Comments on: Safe as Houses http://functional-autonomy.net/blog/?p=317 Psychology, art, videogames. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:29:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: David Hayward http://functional-autonomy.net/blog/?p=317&cpage=1#comment-9220 David Hayward Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:17:04 +0000 http://func-auton.net/blog/?p=317#comment-9220 Well if America is really hung between the extremes of fascism and socialism, I'd say it's done pretty well for itself over the past couple of centuries... Well if America is really hung between the extremes of fascism and socialism, I’d say it’s done pretty well for itself over the past couple of centuries…

]]> By: Rich Paul http://functional-autonomy.net/blog/?p=317&cpage=1#comment-9219 Rich Paul Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:22:10 +0000 http://func-auton.net/blog/?p=317#comment-9219 Well, I say a pox on the Repubs and the Demos. Things are bad now, they're really bad --- but you remember what happened last time a Dem took over in <b>really</b> bad times? We got the "new deal". We got Socialist Insecurity shoved down our throats, not to mention price controls, agricultural subsidies, big-business subsidies, and the wonderful FDIC which will be soon be -- once again -- taking money from those who make good decisions and redistributing it to fools --- and it doesn't much matter to me if they're Wall Street Fools or Bowery Fools or New Orleans flood zone dwellers. Making bad decisions is supposed to have bad consequences. That's how we learn. Perhaps we voters should learn something -- got knows we're the ones suffering the pain -- about tossing our government back and forth between the Socialists on the left and the Fascists on the Right. Big government does not work, no matter which scapegoats they choose. Well, I say a pox on the Repubs and the Demos. Things are bad now, they’re really bad — but you remember what happened last time a Dem took over in really bad times? We got the “new deal”. We got Socialist Insecurity shoved down our throats, not to mention price controls, agricultural subsidies, big-business subsidies, and the wonderful FDIC which will be soon be — once again — taking money from those who make good decisions and redistributing it to fools — and it doesn’t much matter to me if they’re Wall Street Fools or Bowery Fools or New Orleans flood zone dwellers.

Making bad decisions is supposed to have bad consequences. That’s how we learn. Perhaps we voters should learn something — got knows we’re the ones suffering the pain — about tossing our government back and forth between the Socialists on the left and the Fascists on the Right. Big government does not work, no matter which scapegoats they choose.

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