XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns
From: klausschadenfreude@yahoo.com
On Fri, 17 May 2013 14:53:00 -0500, RD Sandman
wrote:
>Klaus Schadenfreude wrote in
>news:msucp8hn3utue1ujitm37me0hulmgdbdkq@4ax.com:
>
>> On Fri, 17 May 2013 17:20:43 +0000 (UTC), Zepp wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:16:09 -0700, Klaus Schadenfreude wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:26 +0000 (UTC), Zepp
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 17 May 2013 07:37:43 -0700, Klaus Schadenfreude wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:31:32 -0500, Free Lunch
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Fri, 17 May 2013 07:29:38 -0700, Klaus Schadenfreude
>>>>>>> wrote in alt.atheism:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:56 -0500, Free Lunch
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:17:42 -0600, deep wrote in alt.atheism:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:06:49 -0500, Free Lunch
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> You don't seem to understand the problem. Austerity at this
>>>>>>>>>>>>> time hurts Europe and it hurts the US. Austerity supporters
>>>>>>>>>>>>> have demonstrated their ignorance of economics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>Not really, that ignorance of economics was there before the
>>>>>>>>>>>>austerity measures were put into place to try and fix them.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Austerity during a recession is one example of ignorance by
>>>>>>>>>>>political leaders. There's plenty of other nonsense that many
>>>>>>>>>>>political leaders believe, economic and otherwise. Reactionary
>>>>>>>>>>>leaders tend to believe the most nonsense.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>The problem with austerity is it's only austerity for the poor
>>>>>>>>>>and middle class. The wealthy get to have an orgy of rape of
>>>>>>>>>>the national treasuries. During periods of "austerity" the top
>>>>>>>>>>1% keeps getting richer and richer while the poor have to learn
>>>>>>>>>>how to get by without things like food and medical care.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Funny how the rich always do well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Funny how you can't figure out why that might be.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I know why.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you really? Because you claimed it was "funny" and I'm guessing
>>>>>> you didn't think it was "ha ha" funny but that it was "Strangely
>>>>>> or suspiciously odd; curious" funny.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So it sounded like you didn't understand why rich people "always"
>>>>>> do well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's because they have a lot of money.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Our alleged democracy
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This isn't a democracy. Never has been. Perhaps your
>>>>>> misunderstanding of our government is the source of your
>>>>>> ignorance.
>>>>>
>>>>>What are the first three words in the Constitution, bubbles?
>>>>
>>>> What does that have to do with democracy, dumb shit? Do you even
>>>> know what kind of government we have?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [crickets.wav]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yeah, didn't think so.
>>>
>>>What are the first three words of the Constitution, bubbles?
>>>It's not a very hard question. Google it if you don't know.
>>
>> Completely irrelevant.
>>
>> The rest of the words very clearly demonstrate we're not a democracy.
>
>Actually, there is very little difference between a republic and a
>representative democracy. Too many people look at a democracy as only
>being a pure democracy, a direct democracy, etc to realize that there is
>also a representative democracy.
It's not a representative democracy either.
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