On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:20:50 +0200
Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]>
wrote:
Who'd end Soc Sec & Medicare,
And would, at the very least, temper the ferocity of our country's
ongoing
mass murder spree.
This sorta crystallized a thought floating around in solution
in my own head. It makes for an interesting Gedanken. Suppose
you could push a button and put a guy in the Oval Office who
would end Medicare and Social Security, but would also stop
killing people overseas. Would you push it?
And don't anybody tell me it's an unrealistic question.
Of course it's an unrealistic question. That's the point
of a Gedanken: to clarify your thinking, not to erect a
contingency plan.
Which would be more likely to promote a revolution here: a president who
would end Medicare and Social Security, but would also stop
killing people overseas; or an ordinary one, who wouldn't touch them
but would go on defending the country by killing people overseas?
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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