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skip to approx. 29:30 to get past the typical boring Seattle stuff and to Kshama. At a certain level I can't help but like her, but I will not like her policies.
Intro to her speech:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kshama
My brothers and sisters,
Thank you for your presence here today.
This city has made glittering fortunes for the super wealthy and for the major corporations that dominate Seattle’s landscape. At the same time, the lives of working people, the unemployed and the poor grow more difficult by the day. The cost of housing skyrockets, and education and healthcare become inaccessible.
This is not unique to Seattle. Shamefully, in this, the richest country in human history, fifty million of our people – one in six – live in poverty. Around the world, billions do not have access to clean water and basic sanitation and children die every day from malnutrition.
Only a sick human being would wish another to fail so horribly like you are doing. Why can't you just sit back and see what she's going to do and hope for the best with her stint in office?
Nevermind, it's too difficult for you to be happy for someone else. I feel sorry for you.
skip to approx. 29:30 to get past the typical boring Seattle stuff and to Kshama. At a certain level I can't help but like her, but I will not like her policies.
Intro to her speech:
She is going to be a force. I hope she fails.
While i do not agree with Marxism( and its economic model, which is still crony capitalism by picking winners and losers), i think your comment pretty much sums up republicans in the fact that you choose ideology over everything else, meaning you dont care if something works or not, if it doesnt follow your ideology, then it isnt worth talking about.
All I will say is that it was not socialism that got this country where it is. And honestly, it isn't capitalism either - even though capitalism is a better system. It's people. Our national conscience is now about self-comfort and being seen and being entertained... YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, social media. It used to be about God, and country, and hard work, and charity.
At least she seems to believe in what she says and will follow through - but socialism as a system for running major entities will prosper very few - unless the PEOPLE change.
While i do not agree with Marxism( and its economic model, which is still crony capitalism by picking winners and losers), i think your comment pretty much sums up republicans in the fact that you choose ideology over everything else, meaning you dont care if something works or not, if it doesnt follow your ideology, then it isnt worth talking about.
Be careful when you try to read into what someone else has said. When I say that I hope she fails, it is because she espouses a ruinous ideology that has brought despair, poverty, and death wherever it has been tried. Over 100 million died in Russia and China alone in the 20th century.
If a misguided but inspirational leader espousing Sharia law got themselves elected to office somewhere in the US, I would hope that they would fail. If someone espousing apartheid got elected, again I would hope they would fail. Would you react with the same criticism? Would you argue that I wrongly chose 'ideology over everything else?'
skip to approx. 29:30 to get past the typical boring Seattle stuff and to Kshama. At a certain level I can't help but like her, but I will not like her policies.
This is not unique to Seattle. Shamefully, in this, the richest country in human history, fifty million of our people – one in six – live in poverty. Around the world, billions do not have access to clean water and basic sanitation and children die every day from malnutrition.
What an absurd comparison. Poverty in the US is nothing like poverty in most of the rest of the world. Many of those 'living in poverty' in the US have a house, car, TV and food paid for by the tax payers. Compared to those who are really living in poverty they're living in luxury.
Healthcare is inaccessible? But I thought Obamacare took care of that problem?
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