NerblyBear wrote:One last attempt to drive him away for good:

matthew wrote:

sparky wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:

matthew wrote:Besides, if you let the market work (which inherently requires ethical people for it's existence) more often it will root out the dishonestly and greed that might exist in businesses eventually,

Hahahahahahahaha...

Oh, to live in a utopia where greed is minimal and the public isn't too stupid or lazy to look out for it. Keep reaching for that rainbow, matthew.

I was about to pick up on that one.

Ahem. No.

Having had exposure to people representing numerous different elements of the financial services industry and the quoted companies that employ them, I am pretty tired of the myth that the market is honest and transparent. It is definitely not.

Excessive greed and dishonesty only seem to be rooted out when it all goes wrong and the wrong people (i.e. the investor institutions and banks) look to lose significant amounts of money due to fraud and incompetence.

matthew wrote:Liberal elitism. Gotta love it.

Matthew, assuming that you are not an invented persona (which I'm not convinced of), you're assurance in stating these fatuous comments is staggering. I am curious to know of what jobs you have had, and how you have got them.

Because those from whom I most frequently hear the "you earn what you deserve" arguments are either tough old mean men who have worked their way up savagely from impoverished beginnings, or, more those who have had an upbringing where they have not had want for need.

And your frequent blanket statements regarding menial workers working for pittance by choice are self-contradictory. I was going to write more on this contradiction, but I have realised that the preceding sentence contains all that is necessary for this argument.

Given that the US and the UK economies are amongst the closest to pure capitalism, the earlier statistics regarding poverty and child deprivation are telling. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you have blithely ignored these statistics, along with the numerous other hard facts presented that contradict your unpleasant worldview.

You're obviously a socialist Brit, therefore I have nothing to say to you which has not already been said.

In fact in light of this whole present discussion as well as the ID EVO subdebate about the existence of God, most of you people here (especially Albini) seem to be incorrigibly obstinate when it comes to the way the world really is. Thus, I'm not about to have the same discussion 10 times over here, there or elsewhere in this forum. Consider this my last forum post for at least a very, very long time and possibly ever. Send me a PM if you want to talk one on one though. I won't promise you a response however.

Bye, it was a trip

Matthew G. Wauck.

Foldyourarmsandsaynah wrote:

NerblyBear wrote:One last attempt to drive him away for good:

Holy shit, I think I know that dude.

connor wrote:
Remember when Matthew kept asking me out on a date? That was cute!

Boombats wrote:Hey Nerbly can you delete that photo from your Photobucket or whatever so my eyes can stay ungouged?

yut wrote:Awesome!!!

The Democrats want the troops out of Iraq by the fall of 2008... Isn't that really saying that we want this war to continue for 18 more months? Hmmm. They never really said this while they were begging for votes. I'm so glad I didn't vote for these losers, Nancy Pelosi being the #1 loser (did you know Chevron is her #1 campaign contributor?)

Anyway, there are 70 Democrats in the house that say this is outrageous, and they want the troops out by the end of 2007... I think this is also what the Iraqi's want too, but let's not worry about what they want, or what the American public wants...

Like I said, there are very few liberal Democrats. Most of them are just Republicans. Quite a few of them have switched their party affiliations just to win an office. It's like Tweedledum and Tweedledee or Microsoft and Apple.

It is nice that we have an illusion of a democracy and free market that is so convincing, it actually inspires people to get heated up into punditry over which party is better. I think the Dallas Cowboys are the best political party.