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Die Already, by Robert Gore

Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years, 1 month ago to Government
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If she’s elected, Hillary Clinton will be 69 years old when she takes office. The policies she espouses—government control of everything, spending other people’s money, going further into debt, and making war—are more tired than her lifeless eyes and sagging flesh. Her political party, once epitomized by the youthful vigor of John F. Kennedy, has become a flock of cynical vultures, feasting on rotting government and the dying American economy while cackling their saprophytic political philosophy: “More corpses.” It is symbolic that the current administration’s crowning “achievement” has been government hijacking for Democrats’ political advantage the system that administers to the sick and the dying.

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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 9 years, 1 month ago
    Awesome, Robert, a powerful autopsy of current cultural values. Brilliant vocabulary, trenchant dissection of the wasting body politic, and only two typos: "preceeded" instead of "preceded", and "its" instead of "it's" ("refuses to recognize that its long past time to leave the stage").

    Now we must ask: how can Objectivism be the cleansing agent for the philosophical rot covering the globe? Or has the "virtuous selfishness" meme encouraged indifference to the inflicting of generational damage and led to our present-day collectivist cannibalism?
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    • Posted by 9 years, 1 month ago
      Puzzlelady,
      Typos have been corrected. As for what Objectivism can do, it is my long held conviction that when the herd wants to run off the cliff, a Texas Stadium-sized crowd of Objectivists singing the Ayn Rand chorus is not going to stop them. You have to let the herd go where they're going to go; if you don't you'll get run over. That's not to say we should stop singing. When it's time to rebuild, Objectivists will be the only ones with the knowledge necessary to erect a new structure and the credibility that will come from having consistently espoused the philosophy that will serve as the structure's foundation.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 1 month ago
    Man, I love your vocabulary." Saprophytic" had me running to the dictionary. Don't tell me about on line dictionaries. I've been using my New Collegiate Dictionary since 1953 and I'm not about to change. My grandson (a "millennial" ) tells me that I'm hipper than most ancients whom he courteously avoids calling "the walking dead" in public. Some time ago, I listed all my disabilities along with all the meds I take and told him about the squib we saw in the old movie theaters, the Preview of Coming Attractions. He just smiled and I realized he was just being kind. As to making fun of the 18 to 30 year old persons, it's the same as ever. The idiots, especially the loud ones get the attention while the competent producers just keep going along producing, until the Washington Wooses make it impossible for them to continue.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 9 years, 1 month ago
    Unfortunately, it is too true. I do not mean to be a
    burden; I never wanted to be on Social Security; but they cut people at the plant, and the employ-
    ment (which I started taking at the former employ-
    er's insistence) ran out; and I thought, let those
    people who keep voting in those welfate-statist
    politicians pay for it, until I get a job. It would
    have been depressing enough to have read that
    article yesterday, when I turned 64. I am still
    trying to get a job. I have no confidence in edu-
    cation, considering all the tech courses I have
    taken in my time, which have done me no good.
    I consider education a big swindle.
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    • Posted by 9 years, 1 month ago
      I didn't mean to depress anybody, young or old. My article, and the piece of advice embedded in the title, was aimed squarely at the gerontocracy: old people with old ideas who run the country and have made life miserable for the rest of us, young and old. (I'm 57 myself, and wish I had started a little earlier launching my writing career. It's tiring and I don't have quite the energy I used to!)
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 1 month ago
      Social Security is not a burden that we placed on the Government. It is a debt owed burden the and the break even point is when you get back the amount of the debt owed plus interest plus taxes paid and adjusted for true devaluation of buying power.

      So don't feel badly....like unemployment insurance and disability insurance it's something owed to you not the other way around.

      The burden is on those who receive it and paid nothing of whom the primary recipient is Government..
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 1 month ago
    well, I didnt vote for this government socialist crap so I dont want to die. Anyway, these millenials are even more socialist than the baby boomers !!!
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 9 years, 1 month ago
    Michael Aarethun: Sorry, the money I paid in is
    long gone; as I understand it, it went to other peop-
    le while I was paying it in. It didn't sit there, wait-
    ing for me in a box. So I still don't feel good about
    it. But I am still physically very strong; in fact, I
    lift weights (in my home, I have no gym mem-
    bership,nor do I need one). There is no reason I
    could not do a job. But I hear that employers
    don't want to pay some kind of insurance on
    older people. If the government would just leave
    everybody alone, jobs would be considerably
    more plentiful.
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  • Posted by $ guinness222 9 years, 1 month ago
    Hence my belief that a Presidential Candidate, MUST by law declare their VP nominee, and all of the Cabinet nominees no later than July 1, of every Presidential election year. Then we can decide on an entire "regime" and not just a "personality" friend or foe before we vote.
    Not a bad idea to have KEY cabinet position candidates debate as well. Could have kept us out of this current position.
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 1 month ago
      Since they are in the act of succession good idea. But why are they in the act of succession? How many votes did they get? None.

      I also don'[t agree with Spieaker of the House preceding the Senate for the same reason.

      In fact I would put the order as Pres. Vice Pres. Senators, Governors, Representatives. What's the average amount of voters in a Coingressional District? Are they representative of the entire State never mind the nation. Consider Pelosillynni Two potheads and a toker. she';s re-elected. At least with their Senators it takes some illegals to balance out the state.
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  • Posted by Joseph23006 9 years, 1 month ago
    Even JFK would have aged but better than his party. The Democrats have not aged gracefully nor infused their rhetoric with new ideas since the 1960's, JFK was a maverick of the party. We certainly don't need to elect the corpse of a party.
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    • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 1 month ago
      JFK in todays terms would be called a bi-conceptual. Liberal on social issues but a fiscal conservative and a free speech advocate nay a Bill of Rights Advocate. He would not be accepted in the Socialist Party today even as a RINO.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 1 month ago
    Saprophytes are more generally plants, fungi, or micro-organisms more accurately called myco-heterotrophs because they actually parasitize fungi, rather than dead organic matter directly. They live on dead or decomposing matter.

    Analogy or an actual connection?

    Works for me.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 1 month ago
    I don't get why you hope millennials who went into debt will default. That money came from people, including millennials, who chose not to go into debt. We can trust them to be adults, choose whether to go into debt, find ways to do what they promised, and gain the wisdom that comes from life's trial-and-error.
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    • Posted by 9 years, 1 month ago
      By some estimates the tax rate that will be necessary to support the government and its debt in twenty years will be around 80 percent. That's slavery, and I think the millennials will have no choice but to throw off their chains.
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      • Posted by term2 9 years, 1 month ago
        The millennials should just stop paying for the boomers who have not saved. BUT, I have to say that inflation has indeed made it kind of stupid to even save, so its really the federal reserve's fault.
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      • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 1 month ago
        How many 20th Century Motors Corporations will there be at that tax rate?

        Seems that slavery is too mild of a word for it since I consider the current tax rates slavery.

        Another fine article SL!
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