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"I suppose I always knew America would eventually break the planet, like some ghastly, hyperactive toddler that gets hold of a mobile phone and then smashes it repeatedly against the edge of a table". Quote from british journalist.

i'll go with your schoolyard analogy. the one thing that makes my take on it so different from yours is that there will be many games, many, many games and no one can be left out. the reason is simple, everyone is capable of doing something that needs to be done and that value makes them part of the big puzzle. no extra pieces.

i am in no way advocating plutocracy, or any return to the era of kings and serfs. what i am hoping for is more of a natural socialism, i guess you could call it that. right now our society rewards selfishness and ego-centric behavior. we need to learn some manors and have respect for people. it is proven that laws can't do that but i would argue that a lack of laws and regulation can. by forcing an overseeing structure on society we are asking for individuals, in fact demanding them, to slack off in their very important duty towards their brothers and sisters.

that's what i think is at the core of our differences, med. to me government represents a failure on my part as an individual to look out for my fellow humans and to you (more generally - all leftists) it represents the license to conveniently avoid those duties.






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"But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race."

- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, Hero to the servants of big government, Racist War Monger

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"I suppose I always knew America would eventually break the planet, like some ghastly, hyperactive toddler that gets hold of a mobile phone and then smashes it repeatedly against the edge of a table". Quote from british journalist.

you'll notice that the decline coincides with increased government intervention. you know that the government feeds this cycle, left and right. you know that the left and right are doing the same thing as the CEOs.






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- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, Hero to the servants of big government, Racist War Monger

I've never been for big government, just smarter government. Could we lose billions in war spending and giveaways to corporations, hell yes. could the government be trimmed down to its fighting weight, hell yes. I could put together a plan for government within 2 wks. that would eliminate about 75% of its weight and still perform the needed functions, some old and a few new. There would be massive unemployment during the rearangement, but in the end, there would be near full employment as the illegals would be returned to their countries and the unemployed could begin building the fences, I knew you'd like that one. I would levey all the corporations that do business in the USA and do production in foriegn countries or with foriegn workers. A few billion would be used for drug treatment and re-aligning drug abusers to fit into society. Some drugs like Pot would be legal to grow your own, but huge retailers of the drug would not be allowed, maybe a government store, but cut out the large drug dealers. If a grower grew a little more than his own usaqge, then selling of small quanities would be legal. but moving tons would net you a large jail vacation. See, I'm barely into my re-organization and already I've got a grip on the drug problem

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"I suppose I always knew America would eventually break the planet, like some ghastly, hyperactive toddler that gets hold of a mobile phone and then smashes it repeatedly against the edge of a table". Quote from british journalist.

Med sez ...

"Actually, I don't smoke. It makes me paranoid."

If you'd grow something besides that crummy WW, you might enjoy the high more. Personally, I think someone sold you some beans from a sack of Mexican Schwag and represented them as White Widow. Say the word Med ... and I'll get some REAL pot snob beans to ya.

On the employer/employee thing: What if a very productive employee came to work with his head shaven one day. Then the next day, he came in wearing a shirt with a swastika on the front. The employer asked him to go home an change clothes. The employee refuses. The employer tells the employee that he is driving business away. Does the employer have the right to discriminate against the employee? Should the employee be disiplined for insubordination ... or fired?

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"I suppose I always knew America would eventually break the planet, like some ghastly, hyperactive toddler that gets hold of a mobile phone and then smashes it repeatedly against the edge of a table". Quote from british journalist.

That really depends. If the business has a dress code then yeah, the employer has every right to reprimand the employee but if not then the employee has every right to wear shirts with swastikas.

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"I suppose I always knew America would eventually break the planet, like some ghastly, hyperactive toddler that gets hold of a mobile phone and then smashes it repeatedly against the edge of a table". Quote from british journalist.

so, the dress code that a reasonable person has in the form of rational expectations does not suffice?






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"But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race."

- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, Hero to the servants of big government, Racist War Monger