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Originally Posted by willravel
I don't remember naming alcohol. Cigarettes are addictive, therefore those who smoke them are by definition entrapped, or NOT FREE. If you smoke, you're not free. If you don't smoke you are free. See? Simple.
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ah, so nobody CHOOSES to have a cigarette, they are simply addicted and can't function correctly anymore, so we MUST help them, cause it's bad, mmkay? please.
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Originally Posted by willravel
You're right! Those completely unsubstantiated claims negate the effiency and effectiveness of all of the federal organizations I named!
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are you trying to say we've NEVER had a chem or hazardous material incident? is NOT JFK's brain missing from the archives?
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Originally Posted by willravel
Go down to the police station and ask them. Ask them how many of their fellow officers died trying to protect someone. Go down there and ask how many criminals they've helped to apprehend. Go down and ask how many crimes they could have prevented because they were able to stop a criminal from striking again.
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yes yes yes, of course they will TRY, but it's NOT their job to protect YOU as an individual. If you think it is, you might read 'Castle Rock v. Gonzalez' and prepare for an eye opener.
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Originally Posted by willravel
That's what we pay for, and as someone who lives in the safest large city in the whole country, I know this.
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Then you better tell Bloomberg he's a liar, because he's said that NYC is the safest large city in the country.
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Originally Posted by willravel
You know not what you read. I was not talking about military or prison health care. Please reread what I said. Privatization of the military (google Blackwater) and privatization of prison systems has led to massive corruption and is tremendously expensive.
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my bad, I did indeed misread your statement, but to even further prove my point, these 'privatized' orgs are getting paid BY THE GOV, so I'm still right. Things run by the gov or paid by the gov, simply suck ass and money.
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Originally Posted by willravel
You're right. Some people actually graduate having actually only taken econ 101. It's sad. The point is that they didn't do any work outside of that one class on the subject. The idea that everything is black and white in economics is actually something one might think before econ 101. The market is a living thing, and the nuances are amazingly complex. In this case, it's a waste of time to just say, "Competition is great! Go team free market!" It's no where near that simple.
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If the market is a 'living' thing, then why on earth would you want to take the life out of it by regulating it to death?
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Originally Posted by willravel
Some members of the government are interested in spending a lot (Republicans in the white house) and some aren't (Democratic Senators). We live in strange times.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, dems aren't big spenders? BWAHAHAHAHA