Will any New Deal or Great Society programs exist in a decade?

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I hope you realize that what is about to go on in Europe and the US will really make you squirm and squeal.

I'm quite inured to murder, and fully expect it at every turn, Wank.  The rich will kill and eat the poor, such has it ever been, and so shall it ever be.  We may squeal and squirm if we like, but it won't make a whit of difference.

This guy might actually be less crazy than you are! LOL

Sometimes the only morally trenchant reaction to reality is to go insane.

Mind you, I'm far from convinced that opebo is insane in an entirely admirable or responsible way, but him having gone off the deep end isn't itself exactly unreasonable on his part.

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Mind you, I'm far from convinced that opebo is insane in an entirely admirable or responsible way, but him having gone off the deep end isn't itself exactly unreasonable on his part.

Nothing 'deep end' about noting that elimination of redistributionist programs will lead to the death of poor people, Nathan.  Wank is the one with the silly agenda.   Socialism!  Socialism!

No, your position isn't insane at all (as I said, I think you've diagnosed the problem quite well even if I'm as yet unconvinced of some of your specific solutions), your rhetoric is just sometimes a little...I don't know, it's not the kind I would use. Again, I can't say I blame you (though you seem to be doing pretty well for yourself).

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No, your position isn't insane at all (as I said, I think you've diagnosed the problem quite well even if I'm as yet unconvinced of some of your specific solutions), your rhetoric is just sometimes a little...I don't know, it's not the kind I would use. Again, I can't say I blame you (though you seem to be doing pretty well for yourself).

Don't coddle the guy or people are going to start wondering if your crazy.

I'm not sure what you think you're threatening me with. As I said before, sometimes going insane (though not, I should point out, in quite the way opebo has) is the only acceptable response to reality.

Besides, he's been here for longer than you have. We're more familiar with his quirks by now (and a lot of it is quirks, albeit, uh, some highly unusual ones).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not sure what you think you're threatening me with. As I said before, sometimes going insane (though not, I should point out, in quite the way opebo has) is the only acceptable response to reality.

Besides, he's been here for longer than you have. We're more familiar with his quirks by now (and a lot of it is quirks, albeit, uh, some highly unusual ones).

Not threatening you. Just saying. No need to get pissed.

No, I understand. I just felt the need to make it clear that I've been called far worse things than crazy in the past, so I'm not really worried about it anyway.

I'm not really 'coddling' opebo, either. I hope I've made it sufficiently clear in my time here that I think he is, while amusing, kind of horrible in several areas other than his thoughts on finance capital.

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I'm not sure that what Sulik is doing is trying to stick it to the 'public parasites' so much as to this whole idea currently fashionable in the Eurozone that these monetary policies need to be picked up by poorer countries to avoid any conceivable damage to the interests of the almighty Germans and French. Which I would hope we can all agree is a good thing, at least from a Slovak perspective.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not sure that what Sulik is doing is trying to stick it to the 'public parasites' so much as to this whole idea currently fashionable in the Eurozone that these monetary policies need to be picked up by poorer countries to avoid any conceivable damage to the interests of the almighty Germans and French. Which I would hope we can all agree is a good thing, at least from a Slovak perspective.

Well seeing as how I actually read Sulik's remarks a few days ago when he said his party was going to vote no, yeah I can say what you put is definitely not the reason.

Paraphrasing here: "I don't think its right for me to vote to take money from poor Slovakian's to subsidize a Greek pensioner who receives 3 times the amount a person in Slovakia does."

Do you think he is wrong in his statement?

No, but I don't see how that invalidates my interpretation. He's saying that it's wrong for poor countries to pick up the tab. At least, I read that as a more trenchant feature of what he said than the fact the richer people happen to be retired public-sector workers.