NJ Gov Christie Rips Boehner, GOP House Majority over Lack of Relief Action On Sandy

[redandguilty]

Atlas is shrugging.

No he isn't. Atlas never anticipated a day when the material needs of a nation could be met by an increasingly smaller fraction of the labor force. The thought hasn't crossed Atlas's mind and he'd probably reject it if you told him. ...but it's an inevitability that creates significant problems.

 

[Michchamp]

No he isn't. Atlas never anticipated a day when the material needs of a nation could be met by an increasingly smaller fraction of the labor force. The thought hasn't crossed Atlas's mind and he'd probably reject it if you told him. ...but it's an inevitability that creates significant problems.

It used to annoy the hell out of me when some wannabe intellectual would quote Ayn Rand in a pretentious tone, or say "Atlas shrugged..." and let it resonate as though they made some incredibly profound statement. Now I think enough people are aware of what a complete hack she was - both from a political and literary perspective - that I just smile.

oh, so atlas shrugged did he? that's nice.

 

[jwlcosu]

I smile when I think about the fact that the folks in favor of redistribution schemes will be the first to truly suffer from the inevitable effect. And they'll never see it coming and they'll never know what hit them; because they are dumb.

http://www.prageruniversity.com/Economics/Free-Market-Morality.html

 

[tinselwolverine]

I smile when I think about the fact that the folks in favor of redistribution schemes will be the first to truly suffer from the inevitable effect. And they'll never see it coming and they'll never know what hit them; because they are dumb.

http://www.prageruniversity.com/Economics/Free-Market-Morality.html

As I understand it, the Romanovs ended up getting it worse than Lenin did.

 

[turok]

I smile when I think about the fact that the folks in favor of redistribution schemes will be the first to truly suffer from the inevitable effect. And they'll never see it coming and they'll never know what hit them; because they are dumb.

http://www.prageruniversity.com/Economics/Free-Market-Morality.html

Prager University


Since America's founding, our tradition has been to rely on other charitable family, family, neighbors, and institutions, NOT on the state.


family, family?

My surname isn't Ilitch, so no free pizza-pizza for me.

Must mean any in-laws too, huh?

Neighbors?

Shucks, none of my neighbors happen to be nurses, dentists, GP MDs, so if I get a toothache, abscess, become seriously ill or injured, and am employed PT and w/o the means to afford pricey health/dental insurance monthly premiums with coverage including 5-10 K annual deductibles with 60-40 co-pays, then I am just...SOL, huh?

Institutions? Charitable institutions can barely take care of those who are already seeking help with food, shelter, and clothing, just imagine the chaos and rioting if all of a sudden tens of millions more who were obtaining assistance from the state and federal government had to resort to food banks, churches, and homeless shelters.

You're gonna need a bigger prison.

Since "America's" founding?

Does that mean that I can still find unclaimed virgin land out west near a creek or pond and build my "Little House on the Prairie" and start a farm on the Great Plains?

 

[redandguilty]

I smile when I think about the fact that the folks in favor of redistribution schemes will be the first to truly suffer from the inevitable effect. And they'll never see it coming and they'll never know what hit them; because they are dumb.

http://www.prageruniversity.com/Economics/Free-Market-Morality.html

You should backtrack from this statement so we don't think you actually find happiness in the suffering of other people.

 

[Michchamp]

Prager University


Since America's founding, our tradition has been to rely on other charitable family, family, neighbors, and institutions, NOT on the state.


family, family?

My surname isn't Ilitch, so no free pizza-pizza for me.

Must mean any in-laws too, huh?

Neighbors?

Shucks, none of my neighbors happen to be nurses, dentists, GP MDs, so if I get a toothache, abscess, become seriously ill or injured, and am employed PT and w/o the means to afford pricey health/dental insurance monthly premiums with coverage including 5-10 K annual deductibles with 60-40 co-pays, then I am just...SOL, huh?

Institutions? Charitable institutions can barely take care of those who are already seeking help with food, shelter, and clothing, just imagine the chaos and rioting if all of a sudden tens of millions more who were obtaining assistance from the state and federal government had to resort to food banks, churches, and homeless shelters.

You're gonna need a bigger prison.

Since "America's" founding?

Does that mean that I can still find unclaimed virgin land out west near a creek or pond and build my "Little House on the Prairie" and start a farm on the Great Plains?

i thought that was funny too.

Posting something from "Prager University" is like citing your senile old alcoholic grandfather as an authority. but, explains where his version of reality comes from

 

[jwlcosu]

You should backtrack from this statement so we don't think you actually find happiness in the suffering of other people.

Like I said, Atlas is shrugging. By and large, people earn their lot.

 

[redandguilty]

Like I said, Atlas is shrugging. By and large, people get what they deserve/earn.

The one has nothing to do with the other. Even if you were spot on (and you aren't), that wouldn't justify finding joy in the suffering of others.

 

[Michchamp]

derpa derp

 

[Michchamp]

Like I said, Atlas is shrugging. By and large, people earn their lot.

your deep understanding of these issues has made you...

...the Vanilla Ice of the politics board.

 

[Michchamp]

stop. collaborate and listen.

 

[turok]

Like I said, Atlas is shrugging. By and large, people earn their lot.

"Atlas" is being subsidized, and also is the biggest beneficiary of so-called "free" trade, which mainly exists only here in the US. Free to outsource and off-shore US jobs w/o much if any impediments or hindrances in doing so over the past 35+ years. Obviously it would be very difficult to slow, much less reverse that trend, but perhaps it will someday have proven to be very unwise for "Atlas" to continually choke, if not eventually kill the golden goose that is/was the US middle-class consumer. The unemployed and poor tend to purchase what they NEED, and not so very much what they WANT.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Meanwhile getting back to Boehner, he's now being quoted as saying that he needs the Speakership job like he needs a "hole in the head."

 

[Michchamp]

this is not surprising... GOP congressman from Mississippi that lobbied for $38.5 billion in government aid after Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina voted against the Sandy relief bill. Frankly, I would be floored if a white politician from the South ever behaved according to christian principles of sharing and community.