Posted on 02/27/2006 2:46:40 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
What is in the water in Madison?
More leftist crap.
Crack. Most highly concentrated in Madison.
And risk the wrath of the PETA babes???
NO WAY!!!
The Great Society goes global. Yeah, that'll work.
E. Coli. They crap in their nest - in our nest.
Good grief! These neo-Socialists just won't go away.
It is demonstrably, patently impossible to "eliminate poverty thoughout the world". Wait, perhaps the last umpteen failed Socialist/Communist/Utopian pies in the sky were just flukes. Let you run things, and it would all work beautifully, right?
Spare me.
LSD?
Technically speaking- it's a good idea, PETA's negligible since, well, they're a fringe no one cares about. The only real objection here is that I am a firm believer in mercantilism and that there is a set amount of actual capital in the world. So, their success might not be so good for us, selfish of me? Yeah. All the same, you can't deny that there have been very few times a nation has risen to economic power without bringing another nation down.
This is brilliant thinking! The way to fix the poverty and despair in Zimbabwe is to send the racist commie Robert Mugabe more money and to quit driving SUVs.
I wish I had thought of it.
What a fabulously stupid notion - jumping from the neo-Wilsonian of the second Bush administration to the neo-Johnsonism launching a "war on global poverty."
How about this for a strategy - limited government, republican-style government, and presenting the United States as a federalist model for the world to emulate, not as a enforcer of democratic ideals.
A small example of how this works: When I moved into my home, I spent the first few weeks cleaning up the junk and debris left laying around by the previous owner. I mowed the lawn and put in a garden. Within a year, every neighbor cleaned up his own yard, and the guy across the street built an attractive stone wall. Gardens and lawns are being kept up. I said nothing to anyone, but when it looks good, others follow.
"Liberals fought poverty and poverty won." Ronald Reagan
We're going to take more of the money you've earned through your sweat and toil and give it away to people who have done nothing, but that we think deserve it.
That will make us good people for giving the money away, and you bad people for having earned it in the first place.
Power to the people.
Has he consulted Vincente?
"And, oh yes, eliminating poverty is a dominant message of the Bible, if that means anything to you."
I not an expert on the Bible, but where does it say this?
The solution? Simple: Raise taxes.
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There! See how simple it was...???
What a bunch of loons you've got up there.
Well, if you want to get technical, a certain level of socialism seems like a good idea, not all out- but you can't really treat any element of socialism as bad for virtue of it being a component of socialism. Keynes, anyone? (It's worth noting also that Norway currently owns bragging rights to the highest quality of life in the world, despite a significantly smaller GDP- clearly some socialism can't be that bad.) Like everything else, the best is gained from a mixing of both elements.
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