Text 9210, 103 rader
Skriven 2005-02-22 22:31:23 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 9208 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
Ärende: conservative would leave SS alone?
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John Hull -> Gary Braswell wrote:


 AH>>>> Yet here we are, talking about injecting billions of federal
 AH>>>> dollars into corporate ownership. Yes, the stocks would be
 AH>>>> assigned to personal accounts. But Washington would be the
 AH>>>> looming, gray middleman any way you slice it, with great
 AH>>>> opportunities for mischief.

 JH>>> This guy is a idiot.  It isn't federal dollars, its our dollars.
 JH>>> The government doesn't have any money of its own; it has only the
 JH>>> money that WE give it to do the work it is supposed to do FOR US.

 JH>>> Are you ever going to learn that liberalism is a poison slowly
 JH>>> leaching the life out of us?

 GB>> A friend's nephew is leading a unit that just went recently into
 GB>> Iraq. He is writing back with what is happening to them and what
 GB>> they see about once a week.

 GB>> He asked my friend to spread a request around for his unit and
 GB>> Iraqis who in his area have 70% unemployment. Its the usual list
 GB>> for handwipes,  nail clippers for them and things that can be used
 GB>> to make care packages to the Iraqis.

 GB>> My friend put together a nice document with a picture of the unit,
 GB>> his reason for passing it around and the list of items that Lt.
 GB>> Ryan made up for his men and Iraqis.

 GB>> I have been passing it around to friends at various offices and
 GB>> they, after gaining permission, have posted it and emailed it
 GB>> throughout their companies and organizations.

 GB>> Thinking that concentrating on conservative friends who work at
 GB>> very conservative companies, I passed the document onto them. I
 GB>> also posted it at where I work.

 GB>> Its been two weeks now.

 GB>> I was sure the stuff would begin to flow in from one company that
 GB>> a friend works for. They have 80 people in his division and a vast
 GB>> majority are conservative who actively send patriotic items around
 GB>> the internet, staunch Bush supporters, they only allow Fox to be
 GB>> shown in the lunch room, very vocal about their beliefs, etc. My
 GB>> friend there was also certain of the response, he got 3 boxes
 GB>> ready. He emailed everyone there with the document and posted it.

 GB>> As of today, not one item or one penny has come from a single
 GB>> conservative in the office.

 GB>> The only person to contribute oddly enough is the only known
 GB>> (openly liberal) liberal in the office. He contributed to it
 GB>> immediately with a nice check.

 GB>> Another office I sent it two was of a friend who is probably the
 GB>> most conservative person I know. He is also quite generous. He is
 GB>> constantly on me all the time for my moderate views.

 GB>> He posted and emailed it at his office.

 GB>> Its been two weeks now and nothing, nada. The firm is painfully
 GB>> conservative. Bobby sent a very generous check himself and said he
 GB>> was ashamed of the lack of response in his office.

 GB>> A neighbor who saw me with the documents, asked to see one. He is
 GB>> one of those rare beasts, a liberal who was in the Army. He never
 GB>> saw action, but asked if he could keep it.

 GB>> He works at a college. A college that has had on more than one
 GB>> occasion anti-Bush rallies. I thought nothing would come of it.

 GB>> So far its been a large response. Not in money of course with
 GB>> starving students, but goodies.

 GB>> Now what am I trying to say here? Conservatives are fakes?
 GB>> Tightwads?

 GB>> Nope. Many of you here I know are quite generous.

 GB>> What I am saying is that the liberals I see in here, day in and
 GB>> day out, generically described as evil, idiots, thieves, liars and
 GB>> against the troops are helping out our troops.

 GB>> I know there are liberals out there who hate everything dealing
 GB>> with the US, but not all are like that.

 GB>> I also know now there are a lot of mouth-only conservatives out
 GB>> there too.

 GB>> And why? Because they are all human first.

 JH> You're confusing individuals with a group mindset.  I know plenty of
 JH> individual liberals who would write a check, etc.  That has nothing to
 JH> do with the ideological mindset of those we commonly refer to as
 JH> "liberal."  You know very well that the ideology called liberalism is
 JH> the root of many of this countries ills today, and that the roots go all
 JH> the way back to the "federalists" of revolutionary days.

No I am not. There is no distinction made here between individuals and the
group.

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