[GCFL-discuss] Fwd: FW: Bumper stickers for your liberal friends

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

I am a conservative, and I know what these words mean: "You think healthcare
is expensive now, just wait till it's FREE!"

Back to my navel...

jp

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 23:45, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <
gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:

> Frankly, these bumper stickers all sound like they were written by
> liberals.
>
> No facts. No logic.
>
> For the last 40 years at least, nobody who called themselves a liberal,
> and nobody who called themselves a conservative, has had the slightest
> idea what either of these words mean. Now if these two bands of
> loud-mouthed, self-centered, navel-contemplating idiots could go off in a
> corner somewhere and rip each other to shreds, the rest of us could get
> on with life, work, putting our country back together again, maybe even
> ENJOYING life for what it is, rather than debating what is or isn't
> missing.
>
> I note with pleasure that the date for "change" that the author "can
> believe in" is Jan 20, 2013. I too expect Obama to serve for eight years.
>
> I will add a more respectful note on the last sticker, which is a genuine
> quote from a genuine, sincere, and utterly misguided conservative,
> Margaret Thatcher. What she misses out on is that capitalism, as we know
> it today, also spends a great deal of other people's money. Consider, for
> example, the Savings and Loan scam of the 1980s, and the derivative
> scandals which have nearly crippled our economy and raised unemployment
> to 10% or so, as the collateral damage to making a few people very rich
> on our money. When she broke up the modestly "socialized" economy of
> Great Britain, she did it much the way the economy of the USSR was broken
> up under Yeltsin. A small number of well-placed insiders (in the USSR
> these were called communists, and they were very good at becoming
> rapacious capitalists, given the chance), took over government assets,
> and then treated them as private property. One of the enterprising souls
> (in Britain) leveraged some national railway assets bought at fire sale
> prices into a multi-continental enterprise, that has now bought
> Greyhound, and also bought the company I drive for, but I haven't noticed
> that anything has changed where the rubber meets the road.
>
> Siarlys
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