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My folks got off their asses and went to work.
Did you have enough to eat? Who was paying for that? Because many kids don't have enough to eat. What about a house? Because many kids don't have that either.
And who was paying for your school? Did you have health care growing up? Vaccinations? Who was paying for all that?
No, you didn't do it all yourself. Sorry to break the news.
My folks got off their asses and went to work.
So are you saying that in this last great recession, when tens of millions of Americans were losing their jobs, their houses, their businesses, etc... it was because they all of a sudden decided to become lazy and stupid and your solution would have been for them to get off their asses and go to work?
If you want to call someome stupid for buying a half-a-million dollar home, on a $40 thousand a year salary, sure.
I just did. Don't start moving the goal post, because you're wrong.
If you want to think the Democrats are socialists, fine by me. But, anyone who has taken a high school history class knows that they are not. The Democrats are WAY too far to the right for any real leftists.
That's the Democrats biggest problem. They've moved too far to the right.
So you are saying that's the reason people were losing their jobs in the recession, and recessions are not just part of the natural market cycle in a free market?
The bursting of the housing bubble caused the recession.
More denial. Do you support wealth redistribution? Progressive tax rates?
So are you saying that in this last great recession, when tens of millions of Americans were losing their jobs, their houses, their businesses, etc... it was because they all of a sudden decided to become lazy and stupid and your solution would have been for them to get off their asses and go to work?
If you want to think the Democrats are socialists, fine by me. But, anyone who has taken a high school history class knows that they are not. The Democrats are WAY too far to the right for any real leftists.
That's the Democrats biggest problem. They've moved too far to the right.
There are no pure capitalist countries in the world. And it's not because they are too dumb and stupid.
The closest we ever got to pure capitalism was the US and wester Europe in the gilded age: when you had industrialists which were making more than the entire GDP of entire nations, while employing kids as young as 8 to work 80 hour weeks in their factories- and the kids still didn't have enough to eat. And left free and alone, it was only getting worse, not better. The only thing that stopped the trend were child labor laws, workplace safety laws, minimum wage laws, and other sensible regulations. And that's where the hybrid economic system started, and has stayed with us.
So no, the general is NOT that a more a country leans toward socialism, the worse it gets.
If democrats are right wing then I must not even be on the chart.
Let me guess, an old white fart sucking of his socialist VA, SS and medicare benefits. You do know genius that obamphones were way before Obama? Just spewing? That uppity nzzzzz on the WH with more brains in his pinky than our genius herewas really irritating wasn't heWant to lose some unwanted pounds? Just turn to socialism.
I bet the socialist elite are fat and sassy though. In a socialist system, the elite are the only ones that benefit while the people suffer. The main goal of the leftists here in the US, make the people suffer. By Joe we'll have top notch healthcare though and free Obamaphones. LOL
Yes, the people of Venezuela are literally starving to death « Hot Air
If democrats are right wing then I must not even be on the chart.
I know where you're going with this. I think the empirical data is there to support Keynes in the Laffer v. Keynes debate. I think Ronald Reagan was one of the most catastrophic things to happen to the middle class. And we haven't yet been able to undo the damage that the Tax Act of '81 did.
But, the question is, "Do you support cutting government agency?" Because if you do, then you support wealth redistribution from the middle class to the wealthy.
Might help If you knew the def of liberal. Liber = free. Didn't take Latin in college?If anything, the liberals shouldn't have passed the ruinous legislation that forced banks to loan money to people who they knew couldn't repay.
Most people are 2 paychecks away from being homeless as is, don't take on responsibilities like children or a mortgage if you truly cannot afford them.
IOW, you do support communist ideas. Thanks for for being honest, in a round-about way.
Congrats, one out of 1000 here who actually knows the def of classical liberal. For the individual and small gov amazing how ,many just spew "liberal" sort of like Benghazi BenghaziI know right, classical liberal here. The left used to defend free speech, now that's a conservative position. The Democrats haven't moved right, progressives have moved so far left they cannot even be called liberal anymore.
IOW, you do support communist ideas. Thanks for for being honest, in a round-about way.
Might help If you knew the def of liberal. Liber = free. Didn't take Latin in college?
Congrats, one out of 1000 here who actually knows the def of classical liberal. For the individual and small gov amazing how ,many just spew "liberal" sort of like Benghazi Benghazi
Keep the gov out of my Medicare as the trumpie said
Let me guess, an old white fart sucking of his socialist VA, SS and medicare benefits. You do know genius that obamphones were way before Obama? Just spewing? That uppity nzzzzz on the WH with more brains in his pinky than our genius herewas really irritating wasn't he
If anything, the liberals shouldn't have passed the ruinous legislation that forced banks to loan money to people who they knew couldn't repay.
Most people are 2 paychecks away from being homeless as is, don't take on responsibilities like children or a mortgage if you truly cannot afford them.
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