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07-15-2008, 09:21 PM
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| | I love it when ya call me
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Originally Posted by TennNC  So you're saying the Devil is in the American people? | not at all. I'm saying we have hordes who don't care a whit about the budget, so long as they get their free ride, corporate or entitlement. | 
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07-15-2008, 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Rasputin_Vol | The difference between the presidential candidates in this election cycle is essentially the difference between slow poison and a loaded gun.
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07-15-2008, 10:25 PM
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| | a lover, not a fighter
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Originally Posted by BigPapaVol not at all. I'm saying we have hordes who don't care a whit about the budget, so long as they get their free ride, corporate or entitlement. | I hear you. | |
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07-16-2008, 10:54 AM
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| | This is all fixable!
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Originally Posted by TennNC I hear you. | We agree on something! Yeah!
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07-16-2008, 02:27 PM
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| | Palin: Yes She Can
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Originally Posted by TennNC So it's not individual people's fault for manipulating the system?
Is it capitalism's fault when some companies (Enron, e.g.) cook their books to try to make their financials look better? | greed exists in every system. You don't think the leaders of the Soviet Union lived a threadbare and destitute life like the peasants do you?
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07-16-2008, 02:30 PM
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| | This is all fixable!
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Originally Posted by MG1968 greed exists in every system. You don't think the leaders of the Soviet Union lived a threadbare and destitute life like the peasants do you? | That is why TennNC is going to be apart of the American Politburo! 
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07-16-2008, 02:36 PM
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| | Palin: Yes She Can
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| I should also add that capitalism also provides the mechanism to punish the perpetrators of Enron-like scandals. Socialism, Marxism, etc. don't provide that mechanism, since it's the government that benefits from the greed.
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07-16-2008, 02:38 PM
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| | This is all fixable!
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07-16-2008, 02:42 PM
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| | This is all fixable!
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| It would also do a lot of people good to read Common Sense.... 
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07-16-2008, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeEmpire It would also do a lot of people good to read Common Sense....
| Pelosi and Reid already scheduled the book burning for that one
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07-16-2008, 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeEmpire It would also do a lot of people good to read Common Sense.... | It would do a lot of people good to read a lot of what our Founding Fathers wrote.
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07-17-2008, 06:19 AM
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| | Palin: Yes She Can
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Originally Posted by utvolpj Pelosi and Reid already scheduled the book burning for that one | Pelosi and Reid should be encouraged to do away with their well worn copies of "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" and pick up (and read) a copy of the US Constitution.
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07-17-2008, 06:28 AM
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| The minutemen along the Mexican border in Arizona might want to contribute to this thread.....
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07-17-2008, 08:52 AM
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| | a lover, not a fighter
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Originally Posted by MG1968 greed exists in every system. You don't think the leaders of the Soviet Union lived a threadbare and destitute life like the peasants do you? | of course not.
neither am I (or ever have) called for Communism.
I'm saying that basic human nature is the cause of much of our problems and frustrations - it's not always the "system." | |
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07-19-2008, 07:27 PM
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| | 2008: Change...
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