Originally Posted by cmac2012

And here is yet another point I posed in response to one of your posts that you couldn't come up with a resonse for.

Once again, master of time and space:

I heard a quote from a rich person once: "At first money brings happiness, but after a while, it just brings more money."

This is one of the problems with unbridled, full on capitalism, IMO, that is, the tendency for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer is almost built in. Hardcore Republicans will argue til doomsday that this is the way things are supposed to be but myself, I don't want to be a serf in someone's feudal landlord setup, nor do I think I would really want to be a landlord in same.

Imagine: would you rather have 5000 lbs of gold now (about $32 million) or 5000 pounds of gold magically deposited along with your bod in say, England of 562 A.D.? You might have more land and servants back then, but I submit that many of the advances in things like pain-free dentistry plus all sorts of trained technicians in various fields have arisen through quasi-socialist (GASP!) thangs like public education.

The GI bill is not something that arose from Republican Hoover after WW1, but from lefty Roosevelt after WW2 and many historians agree that it not only paid for itself many times over but played a large part in our post war prosperity.

As for Frist, I don't like the guy. I don't like people making ga-zillions off of HMOs while doctors are tearing their hair out over small cost limitations and people are forced to fork it over, employers sweat it out, etc. It reminds me a bit of Bechtel's attempts to corner the water market in Latin American countries. People got to have water. We -ell -ell, we'll make them pay through the nose for it. Bwaa - hah -ha -ha (Maniacal George Schultz laugh)

C'mon Bot! Show us what your made of!