SDH: Still waiting for the socialist explanation LB.....
Can't find the definition on your own, huh? Well, here it is:
Socialism
Socialism is an ideology of a social and economic system in which the means of production are collectively owned and administered democratically by all of society. Amongst other things, this is intended to produce a more evenly spread distribution of wealth. The idea of abolition of private property became a part of the idea in the early 19th century. How this democratic society should be run exactly and how it should be implemented or achieved is a matter of controversy and has resulted in many theories of socialism and related ideas. In Marxist theory, it also refers to the society that would succeed or supplant capitalism, and would later develop further into communism.
We are a capitalistic society. Given capitalism on the right side and socialism on the left, Tony Dean is definately a left leaner. Where do you stand? Are you in favor of property being collectivly owned, i.e. national forests and other publically owned lands?Are you in favor of the federal government being able to tell private property owners what they can or can't do with their land if it happens to be habitat for publically owned wildlife? Are you in favor of others being able to dictate the way you run your business or your home because the public's interest supersedes your interests? If you answer any of these questions with a yes, you, my friend, are a socialist, as is Tony Dean.
SDH: So if i decide to buy up some land next to you and build a nuclear power plant, or how about a hog confinement of 5000 animals just south of your place so you can get a good wif when the south winds in the summer, or maybe a toxic waste dump.....your ok with that right LB? its my land..heck, i may even place those toxic waste barrels right next to your fence, that would be ok since its my land.
If you have the capital and the expertise to make a go of either enterprise, more power (pun intended) to you. As long as you obey the law, you go right ahead and do whatever you can to be profitable. Just remember that your rights end where mine begin. If you abuse the rights of others, you're in the wrong. No one is above the law, not landowners, not hunters, not socialist fishing gurus like Tony Dean, and under our wonderful system of government, not even politicians are above the law.
Now I have a question for you that you have been avoiding. You couldn't wait to reveal my identity when Tony Dean posted his diatribe against me on his website. Everyone on here knows that my name is Betty Olson and I live in Harding County, South Dakota, a fact I'm quite proud of, by the way.
Red Robin: One other thing South Dakota Stalker...I think it is certainly impolite to reveal information about someone they haven't revealed theirself. Why do you feel the freedom to do that. In the South, you would be considered very rude. Maybe in the North they teach you to take cowardly attacks against women... I doubt it though. Of course you could provide your name to show there was no ill will intended.
When we asked you to give us your name, which only seems fair, you just disappeared. Why? Don't you have the courage of your convictions?
I find it odd that the only posts you've made have been targeting me. Do you like shooting from the shadows? Does it make you feel safer?
Come on – step up to the plate and announce your name to the world. You'll be a better man for it and this old Grandma won't hurt you. :twisted: