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Friday, November 30, 2007 01:13 AM

petaluma

Yeah, well, lets look at the world without black guys. A few examples of how it would be worse if you will:

Refridgerated transport was invented by a black man.

You know that elevator in your office? A black guy invented the mechanism that opens and closes its doors.

Your car would have an inferior gear shift, and the automatic taffic signal wouldn't be on your streets (Say hello to higher taxes!)

Your garden certainly wouldn't have been as green without the swiveling lawn sprinkler.

There is a long list of these inventions that go to the heart of how you live your life. To claim that any single racial group hasn't invented anything is to put it bluntly, ignorant at best and lying at worst.

Racism might have bred social ills which need correcting, including a vicious cycle of blame-laying and failure, but it isn't actually based on anything but ignorance and cowardice on both sides.

Black guys who play the "Blame Whitey" game, are no better then the white guys who play the "Blame Darkie" game, and they get no further in life. They just get cut more slack because everyone is too busy fighting culture wars to actually notice that there are drug dealers on the corner, the kids are hopped up on meth, and you have very white criminals in very white collars defrauding widows, retirees and children of billions.

It is actually funny how in modern society a poor person who steals from one person in order to survive, is seen as being less socially acceptable then someone who steals from widows, orphans and the elderly in order to be able to afford a more expensive suit or car.

There are things wrong with the black culture worldwide. I defy you to find me one culture on earth which has ever been perfect, but the problem is the culture of "black" and "white". It is a culture of racism and using racism as an excuse for failure, instead of turning racism to your advantage.

Culture isn't hard-coded into your genes, and shouldn't be given a racial profile whatever culture you belong to.

Friday, November 30, 2007 01:51 AM

Etheryin

Okay, here is what would happen.

One, without any regulations contracts, you can't sue for anything past what is included in the contract. You wouldn't have grounds to sue, seen as lawsuits are based on questions of law.

Two, under a true free market it actually pays to make products which are physically addictive. If people can't stop using your product, hey you have an eternal market and what is more; there are no legal protections built into the market beyond property rights, so you are, in essence, screwed.

Three, protections against corruption (Cigarette company bribes the school headmaster into letting cigarette vending machines into the halls, and lets not forget advertising to the kiddies) are non-existant under a true free market. Those bribes? Yeah, well that is a free market economy for you.

What liberals propose is a balance. You have government regulating industry so as to improve standards. Further, government provides certain basic minimum services (Policing, education, infrastructure and yes, healthcare.)

Meanwhile the vast majority of your business is self-run with a legal system designed to prevent it doing too much harm to the world around it - pretty much like you run your life day to day.

Government doesn't tell you what job you can have, but it does tell you that as professional choices go, being an assassin or professional thief is on the "no" list.

Government doesn't tell a business how to run itself, but it does tell that business that dumping toxic waste in the local playground to save costs, is on the "no" list.

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