Phatscotty support thread.

[Nola_Lifer]

Scotty, what about the tattoo? Bad idea bro.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ead_module

[Phatscotty]

[AndyDufresne]

It only took a week for Phatscotty to get back into the swing things. Who had the stopwatch running?


--Andy

[nietzsche]

Isn't this supposed to be a support thread?

[nietzsche]

[Lootifer]

Have you got the research paper to back that little guy up?

I could draw a picture of me sitting at my desk, then an arrow pointing to a picture of me jumping out of the window to plummet to my death. Doesnt mean its going to happen.

[DoomYoshi]

Oh noes. It's not even Christmas and I'm all out of Peeps.

[notyou2]

What's that white stuff in George's nose Scotty?

[Phatscotty]

Have you got the research paper to back that little guy up?

No, I do not have my own personal research paper to show how Socialism and Communism operates. Therefore, Socialism and Communism do not exist...and you may ignore said post

[Nola_Lifer]

Tell me, why is it that American is so afraid of China becoming a greater economic power if Capitalism is so great?

[Metsfanmax]

Tell me, why is it that American is so afraid of China becoming a greater economic power if Capitalism is so great?

China has more than three times the US population, for one.

[Phatscotty]

and China's pollution is going to destroy the planet.

I think Liberals have a problem with their premise there, as they seem to think America is the biggest polluter in the world, when it's not even close. When it comes to china billowing a trillion time more chemicals that are a million times worse, they don't seem to give a shit unless they can use it to attack America and it's corporations.

Obama is on it though. Nothing Marxist about it

[Phatscotty]

[notyou2]

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.

So apparently you want to keep all the poor in their misery by giving them food instead of actually improving their lives.

How generous of you Scott.

[Phatscotty]

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.

So apparently you want to keep all the poor in their misery by giving them food instead of actually improving their lives.

How generous of you Scott.

Are you sure I'm "the pro-welfare and food stamp guy" through big government, and not a free marketeer who thinks the answer is Freedom and smaller government?



I think you got your mords witched ups

[Metsfanmax]

So apparently you want to keep all the poor in their misery by giving them food instead of actually improving their lives.

How generous of you Scott.

What things has the free market done lately to make it easier for people to "climb up the ladder" themselves?

[HapSmo19]

What things has the free market done lately to make it easier for people to "climb up the ladder" themselves?

Where is this "free market" you speak of? It seems like a great idea. We should try it.

A free market is a market where the price of a good or service is, in theory, determined by supply and demand, rather than by governmental regulation.[1] A free market contrasts with a controlled market or regulated market, where price, supply or demand are subject to regulation or direct control by government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

[Phatscotty]

So apparently you want to keep all the poor in their misery by giving them food instead of actually improving their lives.

How generous of you Scott.

What things has the free market done lately to make it easier for people to "climb up the ladder" themselves?

well gee, let's see. We have so many markets free of government intervention, it's hard to choose!!!!!

The free market doesn't work when the government is interfering as much as it is. Things are way out of whack. The less the government interferes, the more free the market is, the better it can display the benefits of a free market.

I suppose professional sports is a good example of where the market performs the closest to the principles of a free market. And even though drugs are illegal and you can be locked up, the black market for weed especially is a great example of how a free market operates, albeit in the dark. Prices have been stable for generations, and the quality has improved, and if you are poor you can get the cheap shit and if you are rich you can get the plurple-urps. You get what you pay for, and you can always turn it down if it's bunk. Supply and demand are relevant, and prices act accordingly.

The free market has a pretty good track record when it comes to food production as well. Mao and Stalin....not so much

FORWARD!!!

The Great Leap Forward ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of excess deaths.[3] Estimates of the death toll range from 18 million[4] to 45 million,[5] with estimates by demographic specialists ranging from 18 million to 32.5 million.[4] Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that "coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the very foundation of the Great Leap Forward" and it "motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history."[6]

The years of the Great Leap Forward in fact saw economic regression, with 1958 through 1961 being the only years between 1953 and 1983 in which China's economy saw negative growth. Political economist Dwight Perkins argues, "enormous amounts of investment produced only modest increases in production or none at all. … In short, the Great Leap was a very expensive disaster."[7]

In subsequent conferences in 1960 and 1962, the negative effects of the Great Leap Forward were studied by the CPC, and Mao was criticized in the party conferences. Moderate Party members like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping rose to power, and Mao was marginalized within the party, leading him to initiate the Cultural Revolution in 1966.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

[HapSmo19]

Hey Mets,
Please tell us what you think "free market" means. Thanks.

[Metsfanmax]

Hey Mets,
Please tell us what you think "free market" means. Thanks.

I don't disagree with the definition you posted.

[kentington]

Hey Mets,
Please tell us what you think "free market" means. Thanks.

I don't disagree with the definition you posted.

Then were you implying that "free market" doesn't exist or doesn't work, or something else?

[Metsfanmax]

Hey Mets,
Please tell us what you think "free market" means. Thanks.

I don't disagree with the definition you posted.

Then were you implying that "free market" doesn't exist or doesn't work, or something else?

I was just asking for evidence that free markets have taken steps in modern times to give more opportunities to the poor, or, in the absence of truly free markets having done so, evidence that free market principles have done so.

[thegreekdog]

So apparently you want to keep all the poor in their misery by giving them food instead of actually improving their lives.

How generous of you Scott.

What things has the free market done lately to make it easier for people to "climb up the ladder" themselves?

The US has a free market? That's news to me. Please explain how the US has a free market economy.

[HapSmo19]

I was just asking for evidence that free markets have....

You're having trouble with this, huh?

[Iliad]

Isn't this supposed to be a support thread?

Thank you Nietzche. It's awful how quickly this threat degenerated. Please keep it civil people.

I mean look at Scotty.

Well it's clear to see where Scotty is.





Not being opportunistic, I just heard the news and I knew I would be needed here. I think it's time we come together as a community for Scotty here.

2 tru

For years he has been claiming that he didn't even support Bush, that he criticised him as much as the Democrats did, that he not support him, and only supported msall government and nto necessarily Republicans. And yet now in this dark time, Scotty is lashing out and slipped and used Bush as ammo against the Other side. You're just lashing out Scotty, at least you're progressing from denial.

People stop this partisan bickering and admire the truly great presidential nominee that had lost. Dark times.