I just read a post which Miles (I seem to remember him) put up, and which seems like it was taken down immediately.
I couldn't find anything wrong with it, he was trying to ask a question, that I feel many on this board are interested in.
In the short time I have been on this site, I have seen some of the best and brightest posters leave, because they were sick of the immature, hateful banter of some of the people here. I think it is sad this is happening to a message board in the name of Thom Hartmann (who I think is one of our best and brightest).
The parallels to the media in the US and what is happening here on this site, are interesting (and a bit a scary as well).
"Yeehaw" is not a foreign policy!
Posts: 875 | Location: The Emerald City | Registered: 02 January 2007
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Posts: 8264 | Location: Fl | Registered: 05 July 2001
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Posts: 8264 | Location: Fl | Registered: 05 July 2001
I have some homework for you: Ask yourself what happened to the trees as Easter Island. And while you're at it, ask yourself what happend to all the humans.
Posts: 7 | Location: Hik-blech | Registered: 10 November 2007
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Posts: 8264 | Location: Fl | Registered: 05 July 2001
I have some homework for you: Ask yourself what happened to the trees as Easter Island. And while you're at it, ask yourself what happend to all the humans.
Easter Island trees? Simple. They didn't really believe deforestation was really happening until they chopped down the last tree.
They probably all died eating raw shellfish they could no longer cook.
Retired Monk "Ideology is a disease"
Posts: 3412 | Location: denver co | Registered: 17 April 2007
Click on the link that says :Mahina Taka-Taka Georgia,
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Posts: 8264 | Location: Fl | Registered: 05 July 2001
Indeed. And here we have a man who, even in the face of those facts, STILL refuses to acknowledge this. That's denial for you. A denial needed to prevent himself from ever having to look that perceptive gaze at himself, which might put him face to face with his own unbridled destructive ways.
And of course, if that means we have to destroy the world in order to be able to stay in denial, so be it.
Posts: 7 | Location: Ibz | Registered: 11 November 2007
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Posts: 6804 | Location: usa | Registered: 09 February 2006
Click on the link that says :Mahina Taka-Taka Georgia,
Glad to see someone has brought some trees back to de-forested Easter Island.
From your signature: "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." - James Madison, 1792
Thankfully, Madison was ignored and the General Welfare clause was imbedded into our Constitution. Conservatives have been smoldering over it ever since, claiming it didn't mean what Madison so clearly saw that it did. And the debate over it goes on and on.
Retired Monk "Ideology is a disease"
Posts: 3412 | Location: denver co | Registered: 17 April 2007
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