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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 1, 2014 at 12:12 am
(December 31, 2013 at 11:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:Capitalism has enabled countless people to get out of poverty - that's the famous "American Dream".
Kindly extract your head from your ass and take a good look around. It will help if you also lose the rose-colored glasses.
Capitalism makes the rich get richer and the poor can go fuck themselves.
Check out the following American billionaires who rose from poverty: Sheldon Adelson, Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Shultz, John Paul De Joran. I can give you plenty more.
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 1, 2014 at 2:44 pm
I'd rather religious asshats like the pope (and enrico's P.R. Sarkar) not pontificate on economics. They suck at it. The debate about free market capitalism is far from settled, and if I want an ignorant opinion on the subject, I'll ask the drunk at the end of the bar.
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 1, 2014 at 2:53 pm
(January 1, 2014 at 2:44 pm)rasetsu Wrote:
I'd rather religious asshats like the pope (and enrico's P.R. Sarkar) not pontificate on economics. They suck at it. The debate about free market capitalism is far from settled, and if I want an ignorant opinion on the subject, I'll ask the drunk at the end of the bar.
At least the guy at the end of the bar has a job and bills to pay like the rest of us. Unlike the pope who probably never worked a real job.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 1, 2014 at 3:03 pm
Quote:Check out the following American billionaires who rose from poverty: Sheldon Adelson, Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Shultz, John Paul De Joran. I can give you plenty more.
Why don't you go try to find the middle class that your billionaire asshole heroes are trying to destroy. Wake up idiot.
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 1, 2014 at 3:07 pm
(January 1, 2014 at 3:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:Check out the following American billionaires who rose from poverty: Sheldon Adelson, Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Shultz, John Paul De Joran. I can give you plenty more.
Why don't you go try to find the middle class that your billionaire asshole heroes are trying to destroy. Wake up idiot.
To be entirely honest I can't tell you of system that has done more to empower the middle class then capitalism.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 1, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Maybe you'll take Forbes word for it?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/201...dle-class/
When even the capitalist criminals admit it there is trouble in River City.
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 1, 2014 at 3:52 pm
(January 1, 2014 at 3:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Maybe you'll take Forbes word for it?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/201...dle-class/
When even the capitalist criminals admit it there is trouble in River City. Oh I'm under no illusions about capitalism, especially its more recent incarnations. Just every other possibitiy seems worse.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 2, 2014 at 6:24 am
(January 1, 2014 at 3:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Maybe you'll take Forbes word for it?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/201...dle-class/
When even the capitalist criminals admit it there is trouble in River City.
Did you go on to read the authors solution to the problem?
Even less regulation and an end to corporate tax.
Now there's a winner.
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 2, 2014 at 9:45 am
(December 31, 2013 at 11:05 pm)Lek Wrote: ]
While capitalism rarely benefits the poor, Pope Frankie has a lot of nerve speaking out against anything which doesn't help the poor, seeing as how he's the head of a religion that's worth billions and runs its own bank.
Capitalism has enabled countless people to get out of poverty - that's the famous "American Dream". We were the first country in the world to achieve such a high standard of living and produce a middle class. Today people still come from all over the world because of the opportunities offered here. Most other world systems don't allow for any upward mobility., i.e., monarchies, dictatorships, communism. As far as the Catholic church goes, it has been the forefront of providing aid to the poor for the last century at least.
The USA first to produce a middle class? You are joking of course! Middle classes predate the settlement of America
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RE: This is gonna make Protestants go apoplectic
January 2, 2014 at 10:08 am
(December 31, 2013 at 11:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:Capitalism has enabled countless people to get out of poverty - that's the famous "American Dream".
Kindly extract your head from your ass and take a good look around. It will help if you also lose the rose-colored glasses.
Capitalism makes the rich get richer and the poor can go fuck themselves.
Commie bastard. 
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