Ah. This reminds me of the documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story", which I recommend you see at some point because it talks about this very thing (among other points.)
Although the government is far from blameless in this event, the financial institutions have a far greater share of the blame. This goes into everything I've been attempting to say in my discussions with you, void, but don't put this all on the government.
You should know as much as I that blaming the government for this travesty is like suing McDonalds for making (John Doe) obese. It might technically be true that McDonalds may be serving (John Doe) unhealthy food that's way too high in fats and calories, but (John Doe) did choose to eat at McDonalds 4 meals a day for (X time) with little to no exercise.
Although the government is far from blameless in this event, the financial institutions have a far greater share of the blame. This goes into everything I've been attempting to say in my discussions with you, void, but don't put this all on the government.
You should know as much as I that blaming the government for this travesty is like suing McDonalds for making (John Doe) obese. It might technically be true that McDonalds may be serving (John Doe) unhealthy food that's way too high in fats and calories, but (John Doe) did choose to eat at McDonalds 4 meals a day for (X time) with little to no exercise.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
