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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: burgerbrain]
    #22294714 - 09/26/15 05:25 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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Im anything that doesn't get get (R) or (D) put beside it.  i mean, those idiots spent the last forty or fifty years running the country into the ground.  And they got the majority of people thinking that since government is so shitty and bad, we need more of it to fix things. :lolsy::rofl2:




Actually, the people who most ran the country into the ground are the ones who said things like "government IS the problem."





Can you give us a list of those people? Also how is the government NOT the problem? Who do you think racked up 20 Trillion dollars in debt, blue collar workers?






Well the quote is from Reagan, who slashed the tax rates on rich people and contributed significantly to the national debt, so you can start there.




Yeah, Reagan was who came to mind when you said this for me too.

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I see you couldn't answer any of my questions.




Are you trolling?  Seriously he directly answered your question and you continue to quibble over the definition of socialism with people way more informed than you about the subject.


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: paperbackwriter]
    #22294755 - 09/26/15 05:34 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Can you give us a list of those people? Also how is the government NOT the problem? Who do you think racked up 20 Trillion dollars in debt, blue collar workers?

He said "Reagan" .. Guess he answered the questions! LOL

You must be a troll.


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: burgerbrain]
    #22294784 - 09/26/15 05:40 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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Can you give us a list of those people? Also how is the government NOT the problem? Who do you think racked up 20 Trillion dollars in debt, blue collar workers?

He said "Reagan" .. Guess he answered the questions! LOL

You must be a troll.




He did answer the question.  Hence me asking if you were trolling.  It was an honest question.


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: paperbackwriter] * 1
    #22294955 - 09/26/15 06:20 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

two things ignorant people hate:

nuance
grey area


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #22294985 - 09/26/15 06:29 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Two things liberals hate:

Logic
Results


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22295013 - 09/26/15 06:38 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Im sure you can back that up with a list of conservative nations with more logic and better results than the US, which is already particularly conservative by international standards.

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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #22295369 - 09/26/15 07:30 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

The United States, became rich through capitalism, indebted by socialism, once we began incorporating more socialist programs, we began incurring debt...

NO president, since the fifties has actually lowered the debt, that's a fact...


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22295396 - 09/26/15 07:36 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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The United States, became rich through capitalism, indebted by socialism, once we began incorporating more socialist programs, we began incurring debt...

NO president, since the fifties has actually lowered the debt, that's a fact...




So every president after the 50s was a socialist?


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #22295415 - 09/26/15 07:39 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Presidents don't set the budget.  Will you please call Pat Sajack and buy not a vowel but a clue


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #22295439 - 09/26/15 07:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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The United States, became rich through capitalism, indebted by socialism, once we began incorporating more socialist programs, we began incurring debt...

NO president, since the fifties has actually lowered the debt, that's a fact...




So every president after the 50s was a socialist?




That's not what I said, are you trying to straw man?

It is clear when the United States started accruing debt, with the advent of unsustainable socialist programs, just like every other country... And it's been snowballing ever since...


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22295491 - 09/26/15 07:47 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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Presidents don't set the budget.  Will you please call Pat Sajack and buy not a vowel but a clue




:lol:

The other dude put it on the presidents, trust me i know better.


But wait, whats the graph in your sig implying?


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22295528 - 09/26/15 07:52 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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The United States, became rich through capitalism, indebted by socialism, once we began incorporating more socialist programs, we began incurring debt...

NO president, since the fifties has actually lowered the debt, that's a fact...




So every president after the 50s was a socialist?




That's not what I said, are you trying to straw man?

It is clear when the United States started accruing debt, with the advent of unsustainable socialist programs, just like every other country... And it's been snowballing ever since...




If socialist programs are unsustainable debt accruers, explain how nations with more socialist programs have less debt than us.

Youre only looking at one side of the equation, costs, and ignoring revenue. Taxes across the board have dropped and dropped since the 50s as well, yet thats strangely absent from your premise.


For example: In 1952, corporate taxes accounted for 33% of all federal tax revenue. Today, corporate taxes account for 9%.


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22295551 - 09/26/15 07:56 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

>That's not what I said, are you trying to straw man?

Of course he is. Presidents sign bills, or they can veto them. They also have other ways of getting what they want.


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: Stonehenge]
    #22295610 - 09/26/15 08:03 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

I dont know how Stonehenge thinks he knows what im trying to do when he has me on ignore :facepalm:


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #22298515 - 09/27/15 01:05 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

1) Let's see how far this thread can go before we can come up with someone OUTSIDE of government who increased our debt and fucked things up.

2) If someone OUTSIDE of government fucked things up and

  a) Violated a law, lets see how the government held them accountable...  or why the government let them get away with it...

or

  b) Violated no law, did the government put laws into place that corrected the issue, and did they work?..

  c) If laws were put into place and the same shit happened what did the government do to fix it...

I think we will see that the people that are responsible for the state of the US are (whom?)

3) Do any of you think that after 50 years of expanding government and government power we are better off?


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: starfire_xes]
    #22298558 - 09/27/15 01:14 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

3) the liberals will blame the conservatives, they always do, personally I blame both parties but libs just don't see it that way, they think their side is infallible and if we just put the right people in charge, spend even more, things will get better...

look at the horrible state that detroit is in, run by ONLY liberals for the last 50 years and they still blame someone else for their own failures...

it really is such a childish mentality...


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: hostileuniverse]
    #22298656 - 09/27/15 01:42 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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3) the liberals will blame the conservatives, they always do, personally I blame both parties but libs just don't see it that way, they think their side is infallible and if we just put the right people in charge, spend even more, things will get better...

look at the horrible state that detroit is in, run by ONLY liberals for the last 50 years and they still blame someone else for their own failures...

it really is such a childish mentality...




That's true, and many of the more extreme moonbats will deny the obvious. Since obumble is a lib dem and did all those rotten things, they say he is a conservative. In their simple minds, lib = good and conservative = bad no matter the facts. When things go wrong all they know how to do is look for a conservative to blame.


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: Stonehenge]
    #22304670 - 09/28/15 07:20 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

worked has picked the fuck up but just wanted to pop in and lol at the complete misunderstanding of the political spectrum, neo-conservative base ideas and the absolute skewed american conservative/liberal meta.

American gov't consist of two pro-business parties.


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: starfire_xes]
    #22304963 - 09/28/15 08:21 PM (8 years, 4 months ago)

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1) Let's see how far this thread can go before we can come up with someone OUTSIDE of government who increased our debt and fucked things up.

2) If someone OUTSIDE of government fucked things up and

  a) Violated a law, lets see how the government held them accountable...  or why the government let them get away with it...

or

  b) Violated no law, did the government put laws into place that corrected the issue, and did they work?..

  c) If laws were put into place and the same shit happened what did the government do to fix it...

I think we will see that the people that are responsible for the state of the US are (whom?)

3) Do any of you think that after 50 years of expanding government and government power we are better off?




1. So now youre backtracking on your admission that corporate influence is corrupting government?

2. a, b, c:  if corporations are bribing government to get their way, something tells me part of getting their way means making sure no laws are created to prevent them from getting their way.

3. "expanding government" is such a meaningless term. Just because thr debt has gone up doesnt mean government power has expanded. Tax rates have fallen, industries deregulated, etc.



This is my biggest beef with you man. You readily accept that big business and the super rich have bent our government to their will, but still cant get over the intellectual hump of "big government ruins everything."

Ive used this analogy before, but lets say corporations are the mob and the police are thr government. The mob has so much money and power that theyve turned most of the department into crooked cops. Shrinking the government to fix our corporation caused problems is like defunding the police department to get rid of the mob.

Government is our only tool to fix the problems that we Americans face. We cant throw that tool in the trash. Theres a reason the Kochs are spending $1 billion this election cycle, and its because throwing a wrench in our democratic gears is the only way they get to keep the game going.


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Re: Leftist thinkers [Re: The Ecstatic]
    #22306277 - 09/29/15 01:43 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

no i haven't accepted that they have bent the government to their will.  I accept that they do what the government lets them do.

who controls who is in the government?


By the way, its much easier to control a small government at the state level...that is where the people's real power is held.

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