Bad behavior isn't inherent, it is learned. A newborn baby has no greed or racism. It is learned from its parents and environment. We are surrounded by institutions that perpetually surround us with the notion that people are inherently bad, and therefore it's human nature. The only way to be a believer in human nature is to be one who believes in the myth of the Garden of Eden. If you are a critical thinker, you inevitably come the conclusion that there isn't human nature, just human behavior.
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent & wise -- I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Human nature and especially leftist human nature are not basically good. Neither that human nature not basically good is the same as inherently evil. The left distorts such things as the truth about human nature on purpose either, Or, maybe the leftist mind is a genetic abnormality. Either way, realities are the overwhelming majority of persons have to fight their nature to be good. Real goodness does not come automatically with human nature.
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent & wise -- I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Scandinavians are living in bubbles that are getting burst: "According to police figures, the number of rapes with violent assault committed in Oslo also doubled compared to 2008. According to the police statement, "in each and every case, not only in 2008 and 2009 but also in 2007, the offender was a non-Western immigrant. At the same time, in 9 out of 10 cases, the victim was Norwegian, not just by nationality, but also by ethnicity." - The European Union Times, 1/18/2010
The rosy view that the social democracies of Europe are faring far better than the 'dog-eat-dog' United States was never accurate. Europe’s socialized health care is blighted by outrageous (and sometimes deadly) waiting lists and rationing, to name just one example. To name another: Timbro, a Swedish think tank, found in 2004 that Sweden was poorer than all but five U.S. states and Denmark poorer than all but nine. - Heirs to Fortuyn? City Journal, Spring 2009
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise -- I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise -- I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--US Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism. Now, in the 21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire social and political structure. - What is the Hegelian Dialectic? , By Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision. - What is the Hegelian Dialectic? , By Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
Hegel's brilliance rests in his ability to confuse and obfuscate the true motives of the planners, and millions of people world-wide have been trying to make sense of why it doesn't work for over 150 years. - What is the Hegelian Dialectic? , By Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
Ironically, in these days under capitalism the communists are getting more and more of what communism has historically always produced since its inception in Marx's mind 'materializing' the Hegelian dialectic and yet they complain. But you have to understand, all that complaining simply a part of the Hegelian dialectical strategy.
The Hegelian dialectic is the ridiculous idea that constant conflict and continual merging of opposite ideologies, as established by extreme right or left belief systems, will lead spiritual mankind into final perfection. (Americans understood man's spiritual quests to be outside the realm of government control). - What is the Hegelian Dialectic? , By Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts means NO purges/gulags
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts means NO purges/gulags
"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
Bad behavior isn't inherent, it is learned. A newborn baby has no greed or racism. It is learned from its parents and environment. We are surrounded by institutions that perpetually surround us with the notion that people are inherently bad, and therefore it's human nature. The only way to be a believer in human nature is to be one who believes in the myth of the Garden of Eden. If you are a critical thinker, you inevitably come the conclusion that there isn't human nature, just human behavior.
PrinceMyshkin22 6 hours ago
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outlaw87100 20 hours ago
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TheGreenVoter 14 hours ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent & wise -- I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes" CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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"New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. People have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 21 hours ago
Human nature and especially leftist human nature are not basically good. Neither that human nature not basically good is the same as inherently evil. The left distorts such things as the truth about human nature on purpose either, Or, maybe the leftist mind is a genetic abnormality. Either way, realities are the overwhelming majority of persons have to fight their nature to be good. Real goodness does not come automatically with human nature.
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent & wise -- I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes," CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. People have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
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TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
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"Scandinavians are living in bubbles"
Old man, yo' ass will be LONGING for such a bubble after the spirit of Prof. Zinn himself casts your soul into the bowels of Hell ...
TheGreenVoter 1 day ago
Scandinavians are living in bubbles that are getting burst: "According to police figures, the number of rapes with violent assault committed in Oslo also doubled compared to 2008. According to the police statement, "in each and every case, not only in 2008 and 2009 but also in 2007, the offender was a non-Western immigrant. At the same time, in 9 out of 10 cases, the victim was Norwegian, not just by nationality, but also by ethnicity." - The European Union Times, 1/18/2010
howardz43 2 days ago 3
The rosy view that the social democracies of Europe are faring far better than the 'dog-eat-dog' United States was never accurate. Europe’s socialized health care is blighted by outrageous (and sometimes deadly) waiting lists and rationing, to name just one example. To name another: Timbro, a Swedish think tank, found in 2004 that Sweden was poorer than all but five U.S. states and Denmark poorer than all but nine. - Heirs to Fortuyn? City Journal, Spring 2009
howardz43 2 days ago 3
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise -- I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes," CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"The New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. People have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
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TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise -- I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes," CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. People have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
ain'tshitchangedsince
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 2 days ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes" - CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"The New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. People have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. Yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
ain'tshitchangedsince
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 3 days ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes" - CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"The New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
ain'tshitchangedsince
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 4 days ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes" - CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"The New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
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TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes" - CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"The New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
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TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 5 days ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes" - CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"The New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--US Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts = NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
ain't shit changed since
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 6 days ago
In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism. Now, in the 21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire social and political structure. - What is the Hegelian Dialectic? , By Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
howardz43 1 week ago
The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision. - What is the Hegelian Dialectic? , By Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
howardz43 1 week ago
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Hegel's brilliance rests in his ability to confuse and obfuscate the true motives of the planners, and millions of people world-wide have been trying to make sense of why it doesn't work for over 150 years. - What is the Hegelian Dialectic? , By Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
howardz43 1 week ago
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Ironically, in these days under capitalism the communists are getting more and more of what communism has historically always produced since its inception in Marx's mind 'materializing' the Hegelian dialectic and yet they complain. But you have to understand, all that complaining simply a part of the Hegelian dialectical strategy.
howardz43 1 week ago
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The Hegelian dialectic is the ridiculous idea that constant conflict and continual merging of opposite ideologies, as established by extreme right or left belief systems, will lead spiritual mankind into final perfection. (Americans understood man's spiritual quests to be outside the realm of government control). - What is the Hegelian Dialectic? , By Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
howardz43 1 week ago
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Please listen to the song "the epic tale of Pat Tillman and i" by theband Independence 76
hdnc11 1 week ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes" - CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"The New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts means NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
ain't shit changed since
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta ... We met formally when some members of my class were being honored and I was among them, but Howard and I ended up sitting next to each other. He was the first white person I’d sat next to ... Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent and wise ... I was Howard’s student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life."
--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"[The MYTH of Human Nature is] certainly wrong. Furthermore, it's dangerous. Wrong, because there is no real evidence for it. Not in genetics, not in zoology, not in psychology, not in anthropology, not in history, not even in the ordinary experience of soldiers in war. Dangerous because it deflects attention from the non-biological causes of violence."
--Prof. Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
"Non-biological causes" - CULTURE & FOX News LiEs
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of 'rags to riches' were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control."
--Professor Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"The New Deal programs still glow warmly in the public memory: Social Security, unemployment insurance, the public works programs, the minimum wage, subsidies for the arts. There's an initial worried reaction when people are confronted with the scare words 'big government.' But that falls away as soon as someone points to the G.l. Bill of Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps & loans to small business."
--Prof Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"Wealthfare -- the money government gives away to corporations and wealthy individuals -- costs us more than $815 billion a year. That's more than four times what we spend on welfare for the poor."
--Mark Zepezauer, from his book, Take the Rich off Welfare
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"Audits and averages rarely matter with Halliburton. While Reagan galvanized the middle class against laundry rooms for the poor, Halliburton is the company whose subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, charged you and me $100 for a bag of laundry and $45 for a case of soda in Iraq."
--The Boston Globe, March 1, 2006
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"In the atmosphere created by the movements of the sixties, Medicare and Medicaid were enacted. Only then did the cry arise, among politicians and the press, continuing to this day, warning of the evils of 'big government.' Of course, the alarms about 'big government' did not extend to the enormous subsidies to business."
--Prof. Howard Zinn
HYPOCRISY!
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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FED Chairman Alan Greenspan: Congressman, we have the highest standard of living in the world.
Congressman Bernie Sanders: No, we do not. You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. Wrong, Mister.
--a financial services committee hearing, July 16, 2003
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"Denmark and Finland have child-poverty levels of less than 3 percent, and are closely followed by Norway and Sweden, thanks to higher levels of social spending. In the U.S., 17 percent of children live in poverty."
--The Seattle Times, 1/4/06
... higher levels of social spending, which can only be afforded by taxing the rich ...
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"In terms of socialism, there's a lot to be learned from Scandinavia. In countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, poverty has almost been eliminated. All people have healthcare as a right of citizenship. College education is available to all people, regardless of income, virtually free. They have a lot of political participation, high voter turnouts."
--Senator Bernie Sanders,11/8/06
Political participation/high voter turnouts means NO purges/gulags
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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"Critics who CLAIM the European model is too expensive or economically inefficient have been allowed to pass unchallenged. & yet, the welfare state is as popular as ever with its beneficiaries: NOWHERE in Europe is there a constituencey for abolishing public health services, ending free/subsidized education, reducing public provision of transport & other essential services."
--The New York Review of Books, 4/10/10
ain't shit changed since
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago
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LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)
REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.
--Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
TheGreenVoter 1 week ago