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andyring writes "According to CNS News Service, the Democrat Party will have an agenda that guarantees every American will have affordable access to broadband within five years as part of their 2006 election year agenda, according to Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader. Absent, of course, are any details as to how they will accomplish it when they are the party out of power in Congress."
I think the dividing line between all political ideologies and psychological disorders is pretty thin.
The biggest problem with Marxism is that it's too idealistic. It depends on the goodwill of others, and that is pretty much laughable.
Capitalism, on the other hand, is much more intelligent...It depends on the gullibility of others. No matter that 90% of people are always going to be screwed, if you can keep that 90% believing that they can make it to the top if they just work hard enough, you'll have a stable, productive, society.
Everybody thinks they can win the lottery, but really, it's just a tax on people who are bad at math.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Are you implying that liberals cannot make effective national security policy? Where are the facts that say a more liberal (read progressive) government will ensure that bin laden remains free? It has been 5 years since 9/11, and our conservative government still has not been able to find the man. Yet, they have managed to piss off the rest of the arab world and create a much larger problem than before 9/11, all in the name of democracy.
I'm thinking the big time right wing conservatives are just a little too fast on the trigger.
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So you wouldn't consider this poverty: A single parent who lives in a city slum with 5 kids, a 12 year old 13" color tv, a $59 wal-mart air conditioner in the window, a job cleaning houses, who is overweight because they can only afford unhealthy fast foods, is one inch taller than WWII GI's because she's black and they were mostly white, and every other week there's a shooting in her neighborhood.
If you were in that situation, you certainly wouldn't consider yourself to have even close to a decent living.
This is the USA... here there's more to poverty than distended bellies, flies crawling on eyeballs, and children picking through garbage for something to eat.
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Who the fuck modded this flaimbait "insightful".
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
yeah... The new GOP is not Conservative at all.... they are basically religious fascists.
The greed of this person is beyond comprehension. I believe that this person would allow his food to rot before he would give it to someone who need it. He would justify it with if they would only work they could afford their own food. Smallpox would have never been eliminated without government support so there would be more disease even for those who could afford the proper vaccine. Lets charge to pick up garbage and than pay for alot more police to ensure that the poor do not improperly dispose of their garbage. Lets make everyone pay for their education and let those children whose parent are not resposible suffer because of it. There are plenty of people in the United States who have income many times over what they need to survive. Yet they do not want to part with a small part of it to better themself and the rest of society.
"are you implying that liberals cannot make effective national security policy? Where are the facts that say a more liberal (read progressive) government will ensure that bin laden remains free? It has been 5 years since 9/11, and our conservative government still has not been able to find the man."
Certainly the mindset of American's liberal community does not support effective national security. As President Bush pointed out to Kerry in one of the debates, we are not at war with OBL, we are at war with orgainized terrorists.
And of course when we do flush OBL out of his cave the moonbats will just scream that OBL didn't matter because all he was doing since 9/11 was hiding in a cave.
The fact is that this country has not had a major terror attack since 9/11. All the credit for this FACT goes to President Bush and the Republicans, none of it goes to the Kos/Kerry/Dean moonbat Democrats.
"Yet, they have managed to piss off the rest of the arab world and create a much larger problem than before 9/11, all in the name of democracy."
Hah! Look at this ports management issue. The Democrats irrational howling has pissed off an Arab country that is, by Arab standards, reasonably friendly to us. And they did it not because of any rational thought, just because they percieved that they could gain a short term political advantage by pretending to care about U.S. national security.
The left in the United States has stopped thinking. They have one hate-derived Prime Directive. "Anything that Bush does is evil". Gripped by massive Bush Derangement Syndrome, they wind up opposing each and every U.S. national security improvement just because Bush supports national security.
And let's face it, the people who were upset about Clinton getting it on wtih the intern wouldn't be voting democrat anyway.
I've never understood this logic. Which party is it that's against sexual discrimination in the work place? Who is it that objects to workplace flirtation between managers and subordinates on the grounds that the disparity in power between them might create a "hostile work environment"? And come on, an intern and the leader of the free world (at least back then)--if that isn't a disparity in power I don't know what is.
Meanwhile, the party of fiscal responsibility and small government is building a police state on credit.
Go figure.
--MarkusQ