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On 4/16/17, 5:45 PM, in article
1c8e5436-e2cb-4116-b0bb-9572f88f68e7@googlegroups.com, "-hh"
<recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 11:27:34 AM UTC-4, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 16:16:36 +0100, Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:49:53 +0100, James Wilkinson Sword, after 15 edits,
>>> wrote this:
>>>> ...
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps he's fed up of his taxes supporting foreigners?
> 
> Gosh darn, it really stings when there's foreign assistance that's being
> spent at a rate of only 2% of what's being doled out to big multinational
> corporations (who "donate" to political campaigns).

Is it even 2%? That seems high to me.

>>> And refugees.
>>> Let them stay where they are, and fix their own damn problems.
> 
> Except it has been demonstrated that it is typically cheaper & more
> cost-effective to render aid, so that they don't become mobile refugees.

How many people could we have saved with the cost of the bombs we dropped?
Same folks who hate the idea of helping others generally have no problem
with KILLING people. This is not to say there are not times when war is
appropriate, but we spend more than any other country. By far.
 
>>> We have plenty of unemployed poor people already.
> 
> How much of that domestically is due to systemic inequality?  80%?  More?

When you have it so the tie between hard work / productivity is broken by
redistributing most of the wealth of the nation to the wealthy, as we have
now, you will have a HUGE problem. Been getting worse since the 1980s.
 
>>> When we get to 100% employment, then you allow stictly controlled
>>> immigration.
> 
> Fantasy, because there's no such thing as 100% employment, just like how
> there's also no such thing as a perfectly secure border wall.

Agreed. 
 
>>> Snit is one of the dirt poor liberals that like to espouse the spending of
>>> other people's money.
>>> Poorism gives him envyism which causes him to see everything as
>>> racism/bigotryism.
>>> 
>>> I suffer from fuck'emism. :)
> 
> Ah, yet another 'rugged individualist' who has no clue how much they've
> already benefitted in their life from social structural investments.

Did you see the video of Tomi Lahren crying she lost her job and it is her
life and wah wah wah. Many of these same conservatives who demand others
pull themselves up by their bootstraps cry when the world is not handed to
them.
  
>> In the UK, we call that the "Labour government".  Every time they get in
>> they spend spend spend and increase the national debt, leaving the
>> Conservative party to clean up the mess with cuts, which Labour then
>> says are "mean".
> 
> Perhaps, but in the USA for the past generation plus, the Economy &
> budget has consistently done objectively better when the Democrats
> were in charge and not the Republicans.  Presumably, its because the
> base they're "paying off" is the general middle class as opposed to
> facilitating concentration of wealth in the .1%

I think that is true since at least WWII -- statistically correlated with
the executive and legislative branches.



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use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 15:49 +0100
  Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-15 15:16 +0000
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 16:27 +0100
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 10:21 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-18 21:52 +0100
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-18 14:00 -0700
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-16 17:45 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Fakey's Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-16 19:54 -0500
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-16 19:17 -0700
        Re: OneDollar == OneVote. benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 01:11 -0400
          Re: OneDollar == OneVote. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-16 22:22 -0700
            Re: OneDollar == OneVote. benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 01:38 -0400
              Re: OneDollar == OneVote. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 08:21 -0700
          Re: OneDollar == OneVote. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-16 22:23 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-17 19:46 +0000
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 12:57 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-17 20:04 +0000
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 13:21 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-17 20:26 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 13:40 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-17 20:43 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 14:27 -0700
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2017-04-17 13:15 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-17 20:21 +0000
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 10:17 -0700
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-15 18:16 +0000
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Fakey's Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-15 13:28 -0500
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-15 18:27 +0000
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Fakey's Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-15 13:33 -0500
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-15 18:34 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Fakey's Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-15 13:42 -0500
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-15 18:48 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 15:10 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-15 22:18 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 16:40 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 15:11 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-15 22:21 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 16:41 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 15:15 -0700
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-15 22:32 +0000
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 16:41 -0700
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-16 00:15 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 17:53 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-16 01:04 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 18:17 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-16 01:18 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 18:50 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-16 01:53 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 19:09 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-16 02:12 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 19:38 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-16 02:37 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 19:58 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-16 03:50 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 21:06 -0700
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-16 04:21 +0000
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-15 22:50 -0700

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