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Thursday, December 04, 2008 Progressive Fantasies By Diana Hsieh @ 5:22 PM Progressive hopes for July 4th, 2009, as reported in a fictional New York Times: www.nytimes-se.com. Click on some of the articles, if you have a strong stomach. They're quite revealing. Labels: Politics   E-mail Diana Hsieh    PermaLink ()    Comments (New Page)

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	Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 17:34:22 mst Comment ID: #1 Name: Freddy Ben-Zeev E-mail: benzeev(at)comcast(dot)net I thought that my stomach is stronger, but after reading about the maximum wage legislation i've started getting really sick and had to stop.
	Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 19:52:55 mst Comment ID: #2 Name: Jim May E-mail: seerak(at)gmail.com If someone had the time and resources, it would be funny to do another Times from 2016 detailing all the disasters that would follow if these things did happen. But it would be another newspaper, as the Times would either spin it or ignore it.
	Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 19:52:58 mst Comment ID: #3 Name: Adam Buker E-mail: adam(at)adambuker.com URL: http://www.adambuker.com I must have a weak stomach. I couldn't even make it past the headlines!
	Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 20:24:25 mst Comment ID: #4 Name: Mercury Andrew Oh, why do progressives have so much time to make nonsense. I usually just roll my eyes when I see this stuff, but this felt like my brain was in a vice.
	Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 22:07:25 mst Comment ID: #5 Name: John Harris E-mail: John.Harris00 at gmail.com Yea....wow...that's just ... are there words for crap like that? John.
	Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 22:20:43 mst Comment ID: #6 Name: Lemuel E-mail: synthesist(at)ymail.com That site seems like a parody, not a wish-list. "Harvard University Business School will be closing its doors following an unprecedented drop-off in applications this fall. The school will be renamed the Harvard University School of Integrity, and students will receive Masters in Integrity and Compassion, or M.I.C.s." Seems a little *too* snarky to be taken seriously.
	Friday, December 5, 2008 at 8:43:59 mst Comment ID: #7 Name: Caroline You might enjoy an antidote to that article. The New York Post ran an entertaining bit of satire, "Obama 2012," in which various writers, none Obama-friendly, envisioned the state of the U.S. after four years of the Obama presidency. "Obama 2012: His Triumphs Abroad" (by Ralph Peters) http://www.nypost.com/seven/11012008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/oba ... "Obama 2012: Four Years Later" (by Jonah Goldberg) http://www.nypost.com/seven/11012008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/oba ...
	Friday, December 5, 2008 at 10:45:25 mst Comment ID: #8 Name: Diana Hsieh E-mail: diana(at)dianahsieh.com URL: http://www.dianahsieh.com/blog Here's some fascinating information about the creators of the site: http://isgreaterthan.net/?p=4 Some of it is actually pretty hysterical, inadvertently.
	Friday, December 5, 2008 at 11:18:26 mst Comment ID: #9 Name: Thomas Shoebotham E-mail: celloshoe(at)yahoo.com So, a maximum income of around 185,000 bucks, huh? I wonder how Streissand and Hillary and the Kennedys would feel about that one. Of course they've all already amassed so much wealth, they might do OK under such a plan, maybe like the "old money" families of Europe. But, say goodbye to any future wealth creation. I suppose its at least a small comfort to believe that this socialist wet dream doesn't seem to be the immediate plan Obama has in mind right now. I think he knows that his political power right now rests on not seeming like a dangerously extreme left-wing radical. I think the trick for him and the people around him is how to ultimately get us to something like the plans on that page Diana cited, but very slowly, without causing too much notice or excitement. Its a strategy the Democrats (aided my many compliant Republicans) been using for years, to the frustration of people like the ones who write those leftist fanatasy articles, who want socialism NOW. One commentator has put it this way: "Liberals sell the welfare state one brick at a time, deflecting inquiries about the size and cost of the palace they're building." (William Voegeli)
	Friday, December 5, 2008 at 11:44:32 mst Comment ID: #10 Name: Andrew Dalton E-mail: andrew.s.dalton(at)gmail.com URL: http://witchdoctorrepellent.blogspot.com Lemuel - Don't forget that Poe's Law applies as much to leftists as it does to religious fundamentalists.
	Friday, December 5, 2008 at 15:50:53 mst Comment ID: #11 Name: SurahAhriman E-mail: SurahAhriman(at)gmail.com Regarding the isgreaterthan article, ugh, could that woman possibly be more of an idiot? I very much got the impression that only she can see how the evil corporations rule the world with Shock Doctrine Capitalism. But, somehow, her brilliant scheme of wishing really hard for change failed to suddenly, like, make everyone all, like, energized and excited and appreciative of her radical, new experimental culture-art. It's not her politics that offend me, but the sheer self-righteous idiocy of that toolbox.
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