Another reason entitlements need to go bye-bye

[purist]

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[Tarathiel]

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buahahaha

[Slathar]

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Hahahah! It's perfect.

Purist in '12

[Hailto]

Originally Posted by Slathar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Look another clueless community college scholar!

That might bother me if you hadn't already established yourself as a complete fucking moronic fail-troll.

[Barkingturtle]

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You're setting up a ridiculous straw man. Nobody in this thread has labeled Americans as the most ingenious people on the planet -- not by a long shot. Personally, I said the US is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. Making any judgment about the quality of the citizenry is external to that fact.

But Norway's success as a nation of 5,000,000 is only slightly more relevant than the successes of Israeli kibbutzim when discussing communism. Scale means everything.

I actually said we weren't the most ingenuous of peoples, which was probably just Freudian.

So the excuse again is the size of our nation? How is that acceptable to you? Why is it acceptable to you? I think it's a cop-out and it's just easier than being honest and admitting we're scared and we don't want to admit that policies other than the ones we've come to know and love are in fact superior. We don't want to do the hard things, so we just call them impossible. We're no longer the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world, but at least we're still making a strong showing in the greed and cowardice races, thanks to folks like you.

[Slathar]

Originally Posted by Hailto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That might bother me if you hadn't already established yourself as a complete fucking moronic fail-troll.

Are you angered, though?

[Hailto]

Originally Posted by Slathar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are you angered, though?

Not really, trolling is a lost art now days it seems.

[Loke]

I actually made a new pair of Jorts today out of an old pair of 511s.. they're pretty fly. Now I just need that sick shirt with flames!

[Daldolma]

Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I actually said we weren't the most ingenuous of peoples, which was probably just Freudian.

So the excuse again is the size of our nation? How is that acceptable to you? Why is it acceptable to you? I think it's a cop-out and it's just easier than being honest and admitting we're scared and we don't want to admit that policies other than the ones we've come to know and love are in fact superior. We don't want to do the hard things, so we just call them impossible. We're no longer the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world, but at least we're still making a strong showing in the greed and cowardice races, thanks to folks like you.

Oh no you di'n't. Am I supposed to be offended? I'm not. You're naive. And, worse, ignorant of what goes into government if you believe that the difference between the average quality of life in Norway and the US is attributable to "policies". There is no policy that turns West Baltimore into Norway. Norway didn't just stumble onto the secret to happiness, which every other nation in the world is conveniently ignoring. Norway is a disproportionately wealthy and minuscule nation that represents less than 1/10 of a percentage of the world population and has essentially no role in foreign policy. It's a small and skewed minority.

And you continue to state that "we" -- which I assume means America -- are not the wealthiest or most powerful nation in the world. That is demonstrably incorrect.

[Barkingturtle]

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is no policy that turns West Baltimore into Norway.

That's racist.

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Norway didn't just stumble onto the secret to happiness, which every other nation in the world is conveniently ignoring.

Well I sure do wonder why Norway and Baltimore are so different. Gee. Did Baltimore stumble upon the secret to misery or something?

In any event, I think it'd be a great exercise for you to list all the other nations with higher quality of life than the U.S. and then you can make excuses for why each one does a better job than us. I'll give you a day or two because I know all that justification can be time-consuming.