I have decided to become just another dirt bag in regard to playing the system for my economic survival. So until the real dirt bags are held accountable for their actions, as in 7 kids with 7 different women, the strangle hold the teachers union has over the education of our children is broken, drug addiction is treated as what it is, an addiction, the military industrial complex is run with out corruption, politicians are not beholden to their party or lobbyists and in general my tax dollars are not used to do more harm than good it seems I will be on a life long journey of my new found dirtbagism. I will find a way not to pay cigarette taxes, when a health care program comes into being and if it has income restrictions I will move money around to be eligiible, cause in the long run it will be finically advantageous. Though I don't have a suv gas hog I will find a way to take advantage of the cash for clunkers program. Don't like me, neither do I, but; I feel you just saw the future and why socialism doesn't work. Don't think we are headed for socialism, 2 facts, Obama has a more socialist voting record than the socialist senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders. Though smarter heads prevailed, there was a movement about a month ago, in the democratic party to rename their party the democratic socialists party.
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thenewguy295
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Jul 4 @ 12:52PM
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As the economy and government control destroys more and more of the wealth of the Nation more of us will be joining you in the quest to 'bring it down' from the inside. I still have too much money in my bank account to be able to put my hand out but after 30 years of taking care of myself so 'they' don't have to I'll be more than willing to let someone else do it.
The best way to destroy socialism in America is to let it take over and ruin everything. lol.... 
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lovestobake
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Jul 4 @ 12:56PM
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You can have money and still play. Thanks for the comment.
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phantom53
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Jul 4 @ 1:12PM
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You can play...play for all its worth! get everything you can from anyplace you can...the rules are created to allow those who "know" the rules to screw everyone else...be a law abiding citizen..find out what those rules are and follow them to the letter!
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Naraku
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Jul 4 @ 1:47PM
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To use the "bring it down from the inside" comment, wouldnt that be embracing socialism to bring down socialism? That would mean giving up more of your freedoms to do so. By doing that, you have created another socialist.
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dizzydoll
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Jul 4 @ 1:58PM
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it will improve it always has, but this time.... it will be at the expense of big business cos they are the real ones at fault here - greed. unfortunately it will get somewhat worse before a new system of governance is embraced.... after that it will quickly improve.
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snidegrass
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Jul 4 @ 2:49PM
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the 1964 election was a turning point
for me. the civil rights act of 1964
also. so i had to adjust as the world
changed around me. if you can't win 'em
join 'em. ya can make more on welfare
than at work or business. if anybody
dare make a profit, the irs agent sonovavitch
swooops in to take it all.
take a little bit, leave a lot for me.
irs agent sonovavitch has a huge budget to collect for.
how are tax collections going these days sonovavitch?
the irs agents union may go on strike, demand a raise?
nasa.gov is going great guns nevetheless. onward
to the pro bono society. why study and work? just because
its the right thing to do. not for the money. a 'free' ride.
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luneib
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Jul 4 @ 11:24PM
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Yeh, sounds Socialist to me. 
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kjac
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Jul 4 @ 11:41PM
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Do you believe that America will fall because a political party didn't win last november?
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Martin666
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Jul 5 @ 2:11AM
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I agree with you, LTB...I think you should go on a hunger strike until the world conforms to your expectations! That'll show 'em!
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observed50
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Jul 5 @ 8:22AM
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Uhhhh...the renaming effort was an effort by the Republican party in an effort to do one more useless thing. A big contingent of the party wanted to rename the Democratic party in light of the Republican defeat in which they didn't use their tried and true method of shouting "Booooogieman!" loud enough and often enough to have people fear Obama enough to not elect him. Bush had so successfully made 'terrorist' the new boogiemen (after Reagan's communists disappeared with the Wall), that the Repubs simply couldn't shift the public imagination fast enough. So they wanted to get a head start on 2010 and 2012 by demanding the Dems change the name of their party.
You know...that whole brilliant thinking thing they've had going for some time.
If you don't keep renaming reality so people pay more attention to labels, like 'socialism' than they do to the problems they have to confront, then people might actually take a motion into history without all the incumbent fear of formless 'others' generated by the political manipulation of labeling, of trying to pull people's attention to boogiemen, instead of the real issues they face.
But even so, I love how people keep wanting to insist that socialism doesn't work. Is that the most effective question we've got? Is that somehow illuminating to helping us resolve a horrendous health care mess?
I'm wondering what reality we live in with 2 billion people living on less than $2/day, billions uninsured, billions hungry and undereducated, billions illiterate, and billions of dollars spent on protecting the wealth hogs from those billions of poor...what reality do we look at to make some bizarre claim that...capitalism works?
We aren't talking about a local economy. We have been in a global economy since before WWI. Now...it's instant global economy. We don't get oil, rubber, titanium, aluminum and bananas, and millions of other products from our neighborhood producers. We get it from unstable parts of the world where we determine much of the terms of trade because we're the ones with 200 military installations outside our borders and nuclear weapons floating on aircraft carriers and submarines on constant patrol, as Americans shop the global marketplace for whatever suits their fancy.
So please....PLEASE...quit trying to make the US economy an economy on its own. Waging war for cheap gas isn't about socialism. Supporting bizarro governments since WWI isn't about socialism. Arguing that America's giant farms should be protected against unfair competition from 800,000,000 farmers working less than an acre...isn't about socialism. The G8 summits aren't about socialism. Pushing medicine off onto the government as a single payer isn't about socialism...its about the historical and constant fricking failure of capitalism to ever be able to take care of the needs of the 'all.'
Competitive systems aren't about meeting the needs of people, but the wants of the winners. Winners don't usually turn around and make sure everybody benefits. The constant illusion sold to a deluded nation that believes competition will somehow provide well for the bottom half of any society is simply ludicrous and flies in the face of the most base logic.....i.e., how does a system based on distributing resources to winners, of which there are always simply a few, how does that system provide for those who don't win? In schooling, medicine, water, roads, police, law, jobs...the list goes on and on. How does competition benefit losers in reality...not in mythology?
If this is about capitalism, free markets and competition...winners tend to win more, and losers tend to lose more. That's what we know from thousands of years of human activity. We love to sell the mythology of losing makes you try harder, but that happens for a short while. The worlds billions of poor slap that silliness to the ground again and again and again...day in and day out. Losing helps people withdraw from the game. We call it depression. We call it disempowerment. We call it a million things...but we've all lost...and we've all watched the impact it had on our behavior and our perspective.
We all know...losing can make one stronger. But look around...the nation doesn't have millions of poor because they're just working through their pain and soon they'll be governing the corporate world. They are generational poverty...because they know losing. And they know poor health care, poor schools, poor housing, poor job opportunities.
And we can continue to live in deluded houses with no windows but 6 TVs so we don't have to witness the devastation competition brings...but capitalism never made a claim to being able to take care of the all...it simply made claims about efficient...which should never be confused with effective.
Lay the mythologies down...lay the borders down...look at how your economy reallllllly works.
Power doesn't give two sh**s about what you call it. As long as a few win...and they win more than you...they love the attention given to the petty fear-mongering of boogiemen labeling. They love to know that's where your attention is...labeling...and the illusion you've got the best you can get and you need to protect it from...boogiemen.
They'll be so happy that they'll go to church this morning and sing the doxology with enthusiasm...."Praise God from whom all blessings flow...Praise him all critters here below...Praise him above ye heavenly host...Praise Power and Money and Big Guns the most."
Amen.... 
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lovestobake
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Jul 5 @ 8:43AM
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That is the problem Martin, low expectations.
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lovestobake
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Jul 5 @ 8:44AM
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kjac, no they all suck in different ways.
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lovestobake
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Jul 5 @ 9:22AM
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No system is perfect cause people aren't perfect. The question is does one think socialism is the perfect answer. Is capitalism responsible for the failures and poverty in other countries, or is it the lack of capitalism. No system can work well if there is no accountability or consequences for actions. Saftey nets for those of us that fall will make us all stronger, generational welfare and hand outs do imputable harm.
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observed50
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Jul 5 @ 11:54AM
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If we ask the wrong questions, we undoubtedly come to the wrong conclusions....
We can sit here and debate "isms' until the cows, come home, die and and come back as Big Macs. But the 'isms' don't help you see how people actually interact and what they actually do. We get stuck in arguing images and chimeras, not to mention strawmen...and we fall into the dark pit of ideological blathering.
Note the last line..."Saftey nets for those of us that fall will make us all stronger, generational welfare and hand outs do imputable harm"
'Isms' can't agree on what group is appropriately saved in a safety net. "Isms' can't agree on what is a safety net. The concept of safety net is a concept from the point of view of an ism.
But after talking about a global economic system with 2 billion people making less than $2/day, how is "generational welfare and hand outs do imputable harm" any kind of response to that? Capitalism is the dominant global organizing economic mechanism. Those 2 billion people aren't poor because Capitalism hasn't got there yet...but because it did, took the resources, protected the dictators, protected the unbalanced terms of trade. Haiti isn't a mess because it isn't capitalist. Nor is Gambia a mess, nor the Congo or Nigeria or wherever...but because the GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM that dominates, controls and determines the worlds flow of capital, investment, monies in exchange, and so on,...is capitalist.
Yes...generations of handouts ain't any good. But...what is that a response to? How does that address the glaring inequities capitalism produces? How does that address winners determine the direction of things??? How does that address how competition by its nature results in the concentration of resources around a 'winner takes all' mentality?
An answer to a problem isn't found in responding how bad something else is.
"I have cancer, Doc."
"Do ya? Interesting. I had a patient with rosacea once."
"Huh?"
An answer is found in addressing the reality of people's experience, throwing cliches and their plethora of cousins away, and dealing with things in a manner in which we can really address them...address the reality.
And as you note...humans are a mess. Picking through their problems to get to solutions...you become a mess. That's the reality.
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