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BUSINESSMEN ARE EATING BABIES

3 (7%)

I'm a socialist

5 (11.6%)

Businesses need heavier regulation, and social programs should be expanded

12 (27.9%)

Businesses need heavier regulation, but current social programs are too expensive

1 (2.3%)

Regulation is stifling growth, but we should expand social programs

1 (2.3%)

Regulation is stifling growth, and current social programs are too expensive.

4 (9.3%)

Regulation is stifling growth, but current social programs are working well.

0 (0%)

Current regulation is fine, but we should expand social programs.

0 (0%)

Current regulation is fine, but current social programs are too expensive.

2 (4.7%)

Businesses need heavier regulation, but current social programs are working well.

0 (0%)

Both current regulation and social programs are working fine.

2 (4.7%)

I'm a libertarian.

4 (9.3%)

I'm heavily conservative.

1 (2.3%)

LIBERALS ARE EATING BABIES

1 (2.3%)

I'm a communist

3 (7%)

I'm a fascist

4 (9.3%)

Total Members Voted: 43

[mainiac]

I live in the United States so I said option 3 when I really meant we need better social spending.  In the United States the government spends nearly as much per capita providing healthcare as countries with single payer.  These countries generally have as good or better medical services and outcomes as the US.

I'd probably consider myself a market socialist.  Mankind must control the market or else the market will control mankind.

[FearfulJesuit]

I'm surprised at the number of socialists... I'm one of about 3 I know, not including myself. For those of you who think liberals are eating babies, have you guys seen Conservapedia?

[Leafsnail]

Been there, done that, got the 20 year ban (arch-Conservative indeed).

Spoiler: Irrelevant Conservapedia stuff (click to show/hide)

Looking at the main page via proxy, I'm amazed to find that they're criticising Richard Dawkins of all people for not being combative enough.  And looking at his page I find out that apparently noone at Conservapedia knows how to spell "Atrocity".

Incidentally: direct contradiction!

Liberal double standard: Liberals seem just fine with the conspiracy theory promoted in the new movie about Princess Diana, despite how liberals ridicule any conspiracy theory unfavorable to themselves. [35]

Ah, yes.  This new movie about Princess Diana shows a conspiracy favorable to Liberals, so they promote it!

Freedom of speech? Not in Britain, which has banned the new movie about Princess Diana portraying a conspiracy of "the British establishment – judges, lawyers, politicians, police chiefs, secret services, even newspaper editors – all of whom have been appointed to their positions because they are 'a safe pair of hands.'" [29]
Liberals try to censor embarrassing conspiracy theories in the United States too, but the First Amendment stands in their way.

Uh, no, actually Liberals hate this embarrassing new conspiracy and think it's worth banning.

[scriver]

Heh, I think people who vote in either end are just joking, so there's really no need to give them any though.

...I hope.

[Virex]

Where's the option "Just a moment, eating baby"?

[Flying Dice]

Well, if businessmen are eating babies... You know who else ate babies? the Nazis.

 

Yeah, I voted for the first as a joke, and out of the options listed, the second would probably be the most realistic for me. Although if we could create our own options, mine would be this:

"The people who built this overwhelmingly complex economic system designed to bleed the people of the world both literally and metaphorically (You can tell who you are fairly easily: Are you white? Are you moderately well off? Do you live in a western democracy? You belong to the latter category. Are you anyone else? If so, you belong to the former.), in order to generate massive personal wealth, have apparently lost control of it, and like a rogue A.I., it is now systematically raping our minds, bodies and pocketbooks in order to continue to accumulate wealth to such a degree that it would be impossible for any entity, the U.S. government included, to actually spend it all within a single lifetime."

[Criptfeind]

I think you greatly underestimate the U.S. government's ability to spend wads on cash on trivial things.

[Zrk2]

Like US military making a brochure on the purchase of Worcestershire sauce?

Anyway, I'm a Libertarian, so I voted for that.

[Bauglir]

"The people who built this overwhelmingly complex economic system designed to bleed the people of the world both literally and metaphorically (You can tell who you are fairly easily: Are you white? Are you moderately well off? Do you live in a western democracy? You belong to the latter category. Are you anyone else? If so, you belong to the former.), in order to generate massive personal wealth, have apparently lost control of it, and like a rogue A.I., it is now systematically raping our minds, bodies and pocketbooks in order to continue to accumulate wealth to such a degree that it would be impossible for any entity, the U.S. government included, to actually spend it all within a single lifetime."

If I'm reading this right, I think you've got latter and former swapped in that parenthetical note, or else you intend to say the rest of the world is bleeding white, moderately-well off people in western democracies. I know it's a grammatical nitpick but it kinda changes the meaning completely (unless I'm completely wrong about your intent).

Like US military making a brochure on the purchase of Worcestershire sauce?

Hey, now. You need flavor in your rations! There's a reason for all those tabasco sauce bottles.

[Chunes]

I'm a heterosexual white male in his late twenties who lives in America.

Someone must have forgotten to tell me where my free money is...?

[Leafsnail]

EDIT: Actually no, I guess it was a response to Flying Dice, heh.

[mainiac]

I'm a heterosexual white male in his late twenties who lives in America.

Someone must have forgotten to tell me where my free money is...?

It's in your heart.  Capitalism is in the heart of each and every one of us.

[Kearn]

obviously a coherent thing

[Aqizzar]

if you regulate and tax businesses, there will be no incentive to start a business

You do realize of course that "regulate" and "tax" are not on/off switches, but a huge continuum of functions, right?  All businesses are regulated in every economy.  If anything, the definitional function of a government is regulating how people make economic actions.  You can't dump toxic waste into water reservoirs - that's regulation.  Taxing is another question, but given that business taxes were considerably higher in America long before the economy started tanking, it's pretty hard to make the argument that taxes are themselves the problem.

[Taricus]

I'm a heterosexual white male in his late twenties who lives in America.

Someone must have forgotten to tell me where my free money is...?

It's in your heart.  Capitalism is in the heart of each and every one of us.

Looks like the aztecs had the right idea sacrificing hearts then.