Short and to the point: Guns or butter. Teachers or food. (repost)

[bananas]

I didn't read this within the time to k&r, so I will repost it for the benefit of others.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8883388

Short and to the point: Guns or butter. Teachers or food.

This blogger spares no words in describing the inanity of setting up funds to spare teachers from being fired while cutting 12 billion in food stamps to do it. He says it better than I could.

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[leftofcool]

1. I loves me some teachers but we gotta feed our kids

Sorry teachers. This should never be the choice.

[cornermouse]

2. You don't appear to have read the article in your rush

to defend Obama. Maybe you should?

[leftofcool]

3. Where do you see my defense of Obama?

I believe I stated this should not be a choice.

[RandomThoughts]

4. I wonder if that is part of the theme of the threats from some niahilst groups.

Although if someone threatened to starve millions if you did not submit to them.

I would think it best for million, even billions to starve before allowing submission to some unjust situation. Although I would not starve anyone and would always share whatever food I had access to.

Although I don't think that will happen, and don't think food should be a weapon.

If people who want power think they can starve people into submission, they will do much worse if they got the submission they what from people.

Live and die free is not just a slogan, it is a way of life.



But anyways, it is a philosophical point, if some group threatens to starve the populations to try and divert attention from global power grabs, then it would be better for them to try and do that, then to stop advocating for what you think is correct.

I don't think people should back down from such threats. Hence why I can joke around about them.

I would also take a third choice, and not let them frame the question that way.


At the same time, I can light heatedly not worry about such threats, since I also know that it is far worse to submit to what is wrong, then to have hardships, even as extream as threats of starvation and things like that.