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join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA | reply to sonicmerlin
Re: Only for bundles? Absolutely. Your message confirmed what I wrote. Thanks for playing your role very well.
said by sonicmerlin:How many years have these ISPs made billions upon billions of dollars? Just how fat are their bank accounts? Have you checked your 401(k)'s recently? I checked mine. There are at least four ISPs in it.
Or are you one of those people thinking you're going to retire on Social Security.  | |
| said by bicker:Absolutely. Your message confirmed what I wrote. Thanks for playing your role very well. said by sonicmerlin:How many years have these ISPs made billions upon billions of dollars? Just how fat are their bank accounts? Have you checked your 401(k)'s recently? I checked mine. There are at least four ISPs in it. Or are you one of those people thinking you're going to retire on Social Security. Here's your problem, and essentially the problem with Republicans (I know you are one) in general.
You want the government to protect your industries and businesses. You want them to give your favored corporations the rights of an "individual". You don't want companies and their proprietors to be held responsible for financial calamities, such as bankruptcy.
Back in pre-union days, heck even during the Great Depression, average people would become so enraged with the abusive behaviors of monopolies and oligarchs that they would resort to violence.
And yet those same giant corporations enlisted government help and military force to subdue those rioters.
These days things are much more peaceful. Yet the same antagonistic forces between corporate abusers and the abused plebeian exist today. You still want the government to exact just enough laws so you and your favorite investments can profit as much as possible. But you don't want the government to even the playing field for everyone else in an attempt to simulate a truly free market (zero barrier of entry, infinite competition, profits tend towards zero, etc.).
I really dislike this pro-corporate hypocrisy. Rational thought alone will lead to a more altruistic outlook. But the vast majority of people like yourself lack even this most basic attribute. | |
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join:2007-05-10
Burlington, MA | said by sonicmerlin:... Republicans (I know you are one) in general. Wrong! (I doubt anyone is surprised that you're wrong. You've been wrong pretty consistently.
I'm a registered Democrat, vegetarian, and granola cruncher. I greatly admire my church's minister, who happens to be gay (and married). I'm pro-choice, and in favor of health care reform.
I'm also a capitalist, and anti-union.
said by sonicmerlin:You want the government to protect your industries and businesses. You are wrong again! Unlike you, I want our society to balance the priorities of businesses and consumers, not favoring either over the other.
said by sonicmerlin:You want them to give your favored corporations the rights of an "individual". You are wrong again! Corporations have the rights they have. I have no interest in having them have any different status than they already have. Your denial of the reality of the status they already have is your problem.
said by sonicmerlin:You don't want companies and their proprietors to be held responsible for financial calamities, such as bankruptcy. You are wrong again!
said by sonicmerlin:I really dislike this pro-corporate hypocrisy. Your self-serving drivel is utterly ridiculous, and patently antagonistic, so I've responded in kind. You've been repeatedly wrong, and now you've painted yourself into a corner you cannot get out of. I cannot see how to help you get out of this gracefully. Sorry. | | |
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