rougy
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Real Name: The Rogue Poet
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Programmer, poet, progressive, pot advocate, pugnacious liberal.
Living in America is like being trapped on an island half-filled with crazy people.
Trying very hard to get out of America and move to a free country.
Reading: Moby Dick - Melville; The Big Sleep - Chandler; Confessions of Nat Turner - Styron; Fathers & Sons - Turgenev; Ishmael - Daniel Quinn.
Remember: 9/11 was an inside job.
Remember: Republicans make rich people richer.
Living in America is like being trapped on an island half-filled with crazy people.
Trying very hard to get out of America and move to a free country.
Reading: Moby Dick - Melville; The Big Sleep - Chandler; Confessions of Nat Turner - Styron; Fathers & Sons - Turgenev; Ishmael - Daniel Quinn.
Remember: 9/11 was an inside job.
Remember: Republicans make rich people richer.
Member Since: 2007-06-03
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1. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act. Pretty much everything that Ted Rall endorses here would get my full support.
Can you give me the basic regulatory principle behind the Glass-Steagall Act? Its a pretty long piece of legislation.
2. Law enforcement. The market's insistence on pollyanish "we'll do it ourselves" regulation is obvious hogwash. Marketeers are the types of people who may know legal from illegal, but they do not know right from wrong.
Capitalism is not a system of government, it is a system of economics. Law enforcement is a function of the government. We are in agreement here. Can you provide another example?
1. What specific regulations would you like to see?
2. Can you give me an example of a specific issue that could arise in the market that can only be solved by government regulation?
1. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act. Pretty much everything that Ted Rall endorses here would get my full support.
2. Law enforcement. The market's insistence on pollyanish "we'll do it ourselves" regulation is obvious hogwash. Marketeers are the types of people who may know legal from illegal, but they do not know right from wrong.
It's the government's job to create and enforce laws that discern right from wrong. As it is now, the largely GOP controlled government, at the insistence of "conservative Republican" lobbyists, has essentially allowed loan-sharks and fraudsters to infiltrate and subvert our system of finance.
You crack me up, stellar.
Your precious "free market capitalism" is defunct and will crumble from greed every time unless it is properly regulated--the evidence is right in front of your nose--yet you keep posting these "free market" icons of yours as if nothing's wrong.
1. What specific regulations would you like to see?
2. Can you give me an example of a specific issue that could arise in the market that can only be solved by government regulation?
Hey, thanks for your vote, maybe you'd care to upvote this related video too?
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Weakerthans-One-Great-City
PS., I answered your question in the comments!
I'd be happy to upvote that video.
See you around the sift.
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Weakerthans-One-Great-City
PS., I answered your question in the comments!
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Oh, don't worry, we know that the conservative Republicans in America will look into this and demand a higher standard from McCain. Really, they will.
I think McCain and Obama are equally flawed candidates. It seems that your don't want to open your eyes to look at the alternatives and hold your party accountable to better solutions. That, to me, is disappointing.
I don't blindly side with one party or another no matter what they say or do.
Don't try to pretend that the economic state we find ourselves in is only the fault of men who call themselves republicans. Bill Clinton signed countless bills on trade and national economic policy that started this downward spiral. Open your eyes and look at both sides.
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Why did you down-vote this? Was there something in it that was bias in any way?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Misleading-Ad-on-Fuel-PricesLobbyists
Didn't even bother to watch it. In your mind, this proves that McCain is better than Obama so what's the fucking point?
You honest to god can not see what the Republicans have done to this country.
Fuck you, DeeDub. Fuck you to hell you cock-sucking piece of shit.
Open my eyes? I didn't fucking vote for Bush and Cheney like you did, asshole.
You fuck-face idiot. Of course this is Bush's fault, and the conservative Republicans fault, and it's just typical of you to blame this on Clinton.
You're an idiot and I fucking hate your guts. You're your a goddamned embarrassment.
Pull your head out of your ass and leave me alone you butt-fucking shitstain.
I don't blindly side with one party or another no matter what they say or do.
Don't try to pretend that the economic state we find ourselves in is only the fault of men who call themselves republicans. Bill Clinton signed countless bills on trade and national economic policy that started this downward spiral. Open your eyes and look at both sides.
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Why did you down-vote this? Was there something in it that was bias in any way?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Misleading-Ad-on-Fuel-PricesLobbyists
Didn't even bother to watch it. In your mind, this proves that McCain is better than Obama so what's the fucking point?
You honest to god can not see what the Republicans have done to this country.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Obamas-Misleading-Ad-on-Fuel-PricesLobbyists
he also warned against, and predicted today's economic collapse over 33 years ago.
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Friedman is pretty much the kind of nimrod whose philosophy has lead us to this financial mess we see all around us today.
It never ceases to amaze me how so many conservatives will treat anything that he says as gospel and ignore the very proof all around us that he is dead wrong.
Absolute capitalism is a myth and no society or civilization would have ever evolved if the tenets of Friedman's capitalism were the only building blocks available.
If I were ever to get 30,000 subscribers I think I'd run through the streets naked with a bottle of Glennfiddich in one hand and a big stuffed bong in the other, singing the theme to Gilligans Island at the top of my lungs.
You sir, just won yourself a subscriber.
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Hmmm....
The GOP deposits must have been tardy at Mr. Friedman's secret offshore bank accounts.