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2005-10-31 Europe

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-31 06:22|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't buy the argument that by not procreating you are hurting the next generation. There are so many flaws in this logic that it should be called Swiss logic.

I don't buy it for lots of reasons, mostly because it always seems to be peddled by the idiot loons of the right, like Buchanan [do they have kids?], the KKK and others who are attempting to increase the numbers of their own followers... but I digress.

So you are telling me...that in an article saying that the biggest problem Europe faces is that the people consume too many benefits that solution is to create more "workers" to satisfy their needs. Ok. You call them workers if you like, but the reality is that they are just more consumers. Do you see the flaw? Is it really that hard to see?

Reminds me of the ol' joke:

You lose $1.00 on every sale, how do you make any profit?

Volume.

Posted by 2b 2005-10-31 08:41|| 2005-10-31 08:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Socialism is a pyramid scheme and you need lots of new members to ensure the early adopters are paid off. Its as simple as that.

Europe has been replacing the lower levels of the pyramid with immigrants from North Africa and it doesn't seem to be working out as well as planned (see the post on Riots in Paris above) for details.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-10-31 09:34|| 2005-10-31 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 One and a half centuries ago, John Stuart Mill warned that in a democracy everyone receiving government benefits ought to be disenfranchised

JSM was a smart cookie. We may yet discover he was right.

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-31 09:35|| 2005-10-31 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Everyone ought to be enfranchised according to the amount of tax they pay, not for merely existing.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2005-10-31 16:35|| 2005-10-31 16:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Both are relevant reasons for representation. That's part of why we have a bi-cameral legislature.

Posted by Phereling Elmeath7503 2005-10-31 17:31|| 2005-10-31 17:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Reminds me of the ol' joke:

You lose $1.00 on every sale, how do you make any profit?

Volume.

That was an Lucy Ricardo joke, lucy and Ethel sold "Homemade Salad Dressing" that they bought at the store for 69 cents, and sold for 49 cents, and planned to make up the difference in volume.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-10-31 20:12|| 2005-10-31 20:12|| Front Page Top

#7 One need not travel to Europe to see the results of population decline of the west. Do you think those folks slipping across the Mexican border are coming here because we've already got too many able bodied laborers? Do you also believe our gov't is looking the other way because we enjoy a budget surplus and the national debt is headed downward? Big gov't is a huge ponzi scheme.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-10-31 20:41|| 2005-10-31 20:41|| Front Page Top

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