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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Agreed.
    What size is your piece of the pie

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Here, I found you some guy on your own level to explain it to you:
    You give new meaning to the word MORON.

    When It Comes to Wealth Creation, There Is No Pie

    One implication of the pie metaphor is that wealth is a zero-sum game: there is a fixed amount of houses, cars, medicines, etc. to go around, and the more Steve Jobs gets the less is left for the rest of us. That may have had some plausibility 250 years ago when most wealth was in the form of land. But today, when an iPhone 3G verges on outdated technology, it's impossible to miss the fact that wealth grows. Roberts puts the point this way: "[T]he pie is not constant. So your well-being can grow even when your share of the pie falls if the pie is getting sufficiently larger."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    Can you believe? This is why this country is up the creek and why I so strongly advocate for BLUEXIT.
    I find it amazing how uneducated and ignorant you can be.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    As you pick your knuckles up off the floor to wipe the drool from your protruding chin.


    That pie symbolizes is the economy under a right wing freak of nature and all the right wing creatures and their grifter crooked policies whether you admit it or not.


    That pie has had the same proportions for at least the last century, in other words, there have been a few left wing freaks of nature and all the left wing creatures and their grifter crooked policies in the mix as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Callinectes View Post
    That pie has had the same proportions for at least the last century, in other words, there have been a few left wing freaks of nature and all the left wing creatures and their grifter crooked policies in the mix as well.
    The economy is never finite; it is infinite.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Hello Cinnabar,

    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    I don't subscribe to defeat, especially when it is stupidity, ignorance, complacency and cowardice that drives it. The only ones who are resisting this bull-shit are in the Progressive wing of the Democratic party.
    I completely agree. We have no other choice. The survival of the human race as we know it depends on unity and in a large part defeating extreme wealth inequality.

    I was taken by the one guy who felt like the alternative to doing nothing was all-out socialism. As if it is an either/or choice.

    Excuse me. I don't think aggressive taxing on the rich is going to produce a world in which everybody is equally poor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello Cinnabar,



    I completely agree. We have no other choice. The survival of the human race as we know it depends on unity and in a large part defeating extreme wealth inequality.

    I was taken by the one guy who felt like the alternative to doing nothing was all-out socialism. As if it is an either/or choice.

    Excuse me. I don't think aggressive taxing on the rich is going to produce a world in which everybody is equally poor.
    We are also dealing with a terribly civically uneducated electorate. By design?
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    This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    The survival of the human race as we know it depends on unity and in a large part defeating extreme wealth inequality.
    I was taken by the one guy who felt like the alternative to doing nothing was all-out socialism. As if it is an either/or choice.

    Excuse me. I don't think aggressive taxing on the rich is going to produce a world in which everybody is equally poor.
    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    We are also dealing with a terribly civically uneducated electorate. By design?
    ^Think they are smart.

    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Hello Cinnabar,

    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    We are also dealing with a terribly civically uneducated electorate. By design?
    But of course. What better way for the powerful to screw over the general public than by keeping them dumb?

    How many societies of the past forbade even teaching the masses to read or write? That was reserved for the elite.

    In our present-day case, that has become controlling education. First, make the public schools ineffective. Then, offer private schools which are bereft of requirements to teach certain things, and make sure those who run the schools are in the bag for you.

    Ever hear of David Barton? The evangelist wants to control what books are in public schools. He got a hand in that in Texas, which pretty much extended to the whole USA, because if you get Texas to adopt a textbook then other states will follow, since selling more books makes them cheaper and more affordable to other districts. And Barton's own books are called some of the worst 'history' books out there, full of lies and completely misleading omissions. One publisher even dropped him after numerous complaints, so Glenn Beck decided he would go ahead and pick up the publishing for Barton.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello Cinnabar,



    But of course. What better way for the powerful to screw over the general public than by keeping them dumb?

    How many societies of the past forbade even teaching the masses to read or write? That was reserved for the elite.

    In our present-day case, that has become controlling education. First, make the public schools ineffective. Then, offer private schools which are bereft of requirements to teach certain things, and make sure those who run the schools are in the bag for you.

    Ever hear of David Barton? The evangelist wants to control what books are in public schools. He got a hand in that in Texas, which pretty much extended to the whole USA, because if you get Texas to adopt a textbook then other states will follow, since selling more books makes them cheaper and more affordable to other districts. And Barton's own books are called some of the worst 'history' books out there, full of lies and completely misleading omissions. One publisher even dropped him after numerous complaints, so Glenn Beck decided he would go ahead and pick up the publishing for Barton.
    Well, the Evangelicals are the most obviously phony and corrupt group of grifters to ever have hijacked and hidden behind a religion. These are the ones who would crucify Christ all over again if he came back and had the audacity to preach the Gospel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
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    It's clear why you think so. Pucker up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    What better way for the powerful to screw over the general public than by keeping them dumb?
    Who is keeping you dumb? How have the wealthy screwed you over? How have they prevented you from getting an education? How have they prevented you earning what you feel you are worth and getting a job?

    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    How many societies of the past forbade even teaching the masses to read or write? That was reserved for the elite.
    ^Still stuck in a previous century before America became a nation.

    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    In our present-day case, that has become controlling education.
    It's the leftists in this nation that control our educational establishment. YOUR people.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    Well, the Evangelicals are the most obviously phony and corrupt group of grifters to ever have hijacked and hidden behind a religion. These are the ones who would crucify Christ all over again if he came back and had the audacity to preach the Gospel.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    Well, the Evangelicals are the most obviously phony and corrupt group of grifters to ever have hijacked and hidden behind a religion. These are the ones who would crucify Christ all over again if he came back and had the audacity to preach the Gospel.
    What parts specifically?

    Have the guts to answer the question, troll.

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