Threedee, I don't follow. Does she stay or go and why.
Seems I have the cons stumped? No real replies!
Granted, your nutshells usually suck, this one at least is interesting. Today, neocons expect blind obedience, so most "conservatives" would stay home, and maybe try to start a war with the free nation.
This society fails, however, because it values equality above liberty. Also, as Belme fails to realize, Natural Rights call upon a government to provide security so that every citizen can strive to maintain their own life, liberty, and property. While Jefferson put a twist on the third right in the Declaration, the 14th Amendment correctly cites Natural Rights under the Due Process Clause.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Threedee, I don't follow. Does she stay or go and why.
Seems I have the cons stumped? No real replies!
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Your imaginary scenario is unrealistic and neither place is a desirable place to live as you describe it.....
a nation in which personal freedom trumps equality.
We all want and demand equality ...equality of treatment under the law, meaning no "special" treatment for some particular group...as in what is perceived as "homosexual rights" or "affirmative action" or "corporate welfare" or "the rich getting special legal attention", etc....
In this place extremes of all kinds exist and government and law exist to defend or to protect power.
No one desires "extremes of all kinds"...that why we have laws and standards of social behavior.....something the left undermines at every level...and "laws to protect power" ?...as in 500 and some odd elected assholes in Washington DC holding 350 million of us in a type of bondage.......
no service is free
no service is free? No service is ever "free"....someone, somewhere is paying for and providing what you think is free.....
Last edited by NOVA; 09-18-2009 at 08:52 PM.
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
how am I supposed to explain why Europeans are wrong about the country they live in?......I guess the Danes who answered the polls are the happiest people on earth because they haven't published any cartoons about Mohammad and they know they aren't on some Muslim's hit list.....
Let me try again to simplify it even for you. My question was:
"Where would we be if military spending was at the same level as other 'developed' countries and we were able to spend on problems within our borders." ....answer it IF you can.
The answer to that question is the reason 23 countries are ahead of the US in the happiness of its citizens. (University of Michigan survey July, 2008.)
There is no ersatz scholar aboard here or anywhere else that can tell me the Founding Fathers had the entire world with no borders in mind when addressing civil defense.
how far back do you want to go.......if we hadn't had the military spending in the 40s we'd be part of the Nazi Empire......if we hadn't had it through the 70s we would likely be part of the Soviet Union.....as would those other "developed" countries you harken to......
Neither you nor Bravo answered the question, Bravo made up the world based on his personal prejudices and you didn't answer at all?
Post Modern Prophet - you need to change your name to 'Old Fashioned Reactionary' as not one thing you have written so far is not simply reactionary crapola.
The situation is a given, speculative nonsense is not allowed, does she go or stay and why.
.......where the inhabitants are happier than here in the States. Maybe it's time to mind our own business and treasure before attempting to spread our lower level of happiness everywhere else to oppose minor Boogymen with big mouths. You might even be due a tax break as a result! Now, that's happiness!
There are just wars and stupid wars, take your pick as to which is which. Everybody with brains knew and said the Soviets were more bluster than substance, the governments of both countries used each other for self enrichment as well as self engrandisement.
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