posted on February 12, 2003 02:00:16 PM new
I agree with Borillar. They espouse a certain form of government and then do what they please.
China is a totalitarian government dominated by personalities giving lip service to communistic ideals as long as they don't actually have to let the masses have any power. Just as the US is a government of personalities serving commercial interests with a lip service to democracy.
Doubt it? The President can send the whole country to war because "I'm the boss and say so"
End of arguement. Congress who again - in theory they pay lip service to has the power - on paper. But they are a bunch of hand wringing old women and are glad to pass on exercising all that power.
posted on February 12, 2003 04:07:11 PM new
Narrow minds,The President makes a decision based on privileged infomation you will never hear or know,Just like in your workplace you don't know all that goes on.Just like I don't know you.You may be a rapist or a millionaire it's info I just don't have.It's that simple you will never no it not your place or even your right.National security and many factors come into play.
*****Think!*****
posted on February 12, 2003 04:41:10 PM new
Think? - My goodness don't you get the message denso? They don't want us to think just obey. I can see that is no problem for you.
You must feel so safe with all these brilliant people that know so much more than you taking care of everything for you. Much easier than being an adult and responsible for your own ideas and actions. You might make a mistake.
posted on February 12, 2003 04:59:39 PM new
gravid,
As long as your mind set is as you stated, I don't think our (my?)government has anything to worry about.
Amen,
Reverend Colin
posted on February 12, 2003 05:14:01 PM new
Well now,being I fought to protect your rights and liberty's I must be your Daddy,funny how these things work themselfs out!
posted on February 12, 2003 07:03:37 PM newThe simple Guide to Politics, using Cows
FEUDALISM:
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM:
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM:
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.
FASCISM:
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM:
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM:
You have two cows. You have to take care of them and the government takes all the milk.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM:
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP:
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY:
You have two cows. Your neighbor decides who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY:
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
BUREAUCRACY:
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
PURE ANARCHY:
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors take the cows and kill you.
ANARCHO-CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
SURREALISM:
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on February 12, 2003 07:05:03 PM newAnd in modern business terms:
ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM:
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company,
using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then
execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get
all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of
the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company
secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven
cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns
eight cows, with an option on one more.
Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with
nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your
bull.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk
of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an
ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever
cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat
once a month, and milk themselves.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows. Both are mad.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count
them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn
you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for
storing them.
A HINDU CORPORATION
You have two cows. You worship them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full
employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported
the numbers.
AN ISRAELI CORPORATION
So, there are these two Jewish cows, right? They open a milk factory, an
ice cream store, and then sell the movie rights. They send their calves to
Harvard to become doctors. So, who needs people?
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. That one on the left is kind of cute...
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on February 13, 2003 12:30:49 AM new
Thanks, bunnicula, for re-posting those. I didn't copy them the last time that someone put them up. That one explaining the political systems is fairly accurate.
