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Liberalism Isn't Just A Mental Disorder
07/11/11 | Alan Levy

Posted on 07/11/2011 8:07:05 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama

Michael Savage is wrong. Liberalism isn't just a mental disorder.

It's the result of having a lobotomy with a rusty and dull scalpel. Here's my proof:

Recently, the commie fingersniffers at Talking Points Memo ran a story about how some bougerois socialist from academia, Susan Feinberg of Rutgers, "caught" Republican Congressman Paul Ryan with two bottles of $350 wine at his table at the swanky Bistro Bis in Babylon...er, uh....Washington DC. The "outraged", and according to Ryan, drunk as hell, Feinberg demanded to know if the men Ryan was eating with were lobbyists. (They weren't. They were economists Cliff Asness and John Cochrane.) After she finished her own very elobarate and expensive meal, Feinberg then marched over to Ryan's table and asked the Congressman how he could live with himself, since he was paying for expensive wine while cutting benefits for poor and elderly. (It should be noted that Ryan paid for his meal and one of the bottles of wine.)

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/rep-paul-ryans-pricey-pinot-noir.php

Now, this column is not about defending Paul Ryan. It's about defending capitalism and showing how incredibly stupid the 2+2=5 Left truly is. From the Talking Points Memo propaganda piece:

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"Feinberg, an economist by training, was even more appalled when the table ordered a second bottle. She quickly did the math and figured out that the $700 in wine the trio consumed over the course of 90 minutes amounted to more than the entire weekly income of a couple making minimum wage.

'We were just stunned,' said Feinberg, who e-mailed TPM about her encounter later the same evening. 'I was an economist so I started doing the envelope calculations and quickly figured out that those two bottles of wine was more than two-income working family making minimum wage earned in a week.' "

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/rep-paul-ryans-pricey-pinot-noir.php

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Here's the funny part: Feinberg, as an economist, should know that Paul Ryan's expensive wine actually created more jobs and more wealth than any government program could ever hope to. After all, Ryan's purchase helped to pay the maitre d of the restauant. And the head chef. And the sous chef. And the kitchen porter. And the busboys. And the wine sales rep. And the wine distributor. And the winery. Just like Leonard Read pointed out in his mind blowing essay "I, Pencil", no product on God's green and cooling earth can be produced by just one entity. A product is produced by the effort of countless people and countless numbers of people benefit from its purchase. This isn't just "Right Wing rhetoric", this is an undeniable fact, just as it's an undeniable fact that the countless numbers of people who who benefit from the purchase of a product are also people who purchase products. This creates an endless cycle of wealth redistribution that the government, despite how clever it thinks it is, can NEVER reproduce. (Oh, you don't believe me ? Ask anyone who is a LEGAL immigrant from the former Soviet Union, China, Cuba, or Venezuela how well the forced redistribution of wealth works.)

The reality of the situation is this: the American Left is nothing more than a bunch of bougerois socialists who are economically illiterate morons. They will never understand how their idiotic attempts to help the so-called poor harm everyone. They will never understand the fact that the forced redistribution of wealth creates a far larger wealth inequality than capitalism does. (The politburo always lives better than the proletariat. I can assure you that Hu Jintao, the dictator of China, lives waaaaay better than a slave...er, uh....employee at FoxConn.)

God help us all.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: dumblibs; economy; liberalism; mentaldisorder; paulryan; susanfeinberg; tpm
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To: RonBush

In post #37 I put up some links to some thoughtful intelligent articles that examine the question using logical analytical means. You will enjoy them I’m sure.


41 posted on 07/11/2011 10:22:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (Wranglers not Levis. Levi Strauss is anti-2nd Amendment.)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Good article but the guy left out the truck driver, forklift operator, secretary, accountant, tax man and a hundred other people who all take their small piece out of those bottles of wine - even a bloody economist will indirectly profit from any sale of any item.

Mel


42 posted on 07/11/2011 10:23:01 PM PDT by melsec
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To: RonBush
I am disturbed by the tone of this article and many of the responses. Just because we disagree with with a political position doesn’t mean we have to insult the people who hold it. The way to change minds is through intelligent, logical debate, not through insults and name calling. There are some who would accuse you of trolling and call for a moderator, but I am not one of those people. I will handle this personally. LOOK AROUND YOU! Liberalism is destroying America at every turn. The Authoritarian Left wants to destroy religion and impose secular humanism on the United States. The government has spent us to the brink of disaster. We have a President (or socialist dictator, if you prefer.) that wantonly disregards the Constitution and is currently aiding al-Qaeda in Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. We have a Congress that is completely useless and a judicial system that thinks legislating from the bench is acceptable. Yet, you're "disappointed" in my tone and the tone of my fellow FReepers ? The time for civility has passed. (For the vile left, it never really started, but I digress.) We need to call out the Left for what it really is: Communism. The days of lukewarm Gerald R. Ford "conservatism" have passed. The only way we will save the Republic is to have the same fire and passion the Founders had when they told the British to take their tea and shove it. I'm not talking about violence of course, but I am most definitely talking about having a fighting spirit. The days of Conservatives being punching bags are over. I know people of all political points of view who I like and respect, including liberals. If this is your position, then perhaps FR is not for you. I'm sure Myth Romney has a discussion board and you'll be happier there.
43 posted on 07/11/2011 10:25:18 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (A Movement that does not move cannot call itself a Movement.)
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To: ArmstedFragg
"Libs aim to be the deciders."

That explains the George Soros-type libs - they have power and influence; but how do you explain the idiot junior-college professor-types? They're not going to decide jack. They'll be eating tree-bark like the rest of us proles. What's in it for them?

44 posted on 07/11/2011 10:27:43 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: TigersEye

This is some cool stuff. I’ll definitely check it out.


45 posted on 07/11/2011 10:29:28 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (A Movement that does not move cannot call itself a Movement.)
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To: melsec

Well, the poor guy did just have a mini-stroke....

:)

You’re a 1000% correct.


46 posted on 07/11/2011 10:36:29 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (A Movement that does not move cannot call itself a Movement.)
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To: TigersEye

#39
Ruh roh.


47 posted on 07/11/2011 10:37:04 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Guns don't kill people, the obama administration does. (Gunwalker Ping List))
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To: Flag_This

You’re begging the question. They don’t know they won’t be at the top of the food chain.

Actually, if you look at the Soviet Union, even minor party officials had higher status than the average prole. True believers were rewarded with those positions.


48 posted on 07/11/2011 10:40:25 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: ArmstedFragg

The powerful ones aim to be deciders. The sheeple are lazy drones who can’t think for themselves.


49 posted on 07/11/2011 10:40:50 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (A Movement that does not move cannot call itself a Movement.)
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To: MestaMachine

Oh well.


50 posted on 07/11/2011 10:44:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (Wranglers not Levis. Levi Strauss is anti-2nd Amendment.)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

The first article is very long, but good. The others are not so long. The each give slightly different perspectives which altogether covers a lot of ground. Libs are nuts.


51 posted on 07/11/2011 10:48:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (Wranglers not Levis. Levi Strauss is anti-2nd Amendment.)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Rush mentioned this story on his radio show Monday.

Rush wanted to know why this woman wasn’t outraged over the $100,000 booze and food bill run up by Nancy Pelosi and her family on the government jet that ferried them between Washington, D.C. and San Francisco on a frequent basis.

As Rush pointed out, Congressman Ryan and his party paid for their own food and wine.....Pelosi stuck the U.S. taxpayers for her enormous tab.


52 posted on 07/11/2011 10:55:51 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Palin / West in 2012 or West / Palin. Either combination will serve America well.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

That’s because Nazi Pelosi is a lib and the libs stand up for the “little people”.

Rush was right. The hypocisy is makes me physically ill.


53 posted on 07/11/2011 11:00:22 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (A Movement that does not move cannot call itself a Movement.)
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To: savagesusie

By Gato do you mean John Gato?


54 posted on 07/11/2011 11:22:29 PM PDT by Anima Mundi (share the pain = more meaningful contribution = fair share = from each according to ability = MARX)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Thank you! It really is..and the demons of darkness convince their hosts...most unwitting dupes on the left, that somehow they are doing good. It is a brainwashing for sure, but that is satan’s purview, hypnosis through anger and irritations. Check out patriotoutreach.org for an excellent counter hypnosis being given freely to thousands of troops...saving lives from suicide caused by ptsd!


55 posted on 07/11/2011 11:38:51 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: Absolutely Nobama

“Now, this column is not about defending Paul Ryan. It’s about defending capitalism and showing how incredibly stupid the 2+2=5 Left truly is. From the Talking Points Memo propaganda piece:”

With God as my witness I swear this is true. I once worked with a lefty reporter who argued with me in from of several people in our newsroom that 1+1 didn’t necessarily = 2.

It was a straight faced/no joke argument that he said that math is not absolute and 1+1 can equal anything we want it to depending on the context. He was rabid about it and the argument devolved into a screaming match that got him pulled into the Ed’s office.

This man is now an aide for a Dem state pol in Pennsylvania. Think about that for a bit.


56 posted on 07/11/2011 11:41:22 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Anima Mundi

Yes—the one who wrote The Underground History of American Education. BK Eakman has written a book on the methodologies applied to curricula (Cloning of the American Mind) which has overlapping information. Gato’s book is all over the place—but it is packed with lots of good information and good psychology and a lot of research.


57 posted on 07/12/2011 12:37:02 AM PDT by savagesusie (Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Cicero)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Terrifying, to say the least.


58 posted on 07/12/2011 2:31:23 AM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (A Movement that does not move cannot call itself a Movement.)
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To: fabian

I’ll check it out, thanks!


59 posted on 07/12/2011 2:32:31 AM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (A Movement that does not move cannot call itself a Movement.)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

If you knew just how whacked this guy was overall, it’s really even worse. There is now a person (one of many I’m sure across the country) working in a position of influence on the state level that will literally publicly argue to the brink of termination that 1+1 does not have to = 2. That is the level of fanaticism in Democrat politics today.

If math is so malleable, what chance does the Constitution/Bill of rights have? Believe me... 5 min in a room will tell you the guy was insane. And after what must have been a much longer interview, a Dem politician hired him for the sole purpose of political aid/advice.


60 posted on 07/12/2011 3:03:55 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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