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Originally Posted by SlipBall
It's basically a matter of how bad someone wants to be wealthy. Many inspiring stories out there, people get great ideas and work hard to fulfill the dream...
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Tell that to someone in Greece at the moment, or one of the 50% of Spanish youth who find themselves without jobs, or the thousands in Ireland who have had to emigrate.
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Originally Posted by SlipBall
the mess you speak of is result of very large governments and the entitlement payouts for all those retirees
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The current mess is the result of the collapse of the financial system in 2008.
I already was of this opinion but this thread has just reinforced it. It seems to me that the right-wing belief system is just a massive self-reinforcing pattern of denial. When reality (from global warming to crashed economies) threatens or invalidates their belief systems they retreat into ever more frantic denial and distortion, ending in a mad dash for bogeymen to pin the blame on. We've seem the full gamut in threads on this very forum over the last few weeks - everything from those mad corrupted scientists through the (usual suspect) Marxists and socialists, athiests, even homosexuals a few weeks back. Everything is fair game if it allows them to sustain their cosy cocoon of denial.
Anyway, I've said I wouldn't get involved in this and I have. This one's for you Andy.
I'm off now before the Klan arrive.