the system, Capitalists, are criminals and benefit from the misery of others. I disagree with that.
Nothing is either all good or all bad, but think that way is very simple and short on effort.
Capitalists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8257912.stm
Another capitalist.
http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/20thcenturylatinamerica/a/bioescobar.htm
I hope this is helping you, An American.
Capitalists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Baylis
And more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation
And yet more
http://www.philanthropyuk.org/Home
And possibly the greatest of them all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation#Global_Health_Program
Yet more capitalists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron
Ronnie
Is this about who is first to blink. A game of comment chicken. Perhaps a change of direction may be appropriate and I’ll run through a list of dodgy socialists. Or dodgy white people, dodgy gay people, dodgy black people, dodgy policemen, dodgy doctors or dodgy scotsmen.
As the saying goes, there always some bad apples. But I still maintain that no other system would have created the general feeling of wealth today other than capitalism. If you think you know of one, please feel free to suggest it, otherwise this debate is going to go round and round in circles.
Enron was more effective a criticism than the Mafia though. Nicely played.
Cabbie.
I don’t sense a general feeling of wealth. I sense a general feeling of survival. Your selling something that is going through a rough patch. Bad timing.
Enron ‘regulated’ and Mafia ‘unregulated’ work within a capitalist system of maximising profit. There is little between them. As you continually preach reduced regulation I assume you lean more to the Mafia model of business. As did the smart guys at Enron.
Ronnie
Well almost all of us have ‘luxury’ items that we didn’t 30 or 40 years ago. We all have cars, our own houses, there has been a massive explosion in technology designed to make our life better. We go abroad for our holidays and have a much bigger range of exotic foods to choose from in the supermanrket. I meant “wealth” in a comparitive sense. And not two years ago, that sense of wealth was palpable. People were buying second or even third homes, interior design and house buying programs were all the rage, having an en-suite bathroom became almost a must-have. You are right that for the moment, things have gone backwards. But do you really believe that that is a permanent situation. If you do, you are ignoring history. Every wave has a trough, but there is always another wave behind it.
Crime doesn’t exist in non-capitalistic systems? Come on.
It is state-owned crime. As in Russia.
Silly. and you all know it.
Yes, your right Rhoda. It’s conference season, what do you expect?
Ronnie,
I’m all for reasonable regulations…but the libs never know when to stop…they hate businesses, big and small, so much, that they can’t control their urge to destroy…
You know I’m right…
Sorry nearest thing we have to an open post
The Crunchy Con a right wing religious blogger believes that some of the atacks are racialy motivated
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/09/rush-limbaugh-hits-racial-bott.html
Jimmy Cartrer made the same point in an interview with Brian Williams yesterday
“How low will these people go? Look, I think it’s important to talk about black male violence, or at least as important as it is to talk about any other important social trend. I don’t think we should be squeamish about discussing it in a responsible and fair-minded way, despite what the politically correct say. But good grief, Limbaugh is up to something wicked. He’s plainly trying to rally white conservatives into thinking that now that we have a black president, blacks are rising up to attack white kids! Christ have mercy, what is wrong with these people?”
THX,
What you say about Limbaugh is No True…I listen to him all the time and He Is Not a Bigot…he rarely if ever talks about race issues…its not his thing.
If Limbaugh was a racist…I absolutely would not listen to him. I would be ashamed to.
An American
I just reporting what a right wing religious blogger is saying, I wouldn’t know i don’t listen to him but I’m prepared to take you word for it
I have to say this.
Carter will go down as the worst US President in our history…so far. Now he is trying to bring race into the picture…because of Obama’s failing agenda.
How incredibly immoral, irresponsible and low-down can this man get!
Sorry about the confusion the quote was from the crunchy con not Jimmy Carter.
Posting quikly from clients
THX,
Yes, I knew that…I’m the one mixing things up…I just read Carter’s comment on Rep. Wilson yelling out ‘liar’ during Obama’s speech.
The facts are that Obama WAS lying and Wilson SHOULDN’T have yelled it…but it had absolutely nothing to do with Obama being ‘part’ black. Carter said that is was racial. I believe it was opposite…if you were sooo aware of a person’s color…the last thing you would do publicly is yell out liar…Wilson yelled it because he believed Obama was lying and it didn’t have a thing to do with race.
Carter is a race baiter when he thinks it will help his/Obama’s far-left agenda.
It tells you something when all the living presidents get along well with each other, even when they ran against each other and some lost…but none of them can stand the sight of Carter…even Pres. Clinton.
Carter has done so much harm in his lifetime…I wish he would just go away.
An American:
Still pining for that Nobel Prize you think your crush Bush deserves?
Israel,
Bush was kind of cute, especially in the early year before the presidency aged him…come to think of it.