RAF, You're beginning to sound like a sour grapes Tea Bagger.
If you are, get over it and take heed of a stanza from a song by Leonard Cohen: "It's coming from the sorrow in the street, the holy places where the races meet; from the homicidal bitchin' that goes down in every kitchen to determine who will serve and who will eat. >From the wells of disappointment where the women kneel to pray for the grace of God in the desert here and the desert far away: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A." - Democracy by Leonard Cohen That song is about democracy, not plutocracy... ...Bill! --- In [email protected], R A Fonda <rafonda@...> wrote: > > On 12/11/2012 8:51 AM, Edgar Owen wrote: > > Any generosity on the part of the government > > The main problem with government "generosity" is that the government > doesn't HAVE anything to give that it did not TAKE from someone. Now > some user fees, and resource extraction taxes, etc... are more or less > 'theft-free' but they don't come close to covering the costs of our > bloated US government. Worse, the political elites have made such an > awful mess of things that huge numbers of people are impoverished and > unemployed and NEED assistance. Worse still, this leads a majority of > the electorate to vote for a government that promises to fill their rice > bowl. > > I fear there is no solution except for this dystopia to collapse and the > unsustainable population to crash. > > RAF > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
