A Different View of the Economy

[T-TownVol]

Are you seriously ignorant enough to believe that I am "seriously blaming personal CC debt on GWB?"

It's a little thing called NUANCE.

There is a difference between saying one is to blame, and saying one is complicit. What I am saying is that when you support deregulation, a free market, and make speeches equating patriotic duty and consumer consumption, you support both idiots and banks making bad decisions. It is funny how we call people who make bad financial decisions with money they don't have idiots (hint: that is code in class warfare for "undeserving poor"), but when CEOs do it, they are rewarded with golden parachutes. That is the bankruptcy of conservative free market economics. I will take my chances with starting with the assumption that people have a responsibility for each other, rather than the assumption that if we give all the breaks to the rich then they will know what to do with it and it will in the long run help the poor. :birgits_giggle:

Is it just me, or is it very hard to take a man serious when he uses smiley faces to express himself?

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Is it just me, or is it very hard to take a man serious when he uses smiley faces to express himself?

When they want government in complete control of our daily lives.

 

[BigPapaVol]

When they want government in complete control of our daily lives.

exactly. The base assumption that we owe one another something is downright pathetic IMO.

 

[vader]

Is it just me, or is it very hard to take a man serious when he uses smiley faces to express himself?

Why are you hating on Remus?

 

[rwemyss]

Why are you hating on Remus?

:lol: :the_finger: epper:

 

[OrangeEmpire]

fight organized crime abolish the irs!

 

[cibai]

exactly. The base assumption that we owe one another something is downright pathetic IMO.

Did you build the road in front of you house?

 

[BigPapaVol]

Did you build the road in front of you house?

no, but I damn sure paid for it.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

no, but I damn sure paid for it.

Exactly....................

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[MG1968]

Did you build the road in front of you house?

what an idiotic question, one of the roles of government is to provide infrastructure. In fact, that's one of the few legitimate uses of tax dollars.

 

[BigPapaVol]

what an idiotic question, one of the roles of government is to provide infrastructure. In fact, that's one of the few legitimate uses of tax dollars.

not in front of my house. Some developer paid for it, was forced to dedicate it to the governing municipality and sold the lot to include the cost of that road. The homeowner 100% paid for the road in front of the house. The laborer that built it was paid by someone taking the risk to build the subdivision.

The only roads that the fed pays for are Interstates and Federal Highways, which they pay for with fuel taxes. Hence, I paid for those too.