--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > > > bob_brigante wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Richard J. Williams wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >>> feste wrote: > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>>> The Communist Party in the US is not illegal. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > > >>> The US government outlawed the CPUSA with the > > > > >>> Communist Control Act in 1954. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA > > > > >>> > > > > >> "The Supreme Court of the United States has not ruled on the > > > act's > > > > >> constitutionality, and civil libertarians remain divided on > the > > > > >> > > > > > issues > > > > > > > > > >> of the constitutionality and wisdom of the act. No > > > administration > > > > >> > > > > > has > > > > > > > > > >> tried to enforce it." > > > > >> > > > > >> Again: "No administration has tried to enforce it." > > > > >> > > > > >> http://www.answers.com/topic/communist-control-act-of-1954 > > > > >> > > > > >> I kinda thought the Wikipedia entry was a little truncated. > > > I've > > > > >> > > > > > talked > > > > > > > > > >> to members of the Communist Party at peace marches and I > think > > > you > > > > >> > > > > > have > > > > > > > > > >> little to fear from them Willy. BTW, Gus Hall was an > occasional > > > > >> > > > > > guest > > > > > > > > > >> on the TV show I worked on in the 1970s. Kind of a wacky > guy, a > > > > >> > > > > > little > > > > > > > > > >> like you in fact. :D :D :D :D :D > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > *************** > > > > > > > > > > Membership per se was never illegal, but the govt would > harass > > > the > > > > > hell out of you nonetheless: > > > > > > > > > > "Membership in the Communist party dropped to about 10,000 by > > > 1957, > > > > > even though it was never illegal to be a member." > > > > > > > > > > http://pages.citebite.com/v7l2p9e7ujjc > > > > People like Willy and Shemp are "Me" people. They would like > the > > > whole > > > > pie for themselves. The coming age is for the "We" people > where > > > things > > > > are split up more evenly and they just can't stand that. They > see > > > it as > > > > "communism." > > > > > > > > > Oh, Bhai-Bhai, you're so cute when you're baiting me! > > > > > > What I can't stand are policies that use the tool of government > to > > > redistribute wealth for the purpose of -- as you put it -- > splitting > > > things up "more evenly". You think it's some sort of just and > > > humanitarian thing but experience has shown that these attempts > do > > > precisely the opposite: such policies make the lot of the poorest > > > worse and puts, disproportionately, power and money into the > hands of > > > the few. > > > > > > The great irony is that capitalism and free markets do precisely > the > > > OPPOSITE of what one intuitively thinks they'll do. Capitalism > > > distributes wealth the MOST evenly and brings up the lot of the > > > poorest better than any other system. And socialist principles > do > > > the opposite of what socialists want it to do: they put the poor > > > down, discourages them, and makes slaves out of them...while > putting > > > money in the hands of those that least deserve it: the elites. > > > > > > That's why I support free markets and minimizing of governmental > > > interference...and I especially oppose governmental plans > > > to "redistribute" wealth. Doesn't work...we've had a century of > > > experiments on this very thing and we should have learnt from > it. > > > That's why it is so disheartening to see people like Bhairitu > come > > > around and spout these principles. If a smart person like that > > > doesn't get it, where is the hope for the rest of us? > > > > > > Yeah, the deregulated 'free market' financial industry has worked > out > > just fine. Just ask people who work for companies like Bears Sterns > > and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They'll tell you how nicely their > > deregulated industry is doing. Maybe a few of the millions of > American > > homeowners who are or have been foreclosed can help sing the praises > > of deregulated free markets too. > > > > Fuck them. > > I repeat: FUCK THEM. > > For every person that defaulted, there are about 11 mortgage holders > that didn't. And the banks and other financial institutions that > screwed up (and lost $500 billion by the way) can also fuck off. > > I have ZERO sympathy for those people. Let them go on welfare. > > Social Darwinism. Let them be selected against. They are NOT good > candidates for being homeowners if they behave like that. > > And I vomit over the federal government's attempts to bail out these > losers because who's going to pay the bill for the defaulters? The > people who were RESPONSIBLE mortgage-holders and did NOT default. > > Oh, how terrible; they lost their homes. Wa-wa-wa. My heart does > NOT bleed for them.
Whoa! Looks like Magoo is having a mental breakdown, an internet rage, over the catastrophically disastrous failure of his beloved deregulated free market system of unbridled greed that he's been trumpeting out of his ass for a decade. What a loser! Now watch him try to blame the 'liberals'.
