girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-21-11 05:12 PM
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America is a prosperous country.
Despite the financial crisis engineered by our elites, we have never been more productive, more rich in resources or more equipped to meet all of our own needs than we are right now.
Forcing the productive classes to "sacrifice" as a means of enabling the speculator class to further enrich itself through artificial scarcity is a crime, and nothing more.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1541260Then how about 0bama getting out of the way and let us start tapping some resources?
I know the DUmmy meant tax the rich.
pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-21-11 05:20 PM
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2. Never has a country produced so much wealth then given it to so few. Sad. n/t
It's so unfair that wealth is limited to the folks who are producers.
hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-21-11 05:25 PM
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4. The money is there
and so is the talent and work ethic. The problem is simple - the entire system has been rigged for the last thirty years to enrich only the parasite class.
People with the work ethic are the ones not demanding that the rich be taxed so they can have more. They are the ones working, and not all of us are rich by any means, but at least we do more than sit on the computer all day demanding handouts.
And you are right, the entire system is rigged for the parasite class, and the parasite class is you lefties. You have the nerve to demand that when a person does something productive, that you get a cut of their wealth. When they don't owe your lazy ass a damn thing. None of you freaks of nature will work at a job that actually involves labor. You think that honest hard work is beneath your dignity, yet begging for handouts from the govt is dignified?
Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-21-11 05:32 PM
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7. America is a hollow, bankrupt shell of its former self.
We are more productive because the few people who still have jobs are being pushed harder and harder to make up for the people who have been let go.
We have no manufacturing base any more.
We can't come close to meeting our own energy needs, let alone our raw materials needs.
Everything we buy is made in China because we can't afford the little bit of stuff that's made here any more. The whole U.S. economy is running on fumes, and it's got three or four more blocks to coast downhill until it sputters to a permanent stop.
I'm afraid people who think the U.S. is still an economic powerhouse are in denial, big time. The only economy left in the U.S. is the false economy of shuffling paper around for a fee. That, and serving up burgers to the paper shufflers. Nothing, I repeat NOTHING of actual worth is being produced by the U.S. economy. It's all smoke and mirrors and the next good breeze will blow the smoke away.
Wrong we can meet our own energy and natural resource needs, it's just that you greenies won't let us touch our resources, we may injure a termite or something if we do.
FogerRox (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-21-11 06:41 PM
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18. "more rich in resources ", is that snark? Updated at 3:32 PM
You are aware that we ran out of the iron ore Hematite in the mid 1970's?
Same oil and copper.
Really there is no more of those resources at all in our entire continent? Or is it that we just aren't allowed to go get it?
