Unemployment galluping down

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Not at all. They're great fun. They serve as great examples of why liberal policies don't work, and they're great poster children for Obama's re-election campaign. I hope they stay around for a very long time.

Huh? So, I suppose that the Tea Party is a poster child for the failure of conservative policies.

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by whell

Not at all. They're great fun. They serve as great examples of why liberal policies don't work, and they're great poster children for Obama's re-election campaign. I hope they stay around for a very long time.

Good job you weren't around to tell the founding fathers that.

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Huh? So, I suppose that the Tea Party is a poster child for the failure of conservative policies.

As Reagan once said, "There you go again." I think enough evidence has accumulated by now to demonstrate that there is no, zip, zero, nada comparison between the Occupy folks and the Tea Party crowd.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

Good job you weren't around to tell the founding fathers that.

Are you attempting to make some comparison between liberalism 240 years ago, and liberalism today? Good luck with that.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by whell

Are you attempting to make some comparison between liberalism 240 years ago, and liberalism today? Good luck with that.

Are you suggesting that there is no correlation between going to war with the British Empire and blocking traffic so that people can't get to work?

Chas

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

As Reagan once said, "There you go again." I think enough evidence has accumulated by now to demonstrate that there is no, zip, zero, nada comparison between the Occupy folks and the Tea Party crowd.

Your assertion was that the existence of the OWS crowd was proof that liberal policies don't work. I'm not arguing that liberal (or conservative) policies work, just that the existence of OWS doesn't, in and of itself, prove anything.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Your assertion was that the existence of the OWS crowd was proof that liberal policies don't work. I'm not arguing that liberal (or conservative) policies work, just that the existence of OWS doesn't, in and of itself, prove anything.

FWIW, I thought that it was pretty obvious what you meant.

Regards,

D-Ray

[whell]

Originally Posted by Charles

Are you suggesting that there is no correlation between going to war with the British Empire and blocking traffic so that people can't get to work?

Chas

You're right. My bad.

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I'm not arguing that liberal (or conservative) policies work, just that the existence of OWS doesn't, in and of itself, prove anything.

Sue it does. The existence of the OWS proves quite a bit, actually.

It proves that the constant drum-beat of class warfare from the left resonates with a certain portion - albeit a pretty unsavory portion - of the body politic.

It proves, after a century of evidence to the contrary, that some folks still think socialism is the answer.

It proves that hate can be a powerful motivating force.

It proves that folks some folks would rather be taken care of than take care of themselves.

It proves that some folks are dumb enough to think that the government can fix economic injustice, while centuries of evidence demonstrate that more often than not governments are the cause of economic injustice.

There's plenty more, but the server may lack the capacity.

[merrylander]

It also may prove that some people have tunnel vision, or as we used to say in La Belle Province - Tete de Pioche.