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Originally Posted by willravel
The free market isn't preventing wars over oil. I doubt it will make a turn in time to avoid a serious catastrophe with oil running out.
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We don't have a free market. We have corporatism, essentially. A small government and a freer market would prevent wars over oil.
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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Ron Paul supporters are yet another group who feel it's necessary to storm every poll and survey to make it look like he has huge amounts of support. Groups like that engaging in asymmetrical promotion of poll candidates are what renders these polls invalid. I'm not sure exactly what they think they'll accomplish by inflating their candidate's numbers in irrelevant polls, but they do it.
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I drove through three states to support Ron Paul and meet him. I didn't do it to show off or to make it seem as if he had more support than he does.
I can only speak for myself.
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Originally Posted by willravel
The way the Constitution works:
It was written with certain things in mind, but it was designed to be applicable to the time in which it exists.
I love James Madison, he was a rad dude, and I'd buy him a drink if we were ever to meet, but he doesn't live in the 21st century. The fact of the matter is that, because of the work done by and intent of our founding fathers, the Constitution must be modern so that it can deal with the issues of the time. As such, James Madison's interpretation of the General Welfare was great for the time, but doesn't necessarily mean anything but history now.
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The Constitution was indeed written with the intent that it should be changeable.
But there's a process to do it legally. We can't afford to just ignore it and call it outdated.