straightUp, your response to AuntiE is that of a spoiled brat who has never created anything of value American consumers would purchase. What have you made of "merit" in your lifetime of labor?

Your ridicule of salesmen sleazy lawyers "outward appearance" is so childish. At least they don't have lice:

"I would rather live in a world of honest people where judgement is based on their merits, rather than a world of fakes where judgement is based on their outward appearance. Notice how slimy salesmen and sleazy lawyers all wear suits? There's a reason for that."


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Oh, Gawd, gimme a break!
I have paintings, bronze sculptures, history books based on 10 years of FOIAs and years of filing for corporations to facilitate their serving their customers and employees more efficiently. My legs "look like tree stumps" according to a humorous friend, with years of exercise since childhood: mowing the yard, raking leaves, shoveling snow, cutting down broken trees from ice-storms and stacking cords of wood over an acre of woodlands and riding my bike for nearly 70 years - often grocery shopping for an elderly neighbor who was housebound.

My income is modest, now retired, with no shame whatsoever of my lifestyle.

I would raze 95% of pubic schools and universities to the ground along with 95% of all government bureaucracies, and dismantle the Federal Reserve Bank that deems itself a "PRIVATE BANK." I would do this via 40 million Senior Citizen's filing a class-action lawsuit to "Audit the Fed and Abolish the Fed."

Woodrow Wilson's Federal Reserve Bank's 111 years of printing counterfeit currency out of thin air beyond our GDP is the major factor in destroying the morale of hard working Americans who cannot work their way out of poverty when the money they make today is worthless tomorrow!

No matter how many times the workers' employers, unions or Congressional mandates are made to raise wages, the Fed's printing presses outstrip any profits. We must turn off the Bubble Machine which is also destroying all the international banks.

You surely know this, straightUp, but you keep repeating this stupid, greedy lunacy of "big bad corporations," which keeps you stuck on stupid. You don't have the brains to build a corporation, invent a car, plane, rocket-ship, a roll of toilet paper, or even a game of "Monopoly" - the stepping stone to socialism and communism. Capitalism is competition, not monopolies.

But you live in the delusion that socialism will work, even when it was deliberately designed by Karl Marx to fail. How much of Karl Marx have you read?

It is next to impossible arguing with braindead potheads.

...Says the guy who can't even spell his name right. LOL
The ONLY thing in the Communist Manifesto that is enumerated in any way is what Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels (they were both authors of the document) described as "measures" that would probably characterize the most advanced societies.

These measures which they also suggested were generalizations that would vary from from one country to another have been misrepresented in the anti-communist literature as immovable "planks", written in stone as if they were the Ten Commandments. All part of the red scare. Funny as hell.

Here is the only so-called "plank" that even mentions education...

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in it's present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc., etc."

Yes, they actually wrote "etc., etc." because it wasn't a set of rules, it was a set of assumptions about what advanced society might look like.

That being said... I can see why a conservative like you, convinced that these are actual rules would be so upset about it... After all, free education for the children makes it accessible to poor children. How horrible! And laws that prohibit factories from exploiting children for labor? That's even worse!

How dare the liberals in America make education available to the children of impoverished families that we are trying so hard to keep impoverished. How dare they tell business that they can't throw children into factories to work for peanuts until they die.

Dang liberals!

Actually, I'm laughing my ass off. 1963 was the height of McCarthyism which has long been exposed as a propaganda campaign. For people like you, it's ALWAYS a matter of subscription. Which source will you believe? But for people like me, it's about analysis and the process of deciding for ourselves.

Reading the manifesto literally, there is nothing nefarious about the tenth measure. In 1848 when it was published, children WERE abused. Unless they were from a privileged family, they did not go to school, they worked in factories and on the fields instead where they stayed illiterate and controlled for duration of their short wretched lives. A lot of people were eager to put an end to that.

And reading the 45 "communist goals" according to people who feared the threat of social progress, it's exactly as I would expect. A list of exaggerations, misrepresentations and conspiracy theories about the progressive movement designed to help persecute it's activists.

I can't believe people are STILL stupid enough to be misled by it.

Actually, what you write is not true, even though you hope it is true.

The public is taking such a swing to the right against Common Core and Arne Duncan's destruction of education, that home schooling is becoming the norm. Trump will totally shut down the US Dept. of Education and advocate for school choice and vouchers.

The government will not steal our children. Parents will take apprenticeships and trade schools any day over commie indoctrination of their children.

This CRAP of teaching children to "share" amongst everybody, including parasites who suck off the state, when most people are capable of pulling their own weight, has to end. We trade amongst each-other and only rightfully offer charity to cripples.

Pick up a newspaper and get a job, Radiance.