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Re: A lesson in socialist irony!

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From: 3082 Dead
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:38
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:51:08 -0700, Billy wrote:

> In article <juscpq$vgm$4@dont-email.me>, 3082 Dead <dead@gone.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:50:47 -0500, Ken Marino wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:05:03 -0500, Dänk 42Ø wrote:
>> > 
>> >> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:25:40 +0000, 3082 Dead wrote:
>> >> 
>> >>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:08:16 -0500, Libertarian Lilly wrote:
>> >>> 
>> >>>> A lesson in  irony: The U.S. Food Stamp Program, administered  by
>> >>>> the U.S.
>> >>>> Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is
>> >>>> distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps
>> >>>> ever. They even  advertise how to access the program on Mexican 
>> >>>> TV! Meanwhile,  the National Park Service, administered by the
>> >>>> U.S. Department of the Interior,  asks us to "Please Do Not Feed
>> >>>> the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy  is because the
>> >>>> animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to 
>> >>>> take care of themselves. This ends today's lesson.
>> >>>> 
>> >>> Gee, a record number of people who need public aid in order to just
>> >>> survive, and you DON'T see this as a colossal failure of the free
>> >>> market system?
>> >> 
>> >> Idiot.  Just because the government offers free crack money and
>> >> people take them up on the offer does *NOT* means they *NEED* it.
>> >> 
>> >> In the old days, most Americans had pride and would rather starve
>> >> before going on the dole.  Today, the stigma of being on the dole
>> >> has evaporated, and so have the criteria to qualify.  Any fool who
>> >> can remove his buttocks from the couch long enough to shuffle down
>> >> to the welfare office now qualifies, and you use the fact that the
>> >> standards have been lowered as evidence that some sort of "crisis"
>> >> exists.
>> >>> 
>> >>> Instead, being the fascist dirtbag you are, you just try to compare
>> >>> the tens of millions of people you fucked over to animals.
>> >> 
>> >> No, it is *YOU* who compare people to animals.  Human beings have
>> >> free will and dignity, animals don't.  Under socialism, people are
>> >> nothing more than domesticated animals, to be fed, clothed and
>> >> sheltered by Big Shepherd.
>> > 
>> > Couldn't have said it better
>> 
>> So where are the fucking jobs?
>> 
>> One of you toy fascists might want to answer that.
> 
> There aren't any, because there is no money to operate them. Banks don't
> give short term, or "bridging" loans, because they can make guaranteed
> money on government bonds. 

Have you looked at the yield on government bonds lately?  It's 
effectively MINUS 0.6%.  

Banks also have fraud, and money laundering
> available as a means of revenu. Multinational corporations are sitting
> on mountains of money, and one can only speculate why they don't spend
> it. I, myself, lean to the conspiracy theory. And rich people (1%), keep
> their money out of the U.S., like Romney, so that they won't have to pay
> taxes for things like infrastructure.
> 
Time to end that before they end us.  The country can't survive having 
half the economy ripped off by a privileged 0.1%.
> 
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/14/global-financial-
fra
> ud-gatekeepers>
> This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers
> 
> <http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-12/
news/31146859_1_financial
> -crisis-banks-lending-money>
> Meanwhile, The Fed's Still Paying Banks Not To Lend...
> 
> <http://abcnews.go.com/Business/hoarding-hiring-corporations-stockpile-
mo
> untain-cash/story?id=10250559#.T_SjOHDcsnU>
> Hoarding, Not Hiring – Corporations Stockpile Mountain of Cash
> 
> <http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-tax-
havens-20120723,0,656
> 2876.story>
> Rich hide up to $32 trillion in offshore tax havens, report contends
> 
> Another conclusion by the report is that “wealth doesn’t trickle down —
> it just floods offshore.”
> 
> “When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why
> the poor have no food, they call you a communist.”
> -Archbishop Helder Camara
> 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg>
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