Mr Neutron
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I don't know about conservatives but I get a glimpse of their minds by reading what they wrote at that time,i'd like to know how conservatives always know what others, including the founding fathers, think.
I don't know about conservatives but I get a glimpse of their minds by reading what they wrote at that time,i'd like to know how conservatives always know what others, including the founding fathers, think.
A progressive empties the basket and replaces it with an IOU.Republican goes to church
Write out a check for 100 dollars
Puts it in basket
gets 80 dollars change
then writes off the whole 100 dollars on his taxes
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. ... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
...and you've done such a wonderful job so far, can you say Utopia?progressive principles state that everybody should be guaranteed at least a standard of life that gradually gets better over time. we don't believe anybody should live in extreme poverty.
AGAIN, you've done a real bang up job at it. Our educational system has failed us and to deny that is dishonest.we believe everybody is entitled to be somewhat educated.
Wealthy people do not sit on money, they know better than anyone the ravages of inflation. The really rich wisely invest their money for the most part.Yea it's class warfare,,,The "Rich",,,are sitting on the money fucking up the economy.
Well start investing,,,everything is cheap,,,That would help.Wealthy people do not sit on money, they know better than anyone the ravages of inflation. The really rich wisely invest their money for the most part.
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. ... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America."
James Madison
Here's some of my favorite founding father quotes:I don't know about conservatives but I get a glimpse of their minds by reading what they wrote at that time,
Who are those damn communists?Here's some of my favorite founding father quotes:
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”
-John Adams
This one's not a founding father, but dig this shit.
“The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Our founders were such socialists...
wow, your analytical skills are astoundingWho are those damn communists?
Actually that is what republicans do with your Social Security that you paid for.A progressive empties the basket and replaces it with an IOU.
Except for the fact that it was Johnson and the Democratically controlled House and Senate that took the Social Security Trust Fund and put it into the general fund, so Congress could spend it.Willyßagseed;6175630 said:Actually that is what republicans do with your Social Security that you paid for.
Thanks I'm FULLY read up on the way the SS fund works and it was Johnson and the D's that opened the fund up for pilfering. You can put as much lipstick on the pig as you want and blame what was done after on whomever you want. But that was the point in history where the wheels were "allowed" to come off.
Yea it's class warfare,,,The "Rich",,,are sitting on the money fucking up the economy.
just how much money are you sitting on? i know that what little extra i have certainly isn't going to be invested into a marketplace filled with uncertainty and i wouldn't be investing in any but the most reliable businesses in such an anti-business climate. we simply don't invest in a losing proposition. all that capital is being invested in markets where profit is a more probable outcome. yup, there's that filthy word again - profit. it's what people seek to gain in order to survive. our every investment of labor, capital, or even time is in search of some gain. all that money that the rich are supposedly "sitting on" is being invested away from the clutches of redistributionist policy, where profit is more probable. just because something is cheap doesn't mean that its value will increase enough to make investment a reasonable bet.Well start investing,,,everything is cheap,,,That would help.
maybe we should just "collect" all the extra money the rich greedy bastards are holding onto and "invest" in things like union pension plans, do nothing govt jobs, and extra police. we could always use extra police, who could be against putting an extra 100,000 cops on the street?just how much money are you sitting on? i know that what little extra i have certainly isn't going to be invested into a marketplace filled with uncertainty and i wouldn't be investing in any but the most reliable businesses in such an anti-business climate. we simply don't invest in a losing proposition. all that capital is being invested in markets where profit is a more probable outcome. yup, there's that filthy word again - profit. it's what people seek to gain in order to survive. our every investment of labor, capital, or even time is in search of some gain. all that money that the rich are supposedly "sitting on" is being invested away from the clutches of redistributionist policy, where profit is more probable. just because something is cheap doesn't mean that its value will increase enough to make investment a reasonable bet.