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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (49670)	7/28/2006 8:06:55 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I respect your right to be gay but I am not. A favorite attack from leftwing exremists these days. Been taking lessons from AS? I'm beginning to see your problem. Remember "Prairie Home Companion by Garrison Keiller and Lake Woebegone where all the kids are above average? Well, that was a joke, only you didn't get it. "Rich" is a relative term. US poor are rich in comparison to the average African. The US middle class is rich compared to the average middle easterner. The average American has a greater chance of improving his economic well being than them. Now that inequality seems to bother you. You seem to think everyone should be equally well off- - or poorly off, since such schemes seems to result in shared misery. Sparta tried it; it worked for a while- -if you like enforced militarism. It was tried with a good portion of the population following the Russian Revolution. They found that the population sat on its can, expecting the rest of the population to do the work. This was followed by the "New Economic Policy" which was really just capitalism with a different name. Until you produce a system that allows people to advance more surely than ours, I don't accept that you have a gripe. Sorry you failed, but that is the price of laziness. I knew that from childhood and didn't. I think SI Bob did too and made his; now SI Dave puts in the work and hopes he can.