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Anton — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:27:19 -0000

este es mi comentario de prueba

Re: Viserektor van Kovsies vaar uit teen 'kolonialisme en apartheid'

Anton — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:19:52 -0000

Soms, as ek sotlikhede soos hierdie liberaal se snert lees, verstaan ek nodig waarom Pol Pot dit nodig geag het om akademici en intellektuele na heropvoedingskampe te stuur.

Re: Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing, Baby

Anton — Fri, 06 May 2005 08:39:35 -0000

Will:

If the real concern is that future Congresses will cut Social Security benefits, there are lots of ways the security of those benefits could be dramatically increased. George Bush could barnstorm around the country saying that any future President or Congress that tries to cut Social Security benefits from the amount retirees are entitled to under current law (or default on the "Trust Fund") is un-American and deserves to be voted out of office. He could write a "Contract with America" to that effect and demand that all Republican lawmakers sign it. He could use his influence to put that principle at the front of the Republican Party platform.

He could even write a new "Social Security Civil Rights Act" giving Americans a property right in their benefits (at the amount they are entitled to under current law) and the right to sue to receive them if cut or taxed above a certain level. As for the trust fund, he could insist that future surplus tax revenues from the so-called "Social Security tax" be invested in securities under the auspices of an independent agency designed along the lines of the Federal Reserve (with directors with long enough tenure to insulate them from political pressure).

Cutting benefits under that scenario would be pretty darn hard. Marginally easier than confiscating retirees' "personal" retirement accounts? Maybe. Easier than jacking up the tax rate on capital gains realized through "personal" retirement accounts" (which has the same practical effect as partial confiscation)? Definitely not.

If you're still worried that Congress would abolish Americans' property rights in Social Security and cut their benefits even under those conditions, the President could even be pushing for a Constitutional amendment to protect them (with a special provision for repeal under conditions of national emergency with the consent of some kind of Congressional supermajority).

The problem here is that you libertarians (and the Republicans) aren't interested in strengthening Social Security - you want to destroy it. That's fine, but don't try to change the subject - make the honest argument that "personal" accounts are the feasible second-best to abolition.

For the record, my dream would be to abolish the payroll tax, increase the income tax, and turn Social Security payments into a means-tested welfare program. But the stigma attached to "welfare" would make it too easy for y'all to cut benefits, so defending what we have now is the feasible second-best to that. And I'll say it loud and proud.

Re: Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing, Baby

Anton — Fri, 06 May 2005 09:00:51 -0000

Protagoras: the difference is in the right to sue for relief. In this case the difference between a property right and a promise is particularly acute, since Fifth Amendment says the government can't just confiscate your stuff without compensation. (It can tax, but that's not the same thing.) Hence my suggestion above that if Republicans and Will were really interested in protecting future Social Security benefits, they'd be pushing to define a property right in those benefits as they are defined today.

Re: Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing, Baby

Anton — Fri, 06 May 2005 10:17:14 -0000

Gareth: sorry for not being clear; I didn't mean that the only real property rights were rights you could sue the government to enforce. Even in the UK, you can presumably still sue for relief if someone tries to steal your house (i.e. sue the person who stole the house, not the government). But even in the UK there would be a difference between a property right in a government obligation and a mere government promise; if the government just refuses to honor a contract (e.g. if you're an employee and they don't pay you due to a screwup in their accounting division, then refuse to pay) you can presumably sue for relief. Americans have no property right in their Social Security benefits; if the Social Security Administration doesn't pay you due to a mistake, you can ask them to correct the situation, but you can't sue. So whether or not we have a property right in Social Security (no) has real legal teeth even today.

And as I've argued before, the Fifth Amendment means that if Americans had a genuine property right in Social Security, their payments would be more secure than they are today. There's a major difference between "Congress could cut or eliminate your benefits by changing one number in a statute" and "Congress could cut or eliminate your benefits by passing a law abolishing a property right, fighting things out with the Supreme Court, and then, if they win, changing a number in a statute."

Of course, if the government is sufficiently confiscation-happy or judicial or executive authorities refuse to enforce property rights against violators, property rights don't really exist, but that's not the situation under consideration.

Re: Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing, Baby

Anton — Fri, 06 May 2005 10:22:00 -0000

Gareth: to clarify, you're right that property rights only exist when it is politically unthinkable to interfere with them, but not everything it is politically unthinkable to interfere with is a property right. It would be politically unthinkable to repeal the First Amendment, but I don't have a property right in my freedom of religion.

Re: Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing, Baby

Anton — Fri, 06 May 2005 10:48:03 -0000

Gareth: fair point about the SSA, but it's still not like the British government's theoretical ability to take your house, because you already have your house. Something is being taken rather than withheld. And afaik you can't do lots of things with your Social Security benefits that you could usually do with property. For example, I understand that you can't assign them to another person or offer them as security on a loan. The only thing future Social Security benefits have in common with genuine property is that both are politically difficult to abolish. As I've said before, something being politically difficult to interfere with doesn't make it a property right.

In any case Congress would never have to repudiate the government's obligations to the trust fund by defaulting; it would only have to cut benefits payable. If it did that, the "trust fund" could keep getting bigger and bigger even as benefits got smaller and smaller (and because they were getting smaller and smaller).

Re: Lightening Strikes Woman As She Is Shooting Video

Anton — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:05:05 -0000

This is clearly fake. "From what i understand, it went through my left hand..." There would be no guessing. It BURNS. There has been no person struck by a lightning that was not left with burn damage.

Re: Wie is te blameer vir regstellende aksie?

Anton — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:59:34 -0000

Veral Absa is 'n voorbeeld van hoe sinies en opportunisties blanke sakelui is. Volkskas en ander banke wat saamgesmelt het is met Afrikanergeld gebou. Die groot meerderheid klante van Absa is steeds Afrikaners. En wie sit deesdae aan die hoof van Absa? Is dit 'n Afrikaner?

Re: Wie is te blameer vir regstellende aksie?

Anton — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00:38 -0000

Ja, presies. Die groot breinkrag agter die ANC was nog altyd blankes, Asiate of Jode soos Joe Slovo.

Re: 'n Botsing in waardestelsels

Anton — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:12:55 -0000

Thinus, jy het waarskynlik 'n uitstekende punt beet hier - ons as blanke mans wie se pa-hulle gewone mense was, en nie Broeders nie, suig sedert die jare van die vorige bedeling aan die agterspeen. Eers was dit die blanke Broeders wat ons uitgebuit het, wat ons maak veg het in hulle weermag. Vandag is dit die swart Broeders.

Re: Nestlé en korporatiewe sinisme

Anton — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:24:21 -0000

Dieselfde soort sinisme vind mens by Cell C, Vodacom en MTN. Tot onlangs toe het aldrie van hulle geweier om gesteelde selfone permanent op 'n swartlys te plaas. Dit beteken gesteelde fone was steeds bruikbaar. Dikwels word mense vermoor bloot vir hul selfone. Jou lewe is egter minder belangrik vir Vodacom en MTN as om 'n nuwe "pay-as-you-go" gebruiker te kry.

Re: Die ANC kort 'n Perikles

Anton — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:53:05 -0000

Met respek, jy soek nou wors in 'n hondehok. Die ANC was, is en sal altyd self 'n terroriste-organisasie wees. Dis asof ons van Al-Kaida verwag om in engeltjies te verander.

Re: Die ANC kort 'n Perikles

Anton — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:14:12 -0000

Johan, ek dink daardie agterstand is veel meer as slegs 2500 jaar. Dit is minstens 30 000 jaar. Wetenskaplikes het onlangs 'n vonds gemaak in Georgië. Die inwoners van 'n grot daar het materiaal geweef, tienduisende jare voordat Afrikane dit kon bedink.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/10/an...

Re: Dít lieg jy mos, minister Ndebele!

Anton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:11:26 -0000

Johrne (bly om te sien jy lees die feite hier op die Praagwerf terloops), ek het geweet iemand gaan jou beswaar opper. Ek was egter self 'n padbouer wat op konstruksieterreine gewerk het. Enige iemand kan 'n pik slaan. Masjiene sonder 'n verstand doen in ieder geval die meeste van die arbeid. Dis egter so 'n effe moeiliker om 'n pad te bou, nadat hy eers ontwerp is, as wat die persepsie van blote hande-arbeid sou aandui. Olifante en wild trap ook voetpaaie uit in die bos, maar is 'n voetpad dieselfde as die N1?

Kom ek noem 'n voorbeeld. Ek gee jou die opdrag om 'n moderne pad te bou. Jy is welkom om 'n pik en graaf te gebruik, of om 1000 van jou vriende te kry om jou te help, almal ook toegerus met pikke en grawe. Sonder om dit te gaan Google, wat maak jy? Hoe meet jy eerstens die pad op - hoe weet jy waar om dit te bou? Hoe lyk die laagwerke in die pad? (Al ooit van laagwerke gehoor?) Hoe gaan jy meet wanneer die pad genoegsaam gekompakteer is? Teen watter voggehalte gaan jy kompakteer? Watter lae gaan jy stabiliseer (wat is stabilisasie?) Hoe gaan jy sorg dat die verkanting reg is (al ooit van verkanting gehoor?)

Afrika het ook nog nooit van kadastrale opmetings, verkantings of laagwerke gehoor nie. Hoeveel paaie soos die N1 of, les bes, die Romeine se Via Appia, is deur swartes "gebou" in Suid-Afrika voor 1652?

Re: Dít lieg jy mos, minister Ndebele!

Anton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:13:24 -0000

Nee, dis jy wat nie jou feite agtermekaar het nie. Jy verkondig alweer die leuens oor die "bad old days" sonder die vaagste benul waarvan jy praat. Ek het 'n beurs by 'n konstruksiemaatskappy gehad aan die begin van die jare tagtig. Een van my medebeurshouers was 'n pikswart man by name Sello. As ek dit nie mis het nie, het 'n pikswart terroris by name Mandela ook destyds as prokureur gekwalifiseer, nie waar nie?

Dus, spaar ons maar gerus daardie NSA-propaganda, want dit is triviaal maklik om aan te toon dat jy snert praat.

Ek was in die weermag by 'n kamp naby Ellisras waar lelieblanke SA dienspligtiges pik geslaan het en 'n basis gebou het vir 10 Genie.

Die feit dat swartes die vuilwerk soos jy dit noem doen, is ook niksseggend nie. 'n Caterpillar D9 sal nie sonder 'n brein 'n pad kan bou nie.Vir derduisende jare het Afrikane oorgenoeg arbeid gehad, maar niks gebou nie. Bouwerk vereis beide breinkrag en arbeid. Afrika het net een gehad voor 1652.

Re: Nobelvredesprys aan Obama

Anton — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:16:52 -0000

Ek het geweet as ek lank genoeg wag, sou ek die finale en absurde uitkoms van regstellende aksie sien. Obama is minder as 'n jaar in sy amp. In daardie tyd het hy absoluut niks gedoen om sy Nobelprys te verdien nie. Daar is steeds nie vrede in Afghanistan nie. Daar is steeds VSA troepe in Irak. Wat op dees aarde het Obama dus gedoen, buiten om swart te wees? Hierdie is niks meer of minder as regstellende-aksie tot sy absurde uiteinde gevoer nie.

Re: Aardverwarming uit 'n skeptiese oogpunt gesien

Anton — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:33:23 -0000

Die meeste mense dink soos jy, Cobus. Sulke denke is egter nie baie wetenskaplik-gefundeerd nie. Byvoorbeeld: In 1991 het 'n vulkaan by name Pinatubo in die Filippyne uitgebars. Binne enkele dae het Pinatubo sowat 1% van die totale jaarlikse koolstofdioksied wat deur alle menslike aktiwiteit, synde motors, fabrieke, kragstasies ens insluit, vrygestel. Nie net CO2 nie, maar ook SO2 en waterdamp, albei groenhuisgasse, is vrygestel, asook miljoene tonne vulkanies as. Die effek van Pinatubo? Skouspelagtige sonsondergange, en 'n VERKOELING van die aarde se klimaat vir soveel soos 2 jaar na sy uitbarsting.

Re: Oproer in kettingwinkel

Anton — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:44:55 -0000

Jy kan die Afrikaan uit die bos haal, maar nie die bos uit die Afrikaan nie.

Re: Minister blaas kwartmiljoen op partytjie

Anton — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:34:09 -0000

Nee, mense, julle is darem baie lelik met hierdie ousie. Sy verdien dit want sy is in die verlede onderdruk. Omdat sy donker gepigmenteer is, kan sy maak nes sy wil. Dit moet julle al teen hierdie tyd weet. Ons as belastingbetalers moenie kla nie; inteendeel - ons moet innig dankbaar wees vir die voorreg om deur mense van haar kaliber regeer te word..

Re: Kop op die Blok: Haaie het Cheetahs se nommer

Anton — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:14:43 -0000

Hierdie huis skree ook vanmiddag vir die Vrystaatse B-span (die A-span is die Haaie met al sy gekoopte Vrystaters deur die jare.) Die Haaie is eintlik 'n kunsmatige span wat in die B-liga hoort. Sy opvanggebied van spelers kan nie kers vashou met die Vrystaat, Bulle of WP s'n nie. Al wat hom toelaat om sukses te behaal, is grootskeepse invoerdery en kopery van spelers wat veral die Vrystaat tref.

Re: Afrikaanse plekname sneuwel steeds

Anton — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:32:46 -0000

Tipies - hulle is die vernietigers van rykdom en die afbrekers van die beskawing. Het nooit en sal ook self nooit iets tot stand kan bring nie. Hulle gee dus plekke soos Nelspruit 'n ander naam en probeer sodoende ontken dat dit nie hulle was wat dit gebou het nie. Nietemin weet almal, en veral hulle, wat die waarheid is, en dit veroorsaak diepgaande, blywende en geregverdigde gevoelens van minderwaardigheid by hulle.

Re: Maagpolitiek van ons opperpandoer

Anton — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:44:01 -0000

Orania is helaas nie werkbaar nie, bloot omdat daar geen ekonomiese geleenthede is in 'n dorre landstreek nie. Almal besef dit, ook die inwoners van die blanke plakkerskampe rondom Pretoria, want hulle plak rondom Pretoria, waar daar vir hulle (kennelik skrapse) ekonomiese geleenthede is. As ek vandag Orania toe verhuis, wat gaan daar vir my te doen wees? Grootskeepse migrasie van Afrikaners Orania toe gaan dus ongelukkig nie gebeur nie. Dit sou beter wees om ons dan eerder te beywer vir selfregering binne die grense van SA, soos wat die Baske in Spanje het.