Let them talk. Encourage them to talk.
Antipodius ·
September 12, 2012 at 11:08pm
To quote Dennis Prager ,"Mr. Clarity is our friend". Steven Van Zandt at HuffPo spells out his wish list for Obama's 2nd term.
- Overturn Buckley v Valeo;
- Eliminate all private money in the election process;
- Ban all international military sales;
- Eliminate all use of fossil fuels over the next ten years;
- Ban all preservatives, steroids, chemicals, additives, pesticides in our food;
- Ban sugar;
- Gather Futurists to design what the country should be in 50 years and then create jobs to fit the model;
- Create the national green energy grid;
- Build the high speed train network;
- Health insurance for everyone for free;
- Moratorium on all foreclosures;
- Lower personal and Corporate tax rates to 15% and institute a 10% acquisition tax on all financial services transactions, acquisitions, mergers, and stock trades to make up for it;
- Eliminate all air and water pollution;
- Ban plastic bottles;
- Put Arts classes back into schools
I especially like the health insurance for everyone for free bit.... and what's this fascination with high speed rail? It's the left wing panacea.
Gather futurists? These guys are hillarious!
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Apr '12
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"Gather Futurists to design what the country should be in 50 years and then create jobs to fit the model."
While you're at it, why not institute a Big Brother system to make sure everyone is compliant.
May '10
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Public transportation is the ultimate method of control. Eliminate the automobile and make people plan their day on the schedule developed by a government planner.
It is also their wish to eliminate the suburbs and force us to become city dwellers.
Dec '11
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How long will food last without any preservatives? What will that do to supermarkets and corner stores? What about the public health issues with spoiled food consumption? Will that stress the free healthcare?
How will the high speed rail run without fossil fuel to power the electricity generation? Nuclear power? oh... the national green grid- how much will that generate?
What are the parameters for "elimination" of pollution?
Maybe if I drink hard and do lots of Class A drugs, the answers will come to me.
Aug '10
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Isn't this moron in Springsteen's E street band? This guy is obviously not a true green energy advocate because Unicorn farts weren't on his list.
What a pack of Mensa candidates!
Dec '11
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EJHill
Public transportation is the ultimate method of control. Eliminate the automobile and make people plan their day on the schedule developed by a government planner.
It is also their wish to eliminate the suburbs and force us to become city dwellers. · 7 minutes ago
That's disturbing. Is there anywhere that this has been stated/written by a leftist?
Apr '12
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Put art classes back into school. For graduating students? What about math classes? Seeing the very, very fat Chicago teachers on video today, maybe there should be a ban on teachers who are over 30 on their BMI --while they are banning things.
Apr '12
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Toronto's last mayor had this as a mandate and the goal was to reduce car lanes and bring in bike lanes. Montreal's mayor also has this as a goal. People vote these guys in...i say move to Amsterdam, or Zimbabwe if you want that lifestyle. Vancouver put in light transit for the Olympics and did a good job.
Antipodius
EJHill
Public transportation is the ultimate method of control. Eliminate the automobile and make people plan their day on the schedule developed by a government planner.
It is also their wish to eliminate the suburbs and force us to become city dwellers. · 7 minutes ago
That's disturbing. Is there anywhere that this has been stated/written by a leftist? · 0 minutes ago
Aug '10
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I'm afraid you only had the abridged list. Here's the rest:
- "Agricultural Reforms"
- Nationalize privately owned means of production
- Liquidate the Kulaks
- Reeducate the remaining counter-revolutionaries
- Establish a 5-year economic plan (or in this case, he's vying for a 50-year plan (less egg on your face when it fails I suppose))
- Stable the people's horses in the churches
- Burn works of degenerate art
- Four legs good, two legs better!
Edited on September 12, 2012 at 5:08amSep '12
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All I can say is, how come nobody steps up and Fisks columns like this anymore?
Mar '11
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Cut the guy some slack. This is Silvio from the Sopranos, after all - he probably thinks you just need to kneecap a few doctors to get them all to provide healthcare for free.
Aug '10
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Nothing gets you top-notch medical treatment like government coercion. Here's a quote I found fitting in Atlas Shrugged from a doctor who left the profession when it became socialized:
“Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”
Edited on September 12, 2012 at 5:49amDec '11
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1. He wants to overturn a law that supports limits on campaign contributions, but ban contributions?
2. He wants to build high speed rail, but ban fossil fuels? Where is the energy coming from to build and run the damned things?
3. He wants to get rid of air and water pollution (soil pollution, I guess, is ok by him). How exactly do we do that while building high speed rails?
4. Ban sugar? What about food with sugar, like fruit?
5. So we're going to regress to 17th century farming techniques, Please explain where the food comes from.
6. How are the doctors getting paid?
7. Moratorium on foreclosures? Can I stop paying my mortgage? Can I get back what I've paid the last 6 years, because if they won't take my house, I feel a little silly for giving them that money.
8. Where is the ban on private planes? On large estates? Where is the requirement of free rock concerts for all? Free movies and cable so we can watch the Sopranos for nothing?
9. If everyone has free health care, and we ban plastic bottles, where do we put all the medicine?
Jul '11
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Remove all of our private weapons. I know that one is coming.
Apr '11
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Highlama: "Gather Futurists to design what the country should be in 50 years and then create jobs to fit the model."
While you're at it, why not institute a Big Brother system to make sure everyone is compliant. · 18 hours ago
Goes without saying!
Aug '10
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"Gather Futurists to design what the country should be in 50 years and then create jobs to fit the model;"
My wish. Have the US Goverment cede some large land mass to Steven Van Zandt and let him call it "Perfectia," give him 6 trillion dollars, let him recruit his futurists and invite anyone he wants to live there. Never give him another dime, and see how his country fares in competition with ours in 50 years. We'll loosen our regulations to enable more free market adaptations, and let the competition begin.
Let's do it. Real life social science. No more probabilistic models. No more small experiments. If you're going to do something, do it big.
I'll stay here with my kids, who will have lived a life where they could see just how poorly those who "know" how to run society do when push comes to shove.
Mar '12
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"Health insurance for everyone for free." If it's free, it doesn't cost anyone anything. Just command the health insurance companies to give it away for free. Same with Rock'n roll; why not just have free Springsteen concerts? Why didn't anyone think of this before? It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or a village, to solve our economic problems--just a rock musician.
Aug '10
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The guy is guitar player, although I must admit Lillehammer was a great show.
Reflects perfectly the awesome intellectual depth of the Huffpo.
Deep thinkers on acid all act exactly the same. Like 19 yr olds.
Jun '10
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Antipodius
EJHill
Public transportation is the ultimate method of control. Eliminate the automobile and make people plan their day on the schedule developed by a government planner.
It is also their wish to eliminate the suburbs and force us to become city dwellers. · 7 minutes ago
That's disturbing. Is there anywhere that this has been stated/written by a leftist? · 18 hours ago
Look into the "Regional Planning Goals" of just about any spread-out metropolitan area. I'm in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area of NC. I am actually acquainted with people who advocate moving in this direction by such actions as >banning discrete, disconnected suburbs >allowing permits for development only along the new rail corridors, with central planners creating live/work "nodes" at the train stops >creating financial disincentives for private travel including high vehicle and fuel taxes, mile-driven taxes, more tolls, etc. Some of the more extreme call even for things like banning all non-farm rural residency. It's out there.
Jun '10
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Ban sugar? Seriously? This isn't an Onion article, is it?
This just opens so many possibilities for satire... a woman goes next door to borrow a cup of sugar and they report her to the DEA... people dressed in 30's outfits ducking into a speakeasy to enjoy a milkshake... the detective dips his finger in a bag of mysterious white powder, puts it to his lips, and says "just as I thought, the real Hawaiian stuff, 100% pure... book him!"
May '11
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Nathaniel Wright: "Gather Futurists to design what the country should be in 50 years and then create jobs to fit the model;"
My wish. Have the US Goverment cede some large land mass to Steven Van Zandt and let him call it "Perfectia," give him 6 trillion dollars, let him recruit his futurists and invite anyone he wants to live there. Never give him another dime, and see how his country fares in competition with ours in 50 years. We'll loosen our regulations to enable more free market adaptations, and let the competition begin.
Let's do it. Real life social science. No more probabilistic models. No more small experiments. If you're going to do something, do it big.
I'll stay here with my kids, who will have lived a life where they could see just how poorly those who "know" how to run society do when push comes to shove. · 19 minutes ago
Haven't we already done that? Compare red states and blue states. The red is bordered by two commas of blue. All we need to do is formalize the setup.