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2014-04-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Six Studies That Show Everything Republicans Believe is Wrong

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Posted by gorb 2014-04-23 15:56|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 You can't reason with closed minds in the face of empirical evidence. If socialism and its redistrbution dogma worked why haven't those practicing it exceeded the free market models by leaps and bounds? As for the Nordic models, they're basically steady state with a heavy cultural reliance upon a white Lutheran population, hardly 'diverse'.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2014-04-23 17:32|| 2014-04-23 17:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Its from the rollingstones magazine.

I recently watched a 'Ted Talk' video (or started to watch...) where the speaker suggested that the way to fund these UN aid programs to feed the poor and other programs was to simply print more money. Need $6B for some tin-pot African country? No problem - just print it up!

Ahh.. here is a link.

What is scary that people actually took him seriously! Read some of the comments.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-04-23 17:48|| 2014-04-23 17:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Shooting? Hand me my framing hammer.

1. Yes it does. I washed dishes at 16 and looking back was not worth even minimum; the prep line had to quit their work to show me wheres and whats and whys. First raise made me proud and reinforced I was doing it right. In fact, with so many regs I doubt that today I would have been hired. But the college kids who would show up drunk or whatever, when they showed up, they wouldn't be worth $2/hr today.

2.I could hear shifted jobs around..oh expanding the IRS gotchya.

3.I passed a level this year! Yeah successful business! Oh, business income counts as personal income, that was a hit. Could have added a whole other product line. Or fixed the roof.

4.Sniffing farts doesn't create or prevent hurricanes. Bison fart too - so we should be proud of almost ridding North American of the Bison. Its called weather, its been around as long as the Earth, and it used to be considered a bit of a dullard's topic. How about that spam machine putting out all those mad lib papers?

5.Premium up 30% nearly immediately after the passage, binder full of reassurances my insurance was not going to be canceled, union strikes to renegotiate health benefits, and that Sebelius is just so darn successful she quit because she already finished her next three years of chores. Then there are those who say it is working exactly as planned and if you mean that then we need to step outside.

6.Well kinda agree except for one thing - money = freedom so they are quite a bit more free then I am. I can't afford to buy a senator so my pet solar plant can get some government bucks.

On the other side of that coin is you snotball, who will sit there and covet and covet and covet their money then turn around and lecture on Jesus. You know what? I want my sponsor bio and picture like in those Feed Africa deals. I want my picture of little Jimmy nailed to my corkboard, how in the process of being so the awesome in video games he has a blister on his thumb and little finger. How he has no employable skills and 20% disability because of carpel tunnel. I want to read that when I think of the budget of next years groceries go out the those tax cheats at the IRS.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-23 19:29|| 2014-04-23 19:29|| Front Page Top

#4 This article is comfort food for progressives. It's a way to reassure themselves that they're right when they're alone at the end of the day and beginning to be scared that reality is intruding.

Posted by Steve White 2014-04-23 22:45|| 2014-04-23 22:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Bah. One word disproves all leftist ideologies.

Reality

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-04-23 23:29|| 2014-04-23 23:29|| Front Page Top

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