Judson Phillips, president of Tea Party Nation, thinks that it makes sense that voting rights in the United States should be restricted to those who own property. He believes that property owners have more of a “vested stake” in a community than do people who do not own property. That’s what he claimed on a weekly program hosted by Tea Party Nation recently.
BTW, Phillips is the individual who sent an email to members of his organization in October telling them that they should vote for the Independent candidate over Rep. Keith Ellison in the November election for 5th Congressional District in Minnesota. Phillips wrote the following about Ellison in his email: “There are a lot of liberals who need to be retired this year, but there are few I can think of more deserving than Keith Ellison. Ellison is one of the most radical members of congress. He has a ZERO rating from the American Conservative Union. He is the only Muslim member of congress.”
Meanwhile—Rushbo ranted on about poor folks recently on his radio program. In a “media tweak of the day,” Limbaugh asked listeners if they thought that people who can’t feed and clothe themselves and who receive government assistance should be allowed to vote. It was just a “think piece” Rushbo said as he asked his listeners to imagine how different the political make-up of this country would be if such people couldn’t vote.
In a Psycho Talk segment on his MSNBC program, Ed Schultz “tweaked” Limbaugh back.
Maybe Phillips and Limbaugh ought to get together to establish an organization for the purpose of taking voting rights away from certain Americans whom they deem unworthy. Why not return to the good old political days when only property-owning white men had the right to vote. Right???
Sources:
– Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger
Awww.
Isn’t that just precious!
Stupid policies? No, I don’t support stupid polices which by default means I don’t support Congress. Especially the Senate. Haven’t for a long time. Most of them are complicit in the ongoing treason and subversion of the Constitution. They don’t get my support. They get my scorn for not upholding their oath of office to protect the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic – largely because many of them are domestic enemies of the Constitution or anything that threatens the bottom line of their corporate masters.
People don’t have money to buy houses because venal nitwits such as yourself stole their money and outsourced their jobs. The banks took $700,000,000,000 of their hard earned and paid tax dollars (all the while avoiding their own corporate tax liabilities), promised to open consumer lending up and didn’t open consumer lending but instead took that money – money that people could have bought houses with money from consumer loans – and paid themselves and the other corporate directors – who produce NOTHING – big fat bonuses to match their big fat egos.
Stupid? People who love money over principle, the rule of law and social stability are stupid. People who think other people are property are stupid. It’s that kind of venal mentality that enabled Grand Theft TARP in the first place. It’s that kind of mentality that ruined the manufacturing base in this country. It’s that kind of mentality that says only property owners should have the right to vote. It’s that kind of mentality that fights for continued tax cuts for the rich parasites that screwed up things for . . . everybody else.
Libertarians are and libertarianism is part of the problem, not part of the solution. It’s nothing but a cult of greed, avoidance of responsibility for their bad actions and the desire to pass on costs of their voluntary high risk/high cost transactions to the rest of society to protect their personal profits. The ultimate in criminal welfare. You get to steal and abuse, face no punishment and get government subsidies to protect your profits when your Ponzi schemes fail.
Come on. Run that mouth some more to rationalize your greed, hot rod. It’s funnier than Hell.
Mespo727272:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon
Mr. Cantillion might take offense with you calling Adam Smith the father of economics.
Hey Buddhass (rhymes with dumbass):
“You could build the best damn house the world has ever seen.
If no one is buying houses, you’re still screwed.
The rest is you flapping your lips in self-rationalization.”
No one would be buying houses because the dipsticks in congress think just like you do and no one has any money to buy houses because of stupid policies you support.
Elaine:
I didnt say I could write a good novel or even a fair novel. I could probably write a book but it would not be that good. It is very hard to write, let alone write well.
Chan L.,
I agree that there are individuals who are multi-talented. I also know some who are brilliantly talented in one area who lack any talent in other areas.
BTW, my passions are poetry and science…and good food.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One of my poetry idols is Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska. I think E. B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web” is one of the finest works of children’s literature ever written. I love the paintings of Van Gogh. I think DaVinci was a genius.
A lot of people THINK they can write. It’s not as easy as one might suppose to compose a well-crafted novel…to absorb readers in a story…to have them care about the well-defined characters.
You could build the best damn house the world has ever seen.
If no one is buying houses, you’re still screwed.
The rest is you flapping your lips in self-rationalization.
You lost and you admitted it. Run along now.
Buddha is Laughing:
“Might I suggest something more in line with your demonstrated skill set. Like auto-erotic asphyxiation. Since you’re a do-it-yourself-er.”
he doesn’t need to, your bullshit is creating enough methane to asphyxiate an entire town.
Buddha is Laughing:
people have a general idea of what they want, but they don’t really know. It is the objective of the producer to make something people want.
The market research is general or if you are smart enough and Jobs probably is, you give people what they want.
The supply creates the demand. You are thinking necessaries like toilet paper and bread.
If I was a really good architect I could design some very exciting houses and build them, people would buy them. I have created demand through superior design.
You lose again.
What is it exactly that Jobs researches? It couldn’t be what the market wants as expressed by consumer desires gathered through survey techniques, could it? He didn’t create a supply without assessing an actual demand first . . . general dipstick. He could have built 10 times the number of iPads and if no one wanted them, he’d have been as screwed as Edsel. It’s demand that drives suppliers, it’s resources and practicality that constrain manufactures/suppliers in providing that supply. Want and need drive demand which in turn drives corporations to try to find an economically viable (read: profitable) models for meeting that market niche call for supply. Say, like Von Mises and Hayek, had it backwards and off kilter – demand creates the potential for supply. Other market forces constrain the ability to meet that supply. Quantity of supply primarily drives price.
You’re right about one thing though, Chan-bot.
I win.
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Home Schooled Happy Meal,
Von Mises was technically a libertarian and I called him a libertarian economist. What I said was he “is a go to guy for fascist apologists and libertarians”.
Learn to read and to comprehend what you read. Being autodidactic does you no good if you don’t understand the language you are learning in. Might I suggest something more in line with your demonstrated skill set. Like auto-erotic asphyxiation. Since you’re a do-it-yourself-er.
Elaine M:
“I’d like to ask you why you have such a low regard for English majors. I was a teacher for many years. I observed children who had a variety of intelligences and talents. You appear to think that those with a so-called “scientific” intelligence are superior to those with a “language/English” intelligence. Do you think you could write a masterful novel? Could you paint/sculpt a great work of art?”
that depends on what you consider good art and literature. Most smart people are good at a number of different things. A good many engineers I know are also decent musicians.
I can paint as well as Jackson Pollock and probably write a novel. But what is your definition of good? I couldn’t write a novel on par with Victor Hugo nor could I paint as well as DeVinci nor sculpt as well as Michelangelo if my life depended on doing so. But then not many people can. I can make the argument that both DeVinci and Michelangelo were scientists in their own right.
Intelligence is a funny thing and there are many components to it. I have met many engineers who couldnt walk and chew gum at the same time, but they can come up with some really great ideas.
I just met a guy, I believe he has autism, who can calculate the day of the week my birthday will be on in the year 2679. But he cant tell you your name 10 minutes after you meet him.
Elaine M:
I was giving Gyges a hard time. I love literature and think we would have a pretty dull world without the color good writers bring to us.
And good teachers as well, I remember the good ones I had.
B ludwig was a fascist? So… why not stick around when the fascist nazis were taking over? Seems like a dream come true? Why bother to flee the country? Why not take a cushy post in nazi ruled academia like his forgotten counterpart otto bauer.
Ill wait while you google it.
Mespo727272:
Locke was a big time deweeder.
Chan L.,
I’d like to ask you why you have such a low regard for English majors. I was a teacher for many years. I observed children who had a variety of intelligences and talents. You appear to think that those with a so-called “scientific” intelligence are superior to those with a “language/English” intelligence. Do you think you could write a masterful novel? Could you paint/sculpt a great work of art?
Have you ever read Howard Gardner’s book “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences?”
Think Apple Ipad or Amazon Kindle you economic dipstick. Or how about any other popular product. Companies create products to increase market share. Consumers don’t go and run tell Steve Jobs what they want, he determines it through research and then he produces a shit load of them (supply) and then people see the shiny new toy and go buy one (demand). If ole Steve did his homework right he hits a home run and makes a boat load of money for himself, his shareholders, the people who work at Apple, the companies that sell them and the companies that market them.
Those people in turn go out and buy other goods and services. It is like talking to a retarded sheep trying to splain economics to you.
All you can do is call someone a fascist apologist, sh… you don’t even know what a fascist is, that would be my guess.
I give up, you win. I’m a troll and you are a polymath/genius/man about town/titan of Mars/King of the Hill/top of the heap/A number 1
It’s easy to weed the path when another has cut it through the forest for you.
Nice!!!!!
ekeyra:
While economic activity has existed since man emerged from the forets and in primarily barter form, the inventor of our system of free emterprise based-economics was clearly Adam Smith. He is widely-regarded as the “founding father of economics.” Also, Smith goes to great lengths to discuss the concepts of “labor” and “price” (which you call “cost”). Smith equates price not with the cost of the production of the item but the amount you are willing to pay to avoid undergoing those costs yourself in producing it – time. material costs, etc. Of course, there have been refinements of his thought and gaps filled in by men such as Ricardo, but essentially his concepts fuel today’s economies.
Were it not for reading Smith’s works, Ricardo would have become just another wealthy stock broker like his father.
It’s easy to weed the path when another has cut it through the forest for you.
Obama is Bush on Steriods
Chan,
The Bush tax cuts went into effect years before TARP and Obama’s stimulus plan.
Bobby, left you something over on the Rhea thread in case you missed it.