Posted on 11/30/2008 3:29:26 AM PST by Pipeline
CHAPEL HILL - Police were not trying to rescue "Capitalism" on Friday night. They just didn't want a fiery funeral to happen in the middle of Franklin Street. Protesters clashed with police when two officers tried to move the group of more than 50 protesters out of the road and safely remove a mannequin labeled "Capitalism" from a coffin doused with fuel.
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I always figured those tar holes were communists.
Well we can take that school off the list for my kids. its obvious the kids aren’t learning anything.
socialism has failed every time its been tried. governments bankrupt, people dead, economies devastated and corruption run amok. but hey perhaps we just haven’t had the right people in charge.
It is distressing to see how so many could discard the engine that made this country great so easily.
They don’t understand that we would not have thousands of universities and scholarships in this country were it not for capitalism.
The parents and teachers are not teaching the kids how wealth is created, but that it should just be ‘spread around’.
How sad that a great State like North Carolina is home to such a slimy group of bottom feeders. Unfortunately anywhere you have a major college these days you will find these losers congregated there.
Sometimes lately, I’ve felt like doing the same. If we’re intent on killing capitalism, the least we can do is give it a decent, if not spectacular, burial. Of course, these clymers had no such honorable intentions.
If I were to venture a guess.. I would say none of those “children” are from NC
Believe it or not, their business school is very conservative.
As someone who is mildly pro-Wolfpack...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1582336,00.html
I think what a lot of people need to understand (and don’t) is that what happened to our financial system was NOT the result of Capitalism—at least not the old fashioned, honorable kind. It was the result of a new variant of Capitalism, infused with Political Correctness (must make loans to poor people), cronyism, intellectual laziness, and a lack of coherence to clear time tested standards. Basically, these companies went wild because their management infused a wild West culture where the short term was king (long term consequences be damned), and a fudiciary responsibility toward customers and shareholders was totally abandoned. And, in the back of their minds, most of these CEOs thought that they could get bailed out if things went South. In the Capitalism of old, these people would have been stripped and disgraced. Now, they get golden parachutes.
If I were a parent and my kid(s) wanted to go there, great, but I won't send money to the alumni fund or any other school related fund. All that out of state tuition I paid was more than enough from me.
I thought North Carolina was a red state? No mas!
This entire episode conjures up Berkeley California - not Carolina...
Where are any “true blue” red states left? :)
- John
I attended UNC in the late 70’s/early 80’s and took pretty much all liberal arts courses (languages, history, poli slide, etc.). My professors and TA’s were mostly flaming libs, but they remained noncomittal and very professional in the classroom. Reagan became president in 1980 and the media was already characterizing him as a war-crazed nut, yet I can’t recall any of my teachers taking verbal shots at him or his admnistration in the classroom. I would like to think the faculty there is just as professional today, but who knows?
Can’t get over how giddy the love hippies and radicals of the 60’s must be over all of this. Break out the Crosby Stills and Nash albums love we’re in for a rehash, hash did some one say hash?
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