North Carolina's GDP growth is 9th-fastest in nation

[BarLatGo]

Originally Posted by WaldoKitty

As demonstrated in this topic and others, this kind of ilk only have power when the people stupidly hands it over to them. Blind support for tax and spend is a great way to do this. Every government action should be scrutinized. But when people gladly support whatever their political party tells them, then they have lost.

I think you make a lot of assumptions about people and their parties. I personally don't have one but, whatever.

(btw, "kind of ilk" is redundant. You basically said "kind of kind". )

[WaldoKitty]

Originally Posted by BarLatGo

I think you make a lot of assumptions about people and their parties....

Please be specific and I will be glad to clarify.

[Francois]

Originally Posted by WaldoKitty

^It would have been easier to recite Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747 - 1813)..

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilisations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.

Maybe quite prophetic depending upon whether you believe the government can be changed or whether you just happily accept the current status quo as being "normal". Sounds as if you are in the latter.

Once again you are derailing a thread away from NC to talk about politics in general. Reported.

[WaldoKitty]

Originally Posted by Francois

Once again you are derailing a thread away from NC to talk about politics in general. Reported.

I was responding to a post quoting one of my earlier remarks. It wasn't an attempt to derail the topic. On the other hand, the topic hasn't been about NC's GDP in quite a number of pages. There are quite a number of posts here meeting this definition that are not mine. My apologies for causing you difficulty.

[SunnyKayak]

Exactly, this third thread this week yall cant seem to remember what forum you are all posting in.

If yall need a reminder it clearly states North Carolina at the top.

Let me also remind everyone it states in the terms of service we all agreed to upon registering it states the following

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This is a relocation forum, since it apparent we cant have civil only local politic discussion I strongly advise to continue future politics discussion in this forum --->>> Politics
State and cities forum are relocation forums. There whole list of other topic forums to choose wisely
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