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Old 12-12-2016, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Why would anyone care what a convicted felon, who voluntarily came here as an immigrant, and does nothing but attack and criticize our politicians and our government, has to say?

He was born and raised in India. He has nothing to criticize about the Indian government and politicians? Nobody is forcing him to stay here.
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Old 12-12-2016, 01:06 PM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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Why would anyone care what a convicted felon, who voluntarily came here as an immigrant, and does nothing but attack and criticize our politicians and our government, has to say?

He was born and raised in India. He has nothing to criticize about the Indian government and politicians? Nobody is forcing him to stay here.

He attended Dartmouth as an exchange student, became a U.S. citizen in '91, is a political commentator and NY Times best selling author.

Who cares if he was born in India, other than elitists?
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Old 12-12-2016, 01:12 PM
 
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It's not a Ponzi scheme because there is forced participation of new entrants as well as the backing of the government.

Additionally, Ponzi schemes in actual practice have the operators stealing from the funds.

The guy is just spouting glib crap to sell books and generate attention.
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Old 12-12-2016, 01:24 PM
 
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That guy is an idiot of the first order.
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Old 12-12-2016, 01:26 PM
 
Location: somewhere in the woods
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He states this in his book Stealing America. The only problem is: a Ponzi scheme is illegal.

D'Souza is very conservative and predictably says this - but the government always taxes everybody for most things. Our tax money goes to schools, even if you don't have kids in schools. Social Security mostly benefits older people who can't work. What are those people supposed to do when they're 77 - go work at the KFC?

I do see one complaint about SS: even wealthy seniors receive payments and don't need it.

The book is hilarious at times because Dinesh was sentenced to eight months in a parole house because he reimbursed two friends for contributing to a senate campaign. He met all kids of bizarre people in the parole house and only had to spend nights there. During the day he appeared on Fox News like a normal person.


whatever the government does is usually considered legal, even if it is illegal for the rest of the USA.

the social security system is in fact a ponzie scheme. it takes money from a lot of people and gives it out to a few. the problem with the ponzie scheme, is that sooner or later, your money going out is more than your money coming in and it goes broke. sooner or later, the social security system shall also go broke.

all that money stolen from the citizens of the USA, and all for naught.
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Old 12-12-2016, 01:27 PM
 
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He attended Dartmouth as an exchange student, became a U.S. citizen in '91, is a political commentator and NY Times best selling author.

Who cares if he was born in India, other than elitists?
Elitist here. I don't care if he was born in India. I'd love to kick him out the door of an airplane flying high over India though. Without a parachute.
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Old 12-12-2016, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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Elitist here. I don't care if he was born in India. I'd love to kick him out the door of an airplane flying high over India though. Without a parachute.
To try and discredit him because he was born and raised in India is being an elitist. It appears you want to kick him out of a plane for other reasons not related to elitism.

But if you're hell bent on being one, I'll humor you.

You elitist!
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Old 12-12-2016, 03:31 PM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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I was in the video store today and saw a new release by this guy called "Hillary's America", which I wonder if anyone has seen. Curious exactly what this is about. No doubt he is happy she is no longer important in American politics.
It's about actual history, not the rewritten version. I highly recommend you watch it. It will require that you not tune out simply because what is being presented isn't what you want to hear.

If you do watch it, I then highly recommend that you fact check everything he says. Mostly the fact checking will be about people in history, not someone's opinion of what happened. There's a LOT of factual evidence about those people in history that he talks about.
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Old 12-12-2016, 03:32 PM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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That guy is an idiot of the first order.
Not even close.
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Old 12-13-2016, 03:50 AM
 
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Not even close.
Oh. He's an idiot of an even higher order?
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