Has Obama Made Us Into a Banana Republic?

[bripat9643]

Our subservience to the capitalist has made us a banana republic

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

 

[Moonglow]

well, Happy Easter to you jilly. Hope you can have a nice day

Well that is the best post I've ever seen by you...congrats...

 

[rightwinger]

Our subservience to the capitalist has made us a banana republic

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

Obama proposes projections for workers like mandatory healthcare, wage increases, equal pay.......and you claim banana republic where there is no consideration of the worker?

Who is the moron other than you and Stephanie?

 

[kaz]

Do you do any historical research outside the Communist Manifesto, or is that pretty much it?

Did you sleep through history classes or just not go at all?

If you are too lazy to learn, why not just watch Godfather 2?

Dude, WTF? Not only did I know what you said but I cited the specific source of your information

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

I know what a banana republic is. You are confused because you used a lot of the right words, you just used them in a Marxist spin.

Banana Republicans are generally fascist. What you do is you turn around where fascism is actually government controlling industry and make it industry controlling government. That is why I kept telling you that you don't know what it is. Industrial giants go up against the political leader and they end up dead, like would have happened had they tried that in Nazi Germany. You may now proceed to not grasp this yet again

 

[boedicca]

Considering the trend to legalize marijuana, I'd say that Obama is turning us into a Ganja Republic.

 

[kaz]

Our subservience to the capitalist has made us a banana republic

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

Obama proposes projections for workers like mandatory healthcare, wage increases, equal pay.......and you claim banana republic where there is no consideration of the worker?

Who is the moron other than you and Stephanie?

LOL, you just proved again you don't know what it means. As I said, you think it's industry controlling government when it's government controlling industry. As your argument Obama isn't head of a banana republic, you just gave examples of government controlling industry. Examples of us being a banana republic. I do believe you are real, stupidity like that can't be made up

 

[Stephanie]

Considering the trend to legalize marijuana, I'd say that Obama is turning us into a Ganja Republic.

oh he has his reasons for wanting that too. don't think he doesn't

 

[kaz]

Considering the trend to legalize marijuana, I'd say that Obama is turning us into a Ganja Republic.

Mary Jane will be legal one day. Look at the attitude of kids about it. And wow, what a great day that will be in terms of ridding the government of one excuse to ignore the constitution and end the direct funding of organized crime

 

[kaz]

Considering the trend to legalize marijuana, I'd say that Obama is turning us into a Ganja Republic.

oh he has his reasons for wanting that too. don't think he doesn't

Smoking pot is stupid, but nowhere in the Constitution is the Federal government authorized to stop people from being stupid

 

[boedicca]

Considering the trend to legalize marijuana, I'd say that Obama is turning us into a Ganja Republic.

Mary Jane will be legal one day. Look at the attitude of kids about it. And wow, what a great day that will be in terms of ridding the government of one excuse to ignore the constitution and end the direct funding of organized crime

Agreed. It's time to get rid of all the graft and corruption enabled in the War To Get People Hooked On Drugs and To Fill Our Jails With Petty Criminals.

 

[FA_Q2]

Our subservience to the capitalist has made us a banana republic

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

Obama proposes projections for workers like mandatory healthcare, wage increases, equal pay.......and you claim banana republic where there is no consideration of the worker?

Who is the moron other than you and Stephanie?

A banana republic does not preclude consideration of workers. It has nothing to do with that as we have just established on the last page. The government looks out for the needs of the company over the people - you seem to think that healthcare is at odds with those needs - it is not.

Such impositions can actually help major companies by ensuring that the cost of entering the marketplace is to high and competition is stopped.

Note that Obama did not set up a system of healthcare for workers at all as a matter of fact. instead, he FORCED all people in this nation to buy a healthcare product from a company. Hmmm... would that be looking out for the people's needs or for the needs of healthcare companies that need customers?

 

[boedicca]

Considering the trend to legalize marijuana, I'd say that Obama is turning us into a Ganja Republic.

oh he has his reasons for wanting that too. don't think he doesn't

Smoking pot is stupid, but nowhere in the Constitution is the Federal government authorized to stop people from being stupid

Most laws and regulations are aimed at keeping people from doing things that some regulatory busy body thinks is stupid.

i.e., outlawing big sodas.

 

[rightwinger]

Our subservience to the capitalist has made us a banana republic

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

Obama proposes projections for workers like mandatory healthcare, wage increases, equal pay.......and you claim banana republic where there is no consideration of the worker?

Who is the moron other than you and Stephanie?

LOL, you just proved again you don't know what it means. As I said, you think it's industry controlling government when it's government controlling industry. As your argument Obama isn't head of a banana republic, you just gave examples of government controlling industry. Examples of us being a banana republic. I do believe you are real, stupidity like that can't be made up

Banana Republics were established to provide unfettered Capitalism. The corporation made huge profits, the junta was paid off handsomely and the workers suffered

The government controlling industry was Socialism

How does Obama proposing worker benefits and protection equal a banana republic in your bizarro world?

 

[Carla_Danger]

Its a lot less sinister and planned in my opinion.

The side effect of a money/power equals success taught population is that eventually, greed overcomes decency because a "business" is doing it instead of a "person" which allows enough cognitive dissonance to justify these steps toward greed internally.

Define greed. Define decency. Too many define greed as someone not willing to do with what they have to a level someone else thinks then should. I've been called greedy because I oppose being forced to fund social welfare programs, oppose Obamacare, prefer to invest my money the way I see fit rather than be forced to contribute to a social security program, oppose the free tuition for community college plan thrown around by the Democrats, etc. In other words, I've been called greedy and selfish because I don't think one person owes another person a damn thing in life and those calling me that do.

Okay....


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     "an appeal to common decencies"

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

"Has Obama Made Us Into a Banana Republic?"

Yes... and THAT is to what he was referring when he stated his intention to 'Fundamentally change the United States of America.'

The reason that Banana Republics are what they are, is that they're governed by "Relativism".

"Relativism is the doctrine which holds that knowledge, truth, and

morality exist only in relation to one's cultural, societal, historical and

personal context, and, as such can never be the result of soundly

reasoned absolutes.

Relativism is a perversion of reason, which axiomatically rejects the objectivity that is essential to truth.

And with truth being essential to trust and, both of those being critical to the establishment of a soundly reasoned morality, and because a soundly reasoned morality is essential to Justice... it becomes clear to reasonable people, that Relativism can never serve justice.

You have absolutely no concept of what a Banana Republic is other than it has a funny name

You have it totally back asswards

Your concession is duly noted and summarily accepted.

Relativism?

That is your response?

Fucking silly

Yes... Relativism is silly. But it's only silly when observed through sound reason. When observed through the species of reason you operate on, it's "Government"; a politically unstable country, whose economy is largely dependent on exporting a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas; OKA: Advocates of Relativism. It typically has stratifiedsocial classes, including a large, impoverished working class and a ruling plutocracyof business, political, and military elites. This politico-economic oligarchy controls the primary-sector productions to exploit the country's economy.

 

[bripat9643]

Our subservience to the capitalist has made us a banana republic

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

Obama proposes projections for workers like mandatory healthcare, wage increases, equal pay.......and you claim banana republic where there is no consideration of the worker?

Who is the moron other than you and Stephanie?

Obama is a dictator. You would have us believe that Venezuela, where the entire liberal agenda is in full sway, is not a banana Republic.

 

[rightwinger]

Our subservience to the capitalist has made us a banana republic

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

Obama proposes projections for workers like mandatory healthcare, wage increases, equal pay.......and you claim banana republic where there is no consideration of the worker?

Who is the moron other than you and Stephanie?

A banana republic does not preclude consideration of workers. It has nothing to do with that as we have just established on the last page. The government looks out for the needs of the company over the people - you seem to think that healthcare is at odds with those needs - it is not.

Such impositions can actually help major companies by ensuring that the cost of entering the marketplace is to high and competition is stopped.

Note that Obama did not set up a system of healthcare for workers at all as a matter of fact. instead, he FORCED all people in this nation to buy a healthcare product from a company. Hmmm... would that be looking out for the people's needs or for the needs of healthcare companies that need customers?

Show me a historical example of a SINGLE Banana Republic that looked out for workers

 

[bodecea]

The OP thinks we are a banana republic now.

 

[bripat9643]

Our subservience to the capitalist has made us a banana republic

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

Obama proposes projections for workers like mandatory healthcare, wage increases, equal pay.......and you claim banana republic where there is no consideration of the worker?

Who is the moron other than you and Stephanie?

LOL, you just proved again you don't know what it means. As I said, you think it's industry controlling government when it's government controlling industry. As your argument Obama isn't head of a banana republic, you just gave examples of government controlling industry. Examples of us being a banana republic. I do believe you are real, stupidity like that can't be made up

Those hapless government officials are helpless when confronted with bribes. What use are guns when you are with presented with cash?

Oh . . the humanity!

 

[bripat9643]

Moron

Banana republic - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Moron

Obama proposes projections for workers like mandatory healthcare, wage increases, equal pay.......and you claim banana republic where there is no consideration of the worker?

Who is the moron other than you and Stephanie?

A banana republic does not preclude consideration of workers. It has nothing to do with that as we have just established on the last page. The government looks out for the needs of the company over the people - you seem to think that healthcare is at odds with those needs - it is not.

Such impositions can actually help major companies by ensuring that the cost of entering the marketplace is to high and competition is stopped.

Note that Obama did not set up a system of healthcare for workers at all as a matter of fact. instead, he FORCED all people in this nation to buy a healthcare product from a company. Hmmm... would that be looking out for the people's needs or for the needs of healthcare companies that need customers?

Show me a historical example of a SINGLE Banana Republic that looked out for workers

Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico. Virtually all of them claim they are looking out for the workers.