[geeks] what is the world coming to...

[Andrew Weiss]

On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 10:12 PM, Kurt Huhn wrote:

>> My point of view is (an opinion) how can anyone logically be anything
>> but a democrat (in alignment... i.e. majority party closest to current
>> point of view) if they:
>>
>
> Okay, be warned.  This is only an attempt at humor - nothing more.
> Actually I got this sent to me the other day and figured it might be
> appropriate levity...
>
>
>  How to be a good Democrat...
>
> <snip>

>  8. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and
> governments create prosperity.
>
Yes I know it was a joke... and the points are reasonably funny... 
perhaps we should do an opposite list for fun... I think I can still 
comment on two points... the above and 17.

Both create oppression IMO.... Microsoft , MPAA :-), etc... and 
Robo-Cheney 's shadow government oil republic (with puppet Dub) do too.

>   17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked
> anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people haven't been in
> charge.
>
It has worked many times until Capitalism and IMF/Worldbank came in and 
squashed it by funding bandits whose only purpose was to slowly erode 
the blossoming government... send the literacy rate into the crapper... 
plant land mines all over the country... and get everyone in the country 
so poor and dependent on them that they'd die if IMF/WB left the 
country... (examples covered Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, and to 
some extent Zimbabwe and Zaire)

Case in point...still working... Sweden and several others I'm 
forgetting.

Everything else... no comment..."they're all a bunch of tree-huggin 
hippies." :-P