I would say none of the above. I think Gel's political beliefs involve tweaking the nose of anyone who thinks they are holier-than-thou, and letting the rest live as best they can.
Poking fun at the deeply-ingrained American belief that we are perfect, and it is "our way or the highway", delights him. (As I admit it does me) Because he is far enough from America to see its glory and close enough to see past the glitzy lights, he is able to find the little chinks in the armor, and tickle us there. I don't see it as mean, I see it as playful. But, as a former boss used to say "Many a truth is told in jest". On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Vivy wrote: > > > > Those damn, dirty socialist, humanist bastards. > > What are they trying to prove? > > > So Vivvy, I'm always trying to figure out where you stand politically > and I've come with the following general options: > > (a.) Communist (in the literal way, not the cartoon way it's commonly > used) - i.e., you believe the government should own and control the > means of production thus in a perfect world you'd be a government > employee and there'd be little or no economic freedom. > > (b.) Social democrat - i.e., you believe in some economic freedom, but > you'd also like all markets to be created, owned, and managed by > government. An example might be an extreme version of France. > > (c.) Charitable capitalist - i.e., you believe in broad economic > freedom, government regulation of markets only when then become > national assets, but you favor income tax - based wealth > redistribution to enable infrastructure. > > I'm more of "C-": I do believe in the use of taxes to create public > economic infrastructure (safety nets [retirement, heatlh care], > student loans, unemployment, etc), but I absolutely do not believe in > government as ANY means of production. > > I suspect you're a "B"; that is, you'd like to see France get rid of > Sarkozy and migrate further left thus elevating unions and labor > ("political action") above business and markets (economic freedom). > > So am I right? If not, where would you say you stand? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306394 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
