talk.politics.misc

On Sep 13, 4:28 pm, "Patriot Games" wrote:
> "Jerry Kraus" wrote in message
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> > On Sep 12, 10:13 pm, Baldin Lee Pramer wrote:
> >> On Sep 12, 10:39 am, "Patriot Games" wrote:
> >> > 1) Yes, the Russians are making piles of money off the Iranians.
> >> > 2) The Russians got paid to build two nuclear reactors for the
> >> > Iranians.
> >> > 3) How can the Russians get paid AGAIN?
> >> > 4) By helping destroy those reactors, and getting paid to REBUILD them.
> >> Yeah, that makes sense.
> >> Funny!
> > Actually, Mr. Pramer, to many Americans this does make perfect sense.
> > Destroying things to create work rebuilding them. Americans express
> > great delight at hurricaines tearing up Florida, because this will
> > create high paying construction and cleanup jobs. One of the reasons
> > Mr. Bush is in Iraq is to create jobs rebuilding the country after
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> > American military and civil war destroy it. To many Americans this is
> > by far the simplest way to create employment.
> > It's all rather consistent with Karl Marx's observation that
> > capitalists delight in creating wars to make money. Profiteering is,
> > obviously, the simplest way to make a profit!
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> But its not just Capitalists and wars.
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> Why did that bridge in Wisconsin collapse? Because it wasn't repaired. Why
> wasn't the bridge repaired? Because it hadn't collpased yet!!!!
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True, true. It was in Minnesota, I think, though. A relatively
socialist state, too. Stupidity is, I agree, a social universal.

"Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain..."