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Kentuck is a socialist
« on: July 25, 2010, 10:30:36 PM »
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Would this make me a "socialist"?   Updated at 2:35 AM
   
I would like to see a more radical agenda:

A 35-hour or 37 1/2 hour work week. Somehow I think you want to make them pay for 40 hours though

A one-year moratorium on all FICA taxes under $30,000. Why only one year?

A national holiday for election day. This one never bothered me then again I like any excuse for a holiday  :-)

Public funded elections. Sure stick the tax payer with the bill for people to take even more money from them

An increase in the minimum wage of $1.00 per hr. Only one dollar an hour? Why not 10?

Take the cap off income for Social Security purposes. Lets take more money from people at gunpoint

All income not invested would be taxed at 70%. Does that include your money too?

Jobs would be offered to every able-bodied person willing to work. Are those min wage jobs that you want guaranteed?

Those not willing or able to work, would get a guaranteed income equal to half of those that work. Yay more freebies from those who do work

Every state would have a referendum to stop automatic pay raises for Congressmen and Senators. This one I could go for

Products made in other countries by American companies would be taxed at a much higher rate than domestic products. What are you bigoted against foreigners?

We would begin withdrawal of 50% of all our troops around the world and re-evaluate military pensions and all government pay-outs. You can tell the retired Marines that you are cutting their pay

Limit all political contributions to the same amount, corporations or individuals, to $1000. Why would we need any contributions if its all public funded?

Create a single-payer health care system and take insurance totally out of healthcare business. Great idea we are already going to send out checks to everyone under your plan why not free health care too?

Reform the estate taxes to 90% for everything above $500,000. Good idea that will show those mom an pop businesses

Take back our airwaves from the corporate propagandists. In other words ban fox and the EIB

Re-instate Glass Steagall Act to regulate big banks. Why only big banks?

Term limits for Congress - 3 terms for the House and 2 terms for the Senate. Cool that will keep us from having the next Byrd or Kennedy

Crack down on corporate welfare and corporate crime. What about regular wellfare and crime?


Then you could call me a socialist - like Barack Obama. :-) I already call you that


I posted this on another site just for thought fodder for the tea baggers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8814236

Funny he doesn't seem to mention which teabagger site.

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1. There's nothing wrong with being a socialist -- I'm one and proud of it

Hey Im all for you being one if you wanna be one. Just do me a favor move to a socialist country and leave mine alone.

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16. Exactly. Socialism means you care about your fellow
   
human and want them to fare as well as you do in the world.

No actually it means you wanna knock down successful people to your level.

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32. Had the Teabaggers lived 2,000 years ago, they'd have called Jesus a socialist

You are right. When Jesus petitioned the govt and made the Romans hand over all the fish and loaves we would have said see he's a socialist. Oh wait I just re read the story he asked for volunteers and a boy willingly shared what he had.

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2. I like the way you think.
   
Edited on Sun Jul-25-10 05:06 PM by BulletproofLandshark
The only thing I could disagree with on that list is the minimum wage hike. I think minimum wage should be at least $10.

Why so low shouldn't min wage be a living wage?

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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2010, 10:49:10 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on July 25, 2010, 10:30:36 PM

Funny he doesn't seem to mention which teabagger site.


Perhaps the mis-communication is that you think he's referring to the TEA party patriots, and he's actually referring to the blog site his butt buddy posts erotic pictures of them on.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2010, 10:56:59 PM »
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32. Had the Teabaggers lived 2,000 years ago, they'd have called Jesus a socialist

Funny...I have a very hard time believing Jesus would buy into the WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF HIS UNBORN CHILDREN that you smelly lefties are so proud to enforce.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2010, 12:12:59 AM »
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32. Had the Teabaggers lived 2,000 years ago, they'd have called Jesus a socialist

If DUers had been around 2000 years ago they would've called Jesus a fundy wackjob, derided him for his talk about an imaginary sky fairy and cursed him as a fascist for telling people how to live their lives.

Lots of prototypical liberals were wiped out in Sodom and Gomorrah. Today's liberals should be glad Jesus brought forth a New Covenant.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2010, 06:38:19 AM »
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If DUers had been around 2000 years ago they would've called Jesus a fundy wackjob, derided him for his talk about an imaginary sky fairy and cursed him as a fascist for telling people how to live their lives.

Lots of prototypical liberals were wiped out in Sodom and Gomorrah. Today's liberals should be glad Jesus brought forth a New Covenant.

I've heard DUmors call Jesus a liberal, but this is a first for "socialist"....

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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2010, 07:27:12 AM »

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We would begin withdrawal of 50% of all our troops around the world and re-evaluate military pensions and all government pay-outs.

That's perfect.

Cut the pensions of the people whose lives were put on the line to protect your worthless sorry asses, after the fact, but not one word about cutting the ridiculous pensions and benefits of the legions of SEIU thugs that infest the byzantine bureaucracies that comprise the vast bulk of their oh-so-benevolent Big Government.

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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2010, 07:46:18 AM »
Bobo the hobo:

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34. It would really be nice if you would include adequate housing so that nobody need be homeless.
   
We do get tired of being left out.

Thank you.


Hey Bobo, you can take the guaranteed minimum income money, cut back to one case of MD 20/20 per week any probably BUY yourself a place to live.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2010, 07:56:02 AM »
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Hey Bobo, you can take the guaranteed minimum income money, cut back to one case of MD 20/20 per week any probably BUY yourself a place to live.

Upgrade from whatever she's driving/living in now to a van...
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2010, 07:59:56 AM »
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Would this make me a "socialist"?

It very well could.  But more important, the things you list would create an economy that would be unsustainable and would collaspe in short order.   Of course, explaining that to you is so far beyond your ability to understand it, I'm not going to bother.  So in regards to the things you want, the answer is No.

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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2010, 08:15:56 AM »
BoBo' homeless?  Who knew?  You never hear her talk about it.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2010, 08:25:58 AM »
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Those not willing or able to work, would get a guaranteed income equal to half of those that work.

Kentuck, can you honestly believe that this idea could be sold to the general population of the United States?  Be brutally honest with yourself.  Paying people free money to lounge around?  Really? 

And then, equal to what?  I think you're suggesting that everybody earns the same salary.  Good luck with that one, too. 

Stupid should burn. 
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2010, 08:37:11 AM »
Quote from: Karin on July 26, 2010, 08:25:58 AM
Kentuck, can you honestly believe that this idea could be sold to the general population of the United States?  Be brutally honest with yourself.  Paying people free money to lounge around?  Really? 

And then, equal to what?  I think you're suggesting that everybody earns the same salary.  Good luck with that one, too. 

Stupid should burn. 

Isn't this a violation of one of the principal tenets of Leninism?

We all know Lenin, the guy who's a hero of the primitives on Skins's island.

And Mao and Fidel and Mugabe and Idi Amin and Papa Doc and Che and other heroes of the primitives.

"He who does not work, does not eat."

Surely the primitives know that's what Lenin said, and others like him said similar.

Even Shelley 0bama said, during the presidential campaign of 2008, that in the 0bamareich, "everybody's going to have to work."

Come on, now.  Are the primitives deaf, or something?
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2010, 09:48:19 AM »
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Isn't this a violation of one of the principal tenets of Leninism?

We all know Lenin, the guy who's a hero of the primitives on Skins's island.

And Mao and Fidel and Mugabe and Idi Amin and Papa Doc and Che and other heroes of the primitives.

"He who does not work, does not eat."

Surely the primitives know that's what Lenin said, and others like him said similar.

Even Shelley 0bama said, during the presidential campaign of 2008, that in the 0bamareich, "everybody's going to have to work."

Come on, now.  Are the primitives deaf, or something?

Coach, I think that this emoticon would be appripriate . . .

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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2010, 11:17:58 AM »
Reads like a recipe for triggering first national, then global, economic collapse.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2010, 11:34:33 AM »
Quote from: Karin on July 26, 2010, 08:25:58 AM
Kentuck, can you honestly believe that this idea could be sold to the general population of the United States?  Be brutally honest with yourself.  Paying people free money to lounge around?  Really? 

And then, equal to what?  I think you're suggesting that everybody earns the same salary.  Good luck with that one, too. 

Stupid should burn. 

Yes people like kentuck actually believe that the majority of the people in the U.S. YEARN for what he proposes.  In fact...if you were able to ask him...he'd more than likey tell you that he honestly believes that...besides the iron grip the Right has on the MSM...the reason that that Dems don't have a bigger majority in government is because they aren't to the far left enough in what they propose.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2010, 11:35:01 AM »
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Would this make me a "socialist"?   Updated at 2:35 AM
   
I would like to see a more radical agenda:

BLAH BLAH BLAH....

Those not willing or able to work, would get a guaranteed income equal to half of those that work.

and then BLAH BLAH BLAH.......



Come over here you stupid jackass and explain to me WHY?  WHY should someone unwilling to work get a f-ing penny?  WHY?
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2010, 01:56:22 PM »
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Come over here you stupid jackass and explain to me WHY?  WHY should someone unwilling to work get a f-ing penny?  WHY?

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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
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Bump...
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« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2015, 11:04:27 PM »
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Bump...
Why?  Did I miss something?
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2015, 11:08:52 PM »
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Why?  Did I miss something?
No, just some lurking guests.  I though I'd bring it up front for their convenience.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #20 on: January 08, 2015, 11:25:42 PM »
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Cleita  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)     Sun Jul-25-10 05:58 PM 16. Exactly. Socialism means you care about your fellow human and want them to fare as well as you do in the world.

Sure does, doesn't it?  These guys said the same thing and, well.....they wouldn't lie, right?



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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #21 on: January 08, 2015, 11:58:37 PM »
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Then you could call me a socialist - like Barack Obama. :-)

Kentuck, your mocha buddy in DC wouldn't sign on for more than a quarter of those ideas, but you're too dense to see why.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #22 on: January 10, 2015, 12:56:31 PM »
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Would this make me a "socialist"?

Would it make you a socialist?

No.

You already are a socialist. Your socialistic opinions are the result, not the cause.

DUchebag.

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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2015, 01:03:12 PM »
Socialist: Someone that wants everything for free without having to work for it.

Communist: Someone that wants everything for free but will work(slightly) for it at the point of a gun.
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Re: Kentuck is a socialist
« Reply #24 on: January 10, 2015, 02:20:38 PM »
The DUmp is swarming with socialists. It's pretty much a prerequisite for democrat cred.DUmmy kentuck sure isn't the only one:
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Of course the Big Guy wasn't a "shop steward". He ran repeatedly in local elections, always finishing last due to his unpopularity among the other drones in the sewage department.

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