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Inequality exists in every single human society ever created because human beings are simply not equal to each other.
This is the brutal truth that most intellectuals cannot face. People are not equal. Period.
The rich have always had a longer lifespan than the poor, as well as more power and often physical prowess from nutrition.
And if you socialize medicine, won't the top socialists have better lifespans and nutrition"? All you do when you create socialism is create a new proletariate to lord over, you think you would have learned that by now...
So what would the judicial proceeding be like? What kind of process would fulfill this obligation?
For the moment Republicans have been under the impression that reconciliation was only to be used for budget matters. You should rationally fear what would happen if they got the majority back and felt they now had a license to go completely berzerk with the power.
You forgot the whole non consensual "rape" part about it.
And it was the Mom who called the police!!!!
Use you intarnet capabilities to get your facts straight.
If you really want to wall yourself in nanananan I-can't-see-the-real-world-keynesianism then yes, the actual dollar collapse would precede the other countries dropping it.
If, you make the tiny tiny assumption that the Chinese might "strategically" look ahead, and say, not make ahistorical decisions, then the dump will come before the dollar fully dives. The shock from the China bond dump will be fatal, and the dollar will become like the old Italian and Israeli Liras.
They probably didn't teach you this for your journalism degree, but photosynthesis is light + CO2 + H2O ---> glucose + O2.
In general, the things that get you more out of the process are solar radiation, carbon dioxide and water. Just ask a farmer. Seriously.
Overpopulation was invented by liberals who wanted to explain why their pet third world socialist nations were ravaged by famines. It wasn't the socialism, of course, it was to many brown people! What India needed wasn't capitalist agriculture, but some good old fashioned liberal eugenics!
Seriously, socialism failed because is it a manifest failure of a system, get over it. You don't have to go on some eugenics campaign against the brown people of the world over it.
1) Genetic Engineering
2) Nuclear Power
3) Extra terrestrial mining and settlement
Global Warming is offensive to the analytical mind. The models are completely unphysical, the data has been obviously forged and the theory clashes with the most elementary knowledge of earth science.
It is, like Eugenics, an anti-human political movement thinly veiled in the guise of junk science. Eugenics models, like climate models, were not based on "observation" or "real world" analysis, but rather on models built entirely on preconceived untested notions.
You seam to assert that bringing misery on yourself somehow gives you virtue. It actually only makes you a self righteous prick.
They only were complicit in the sex trafficking of children and the running of brothels for child prostitutes. I mean, common! What kind of moral perfection do these reactionaries want?
Hominids lived in harmony with nature long before they controlled fire, used tools or language. No impact my ass.
And the libertarians aren't on drugs? roflz...
You may have learned the term "confounding variables" in college, if you went to liberal arts college, I forgive you, because they don't require you to analyze anything.
"Confounding variables" are variables not included in the original analysis that could impact the analysis.
In this case, it might be called "lifestyles of Americans". These include:
1) Americans drive more cars than everyone else.
2) Americans are fatter than everyone else.
3) Americans do more drugs than everyone else.
If you paid attention in your freshman stats class (assuming you didn't go to liberal arts college, in which case I expect nothing analytical from you), you would know to factor in for these things.
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What about 100 trillion? You surely cannot tell anyone with an IQ above 70 that that is OK. Where do you draw the line or does your Keynesian catechism only allow you to use math to promote intervention?
What the f@#$ do you think the American Revolution was? A non violent resistance movement?
The one possibility completely taboo to liberals, even smart ones like Greenwald is that the American people are genuinly rejecting health care reform. That is, the American people, with full knowledge of what Obama wants to do, are rejecting his ideas.
Liberals cannot cognate this because of their ironclad belief that the majority of the people are always liberal, that the people, by definition, can never honestly reject liberal policy.
Writing this will change nothing of course, and all for the best, for this truly is the Waterloo of American liberalism. While health care holds the road and the Hougemont, Blucher's global warming corps comes from the right, to put the liberal hoard to route.
I suspect the author has a slight death wish, perhaps a fantasy that her death has to mean something in order for her life to (a pathology of primitive humanity that survives to this day).
British egalitarianism kills. A committee literally called N.I.C.E votes whether your life is worth saving to the body politic, and if they blackball you, you got to the grave.
Now I'm sure this idea thrills the author, as this would give her life meaning. She died in the service of the State budget! How stimulating. How the empty human life she once had now has meaning.
Countering the argument of the bill having death panels by saying death panels already exist tacitly says that the bill has death panels.
Evacuating the air from tunnels with a giant pump is actually a pretty savage tactical idea. Innovation takes an open mind, in this case, a reactionary open mind.