Where is the "balanced budget, even if it means huge spending cuts" option? If you can have "balanced budget, even if it means huge tax increase" as an option then the converse is also an option.
It's very interesting that the OP doesn't recognize a government spending cut option. I guess I'll cast a 'balance budget' vote under protest...I don't mind higher taxes to get our house in order as long as an aggressive effort is made to reduce spending. Continued irresponsible spending and supporting it with higher taxes is pure lunacy IMO.Where is the "balanced budget, even if it means huge spending cuts" option? If you can have "balanced budget, even if it means huge tax increase" as an option then the converse is also an option.
What's a need?go full communist... we are at a stage of knowledge and development that would allow a controlled economy to be implemented... each according to his needs... we know that all will contribute according to their ability... remove the profit motive and there's plenty of resource and output for all...
What's a need?
Maybe mexicans should just take over our government.
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go full communist... we are at a stage of knowledge and development that would allow a controlled economy to be implemented... each according to his needs... we know that all will contribute according to their ability... remove the profit motive and there's plenty of resource and output for all...
What's a need?
Exactly!I don't know but I have a hunch that when government does start providing for people's real needs it's going to be one cheap government to run.
go full communist... we are at a stage of knowledge and development that would allow a controlled economy to be implemented... each according to his needs... we know that all will contribute according to their ability... remove the profit motive and there's plenty of resource and output for all...
ROFL.the gov't will decide that... we have scientists who can evaluate and make the recommendations and gov't can implement... whatever is available after the needs of all are met can be apportioned amongst the populace...
Exactly!
(On second thought I'm not sure if we take this to mean completely opposite things...)
What I mean is that what most folk call needs arise unconsciously out of the vacuum created by self hate. He who is turned against himself is in endless pain and because he won't allow himself to feel what he really feels, he seeks an infinite series of palliatives. These are what he calls needs.
Real needs, what a man needs who loves himself, are everywhere in infinite abundance. Those who know don't speak of the alpha and the omega for nothing. The awakened heart is a cornucopia of love that can never be emptied.
ROFL.
So basically "need" means absolutely nothing. Got it.
it means whatever it gets interpreted to mean, just like everything else that is determined via observation... if and when something new is observed it can be integrated into the theory if it is deemed relevant...
i'm no social scientist, but how about like with housing... from this point on no more inefficient, wasteful single family dwellings should be built... shared common areas will foster interaction and communication between people so that they gain a greater knowledge of and respect for each other... and costs for things like child care will be eliminated by the shared participation of the parents...
Also: teach a man to fish and a bucket of fish will be your bountiful reward when you rob him.