Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00324)

Well, I did my best.  You really are a flaming liberal.  I guess that's ok
though as long as you do not take my money to support your causes.  Use your
own.  I'll follow my own heart and take the fruit of my labor and do my own
good.

The "state" I refer to is the government in general, not one of the 50.

I don't remember advocating corporate welfare.  I advocate freedom and
personal responsibility, the opposite of corporate welfare.

Gates is an economic winner and the ditchdigger a loser because Gates is of
higher economic value.  It wasn't given to him, he earned it in some way.
The prize is therefore his, not the governments to redistribute.

Before you get too carried away with how good the capitalist has it, start a
business from zero,  go into debt, hire employees(most of whom don't want to
work, want big wages and lots of benefits), get sued by everyone and their
brother because you are now the "rich" capitalist enemy, get regulated into
oblivion, work 24 hours a day(it's always on your mind), have employees steal
your ideas and start competing companies, etc.  Do this successfully-only
about 10 % succeed- for a few years and then come back to me and let's see
how liberal you are.

Capitalism is not inherently bad.  A business can do tremendous good all on
their own without any prompting from liberals or Big Brother.  Businesses are
just a cut out of humanity. Some have heart and conscience, others don't.

The point of the army was to point out a difference between men and women.
You changed the rules.  I said hand to hand combat.  You won't even concede
this?

There is nothing wrong with belief in communism/socialism(I thought it was
pretty cool when I was in college too), problem is it doesn't work in
practice.  Have you looked around at what has been happening in the world to
communistic states?  Also that is not what the US is.  People who want ot be
socialists should move to countries where that is the form of government..

You've got to lighten up.  The letter to Jim and Cindy was just to have a
little fun to make a point.

I still thing you're warm and cuddly.  We are probably a lot closer on the
basic ideas than it would seem.  You've just let Clinton's spell get to you
too much.

In all my androgenic washboard abs glory, Randy