How to start telling the truth, (what is the truth by the way?).

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  1. polscie

    polscie New Member

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    You can start telling the truth by not believing
    in the claim of "GOD".

    You can start telling the truth by believing
    that Jesus Christ was just copying those
    who were ahead of his time, trying to save
    the sick and the poorest and who made
    the greatest (claim) lie of all time that
    he was "THE SON OF GOD."

    You can start telling the truth by believing
    that the bible is just a diary like written
    events by the past and not a single word
    in it is a word of GOD, for GOD is of no
    existence.

    You can start telling the truth by believing
    that there is no solution to poverty.

    You can start telling the truth by believing
    that the only truth in life is WAR.

    You can start telling the truth by believing
    that there is no alternative to capitalism.

    And lastly, but not necessarily in these order,
    you can start telling the truth by believing
    that you are lying to yourself in believing
    in GOD and in Jesus Christ and in the The Bible.





    and the truth is that as a species we
    hate each other that is why all this killing.

    that this "human being" thing is just a label
    created by science and the church.

    that rich is richer and poor is poorer forever.

    that there is no exit from this quagmire.

    that the only way out is self extinction.

    that the wall street rallyist is wasting their time and
    that they do not have an alternative because there
    is no alternative to economic exploitations by the
    capitalists to the society the world over.

    that capitalism rules and governs, and that
    they intend
    not to surrender ever to anyone.

    polscie


     
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    P. Lotor Banned Past Donor

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    Of course there is a solution to poverty. My goodness. Your last of "truths" is more like a list of your glass half empty opinions.
     
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    polscie New Member

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    care to forward your agenda in solving poverty.

    polscie
     
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    P. Lotor Banned Past Donor

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    Free markets and limited government. It's so elegantly simple!
     
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    Awryly New Member Past Donor

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    War is not a solution and is not intended to be.

    In America it is an economic model that is needs to perpetuate itself.

    It can't do that if it is too successful.
     
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    I've never seen a case where this worked in the real world. In fact the top countries in terms of combating poor are big government (free market though). Government size is irrelevant. Government effectiveness is everything. If you can have a massively effective government that's small then go for it. I doubt that's possible (as I've never seen it happen in real life in relation to poverty).
     
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    P. Lotor Banned Past Donor

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    so how does the free market break down in practice?
     
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    Crack kills. :rolleyes:
     
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    I was referring to government size almost exclusively.

    As for free market, it mostly works. A few places it's @#$% for though. Health coverage. Our lives shouldn't be in the hands of corporations. They've proven immoral when it comes to lives.
    But for most other things it works. Just not basic protection stuff.
     
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    P. Lotor Banned Past Donor

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    corporations have the incentive to satisfy their customers. I would be happy if healthcare was handled by the free market. unfortunately government (*)(*)(*)(*)s all over us and our healthcare.

    government is a parasite on society. it survives by leeching off productivity. the larger that parasite, the harder it is for everyone.
     
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    Thank you, Eeyore. It's good to see that all those years hanging out with Winnie the Pooh haven't cheered you up any.
     
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    Corporations have incentive to satisfy their customers but they don't care about the customers that cost them money via getting sick and will continually show it and always try to drop people. They also aren't willing to cover the needy.

    If government leeched off productivity so bad we wouldn't have been going strong for all those decades. It was only when they tore down specific regulations that we got in this mess.

    The banking regulations that kept them from going into high risk things with important money that shouldn't be touched were destroyed. That single handedly destroyed the housing market among other things.

    Why? Because they risked it all. Then they lost. They literally gambled away the housing market and a lot more and are one of the main factors in this bad economy.

    They made bad decisions that screwed a LOT of people and damaged our country. And what do we do? We BAIL out the failures!

    WUT!?
     
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    P. Lotor Banned Past Donor

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    false. you appear to be talking about insurance companies, and they work those people in to their actuarial estimates. the idea that you get dropped when you get sick is false. it simply does not happen.


    we were going strong because we were in a monetary bubble. you're confusing cause and effect.

    again, you are confusing cause and effect. FED policy in cahoots with government loan policy (fanny freddie) led to a monetary bubble, particularly in housing. bubbles must pop, and it did. without the FEDs easy money policies and fanny and freddie handing out jumbo loans like pop tarts, it would not have happened. not to mention government's implicit guarantee that it would bail them out. government was the cause.


    exactly, WUT? why would we have these government bailout promises? why would we have government handing out loans like freebies at a baseball game? why would we have the FED printing up money to fund all this nonsense at artificially low interest rates? yes, that's right, the government is the problem, not the solution. I can recommend some reading for you if you want to try to understand what happened in the financial crisis.
     

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