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Post by jacquelope on Jul 5, 2011 6:40:41 GMT -6
Governments around the country are cutting benefits for the poor and working class while refusing to raise taxes for the rich.
School lunch programs going away, school funding being cut, people looking at working until they die, jobs going away, basic child nutrition programs going away...
If a society cannot be arsed to take care of its most vulnerable citizens, what is the point of there being a society? What's the difference between that and a jungle with wild animals?
The way I see it, if that's how we're going to go, then the dark ages is better. Take it away from everyone, throw the rich industrialists out there in the mix with everyone else, and force them to experience for themselves what they've done to others. Really, what do the poor have to lose in this? They're already looking at starvation, death by disease, and grinding poverty.
A society that acts like a jungle should be reduced to a jungle. Remove the facade. I prefer total ruin to having the billionaires living like kings while everyone else is reduced to squalor. It's a good incentive for future civilizations to never go back down that path again.
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Post by waltc on Jul 5, 2011 12:17:39 GMT -6
Anything worth having is worth fighting for. And what I mean by that, willing to physically fight and willing to die as the coal miners and factory workers did almost a century ago to get the rights we take for granted in the workplace.
You either step up or get stepped on.
The modern U.S. is more of a multicultural shit hole where people promote bullshit agendas like gay marriage or race based admissions to college or arresting a child for drawing a picture of a soldier with a gun in class. Rather than stopping businesses from off-shoring or corporate welfare.
Both the Left and Right does it. Why? Because it distracts the people from the real prize and that is the economy and our place in it. The rich have always known what the real prize was.
As much as I despise them, I do respect their tenacity and ability to keep their eye on the prize.
We don't. We care more about a multi-millionaire half literate thug like Le Bron James or some retard on American Idol who burps out a song.
We are where we deserve to be.
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Post by judes on Jul 5, 2011 18:50:13 GMT -6
Jacq, you are a man after my own heart. I could not agree with you more, I ask these questions all the time. Sadly I have no answer for what motivates some people to not give a shit about the least among us. I have a theory that people fall within a spectrum along the line of empathy at one end, and apathy at the other. Some people can not envision themselves or their loved ones in another persons shoes. It is natural for me, to always place myself there.
I fail to see how someone can be truly happy with more riches than they could possibly spend in a life time, while having to live and spend those riches walking on the backs of fellow human beings laying in the gutter and starving. I often say, I would prefer the jungle and truly being left to my own devices, as opposed to serfdom and toiling all day to make a scant few richer, at least that way I could take a break when I tire or fit in some time for pleasure here and there. I know people who are currently working three jobs with literally no time off just to barely get by, barely, makes you question not only what is the point of a civilization, but what is the point of existence?
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