do you read yeats?I was wondering, undertheice, if you would expand on this a bit:
"My rose colored glasses were stripped from me long ago by the passionate intensity of the worst and replaced with this gaze blank and pitiless by those who lack all conviction."
Thanks ...
Vi
HERE HERE ! I second this!
I agree medi, but the government was even worse in the past. and if you think the gov is so bad why would you want to expand it and make everyone rely on it for everything in thier lives? I think its for selfish reasons
Look up Adam's sedition act. Government exists as a regulatory force upon society, without proper power how can a government hope to exist. Stop bitching about lack of free speech or legal counsel, citizens are subject to far more than political force. Free market capitalism makes some voices louder than others and some lawyers better than others, live with it and realize that you live in an amazing country.
it won't even be another one, the american people are notoriously fickle and they will turn on the dems just as surely as they are turning against the reps. don't bother trying to tell the left that they are leading us into slavery, they are blinded by meaningless hope and dreams of a new messiah. they are marching to the clarion call of something for nothing and the cult of entitlement. they seem to believe there is someone out there that can be trusted to always keep their best interests first and foremost and will gladly follow any snake oil salesman who promises to be the one. our rights were well defined by this country's founders, but that just isn't enough. they create a new list of rights at every turn. the right to drive, the right to medical care, the right to not be offended, the right to someone else's wealth...... the list grows and yet our real rights are slowly whittled away. but it's all for the good of the society, now isn't it.
it won't even be another one, the american people are notoriously fickle and they will turn on the dems just as surely as they are turning against the reps. don't bother trying to tell the left that they are leading us into slavery, they are blinded by meaningless hope and dreams of a new messiah. they are marching to the clarion call of something for nothing and the cult of entitlement. they seem to believe there is someone out there that can be trusted to always keep their best interests first and foremost and will gladly follow any snake oil salesman who promises to be the one. our rights were well defined by this country's founders, but that just isn't enough. they create a new list of rights at every turn. the right to drive, the right to medical care, the right to not be offended, the right to someone else's wealth...... the list grows and yet our real rights are slowly whittled away. but it's all for the good of the society, now isn't it.
I just don't get it. You right wing-nuts say if we institute universal health care, we are automatically a communist state. There is ample proof that many democracies have universal health care and aren't anything like a communist state. I think you righties are brainwashed and paranoid, take a chill pill, we'll still be a democracy, even more so if we get the claws of corporations away from around our medical. Corporate medical for profit has priced itself out of the market. Too many people can't afford it, even those with the sham insurance the corporations sell, greed has ruined it.
an uneducated public is voting it's way into a socialist state. for the sake of comfort and the illusion of safety even the more educated portions of the electorate are willing to give up self-determination. should the people suddenly wake up and realize they are pissing their freedom away, i doubt the government would allow their votes to matter much anyway. the corruption is so firmly entrenched that only by removing the bureaucracy entirely can we hope to regain control. as we bitch and moan about the massive corporations raping our land and people we continue to elect their lackeys and allow them to trick us into digging our own graves.
This is exactly whats happening today I full heartedly agree.
And why is the corruption so rampant, Greed. The corporations that you are so proud of have been raping us for a century now, and getting stronger with every passing day. Those that live off of the corporate greed are every bit as hooked as those that you disdain so much, the poor. The difference is, the corporate greed mongers (And this includes the government) want to keep all the treasure for themselves and fuck The public. Poor to them means nothing, having never experienced it, it is something someone else is. I think a turning of the tables is coming. I will surely get a woody if I see some bazillionaires on skid row.
I've asked you this question before, but to date, you've not answered it. Here it is again: Who owns the corporations?
enough with the greed schtick already. greed is a deep seated trait found throughout the animal kingdom and no amount of legislation will ever make it go away. this infatuation y'all have with punishing success must have some deep dark root. who knows, maybe you hated your father or weren't breast fed long enough or too long or whatever, i'm sure freud would have some bizarre theory to explain away such hatred. instead of punishing us for being the animals we are maybe we should think about letting that part of our natures take its course and rewarding those that choose to indulge the more charitable side of their humanity.
