Nice Plant #7: Get me off of this planet

[trixR4kids]

Just once I'd like to see you stick to the subject. You're the one who talked about "pitiful entitlements"(accompanied by your customary anti-capitalist blather). The fact is we have spent and continue to spend trillions of dollars to help the less fortunate. And have virtually nothing to show for it. And that is unrelated to the use of the term "war" to describe a heightened federal effort against either drugs (what do you know, more anti-capitalist blather?) or terrorism. Also unrelated to whether those programs are desirable or efficacious.

The point is the war on drugs and the war in Iraq have been far less effective and cost way more money. And yet you support them.

Not sure what would have to happen for you to consider the war on poverty a success? Would we have to completely eliminate poverty in an economic system in which that's not possible?

[The Rube]

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At the same time, it would've been better for all involved if the police hadn't shown up looking like they were patrolling in Gaza.

With all the illegal weaponry out there, I want my police force with as much gear as possible.


And what Slappy said about the people I associate with, have had experiences with, etc. You spouting your stuff about that is like me saying "I was good friends with a brotha who insisted I call him 'my ni**a' when introducing him to others." (my white friends all refer to each other as "my boys," as in "this is Joe, he's my boy.")

[solovsfett]

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Capitalism is set up so there will always be winners and losers. There will always be a sizable underclass (the world needs ditch diggers).

Priceless, you seem like a pretty smart person just like most of the people in this thread but this statement above has me a bit befuddled. Are you saying that having a sizable portion of "losers" or "ditch diggers" = capitalism is a zero sum game or this system of government is rigged? What do you mean by your statement there? It seems to me there hasn't been a system of government invented where the results are winners all around (whatever your definition of winner is, I guess I should wait for your definition of both winner and loser).

[The Rube]

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Priceless, you seem like a pretty smart person just like most of the people in this thread but this statement above has me a bit befuddled. Are you saying that having a sizable portion of "losers" or "ditch diggers" = capitalism is a zero sum game or this system of government is rigged? What do you mean by your statement there? It seems to me there hasn't been a system of government invented where the results are winners all around (whatever your definition of winner is, I guess I should wait for your definition of both winner and loser).

Capitalism, when done right, will always have people above and below average, with a majority being in the middle (nature of the game). In its TRUE UNADULTERATED (cannot stress that enough) form, communism is the only place where everyone is a winner. However, greed (which is, IMO, human nature) ruins that concept in a split second, if not sooner.

[Gurtholfin]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sONfxPCTU0

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[The Rube]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sONfxPCTU0

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty3SArUjgvQ

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

will always have people above and below average

Wow. What a great mathematical mind.

[Gurtholfin]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty3SArUjgvQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXUQRc8zW4

[The Rube]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXUQRc8zW4

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu9...yo-nigga_music

[joecct]

Wow. What a great mathematical mind.

But some people fail to grasp that concept. There can't be winners and there can't be losers (the more important of the two). So we give everyone a trophy, eliminate class rank, lower expectations, fail to flunk anyone at Harvard and grade on the curve.

[Kepler]

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You're thinking of Ice Cube, the Don Mega.

Ice T is the guy on Law and Order: SVU

Thus concludes today's lesson in gangsta rap.

Without a Vanilla Ice joke, too.

[Kepler]

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That looks like 0 - 3. I don't think we've won any of them

The War on Poverty was going petty well until we defunded it. The Gini coefficient went down from the 30's through the ramp up to Vietnam and the American middle class was created. It's soared since, with the American middle class in being destroyed.

The deep, dark secret of the social programs of the New Deal and the Great Society is that they worked. The antipathy towards them stoked by the top 1% is understandable, since the choice we made as a country was to bring millions out of poverty instead of letting hundreds buy their 10th vacation home. They didn't like that and have used the GOP ever since to drive us back to plutocracy. The sad thing is they used the very people who were most helped -- low income whites -- to reverse the progress and cut their own throats.

[FlagDUDE08]

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This is the result of sensitivity to racism. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-reveals.html

[ScoobyDoo]

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We have a new Darwin award winner.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1917858

[joecct]

We have a new Darwin award winner.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1917858

Unfortunately, by winning, you lose.