For Republicans, greed is good

[sitarro]

I'm not going to bother reading the pages of crap that I'm sure the adorably naive Chrissie started with the Op....... nice avatar Chris....... Bond is exactly the type of guy you are talking about right.... no excess there.

In the sixties and seventies there were some really serious dreamers, a lot in the Northern California area...... Big Sur... etc. They were super liberals and were going to do socialism and the purest form of communism right, they would show us all how well it could work. How many of those famed communes lasted a year? Ideal conditions, a group of people with the same beliefs, living in paradise, free love and drugs and for some reason their "utopias" didn't work out, why Chris?

 

[TruthSeeker56]

For Republicans America is a platform for individual fulfillment. Here is the catch: the Individual is defined in the narrowest possible terms. Any notion of the "The Public Good" is seen as "Socialism" (socialism being anything the government does for the non-wealthy). The Free Market will fix New Orleans levees. The Free Market will effectively control the amount of derivative based risk Wall Street will take. The Free Market will get us off imported oil(rather than spending decades making terrorists stronger). The Free Market will keep our rivers clean. The Free Market will make healthcare more efficient. The Free Market won't bribe Washington in order to increase it's profit margin. We don't need to worry about "The Public Good", individual selfishness driven by short term profit is a utopian reflex.

But the world doesn't work that way. Selfishness harms society....tears it apart....destroys the world economy....spills millions of barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.....tears a hole in the ozone...creates a garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas...melts the North Polar ice cap.....creates massive deficits by giving huge tax breaks for the wealthy....

But the Republicans celebrate this selfishness. It is their core value. For them greed is good.

You are a VERY confused person. You equate success, hard work, accomplishment, pride, integrity, morality, values, etc. with selfishness, greed, terrorism, profiteering, etc.

At what point in your mental development and maturization process did your "train leave the tracks"?

 

[Meister]

For Republicans America is a platform for individual fulfillment. Here is the catch: the Individual is defined in the narrowest possible terms. Any notion of the "The Public Good" is seen as "Socialism" (socialism being anything the government does for the non-wealthy). The Free Market will fix New Orleans levees. The Free Market will effectively control the amount of derivative based risk Wall Street will take. The Free Market will get us off imported oil(rather than spending decades making terrorists stronger). The Free Market will keep our rivers clean. The Free Market will make healthcare more efficient. The Free Market won't bribe Washington in order to increase it's profit margin. We don't need to worry about "The Public Good", individual selfishness driven by short term profit is a utopian reflex.

But the world doesn't work that way. Selfishness harms society....tears it apart....destroys the world economy....spills millions of barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.....tears a hole in the ozone...creates a garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas...melts the North Polar ice cap.....creates massive deficits by giving huge tax breaks for the wealthy....

But the Republicans celebrate this selfishness. It is their core value. For them greed is good.

You are a VERY confused person. You equate success, hard work, accomplishment, pride, integrity, morality, values, etc. with selfishness, greed, terrorism, profiteering, etc.

At what point in your mental development and maturization process did your "train leave the tracks"?

Tracks???? Chris don't need no stinkin' tracks.

 

[AquaAthena]

"For Republicans, greed is good"

Right you are Chris. And for any persons accepting entitlements, whether they paid into them or not, GREED is really good. It is a strong motivator to make things better and by doing so, more money is made to "redistribute" in the form of taxes, they can't write off.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The US government is the greediest entity on the planet