Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]
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On 04/11/08 15:19, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2008 08:17:56 am Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 04/11/08 10:03, Paul Johnson wrote:
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>>> Depends on the country. In France, they pay less taxes, and with those
>>> taxes they get college and healthcare at no extra charge.
>> And labor unions so stifling they create 25% unemployment among
>> young people.
>
> The labor movement is not a bad thing. Once you do get a job, you get paid a
> family living wage with decent benefits. We once had the same thing in the
> US, and the American middle class was far and away better off then, than we
> are now.
Sure, back in the generation following WW2 when the US economy
dominated the world.
The big reason why so much manufacturing has fled the US is because
unions and liberals are just as short-sighted and selfish as
business owners.
> > We coulda done that
>>> ourselves
>> Sure, and pigs could fly out my arse if I pushed hard enough. Got
>> any more fantasies?
>
> We're talking about $12 billion every month. That's a shit-ton of money by
> any standard, and it's not like it's going to productive use the way it's
> currently being spent.
The money's not being taken out back and tossed in the incinerator.
Someone's getting the money.
>>> over the last 8 years if the conservatives didn't think it to
>>> be more productive to flush it down the war...
>> Clinton didn't do it, so what makes you think that Gore or JFK would
>> have done it?
>
> Probably because FDR did it last time we were this fucked.
FDR implemented universal health care?
> Just because he's
> dead now doesn't mean he didn't have good ideas that worked wonders, contrary
> to what Rush thinks.
Why do we care what an aging art-rock band thinks?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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