French politicians want to tax tablets for not running Windows

[Goh Lip]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:13:05 +0800, Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net>  
wrote:

> I am absolutely serious.  It may be ironic but it is what fascism is  
> about. They might be able to get millions from MS but they can get  
> billions from the lower and middle class by appearing to champion them.  
> The middle class is where all the money is.  You only have to leave him  
> enough to eat, 25% of his income. Take more and he leaves for another  
> country. You can only take a business mans profit and that is only 15 to  
> 30% of his income. Take more and he also leaves.   Why would any liberal  
> politician get close to big buisness it's the kiss of death in a  
> socialist/fascist country like France, and it's where the least money  
> is. With millions working in governemnt do you think a deal with MS  
> could be kept quiet??  It would be out on wiki leaks in a heart  
> beat.                        Doug



I really have no issue with people who disagree with me, or want to do,  
believe or live their ways which I disagree with - as long as they do not  
compel me to change to theirs. It is their choice if they are happy with  
capitalism, communism or fascism or whatever labels they want to put on.

However, it still bothers me (oh, only so slightly, mind you, and for a  
better word, 'tickles'?)  that words and labels are thrown about that, in  
effect, are contradictory to their implied meaning. And by using words  
that connote some *other* implied or common-wisdom-accepted notions  
(wrongly, by propagandist iterations), they would seem to hold the moral  
high ground, so to speak (sneaky, isn't it?).

I do not think it is pedantic or 'hair splitting' to point out the  
following.. Indeed, I think it is essential to understand the total misuse  
of the labellings - though with constant brainwashing, it is  
understandable, hence my slight 'tickle'.

First, take 'fascism"....1st 2 paragraph from wikipedia...
<quote>

Fascism (pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a radical and authoritarian nationalist  
political ideology.[1][2][3][4] Fascists seek to organize a nation  
according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the  
political system and the economy.[5][6] Fascism was originally founded by  
Italian national syndicalists in World War I who combined extreme Sorelian  
syndicalist political views along with nationalism.[7][8][9] Though  
normally described as being on the far right, there is a scholarly  
consensus that fascism was also influenced by the left, but with a focus  
on solutions from the right.[10][11][12][7][13]

Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires  
strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability  
to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.[14]  
They claim that culture is created by the collective national society and  
its state, that cultural ideas are what give individuals identity, and  
thus they reject individualism.[14] Viewing the nation as an integrated  
collective community, they see pluralism as a dysfunctional aspect of  
society, and justify a totalitarian state as a means to represent the  
nation in its entirety.[15][16]

<unquote>

Now, which country do we think has "the will and ability to commit  
violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong"?, France? No.....
Now, which country do we think has "to organize a nation according to  
corporatist perspectives, values, and systems"?, France?



Now, next we take "middle class"...
<google yourself>
Now, which country recently increased the threshold for estate taxes, and  
extend tax breaks for the wealthiest 2%, (it cannot be you, even with your  
yacht) and made the the poorest even poorer? And these 2% hold what % of  
the wealth? Hah! Sounds more like fascism, not socialism. And for these  
many (salutary) entrepreneurs, the govt is not thinking about them,  
they're not even close to Koch or Murdoch, and that's what they're are  
thinking about. So to have the 'middle class' and Joe (6-pack, plumber,  
whatever or more accurately, disenfranchised, unemployed and no house)  
rooting for policies that make them even poorer, healthcare unaffordable,  
jobless seems to be antithetic. France? No...

Next, take 'god'...that to me, seems to be a cause for the antithetic  
behaviours, but because it is deemed sensitive, I shall be brief.

Jesus Christ, according to the book, was not only for the poor, he was the  
model communist.


Lastly, if to cheer you up, at least you're not bombed to poverty or death  
by your government, which they would do to other countries; for your sake,  
for your freedom, for your wealth, for your way of life, for your  
god,....and they'll keep on telling you.

-- 
I used to have an open mind,
but my brains kept falling out.