[A. Pole]

Some decent people just don't have the intelligence to qualify for the better jobs, or they have handicaps you don't know about. That does not make them lesser beings and they deserve a minimum quality of life.

Freemarketeers see the society as a loose aggregation of individuals who pursue the individual gain. They see other people as a commodity. A nation, a family, a local community is seen by them as the superstitions of people less clever than them or at best as the tools to protect their assets.

In a sense they are similiar to the militant homosexuals who call people with normal families "the breeders".

Freemarketeers make socialism look good.

[Betaille]

"Freemarketeers make socialism look good."

Do you have any idea how much prices would surge if we were to cut off trade with developing nations? Do you have any idea how many americans who are currently in white collar professions would have to go back to working in textiles and/or farm, so that we could provide the same goods we had before? Do you have any idea how severely productivity and GDP would contract? No, obviously you are just repeating bumper stickers.

[Nowhere Man]

Freemarketeers see the society as a loose aggregation of individuals who pursue the individual gain. They see other people as a commodity. A nation, a family, a local community is seen by them as the superstitions of people less clever than them or at best as the tools to protect their assets.

In a sense they are similiar to the militant homosexuals who call people with normal families "the breeders".

Ya, I know, I see it the same way. Again, I might go out on a limb here and get whacked, but as we all know, the Democrats have their own problem with the "barking moonbats," well we have our own counter problem with the "Randroids." Trouble is that on our side, they leave a lot of people out such as poor Republicans, social conservatives, moderate conservatives, etc, people that generally share our views, might not agree on everything but still when you shunt these people aside, they will look for other avenues. I have to say I'm becoming one of them. If they keep telling people to "go jump in the lake," well they have made enemies. As the old Guiness Stout commercial says, "Brilliant!!!!" B-P

Freemarketeers make socialism look good.

Well, when you turn people away who could be your allies, and they have no where to go and they need to survive, well, as the saying goes, "any port in the storm." I know it was like that in Russia and that's how Bolshevism appealed to many. I know some of my relatives who stayed in Russia become Bolsheviks, some of them were in the Bolshevik Revolution, one rose to some influence in the Red Army although I'm looking for info on that one. The smart ones left and I'm here because of it but we can lose it all.

People are to be valued, not as some cogs in a socialist/communist machine or cogs in an uber capitalist, Galt's Gulch. I keep thinking of Pink Floyd's song, "The Machine." B-) I have realized that most people have value and can contribute once they are given a helping hand and a nudge from time to time. When people are seen as cogs, they resent it and later lash out or curl up, that is not good. To God and Jesus we are all somebody.

[1rudeboy]

Freemarketeers make socialism look good.

Truer words have never been spoke, Mr. Chirac.

[jb6]

And yet these same Free Traitors rely upon a socialist system to keep the unemployed masses fed or "retrained" so that they don't rise up. Yup, nothing like the "free" market backed up by massive socialist spending.