taterguy
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:32 AM
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New rule: You can't drive on socialized roads to attend rallies protesting socialized health care |
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Maybe that will shut the little fuckers up.
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:34 AM
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1. What if they ride bicycles? |
taterguy
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:37 AM
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2. Still socialized, unless they ride through people's yards |
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:38 AM
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4. Wouldn't riding through other people's yards be kinda communist? |
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:40 AM
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6. They still have to stay off the roads, and get permission from each landowner |
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to cross their privately-owned land, and since it's a free market, the landowners will be within their right to charge the traveler whatever fee they deem fair. Of course, the traveler will be free to negotiate with all adjacent landowners in order to find the lowest cost of passage, but then once they reach the boundary, the process will need to start again with the next landowners. Of course, this will be further complicated by the need to not cross any publicly owned roads.
Should let someone travel from Paducah, Kentucky to Washington DC in 5, 6 years or so.
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:53 AM
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8. Put ramps near every road and just jump over them |
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Sun Mar-21-10 12:06 PM
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10. OK Stalin, who will pay for these ramps? Will there be a ramp MANDATE? |
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Maybe some sort of standard for ramp construction so take off and landing would be safe? UH OH, that sounds like a BIG GUMMINT project!
Help, help! Socialists are everywhere!
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taterguy
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Sun Mar-21-10 12:51 PM
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15. We don't need no stinkin' ramp construction standards |
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:38 AM
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3. I like your thinking.... |
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Yep if you don't like socialism stay off the roads, pay $10,000 a year for private schools, don't call the police, fire department, go without insurance and on and on......these people don't quite grasp it. They want to go back to a time they don't comprehend fully. Otherwise they wouldn't want to go there.
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:44 AM
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7. Sadly, they "claim" to support privatized police and fire |
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and would love to have what they perceive they pay in school taxes to use towards private schools. "If I have one kid who's in public school for 12 years, why do I have to pay the rest of my life? And why do I have to pay for the family with 6 kids?"
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Sun Mar-21-10 04:08 PM
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and we all know how well privatized fire departments worked on in early 20th century New York- shoot, they put the fires out, just as soon as the two opposing companies beat the hell out of each other first.
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:02 PM
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23. Oh crap I can't stop laughing |
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:06 PM
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25. People like to believe |
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that there is no way we could drift back to the conditions of the early 20th century. However, we have been drifting in that directions, albeit slowly, ever since Saint Ronny became president. Since then organized labor and public works have been attacked relentlessly.
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:12 PM
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26. sadly you stoped me from laughing |
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I was extremely happy :-P
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:21 PM
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which direction you were coming from :hi:
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Sun Mar-21-10 06:45 PM
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33. Those fuckers and the "self reliance" |
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Just show they've never had a problem of any kind. Lucky. And that luck turns? They'll be all in favor of "society."
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:38 AM
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5. And no one can ride on single payer highways unless you support single payer health care. |
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I'm thinking this sloganeering stuff won't really work, but what the heck?
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Sun Mar-21-10 11:54 AM
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9. If only there were some version of socialized health care to protest, |
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I'd show up in force to support it.
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Sun Mar-21-10 12:10 PM
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11. Why make the argument? It's not Socialized health care, so don't reinforce the lie. |
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Sun Mar-21-10 12:13 PM
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12. + 1; It's very far from socialized health care - nt |
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Sun Mar-21-10 02:20 PM
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16. Nobody likes a nitpicker |
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:40 PM
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30. I don't even get what they're bitching about, to be straight honest. |
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They should LOVE this plan. Completely caters to their corporate insurance heroes. No part of it is government "run". There is no public option. Insurance lobbyists help draw it up and dictate it's terms.
I think they're just being angry for the sake of being angry. Or they just really really really REALLY hate progressives.
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Sun Mar-21-10 06:54 PM
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34. You are always spot on |
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They're "angry for the sake of being angry." This is certainly not a government run plan - they just hate Dems, and more to the point, the President. You nailed it.
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Sun Mar-21-10 12:15 PM
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13. Can't use socialized public transportation either... |
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Sun Mar-21-10 02:22 PM
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17. The toll roads are coming... |
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I swear my epitaph will be "She never paid a toll." I predict that if privatization of this country isn't stopped, you're new rule would become obsolete 20 years.
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Sun Mar-21-10 02:29 PM
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19. No private company would take over roads |
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There's no profit in it.
It's ridiculously expensive to build and maintain roads; which is why we pay for them with a multitude of revenue streams from all taxpayers.
Tolls are simply one tool used to let pols claim that they're not raising taxes.
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Sun Mar-21-10 04:11 PM
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21. They are damn profitable down here... |
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and as soon as the road is fully paid for, they sell it to outside interests- usually from Spain. They continue to collect tolls, but maintenance goes down the crapper.
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Sun Mar-21-10 04:57 PM
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22. In case you hadn't noticed, Texas does not reflect the other 49 states |
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We like "bidness" in the other 49, but not that much.
Have the government create something and then let a corporation make all the profits?
Tough sell.
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:04 PM
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now, but the rest of the southern states will catch on.
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taterguy
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:29 PM
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28. Not in my Southern state |
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Too many damn Yankees have moved down here.
Seriously, what makes you think a significant portion of the US would go for such a shameless giveaway to corporations?
Sure, we give away shit to corporations all the time, but only if it's relatively discreet.
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:44 PM
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31. Have you been paying attention... |
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the last 30 years? Sure, at one time things were kept relatively discreet. But year after year, they get more and more blatant, and nobody says "boo" about it.
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Sun Mar-21-10 06:38 PM
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32. Still won't happen in most of the country |
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Neither one of us can "prove" the other one wrong, but I'm right.
Trust me.
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Sun Mar-21-10 06:55 PM
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Sun Mar-21-10 07:45 PM
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We may disagree on some things, but we all agree on beer. Work is over in two more hours. Yay
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Sun Mar-21-10 02:27 PM
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18. Can't walk on the sidewalks either. |
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Or protest in a public (i.e. Socialized) park front of Congress.
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Sun Mar-21-10 05:38 PM
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29. Or protest on the Capital Lawn. Or use public transportation to get there. |
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Which those dope-addled cretins all did on March 20th.
It was so funny. They either dressed in Red, White, Blue or Yellow . . . usually in way-undersized/ill-fitting clothing. The flags were the size of a small county. The slogans were either boilerplate Glenn Beck, boilerplate Sean Hannity, unreadable, racist or just plain dumb.
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Sun Mar-21-10 07:30 PM
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37. You also shouldn't use mass transit, or libraries, or the post office. |
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Sun Mar-21-10 07:56 PM
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39. If an anti-bagger comes after you with a baseball bat at a rally.... |
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you may not accept aid from socialized entities such as the police, fire department or ambulance system if you are beaten to a bloody pulp.
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