You're rich because god loves ya.
The devil is in the details. Starve the poor, ignore the the needy, the elderly, those that aren't members at the Country Club.
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This is the distillation of Calvinist Theology.
You're rich because god loves ya.
The devil is in the details. Starve the poor, ignore the the needy, the elderly, those that aren't members at the Country Club.
You're rich because god loves ya.
The devil is in the details. Starve the poor, ignore the the needy, the elderly, those that aren't members at the Country Club.
yep... nail, meet hammer. hammer, meet nail.
if you are living right, god will make you rich. if you are poor, you obviously don't have enough 'faith' and something in your heart isn't right with god...
-t-
if you are living right, god will make you rich. if you are poor, you obviously don't have enough 'faith' and something in your heart isn't right with god...
-t-
| QUOTE (tamara @ Friday, 18 March 2005, 11:50 am) |
| yep... nail, meet hammer. hammer, meet nail. if you are living right, god will make you rich. if you are poor, you obviously don't have enough 'faith' and something in your heart isn't right with god... -t- |
Yup, and it gives the rich the right to use the poor anyway they want, victoria america is coming back...before you know it, it will be okay for young kids to work in factories after all they have to earn their keep...
Doc
We need some more people like Jacob Riis to step up to the plate and make people take notice.
This is the future awaiting us under Bushonian Economic Policy.
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
Jacob Riis, Children sleeping
in Mulberry Street (1890)
Jacob Riis, Bandits' Roost (1890)
This is the future awaiting us under Bushonian Economic Policy.
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
Jacob Riis, Children sleeping
in Mulberry Street (1890)
Jacob Riis, Bandits' Roost (1890)
I guess what I'm really trying to say is that our nation needs to see some Real Reality TV.
No more of this Disneyland Fantasy stuff.
No more of this Disneyland Fantasy stuff.
| QUOTE (Seamus @ Friday, 18 March 2005, 4:20 pm) |
| I guess what I'm really trying to say is that our nation needs to see some Real Reality TV. No more of this Disneyland Fantasy stuff. |
REAL TV. Ha! Can't even get REAL NEWS!
The ad men of Madison Ave run America.
Tide is best!
Buy more Brittney Spears CD's.
Bigger Car, because you deserve it!
Time for a botox moment?
Thin, young and rich! (no matter the personal cost)
McDonalds will promise a healthy hamburger!
Slow speed car chase, the glove didn't fit.
WHERE"S THE BEEF?
| QUOTE (sky of mind @ Friday, 18 March 2005, 10:02 pm) |
REAL TV. Ha! Can't even get REAL NEWS! Major Snippage>>>>> WHERE"S THE BEEF? |
Yep... You're correct.
We get Infotainment.
Perception Management.
Joe Sixpack and Security Mom wouldn't know reality if it bit them on the ass. Murrkhah is in deep shit.
By the time our first state bankruptcy sale goes down and there's nothing left there but the populace, George will have legalized eatin' them. That sandwich is probably...safer than beef.
| QUOTE (Gadzooks! @ Friday, 18 March 2005, 8:56 pm) |
| By the time our first state bankruptcy sale goes down and there's nothing left there but the populace, George will have legalized eatin' them. That sandwich is probably...safer than beef. |
You got it...
Doc
History does repeat itself. Dave's comparison to Ulysses S. Grant is a rather interesting one in that regard, especially since right after that is the period that you and I fear will resurface, the Gilded Age. If it repeats itself like that, however, we'll have upheaval in the US from disgruntled Americans. They'll realize how hard the right screwed them and revolt at the ballot box.
However, back then, Americans were far more politically conscious. People would talk about currency policy, and whether the US should be based upon gold or silver. One of the elections was based upon that. Right now, most people don't know how the currency system works (sadly, I'm not exactly an expert on it either) and they're more interested in desensitizing infotainment and brain-draining prime time TV than things like that. They won't think, they won't educate themselves. That will be the key factor in deciding our future, I think. If the public is well-educated and society becomes more intellectual over time, then expect the upheaval to go over quicker. If it does not and they continue to buy into blind ideologies and infotainment, then I fear that we'll simply continue to slide down the slope.
However, back then, Americans were far more politically conscious. People would talk about currency policy, and whether the US should be based upon gold or silver. One of the elections was based upon that. Right now, most people don't know how the currency system works (sadly, I'm not exactly an expert on it either) and they're more interested in desensitizing infotainment and brain-draining prime time TV than things like that. They won't think, they won't educate themselves. That will be the key factor in deciding our future, I think. If the public is well-educated and society becomes more intellectual over time, then expect the upheaval to go over quicker. If it does not and they continue to buy into blind ideologies and infotainment, then I fear that we'll simply continue to slide down the slope.
| QUOTE (Rakshasa @ Monday, 21 March 2005, 12:12 pm) |
| They won't think, they won't educate themselves. That will be the key factor in deciding our future, I think. If the public is well-educated and society becomes more intellectual over time, then expect the upheaval to go over quicker. If it does not and they continue to buy into blind ideologies and infotainment, then I fear that we'll simply continue to slide down the slope. |
I'll steal from a colleague on this list. . .
As tamara aptly said in an earlier post:
| QUOTE |
| yep... nail, meet hammer. hammer, meet nail. |
Why do you think Cheap Labor Conservatives denigrate public education?
How many times have you heard this?
"Liberal Arts? You can't get a job with that."
Critical thinking is not an option for regressives. Regressives like complacent mushrooms that have been fertilized with Corporate Infotainment.
Mushrooms make good consumers. Regressives don't want citizens.
You got it, damn I hate the Right...
Doc
Doc
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