From: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Time to shed the right -vs- left, socialism -vs- capitalism hyperbole and purchase Thomas Piketty's new book " Capital in the Twenty-First Century. " PARIS — Thomas Piketty turned 18 in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, so he was spared the tortured, decades-long French intellectual debate about the virtues and vices of communism. Even more telling, he remembers, was a trip he took with a close friend to Romania in early 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet empire. “This sort of vaccinated me for life against lazy, anticapitalist rhetoric, because when you see these empty shops, you see these people queuing for nothing in the street,” he said, “it became clear to me that we need private property and market institutions, not just for economic efficiency but for personal freedom.” (emphasis mine) But his disenchantment with communism doesn’t mean that Mr. Piketty has turned his back on the intellectual ...
It's Cruz like he dug up Joe McCarthy, cut off his skin, wrapped it around his body, and wears it around everywhere as his own.
ReplyDeleteJMJ
he looks like Joe McCarthy. And, he acts like Joe McCarthy.
DeleteThe endless publicity-grabbing stunts by the T-GOP candidates may be funny to their followers, but they reinforce how ridiculous and out of touch they are. They are truly living up to their reputation as clowns.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I've chosen to hammer the GOP field and will continue to do so. I find not much to get excited about and much to criticize on the lib and prog side but honestly believe sensible conservatives and small L libertarians need to clean up the mess from within.
DeleteBenefit of the doubt; Cruz demonstrates NRA efficiencies by shooting pig and cooking same using his self-defense m-gun?
ReplyDeleteLOL! Good one BB Idaho.
DeleteHe is finding it difficult to grab headlines from Trump, wonder how long it takes to cook and how much it costs.
ReplyDeleteI would think the progressives would rally behind trump and cruz because it takes away from the DNC chosen HRC who is being exposed as a liar and a fraud.