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From: Howard Brazee on 7 Feb 2010 22:54 On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:20:37 -0500, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> wrote: >In California, you have a huge voting block that pay no, or very >little, taxes. They're quite happy to vote for any service that they >can get no matter what the cost. Of course, the people who do pay >taxes eventually figure this out and leave the state. The result is >huge deficits with no one left to pay taxes. That happens everywhere. >If you do the same on a national level, the rich people simply go >somewhere else with their money. Unless they are rich enough to buy politicians. > Businessmen will always outsmart politicians. Small businessmen don't have the resources to leave, nor to buy their politicians. Trouble is small businesses are what we need the most. >Remember, capital goes to where it's treated the best, not to where >it's needed the most. So where is it going? China? India? -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Carbon on 7 Feb 2010 23:44 On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:07:06 -0500, William Clark wrote: > In article <H0Ibn.75094$JE2.42138(a)newsfe09.iad>, assimilate(a)borg.org > wrote: >> On 7-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >>> >>>>> I came across a study recently that argued liberals tend to be >>>>> more educated and higher functioning than social conservatives. >>>>> It's possible that a civics literacy test would hurt the >>>>> Republicans more than the Democrats. >>>> >>>> It all depends on who writes the tests. >>> >>> Whoever wrote them, they wouldn't be able to get away with injecting >>> obvious bias into them. >> >> you haven't been to a campus lately have you? One of the last classes >> I ever took was innocuously titled "Literary Theory." It was a >> graduate seminar organized around variations on Marxist thought >> (though not explicitly labeled as such). > > Indeed, I have a class tomorrow in the "Stalinist Approach to Crystal > Structures and Characterization". Get real. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if a paper with that title has been published in some critical theory journal or other... not that any of it means anything.
From: assimilate on 8 Feb 2010 02:04 On 7-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > well asking libertarians for their take on mainstream conservative > > thought seems rather fruitless. We are not conservatives. > > Fellow travelers with more education. You have about as much chance of > winning elections as the American Communist Party. Just as the Democrats have the blue dogs; the Repubs have a libertarian faction. -- bill-o
From: assimilate on 8 Feb 2010 02:07 On 7-Feb-2010, William Clark <clark(a)nospam.matsceng.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > > > Whoever wrote them, they wouldn't be able to get away with injecting > > > obvious bias into them. > > > > you haven't been to a campus lately have you? One of the last classes I > > ever > > took was innocuously titled "Literary Theory." It was a graduate seminar > > organized around variations on Marxist thought (though not explicitly > > labeled as such). > > Indeed, I have a class tomorrow in the "Stalinist Approach to Crystal > Structures and Characterization". Get real. The hard sciences at least have reality as a check; the Humanities have become a Marxist wasteland. -- bill-o
From: assimilate on 8 Feb 2010 02:08
On 7-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > I did a seminar course in literary theory. It was actually pretty > interesting: Kant, Goethe, and yes, Marx, Saussure, Benjamin, Sarte, > Frye, Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes, Foucault, Bloom, Achebe, Fish... I Half the list after Marx is derivative of him -- bill-o |