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kimba1

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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2012, 09:48:37 AM »
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/06/08/3301078/support-still-pours-in-for-homeless.html

may sound strange but if her parents didn`t abandon her she might not of gotten the support to go to harvard. that article did state she`s not the only homeless student around. the chance of another her or a goodwill hunting is very slim

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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #31 on: June 27, 2012, 12:47:02 PM »
I don't think that a job at McDonald's would pay rent for a single person as well as expenses at a community college here in Miami. Perhaps if one shared an apartment with three or four others, it could be possible. Stuff like car insurance would have to be optional for most people.

I agree that determination is important. The girl who plans to go to Harvard got the idea of going there from someone, maybe even from the parents who abandoned her.

My experience is that a majority of beginning freshmen have no idea of any specific goals, other than "graduate and make lots of money", which is far too vague. There is a lack of intellectual curiosity as well.

Most people who think they have free will do not seem to be aware of how little free will they actually have, and how to use what they do have for their own benefit.
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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #32 on: June 27, 2012, 01:56:18 PM »
Of course, "Christians" LIKES inequality,
so it will probably continue to be a fact because of people like him.

It's not that I  "like inequality", it's that I accept reality.
I support the pursuit of equality of opportunity as best as it can be had.
But it's insane to deny that people are different for all kinds of reasons.
People all have different strengths and weaknesses.
To pretend that everybody can be a brain surgeon is just sheer non-sense.
To pretend everyone contributes the same to a society is sheer non-sense.
Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs changed the world.... and the reward was plentiful.
Sure it's great for them personally....but it's also great for the world too....it's a "win-win"
The more a society has "win-wins" the better off it will be.
If a society is set up to reward achievers the achievers will be motivated.
Clearly where risk/reward is allowed those societies have had the highest standards of living.
A "poor person" in North Korea would love to be a "poor person" in the US or Germany.
Where Leftist have tried to make "everyone equal"
there's  hardly any debate that it's been a disaster.
If you hold Bill Gates, Steve Jobs down to make everyone "equal"
you limit the destiny of how far a society can progress.
MRI machines are not invented where some "know-it-alls"
try to make everyone equal...because forcing equality of result rejects reality.
Milton Friedman said it better than I can............

Milton Friedman - Greed
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan - June 12, 1987

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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #33 on: June 27, 2012, 02:06:34 PM »
Friedman is a Libertarian waste of time. He is just a shill for the Oligarchy. No wonder you worship him.

The financial situation of most Americans has not improved in the last 25 years or so. The poor are worse off than ever. That is a direct result of clowns like Friedman influencing the government.

We are returning to the oppressive conditions of the 1920's because of guys like Friedman, he makes me sick. And so do you.
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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #34 on: June 27, 2012, 03:20:37 PM »
The financial situation of most Americans has not improved in the last 25 years or so.
The poor are worse off than ever.

And my oh my...look at the growth of gvt & regulation over the last 25 years.
It's no accident!
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« Reply #35 on: June 27, 2012, 08:00:36 PM »
You might as well blame IPods and videogames.
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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #36 on: June 27, 2012, 11:20:54 PM »
You could...and you wouldn't be too far off the point....its decisions made by folks.  Both decisions many make in spending their money on such products, and those that expect the government to provide for them, while they go out and buy more of such products
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #37 on: June 28, 2012, 09:48:04 AM »
You might as well blame IPods and videogames.

yeah sure "i-pods and video games" have the same
effect as running immoral disgraceful trillion dollar deficits!
the poor are worse off because your big gvt policies cause
more poor people and have been a complete disaster over
the last twenty five years.
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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #38 on: June 28, 2012, 10:07:37 AM »
Friedman is a Libertarian waste of time. He is just a shill for the Oligarchy. No wonder you worship him.
You have the same "deer in headlight" response as Phil Donahue....better to name
call than try to rebutt what Professor and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman said.

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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #39 on: June 28, 2012, 11:39:32 AM »
well actually the definition of poor is diferent today. in my time poor means have little or no possesions. today you can have a fifty inch tv and be in massive debt. credit availability I truely believe is a large factor to the problems.


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« Reply #40 on: June 28, 2012, 12:49:07 PM »
Because I love the USA I want it to be MORE Socialist nation.
You and the rest of the ratbag right have no solutions to anything.
Greed is what you worship.
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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #41 on: June 28, 2012, 01:18:41 PM »
Greed is what you worship.

I don't worship anything but God.
But I do know greed & incentive works.
And has created the greatest standards of livings in the world.
Places where greed & incentive are not allowed are disasters for the people.
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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #42 on: June 28, 2012, 01:30:36 PM »
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Greed is what you worship.

I think you have that backwards.

I think that those who believe Socialism is the best answer for America, have their eyes on the belongings of others, and desire to take it from them and redistribute it amongst themselves. letting the govt do your dirty work for you does not make you less greedy nor does it absolve you of theft.




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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #43 on: June 28, 2012, 02:32:46 PM »
Believe whatever you wish. I say you are wrong. I say some degree of Socialism is absolutely necessary to make this a decent country, and a bit more could make us far more productive and better in every way as a country.

You can wave your giant USA NUMBER ONE foam finger all you wish. Know that it won't make it true.
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Re: Oh...I see...everyone else is racist!
« Reply #44 on: June 28, 2012, 02:50:34 PM »
I don't have a USA number 1 foam finger.

I simply pointed out that redistributionists are the greedy ones. And that would be you.