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I did and if you had bothered to actually read my question you would have known that your use of the word is inconsistant with the dictionary meaning.

Sorry I usually pass by your comments.

It's not inconsistent though. Yes even those are technically socialist endeavors, it's just that "we've" agreed on them but I wouldn't call them handouts. I have a hard time taking you serious when you don't know what the term handout means, surely you don't understand a far reaching word such as socialism. There are many variations.

You're not worth the time though and I'll continue to skip your posts.

Since by your own admission, you do not feel intellectually competent to continue this discussion you have made the correct choice in not responding to to questions you are too ignorant to comprehend.

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So a career in the forces isnt a real job.....What a joke.

Technically yes but it's a consumption job, not production.

Creating 1 billion jobs that rely on taxes isn't the same as 1 billion workforce jobs by far.

It's a noble job but that's just the way it is so making more of those in an economy like this and calling them equal is irresponsible.

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As a rule, the military doesnt manufacture, sell, or export weaponry.

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Oh right, the the millions made in exports of military hardware are not jobs. On top of that, the cost of paying for armed forces doesnt come out of taxpayers money, does it ??

The problem with that thinking is you cherry pick what is taxpayers money and what isnt. Not me, I call it as it is in the real world.

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Since by your own admission, you do not feel intellectually competent to continue this discussion you have made the correct choice in not responding to to questions you are too ignorant to comprehend.

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Bullshit!

The police, the fire departments, the highway crews, etc..

Those are "irresponsible" jobs because they are paid for with government funds?

Who do you think is going to end up paying for those same services if they are privatized?

Compare the cost of what you pay in taxes for your county or city EMT service as opposed to what you would be paying for a private ambulance service.

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Since by your own admission, you do not feel intellectually competent to continue this discussion you have made the correct choice in not responding to to questions you are too ignorant to comprehend.

Nice try but no cigar tommygun.

Back to the name calling I see...what next...are you going to threaten to beat me up like you threaten women?



It's a futile endeavor. Even if I were to show you what socialism was, you'd never agree.


I did not ask you to show me what socialism is I asked you to tell me your interpretation since you seem to have no clue as to it's actual meaning.

So no use in posturing.

You are the one who is calling people names and threatning them.

I know that socialism has many flavors

And yet you are unable to actually define it.

and we essentially to date have a socialist-captalists government and we are ever trying to push towards it more, seemingly.

And still you cannot define what it is that we are "ever trying to push towards".
Didn't your mom ever tell you not to use words you could not define?

I'm busy pushing against it and will continue to fight it in every way possible with few limits.

How does one push against something they cannot define?

Many Americans feel the same way

Are they as ignorant of the meaning of the words they use as you seem to be?

and many more will come to see what's going on in this Nation.


And what exactly is it that you feel is going on in this nation?

When that happens on a large enough scale, we'll have a change back to what this Nation was founded on.

And what exactly was that? You might want to read the "federalist papers". They might give you some clue as to what principals this country was founded on.

There may be violence from this time till then. I predict you'll begin to see some soon, I'd say around summer, if things don't get better.

There is violence every day...so not much of a prediction.

To see this, one has only to look to history and the fall of many.

And which one of those historical references do you find applicable to the u.s. at this paticular juncture?

Now I'm done. With you that is.

You keep saying that but you seem to enjoy me spanking your ass purple every time you respond to me...it would appear that public humiliation is your thing.
I, being the giver that I am, will continue to help you in your pursuit of your bliss.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics

I think that's the live stream to the Bloomberg debates on the economy. For anyone that's interested in listening to an economic genius that will no doubt display the ins and outs of Austrian economics and why America will never get on it's feet until we change to that model over Keynesian.

8:00 eastern.

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If that were so, we would never get back on our feet, because the Austrians are almost as wrong as the Keynesians and its much harder to accomplish.

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Police/fire/military are jobs. You wouldnt argue that they werent if they were paid for directly by the individuals in their "territories" instead of through taxes.

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If that were so, we would never get back on our feet, because the Austrians are almost as wrong as the Keynesians and its much harder to accomplish.

Care to elaborate? What model would you use?

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Basically the one we had before the "Great Society" started us down the road to socialism.

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Basically the one we had before the "Great Society" started us down the road to socialism.

Name that model.