Interesting. Your comments reminds me of the 1948 film based on the screenplay by author, Graham Green, for the film, The Third Man. This has become known as the Harry Lime Speech, and goes like this: "Oh, don't be so glum. Under the Borgias, Italy had assasination, and wars, but produced Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and the Renaissance, and under the Swiss, they had 500 years of peace, brotherhood, and democracy, and all it has to show for it is the cookoo clock." One might similarly say, under the republic, we had slavery, the wars against native americans, and the civil war, so maybe the plutocracy is better?
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Dec 9, 2015 09:46 PM Subject: Re: Debate questions. <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_b8bc6083-bbd6-4f22-925c-e00c7448acf6"> <div class="aolReplacedBody"><div dir="ltr"><div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 , spudboy100 </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span> </div><div class="aolmail_gmail_extra"><div class="aolmail_gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="aolmail_gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>To be concise, do you believe the US economy is working in favor anyone, save the billionaires?</blockquote> <font size="4"><div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Well... 300,000 people in the USA have a higher standard of living than 90% of the residences of this planet, so the answer to your question is obvious. Something has certainly favored the people in the USA and if it wasn't the USA economy I can't imagine what it could be.</font></font><div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">.</div></div> <blockquote class="aolmail_gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Burger King is still making its fries, and Anazon is still churning out items and dowloading books. Outside of organized protests of Obama supporters, versus, unionized Obama-funding cops, the streets are quiet. People seem to be mostly, content.</span></blockquote> <div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">OK, but if that is the case then what's the problem?</font></div> <blockquote class="aolmail_gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I am middle class so I support middle class interests and not simply, "what works," as you stated.</blockquote> <div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Then you are not a pragmatist as you stated.</font> </div> <blockquote class="aolmail_gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>My conclusion is that the oligarchs have won, at least for now.</blockquote> <font size="4"><div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Somebody is going to have power, who would you prefer have it, a dictator of the proletariat? I trust corporations and oligarch<div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> far </div><div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">far more than I trust government, and history backs me up. The most corrupt robber baron since the Victorian era was little more than naughty compared to the monstrous evil committed by government. If you take away the business leader's power we both know what will fill that vacuum, so I say 3 cheers for the </div>oligarchs<div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">!</div></font></div> <div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> </font></div> <div class="aolmail_gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div> </div> </div></div> <p></p> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. To post to this group, send email to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. 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