Hilarious video and commentary here.
A Republican cult leader defines a relationship as "toxic" as one that might dare reflect too much of reality vs quietly pursing your lips or smiling painfully while listening to more crazy lies about Glenn Beck. :D
Monday, September 29, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
[Phi] Capitalism Works Pretty Good Until You Run Out of Other People's Money to Pay for It
There is an Elizabeth Warren quote I like a lot.
Or for those who don't want to read the tiny writing:
"“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
Now, for equal time to our contard friends, this is their response...
Because...HITLER.
Note....that's not an actual Hitler quote. They say its parody. You know "Entertainment" just like Fox News.
So the reason I'm writing this post is I saw this in the news today:
Georgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas
That's right folks. The successful entrepreneur Elon Musk, our reality's Tony Stark, is being Tuckered by businessmen who don't compete in business but by going to the corrupt "Pro Capitalism" GOP government. But what about our Libertarian friends? What about them? First, show me a libertarian government that can actually get elected and then I'll care, and then remember that in a libertarian government there's nothing stopping them from bribing China or other countries to prevent Musk from being able to build the car in the first place, or just hire folks to burn it down. Oh, Libertarians will say that law enforcement in their world will work....but look at how much they pay for their own party.
Capitalism in the United States involves Public Risk for Private Profit. The Fed pumped literally trillions of dollars into the economy to prop up failed too big to fail banks, but were any held criminally accountable? No. They just had to pay some fines of a few billion dollars. What is the contard reaction to this by the way?
Poor corporations. They're so put upon. I mean, they're people right?
I have one contarded sibling who has severed ties with part of the family because we dare question her reality of Glenn Beck and Mitt Romney. The lies told by contards don't just polarize political environments, they sever families, cost us billions.
Contards wrap their very identity in letting the rich get away with murder. There's a name for this, and its called Afluenza. But what about those who aren't rich? Why would they buy into the lies?
Because of the other lies they're already believing. The belief that Christ will redeem your sins for no effort but a few words whatsoever, that Love is a distant commandment, and that it is OK to harm children so long as they're not contard children.
Capitalism is an inherently flawed system as has now been mathematically proven not to work except for the rich. It WILL create stratification unless stopped. DRASTIC stratification. How do we fix it? I'm working on lots of ways, but THIS is the most brilliant idea I've seen in a long time.
From their website: "
This is good for many reasons, but for me the most important reason is that if we can have a limited Section V conference for one issue, we can do it for more later. Washington is totally and fundamentally broken and so are most of our states, but we have to start somewhere and this seems like a good place.
"“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
Now, for equal time to our contard friends, this is their response...
Note....that's not an actual Hitler quote. They say its parody. You know "Entertainment" just like Fox News.
So the reason I'm writing this post is I saw this in the news today:
Georgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas
That's right folks. The successful entrepreneur Elon Musk, our reality's Tony Stark, is being Tuckered by businessmen who don't compete in business but by going to the corrupt "Pro Capitalism" GOP government. But what about our Libertarian friends? What about them? First, show me a libertarian government that can actually get elected and then I'll care, and then remember that in a libertarian government there's nothing stopping them from bribing China or other countries to prevent Musk from being able to build the car in the first place, or just hire folks to burn it down. Oh, Libertarians will say that law enforcement in their world will work....but look at how much they pay for their own party.
Capitalism in the United States involves Public Risk for Private Profit. The Fed pumped literally trillions of dollars into the economy to prop up failed too big to fail banks, but were any held criminally accountable? No. They just had to pay some fines of a few billion dollars. What is the contard reaction to this by the way?
I have one contarded sibling who has severed ties with part of the family because we dare question her reality of Glenn Beck and Mitt Romney. The lies told by contards don't just polarize political environments, they sever families, cost us billions.
Contards wrap their very identity in letting the rich get away with murder. There's a name for this, and its called Afluenza. But what about those who aren't rich? Why would they buy into the lies?
Because of the other lies they're already believing. The belief that Christ will redeem your sins for no effort but a few words whatsoever, that Love is a distant commandment, and that it is OK to harm children so long as they're not contard children.
Capitalism is an inherently flawed system as has now been mathematically proven not to work except for the rich. It WILL create stratification unless stopped. DRASTIC stratification. How do we fix it? I'm working on lots of ways, but THIS is the most brilliant idea I've seen in a long time.
From their website: "
Our Ultimate Goal:
To restore true, representative democracy in the United States by pressuring our State Legislators to pass a much needed Free and Fair Elections Amendment to our Constitution. There are only 2 ways to amend the Constitution. (1) Go through our Federal Government (2) Go through our State Legislators via an amendments convention of the states.
Wolf PAC believes that we can no longer count on our Federal Government to do what is in the best interest of the American people due to the unfettered amount of money they receive from outside organizations to fund their campaigns. We point to the failure of the Disclose Act as rock solid evidence that this would be a total waste of our time, effort, and money. We also point to the recent decision by the US Supreme Court to not even hear a case filed by Montana claiming it did not have to abide by Citizens United, as proof that state legislation is not a sufficient measure to solve this problem. We believe that we have no choice but to put an amendment in the hands of our State Legislators, who are not, at this moment in time, completely blinded by the influence of money and might actually do what 96% of the country wants...take away the massive influence that money has over our political process.
Their extremely well thought out plan can be found here.
Even conservatives and libertarians (as compared to contards and libertarians) are getting on board with this. Two states so far.
