What do you like to change ?
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Topic: What do you like to change ?
Posted By: Angeldust
Subject: What do you like to change ?
Date Posted: September 20 2005 at 21:41
| If you had the opportunity to change something in this world ,what would that be....? |
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 20 2005 at 22:19
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Destroy punk ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 20 2005 at 22:35
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Install myself as overlord of the planet. Emperor Doc the First. Either that or make all hot women irresistibly attracted to me. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 20 2005 at 22:38
do that so you can destroy punk ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
The Doctor wrote:Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 20 2005 at 23:26
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I'll give a serious answer. If I could change something in this world I would wipe out prejudice/hate/war. -------------  |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 01:42
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Hard to tinker with such a complex system. Unforseen consequences. Increasing the human capacity to understand the world...that would be a good start. Without that, all changes are more or less trial and error. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 01:50
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True, but I'd like to eliminate humanity's capacity for cruelty and see what that does to the equilibrium ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 03:24
Yeah, me too. For that to happen mankind would have to re-evaluate its priorities and stamp a higher value on human life. A new global political way of thinking would have to emerge, transcending all the differences between cultures, races and religions. Cant see that happening. It's a shame we hate our planet and each other so much. All over patches of land and religous beliefs. It's a shame our happiness seems dictated by, as Douglas Adams would say, 'the movement of small green pieces of paper' (thats money, for the benefit of the un-enlightened) ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 04:14
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Okay. get my body out of the power plant, remove me from the Matrix, I'll get you what you want. |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 06:27
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Go into a time machine, goe to the year 1954, hypnotise ELVIS to do PROG ROCK N ROLL and be the pioneer of it so later on in life all of BEATLES will be PROG and PROG will rule from there on and in 2005 destroy Dance and Hip Hop and convert them into Electronic Prog Stars. No serious I abondon war and badness. ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: Reverie
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 07:02
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Have my health back |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 07:09
| End all ignorance. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 07:34
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distribute wealth
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 07:43
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Could you distribute some to me, please?
Sorry, cheap shot, I know 
How about removing the very concept of fossil fuels and nuclear power from history; mankind would have been forced to find or develop different sources of energy, no middle eastern crises based on oil-envy (no matter what the powers-that-be say the issues are...) and global warming would be blamed solely on the huge amounts of methane emitted by cows. ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 07:46
And some English chaps 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:02
Destroy stupidity
------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:11
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Ok. I'll be serious here, or at least somewhat serious. I would like to live in a world where every man, woman and child consider themselves to be first and foremost human beings, and for all cultural, racial, national and religious differences to take second place. Only when every white, black, hispanic, arab, hebrew, catholic, protestant, muslim, straight, gay, male, female, and so on, make our differences secondary in our mind, and realize that we all have the same genetic coding, will we ever truly attain peace in our world. But since that's never gonna happen, I say kill everyone who isn't like me. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:21
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Where would you start? You'd have to wipe out entire nations, and that's hardly PC is it (Progressively correct)
Are you suggesting that before the Utopia emerges we would have to 'cut out the dead wood' ?? ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:26
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I'm all for cutting out the deadwood. for wolf. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:30
^^ ...you must really like chicken.------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:36
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One day, I must get around to changing my underwear.... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:45
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Ummmmm...wrong thread, I think. And way tmi. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:48
Mankind |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:50
well I've tried to change for the better, my whole outlook on life and the way I regard other human lifeforms, but its way too much like hard work..... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:02
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Sin.
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:05
I would love to go back to the moment life began and stop it from happening.
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:23
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Get your fingers out of our gene pool ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:37
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What is sin? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:43
End of mankind,NOW!! -------------
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:35
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:42
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Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:44
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Kill George Bush
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:48
...wait in line... -------------
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:56
Let`s start from Romania and you-know-who George Bush would probably be on the top of my list - it`s unbelievable one man`s stupidity can cause so much damage and evil ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:57
Let me do it, please let me do it... I`ve been good whole year now I desrve some fun  ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:59
How about you get a life and leave Romania alone... 1 2 3 On second though,go ahead!I'm pretty annoyed with the large amount of stupid people in Romania myself... -------------
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Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:01
Ehhh, let's just organize a mob so that we all can have a piece of the action! |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:01
No,you're on the position #3678015 at the moment,so at the moment,no... -------------
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:04
A damn it... leave me at least one of his fingers so I could step on it and crash it... and crash... destroy... KILL... BLOOOD... ANNIHILATION ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:16
A drop of ash will satisfie you? -------------
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:32
 I feel discriminated, only a drop of ash?------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:36
Hey,you should be grateful,if after 3678014 people you get a molecule... -------------
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:39
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That's pretty f***in uncalled for. What do you have against him anyway,you're from Sweden. ------------- |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:47
What can I do with a molecule to make GWB suffer? ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:51
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Wow. I see the U.S. Secret Service showing up to some members' doors. I'm sorry I posted in this thread now. I don't want to be mixed up with you lot. I'll be right back...someone's at the door. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:58
Yeah the international terrorist mob:
me and Riccy - besides Bush doesn`t know where Poland and Romania are,
he probably thinks we have dragons and elves here------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:01
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make dream theater write good songs again. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:25
I need to be from United States to be entitled to be iritated by his stupidity?  -------------
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:40
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NEW PAGE I would like to destroy all kind of pop crap music!!!! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:43
No...not at all.So you think someone who is,in your words.."are stupid",should be killed? I now have 10 friends I served with in Desert Storm and who stayed in the service die in Iraq. My nephew was killed in the Pentagon attack on 9/11(he was a member of the Naval Honor Guard there) Close friends of mine down south lost everything and 2 are still missing because of Katrina. While you are entitled to your opinion and can feel anyway you want about my government,my country,and my leaders,alot of the things you are irrated about I have a huge personal stake in.
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:43
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new page (i don`t want to change them) ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:47
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Hey, I said it first!!! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:51
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I certainly don't think you need to be from the U.S. to be irritated with Bush. He certainly produces enough irritation to go around. But, call me crazy, oh wait, I've already been called that. Ok. Call me paranoid, but I don't think it's a very good idea, in today's climate, what with terrorists and all, to be advocating the assassination of world leaders in a public forum. Not only could you get yourself in trouble, but you could get the forum in trouble. And since you called me paranoid, just remember that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get you. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:58
Hey,I don't know about BitchBrew's opinion,but for me "kill" was metaforical... Of course I wouldn't kill anyone,stupid or not,that would be,I think discrimination,but I don't think that what he is "conducting" at the moment is OK... I'm deeply sorry for your nephew and friends... -------------
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Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 16:00
We tried that for 60 years here, Mr Marx. It doesn't work, NEXT! |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 16:01
No problem Ricochet,but that comment from BitchBrew really got my dander up. ------------- |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 16:04
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I don't think she meant distribute the wealth to the wealthy and to people who won't even try to better themselves, which is what we've been doing for the past 60 years. I think she meant distributing it to the working class, which I'm all for. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Prodigal
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 16:45
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Things are already changing all the time. And all for the better. No, I don't believe in "god's celestial plan". I'm not a religious person. Just optimistic. 
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Posted By: Angeldust
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 18:01
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Peace & health....Propably the two most important things... |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 20:14
So what are you saying Doc? A machinist working in a machine shop should making as much as the CEO? BUZZ! WRONG! NEXT! |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 20:32
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You're right. The machinist does more work than the CEO and is more necessary to the functioning of the company. He should make more. But seriously, there is no reason for the CEO of the company to make somewhere around 100 times what the machinist makes. And I'm sorry, but my sympathies lie with the machinist who is struggling to make ends meet and not with the CEO who is struggling with trying to decide which yacht he wants. Oh, and "BUZZ!WRONG!NEXT!" isn't really a good debating method. While it gets across your disagreement, it does nothing to clarify or expound upon your position. Just a little tip from the Doc MTS. Free of charge. Although, since you're so fond of capitalism perhaps I should charge you for it. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 22:52
Ok, no more "BUZZ!WRONG!NEXT!" I'm just in bit of a rank mood this week. Do you take credit cards? But seriously, people have this misconception that CEOs just coast right into business without breaking a sweat. Far from it! Somestimes that's true but 90% of your business owners and millionaires are self made. They bust their humps and pay their dues. Look at Ross Perot, he started as a computer salesman after he got out of the Navy working 12-18 hours a day. It's pretty much the same story with most of them. |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 23:11
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BB: Kill George Bush? But that would make Cheney president. Not good. In fact, you'd have to kill quite a few people - including the entire Cabinet - since the order of presidental succession is as follows:
Given that all of these people are neocons or right-wing Republicans, I'd say we're in gib trouble... Peace. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: September 21 2005 at 23:21
Ok maani, time for the truth. As an undercover operative for the Secret Service, I'm afraid I'm going to have to seize your computer, tax records, church, prog collection, throw you in a basement in Washington, slap your face and hurt your feelings! We got you now!
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 00:00
------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 05:34
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Yeah, I wouldn't be so quick to discuss killing a president on line, folks. A joke it may be, but we live in 'monitored' times.... Read Orwell, he saw it coming... ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 05:59
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Good God, Doc, that was beautfiul ... you must have a split personality (or be played by 8 different actors) ... And by the way 100 times doesn't even begin to cover it in countries with weak unions ... I can't write too much cos stuff can get traced, but try 5,000 times ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 10:39
Well in real life I am against death penilty, so I guess I don't really won't to exacly kill him. But why are you mad at me for dissliking Bush? Im sorry for your dead friends, but what tho they got to do whith my comment? |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 12:31
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I'm not mad at you for disliking Bush,BB.Hell...I don't care much for him myself.I will say and have said before that I am a war and combat veteran and have seen enough death in my life,it really changed the way I look at things.I just think killing someone won't solve the problem,and that your comment sort of stepped over the line.You might have been joking but honestly,it offended me. And now I am going to contradict everything I just said and say I am very much for the death penalty.I also think that in my country the judicial system is in shambles and parole and the appeals system should be abolished.People sentenced to death here can languish for 10-20 years in prison,while they exhaust their appeals and cost us taxpayers 80k per year,per prisoner. ------------- |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 12:43
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MtS: You can have everything but my prog collection! Doctor: Re the machinist and the CEO, as one who spent over a decade as a legal assistant in various law firms and corporations, I can tell you for a fact that, without the secretaries, "copy shop" staff and receptionists, law firms and corporations would simply cease to function. These "lower class" workers are the "nerve center," the "lifeline," of any corporation or law firm. If secretaries, copy shop staff and receptionists "banded together" and went on strike, it would cripple American transnational corporations in under two hours. Quite a thought, huh? Peace. |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 12:55
Okay, I've been doing some detailed research into this, checking out exactly how far down this list you can go and I've discovered (after hours on the net) that apparently the last person in line to the presidency is 7 year old May Hicks who lives in Salina, just west of Kansas City.  Let's show her some respect! ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: BitchBrew
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 15:57
Ok, well since I never experienced war and stuff like that I look at things diffrently ofcourse. My intention was not to insult you. I'm sorry for that. But I really do want to get rid of Bush, and thats that. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 16:03
No need to apologize,though I do appreciate the thought and your sincerity.Since Bush came to office so many disastrous events have occured,it makes me wonder sometimes how someone else would have handled it. Peace ------------- |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 16:07
Well Hail to the Chief I say. She'd probably do a better job than our current "esteemed" leader. Maani: I worked as a law clerk while in law school, and even in the smaller firms I worked for, it was myself, the secretary and the runner who kept the law firm from collapsing in on itself. Really, the attorneys were superfluous. They were just there to collect the checks. Trotsky: Economically, I'm very much a working class liberal. While I don't think we should help those people who contribute absolutely nothing to society, except for maybe crime and having children out of wedlock, I think that we should help those who are productive members of society who are struggling or those who are trying to better themselves. Unfortunately, the government here works very hard at supporting the wealthy and supporting the bottom feeders of society and does absolutely nothing for those who are the backbone with which this society functions. It's time for a workers' revolution. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 16:09
| That's why it is really hard to vote in the US since the American system is really really biased towards the major two parties and smaller parties have 0.000000 % chance of winning anything. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 16:13
That is very true. In our current tax system, the rich are taxed a lot, but they are still rich, the poor does not get taxed a lot, but reaches benefits, the middle class does not receive any benefits from the system what-so-ever. Unlike an European system where they get free healthcare, government insurance and good public transportation, the Middle Class in America gets nothing but more and more taxes. |
Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 18:29
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I would says an end to man's desire of always more power and money, ecspecially money. That would ends so many things, lie most wars, a lot of polution, crime, all the dumb commercial stuff, well, everything that only exist to make a rich or powerfull man. Everything bad in society happens because of this. If we could live in a sane world, it would be so great... ------------- Vive le Québec libre!... |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 21:52
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KoL: The U.S. is actually a one-party system - the "transnational corporate" party - with two branches, the RepubliCrats and the DemoCans. True, the DemoCans tend to try to do more for the lower and middle classes, while the RepubliCrats tend to be more about securing and maintaining wealth and power. However, no one should kid themselves: they both answer to the same corporate puppetmasters. Peace. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: September 22 2005 at 23:13
I can see some truth in that maani. But sometimes government inaction can be an appropriate action. Let's go back 70 years: In his 1935 State of the Union Address, FDR spoke to a nation mired in the Depression, but still marinated in conservative values: "Continued dependence" upon welfare, said FDR, "induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole our relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit." Seems he was trying to tell us something that was unfortunatley not well heeded. |