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SgtMinor wrote:
> You may call me a leftist and this is the way I see unfairness. I'm
> very much in favor of equal opportunity for all people. I think it's
> great we don't have an aristocracy. I don't like unfairness, so I try
> to speak up about it and/or do something about it. I'm willing to give
> some of my time and good fortune to those who have been less blessed
> than I and I know of one or two conservatives who feel and do the same.
>
> Where we often differ is when it comes to supporting institutions that
> create even greater unfairness, such as tax policies that give even more
> of our money to the richest among us, and ask the rest of us to pick up
> the tab. Or when aid to poor people, or the elderly, or at-risk
> children is cut while billions more are spent on arms. The recent
> repeal of what the right has called the "Death Tax" is another example
> of policies aimed at concentrations of wealth. Income inequality in the
> United States is at levels found in corrupt totalitarian regimes.
>
> Molly Ivins had a quote from Kenneth Galbraith in a recent column:
> "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
> moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification
> for selfishness."
Prayers are for the prey.
We're going to eat you alive and you are going to tell us that you don't mind at all.
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"Are you going to tell me," said Arthur, "that I shouldn't have green salad?"
"Well," said the animal, "I know many vegetables that are very clear on
that point. Which is why it was eventually decided to cut through the
whole tangled problem and breed an animal that actually wanted to be
eaten and was capable of saying so clearly and distinctly. And here I am."
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, Douglas Adams
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