Posted on 03/23/2005 4:32:08 AM PST by SheLion
I think you might care what the restaurants think in that smokers claim they are sticking up for them.
This is how capitalism works. Survival of the fitest.
A primary tenet of fascism is state control of private property.
"Sounds like it is worth the support of all governments."
Oooops, should read:
"Sounds like it is worth the support of all conservatives!"
"This is how capitalism works."
Please enlighten us as to your definition of capitalism. I looked it up in several references and I still can't find any definition that includes government controlling the market.
Now go back to the sandbox and leave the adults alone.
Gosh. I just wonder how many of those Big Restaurant Chains are owned by RJR, Philip Morris, et al. As you said (and so did my old sergeant): Follow the money. I'd look into it more, except I live in Japan, where smokes are about $2.80 a pack. Also, I've been drinking (without having to first check with the State to see if it's okay), and I'm watching "Blade Runner" on DVD now.
I lived in Colorado for a bit. There's a LOT of lefties living up in those hills. Got in an argument with my boss about whether or not taxes were my money or government's money, and got into a screaming match with Alvin Toffler in the laundromat, so I decided to move back to Seattle.
It says something about Colorado that I considered SEATTLE to be a more rational place.
Many people likened J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, and other business leaders to the "robber barons" of the Middle Ages, who set up barriers across rivers and forced boats to pay a toll in order to navigate the waterways. A U.S. Senator described Morgan as a "thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power, [who] bawls his orders to stock markets, Directors, courts, Governments, and Nations."
This may be news, but business uses government all the time to compete. Control of government is part of business and is part of competition.
These men weren't free market capitalists. Corporate America is as big a bastian of socialism as academia. Big business welcomes the taxation, regulation and litigation that we conservatives abhor because their smaller-company competition can't afford it as easily as they can. The only people who advocate using the government to crush their competition or control the marketplace are democrats. And they sure aren't capitalists.
"The role of government is not to create wealth.
The role of government is to create an environment
in which the entrepreneur or small business or
dreamer can flourish. And that starts with rule of law,
respect of private property, less regulatory burdens on the
entrepreneur, open banking laws so that all people
have access to capital, and good tax policy."
President George W. Bush
St. Petersburg University,
St. Petersburg, Russia
May 25, 2002
JP Morgan invented capitalism.
Sorry so long to reply. Thanks for the ping, and.....WOOOOO-HOOO!!!!
BTW, Any idea who voted FOR, and who SUPPORTED this insanity? I have a whole batch of blank magnetic paper ready for some fresh, shiny bumper stickers to be printed up.
Most of this crap is coming from, "Animal Guardian" Boulder county.
I'm not sure Randall. I think you can go to the state of Colorado and get the roll count for this vote. I haven't taken the time to do that. But that is one way a person could find out the yea's and nay's.
If you measure fitness by who's got the best lawyers and lobbyists and most political influence rather than the best products or ideas.
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