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Shut the fuck up Daniel.

FYI..........

Quote: Originally Posted by danielpalos Our Constitution enumerates the morals and ethics for our form of federal government. We have Ten Amendments, collectively known as a Bill of Rights. Politicians have no morals nor ethics. They have bankrupted America to pay off their rich Corporate lobbyists!

Quote: Originally Posted by EugeneVdebs Same, I guess it could be said we're both hopeless idealists. I believe that hope is change we can believe in, and also that uh.... the future is not the past...... and........ uh...... the ideals the nation was founded on.... in ..... 1918..... Quote: Originally Posted by EugeneVdebs Now that I know your an Objectivst I understand, I read Atlas Shrugged and I understand what Rand calls for. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by Universal Liberty You are. The great depression was caused by the government interfering with the basic mechanics of capitalism. Namely that wealth must exist before it is invested or loaned, and that wealth must have value to the market which slips of paper do not. i.e. that would be impossible as gold would be there if nothing else. The current recession was caused by government destabilization of the housing...

Our Constitution enumerates the morals and ethics for our form of federal government. We have Ten Amendments, collectively known as a Bill of Rights.

Hard to tell. Do seem to be pillaging us as fast as posible from every direction.

Quote: Originally Posted by wow You are speaking of the rich that buy politicians to get richer, not the average wealthy American.? What is 'wealthy'? The people who control societies are very rich indeed - the sort of people who can think seriously of gaining by a war in - say - Iraq and pay enough to the political parties to have it done. Reasonably well-off people who work will never get near that point. Quote: Originally Posted...

Quote: Originally Posted by Universal Liberty You will have to justify that as it seems a contradiction in every way/ "Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." -Ayn Rand As Far as I know Rand loved Aristotle and cited him in her assertion that A=A. But while saying this Aristotle did state seemingly contradicting statements,...

Quote: Originally Posted by PBFreeland I believe in low taxes, small government, non-intervention, and civil liberties. But I also believe that though laissez-faire economic policies have caused massive economic growth, such as in the 20s and Reagan years, de-regulation has also caused problems, such as in the 20s and the current crisis. I'm not going to pretend to be an economist, but deregulation seems to have been one of the major...