I’m am going to acknowledge that with the Olympics on 24 hours a day, I am not going to spend the time I usually do with subjects within my posts.
I’m going to STARBURST on brief occasions and go back to what “really” is important….. 24/7 for fourteen twelve more days…..
That saying this idea occurred to me while responding at the Curmudgeon….
I want no one to tell me what to do…. I may accept it temporally but I won’t like it….
That makes me somewhat of a Libertarian… However there are times when someone has taken advantage of such freedoms bestowed upon them, that they begin, by the very grace of their freedoms, to impose their will upon myself and my family. In that case, I want them taken out… Eradicated….. “Soprano’d”….. That makes me somewhat of a Progressive.
I think the difference is between small and large. A fox eating a rabbit doesn’t concern me, but an army of foxes fighting an army of rabbits on my front lawn, kind of ticks me off…
So I believe in free marketing when it is small and there is enough give and take among all parties that some symbiotic balance is achieved between all parties. Then individual talent has a chance to move a species forward up the evolutionary ladder…. But when the market gets too big or it merges together so that only one man can control its direction, then I think it needs to be split up and returned back to where every entity must fight for its own existence…..
You can dislike Obama for being black (it was covered in the thread I mentioned earlier) but I have come to the conclusion that big business, big oil, big government, big bullies need taken down a notch……..
McCain just is not strong enough to do it….
Therefore I would like to argue against my new-found Libertarian friends that Obama will eventually lead them to a more Libertarian society, where things operate much more efficiently, than will his alternate, John McCain.
Since this is a rather introspective post, due not doubt to thoughts occurring while watching our species compete against each other to determine just exactly who is best at doing “a certain arbitrary task”, I would appreciate some feedback.
By the way, sorry if you arrived here out of the misrepresentation of the title….
kavips 
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August 12, 2008 at 3:08 am
Kurt
I’m glad for the misrepresentation – I was prepared to hammer you mercilessly!
I quite agree with you that personality-wise, McCain doesn’t have what it takes to grapple with bullies. Maybe he’s too old, maybe he never did.
August 12, 2008 at 6:25 pm
meatball
Don’t forget Disney. Those bastards are having a great year with a 13% increase in profits at the theme parks alone spurred by a 4% increase in attendance. Yet they had the gall to raise admission prices again for the second time in 6 months. High fuel prices obviously haven’t hurt this travel destination’s bottom line.
Perhaps they have cut costs by hiring more illegals or by shirking on safety standards on rides or maybe by substituting animatronic workers for real ones. In other words, outsourcing American jobs to robots. This is an outrage!
I say we “bust ’em up” Divide ownership of the four main theme parks in Orlando into quasi-governmental companies that bundle groups of poorer, high risk vacationers and funnel them into the less popular regions of the parks. Group the lesser theme parks of Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, Winter-Summer Land, and Disney Quest into a single entity with extremely reduced entry fees so that people could just wait in line all day. And finally split Disneyland and Cali Adventure into its own gay themed park.
I’m with you Kavips, together we can knock this bully down a notch to the level of customer service, satisfaction, and repeat customer levels that Mericans are used to.
August 13, 2008 at 5:38 am
meatball
Satire man c’mon you gotta have a comment. I’ve been waitin’ all day.
August 13, 2008 at 12:30 pm
kavips
I got as far as the first line.where you say that: “those bastards are having a great year with a 13% increase in profits at the theme parks alone spurred by a 4% increase in attendance.”
Unfortunately that statement is totally untrue.
None of the Disney brothers were born out of wedlock…..nor were any of their CEO’s…….
August 13, 2008 at 6:16 pm
meatball
Initially, I was surprised by last quarters numbers considering the much ballyhooed economic downturn and record gasoline prices. Then I recalled our first trip to the World. We planned and saved money two years in advance like I am sure many others do as well. That coupled with the likely increase (I couldn’t find any demographic info on line) in foreign traffic as the USA became a travel bargin to much of the rest of the 1st world.
The big difference between the two evil corporations, Exxon- Mobil and Disney is that most people can live without a trip to a Disney theme park, but they can’t live without food, gasoline, fuel oils and electricity (add in clean air and water). I agree, one of these companies needs to be morally bound to the plight of their customers. Oh, the humanity.
August 14, 2008 at 2:17 am
Tom S
“Therefore I would like to argue against my new-found Libertarian friends that Obama will eventually lead them to a more Libertarian society”
Unbelievably huge government now = less government later?
Seriously, is that what you are trying to tell me? Hoping for the government to balloon to epic proportions and take away more of your freedoms and money should disqualify you from labeling yourself as a libertarian.
The free market in no way is about symbiosis or fairness – where did you get that notion? “big bullies need to be taken down a notch”? who taught you economics?
August 14, 2008 at 4:04 am
kavips
The same comment was made during the elections of 92. They were based on generalities. The Democratic President reduced the size of government leading to a series of balance budgets. All Republicans should study Democrats to learn how to reduce he size of government effectively..
As regards to who taught me economics…..(lol)…..
History.