"Your Mileage May Vary." As in, "'Everybody to their own taste,' said the old woman as she kissed the cow."Originally Posted by dmatic
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"Your Mileage May Vary." As in, "'Everybody to their own taste,' said the old woman as she kissed the cow."
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Seems homeschooling's the wave of the future. I know several families who have online computer classes. One of the kids was speaking 3 languages by 9 years old.
And the 12 year old smoked me in a game of chess.
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Land Owner
I think the statists will keep regulating till homeschooling is banned. CA has either just passed or is considering some kind of bill that demands any homeschool to be inspected by the fire department............ and we know where that leads.
Judge
Just read where the suspect in the Austin bombings was home schooled.
D'ya reckon the left will use this against home schooling?
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Rage? That's cute. You constantly post progressive/leftist/socialist/commie points of view on a site called "The Tree of Liberty", fail to get a warm reception from all, and is if on que, out comes the victim card.
And, yes, I consider the left a cancer. This country was not founded on progressive, socialist, communist ideals, so the only way to push your agenda is to invade and destroy. Just like cancer. Actually, maybe virus is a better word. Regardless, I have learned my lesson over the years and I no longer play nice, nor accommodate, folks of your mindset.
Call it rage if you want, I could not care less. You are certainly now going to cow me into accommodating your stay here in a hospitable manner by playing victim and the list of folks here that you will impress with that is fairly short.
Congressman
Ya, and so is the extreme right. Both are very bad for this country.
Judge
They tried that with the Jews in the Soviet Union.
The Jews defied the Communists.
Yes, many were sent to gulags, beaten, shot, "disappeared," but they kept doing it anyway.
Sometimes Customs, Traditions and Faith can't be oppressed if a person's willing to go all-in.
All battles are won in the Will.
Remember the Prepper's Motto: "Panic early and avoid the rush!"
Everything I post is Fiction and shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone.
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Come now, I didn't play the victim card. I just pointed out that your responses have been free of any content other than namecalling and heckling.
Why would I feel like a victim? To be a victim somebody has to have done you some kind of actual or perceived harm, and that's not the situation. Look, if some six-year-old ran up to you out of nowhere and shouted "You're a big poo-poo head and I hate you!" no sensible well-adjusted adult would feel "victimized." Puzzled, maybe. Possibly annoyed. More likely amused. (Though such behavior is admittedly less alarming on a six-year-old than when it comes from an alleged grown-up.) Or if this was a pattern of behavior, then you might wonder what the poor child's problem is. Has he suffered some kind of regular abuse at home? Or are his parents unable to discipline him? Should somebody call CPS?
You talk about political opponents the way the Nazis talked about Jews and communists and gypsies and all the other non-Nazis. Not that you're a Nazi. (For one thing, I suspect that they were snappier dressers.) Just that your dislike seems primarily visceral, with the rather weak rationale/explanation overlaid upon it. Invader? Dunno about you, but I was born here. "The country was not founded on..." is thoroughly silly. The country wasn't founded on principles that let women wear jeans, either. What are you going to do about it, demand that the government shut down Levi Strauss and Co?
I wouldn't dream of trying to cow you, even if your own response to me contains an excess of bull manure.
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[QUOTE=Rhodie;2739788]God is not a Capitalists, he tells us all to help those less fortunate then we are.
But God does say, to work hard, to be prospers, so that you can help others. (MY words, not quotes from the Bible.)
I don't see them as better people. Or as inherently worse people. Same thing with the moderately wealthy. I know people who are both. They're nice people or jerks more or less in proportion to others. And besides the dubious truth value of your assertion about how rich people live so modestly, what's your point in bringing it up anyway?
This isn't true at all, and can't be inferred from anything I've written. If you want to see class resentment, you really ought to read what you yourself wrote about the poor: You're terribly concerned about becoming their "slave" and refer to the ones you don't like as "slackers" and "parasites." There are plenty of rich slackers and parasites, too, but you seem only to consider it some kind of moral failing in the poor.
So what? Rich people only make as many jobs for people as they absolutely have to. If they could run their businesses without hiring anybody, they would. (And increasingly, that's what's happening.) That's the nature of how commerce works.
This is just lazy and simplistic analysis, and factually wrong. FIrst of all, Britain lost its economic dominance for a lot of reasons, none of them having to do with the tax or welfare system, which didn't come into play until after WW2, and well after Britain was in relative decline. And it's hardly "circling the drain."
As a matter of fact, there are lots of places that have wide welfare systems and high tax regimes like Britain and are doing quite well. Australia, for instance. Or Norway or Sweden. Just as California is in quite good fiscal shape, contrary to the beliefs of California-hating right-wingers. There are certainly states that are in a financial mess, but fiscal mismanagement is independent of whether the states or liberal or conservative. Look at what's been happening in Oklahoma and Kansas lately. And one thing for sure: the economies of New York and California are doing better and attracting more talent than Oklahoma, Kansas, and any number of other states that pride themselves on their low taxes.
One other thing to consider is that just as the US organizes itself for the benefit of the rich, it also measures itself by that yardstick. Hence your natural appeal to how wealthy the country is as opposed to how the average resident is doing. There are lots of places whose per-capita GDP is lower than that of the US, but whose average citizens do a lot better than the average American because the tax and welfare schemes redistribute the income so that the country looks after its own. Nobody in Western Europe, for instance, goes bankrupt because of medical bills. You sure can't say the same thing about the US.
Hold on, aren't these the hard-working innovative entrepreneurial people who are making America wealthy? And whether you like the robber barons of the past or not, there's no denying they did a heck of a lot to build the country up. Why are you turning on them now? They not only help pull your precious wagon but designed and organized the construction of the darn thing. It seems like you don't like the poor whom you find economically unproductive and you also don't like the really rich whose attitudes and lifestyle meet with your moral disapproval and political disagreement. Seems like the only way to thread this needle and be acceptable is to be somebody just like yourself.
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Meh, I have two cousins, each with double masters.
High IQs but dumb as hammers ... intelligence tempered with "education" garnered them both mediocrity.
O.W.
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