Quote from Trader666:
So that's why the top 1% paid more in federal taxes in 2007 than the bottom 95%?
Aw c'mon, Cap'n. Someone's gotta speak for the Forbes 400. They're so misunderstood. They really need someone with a good heart in their corner right now.Quote from CaptainObvious:
Awww, and my heart is bleeding purple piss for them. Poor babies are probably starving, right? Probably losing their retirement, right? Probably living in squalor, right? Fuck them! They've been bleeding the working man dry for decades with flat wages, reduced benefits, multi craft and ever broadening job descriptions, all the while seeing their pay and perks go through the roof. Every bit of it on the backs of those that produce while they shuffle paper back and forth.
And what, you think you're gonna' get some special break cause you hawk for them? Let me clue ya". You're just another worker bee in the crowd, disposable at their whim.
Quote from CaptainObvious:
Awww, and my heart is bleeding purple piss for them. Poor babies are probably starving, right? Probably losing their retirement, right? Probably living in squalor, right? Fuck them! They've been bleeding the working man dry for decades with flat wages, reduced benefits, multi craft and ever broadening job descriptions, all the while seeing their pay and perks go through the roof. Every bit of it on the backs of those that produce while they shuffle paper back and forth.
And what, you think you're gonna' get some special break cause you hawk for them? Let me clue ya". You're just another worker bee in the crowd, disposable at their whim.
First, you didn't quote Franklin, you just think you did by parroting something that's attributed to him but not sourced.
Second, I doubt Franklin would agree with neo's absurd statement that I quoted above.
Finally, if you had a clue about Franklin in general and his role in the Constitutional Convention in particular, we wouldn't be having this exchange
-Ben FranklinIn these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, â if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
No, redistribution is from the politics of empathy.
I look around the capitalist world and see all kinds of socialistic reforms. It's as if the whole planet thinks the right way is some form of moderation.
Quote from Ricter:
Cap'n, you appear to be moving left, and I could be moving right. Let's introduce ourselves as we pass...
; )
I keep telling ya'll I'm a conservative Dem, but the radical lefties won't buy it.Quote from CaptainObvious:
They've been bleeding the working man dry for decades with flat wages, reduced benefits, multi craft and ever broadening job descriptions, all the while seeing their pay and perks go through the roof. Every bit of it on the backs of those that produce while they shuffle paper back and forth.
Quote from Mav88:
Who said it then? paine? tocqueville? If my attributing is wrong then I'll admit it.
Franklin had his doubts about the constitution and the durability of the republic, that why I said he might agree with Neo. Got that? I said 'might'.