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Old 04-18-2010, 11:00 AM
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The "Gilded Age". You know. When a man could build a railroad using "coolie" labor(1), run his trains on coal mined under the gun(2) to carry goods manufactured in sweatshops, by children(3). You know, the days before all of those pesky "progressive" labor laws that cramp a capitalists style and curtail his Constitutional right to the biggest asshole he can be. Before evil people like Teddy Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and John L. Lewis came along and ruined all of the fun.
Unfettered capitalism. You must be a Socialist with all that talk of "children shouldn't work in sweat shops".
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Old 04-18-2010, 06:02 PM
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Well, but doesn't this kinda reach for the heart of things, Ed?
I mean, when Beck runs his mouth about getting back to the way things were before the dreaded "progressive era", isn't this what he's talking about?

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Old 04-18-2010, 07:14 PM
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Well, but doesn't this kinda reach for the heart of things, Ed?
I mean, when Beck runs his mouth about getting back to the way things were before the dreaded "progressive era", isn't this what he's talking about?

Dave
Recessive . .regressive . . it's just not cool man. Would Cheech & Chong have a chance today?

Seriously, if the guy has a problem with the accomplishments of progressives - how ever long most of them took - something like fifty years for health care - he is promoting a regressive policy. I doubt that he would want to undo the changes in the cable television industry, where a doofus like him can rake in 35 million dollars telling lies. Can you watch him without thinking of the "Church Lady" from SNL?

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Old 04-19-2010, 08:05 AM
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Small tale; when we bought the land here the couple was undergoing a divorce and we could not get both of them in the same room. So when after much delay we got to closing with their lawyer. I happened to mention "Thank God for laws against child labour" Forgotten the context but I do remember the look on the lawyer's face when he said "What is wrong with child labour".
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