how so?
that article is from 2009...You forgot;
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2009/aug/28/europe_dutch_government_fund_mem
Allready seen an interview on tv on some dope dealer with a hand full of paper thanking the mayor of his city
didn't know we were now talking about that (well, i'm not). if you mean the sovereign citizen types, they're statistically insignificant to this topic. i fully acknowledge the perceived hypocrisy in that the vast majority of the remaining set of right wingers are likely to be actively reaping some sort of social care. however, the issue at hand is a combination of lack of accountability for benefit recipients, as well as lack of structure to elicit recovery, creating a dysfunctional co-dependency. to over-simplify: "you vote for me, and i'll keep your unearned benefits streaming in perpetuity"
at my work, we have a 'product backlog', so it never ends (which is good), and we're constantly looking how to best automate what we're doing now, with how it will relate to what lay ahead.
seems to me they are industry leaders at autos, electronics, and various leading edge pornography, all of which have to be the direct result of their tenacity & work ethic. i don't think backing off 20% would be terribly helpful in maintaining their station above others.
while true, i would argue this would be less of a motivator as the free market. yes, i could put myself out there for another 10%, but what socialist model has ever resulted in the kinds of growth seen in the free market? the military planted the seeds for the internet; the free market has been directly responsible for its unlimited growth.
i'm pretty well versed on the troubles of the uk, if watching weekly debates b/t cameron & miliband are any accurate measure
And it doesn't work the same way with "you vote for me and I will keep the taxes down"? It's the same mechanic only different political view. You have to vote on politicians who offer long term solutions. Voting socialist doesn't mean they won't go for long term.
What break through inventions or truly innovative your company made? I'm pretty sure Nokia and Microsoft ppl also find themselves productive. Hell find me one hard working person who will call himself unproductive.
In siemmens hq they live early at fridays. I didn't notice them failing recently... Working harder is stupid term of the old. Working smarter is what you should do.
You mean unlimited growth of social inequality? The biggest experiments in total free market failed. Iceland, 80s South America, Indonesia, Russia. While the biggest development of countries has been largely been created by strong guidance of the government - US was way more socialist when it was growing than now when it looses it's advantage. Japan became a superpower thanks to a strong govt.
It's around a third of the US budget so did I miss something and you sold it to Chinease recently? Govt Funded research. Fairly? No. Different people have different chances. If you claim a poor person from a bad neighborhood has the same chances as a middle or upper class kid sorry but you are an delusional.
What I don't like overall about what you speak is that you are a fundamentalist. You see that pure old socialist model doesn't work anymore but can't see a pure free market doesn't either. We need a solution based system, not stupid topics about how bad socialism or non socialism is. Solutions are good, ideology is stupid.
this might explain the position you're referring to: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/doug-casey-taxes-and-freedom
what could be more evil than sowing the seeds of sloth & nurturing an entitlement mentality? can you imagine how motivated an entrepreneur would be knowing he's forced into a partnership w/ the gov't, and that their partner may intentionally affect how financially successful the business could be? with that kind of glass ceiling, a "good enough" mentality is fostered.
we create tailored products for the military, mostly. they get it in their head the way things should be done, & we see a way to make it more efficient, & more user friendly, with fewer errors than the existing systems. we're not curing cancer, but we're improving the quality of the lives of the military & their families through our various custom services.
that's what we're striving for
would you have me think that everyone -- or some very large share -- of them works < 40/week & takes 10 weeks of vac per annum? larger question: if company xyz pays dollar-for-dollar more than abc, shouldn't that be my perfect right to choose to work for which ever company better suits my lifestyle? the free market says 'yes, but only if you love freedom'
we have the richest poor in the world
yes, the united states
never said, implied, nor believed that.
i think i see what you're getting at here: price fixing on higher education, right? and making these institutions in downtown detroit...and taking alumni donors' monies & pooling them for even distribution. not sure you'll have the intended outcome with that, unless you want the quality to be pegged at the lowest-common denominator
funny, i thought it was unchecked, brazen, institutionalized, unapologetic gov't corruption
or convert them to islam. rape convictions are at an all-time low in those parts.
do you not operate under basis of fundamentals, or are you an anything-but-free-market-capitalist-wind-checker, which is an obvious form of an ideology?
concur.
During WWII we bought war bonds to give the government more money to fight the war. Today right-wingers are claiming that it's "patriotic" to deny the government revenue (while demanding we fight foreign wars, and to keep those Medicare/Social Security checks coming). Pretty much sums up why right-wingers are the most UNpatriotic assholes in this country right now....
It always amazes me how many poor Americans vote against their own interest because everyone of them thinks of themselves as a potential millionaire.
"poisoning the well"
really? they edged out #occupytards for the crown?
Tie. They both demand everything that they can get from the government while refusing to pay for any of it.
so...this pre-9/11 article is still relevant, how?
the free-market of fast food has been our undoing, which socialized medicine will likely never hold a candle to
short list of offenses committed by the occutards, done in their name:
They just passed a law for it and theyre letting mayors decide wether they want to enforce it in their city or not.
You're giving Al Qaeda credit for a $15 trillion swing in our economy? What's that, roughly $1T/terrorist? They'd be honored to hear that you think so highly of them.
They don't have fast food in countries with socialized medicine? Interesting. Is that by governmental decree, or are they just naturally smarter than we are?$tinkle said:
Do you know the difference between "in their name" and "attributed to them (by Fox News)"? No, apparently not.$tinkle said:
this suggestion is closer than you think; hint: "hussein" (both varieties)
our marketing & delivery systems are the gold standard.
"foxnews"
it's just you
It's too much stupid for me to even handle, or want to bother to respond. This is at the point where it's us going 2+2=4 and stinkle is insisting it's 7, there's no point.
Refer to response to JohnE.
i'm not entirely convinced you understand the drivel i've pecked out. i get the sense that you are firmly in possession of a rigidly ideological position that free market capitalism is absolutely rife w/ failure, abuse, & avarice, and will scour the ends of the earth to find anything that fits this world view.
Do you say that in a vincent price voice with wide eyes and your hands raised like cute kitten paws?
Stinkle what do you have a degree in??? I've got an associates now in poli sci/economics, (changed teh major, so I didn't get the bachelors) I started school as a libertarian, then I did a ton of reading, of statistics, studies, facts, figures, and understood that I was in fact wrong. This has nothing to do with ideology or opinion, it has to do with the fact that yours are not based on fact, but talking points.
so you posit that socialism is based upon morality? how moral are the motivations of hunger for power & self-servitude (re-election), arrogance (no more AIDS deaths), and vanity (attention whore cured teh aids)? but hey, at least they're not rich, which we all know is equal to buggering a schoolbus full of retarded paraplegic nuns just before setting them alight with a koran & pushing them over a cliff to land on the roof of a lesbian kitten rescue on the edge of a wetland that supplies the exclusive diet of blind hispanic river otters. on the sabbath.
Actually, I'd expand that last comment to "**** anyone who's not me" mentality. People today want to get back more than they put in, always, in every case, from every single government program. There is no compassion, no "good of society", just "what's in it for me?" The middle class doesn't want to pay into social programs like welfare or unemployment since they never expect to need them. The rich don't want to pay into Social Security or Medicare since they'll end up putting in more than they can take out. Even the poor in this country are ready to stop government programs for the poor if they're not specifically benefiting (see: Headstart).
