Obama’s Economic plan = income redistribution

Posted by bruni on August 26, 2008


Obama’s ‘emergency’ economic plan

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August 1, 2008 10:53 AM EST

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.”
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China allows you to ‘replace’ your kid that was killed in the quake.

Posted by bruni on August 24, 2008

My God. China is so evil. That government is so bad. I can’t believe how people have sold there souls to the Chinese government.

I mean, what a great bunch of guys. They build the schools so substandard that they fall down in a quake where other shacks are left standing.
Then the government gives you permission to replace your lost valuables (under there one child policy) that you lost in the quake.

That is so fucking wrong.
But I think it paints a pretty accurate picture of how the Chinese government views there citizens. There citizens are commodities. Nothing else.
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Long Article blaming Conservative ideology for government failures

Posted by bruni on August 19, 2008

Follow This Dime: Why Misgovernment Was No Accident in George W. Bush’s Washington

Monday 04 August 2008

by: Thomas Frank

Washington is the city where the scandals happen. Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are a thing of the past, that the golden age of misgovernment-for-profit ended with the cavalry charge and the robber barons, at about the same time presidents stopped wearing beards.
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Oil vs. renewable energy analogy

Posted by bruni on August 08, 2008

Oil is like the road system we have, that may have some potholes and ruts, but with some capital investment, we can improve them and they will serve our needs for now and the future.

"Renewable Energy" is like Lyle Lanley selling the monorail system to the people of springfield. a lot of money invested in unknown technology that may or may not work or may or may not be better than what we already have/could have invested in.

I find when people make analogies in an argument it’s because they want to obscure the facts.
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