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Re: With Saddam's sons dead, now we just need to bag dad (Baghdad get it?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:01:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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Let me say this, Dave! I won’t defend big business. I am not a fan of “big
business”, nor am I a fan of big government. “Big” in these areas is bad
IMO, inevitabley leading to corruption and abuse of power. I don’t know any
specifics about Cheney, but on the surface I would be skeptical, given his
previous status.
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Skeptical which way?
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Nor am I a fan of the super-wealthy in general. I don’t know how one can
morally be super wealthy and not be a philanthropist. But even if I
find super-wealthy selfish people morally reprehensible, I still don’t
favor taking their wealth by force by the government...
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And neither do I. At the same time I don’t believe in letting them off the hook
and overtaxing the vastly less wealthy members of our society instead. The
reality is that we have a corporate welfare scheme of untold magnitude nipping
at everyone’s heels -- bought from and delivered by the republican party.
Where are your priorities, John? Isn’t that morally reprehensible?
Shouldn’t it have been illegal for Halliburton et al. to do business with a
known enemy of the U.S.?
What I see is two standards of law -- that which is good for the plebeians and
that which is good for the elite super-wealthy.
This is not america.
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As for Clinton, I found his behavior morally reprehensible as well. What I
most objected to in his sex scandal was the denegration of the Executive
Office while he occupied it. His personal life is his business, but when it
spilled out into the public it was just embarrassing.
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How exactly did this become part of public rhetoric? Was it Clinton himself
talking about cigars and ***-stained dresses? Again, this was your party doing
the dirty deed -- talking and rumour-mongering about it!
Again, where are your priorities? What are you defending?
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So, if you want to say: Cheney = ethically questionable businessman =
Clinton = morally questionable politician. Fine.
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Wow, what an astonishing admission. The problem is that Oval Office Oral doesn’t
hit anyone in the pocketbook and absent video footage most of us quickly lose
interest. Paying for Halliburton et al’s access to Iraqi oil is costing
everyone a lot already -- and will cost everyone a lot more down the road.
Cheap gasoline is going to be a poor substitute for that ballooning national
debt. “Here my children, on my death bed I bequeath you a debt that will outlast
your own lifetimes...”
Again, where are your priorities? What are you defending?
The Republican party is like an Anti-Robin Hood -- stealing from the poor to
give to the already super-wealthy.
Seriously, John -- how you work this stuff out in your own head remains a
mystery to me. Do you just automatically favor the party talking the best line
of BS or something? Would you buy a used car from Shrub?
-- Hop-Frog
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