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From: Devil's_Advocate on 18 Mar 2010 20:15
John Galt <kady101(a)gmail.com> wrote :

> Devil's_Advocate wrote:
>> John Galt <kady101(a)gmail.com> wrote :
>>
>>> You need to factor in the malpractice insurance and other overhead
costs
>>> of running your own practice into those numbers for them to make any
>>> sense. An MD making $150K isn't taking home anywhere's near what a
>>> salesman making $150K is.
>>
>> You shoudnt even have to defend them. Incentive is what drives a free
>> society. These people want gulags.
>>
>>
>>
> Pretty much.
>
> It's easy to fall into the trap of believing that the moonbats simply
> need to be educated on economics and psychology to come to the
> conclusion that only unfettered markets can create wealth.
>
> They understand it just fine. What they don't like is that the poor
> Jewish kid who was raised in the New York projects by a postal clerk who
> raises himself out of poverty to go to Harvard and become CEO of Goldman
> Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) will earn more money than Joe Schmoe who decided
> to drop out of school and flip burgers.

It goes beyond even that. The "progressives" ( marxists ) want the collapse
and complete globalization of the United States.

From: Devil's_Advocate on 18 Mar 2010 20:22
"charlesgrozny" <n5hsr(a)sprynet.com> wrote :

>> You should go read a book called "We The Living". It would illustrate
>> what happens when all incentives are removed from a society by
>> marxists.
>>
>
> Out of that, a lot of doctors have to pay malpractice insurance. Here
> in Illinois, thanks to the trial lawyers, it's horrificaly expensive.
>
> We tried Marxism in 1607 in Virginia. Failed miserably.
>
> Tried it again in 1621 in Mass. Failed miserably.
>
> Liberalism is a mental disease. It takes away your memory of the past,
> so you aren't smart enough to learn from it. It causes you to base
> decisions on feelings, not facts.

Yep. But I think the more accurate term is coercive collectivism. Left or
right.

http://lakewoodcolorado.net/Paradigm/POLITICALSPECTRUMPARADIGMCHART.jpg

> Situational ethics sounds like the same junk the hippies were passing
> around in the 60's. Like it or not, there are TRUE truths, that is
> truth that is true whether the dumb liberals want to believe it or not.

Yes, which is why I'm an Objectivist, the opposite of the morally
relativistic "progressives".

"A group that called itself "Committee of Disinterested Citizens" collected
signatures on a petition demanding a year's study of the John Galt Line by
government experts before the first trains were allowed to run. The
petition stated that its signers had no motive other than a sense of "civic
duty". ... The petition was given a great deal of space and comment in all
the newspapers. The consideration it received was respectful because it
came from people who were disinterested.

No space was given by the newspapers to the progress of the construction of
the John Galt Line. No reporter was sent to look at the scene. The general
policy of the press had been stated by a famous editor five years ago.
"There are no objective facts," he had said. "Every report on facts is only
somebody's opinion. It is therefore useless to write about facts."
- Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand



From: Sanders Kaufman on 18 Mar 2010 22:07
"edspyhill01" <edspyhill09(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bc51f89f-e4f7-443b-8ede-76fb378bb441(a)t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com...

> Management denigrates the American workers, swoon over the new workers
> in the off-shore sites constantly in meetings.

That happens a lot when employees take an us-vs-them attitude toward their
own company.
They get all uppity when the sentiment is returned.


From: larry moe 'n curly on 20 Mar 2010 06:54

Devil's_Advocate wrote:
>
> The "progressives" ( marxists ) want the collapse
> and complete globalization of the United States.

What's been the real growth rate of the US economy when progressives/
liberals were in charge, and what has it been when conservatives
were?

I doubt you even know the differences between liberals, Communists,
conservatives, and fascists or even what Communists think of liberals.
From: John Galt on 21 Mar 2010 07:20
Sanders Kaufman wrote:
> "John Galt" <kady101(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:RGCon.215708$vr1.185014(a)en-nntp-07.dc1.easynews.com...
>
>> It's why I use the name. The statists need constant reminders that
>> they cannot take the assets of the producers in society without the
>> agreement of the producers.
>
> How pathetic to see two old people on welfare telling themselves they're
> "producers".

I can't speak for the other, but I am neither old nor on welfare.

Nice to see that you're continuing to goosestep your party line, though.
You never disappoint with your content-free posts.

JG

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