Amen!

@Thirst2learn Thank you for your reply. I'm sure you have specifics concerning your mention of initiatory force and fraud. I'm sure those specifics are valid.

@Thirst2learn I think you are coming from a very narrow viewpoint, and are seriously mistaken.

@Thirst2learn That is your perception. It is not reality.

@Thirst2learn No. You are confirming your own bias. You're just scapegoating other people to justify it.

@KKGator conservatism very narrow and pious ...do as I say and not as I so

@Thirst2learn Over, and over, and over, business has shown that they cannot be trusted to do the right things.
They have, and continue to, abuse their employees. They have to be held accountable for their actions. Government has the responsibility to keep them from running roughshod over people and the environment.
The Great Depression was a product of the rampant, multifaceted destruction wrought by the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age.

Business is great, but it's not the end-all, be-all. That's the problem when you have people who worship Big Business like a god.

@Thirst2learnI don't worship a damned thing, turkey -- not even an irrational libertarian ideology.

@Thirst2learn Nothing. But,. limiting government to that is what is absurd.

@Thirst2learn I don't know where you get the idea that anyone thinks "big government does no wrong".
That is pure extrapolation to the most absurd degree.
Again, no one thinks that. You just think they do.
Your perception is the complete opposite of reality.

@Thirst2learn Stop telling me what I think.
You are 100% wrong.
I simply do not agree with your extremist positions.
That does not mean that I go to the opposite extreme.
Are you incapable of nuance in your thinking?
Besides, the workable answers are usually found somewhere in the middle. Extremes are hardly ever successful.

@Thirst2learn You continue in atrocious libertarian fantasy.

I wish.....you are on my soap box ... we have paid so much for the racism that created the war on drugs

He has no clue how politically low his views are, is the sadder part. There is no self-awareness of it.

To be honest anarchy sounds alot like abject stupidity. Which is what I gather from most of OP's posts in the first place lol

@Thirst2learn nope an actual observation. Most of your posts sound like qanon trumper halfwittedness

@Thirst2learn don't do drugs of any kind. Unlike you taking an IV of maga stupidity right into your veins. #magaisdead

There is no truth in his post. It's ignorance that's painful.

@KKGator More hostility.

@PBuck0145 That's not hostility. It's reality.

The whole "worshipping big government" accusation is something that is always directed at the People, when in fact, it should be directed at corporations and Wall St.
They're the ones who benefit most from many government policies.
Especially during the last "administration".

There is little to no validity to the "arguments" often made by those calling themselves conservatives.
There is nothing wrong with helping people.
The incidents of fraud perpetrated by those who receive assistance is miniscule.
Especially when compared to the fraud perpetrated by the wealthy and corporations.
Just look at the levels of corruption, greed, and fraud within defense contracting.
It's less than humane.

It has been ingrained in some folks that we can't afford to help people.
That's simply not true.
It's another lie fed to people by those who don't want to contribute to the societies we all live in.

The reality is that our success as a society is rooted in our humanity.
There is no reasonable argument that can be made against that.

@KKGator you are so right my dear....these emoluments as the thieves and crooks in the republican party call them actually grow the economy and they help ppl that are struggling to provide....its not like anyone anymore can just go out and shoot dinner ....too many ppl and our jobs and our lives are all affected by what our government limits or protects from con men and crooks ....I wanna see money for the poor ...ive been there and I worked every day.....
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besides how come they are only concerned when liberals are in charge .....when conservatives are in charge they blow up the deficit and hurt so many of the weak

@PBuck0145 Not hostility, but simple truth,.

Not sure anyone would agree to these lists...

@Canndue

That is why the country is so divided for so long and nobody is agreeing with anyone on anything.

@St-Sinner because only you can fix it lol

@whiskywoman

Trump can if you want him again

@Thirst2learn Very few peo0ple would agree with you in any truly democratic country. You are not even a conservative, but an extreme libertarian who wants the freedom to do anything he wants to without anyone putting any limits on you. Tat is not how ANY social organizat6ion or government works.

@Thirst2learn Much of your stuff is ridiculous that I have to laugh.

@Thirst2learn "That's exactly what the government does, kill and steal whenever it wants"

If that is what you truly believe, then wouldn't the size of government concern you less than what you assert the government is doing? In any case, some supporting evidence to your accusation, please.

If my years of government service taught me anything, it's that we (the people) are the government, and the government is us. What useful purpose is served by engaging in "othering" a group of people who come from the diverse society they serve?

@Thirst2learn Ah, so you're a proponent of voluntary taxation, a system that would benefit only those who are able and willing to pay? You seek to remove one of the two certainties in life as noted by one of our Founding Fathers?

"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin, 1789

@Thirst2learn now you sound ignorant.

@Thirst2learn is there an echo in here...?

@Thirst2learn Fuck ‘em. They can get stuck in a tar pit and have their nipples set on fire because their stupid rulings made our situation today.

@Thirst2learn. Wait... you don't know? For real!?

Dude, you havent figured out the real reason why prices are high and people are poorer? Property values, man. Think about it:
People realize they can slowly increase the price of rent or raise the price of their house. This means over the decades a $200 apartment now is $1200. A $50000 house is now $300000. A business that used to pay $2000 a month 10 years ago now has to pay $6000 a month. This also means increased taxes on property which gets passed on to the renter.

This means ALL businesses now have to increase prices of their products or services to bring in more revenue. It also means they have to underpay their employees. This is why people are poorer in general.

And because of this companies have to exploit cheap labor overseas, inorder to reduces costs. Making people even poorer.

This is not due to any communist policy, this is due to a capitalist free market economy of a very limited resource: real estate.

Welcome to unregulated rampant capitalism, pal.

@Thirst2learn the value of the the dollar is one of the highest there is! Lol you need to get financial education.

@Thirst2learn yet you provide nothing to support your claim. Because you have nothing.

@Thirst2learn. Ah I see your lack of knowledge.
You see, an IOU is a legal document. It's backed by the laws of the land, specifically US laws, and even more specifcally US contract law.
It means if someone doesn't pay their IOU you can sue them in court.
The worth comes from living in a place where the laws can be enforced by the government.
Not from a pile of metal which can lose its worth if everybody decides its not worth anything.
Do you get it now, dum dum?