Census gets personal (US politics)

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I do.

You complain about the census. But I have not heared you complaing about the Googlian data kraken, which is strange is privacy protection and data protection suddenly is a worry of yours. See?

I think you'll likely find American conservatives think:

Private industry: ALWAYS GOOD!! Corporations live to serve, and deliver rainbows, bunnies, and rivers of chocolate to their customers and never, EVER **** them over!!!! Rich people are rich via merit, NEVER because they're predatory douchebags and/or inherited it!!

(Take a look at private contracting in Iraq to see how wonderfully this has all worked out..)

Big Guvmint: ALWAYS BAD, ALWAYS INCOMPETENT!!! If it weren't for governments, Allied private industry would have won World War II in early 1940!!!

Strawman? Not much.

[August]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

I think you'll likely find American conservatives think:

Private industry: ALWAYS GOOD!! Corporations live to serve, and deliver rainbows, bunnies, and rivers of chocolate to their customers and never, EVER **** them over!!!! Rich people are rich via merit, NEVER because they're predatory douchebags and/or inherited it!!

(Take a look at private contracting in Iraq to see how wonderfully this has all worked out..)

Big Guvmint: ALWAYS BAD, ALWAYS INCOMPETENT!!! If it weren't for governments, Allied private industry would have won World War II in early 1940!!!

Strawman? Not much.

Was any of this really necessary? Seems that liberals such as yourself were claiming the government was all that and worse just a few years ago. Do you really believe that because the present administration and their Acorn brownshirts are Democrats they are any less a threat than the Republicans were?

Originally Posted by August

Was any of this really necessary? Seems that liberals such as yourself were claiming the government was all that and worse just a few years ago. Do you really believe that because the present administration and their Acorn brownshirts are Democrats they are any less a threat than the Republicans were?

You have a problem with freedom of speech? Wouldn't surprise me.