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Both pieces by Thomas L. Friedman:


The Tea Kettle Movement

"There are actually two Tea Party movements in America today:..."

the “Tea Kettle movement”...

"The important Tea Party movement"...

NYTimes


Third Party Rising

"There is a revolution brewing in the country, and it is not just on the right wing but in the radical center."

"Barring a transformation of the Democratic and Republican Parties, there is going to be a serious third party candidate in 2012, with a serious political movement behind him or her — one definitely big enough to impact the election’s outcome."

NYTimes
 
What an amazing concept!:rolleyes:

It's a wonder someone didn't notice this before.

OH!

Wait a minute!;)
 
There's a political philosophy going on for years called " The Third Way"...I'm just glad that eyer has come out of his hut in the woods and realized there is more then facism and communism as political options
 
I'm reading a new economics book. Twenty percent of Americans own 84% of the wealth; and about 1/2 of Americans own less than 2%.

Now! I'm all for people making money from their labor, talents, and gifts; what I dont agree with is a few people making most of the money, and especially when their money tilts the playing field in their favor via politicians and bribes and lawyers.

Take the Tampa Bay Bucs. The players and owners make good money. But the taxpayer built the $400 MILLION stadium and the $100 MILLION training facility. The Bucs pay ZERO for any of it, and get 1/2 of the money the stadium makes off of concerts and horseshows and college ball games. Plus the Bucs get all of the parking money, all of the time. What! Smells like corporate welfare to me. The Bucs argue that the money pays for better players, but so would shoving a pistol into the ribs of pedestrians. And its a league conspiracy against every city, everywhere. So the NFL isnt a co-op of starving artists selling velvet Elvis beside the hiway. And $400 MILLION would build about 10 new high schools.

So I suspect America is starting to get the idea that there's a big party going on across the country, a party theyre paying for but not invited to.
 
Dude, if you took all the money in the US, gave everyone the same damned amount, in about two weeks you'd be back to the same damned situation...

:rolleyes:


THAT's reality.

When you work in a modern factory, you are paid, not only for your labor, but for all the productive genius which has made that factory possible: for the work of the industrialist who built it, for the work of the investor who saved money to risk on the untried and new, for the work of the engineer who designed who designed the machines of which you are pushing the levers, for the inventor who create the product on which you spend your time making, for the work of the scientist who discovered the laws that went into the making of that product, for the work of the philosopher who taught men how to think and whom you spend your time denouncing.
...
Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but it's only to the degree that he thinks that determines the degree to which he'll rise. Physical labor as such can extend no further than the range of the moment. The man who does no more than physical labor, consumes the equivalent of the material value-equivalent of his own contribution to the process of production and leaves no further value neither for himself, nor others. ... Material products can't be shared, they belong to some ultimate consumer; it is only the values of an idea which can be shared in unlimited numbers of men making all sharer's richer at no one's sacrifice or loss, raising the productive capacity of whatever labor they perform.
...
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability. The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, getting nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom, who left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong.
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John Galt
Atlas Shrugged
 
Frisco_Slug_Esq said:
Dude, if you took all the money in the US, gave everyone the same damned amount, in about two weeks you'd be back to the same damned situation...

:rolleyes:


THAT's reality.



John Galt
Atlas Shrugged
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I understand THAT! Give every nigga & trailer trash cracka a million bucks, and in 5 years they'll be back in the ghetto & trailer park. But human nature isnt a license to rip everyone off to reward the elites. I say stop the redistribution of other people's money...regardless of who gets the dough.

If you invent fat-free chocolate or a process to grow every peepee to 12 inches, whatever money you make is your's. But if you think up a new way to skin taxpayers we gotta part company.
 
47% of America has figured out a way to look pathetic and skin the taxpayer with no more effort that it takes to vote...




Remember the Hobo that showed up in Dagney's rail car?

What the factory devolved to?



Who IS John Galt?
 
Frisco_Slug_Esq said:
47% of America has figured out a way to look pathetic and skin the taxpayer with no more effort that it takes to vote...




Remember the Hobo that showed up in Dagney's rail car?

What the factory devolved to?



Who IS John Galt?
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I read ATLAS SHRUGGED.

Every political party has its constituency, just like every business has its friends & family on the payroll. So we either become eternal enemies, like lions and hyenas, or we change how we do things.
 
HarlotMinx said:
Ah but now you're saying no one person can make a drill. I'll have you know we used handmade awls just like the Indians did to make their pencils. :p
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The pencil thing is just an odd tool for describing macro economics to students who would rather be taking sports medicine.

It's a way to describe how every industry is dependent on every other industry.

Or that we are all one big happy family.
 
eyer said:
Both pieces by Thomas L. Friedman:


The Tea Kettle Movement

"There are actually two Tea Party movements in America today:..."

the “Tea Kettle movement”...

"The important Tea Party movement"...

NYTimes


Third Party Rising

"There is a revolution brewing in the country, and it is not just on the right wing but in the radical center."

"Barring a transformation of the Democratic and Republican Parties, there is going to be a serious third party candidate in 2012, with a serious political movement behind him or her — one definitely big enough to impact the election’s outcome."

NYTimes
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Translation: Michael Bloomberg has been leaking to Tom Friedman.
 
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