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Originally posted by grover
Who all but holds a monopoly on talk radio....
Originally posted by dariousg
What I am saying is that the 'enemy' will not be well defined like it was in the civil war.
Originally posted by dooper
I don't think it will be a race war, but I do think before it's all over, it will become a struggle between the "tax providers" and the "tax eaters."
Originally posted by whaaa
This revolution may start as an attack on the PTB but it will rapidly morph into a race war.
Because MANY will still feel that they are doing a great job. That they have NOT taken anything away from us.
Originally posted by daddyroo45
reply to post by whaaa
You can't possibly believe that ANYONE in their right mind wants a race war!
Originally posted by grover
reply to post by MysterE
And yet even when you talk to a lot of people who describe themselves as conservative about policy they are for the most part surprisingly liberal.
I am amused by the reactions to this thread... for the most part the posters have attacked the thread as opposed to answering it.
A cursatory scroll down the recent threads at any given time will bring up some pretty extreme right threads and there have been more than a few that do advocate revolution. So no this is not an attack or trolling thread.
I have said repeatedly I am opposed to extremists of all stripes, left and right. AND I have also said in regards to the original article that the writer was overreacting... still it is a pertinent question because among other things there are not left leaning individuals gunning down doctors or shooting up the Holocaust museum etc... such acts are consistently from the right.
Originally posted by grover
reply to post by jkm1864
Not only is that none of your business it has absolutely no bearing on my political views.
Tax providers/tax eaters?
What a crappy way to designate people... typical of the wrong wing though.
You guys are a joke and have absolutely no clue.
Everything a person does produces tax revenue one way or another even if they are unemployed or on welfare...
Besides that WE ALL "eat" up taxes in one way or another as well...
To hear you fools tell it, its a one way street and it never is nor ever has been.
Also military eats up far more taxes than welfare and food stamps ever have...
I can only say that I hope you guys are comfortable and never need a hand.
If ya wanna complain about those who mooch off of the government aka all of us complain about corporate welfare to companies who ship our jobs overseas and still expect tax cuts and bailouts...
But oh no that's scared to you guys... business matters... people don't.
[edit on 26-6-2009 by grover]
Originally posted by dooper
reply to post by milesp
That, my friend, is an oft repeated lie.
I have a job open. I have invested in machinery, building, supplies, and raw materials to make a product.
There are fixed costs I can't control, and variable costs I have more control over.
I offer the job at $10 per hour.
I didn't hold a gun to the head and make anyone take that job, I didn't just pull that number out of my anterior region.
That's what the job pays.
Take it, or leave it.
But never, EVER, complain about what I'm making.
Your lie sounds like wealth envy and has been the mantra of unions for decades.
And we see what the unions did for American industry.
They wiped it out.
Originally posted by grover
Does the Right Want a Civil War?
www.alternet.org
(visit the link for the full news article)
Dear Conservatives:
Your fellow Americans demand an answer -- and we want it now. Just one simple question:
Are you deliberately trying to start a civil war?
Just answer the question. Yes or no. Don't insult us with elisions, evasions, dithering, qualifications, or conditional answers. We need to know what your intentions are -- and we need to know NOW. People are being shot dead in the streets of America at the rate of several per month now. You may not want responsibility for this -- but the whackadoodles pulling the triggers make no bones about who put them up to this.
You did.