Ultimate Inversion

[paramount]

[quote=ybitz][quote=IForget][quote=Casca]
Yet more vilification from the sock based on reductio ad absurdum. Rich really should unmask these posers.[/quote]

What should your tax rate be and who should make that decision?[/quote]

You and your fellow citizens and our elected representatives? Democracy…seems like a fairly good model to me.[/quote]

In theory we have a Republic, not a democracy.

I really suggest watching this video:

Listen closely to the last few minutes, I think it speaks to our current situation.

[mike92104]

[quote=CONCHO]It’s worth remembering that the American Revolution was, in part, a revolution against corporate power. What was the famous Boston Tea Party about? Parliament had granted the powerful East India Company a license to sell tea directly to colonial agents, cutting American merchants out of the valuable tea trade. The Boston Tea Party was organized in response to this unfair collusion between a corrupt government and a powerful corporation.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm%5B/quote%5D

Kind of like mandating that every citizen purchase health insurance from a private corporation.

[mike92104]

[quote=CONCHO]It’s worth remembering that the American Revolution was, in part, a revolution against corporate power. What was the famous Boston Tea Party about? Parliament had granted the powerful East India Company a license to sell tea directly to colonial agents, cutting American merchants out of the valuable tea trade. The Boston Tea Party was organized in response to this unfair collusion between a corrupt government and a powerful corporation.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm%5B/quote%5D

Kind of like mandating that every citizen purchase health insurance from a private corporation.

[mike92104]

[quote=CONCHO]It’s worth remembering that the American Revolution was, in part, a revolution against corporate power. What was the famous Boston Tea Party about? Parliament had granted the powerful East India Company a license to sell tea directly to colonial agents, cutting American merchants out of the valuable tea trade. The Boston Tea Party was organized in response to this unfair collusion between a corrupt government and a powerful corporation.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm%5B/quote%5D

Kind of like mandating that every citizen purchase health insurance from a private corporation.

[mike92104]

[quote=CONCHO]It’s worth remembering that the American Revolution was, in part, a revolution against corporate power. What was the famous Boston Tea Party about? Parliament had granted the powerful East India Company a license to sell tea directly to colonial agents, cutting American merchants out of the valuable tea trade. The Boston Tea Party was organized in response to this unfair collusion between a corrupt government and a powerful corporation.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm%5B/quote%5D

Kind of like mandating that every citizen purchase health insurance from a private corporation.

[mike92104]

[quote=CONCHO]It’s worth remembering that the American Revolution was, in part, a revolution against corporate power. What was the famous Boston Tea Party about? Parliament had granted the powerful East India Company a license to sell tea directly to colonial agents, cutting American merchants out of the valuable tea trade. The Boston Tea Party was organized in response to this unfair collusion between a corrupt government and a powerful corporation.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm%5B/quote%5D

Kind of like mandating that every citizen purchase health insurance from a private corporation.

[CA renter]

[quote=CONCHO]The truth is that this generation will likely not live better than the previous. If / when people realize the American Dream is just that – a dream – then the political divide will become meaningless.

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin

RIP funny man…[/quote].

I love that clip of Carlin. He is frighteningly insightful and spot-on, IMHO.

[CA renter]

[quote=CONCHO]The truth is that this generation will likely not live better than the previous. If / when people realize the American Dream is just that – a dream – then the political divide will become meaningless.

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin

RIP funny man…[/quote].

I love that clip of Carlin. He is frighteningly insightful and spot-on, IMHO.

[CA renter]

[quote=CONCHO]The truth is that this generation will likely not live better than the previous. If / when people realize the American Dream is just that – a dream – then the political divide will become meaningless.

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin

RIP funny man…[/quote].

I love that clip of Carlin. He is frighteningly insightful and spot-on, IMHO.

[CA renter]

[quote=CONCHO]The truth is that this generation will likely not live better than the previous. If / when people realize the American Dream is just that – a dream – then the political divide will become meaningless.

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin

RIP funny man…[/quote].

I love that clip of Carlin. He is frighteningly insightful and spot-on, IMHO.

[CA renter]

[quote=CONCHO]The truth is that this generation will likely not live better than the previous. If / when people realize the American Dream is just that – a dream – then the political divide will become meaningless.

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin

RIP funny man…[/quote].

I love that clip of Carlin. He is frighteningly insightful and spot-on, IMHO.

[danielwis]

“The government does what ever it wants”.

What a ridiculous comment. We elected officials that ran on health care reform. If you want to blame someone, blame Bush and his band of criminals. If he/they hadn’t thoroughly turned off the populace they wouldn’t have lost overwhelming control of the House and Senate to the Democrats.

I thank George Bush, Dick Cheney, Jack Abramoff, the corrupt Republican politicians in congress, for the Health Care Bill. If it where not for them, a debate about health care would have never occurred, much less have legislation passed.

And if the majority does not like what the Democrats are doing, then they can resolve those differences at the voting booth.

If you want to fear something, fear the lawless terrorist threatening to “water the tree of liberty”, threatening that they are “cleaning their guns”, talk from politicians about certain Democrats being a “dead man walking” (Boehner’s comment).

That is what you should fear. Its the REAL anti-democratic fascism that is taking place in this country.

[danielwis]

“The government does what ever it wants”.

What a ridiculous comment. We elected officials that ran on health care reform. If you want to blame someone, blame Bush and his band of criminals. If he/they hadn’t thoroughly turned off the populace they wouldn’t have lost overwhelming control of the House and Senate to the Democrats.

I thank George Bush, Dick Cheney, Jack Abramoff, the corrupt Republican politicians in congress, for the Health Care Bill. If it where not for them, a debate about health care would have never occurred, much less have legislation passed.

And if the majority does not like what the Democrats are doing, then they can resolve those differences at the voting booth.

If you want to fear something, fear the lawless terrorist threatening to “water the tree of liberty”, threatening that they are “cleaning their guns”, talk from politicians about certain Democrats being a “dead man walking” (Boehner’s comment).

That is what you should fear. Its the REAL anti-democratic fascism that is taking place in this country.

[danielwis]

“The government does what ever it wants”.

What a ridiculous comment. We elected officials that ran on health care reform. If you want to blame someone, blame Bush and his band of criminals. If he/they hadn’t thoroughly turned off the populace they wouldn’t have lost overwhelming control of the House and Senate to the Democrats.

I thank George Bush, Dick Cheney, Jack Abramoff, the corrupt Republican politicians in congress, for the Health Care Bill. If it where not for them, a debate about health care would have never occurred, much less have legislation passed.

And if the majority does not like what the Democrats are doing, then they can resolve those differences at the voting booth.

If you want to fear something, fear the lawless terrorist threatening to “water the tree of liberty”, threatening that they are “cleaning their guns”, talk from politicians about certain Democrats being a “dead man walking” (Boehner’s comment).

That is what you should fear. Its the REAL anti-democratic fascism that is taking place in this country.

[danielwis]

“The government does what ever it wants”.

What a ridiculous comment. We elected officials that ran on health care reform. If you want to blame someone, blame Bush and his band of criminals. If he/they hadn’t thoroughly turned off the populace they wouldn’t have lost overwhelming control of the House and Senate to the Democrats.

I thank George Bush, Dick Cheney, Jack Abramoff, the corrupt Republican politicians in congress, for the Health Care Bill. If it where not for them, a debate about health care would have never occurred, much less have legislation passed.

And if the majority does not like what the Democrats are doing, then they can resolve those differences at the voting booth.

If you want to fear something, fear the lawless terrorist threatening to “water the tree of liberty”, threatening that they are “cleaning their guns”, talk from politicians about certain Democrats being a “dead man walking” (Boehner’s comment).

That is what you should fear. Its the REAL anti-democratic fascism that is taking place in this country.

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