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Offline bijou

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The unbridled greed.
« on: February 24, 2008, 11:21:31 AM »
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Jack Sprat  (580 posts)      Mon Feb-18-08 10:18 PM
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The unbridled greed.
I had a bad day. Whenever I have a bad day, it seems inevitably linked to being gouged by American businesses and my relentless resistance to them, no matter how futile. I hate their commercialism, their intrusiveness in our daily lives, and their insatiable longing to get in our wallets. Particularly, I hate the way they manipulate the public with their advertising. If you don't buy a teddy bear or a pajama gram on Valentine's, you're not going to get rewarded. If you don't buy her a diamond at Christmas, you don't deserve her. If you don't take some kind of performance enhancer, you won't be ready when the time is right. It is all so sick. They pump the public full of shit, then suck it back out when it turns green. I can't stand them. It has gone to extremes. If you are poor or just middle class, they now want you to feel guilty for not having whatever it takes to be rich beyond your dreams. It almost seems that they never are satisfied and there is never enough. They don't want anyone to be content with their simple lives. No, they want a public that wants more and more and more. And they want you to feel guilty for not already having it. Their is no limits on their greed. When is enough ever enough for them?

In short, the blend of a fair mixture of socialism and capitalism in my younger years seemed to complement one another well. But, since 1980 and the Reagan era of union busting, deregulation, and non-progressive taxation, I see socialism as a salvation from the cold aloofness of a corporate government. Do any of you share these feelings and think sometimes that we should be headhunting for Socialist Progressives within our Democrat Party? Sometimes, I think we are fighting a losing battle in the general population of the mainstream party.
 
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Re: The unbridled greed.
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2008, 11:27:34 AM »
When the Vermont Teddy Bear Co. petitions to use armed agents of the state to pad their coffers the way socialists do then you can bitch. Now FOAD. :hammer:
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Re: The unbridled greed.
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2008, 12:11:40 PM »
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I see socialism as a salvation from the cold aloofness of a corporate government.

That, everyone, is what we call "terminal stupidity." I blame our government schools.
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Re: The unbridled greed.
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2008, 12:21:34 PM »
I don't let advertising guilt me into anything.

This one reeks of teh stupid and teh waek minded.

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Re: The unbridled greed.
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2008, 12:41:37 PM »
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I had a bad day. Whenever I have a bad day, it seems inevitably linked to being gouged by American businesses and my relentless resistance to them, no matter how futile.

No,having a bad day is part of life,we all have them and they suck.
Then the next minute or hour or day arrives and we carry on with things.

There isn`t anyone to blame,or if there is then usually we can`t change it so get over things.

For Gods sake there is life out there and for the most part it isn`t bad.
Politics don`t really affect it much,only we do.
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