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originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
I heard that. And so did the entire world. Awesome!
It was pointed out earlier today how Governor Cuomo squandered billions of dollars on projects that never were completed.. all the while allowing the terrorists number one target in America, to be totally vulnerable to all manner of attacks.
originally posted by: cherokeetroy
Tanks in N. Hollywood
originally posted by: OsirianObsidian
a reply to: Aallanon
Having a minority investment in a company that will bring in money in the form of dividends isn't socialism. It's just prudential investing. He isn't talking about nationalising any of them, or even taking majority ownership of them.
What's the difference between someone like Warren Buffett investing $40b into a company and the US government doing the same thing? Why shouldn't the government be able to get a return on the money of the taxpayer? That was the big mistake they made in the bailouts of GM etc. - there was no accountability to how they spent the money because companies are only concerned with what is best for shareholders. And what was best for shareholders was increasing profits by shifting manufacturing to China and Mexico.
A system where the government takes a tiny equity position in various companies, for example, could be the difference between Social Security and Medicaid being out of money by 2025 (which is what is going to happen if nothing changes) and having enough money to allow everyone in the US to be able to afford their own private healthcare through the elimination of payroll tax.
Taxes are the domain of socialism. Equity is the domain of capitalism. Equity is what makes a company accountable for its actions.
For mine, it's using the system of capitalism up to a government level to prove that communism/socialism is fundamentally flawed.
originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: TimeTraveller39487
Claiming that extraterrestrial contact is actually genetically modified humans from the future has been theorized on this website since forever.
And more importantly.
NO
OUTSIDE
COMMS!
Even more importantly his stupid shiny lying attention whore face betrays him every moment
The primary role of government is to protect the people whom it serves.
originally posted by: TimeTraveller39487
That's okay if you don't feel he is Q, that's not relevant to my post. Everyone came make their own mind up on that.
The information on ETs is whats new and worth discussion.