On 20-Oct-08, at 1:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The extremely low-class Mr. 10 mm wrote: >> >> On Oct 20, 2008, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Folks aren't so much afraid of Obama as they are the thugs that >>> support him. There's a few of those on this list, and a whole bunch >>> of them in ACORN and the Nation of Islam. >> >> If ACORN is so evil, and the subject of the same fraud crap in '04 >> and >> '06 by Republicans (both times disproved), why did John McCain speak >> at an ACORN event in February 2006, lavishing them with praise? >> Seems >> a bit hypocritical. Oh yeah, McCain is just a puppet, with the Bush >> campaign team elbow-deep in his puckered starfish working the >> controls. Sad to see McCain sell out his name, honor, and reputation >> to become a neo-con puppet. >> -W > > Speaking of Obama thugs, look who piped up. > > This thread is about the similarities between Obama's tax plan and > a negative income tax proposed by Milton Friedman in the '80's. It > sure doesn't sound like you know anything about either one of them. > > John McCain's campaign doesn't mind talking about the specifics of > his tax plan. Why do you nasty Obama supporters get all uppity when > folks want details of his tax plan? Got something to hide? > > You probably do. --
It's too bad conservatives have villified activism, or we could have had a CEO picket line outside the Whitehouse to look forward to. Trickle down economics hasn't worked for 90% of the country, I'd say a trickle up policy is long overdue. It's a government of the people for the people that has been rewarding the rich because they rich reward them directly. Mr.Friedman is one of the architects of the "laissez-faire" school of economics: free markets, no regulation. What's the problem, then? Do you simply disagree with that one suggestion of his, or do you have some specific problem with Friedman? Or are you accusing Obama of being unoriginal? Again, I can't tell if you're for or against here. Mr.Friedman has informed a lot of economic policy for a few decades now, including conservative economic policy. Or is it just paranoid anti-socialism that puts your defenses up whenever anyone discusses doing something for the middle class? I encourage you to see reversing the tax structure as a very capitalist idea. When you discuss the health and propulsion of the economy, you can't ignore the idea that giving 90% of the population more spending power might help more than letting some CEO buy his 13th house. If the system is set up to funnel all the money to a small group of people, eventually the money will all end up there and the economy will come to a halt. What's the end game? -- Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
