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08-10-2011, 02:40 PM | #12 | |
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Re: London riots
People are starting to stick the boot into the Poms. Here's an opinion piece from Australia.
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08-10-2011, 04:31 PM | #13 |
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Re: London riots
Good article, very true imo.
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08-11-2011, 11:05 AM | #14 |
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Re: London riots
Do you realize what the writer is saying... he's saying it's the big government nanny state giving stuff away to folks and them expecting it, that is the underlying problem.... Sounds exactly like what the Tea Party and Glenn Beck have been saying
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08-11-2011, 12:23 PM | #15 |
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That is exactly where I was going, except John typed faster than I did.
If the United States continues on the path it currently is, we can see clearly where we will end up in 30 years by looking at Great Britain right now. If you see your neighbor making a horrible mistake and the consequences of that mistake, why on Earth would you want to make the same mistake? The Nanny State may, in its beginning, free people from their cell of poverty, but it also strengthens and makes the prison more secure--they are left with the illusion of freedom, not the actuality.
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08-11-2011, 01:26 PM | #16 | |
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At what point will we see them switch to gold instead of GBP?
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08-11-2011, 02:35 PM | #17 |
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Blaming the government for the actions of individuals. I find that viewpoint to be erroneous.
Hate to tell y'all but the "tea party" wing of the GOP has grown to be chocked-full of nanny statists and border-line theocrats. Many of those folks in the GOP simply jumped on the band-wagon getting the most press.
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08-11-2011, 03:56 PM | #18 | |
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The Tea Party has three problems at this time: 1) insufficient membership, 2) most of them are new so they have no political clout, and 3) no formal organization through which to further their goals. There are currently no theocrats in Washington, D.C. Tea Party folks do not support the Nanny State; quite the contrary, if given the ability to do so many of them would quickly and gladly dismantle the Nanny State in its entirety. Now....back to the riots in London. I don't live in England so I can't say for certain if these folks really have anything about which to riot. I can't think that life there is in such a poor state that only one action kicks off a riot. They aren't being oppressed overtly...they aren't told how to dress or what to eat...they aren't forced to listen to or read only government propaganda...there aren't people starving by the thousands while some form of aristocracy blithely ignores their suffering...etc. So why are people rioting? Because police shot a guy? If that were cause for a riot we would have them all the time here.
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08-11-2011, 06:20 PM | #19 |
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Omg if you want a good laugh look at the teaparty interviews on Youtube. Another issue is their obvious lack of education. Many have no idea what they're protesting. Worse, the ones who say they do sport signs that read things like "keep your government hands of my medicare", lol. I mean, granted if medicare is the issue for them chances are they are over 65 and get a pass for being doddering old people. Still, funny to watch.
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08-11-2011, 06:26 PM | #20 | |
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Also, these are kids who loiter around the streets all day and night. In the UK curfews aren't enforced like in the US. If you're walking the streets at night with your mates cops won't stop you unless you're commiting a crime. In the USA you will be stopped if you look under 18 I think? And these people have no cause - they're just hooligans looking for free tv's and destruction. How do I know? Because i'm ashamed to say those are the people I used to hang with growing up. Out of their minds teenagers.
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