DUmmie FUnnies 01-24-05 ("Is 'capitalism' good or bad?")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | January 24, 2005 | Dummies and PJ-Comix

[NonLinear]

It is illegal not regulated.

That line is a bit too fine. Anything that is regulated is done so by defining one or more activities associated with it as illegal.

Cocaine simply has virtually all aspects of its production, distribution and consumption defined as illegal.

Liquor, for instance, is also regulated, but to a lesser degree. Some, but not all, aspects of its production, distribution and consumption defined as illegal. If you are under age, or have an open container where it is prohibited, or if you manugacture more than the regulations allow, the difference between "regulated" alcohol and "illegal" cocaine comes close to vanishing entirely, except for the penalty involved.

The social ramifications of deregulating (legalizing) almost certainly are more dangerous for those people who currently do not consume it soley due to legal risks, but are certainly less dangerous for those people who currently engage in the illegal activities involved with consumption and/or procurement. Those who do not consume it because they simply don't want to could possibly enjoy a slightly reduced risk of robbery, theft due to decreased cost for the addicts, and perhaps increased availability of law enforcement resources that are currently devoted to interdiction.

Is it a wash? I don't know, likey not. Likely more people would become users, and become addicted.

But on your main point, I agree that more controls = more cost, mostly with little added benefit.

[Ostlandr]

I personally would love to live that "back to the land, Mother Earth News" lifestyle.
One small problem-
Taxes- driven by liberal giveaways- ensure that anybody who wants that lifestyle must generate substantial cash income to pay said taxes.
Therefore, it is liberal social programs, and the taxes they spawn, that force people into the capitalist trade economy.
Nowadays, I'd have to bust my butt to raise enough meat, produce and firewood to pay my over $4,000 a year in property taxes- plus there'd be income tax, social security and utilities. There'd be nothing left for ourselves.
Why should I live like a serf on my own land?
So I leave the land fallow and commute to my job in my evil SUV. This way only half my annual income goes to taxes.

[Ostlandr]

Don't know if you were kidding, but. . .

Burr shot Hamilton because he was a Federalist snob, not because he was a Capitalist pig. This was in July 1804.
Hamilton was solid with the monied elite in NYC and would have been a devout capitalist- he surely read Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" (published in 1776.)

Indiana wasn't admitted as a state until December 1816- was still 'Indian territory' (hence the name) in 1804.
("Treaty? What treaty?")

The Drake well in Titus ville, PA (first commercial oil well) was drilled in 1859.

And it was my man TJ (Thomas Jefferson) who said (in a speech against the creation of a central bank):
"If we allow the banks to control the supply of currency by inflation and deflation, then those banks, and the corporations which grow up around them, will so impoverish this nation that one day our Grandchildren will awaken to find themselves homeless in this land which their Grandfathers conquered."

[groanup]

I was kidding and mocking the DUmmies while typing as fast as I could. Thanks.

[The Toad]

Remembering that untill the computer chip the Soviet economy was equal to ours

That's a new one. I studied Soviet History for 3 of my 5 college years and I remember one my professors--a former citizen of the USSR--claiming otherwise. But what did he know?--he only grew up in the USSR prior to the "computer chip".

Ya gotta love those "educated" DUmmies in those blue states.

[TheGeezer]

Remembering that untill the computer chip the Soviet economy was equal to ours and in being honest with ourselves,

What a lie! It is this sort of ignorance of the truth that make me crazy when speaking to one of these pseudointellectuals: having bought the lie perpetrated by the New York Times in the 1940s and 1950s, they just keep repeating it and repeating it. AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!

[RetroWarrior]

I guess the computer chip is what created our economy. No mention of radio, t.v, sight bulbs, standardized manufacturing, or innumerable other "Capitalistic" inventions.

[RetroWarrior]

'sight bulbs ' did I mention spell checkers? ;-)

[groanup]

I guess the computer chip is what created our economy. No mention of radio, t.v, sight bulbs, standardized manufacturing, or innumerable other "Capitalistic" inventions.

That's why we call them DUmmies. They have this tendency to forget that free people will foster the likes of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Andrew Carneigie and Lord knows who I am leaving out. They also forget that we established and grew a capitalistic economy without the need to commit genocide on our own people as the Soviets did. We did something so stupid and so risky that the world must think us mad. We left everybody alone to do what they wanted to.

And now? Well the left is just sick and tired of it. Why should these stupid Christians be allowed to do what they want to do? They should think, act and DO what WE want them to. To paraphrase Ann Coulter: 'stop sending your lawyers down here to tell us what to do'.

[RetroWarrior]

I think the DUmmies are not so much against Capitalism as they are upset that their 'Man' is not in charge at the Capitol.

[bad company]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3028615



words fail me.

[GeronL]

robber barons?

[GeronL]

Corporate Capitaism only wants one thing

An "l". Corporate "Capitaism" wants an "l".

haha

[Larry Lucido]

"Kinda hard to banish grandma to the mountaintop with no nature, huh?"

He means a mountain of plastic refuse.