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#Post#: 10386--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: FDISK
Date: May 24, 2011, 10:30 pm
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I thought narrow self interest was the key to the universe.
#Post#: 10406--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: May 24, 2011, 11:28 pm
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It is.... in free market transactions. It is not when the self
interest amounts to steal from others to fill your own pocket,
whether you are using government as the vehicle for the theft or
a .45.
#Post#: 11063--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: FDISK
Date: May 26, 2011, 9:45 pm
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Gee...I thought our political process was a "free market". If
you don't like the subsidizers, vote 'em out. Nothing unfair
about that.
#Post#: 11124--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: May 27, 2011, 7:25 am
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FDISK, if 51% of the people vote together to take by force or
threat of imprisonment the earnings of the other 49% and have
those earnings redistributed to the first group, it is not the
"free market." It is instead theft by the government. And it
is no different whether the percentages in the second group
(those having their money taken) or the first group (those
getting the money) are raised or lowered. It is also no
different whether the money is given to the first group as a
"subsidy" to encourage production of something or as an "income
transfer" to simply "help" the first group afford the costs of
life. Nor does the fact that those in the first group (those
getting the money) are in the majority, or have lawmakers define
the statutory definition of theft so that it does not include
actions by the government. Theft has a common meaning
completely independent of statutory definitions, and what I have
set out applies. The idea that those in the second group, who
are an increasingly smaller minority from most years to the
next, should "vote 'em out," when those in the first group who
believe they benefit from the theft and are far more numerous
and also get to vote (and are generally very happy with the
theft, so long as a large chunk of it is sent in their
direction), is absurd.
#Post#: 11674--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: May 29, 2011, 6:33 pm
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HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_N44z63gRI&feature=related
Tom Jefferson would be proud of the police protecting his
monument.... or, maybe not....
Some background.... which is not any better:
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQt7CFXYlyc&feature=related
#Post#: 11741--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: davep
Date: May 30, 2011, 11:39 am
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When the IED hit my daughter's convoy 4 years ago, she only
suffered a concussion, but 13 Afghanistani civilians were killed
in the blast.
Since then, on every Memorial Day she goes down to the beach and
places 13 white roses into the ocean.
That is what she is doing as I write this.
#Post#: 11743--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: davep
Date: May 30, 2011, 11:44 am
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--- Quote from: navigator link ---
>
> why do we have to drill? Why can't they start up the wells in
Tx an La where they have been shut down for years.
>
--- End Quote ---
Repealing the Excess Profits Tax would start pumping within a
few months, and would have an immediate impact on oil prices.
But long term, it will take drilling offshore and Alaska to
solve the problem for the next hundred years or so.
#Post#: 11753--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: CurtOne
Date: May 30, 2011, 12:23 pm
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Dave, where's that quote from?
#Post#: 11775--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: davep
Date: May 30, 2011, 1:33 pm
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Which quote?
#Post#: 11804--------------------------------------------------
Re: Politics, Religion, etc. etc.
DIR By: CurtOne
Date: May 30, 2011, 2:12 pm
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On my screen it says, quote from navigator on Today at 08:52:52
am
why do we have to drill? Why can't they start up the wells in Tx
an La where they have been shut down for years.
And you respond to it. But I don't see that quote on the page.
Did it come from another topic or is something lost on mine?
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