Turk
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| Are you going to stop being a smartass? |
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fellfire
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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When you put some data to your sloganeering. All you have done is string some buzz words along without backing up anything. You make sophmoric attempts are conspiracy innuendos. C'mon, give some facts about the free market and competition.
By what mechanism does free market and competition prevent consolidation of power? |
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Lester
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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I'd rather be a smartass than a dumbass, personally.
(feel free to slap me silly if I've used that here before, I have a sneaking suspicion that I have) |
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Turk
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Lester wrote: | I'd rather be a smartass than a dumbass, personally.
(feel free to slap me silly if I've used that here before, I have a sneaking suspicion that I have) |
hmm |
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Turk
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:03 am Post subject: |
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I would much rather have real free enterprise
what we have going now maybe called facism
We need to have more private control of business
we need to have more means of production to be controlled privately.
More privately owned business and production is good. |
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Lester
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Not neccesarily, it leads to lobbyists perverting the political system. |
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Lynx
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I would much rather have real free enterprise
what we have going now maybe called facism
We need to have more private control of business
we need to have more means of production to be controlled privately.
More privately owned business and production is good. |
I don't get you. In some threads, you advocate that we implement tariffs to protect American workers and their jobs, yet in other threads, you promote even more private control of business which, in case you didn't notice, is the source of our outsourcing problems. So do you actually want to protect the American worker's job, or is that just a talking point? |
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Turk
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Ill let you guess. |
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Lynx
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| The reason I'm asking is because you only come off as wanting to "protect" jobs occasionally. So are you more concerned about protecting American jobs, or achieving your idealistic goals? |
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Lester
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe both at the same time? |
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fellfire
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe not? |
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Lester
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I just think it's a weird dichotomy to draw. |
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fellfire
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do you think it is weird? the dichotomy or the assumption that there is a dichotomy? |
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Lester
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| The idea that there is a dichotomy, I don't believe the two are mutually exclusive. |
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