From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Sun Sep 25 2005 - 06:35:19 BST
[Platt]
> Your analogies are specious. Money won't stop wars, fires, traffic jams
> and crime. But transferring money form those that have to those that don't
> could stop poverty if 1) the poor ever got it and 2) they learned how to
> use it wisely. So obviously the trillions intended for the poor ended up
> elsewhere and made those who did get a pittance it wards of the state.
> sixty years of liberal rule in Louisiana should have created a paradise if
> you believe in liberal solutions to social problems. But now the result of
> liberalism is there for all to see in all its ugly squalor.
[Case]
Glad you noticed that they were as specious as your example. You really
don't have a good grip on what is going on at all. It is really funny to
here anyone say any place is the south is liberal. Sure looks to me like the
voters in Louisiana share your feelings about taxes and underfunded
everything from social services to levy maintenance. Welcome to your world.
Except more of the same. Your crowd passed that ridiculous no new taxes
Proposition 13 in California and now they can't fund vital services. More of
Reagan's legacy of shame.
>> [Case]
>> "Throwing more money at the problem isn't the answer" is one of the most
>> assinine political statements every uttered. Spending no money on a
>> problem
>> guarantees it will never be solved. I do not object to increasing taxes
>> to
>> fund negelcted services.
>
> As I said, throwing more money at the problem won't solve the problems of
> fires, wars, traffic jams, crime or lousy educations. We already spend
> more per pupil than any other nation. What our failing education system
> needs is to break up the government and teachers union monopolies to allow
> competition.
[Case]
Do you have any idea how government at any level actually functions?
>> >> [Case]
>> >> Suggesting that abortion is murder is a rhetorical tactic of the
>> >> religious
>> >> right. It has no basis in fact or in law.
>> > [Platt]
>> > What do you call killing babies?
>>
>> [Case]
>> I would call it infanticide, fortunately it is very rare.
> [Platt]
> Try 1.4 million infanticides a year.
[Case]
That might be the number of abortions but that has nothing to do with
infanticide or killing babies. If it makes you feel righteous to call it
that knock yourself out but it has nothing whatever to do with the law,
morality or reality.
>> >> I think my examples are certainly more typical than yours. For every
>> >> Clarence Thomas there are thousands of people who don't make it
>> >> despite
>> >> their best efforts.
>> > [Platt]
>> > Depends on what you mean by "make it."
>> [Case]
>> Nice dodge on the Horatio Alger Myth or was it a weave?
> [Platt]
> Nice avoiding the question.
[Case]
The point is that for every fantasy success story you can name there are
thousands of people who do not make it. Building a systems around false hope
and filling people full of it, is foolish in the extreme. The system we have
now is resulting in an ever widening gap between rich and poor. This is not
healthy for anyone.
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