On 7/30/2013 6:25 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 7/29/13 10:32 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 7/29/13 9:20 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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...when sanctimonious Republican assholes don't live up to the standards
they want to shove down everyone else's throat.

Rick Santorum Files for Divorce, Blames Gays
Jul 29, 2013


Great gag. Love it.

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I guess you had to be there to appreciate the humor.

It must really drive you nuts to watch all the "sanctimonious Republican
assholes" in so many states and at the federal level exercise almost
complete control over what legislation is passed and what isn't. Even
with a Democratic president, a Democratic Senate and, for the first two
years, a Democratic House, the sanctimonious Republican assholes have
played the game of political maneuvering and have pretty much won every
legislative contest. Really doesn't say much for your party.

I find it fascinating how the demagoguery and hate spewing of the
Republican taliban is destroying this country and turning everyone but
the rich into serfs who only exist to further enrich the rich. The
Republican taliban is waging an economic and societal war on women,
students, middle income earners, minorities, gays, everyone except upper
income white men. They're taking away the vote, they want to do away
with the social safety net entirely. At some point, the citizenry will
wake up and either shoot the Republican taliban perpetrators or vote
them out of office. I probably won't be around to see it, but it will be
an interesting revolution.

The Dems simply don't hate as much, and they still care about this
country. The Republicans only care about power and their wallets.

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I see it differently, recognizing that there are extremists represented
on each side who I disregard.

I see the conservative side being the "tough love" guardians. They care
just as passionately as the Democrats but see the solution to economic
problems as having to face the reality that simply throwing borrowed
money at problems will never solve them. To the contrary, it will cause
more dependence on the government which at some point won't be able to
sustain the very help that people become more dependent upon.

The Democrats' over protective plan is that more spending, more
government programs, more federal aid will somehow make everyone self
sufficient someday. History proves otherwise. Since the 1960's
spending for federal entitlement programs has risen by over 500
percent. We are rapidly approaching the point when it will become
unsustainable. Then what happens? That economic collapse will make
the last five years look like the "good old days".

Americans have to stop thinking about what the government can do for
them and start thinking about what they can do for themselves. Sounds
cruel to a Democratic Socialist like yourself, but it's reality.






Have you noticed in recent months that when the two of us discuss
something political in nature, I for the most part refrain from making
it personal about you, yet after a short while, if I don't agree with
your side of the argument, you start making personal remarks about me?

I am indeed a Democrat, a registered Democrat, in fact, and although I
have a number of actual Socialists as friends and colleagues, I am no
more a Socialist than you are a plutocrat, and I don't call you one.
I do admire some aspects of modern European socialism, however, but I
have no admiration for a plutocracy which, basically, is what the United
States is devolving into.

Middle income lifestyles are disappearing, jobs are becoming more and
more short term, workers are becoming disposable, and many families
workers and multiple jobs still cannot make it in this country because
pay has fallen so far behind the cost of living. And what is your
expectation for these people who cannot move forward through no fault of
their own? That they live in crappy housing, that they eat only fast
food, that their kids aren't decently clothed, that they don't have
access to good and convenient health care, that their hopes for a
reasonable retirement are disappearing, all so the rich can continue to
suck the wealth out of the country and make these disparities even worse?


You could just as easily blame the unions for sucking the life out of
the economy, for the benefit of relatively few.