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| 21 Jun 2014 07:29 AM |
- Tacitus (His Credentials: Senator and Consul of the Roman Republic. As well as a governer and historian) Source: Brainy Quote, Wikiquote etc.
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JamesGalt
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| 21 Jun 2014 09:48 AM |
| The more the plans fail the more the planners plan. |
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| 21 Jun 2014 10:17 AM |
The opposite holds the same death and destruction for all. No goverment will ever be perfect. |
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| 21 Jun 2014 05:49 PM |
The opposite holds the same death and destruction for all. No goverment will ever be perfect. ---------------- Not really. I mean the gov. doesn't really need to have or create and issue or edict on everything. A lot of these regulations have no place and we'd be better off without most of them. |
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JayyxC
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| 22 Jun 2014 01:56 AM |
| There's so many things we need more regulations on, such as guns, alcohol, food, drugs, c02 output. |
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| 22 Jun 2014 03:30 AM |
There's so many things we need more regulations on, such as guns, alcohol, food, drugs, c02 output. ------------------ Let's go through this:
food: Yes. Because, the FDA didn't stop us from getting mad cow.
Guns: No. "Since at least 1965, the false assertion that the United States has the industrialized world’s highest murder rate has been an artifact of politically motivated Soviet minimization designed to hide the true homicide rates.2 Since well before that date, the Soviet Union possessed extremely stringent gun controls3 that were effectuated by a police state apparatus providing stringent enforcement.4 So successful was that regime that few Russian civilians now have firearms and very few murders involve them.5 Yet, manifest suc‐ cess in keeping its people disarmed did not prevent the Soviet Union from having far and away the highest murder rate in the developed world.6 In the 1960s and early 1970s, the gun‐less So‐ viet Union’s murder rates paralleled or generally exceeded those of gun‐ridden America. While American rates stabilized and then steeply declined, however, Russian murder increased so drasti‐ cally that by the early 1990s the Russian rate was three times higher than that of the United States. Between 1998‐2004 (the lat‐ est figure available for Russia), Russian murder rates were nearly four times higher than American rates. Similar murder rates also characterize the Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and various other now‐independent European nations of the former U.S.S.R.7 Thus, in the United States and the former Soviet Union transition‐ ing into current‐day Russia, “homicide results suggest that where guns are scarce other weapons are substituted in killings.”8 While American gun ownership is quite high, Table 1 shows many other developed nations (e.g., Norway, Finland, Germany, France, Denmark) with high rates of gun ownership. These countries, however, have murder rates as low or lower than many devel‐ oped nations in which gun ownership is much rarer."
Source: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf |
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| 22 Jun 2014 03:30 AM |
drugs: See my FDA argument.
alcohol ---------- It is fine as is. |
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| 22 Jun 2014 06:16 AM |
| So the United States is nowhere near the Russian mass genocide of the lower class. So this means you need a genocide to happen in the US before you will be called into action... kinda sad really. |
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| 22 Jun 2014 06:22 AM |
So this means you need a genocide to happen in the US before you will be called into action... kinda sad really. -------------------------------- In Russia the median income (generally) keeps rising. That's not a genocide - at all. As far as the sentence I am quoting:
The role of a government is to defend the people from invading nations, upholding legal contracts and upholding freedom. Besides that, this mass genocide you're creating out of thin air can only happen if laborers are willing to work for a lot less. And since labor is a commodity people will only sell their labor for what their human capital is worth when pertaining to said job. |
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| 22 Jun 2014 06:29 AM |
True flat, it has gotten better. But there was a time, during communism, that the people of Russia were so afraid of their leaders that they killed their own workers who were normally lower class citizens if they were not working hard enough. |
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| 22 Jun 2014 06:34 AM |
My bad. I was refering to Stalin. Before 1965. Sorry bout that, you are correct. |
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