Quote from Bigpipn:
"Mandatory public service"=indentured servant
Yea, we're going to put you in charge of delivering lunches to poor old people.
Spin it how you want. Go ahead and rationalize it in your own "democratic" world, but it is akin to slavery.
You've got it backwards. If any philosophy has an analogy to slavery its conservatives with resistance at every turn to hikes in minimum wage working towards a livable wage -- that might cut into the bosses green fee paying bonuses.
Obama is also proposing a "World Poverty Organization" where the US "donates" 3/4 of 1% of our GDP to help the world. If you think Al Gore made money from his global warming scam, you haven't seen anything yet.
Wonder how much less poverty there would be in the world if an indigenous populuation actually shared in the profits from their natural resourses in a more fair proportion than had been shared in decades past in South America and Africa. Let those fly infested brats pull themselves up by their bootstraps, we did.
If Obama wins the presidency, RIP America. I will leave. This is exactly why we left Great Britain in the first place. We are being led by the people we beat in the Revolution.
See ya, cause Barrack is winning -- guaranteed.
The fact is is that people suffer because they make poor decisions AND it is an unjust society.
So you're admiting society has been unjust. Well, we're trying to fix that.
Did a trout choose to be a trout? No, it just is. Did the Great White Shark choose to be a Shark? No, it just is. The trout is hunted by the Great White Shark but you don't hear it crying about being a trout.
A girl finds a snake in the road nearly dead and nurses it back to health. The snake then turns around and bites her. While she's nearing death she asks the snake, "why'd you do that after I nursed you back to health?" The snake replies, "because I'm a snake bitch!" People aren't snakes or sharks for that matter.
YOU have more of a choice [to be a shark] than the trout does, you have the liberties to exercise more freedoms than the trout does. You have responsibility-the ability to respond.
This sort of social darwinism is outdated Tarzan and has run its course. What democrats are trying to do is return some of that opportunity to lower income workers who have become slaves to their need to support themselves with expenses that even 10 years ago didn't exist. This "you too can be a millionaire" is like "anyone in Amercia can be President" it has alot to do with who your daddy was to oversimplifiy it. There isn't a better example for that hope to become true than an Obama win in Novermber. Sure there are exceptions but making it closer to the rule isn't simply all self motivation.
Or you can just let the government make your decisions for you.
Socialism breeds complacency.
Not complacency so much as a little less "living to work" existences. The little fish just want more of the pond to swim in
and the sharks are just going to have to go on a diet.