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In fact, you even said there should be harsher penalties for people who
can't afford to pay insurance but who attempt to look for work anyway.
You've said that anyone caught driving without insurance (presumably,
they're only driving because they're looking for work so they *can* afford
insurance) should be locked-up. But we'll forget about the inescapable
paradox that creates for the moment. Then you call those people, who bust
their asses everyday looking for jobs in an economy in which unemployed
people outnumber job opportunities, "lazy".

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"Michael Davis" <mdavis19@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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Wow! Another really frothy kookrant! You never fail to amuse. You
do however fail to get anything correct. Let's take a look at the
long list of things you got wrong:

1. Calling someone a Nazi is the same as comparing them with
Nazis. Ditto for calling them antything else.

LOL...so are you saying that if you call someone a "worm" you are therefore
comparing that person to an *actual* worm?

How stupid can you possibly be?

If you compare someone to a worm, you would quickly realize that said person
is definitely NOT a worm (worms don't have eyes, earlobes, bones, etc.). If
you call someone a worm, you are therefore definitely NOT comparing that
person to a worm (otherwise you wouldn't call him that).

Figurative speech and colloquialisms aren't the same thing as comparisons.
A first year college student knows at least *that* much.

Do you have *any* concept of the English language?

2. Nobody ever gave me anything (except the USA which gave me
opportunity).

The USA doesn't give opportunity. It squashes it.

I was born into a dirt-poor family.

You are obviously a liar.

I worked for
everything I have, and have no pity whatsoever for lazy bastards
like you who want everything simply handed to them.

Straw-man. When did I *ever* say that I wanted everything handed to me?
Can you come up with even *one* instance?

And by what justification do you
call me a "lazy *****"?

Where the hell did you get the idea? Because I
don't think (like you do) that poor people should be put in jail for
attempting to find work?

Listen buddy, I don't know what assylum you broke out of, but you don't
appear to have a coherent sense of reality. You're making things up out of
thin air, and (frighteningly) you seem to believe them.

3. I am not religious. On the contrary, I am a life-long atheist.

On the contrary, you are EXTREMELY religious - only instead of worshipping
the Christian's God, you deify your government and your nation.

You defend
them with the same irrational fervor that Christians use to defend their
God.

To you, any act of evil comitted by the government is OK,

and the
government can do no wrong (except perhaps for being too tough on all you
poor oppressed rich people and too easy on those wretched, lazy bums
scrapping by any way they possibly can).

In fact, you even said there should be harsher penalties for people who
can't afford to pay insurance but who attempt to look for work anyway.

You've said that anyone caught driving without insurance (presumably,
they're only driving because they're looking for work so they *can* afford
insurance) should be locked-up. But we'll forget about the inescapable
paradox that creates for the moment.

Then you call those people, who bust
their asses everyday looking for jobs in an economy in which unemployed
people outnumber job opportunities, "lazy". You remind me of those
Christians who say that all those innocent little "pagan" children who died
during the great flood, and the innocent men and women who died during the
crusades and the Witch-hunts "got off easy".

Not only do you defend
indefensible EVIL, but you actually seem to think those at the recieving end
deserve WORSE than what they get.

4. I am not a republican. I am an Independent who usually votes
Democratic. Most Democrats are good capitalists, in case you
didn't know. The right wing has no monopoly on capitalism. It is
the foundation of this nation, regardless of party affiliation.

And that's why America is corrupt. Of course it's the least corrupt of all
the nations on Earth, but it's still corrupt. America may be the best
country in the world, but that ain't saying much.

5. "Pencil pushers" (your term) do useful work too.

Useful busywork that deserves a lot less pay than what they get.

After all, it
takes more than just "broom pushers" to make a society work.

Undoubtedly, but pushing a broom is a lot harder than pushing a pencil.
I've done both. I've done tech-support, graphic design, web design, and
janitorial. Part-time janitorial was far, far more exhausting (even
painful) than full-time deskwork. Yet I made $20.00 per hour doing graphic
design,

and only $7.50 per hour doing janitorial. It should've been the
other way around.

In
fact, it could be argued that working with your brain is more
valuable and should be better compensated than working with your
back.

Working with your brain is much, much easier than working with your back. I
speak from experience.

Anyone can quickly learn how to keep books or manage
a store

(especially since management consists of telling others what to do
while the manager sits on his fat lazy *****, gets drunk at 9:00am and leaves
in the middle of the day to play golf while those who get payed less than
him do all the work).

Not everyone has the physical endurance to do
professional cleaning, which can quickly turn even the strongest guy's back
into a pretzel.

After all, anyone can push a broom,

For short periods of time. After a few years or even *months*, the person
pushing the broom can have serious, permanent back problems.
Professional/industrial cleaning isn't as easy as it looks.

but not everyone can
design a building,

Given 3 - 6 months of intensive study, *anyone* could design a building.

Not anyone could do it well, though. But then, when it comes to designing a
building *well*, you leave the arena of pencil-pushing and enter the arena
of the arts.

I never said that broom-pushers should be making more money than artists,
philosophers, teachers, scientists, musicians, poets, or clergy. I only
said that broom-pushers should make more than your run-of-the-mill pencil
pushers.

run a corporation,

You mean tell other people what to do while you sit on your *****, hire
hookers, snort cocain, and molest your children?

Corporate types are the
scum of the earth.

Since brains are scarcer than backs, the laws
of economics dictate that brain power is worth more than muscle
power. And that is in fact the way it is.

Brains are only scarcer than backs because decent educations are withheld
from all but the scarce few whose parents have deep, deep pockets.

Granted
there are probably a few exceptions. What about highly intelligent children
from poor families who goof-off in gradeschool and don't do their work, and
lose their chance at a scholarship because of this?

They don't lack brains,

and they don't necessarily lack the ability to work hard. Just because a
kid liked to goof-off (which is what kids are SUPPOSED to do), he could
loose his chance at a decent future, no matter how intelligent or
hard-working her turns out to be as an adult - unless he has a rich family,
that is.

Then of course there are those little children who buckle down and work hard
throughout school (even gradeschool, when they should be playing and having
fun), and allow themselves to be completely brainwashed by the
robot-factory...er...I mean "public school system". They tend to do very
well regardless of their parents' income.

These are the sorts who end up
defending the government no matter what evil the government is guilty of,
wave "support our troops" banners when our military invades an innocent
nation and kills civilians, and always stand for the national anthem. Such
people are nothing more than mindless drones trained to always be loyal to
the "Evil Race of Oppressors" (aka - wealthy persons, Christian clergy,
politicians, and lawmen).

Brains are scarcer than backs because the rich suppress the brains of the
poor. One of the most intelligent people I've ever met has an IQ of 85!

That's 15 points below average! 15 points worth of general knowledge he
lacked and critical thinking skills he could've EASILY learned.

6. The guys in the orange jumpsuits working on the side of the
road are not slaves. They are criminals who broke the law and are
serving their sentence.

Robin Hood (if the stories about him are true and not as grossly exaggerated
as we tend to think) would be considered a "criminal" by our modern-day
government.

Sure stealing from the rich and giving to the poor wouldn't get
you hanged like it would've in his day, so things have improved a little.
The point is, though, that he wasn't a villain. He was a hero, and one of
history's greatests at that.

Just because someone is a "criminal" doesn't make that person a villain or a
badguy.

I've found that most "criminals" are decent, moral, honorable
individuals who are just trying to get by. In fact, it's been my experience
that drug-dealers, gang-bangers, and pig-killers are more honest and
trustworthy than judges, cops, and business men.

If you ask them I'm sure they'd tell you
that they prefer community service over sitting in a cell and
whiling away the days twiddling their thumbs between sessions of
doing their wifely duties to their cell mate Bubba.

I'm sure they would. The point is that most've those guys shouldn't have
had to make that choice to begin with. Since the late 1970's, more than 95
people sitting on death-row (35 of them for 10 years or more) were
exonerated of their crimes due to new DNA evidence and set free.

I wonder
how many more innocent people are still in prison, or how many were
executed. I wonder, if that many innocent people could be found guilty of
MURDER, how many more must be rotting away for lesser crimes that they
didn't commit.

The U.S. has only 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's
prison population. I'd be surprised if even one out of every ten people in
prison were actually guilty of anything.

7. You claim to have an IQ of 138 but none of it shows through in
your posts. Quite the contrary. you come across as a low-grade
moron. So it is safe to assume you were exaggerating.

This coming from a guy who can't even grasp rudimentary english...

8. There are no peasants in this country. Peasants are by
definition people with fewer or no rights. In the USA everyone has
the same rights and opportunities.

That's the biggest load if ***** I've ever heard. I remember a few months
ago the local supermarket had 1 (one) opening for a stock-boy. Within two
days, more than three hundred people applied for the position. There are
simply fewer opportunities than there are people.

Not everyone has the same drive
or will to succeed though.

I never said they did, but just because someone is poor or unemployed
doesn't mean they don't have just as much drive or will to succeed as some
rich cracker CEO. Saying that poor/unemployed people are "lazy" in today's
economy is essentially the same as saying that those starving children in
Africa are "anorexic". Get it through your thick skull, most unemployed
people aren't unemployed by choice or out of laziness. There just aren't
enough opportunities to go around.

9. The state doesn't coddle the rich. It taxes them unfairly at a
higher rate than the poor or middle class and in essence punishes
them for being successful.

You're an idiot. Bill Gates has something like 30 BILLION dollars (his
exact worth fluctuates because most of his money is in stocks, so who knows
how much he has this week). Yet, if you were to take 25 BILLION dollars
away from him, he'd still be a MULTI-BILLIONAIRE.

Higher taxes for the rich aren't unfair, they're perfectly reasonable.

Punishing success is stupid policy.

But expecting those who are more successful to put more back into the
community that gave them their success isn't.

Bill Gates wouldn't be worth
a damn dime if poor and middle-class people weren't buying his products.

Those who are most successful are the ones who owe the most to the society
that made them successful.

This is one of the more socialist aspects of American society and
it ought to be scrapped.

Right, so the rich can become richer at an even faster rate, and more poor
people who are honestly trying as hard as they can to find work and build
lives for themselves can end up in the gutter.

10. There will never be a revolution by your kind. Anarchists
don't organize well. Organization is after all the opposite of
anarchy.

Appearently, you know very little of Anarchism (aka Social Libertarianism).

That's just the top 10 things you were wrong or were lying about
in this post alone. I could go on and on. However, these 10 points
alone do a pretty good job of showing how utterly clueless and
misguided you are.

Those ten points only serve to show that you lack anything resembling
reasoning skills or a coherent sense of reality.

Seek help, or at the very least an education.

I have an education, and unlike you, I also have some awareness of the world
around me. At least I'm not claiming that poor people are "lazy"

because I
know what the American economy is like right now,

and it's because of
money-grubbing assholes like you.

Peace Out, Mindless Fuckwit,