(03-09-2020, 11:42 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(03-08-2020, 11:21 PM)TheNomad Wrote: I guess it is just too damned difficult to address the questions posed and to make up our own and then respond to it as if that's what the thread is about.
Is this filed inside reddit somewhere?
We all use phrases like "The Economy", I guess I am asking every person seeing this to determine for themselves WHAT IS THAT.
Then, when you have made the determination, can that THING you imagined for that word, can you be OK with that thing being called OK when so many human beings In America do not have walls around them at night.............. for warmth, protection, for whatever you - yourself - deem it a good thing to live inside of walls.
can YOU be ok with that
I suppose that answer will be different for everyone who seeks to answer it. Only, make sure you do ask it. Then, try to ask others. It isn't a loaded question. You will not die from asking it.
You may perish from your answer tho
[here is the time when i admonish the Powers here, I just now noticed I have zero percent warning. that should change]
The answer to your question is no.
That's your opinion. As soon as we start acknowledging the right of all to bear their individual opinion, the sooner we can move beyond who can call whom a bigger name on twitter and into GOVERNANCE of the problems.
I mean, is it not that simple? I think it is. There is no denying these people on the street EXIST. This sounds inhumane but I would rather a government round them up and toss them into ovens for "choosing to live that life" than to publish a report that says SO MANY PPL ARE WORKING "The Economy" is in Good Shape.
Contrast the above to now the Virus is here and stocks are low and there is MUM about stock plunges and ppl have stopped traveling..........
THE PALE HORSE OF GOD'S WRATH IS COMING.
Either way, the same number of ppl live in boxes, tents, under bushes, in doorways, under freeways, etc.
Does no one else feel tricked? Like we have some internally INSTALLED trigger that says "here is how you know The Economy" is good/bad and how to know if The Economy is doing well or not doing well.
Is the phrase The Economy, itself, a misnomer?
All this while I am intelligent enough (understatement) to know the previous Depression only stalled when fear gripped. And to get out, hope must be projected.
But HOPE at what cost? SHOULD WE have such optimism when so many live without walls? Should that even be optional for those of us proud to be American? We know (some of us) through ancestors how rough it was before emigrating here......... but there's a level of selfishness when we want to believe it's "alright again" when fellow humans live that way right in front of our faces every day.
Perhaps "selfishness" is just another word for "Communism" or something... I wouldn't doubt it. When it means "WHY do I have adjust my life or be bothered by someone who chose heroine and the "Free Life" that comes from begging, not bathing and unaddressed health problems.
Some, we are watching them die as we try not to look at the intersection and the underpass. Swollen, black, uncovered feet that should be being amputated due to Diabetes or health issues we cannot see. Who are they?
I accept some ppl want to say they chose all that, I don't happen to agree and that's fine. I'm only asking about this Economy bullshit and how that false concept keeps us looking away from ppl who need our help even if we refuse to go near them or touch them ourselves. That we are not less passive about how easy it's become to ignore their sheer numbers.
I can't rationally envision a time LESS pregnant with the idea we could be talked into rationalizing keeping slaves in a kennel in the back yard SO LONG as we feed and house them. I mean, let's take them from the street and use them to our advantage. That would be humane and a great solution. They aren't doing any good out there in the rain and sleet. Let's each take one and use them for the unsightly chores in our every day lives. And YES, they would be forced to do it, because admittedly, they WANT to be on the street so there is no incentive for them to do work as a slave even if that means "free" housing and food. It would have to be a mandatory program.
What does anyone think of that? If we include health care for them, all the more reason to force them. I also advocate a woman seeking to kill her unborn should be sequestered and Cesarean performed and she never be able to see the child again, then sent home that very day. We can do this by gagging Planned Parenthood so the women don't know what's happening until they go there and sign a document they sought to kill an Unborn. When they come out of the situation and try to tell others (like the evil media) armies of disinformation are to be dispatched proving her an unfit mother and that she lied (it all never happened) and she never was even pregnant.