tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post6795328532801070653..comments2024-03-17T14:01:29.276-04:00Comments on 2 Political Junkies: Another Urban Myth At The TribMariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10439330154875628083noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-44498497730481934132011-06-15T12:19:24.427-04:002011-06-15T12:19:24.427-04:00In the sense of having a normal conversation with ...In the sense of having a normal conversation with someone, I absolutely agree with Professor Chaos. And yet, ... and yet ... we are willing to allow the Tea Party to tell us what reality is? I am supposed to allow a conservative to tell me that what I remember learning in economics is in fact not "real" economics? <br /><br />OK, I haven't yet watched the "Youtube", but assuming it's accurate, take a look at the <a href="http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/2011/06/13/ryan-questioned-on-medicare-for-all/" rel="nofollow">transcript of an exchange between a reporter and Paul Ryan</a>. We <i>know</i> that the government regulated or run health care systems of other industrial countries produce better aggregate health results at lower costs per patient, yet no one (of elected Democrats) challenges Republicans when they claim exactly the opposite. It used to be that you could trust a politician to tailor his/her message to the audience they were talking to, meaning they cared a little what we think. Now what is scary is that the Republicans are being consistent in their gibberish, telling the same lies to anyone and everyone and expecting everyone to agree. The only reason I can think they are doing that is because they only care what the rich think, and they know the rich are always listening. <br /><br />Communism is indeed absolutely anti tax. Actually, the ideal of communism is that no one owns much of anything (certainly nothing big), so the concept of taxation simply disappears. In the reality of the large scale implementation of what people called communism, the State owned and controlled all commercial activity, so again taxation was a concept that simply doesn't exist. A capitalist economy with a socialist type government is an entirely different animal. In that situation, one might pay lip service (at last) to the some of the philosophical thinking of Marx (related, in my opinion, to the nature of work and how it is related to the definition of a person), but there would be no widespread implementation of Marxist policy. Although I think some attempts at versions of workplace democracy (as attempted by the Yugoslavs) would be quite appropriate for a socialist type country, in my opinion.EdHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109361235271107574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-65857731649137918262011-06-15T10:04:06.889-04:002011-06-15T10:04:06.889-04:00But it sounds like something that could be true, a...But it sounds like something that could be true, and it fits in with our overall narrative, so that pretty much makes it true!Professor Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8213262.post-62294081498636040132011-06-15T08:20:10.901-04:002011-06-15T08:20:10.901-04:00Liberals are also Nazis.
Never leave out the Nazi...Liberals are also Nazis.<br /><br />Never leave out the Nazis.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://sporkinthedrawer.typepad.com" rel="nofollow">A Spork in the Drawer</a>spork_incidenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03915784234390595401noreply@blogger.com