“Free Trade Doesn’t Work” (book review)

On 7/19/2010 2:00 PM, Me, …again! wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
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>>>>>>> The word “liberal” is a bad word these days.
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>>>>>> Negative connotations come with the Negative acts by Liberals….
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>>>>>> The word Liberal is a positive thing when I read the Definition, the
>>>>>> problem arises when you look at WHO has become associated with that
>>>>>> word…. they are actually Socialists, the Liberals have passively
>>>>>> allowed their moniker to be stolen by Socialists and NOW the
>>>>>> Progressives and Socialists have consumed the NAME of Democrat.
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>>>>> Most of the socialism in the USA is “socialism for the rich”. They get
>>>>> richer, the poor get poorer.
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>>>> The poor need no money…. Government/the-rich pays for everything.
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>>> Oh, how funny. Anyone can get a copy of Forbes annual list of richest
>>> people. Funny no government employees ever appear, no former government
>>> employees evern appear on that list.
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>> You missed the point, government taxes the money from the rich to give
>> to the poor.
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> Just compensating for the money the rich took from the poor to make them
> poor.
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> The poor need no money “so saying the poor get poorer”
>> makes zero difference,
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> All the data, published articles say people are not making, today, any
> more money than decades ago but prices kept going up over those decades.
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> Therefore, the poor did get poorer.
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> they still have everything they need and it’s
>> paid for by Government who stole the money from your Socialist rich.
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> Yep, they are the Socialist rich, complete with control over prices, net
> profit, salary to themselves, tax dodging, offshore bank accounts…etc.
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>> The poor can’t get poorer,
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> Well, if they are unemployed and draining their bank account–if they
> have one– then they get poorer. Unless they are living on park benches
> and getting handouts.
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> it’s an oxymoron when you have a “safety net”
>> that picks up all their costs of living.
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> Most poor don’t have much…maybe a broken down TV set.
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>> To be poor means that you qualify for government to pay for you to live
>> at the standard we call poor. *You can’t get poorer than poor* .
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> Yeah, they can…if they don’t qualify.
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> The
>> government gives you enough money and services to keep you at the level
>> known as poor…. you always have that level no matter how many jobs
>> you lose.
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> Unless you are mentally ill. And, you got laid off involuntarily because
> of the economy.

You are stupid…. I tried to educate you to the fact that poor is as
bad as it gets since when you are poor the government starts taking care
of you. You can’t be poorer than government allows you.

The poor can’t get poorer. Only the rest of us can “fall” and then only
to poor which is the bottom.