Posted on 04/18/2009 5:12:32 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Bush lied, conservatism died. Thanks Curious George!
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Capitalism can only thrive and grow in a republic. Please check out this video and see what form of govt we have!!!
The video is a description of the 5 supposed forms of government, from 100% government control (Communism, fascism, totalitarianism etc) to 0% government (anarchy) it obliterates all forms of government as only temporary and futile except for 2, oligarchy and republic. It does this in a clear concise manner, which effectively shows even a grade schooler about them. It then, in the last few moments, explains Rome, its beginning as a republic, and its morph into a democracy. The parallels are well put, and clearly where this country is today. It is an excellent way to spread the word to those who have never been taught proper history, and that is alot of people since they have been re writing it for so long now.
I have been posting this sucker all over all day, and sometimes I forget that some are stuck at work, so I have included the above basic description of the video, however it does not do the video justice. I beg, implore and urge all to view it who have not. THIS is the reason we are so angry. Taxes are a symptom, losing our republic is the disease!!!!!
http://www.marchforliberty.org/multimedialinks.html
capitalism is what happens when governments do nothing to prevent it.
Half capitalism and half socialism doesn’t work. Doesn’t even half work. There is a critical mass at which government regulation simply invalidates every decision made by a market, and it’s not a very high level of regulation. That’s how the socialists work. They add layers of regulation until the so-called “capitalist” markets crash, and then they blame it on capitalism, even though it was really socialism that did it. Of course they would never admit that.
So market capitalism should be superior to the moral intentions of society?
When we say we are "free", politically that means that the citizenry are sovereign, and not a dictator, tyrant or king, terms which are all synonymous.
And being free, that means we are free to frame the rules of our society - the laws - so that the resulting society conforms to our wishes and custom.
To indict Blue Laws as some form of socialist restraint of trade is idiotic. They were based on the notion of the Sabbath, and respecting it.
But I guess the Church must genuflect to bankers in this guy's view. If a brothel pandering to S&M opens up next to a Sunday School, that's cool. They're makin' money, satisfying a customer "need", right?
This is ordinary anarcho-capitalist tripe that discounts the distortions that do occur in any real market system. The Mexican economy in many ways is far less regulated than the in the United States, but what has that produced? Gross inequality, squalor, social collapse and civil war.
Christian values are in many ways in conflict with doctrinaire Capitalist systems, just as they are with doctrinaire Marxism. But societies which subscribe to the tenets of such religions succeed wildly while those that don't fall into thuggish, Darwinian hell holes.
Maybe that's proof that nature's God constructed the world a certain way: discover the rules and live happily ever after.
Or maybe that's just an accident that ancient tribes discovered. I don't know, and it doesn't matter.
What does matter is that the history of the last 10,000 years has given us known rules that work, and they don't simply say "let Wall Street decide".
There's a little more to it than that.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”— Margaret Thatcher
In his history of the Spanish Civil War, Anthony Beevor describes how the Left-wing utopians in the performing arts unions in Catalonia decreed total equality in wages. Everybody, regardless of their job, would get an equal salary. Thus, a certain famous tenor was getting the same wage as the ticket taker at the door.
After putting up with this for a while, the tenor announced that, that particular night, he would collect tickets at the door and that somebody else needed to sing his part in the opera.
That was the end of the noble experiment and the tenor, once again, became the highest paid employee in the production.
Did Churchill say something like this? Equal misery under Socialism, and unequal wealth distribution under Capitalism. In my mind that sums it all up. Why can an actor with a high school education get paid more money in one month, than I can earn in a lifetime I have difficultly understanding, but if he comes by it honestly, he is welcome to it.
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BDS is untreatable, it’s chronic, having it means you’re crazy and more than likely still wetting the bed.
The best known procedure used to diagnose if someone has contracted this crippling disease, is to type up what I just did and wait for the response. The subject will do one or more of the following:
-Respond with more rantings about Bush, occasionally crafting some long and boring diatribe of how the world would be better off had Bush never been born.
-Claim loudly and proudly that they are a lifelong conservative with an ancestry of conservatives that goes all the way back to Adam and Eve.
-Assert that they absolutly did not vote for the white hating Surrender Monkey in Chief that now contaminates the White House.
-Spit out the “Bushbot” name in a futile hope that the mere sight of that word will shame the Bush supporter.
Well darn, I have to stop... dinner is ready.
Flip to the next page.... we are now in the Obama World.
When governments do nothing it’s called Freedom. It’s the goal of every normal human being, whether he knows it or not.
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Capitalism is a Marxist word. Karl Mark invented the term. capitalism, as a way of demonizing free market economy. Using the term capitalism plays into socialist hands. We should always refer to our way of commerce as “a free market economy” or “free enterprise system” and our government should be republic and not democracy, like all the good socialist teachers have drummed into our heads all our lives.
“It then, in the last few moments, explains Rome, its beginning as a republic, and its morph into a democracy”
You mean dictatorship. Rome was never a democracy. It went from a Republic (run by the Senate, which was controlled by the citizens ie upper classes of Rome), to an imperial dictatorship when Julius Ceaser marched on Rome in 49BC and became Emperor.
True, but you are talking to a brick wall trying to get some people here to understand that.
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