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You're a zealot. You've proved yourself one over and over, the latest being this thread, when you get worked up over the very idea that any Republican could possibly know ANYTHING about the Dem party.
Read your posts. You get worked up, and you're a zealot. Get over yourself.
Liberalism is an utter failure because it is odds with fundamental human nature. It assumes we are something we are not, i.e., SELFLESS beings. We are simply not wired to be that way. The only time most act selflessly is when they can afford to. We fundamentally expect and DEMAND the we get return, personally, for our efforts. If I work harder, am smarter, took time and effort to become better educated, I have and expectation of doing much better than those who did not.
Time and time again we are reminded how "shared" things pale in comparison to "private" things. Nothing "shared" has ever really amounted to much. Just compare any public park in your city to a private one, a public bathroom to your own bathroom, a public playground to a private one.
And look at the results of the world's greatest socialist experiment on a national scale, the Soviet Union. It collapsed under it's own bureaucratic weight of state run, and totally failed institutions. And then there's is western Europe where there hasn't been an original commercial idea come to fruit in 30 years, where unemployment has never dropped below 10% (people are screaming in the US at 5.1%) and growth has been stagnant since the mid 1970's.
Classic liberalism as failed everywhere it has been tried. China, Russia, Vietnam, India, as all have achieved growth only when embracing conservative based supply side, capitalistic systems and removed the yoke of government regulation and control over business.
ZEALOT? go fuck yourself. I am no ZEALOT. I am a democratic county committee member.
And being shot down and captured is qualification to be president?
He'd have been my candidate, too. And I was reminded yesterday, during the Petraeus thing, just how sorry I am that he didn't get anywhere with his campaign. Bummer that he doesn't have an ounce of charisma.
The trouble is the best working systems today are located in Europe, I am thinking especially of Denmark a place you would call socialist. It seems a balance is required and unfettered capitalism is as bad any other system.
"If you believe the conservative rhetoric on economics, this combination of high taxes, a large public sector, and lavish welfare benefits ought to be killing the Danish economy. But it's not. In fact, Denmark's economy has thrived. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the job market. By the time Rasmussen left office in 2001, the unemployment rate had fallen from a 1994 peak of 9.6 percent to 4.3 percent; in 2002, it fell below the U.S. rate, where it has remained ever since. For the most recent quarter of 2006, Denmark's standardized unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, compared with 4.7 percent in the United States. Moreover, while Europe has a reputation for fostering cadres of idle youth (a reputation that, in countries like France, has at least some basis in reality), in Denmark, a mere 3 percent of its 15- to 19-year-olds are neither in school nor working--the second-best rate in the developed world. (Tiny Luxembourg is first.) In the United States, by comparison, the figure is about 7 percent."
http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/wf010507.htm
Which is why liberals want the government to provide the social safety net. Because they think individuals are selfless and will help each other out to provide it. Wait, whaa?????
Obviously you should figure out what the hell liberalism is before you call it an utter failure.
Hmm ok. Central park compared to Gramercy park. Gee, the public one is much much better.
Wait...you mean bathrooms that are used by 30+ people a day might be worse than one that is only used by me? Stunning, stunning logic.
Wait...nothing the government has done has ever amounted to much?
Just a few things the government invented:
The Internet (I know...who uses that nowadays anyway?)
The nuclear bomb
Microwave (I know...also rarely used, but a few people do I guess)
Velcro
Western Europe hasn't had an original commercial idea in 30 years?
I know its a pretty small company and you might not have heard of it...but theres this company called "virgin" with a few subsidiaries that was founded by a Brit.
Yes, we all know that Socialism on a large scale fails. However that doesn't mean everything should be left to private industry. That is absurd.
Classic liberalism was never tried in China or Russia. Classic liberalism is, for the most part, what is in place in the US today. It is highly laissez-faire and looks upon government interference very suspiciously.
Let's just break this down to the core.
If something is given to you it's not appreciated as much as something that takes hard work to achieve. I don't mind some of my tax dollars going to programs for people who ACTUALLY need help but the perpetual leeching off the gov that libs like to sell is nothing but garbage.
What a complete IDIOT.
Yes, Liberalism requires SELFLESSNESS, moron. Got that? It requires that I, an man of significant talent, willingness to work extremely hard, and quite wealthy because of it, not mind that some guilt-ridden equal outcome piece of of gutter-filth want to take my EARNED wealth and give it some slack-assed, lazy no-talent loser. Sorry, I'm not selfless, I expect to KEEP what I and no one else, EARNED. You deserve NONE of it, because you are too stupid and lazy to breath our oxygen....
And the UK is NOT socialist Europe. They actually a semblance of an economic brain left, unlike the clueless, gutless, cowardly fools on the continent.
Do you realize you call others stupid in every single post you make?
It must be sooo lonely at the top.
Do you realize you call others stupid in every single post you make?
It must be sooo lonely at the top.
Good grief, you mean there was a post where you didn't call someone stupid and I missed it?
You're stupid.