Posted on 01/04/2003 6:43:17 AM PST by chilepepper
I was at an anti-Gore rally, where I got interviewed by a reporter. She was interested in my sign, where I put up pictures of the chad-counters in FL obviously tampering with the ballots. She was even more interested in the fact that the handiest piece of cardboard I could find at home for a backing was a bullet-riddled target board. It sort-of drove home just WHO was starting to get really pissed off here
The answer is greed of men and lack of education of the masses. The wealth was so sudden that education didn't follow quickly enough and greedy men were able to gain control too easily.
There is nothing that makes people more vulnerable to control than the combination of ignorance and poverty. Think what these oil rich countries could and should be if a portion of the oil money was turned back to the people, instead of going to ruling families and fascist leaders, who funnel the money to terrorist organizations.
Are managers employees? Do managers work? Do they have the right to bargain collectively?
This is not about the Union striking for more money. It's about the workers in the oil industry who are joining hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens in a general strike in order to force a tyrant out of power.
The Venezuelan people do not want to follow North Korea and Zimbabwe into starvation. They do not want Communist maniacs to destroy their country as they have destroyed every nation that has been duped into the lie of Socialism.
The Marxist class hatred that you are espousing is intended to demonize and destroy the middle class. Marxism is not about lifting people out of poverty. It is about exterminating everyone who dares to not be a slave.
I would have loved to have seen the look on the reporter's face.
I was at a family function while the election mess was going on and, sure enough, the liberals (2 of whom are white male firemen-don't ask-I can't figure it out)just had to start with me. I told them (half jokingly)that I hoped things got to the point where a civil war would break out so we could end this nonsense once and for all. My friend said "I voted for Gore"
I replied that I would shoot him. The reply was pure silence which was all I wanted in the first place. HeHeHe.
Jokes like yours really make life difficult for the rest of us gun owners. What do you think your friend's attitude towards gun control will be now, with you as an example of "responsible gun owners"?
This from someone who shows a bullet ridden placard to a member of the media-I wonder what she thought.
First of all, it was a joke.
Secondly, I was trying to make the point that if there was a civil war, I would have fought on the conservative side and he would have fought on the liberal side and if I had to I would have shot him. Being a responsible gun owner has nothing to do with taking up arms to defend your country. I was not trying to infer that I would have shot him for the heck of it during peacetime.
Lastly, he owns several guns-he is pro 2nd amendment, pro life, and bitches and moans about being taxed to death. Stupidly, he continues to vote in the scoundrels who are opposed to his point of view. I try explaining this to him but he is a liberal and logic holds no place in their universe.
The problem is that they don't have a "free market" system. A "free market" by definition means that private individuals have to be able to set up businesses, hire people, and sell their products without heavy government restrictions. If you can't set up a business without high-level "connections", you don't have a free market, you have oligarchy. This is the state of affairs in the Third World, and is why they stay "Third World". Unfortunately for the US, increasing government restrictions are making the US market less and less a "free market" system
The way Reagan's economics work (and "trickle-down" is the disparaging term used by his opponents), is that when you remove high taxes and government restrictions, ambitious and energetic middle-class people will find niches into which they can start/expand businesses, and in the process create jobs for others. As the number of jobs grows, competition for good employees will raise salaries
Not at all. The longshoreman want more money. The Venezuelans want to not be robbed.
Oil is merely being used as a weapon to oust Chavez because it will begin to have repurcussions around the world. It makes the Venezuelan struggle against Communist oppression matter to people in th U.S. and elsewhere, who would otherwise simply ignore their plight as we ignore those being exterminated in Zimbabwe.
I don't love unions, but I respect the right of free people to bargain collectively and run their unions as they please. You clearly hold the view that the 'Presidente' should control have authoritarian control over the oil industry. That's Socialism.
Chavez cannot get away with reducing those oil workers to the same level of abject poverty as the rest of his adoring plebian slaves, because those oil workers have skills Chavez needs. As long as they refuse to submit to his attempts to violently enslave them, he will be unable to run his country.
Of course they joined the opposition. Chavez threatens their livelihoods because he is a Communist and they are middle class. It is the goal of Communists to level society by eliminating the middle class and reducing everyone to the level of starving slaves.
claiming chavez had 30% support amongst a telephone poll
Please don't make me laugh. If Chavez even had the slightest pretensions of democracy or even a marginal support of the people, he'd have nothing to fear from the referendum. He's a brazen dictator who has already staed his intention to never leave office.
many more unionists have been killed by paramilitaries in colombia next door.
Even more have been killed in Colombia by the Communist FARC, which Chavez supports. But good little marxists only cry about the 'right wing' paramilitaries.
The only difference between Chavez and FARC is that Chavez is in charge of his country and the FARC isn't in charge of theirs. Chavez, FARC and the rest of the thieving genocidal communist slavemasters will all meet with very violent ends, and very soon. Their rejected and evil ideology is a nightmare which will only destroy themselves.
Then lets see Chavez run it with street urchins and brownshirts. Good luck.
chavez and his opponents look like amnesty international.
Sure and Chavez is about as pro-American as Amnesty international too.
Amnesty International Lobbies Nations Against US
He could send the army, but that won't help. Chavez could use his own army if that was a solution.
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