[Rhodes22-list] See with a little work we can reach common ground

[Herb Parsons]

Brad,

Isn't it funny how asses like him make stupid statements, then tell you 
not to bother refuting it. I'm no "rags to riches" story, but I do fine, 
thanks very much, under the capitalist system. Please, don't take my few 
riches, go somehwere where that's welcome.

Brad Haslett wrote:
> John,
>
> Wouldn't want to rain on your pity party with a boring story about some
> construction worker with an eighth grade education who's kids all did pretty
> well for themselves through hard work, including one who paid for his own
> flying lessons and college education.
>
> The irony of your assessment is that the countries you mention, especially
> the Soviet Union and China, have abandoned the very form of government you
> advocate in favor of capitalism because it has raised the standard of living
> of its citizens. Been to a factory in China lately?  The workers there might
> take offense to being called slaves.
>
> As to the rest of  your "history lesson", I'll ask my "chink" wife (your
> term) and see if it agrees with her experience.
>
> Brad
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:49 PM, John Shulick <jsbudda at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Brad,
>>
>>     I like beer too !
>>
>> As for the rest
>>
>>
>> Neither of these guys are the 'sharpest knives in the drawer'.  If McCain
>> had a clue he would have explained to his torturers, "look guys, life for
>> your friends the Chinese really sucks right now.  They've shut down all the
>> universities and smart kids your age are out in rice paddies picking
>> leeches
>> off their legs.  Eventually the Chinese will quit this silly nonsense and
>> start building toasters for WalMart and you guys will be stuck making
>> underwear.  In the meantime, Uncle Ho and his buddies will kill 3 million
>> of
>> your countrymen and another million will head to sea and eventually in up
>> in
>> the US and buy of hotels and convenience stores and stuff. I apologize for
>> President Truman ignoring Uncle Ho's request for assistance back in the
>> late
>> 40's, but the French needed their asses pulled out of the fire again (I
>> know, you'd think saving them from the Nazi's would have been enough but
>> then we had to save them from the Communists). Why don't you guys put down
>> the sticks and let me explain a little capitalism and econ101 to you".
>>
>> Unless my knowledge is faulty I believe the backer of the North Vietnamese
>> was the old Soviet Union and not the Chinese who were busy carrying out
>> there "cultural revolution" of Mao and trying to produce iron in peasants
>> backyards. We ignored Ho's requests because french plantation owners'
>> didn't
>> want to lose access to their slave labor force and we were backing DeGaulle
>> and any petty thug or warlord that promised to fight the Red Menace
>> (remember the Shaw of Iran and his secret police). After we left China and
>> Nam fought a conventional boarder war around 1980 (not totally sure of the
>> date sorry) which Nam won or now it would be a Chinese provence.
>>
>> That assumes of course that McCain understands economics himself which by
>> his own admission, isn't his strong suit. That said, I'll take someone with
>> a weak foundation in capitalism over someone who understands Marxist theory
>> all too well.
>>
>> I am terrified with the thought of a POTUS with a weak foundation of
>> capitalism. The U.S. had pretty much unrestrained capitalism from its
>> formation to 1932 and what was the result? 60 hr work weeks,
>> sweatshops, sharecropping, child labor, no safety standards, the company
>> store. Unrestrained capitalism is why I now have federal mine subsidence
>> insurance the superfund to clean up toxic waste dumps and its my money that
>> is paying for this while the offspring of the Slimeballs who did this live
>> in the Hamptons and vacation in the Bahamas.  I never met either of my
>> grandfathers. both died in their 40s' form overwork in the mills that made
>> the money to build Carnegie Hall. But I did see the medallion that one of
>> them left behind that was given to him for 30 years of service, stamped out
>> of stainless steel they were to cheap to use silver. My grandmother told me
>> when she was young she remembers company goons kicking the door in on
>> random
>> searches the company carried out to make sure no employees were stealing. 4
>> generations of people in the Pgh. area busted their butts and fought in 2
>> world wars to create the capital that then turned its back to the city and
>> found fresh slaves in Mexico and China. I'll take my chance on the
>> Obamination as you would call him because I've seen the results of
>> capitalism and unless you happen to be fortunate enough to be born into the
>> upper classes you're pretty much screwed. Please don't bother to reply with
>> any rags to riches bullshit stories, for every one cited  I could recite
>> 1000 others who worked just as hard and got nowhere for their efforts.
>> There
>> was a man named Hall who worked for Westinghouse in the late 50's or early
>> 60's who invented the process for making artificial diamonds, for his
>> discovery the company in is overwhelming gratitude awarded him a $25
>> savings
>> bond. Wonder how much they made on that since then?
>>
>> But I do like beer especially Pa. beer (I buy local and don't shop at
>> Chink-mart either)
>>
>> Keep em coming
>> John Shulick
>>
>>         "Resistance is futile you will be assimilated" The Borg.
>>
>>
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