To: Dark Skies
Imagine if 1/3 of our population were Quakers. or Amish. Would they still be free to act and dress the way they do? Amish is an excellent comparison because they foresake technology and would be death for the economy because of their rejection of materialism.
5 posted on
10/06/2006 11:06:35 AM PDT by
kinghorse
(I calls them like I sees them)
To: kinghorse
Imagine if 1/3 of our population were Quakers. or Amish. Would they still be free to act and dress the way they do? Amish is an excellent comparison because they foresake technology and would be death for the economy because of their rejection of materialism. I take your point, but don't you think it's a bit, well, tacky to be ripping on the Amish? Especially this week?
To: kinghorse
The First Amendment says they would be free to act and dress the way they do.
Our economy might not be as vigorous, but if a larger number of Amish and Quaker displaced poverty-stricken minorities and white trailer trash, I don't think there'd be any difference because those groups have no buying power which, as a subset of the economy, makes them no more valuable than the Amish or Quakers would be in terms of putting more cash and production demand into the economy. Further, crime and the drain on medical resources would be a lot less. Yeah, I'd trade low lifes with no buying power for the gentle, God-fearing, law-abiding Amish and Quakers who choose not to buy (anything except land, which they work) any day.
68 posted on
10/06/2006 12:30:30 PM PDT by
Jezebelle
(Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
To: kinghorse
Imagine if 1/3 of our population were Quakers. or Amish. Would they still be free to act and dress the way they do? Amish is an excellent comparison because they foresake technology and would be death for the economy because of their rejection of materialism.
Ha ha ha. No, it wouldn't. They support themselves. You would simply have a smaller technological population that supports itself. You may as well talk about how devastating it would be for our economy if over 1/3 of the population didn't work and just sat around reading books most of the year or, for about 1/3 of their lives did nothing but play, eat, and cry. Oops, that's about what it is for those under 18 years of age.
73 posted on
10/06/2006 12:39:16 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: kinghorse
Maybe you meant the Mennonites or the Amish, not the Quakers. Don't let the corporate logo fool you. Take it from a proud member of the American Society of Friends (AKA Quakers).
130 posted on
10/06/2006 3:27:41 PM PDT by
Woodman
("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
To: kinghorse
Amish is an excellent comparison Malignancy of Islam should not be compared to the plain people.
134 posted on
10/06/2006 5:26:17 PM PDT by
x_plus_one
(Stand up for Christ or die at the hands of a heathen God.)
To: kinghorse
Amish is an excellent comparison Amish flying airplanes into buildings, beheading hostages?
What rock do you live under? Amish is nearly 180 degrees different from muslim.
168 posted on
10/08/2006 10:05:30 AM PDT by
Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who are going senile.)
To: kinghorse
"Amish is an excellent comparison......would be death for the economy" Not only is it not a good comparison on any level, it's uhhhhh, insensitive to evoke the Amish in light of what just happened this past week. You might have proposed as "death to the economy" the fact of 20 billion dollars earned here by Mexicans being sent back to that country as "remittances". I don't actually know what effect that has on the US economy but unless large amounts of that money are used in Mexico to buy American-made goods,(unlikely) the effect can't be good, can it?
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