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Citizens Should Work and Pay a Tax to Qualify for Universal Healthcare [SPLIT]

Benvolio said:
Thresher, its called combining. The few threshing machines left are museum pieces. Corn also is combined. It is not called threshing.
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"Corn also is combined" — yeah, with complete NUTS, in a müesli!

"Combining may refer to:

Combine harvester use in agriculture
Combining capacity, in chemistry
Combining character, in digital typography
Combining form, in linguistics
Combining grapheme joiner, Unicode character that has no visible glyph
Combining Cyrillic Hundred Thousands, modifier in the Cyrillic numerals system representing a multiplier of one hundred thousand
Combining Cyrillic Millions, as above but for one million
Combining like terms, in algebra
Combining low line, underline, in typgraphy
Combining macron below, Unicode combining diacritical mark
Combining weight, system of chemical weights created by Ernst Gottfried Fischer
Custom combining, in agriculture harvesting
Diversity combining, in telecommunications
Food combining, in nutrition
Maximal-ratio combining, in telecommunications
Protein combining, in nutrition
Write-combining, in computing"

No trace of "corn-combining"…
 
dictionery.reference.com/browse/combine includes the following as a verb "7.to use a combine in harvesting."
 
Benvolio said:
Thresher, its called combining. The few threshing machines left are museum pieces. Corn also is combined. It is not called threshing.
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Oh sweet Jesus, it's called a "combine" because it COMBINES threshing with a couple of other necessary agricultural steps.

Dear sweet Ben, you need to just admit that you completely screwed the pooch on this and move on, prolonging it just makes you look foolish and stupid.
 
I do come from and agricultural background and if there were no THRESHING, you'd have weeds in your breakfast cereal...
 
Benvolio said:
The pilgrim story illustrates the defference between socialism/liberalism/communism on the one hand and free enterprise/capitalism on the other. By confiscating the results of hard work and innovation, socialismdiscourages them.
'Commonwealth" does not suggest socialism as you imply. I merely means a republic. This is from Wikipedia;" 1.
an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic."
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Except of course that the community failed under their revised model too.

The pilgrim's settlement couldn't have survived without the support of the native inhabitants - that's basic charity more than free enterprise.

And the pilgrims weren't living some sort of communist utopia - they were a paying off a debt to private investors who funded their passage and founding. Why this was ever used as some kind of cautionary tale against social liberalism is a mystery... the failure of early settlements due to military overspend, disease and hostility with pre-existing inhabitants doesn't get a look in from today's tea-party version of history.

Their model wasn't dissimilar to that used back in England at the time, the main difference was they were farming collectively for a group of private investors as opposed to farming collectively for a single lord and land owner.
 
TX-Beau said:
Oh sweet Jesus, it's called a "combine" because it COMBINES threshing with a couple of other necessary agricultural steps.

Dear sweet Ben, you need to just admit that you completely screwed the pooch on this and move on, prolonging it just makes you look foolish and stupid.
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I suppose it's possible someone says "combine-ing" but I've never heard it.
 
Benvolio said:
Farmers today call it combining, although harvesting is sometimes used. Never "threshing."
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PROOOFFFFFFF!!!!!

:rotflmao:

No "farmers" I know call it anything but harvest.

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AND they ALL know what threshing is!
 
Benvolio said:
Farmers today call it combining, although harvesting is sometimes used. Never "threshing."
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You should have checked out my post right before yours before you posted. Instead you "combined" egg on your face. :lol:
 
Willie Boy said:
Yet it is done by corporations. At least the corporations hire the professional lobbyists who then lobby on their behalf.
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This is the myth the SCOTUS perpetuated in Citizens United, that anything but human beings have speech.

Corporations do not engage in speech, only human beings do. What lobbying is in reality is a group of people in charge of other people's money using some of that money to hire other people to speck for the individuals in charge of that money, without asking the people whose money it really is. This is theft of speech. It continues to occur because people are very sloppy thinkers and many allow the nonsense that "corporations are people".
 
Benvolio said:
The socialist maxim is "from each according to ability, to each according to need." Sure, it encourages hard work verbally, but the reward is spread around to others. Equality is the goal of socialism.
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If equality is the goal of socialism, then the Declaration of Independence is a socialist document.
 
jbrown329 said:
Fine. Lobby away. But, NO MONEY to get what they want.
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No. If the government needs advice on a topic, let their staff find some experts to call in. Having professionals who are paid to show up and harangue our elected officials (and unelected bureaucrats) without even being invited means that our representatives (and unelected bureaucrats) have less time to pay attention to their constituents.
 
Kabluey said:
The interests of those professional organizations are pretty much drowned out by lobbyists with competing interests.

Pharma, insurance and electric utilities are the three biggest spenders on lobbying in the USA. They're defending turf, not gently shaping safety standards.
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Exactly.

Harry Browne did some superb research showing how corporate lobbyists distort government and thus the free market by their influence. Over an over again, the corporations end up running the very departments and agencies that are supposed to regulate them.
 
rareboy said:
Blah blah blah

I come from farming stock.

Barn raisings, house raisings, church raisings and threshing were community affairs. Even into my teens, there were families and neighbours who farmed co-operatively, sharing the costs and use of expensive equipment and their help.

Many municipal corporations are pure co-operatives and a number of states and jurisdictions were established as Commonwealths.

The English noun "commonwealth" in the sense meaning "public welfare; general good or advantage" dates from the 15th century.

Socialism is the foundation of the charity of the Churches.....it was to aid in the redistribution to those in need.


Once again, you demonstrate that you have only the most rudimentary and binary grasp of socio-political history and philosophy commensurate with a mid-level high school education.
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And he overlooks the purest form, from the Bible, where they didn't just pool income, but everything they owned!
 
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