With Hurricane Irene ready to strike, Ron Paul says we don't need FEMA

[The True Adonis]

"Ron Paul says we don't need FEMA"

Neither do the Amish.  After a disaster, they always turn down government assistance.  Their entire community helps one another rebuild, and they do that very quickly. 

Socialism at its finest.

[loco]

Yeah, although they are a very small community.  You can do a lot with small communities that you cannot do with large ones. 

You'd think it would be the other way around.  More people = more help.   

[loco]

Socialism at its finest.

It is actually quite the opposite: hard working people, no government handouts, no government intervention, no welfare, everyone works(children, teens, adults, elderly), no such thing as retirement.

[The True Adonis]

It is actually quite the opposite: hard working people, no government handouts, no government intervention, no welfare, everyone works(children, teens, adults, elderly), no such thing as retirement.

Thats Socialism.  True Socialism concentrates all power and resources to the hands of the people.

[loco]

Thats Socialism.  True Socialism concentrates all power and resources to the hands of the people.

If that were true, are you telling me that the Amish are the only ones who have managed to make Socialism work?  Where has it not failed before?  Any examples?  It is failing big time in Europe.

[headhuntersix]

I don't know..they sorta run like one big corporation. Ever see their furniture. They hired an all amish crew to build a house in the sub division, half the time of a usual house. It appears to be capitalism at its finest.

[loco]

I don't know..they sorta run like one big corporation. Ever see their furniture. They hired an all amish crew to build a house in the sub division, half the time of a usual house. It appears to be capitalism at its finest.

Yup, I hear they do great construction work, very quickly and for a fare price.  And that if you don't pay them after the work is done, they will come back and tear down everything they built and take it back with them.  No joke!

[The True Adonis]

If that were true, are you telling me that the Amish are the only ones who have managed to make Socialism work?  Where has it not failed before?  Any examples?  It is failing big time in Europe.

Sewer Socialism in Milwaukee from 1898-1960.  (although different from the Amish of course)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer_Socialism

[Dos Equis]

You'd think it would be the other way around.  More people = more help.   

More people = more folks with different value systems, lawlessness, looting, etc.  Just look at Katrina and what can happen to a major city after a large scale disaster.  You had people leaving old folks in nursing homes to drown.   

[Bindare_Dundat]

Could I get a direct link. I've never heard him say something like what you posted.

[Dos Equis]

Look at the pictures they chose.  Hacks.  lol


Bernie Sanders on Ron Paul: He's 'out to lunch'
By: CNN Political Unit

(CNN) - Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont criticized Texas Rep. Ron Paul on Monday for blasting the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a useless entity.
"I like Ron Paul, but on these issues, he's completely out to lunch," Sanders told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, anchor of "The Situation Room."

The Republican presidential candidate made headlines when he said on the campaign trail Friday that Americans are capable of recovering from natural disasters without the help of FEMA.

"All they do is come in and tell you what to do and can't do," Paul said. "You can't get in your houses. And they hinder the local people, and they hinder volunteers from going in."

But Sanders, whose state is experiencing mass flooding and power outages in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, said FEMA is on the ground in Vermont.

He argued now is the time for the country to come together.

"We are a nation. We are not 50 individual states," Sanders said. "Vermont stands with other states when they're in trouble, and other states stand with us. That's what being a nation is about."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/29/bernie-sanders-on-ron-paul-hes-out-to-lunch/#more-172822

[The True Adonis]

I don't know..they sorta run like one big corporation. Ever see their furniture. They hired an all amish crew to build a house in the sub division, half the time of a usual house. It appears to be capitalism at its finest.

They are a closed society and anything economic they do benefits them as a group, their group.  Their furniture is well made, but plain.  I have a table and chairs made by the Amish.  High Quality.

[Skip8282]

It is actually quite the opposite: hard working people, no government handouts, no government intervention, no welfare, everyone works(children, teens, adults, elderly), no such thing as retirement.

Actually, it's really hard to group them.  We have a lot around us and some will see a doctor, some won't, some shop at the malls, some don't, some will sell you their stuff, some won't.  Probably have to be a sociologist or something to figure them out - but they definitely don't all fit the "mold", if you will.

[Skip8282]

You two socialists should move to Europe, leave the men to live their lives.

Not feeling any luv from you...

[whork25]

If that were true, are you telling me that the Amish are the only ones who have managed to make Socialism work?  Where has it not failed before?  Any examples?  It is failing big time in Europe.

True socialism has never existed. The purpose of the revolution is to give the people the power when the conflict is over. But the communist party never let over power to the people. Who would...