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- Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
Skipjack, I completely agree. Everyone knows the US is rent by warlords and lawlessness, the courts quit sitting years ago, and society lost all cohesion in decades past. Define warlords, define lawlessness in this context please. The US has its crime problems and it is fighting wars pretty much co...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:05 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:47 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
Legalized at the point of a gun, by the people pushing the opium. After they'd spent years encouraging drug smuggling during prohibition. Ahem, what? Legalized is legalized. Sure the Chinese did not like that the British forced them to legalize it. Those Chinese were not stupid after all, well thos...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12451
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:21 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
The British Government was actively supporting opium smuggling to counter the Empire's enormous trade deficit with China, where opium was illegal. Drawing any conclusions about drug legalization from that seems difficult at best. Learn your history! Opium trade was legalized in China after the seco...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
You will also want your military and your police not to be in the hands of a private entity. Private entities are open to curruption. Also you might end up with multiple private entities with different agendas and different ideas of what protection means (also called militias). If you want to know h...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
I would say, lets have a "non prosecution" policy for marijuana. That does not make it legal, but it wont criminalize users. One could even have some (government controled and taxed) providing of this. However these things need to be monitored closely. If things go out of control, it has to be possi...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:08 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
I have no interest in looking up the state budgets and compiling them, but since about half of our prison populations exists because of drug convictions, that invalidates that half of their expenditures for law enforcement. This argument is of doubtful validity. I know that a lot of people here are...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:43 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
For Car insurance, there is a "high risk" pool for clumsy drivers. A series of car accidents doesn't mean you can't get car insurance. Why not something similar for individuals and "pre-existing" condition situations for health care? It's simple, and it has been done before. Because unlike car driv...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
Since I don't want to have to get one, I dont engage in risky activities that would expose me to that risk. LOL, neither did I and I ended up with a heart attack at the age of 33. I was not overweight, did not smoke or drink coffee and was doing exercise 3 times a week. The only risk factor that I ...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Since we had this discussion about UAVs and F22s etc...
- Replies: 132
- Views: 64363
For what I know the fighter and reconnaissance planes are affected by this as well. In any case it should be easy to fix on the planes and UAVs. It is just a matter of cost. The signals are meant to be viewed by the ground troops via some sort of PDA (I am sorry I am not totally up to date on this p...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
And here in the US we have medicare/medicaid. Not everyone is eligible for medicare/medicaid, as you might know. What about someone who is self employed? There are really no people in the US who don't have health care access who intentionally do not pay for it but are able to. Bullshit! I know plen...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:26 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
Yup, but no inherent right to shoot you dead and take your property, as is the case with government. The government of Austria has not done that in 65 years. I also dont see anywhere in the US constitution that they have the right to do that. I do very much see though that noone might have taken hi...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Liberal view of Government.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 66099
"A private corporation owned by the residents"? Sounds like another name for "government" to me. Whatever rings your bell. LOL, I thought the same thing. Let me guess: and everyone in the community gets to vote on important matter, ROFL... Diogenes, but health care costs are lower here in Austria, ...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:16 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: First steps towards a Polywell fusion device prototype
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12451