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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. --Aristotle
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. --Aristotle
by bronte17 on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 04:14:53 PM PDT
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something. Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
Here in the Northeast, the government clears snow off the roads, and people would complain if they didn't. We pay for it with our taxes.
You mean the government doesn't do that in Denver? Weird. Does everyone take their own trash to the dump in Denver? Who maintains the streetlights, etc.?
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious...that you've got to put your bodies on the gears...and make it stop. -- Mario Savio
by Boston Boomer on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 04:49:14 PM PDT
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and obviously forget the myriad ways in which they benefit from various public services. What atrocious judgmentalism.
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. ~ Lily Tomlin
by vigilant meerkat on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 04:52:59 PM PDT
I know a lot of people in Colorado, and I've talked to several of them in the past couple of weeks.
Of course "the government" clears snow off the roads. And a lot of people complained "the government" didn't clear the roads quickly enough, or get the abandoned and wrecked cars and trucks off the road quickly enough. (There were so many stranded vehicles on some of the highways, the snow plows couldn't get through in places.)
And who the bleep does this e-mail liar think is airlifting food and medical supplies to people in eastern Colorado and western Kansas? Or all of that hay being dropped in the vicinity of snowed-in cattle so that farmers don't lose their entire herds? Is it Rush Limbaugh? Is it Michelle Malkin? Uh, no, kids. It's "the government".
"Families took in the stranded people?" Maybe in a few instances. But thousands of people stranded by the storm were fed and sheltered by... you guessed it... "the government" in schools and public buildings.
"Maybe some people" will be interested in the truth rather than another pack of right-wing lies. We can only hope so.
So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.
by MJB on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 05:04:42 PM PDT
You should forward this link from snopes to your "friend" that sent you this http://www.snopes.com/... A similar e-mail was going around right after Katrina.
-Kut
by kutunel on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 05:03:35 PM PDT
http://www.snopes.com/...
by kutunel on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 05:06:53 PM PDT
but the snopes message on the erroneously link was well worth the trip. Got quite a chuckle out of it.
Si se fucking puede! - Melody Townsel
by Endangered Alaskan Dem on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 07:42:01 PM PDT
Or is it a "rural myth"? I got the Marquette MI version from my "up north" MI family. Just a few days before xmas, I couldn't believe how cruel & pathetic it was & did a reply all with the snopes link to tell them so. Not surprised that the fake attribution has now morphed into "Denver Post" since there is NO snow anywhere in the entire L.P. (lower peninsula) of MI & very little in the U.P. I hope someone has forwarded the updated version to snopes. And I think we should send it in to KO as a nominee for "worst person in the world" (the anonymous author of the myth).
Political Will: the ultimate renewable resource. Now follow the leader.
by spiraltn on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 05:27:11 PM PDT
The more examples they get, the more likely they are to update it, I think: LINK
Fired up in Tampa Bay!
by Nonie3234 on Sun Jan 07, 2007 at 11:17:51 AM PDT
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."
am i the only one who noticed this? last time i checked, denver was also below 48°N, so this clearly isn't about the US.
this email originated from a white supremacist. no two ways about it. in polite company you might hear them say an innocuous version which goes something like, "well they have guns in switzerland and sweden and places like that, but they don't have a crime problem. because they're a homogenous [meaning white] society you see."
l'audace! l'audace! toujours l'audace!
by zeke L on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 06:18:49 PM PDT
upon the internets this past week? A link to that quote you provided appears to be yet another ugly play on the Colorado/Plains vs NOLA disasters.
Is this the Rovian playbook to whip up hatred before the Democratic Congress begins its work?
by bronte17 on Sat Jan 06, 2007 at 06:52:37 PM PDT
wide narrow
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