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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 01:15 PM Feb 2020

GOP congressman: America is 'not a nation of help'

By Oliver Willis -February 27, 2020 11:02 AM

Texas Rep. Roger Williams kicked off the first day of CPAC by touting capitalism as the 'greatest force in the history of our world.'

From the Feb. 27 session of the Conservative Political Action Conference:

REP. ROGER WILLIAMS (R-TX): We are a nation of opportunity and incentive, and because of those principles we are a nation of hope. We are not a nation of help where everyone can benefit. Capitalists believe in their reputation and the dignity of reaping reward from hard work. Capitalism is the greatest force in the history of our world because it lifts people out of poverty and we must instill this value in future generations to come.


https://americanindependent.com/roger-williams-cpac-capitalism-socialism-house-gop-texas-republicans/


Okay, asshole lets talk about the 1.5 trillion tax scam you voted for and who that helped...................not me........

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................

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GOP congressman: America is 'not a nation of help' (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2020 OP
And, in addition, Ohiogal Feb 2020 #1
Yepper spot on.................... turbinetree Feb 2020 #2
It's only "socialism" Ohiogal Feb 2020 #3
K&R +1 turbinetree Feb 2020 #4
There is an old saying... Newest Reality Feb 2020 #5
Good rant and right to the point................................. turbinetree Feb 2020 #6
Righteous defacto7 Feb 2020 #7
CPACers eat thst shit up. Boomerproud Feb 2020 #8

Ohiogal

(31,979 posts)
1. And, in addition,
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 01:19 PM
Feb 2020

How does capitalism help those who won’t be able to afford the coronavirus vaccine?

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
2. Yepper spot on....................
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 01:23 PM
Feb 2020

Not to fear he will be able to get his government funded taxpayer paid health care for him and his family.....................but that's called socialism, in his world view....................

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
5. There is an old saying...
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 01:28 PM
Feb 2020

Hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up.

Don't peddle me no hope. Don't tell me that being a wage slave on the verge of poverty is dignity and reaping even a subsistence existence from hard work. Don't cover up how capitalism requires poverty in order to crack its whip. Don't wave your flag of reputation of wealth and ideas of reputation from your corrupt tower of chronic affluenza and acquisition addiction. You have no excuse to the workers of the world and that whitewash is old hat that you are trying to infect young people with while you are doing everything that would assure the potential for future generations won't even exist, money monger.

That manifesto is anti-human, anti-rights and a genuflection to manipulative greed for the sake of the entitled. We are not buying that empty and subversive propaganda anymore! Only fools would enslave themselves by way of empty rhetoric designed to preserve the financial elite. We won't be your enablers willingly and your addiction is like an Anthropocene epidemic that ends in the 6th mass extinction. That habit is obviously not cost-effect for our species or others.

Stuff it!

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
6. Good rant and right to the point.................................
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 01:31 PM
Feb 2020

could not have said it any better.................


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