(urth) Urth Digest, Vol 57, Issue 16

[Daniel D Jones]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 09:51:30 David Stockhoff wrote:
> Daniel, you really don't know how things work, do you?

I've managed to stay alive for over forty years, served twenty years and then 
retired from the armed forces, traveled to over thirty foreign countries, 
raised three kids, am helping to raise ten grandkids, and I've tried damn near 
anything you care to mention at least once, twice if I liked it.  I think I've 
got a pretty good clue how things work.  Is there something you need some 
advice on?

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> 18:05:22 -0400 From: Daniel D Jones <ddjones at riddlemaster.org> Subject:
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> charset="iso-8859-1" On Monday 18 May 2009 17:29:58 David Stockhoff wrote:
> > > And finally, I agree with your quoted description of socialism. But it
> > > clearly has nothing to do with robbing anyone. Governments redistribute
> > > wealth all the time.
>
> Do you think that because it's done under the blessing of governmental
> authority it's any less a taking by force than were it the act of a
> highwayman?  And the assertion that "it's done all the time" is quite
> orthogonal to the issue of whether or not it's justified.
>
> > > Did you know that usury, which has been illegal since
> > > the Byzantine emperors, is now legal in the US? It's called "payday
> > > loans." They are illegal for a reason---and the government that can
> > > create them and make them legal, thus imposing and enforcing them on
> > > the poor, can reverse that to create a more just system. Incrementally
> > > speaking, that's socialism.
>
> What sort of doublespeak is this?  In what way did the government create
> them? In what way is the government imposing or enforcing them on the poor?
>  Are there government agents going out into neighborhoods forcing people to
> take payday loans?
>
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