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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 06:48 PM
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In reading, have you ever come across a simple phrase that says so much in so few words?
Edited on Sun Apr-25-10 06:50 PM by marmar
I've been thinking about this short couple of graphs from Raj Patel's "The Value of Nothing" all day......:


"Without cash in a market society, you're free to do nothing, to have very little and to die young. In other words, under capitalism, money is the right to have rights."


Genial !!!!
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 06:52 PM
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1. Heh.. I'm living it right now..
No money, no transportation, no medical care and the only reason I have a roof over my head is because of family helping me out.

Capitalism sucks if you've lost your capital or never had any to start with.
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Caliman73 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 06:52 PM
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2. And money is speech too.
Edited on Sun Apr-25-10 06:53 PM by Caliman73
In Capitalism: A Love Story, that economist talking about how capitalism and democracy are touted as one in the same, and how it is bullshit. The more money you have the more impact you have. That is not democracy.

Money is money, freedom is freedom and rarely do the twain really meet.
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 06:52 PM
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3. So true. I concur. knr. n/t
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 06:53 PM
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4. Yup. That's why I made it my sig.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 06:57 PM
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5. This is something Ive been thinking about a lot lately
For example, the United States didn't have a debate on whether health care was a right, but only if its a right to purchase it. Recieving health care thereafter depends entirely on one's ability to make the co-pays too.

Definitely, in the US, the concept of a "right" to a good or a service is so foreign that it cannot so much as be debated in the midst of a disaster associated with a service.
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 07:03 PM
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6. Yep. Just last night something struck me as eternal truth
"A cold beer on a hot day is reason enough not to commit suicide."

Thank you, JR Moehringer.
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rustydog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 07:07 PM
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7. " If Bin Laden is calling someone in the United States, I want to know what he is saying"
:puke:
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 07:31 PM
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8. "Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty
steel chains for the poor and weak"
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 07:54 PM
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9. "The law in its awful majesty,
forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges." Clever, those French.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 08:46 PM
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10. k&r
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 08:47 PM
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11. 'too clever is dumb' ogden nash
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 09:46 PM
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12. "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try" - Yoda, Jedi Master

:)
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