1) Socialist: Greed is bad. Greed is you keeping what you earn to do with as you desire instead of giving it to me to do with as I desire. See defn for Kumbaya...
2) Capitalist: See Gecko, Gordon under famous speeches...
Your's is a valid clarification. I always thought of superiority as able to go where and when I wanted, but it'd have to be armed because someone might try to oppose me. Supremacy would mean I could send the airliners in.
if the majority of Americans want public research into space exploration, medical research, and fundamental research, then it is the government's duty to carry out these wishes
It most explicitly is not the government's duty to carry out those wishes.
Currently, the United States Air Force has air superiority
That's why it's called air superiority, not air just-a-little-better-than-everyone-else. Its purpose is to ensure that the air can be used at will by the commander - not that he might-or -might-not be able to use the air, if the enemy doesn't try too hard, and he got a mother may I...
Visit the National Constitution Center and search for rainbow and blowjobs - they must be part of the improved government healthcare program, cause it ain't in the document that gives government its authority.
Private enterprise has something going against it far greater than any technical challenges... our constant government growth and the belief of the people that government should solve their problems means government has become the initiator, facilitator, checkwriter, approver, middleman, evaluator, and savior in all activities, which are not allowed to die because it's somebody's rice bowl. As Mr. Reagan so accurately said about government's belief of what their job is (my paraphrasing): "if it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it, and when it inevitably stops moving, subsidize it".
assessing the real mission needs for high cost "bleeding-edge" defense programs
It's called providing for the common defense... one of the few things the damn government is supposed to be doing, as apposed to all the crap they are, and want, to do.
as opposed to the Democratic way, where Pelosi is calling for bailing out totally-blue unionized-companies such as GM? The Republicans' mistake in bailouts (besides the bailout ever being considered acceptable in free society in the first place), was in not targeting the bailout to those corporations that would then reward the Republican party. The Democrats are quite keen to not make that same mistake. Lots of taxpayer (of all political persuasions) will now be made available to those industries and companies that hand significant money back to the Democrats in the form of political donations.
Who was it that said a capitalist (or Republican) will sell you the rope to hang himself?...
Here's a company struggling to survive and rather than let capitalism work and let them do a deal with the market leader you prevent it, and watch the company go down the tubes (pun intended). Here's the best part - without Yahoo sucking up advertising dollars, the vast majority of the interest in them will still go to the market leader - but no, you can't allow that to happen and then prosecute any sort of actual abuse - no, you have to prevent the possibility of abuse - you know what's best for everyone after all.
What's next - will we give Yahoo a few billion taxpayer dollars for a bailout?
Great system - government doesn't allow market to work - and then takes money to make it work (for sufficiently poor values of "work").
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It's working so well in Zimbabwe !
All expenses are a higher proportion of a poor person's income - duh.
Making that assumption is called class warfare, and it's not a good basis for policy decisions.
But such rhetoric gets people (re)elected.
Tony Soprano used to vote to appropriate money too.
Greed, defn:
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1) Socialist: Greed is bad. Greed is you keeping what you earn to do with as you desire instead of giving it to me to do with as I desire. See defn for Kumbaya
2) Capitalist: See Gecko, Gordon under famous speeches
Your's is a valid clarification. I always thought of superiority as able to go where and when I wanted, but it'd have to be armed because someone might try to oppose me. Supremacy would mean I could send the airliners in.
If the US would like to remain a world military player, being able to put people in orbit would probably be a plus.
If we're talking defense, being able to at-will remove the people others spent a fortune putting into orbit would be a double-plus
Please have a look around, the rest of the world is screaming past you.
for sufficiently negative values of screaming, perhaps so.
the Roman military was arguably the best in the world at the time ... their government however ...
if the majority of Americans want public research into space exploration, medical research, and fundamental research, then it is the government's duty to carry out these wishes
It most explicitly is not the government's duty to carry out those wishes.
Currently, the United States Air Force has air superiority
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That's why it's called air superiority, not air just-a-little-better-than-everyone-else. Its purpose is to ensure that the air can be used at will by the commander - not that he might-or -might-not be able to use the air, if the enemy doesn't try too hard, and he got a mother may I
Visit the National Constitution Center and search for rainbow and blowjobs - they must be part of the improved government healthcare program, cause it ain't in the document that gives government its authority.
Shouldn't we focus on getting the national debt down before we cut anyone's taxes?
The national debt exists because government has given itself the authority to tax.
Private enterprise has something going against it far greater than any technical challenges ... our constant government growth and the belief of the people that government should solve their problems means government has become the initiator, facilitator, checkwriter, approver, middleman, evaluator, and savior in all activities, which are not allowed to die because it's somebody's rice bowl. As Mr. Reagan so accurately said about government's belief of what their job is (my paraphrasing): "if it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it, and when it inevitably stops moving, subsidize it".
assessing the real mission needs for high cost "bleeding-edge" defense programs
... one of the few things the damn government is supposed to be doing, as apposed to all the crap they are, and want, to do.
It's called providing for the common defense
The pirates are on the run now - the UN has approved sanctions against them - God help them when they read that.
at this point, we're just making the money up. nobody is calling us on it yet.
Rick Wagoner - is that you?
Yippee - I never did get my damn pony.
Samuel Jackson just got a 3AM phone call ...
If you see a man getting beat by another man, do you just stand by and wait for the police to show-up 30 minutes later to collect the body?
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When seconds count, the police are just minutes away
Curiosity: What constitutes the 'robot' in a train?
Marketing.
Equipping Linux on a computer, using MANDATORY VOLUNTEERISM IN AMERICA, costs $50 each.
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There, fixed that for you.
Next up - American "volunteers" outsourcing "volunteering" to Chinese children
The government did their job and ensured that the number 1 and 2 don't get together and control the market.
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So now it's the government's proper job to read the economic tea leaves and decide which companies are worthy of survival
as opposed to the Democratic way, where Pelosi is calling for bailing out totally-blue unionized-companies such as GM? The Republicans' mistake in bailouts (besides the bailout ever being considered acceptable in free society in the first place), was in not targeting the bailout to those corporations that would then reward the Republican party. The Democrats are quite keen to not make that same mistake. Lots of taxpayer (of all political persuasions) will now be made available to those industries and companies that hand significant money back to the Democrats in the form of political donations.
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Who was it that said a capitalist (or Republican) will sell you the rope to hang himself?
Here's a company struggling to survive and rather than let capitalism work and let them do a deal with the market leader you prevent it, and watch the company go down the tubes (pun intended). Here's the best part - without Yahoo sucking up advertising dollars, the vast majority of the interest in them will still go to the market leader - but no, you can't allow that to happen and then prosecute any sort of actual abuse - no, you have to prevent the possibility of abuse - you know what's best for everyone after all.
What's next - will we give Yahoo a few billion taxpayer dollars for a bailout?
Great system - government doesn't allow market to work - and then takes money to make it work (for sufficiently poor values of "work").