Quote Originally Posted by iamapatient
I haven't got mine yet. Maybe I wasn't affected. [/wishfull thinking] Other than that I'm mostly (not completely) satisfied with the treatment I've received as a disabled vet and I've even been asked to participate in focus groups on VA services.



I must have missed that. Not exactly "liberal slavery," I think we were talking about "socialist slavery" and anytime socialism is implemented individual freedoms are trampled. Hence the analogy to slavery. You no longer have a choice, you're forced. That's the immoral system, socialism. Which is more moral, a capitalist who willingly donate to charities that they support or a socialist government forcing you to work to pay for the benefit of somebody that you owe no debt to nor have done any wrong to? You do understand that Lincoln freed the slaves, not because he had jungle fever but because he understood that it was wrong to force the slaves to work for other people's gain. The history of socialism and it's evil offspring communism, shows that the systems are fundementally flawed because humans want to be free. Socialists hate capitalism because it provides an alternative to liberal oppression and control.
Thanks for keeping it cival... Lincoln was perhaps our greatest president and it's not primarily because he freed the slaves. He served to preserve the Union and he died for it. John Wilkes Booth didn't shoot him because he freed slaves.

The reason I despise the Bush administration is that they got EVERYTHING wrong... War, Gays, Taxes, Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Faith Based Initiatives. They took an opportunity to unite the world and squandered it on the notion that U.S. corporate interests could shape the world, while religious interests could shape the courts and the legislature... Well, 90% of the world thinks we're stupid and dangerous, and 65% of Americans are now wondering the same.

How free were the workers in the capitalism of the early to mid 1900's? Troops and Corporate hired militia to quell socialist dissent????