Here is what liberals, socialist, and communist need to understand

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  1. upside222

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    You didn't answer. Why is China building islands in the South China Sea and putting military installations on them?

    Do you enjoy making yourself look the fool?
     
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    Grumblenuts Well-Known Member

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    What a strange question.
     
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    Ok ok. I'll grant you the "s". Even though I don't think there are many communists left out there anymore. I'd bet there are more neo-Nazis.

    Oh, I'm sure workers pay more than their fair shares.

    My concern is more about those who benefit and even profit from our socialist Judicial System, socialist infrastructure, socialist public education, socialist public servants, socialist homeland security, .... etc... and then whine when they are asked to pay a higher rate than a plant supervisor; and instead beg Republicans in Congress for more and more Corporate Welfare. Which Republicans are obliged to grant or they won't receive campaign financing which, in the Republican Party, is essential to being reelected.
     
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    You're not very bright,are you? If you can't be bothered to understand the context in which those words were spoken and choose to go with the right wing talking points, that's on you.
     
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    It's a family decision ONLY. A family member earned it and, therefore, is entitled to decide what happens to his/her assets. Those the think otherwise, like jealous liberals and the gov't, should just butt the phuck out.
     
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    So quit paying taxes and let us know how that goes.
     
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    Oh, okay. I got nothin'... You've bullied me into submission, lol
     
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    You mean the right wing relies on talking points? Well hell, no wonder we just keep hearing the same whiny crap over and over again!
     
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    You'd be surprised how prevalent your suggestion has become ...
     
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    In this political climate nothing surprises me anymore. Not sure how a government functions if the government has zero income.
     
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    He was referring to the socialistic programs that built the US highway systems in the '30s and '40s which directly helped many of these successful people become multi millionaires. Since then, other great government programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority, The Hoover Dam and other great infrastructure projects like the Interstate Highway system created by way of governmental, socialistic programs in the '50s and '60s have been a key in the growth and development of our country making way for all of those successful people to achieve thier wealth and power. So yes, the community is deserving of a percentage of these private profits which were created as a direct result of the community getting together and footing the bill for the infrastructure and resulting economic growth that resulted. Get it?
     
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    Record tax revenues in 2016, and the first qt of '17 ... still running a huge deficit.
     
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    Tell me again who built Hoover Dam? (hint: six)
    The TVA is a government owned CORPORATION. It's employees were not government employees but employees of the corporation.

    These programs were not "socialistic". They had nothing to do with the proletariat against the bourgeois or with collectives. They had nothing to do with abolishing capital or anything else Marx and Engels propounded. These were either private corporation built or are government services paid for by the people. The only highway system the federal government built was the interstate highway system and even it was built by private contractors and not by government workers.
     
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    OH, you be so greedy!
    _______________________________________---
    Letter


    Dear Sir,

    I have a very complicated benefits question.

    Many years ago, I married a widow out of love who had an 18 year old daughter.

    After the wedding, my father, a widower, came to visit a number of times, and he fell in love with my step daughter.

    My father eventually married her without my authorization.

    As a result my step-daughter became my step mother and my father became my son in law.

    My father's wife (also my step daughter) and my step-mother, gave birth to a son who is my grandchild because I am the husband of my step daughter's mother.

    This boy is also my brother, as the son of my father.

    As you can see, my wife became a grandmother, because she is the mother of my father's wife.

    Therefore it appears that I am also my wife's grandchild.

    A short time after these events, my wife gave birth to a son, who became my father's brother-in-law, the step-son of my father's wife, and my uncle.

    My son is also my step mother’s brother, and through my step-mother, my wife has become a grandmother and I have become my own grandfather.

    In light of the above mentioned, I would like to know the following:

    Does my son, who is also my uncle, my father's son-in-law and my step mother's brother fulfil the requirements for receiving childcare benefits?

    Sincerely yours,

    Mohammed Abu Laden Habib



    THE ANSWER:

    Of course, you qualify Mohammed! I have arranged to start mailing the checks to all of you just as soon as you arrive here in California.

    Yours faithfully,

    Jerry Brown
     
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    Not quite what Obama said. But I would... Is it inaccurate?

    Anybody who builds a business needs personnel (most likely educated in public schools), needs roads, needs laws, needs public services, a safe country, a breathable environment, , ... Those things aren't free, you now. Somebody has to pay for them. I know Republicans would prefer that it would be those who barely have money to... eat... instead of the billionaires who profit from them the most. But you don't even need half a brain to understand why that wouldn't work.

    BTW, I did google it ("you didn't do that by yourself" quotes included)... and guess who said it according to Google? You!
     
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    So it was the government. That was back when Corporations were Corporations and not people.
     
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    Says the dude sucking the teat of gov't healthcare.
     
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    The Fed is currently starting the process of reducing it's balance sheet by not replacing all bonds or mortgages that mature and slowing purchase of new ones.
     
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    No one is arguing growth won't keep happening forever (although with limited resources and the fact that depressions exist, that isn't true either), but that growth only tends to occur at relatively low rates and that the economy is only so big at any given time.
     
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    Thread closure-Rule 11

     
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