[Allan from Fallbrook]

Nost: I think what is truly appalling is that this is more commonplace than you realize. I coach youth football and some of the older brothers and sisters that I come across are unbelievably rude, entitled and downright sociopathic when it comes to morality.

A friend of mine in Iraq, who is a colonel in the Army, commented on how inured to death and destruction his soldiers are, and how little human life seems to matter to them. Makes for good soldiers, but crappy human beings.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Nost: I think what is truly appalling is that this is more commonplace than you realize. I coach youth football and some of the older brothers and sisters that I come across are unbelievably rude, entitled and downright sociopathic when it comes to morality.

A friend of mine in Iraq, who is a colonel in the Army, commented on how inured to death and destruction his soldiers are, and how little human life seems to matter to them. Makes for good soldiers, but crappy human beings.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Nost: I think what is truly appalling is that this is more commonplace than you realize. I coach youth football and some of the older brothers and sisters that I come across are unbelievably rude, entitled and downright sociopathic when it comes to morality.

A friend of mine in Iraq, who is a colonel in the Army, commented on how inured to death and destruction his soldiers are, and how little human life seems to matter to them. Makes for good soldiers, but crappy human beings.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Nost: I think what is truly appalling is that this is more commonplace than you realize. I coach youth football and some of the older brothers and sisters that I come across are unbelievably rude, entitled and downright sociopathic when it comes to morality.

A friend of mine in Iraq, who is a colonel in the Army, commented on how inured to death and destruction his soldiers are, and how little human life seems to matter to them. Makes for good soldiers, but crappy human beings.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

John, it avoids mentioning the TOTAL wealth controlled by that 1% and how much is paid in terms of TOTAL taxation on that wealth by that 1%. In other words, there is a glaring disparity on the respective rates paid by Scrooge McDuck (the top 1%) versus Joe Sixpack (the great unwashed middle class).

That was my point.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

John, it avoids mentioning the TOTAL wealth controlled by that 1% and how much is paid in terms of TOTAL taxation on that wealth by that 1%. In other words, there is a glaring disparity on the respective rates paid by Scrooge McDuck (the top 1%) versus Joe Sixpack (the great unwashed middle class).

That was my point.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

John, it avoids mentioning the TOTAL wealth controlled by that 1% and how much is paid in terms of TOTAL taxation on that wealth by that 1%. In other words, there is a glaring disparity on the respective rates paid by Scrooge McDuck (the top 1%) versus Joe Sixpack (the great unwashed middle class).

That was my point.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

John, it avoids mentioning the TOTAL wealth controlled by that 1% and how much is paid in terms of TOTAL taxation on that wealth by that 1%. In other words, there is a glaring disparity on the respective rates paid by Scrooge McDuck (the top 1%) versus Joe Sixpack (the great unwashed middle class).

That was my point.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

John, it avoids mentioning the TOTAL wealth controlled by that 1% and how much is paid in terms of TOTAL taxation on that wealth by that 1%. In other words, there is a glaring disparity on the respective rates paid by Scrooge McDuck (the top 1%) versus Joe Sixpack (the great unwashed middle class).

That was my point.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: You’re preaching to the choir. I spent three years in Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) as a military advisor in the 1980s, so I got to see what you speak of first hand. In El Salvador, it was called the “14 Families”, that group of oligarchs and their extended relations that controlled the country, economically, politically and socially. They did so with tacit US support, mainly because we felt the greater threat was communism. As it turns out, we were mostly right, but not completely.

Mexico, interestingly, falls into the same category. Most people see Mexico as a democracy, but the truth is that Mexico has been controlled by a similarly small group of oligarchs in much the same way. Look at Carlos Slim (the world’s riches man) and how he controls the telecom industry in Mexico, with nary a peep from the country’s “regulatory” bodies.

I posted on another thread about the Patriot Act and FISA. Scary stuff and getting scarier. You look at the NSA’s capabilities when it comes to eavesdropping and you’re in conspiracy theory land pretty quick like.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: You’re preaching to the choir. I spent three years in Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) as a military advisor in the 1980s, so I got to see what you speak of first hand. In El Salvador, it was called the “14 Families”, that group of oligarchs and their extended relations that controlled the country, economically, politically and socially. They did so with tacit US support, mainly because we felt the greater threat was communism. As it turns out, we were mostly right, but not completely.

Mexico, interestingly, falls into the same category. Most people see Mexico as a democracy, but the truth is that Mexico has been controlled by a similarly small group of oligarchs in much the same way. Look at Carlos Slim (the world’s riches man) and how he controls the telecom industry in Mexico, with nary a peep from the country’s “regulatory” bodies.

I posted on another thread about the Patriot Act and FISA. Scary stuff and getting scarier. You look at the NSA’s capabilities when it comes to eavesdropping and you’re in conspiracy theory land pretty quick like.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: You’re preaching to the choir. I spent three years in Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) as a military advisor in the 1980s, so I got to see what you speak of first hand. In El Salvador, it was called the “14 Families”, that group of oligarchs and their extended relations that controlled the country, economically, politically and socially. They did so with tacit US support, mainly because we felt the greater threat was communism. As it turns out, we were mostly right, but not completely.

Mexico, interestingly, falls into the same category. Most people see Mexico as a democracy, but the truth is that Mexico has been controlled by a similarly small group of oligarchs in much the same way. Look at Carlos Slim (the world’s riches man) and how he controls the telecom industry in Mexico, with nary a peep from the country’s “regulatory” bodies.

I posted on another thread about the Patriot Act and FISA. Scary stuff and getting scarier. You look at the NSA’s capabilities when it comes to eavesdropping and you’re in conspiracy theory land pretty quick like.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: You’re preaching to the choir. I spent three years in Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) as a military advisor in the 1980s, so I got to see what you speak of first hand. In El Salvador, it was called the “14 Families”, that group of oligarchs and their extended relations that controlled the country, economically, politically and socially. They did so with tacit US support, mainly because we felt the greater threat was communism. As it turns out, we were mostly right, but not completely.

Mexico, interestingly, falls into the same category. Most people see Mexico as a democracy, but the truth is that Mexico has been controlled by a similarly small group of oligarchs in much the same way. Look at Carlos Slim (the world’s riches man) and how he controls the telecom industry in Mexico, with nary a peep from the country’s “regulatory” bodies.

I posted on another thread about the Patriot Act and FISA. Scary stuff and getting scarier. You look at the NSA’s capabilities when it comes to eavesdropping and you’re in conspiracy theory land pretty quick like.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: You’re preaching to the choir. I spent three years in Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) as a military advisor in the 1980s, so I got to see what you speak of first hand. In El Salvador, it was called the “14 Families”, that group of oligarchs and their extended relations that controlled the country, economically, politically and socially. They did so with tacit US support, mainly because we felt the greater threat was communism. As it turns out, we were mostly right, but not completely.

Mexico, interestingly, falls into the same category. Most people see Mexico as a democracy, but the truth is that Mexico has been controlled by a similarly small group of oligarchs in much the same way. Look at Carlos Slim (the world’s riches man) and how he controls the telecom industry in Mexico, with nary a peep from the country’s “regulatory” bodies.

I posted on another thread about the Patriot Act and FISA. Scary stuff and getting scarier. You look at the NSA’s capabilities when it comes to eavesdropping and you’re in conspiracy theory land pretty quick like.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Borat: You consider “musicians” to be productive workers?!? How come every girl’s mother warns against dating them?

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