tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474625377876976766.post1452101996794804831..comments2023-07-18T06:34:47.645-05:00Comments on Solomon Parker: Yes Yes YES!!!!Solomon Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09892367435257421279noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474625377876976766.post-6455274430332948422009-02-22T23:17:00.000-06:002009-02-22T23:17:00.000-06:00I'd like to get something out in the clear. Conse...I'd like to get something out in the clear. Conservatives are always going to be irrelevant as long as their favorite insult is "you liberal." That's like saying "you conservative." Think about it.<BR/><BR/>Secondly and emphatically, I'm not a liberal. Just not.<BR/><BR/>Thirdly, the next step from capitalism and democracy is social democracy, then democratic socialism, then socialism, then somewhere down the line is communism. What you suggest as a counter to my statement is what is called a "straw man." Look it up.<BR/><BR/>Fourthly, I am against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Check my history.<BR/><BR/>Fifthly, when Reagan dropped the tax rate on the rich from 70% to 30% he made a huge step toward true capitalism. I can only be thankful he didn't get some sort of "flat tax." That huge step has taken us miles down the path to poverty of the masses. <BR/><BR/>Sixthly, Jesus told me to help the poor. It is my pocketbook that must suffer and I am willing to be responsible for my part. It is only thinking about my own pocketbook that is what capitalism is all about. I lean towards being a reformed capitalist. I choose to use the beast as a beast of burden to help the least of these, not as an attack dog to do my bidding, until it turns on me.<BR/><BR/>Seventhly and finally, I fully understand cause and effect. Lower taxes on the rich, add to the ranks of the poor. Lower regulations on business, they will kill the poor with toxic chemicals. Class warefare has already been won, by the rich. Ask Warren Buffet.<BR/><BR/>What's your solution? Tax cuts? I think that's been done. It doesn't seem to have helped much of anything. In fact, there are more poor people now than when this great conservative experiment began, I'd say that's a step in the wrong direction. That's cause and effect.Solomon Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09892367435257421279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474625377876976766.post-5297918601310333152009-02-22T22:50:00.000-06:002009-02-22T22:50:00.000-06:00Capitalism is not what makes our country great?! A...Capitalism is not what makes our country great?! Ah the old history must repeat itself scenario. Please go and find a Russian who lived under the old Communist central rule government and see what their experience will tell you of that system. Like most Liberals you have cause and effect mixed up. You see one thing, lowered taxes on the rich, and the economy get worse and you equate these two events as the source and result. You don't see, because you don't want to, government taxing and regulating businesses and the general populace into oblivion. You see the war in Iraq but you forget that the government spent and is still spending unbelievable amounts of our money there and in Afghanistan. You know that oil prices and gas were high but you don't see the impact it has on our economy overall, only on your pocket book. You think you know capitalism and that it doesn't work but we haven't had true capitalism in this country for over 2 generations and that is why this country is in trouble and that is why Obama and his advisors can't fix it because like you they don't know what's broken.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06596298487715187790noreply@blogger.com