On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:01:36 -0700, Billy
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Gunner Asch wrote:
Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate
results." - John Tucci,
John Tucci? What a strange organ grinder you dance to.
Even a clock is right twice a day
Are you truly that shallow? You won't last long.
You gonna try to take me out?
Double dog dare you.
I don't need to. You already painted a bull's eye on yourself
with your narcissistic bragging. Good going Goofus;O)
Snicker..damned hard to take out a moving target when you are stupid
and starving.
Advertising expenditures for US food products were $7.3 billion in 1999.
[27] In 1997, the US advertising expenditures for various foods we
breakfast cereals - $792 million; candy and gum - $765 million; soft
drinks - $549 million; and snacks - $330 million. Total expenditure for
confectionery and snacks was $1 billion. [26] In contrast, during the
same year, the US Department of Agriculture spent $333 million on
nutrition education, evaluation, and demonstrations.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...i?artid=416565
Thats called freedom to be stupid.
It's called, my little dimwitted friend, the power of propaganda.
You demonstrate it every day.
They really got you, hook line and sinker, haven't they? Our own little
neo-nut.
Says the preprogrammed Useful Idiot.
Or are you asking for a Nanny State? Ill bet you are, Comrade.
Thats a very strange organ you dance to.
It's only a granny state, if you are an international corporation.
Then it's socialze the cost, and privatize the profit. Don't you know
how the world works? Money buys entitlement. That's not in our mission
statement (preamble to the Declaration of Independence) but that is how
it has devolved.
You takin' notes kid?
Only when listening to people smarter than me. You dont fit that
catagory.
The Soviet Union was no more a Communist state than the U.S. is a
democratic one. They were and are run by oligarchies.
So the US is the same as the USSR?
Fascinating.
We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a
mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy
which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for
generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is
absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for
government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with "the
money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of
so many glorified pawnbrokers.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Letter to Sir Edward Grey (1913-09-15)
Ayup. And notice the date? We seem to have survived pretty well in
those 90 yrs
Blind luck to be the only intact industrial country after WWII. The
others were severely damaged. Doing 50% the the worlds trade after
the war let our robber barons get rich and even share the wealth a
little but those halcyon days are history. Now they are peevish enough
to kick sand in the vasoline.
So why wasnt Canada the World Power?
South America?
etc etc
Blind luck eh?
Gunner
"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it,
or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't
caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity
isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries
Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate
results." - John Tucci,
Shouldn't that be Arsch?
No. Shouldnt your nym be Billy Dumb****?
Gunner
"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it,
or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't
caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity
isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries
Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate
results." - John Tucci,