Your predictions and/or hopes for the future of America?[views:4660][posts:59]__________________________________________________ [Oct 10,2008 8:30pm - DEATH FIEND sli sli sli ""] i hope all the people in that McCain/Palin Mob video have children that turn out gay |
| ______________________________ [Oct 10,2008 8:31pm - Mess ""] A-Bombs for us all! of course plz |
| ______________________________ [Oct 10,2008 8:43pm - Lamp ""] pam said:I think if we took away the South's right to vote all of that could happen. Except for Chapel Hill, it's very blue here. Durham is fairly blue too. It's not just the south though, you should probably include most of the midwest too. |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 11,2008 12:12pm - Conservationist ""] aril said:the funding for NASA could be much, much more. the projects in NASA are very expensive, but the funding is just a small fraction of what we could be doing. NASA and military r&d have brought us half at least of our technology. I have other reasons to support both (they're just cool) but that's enough for us out there. My hopes: 1. End to welfare state. 2. End to anti-discrimination legislation. 3. Everyone under 115 IQ --> Africa. 4. Tax mass media. 5. Invade Canada. 6. Legal weed. |
| ______________________________________ [Oct 15,2008 9:31am - orgymf@work ""] Conservationist said: 1. End to welfare state. 2. End to anti-discrimination legislation. 3. Everyone under 115 IQ --> Africa. 4. Tax mass media. 5. Invade Canada. 6. Legal weed. 1.agreed 2.agreed 3.hahahaha!!!! amazing 4.100 percent backed 5.BLAME CANADA! 6.i agree, but mainly for the tax purposes....legalizing and taxing herb (the same way they do booze and tobacco) would be a big economic help |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 15,2008 10:41am - Conservationist ""] The drug war is a giant failure. We have to admit that people are working against their government and it's causing a police state to easily rise. It makes more sense to decriminalize it in certain areas, and to require welfare recipients on drugs to go there. Natural selection takes care of the problem. I would argue that legalizing and taxing isn't the goal. The real goal is to get drugs as cheap as possible so that the people on drugs do not commit crimes to support their habits. If heroin cost them $2 a day, we could shovel them into hovels for $5 a day of total cost and let them smack out and die, with the 2% who always manage to kick coming back to reality. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 15,2008 12:35pm - orgymf@work ""] this may be my first time disagreeing with you sir, but i do strongly believe that legalizing and taxing weed (as well prostitution) would be a huge help (economically). as far as welafre recipients....if you can afford drugs (be they legal, or illegal) then you do not need ANY support/assistance....no welfare, no food stamps, no free medical care. period. on the other hand, i suppose i can see you point about making hard drugs cheap so parasites die out |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 15,2008 12:37pm - Conservationist ""] Legalization in many ways is government endorsement of the behavior. Decriminalization is saying KMAGYOYO: kiss my ass goodbye, you're on your own. Agreed on welfare. I'd replace the welfare state with job insurance. Cheap drugs, no age limit. If parents are going to be derelict, we don't want those genes in the population. Interesting that you bring up prostitution. I've always thought Europe had a sensible attitude toward it: legalize and regulate so diseases don't spread. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 15,2008 12:41pm - orgymf@work ""] Conservationist said:Legalization in many ways is government endorsement of the behavior. Decriminalization is saying KMAGYOYO: kiss my ass goodbye, you're on your own. Agreed on welfare. I'd replace the welfare state with job insurance. Cheap drugs, no age limit. If parents are going to be derelict, we don't want those genes in the population. Interesting that you bring up prostitution. I've always thought Europe had a sensible attitude toward it: legalize and regulate so diseases don't spread. i suppose the more i look at your side of it, the more it makes sense.... i just think i am arguing from an economic standpoint because i am sick of watching the value of the dollar become similar to the value of used toilet paper. i am definately with you on the European attitude on prostitution. safe, clean, legal, taxed.....creates jobs, stimulates economy, keeps young girls off the street, and sexually deprived/desperate men out of jail |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 15,2008 12:46pm - Conservationist ""] The genius of the Confederacy was that it allowed different states to have different rules. So if one state wanted to decriminalize weed and legalize prostitution, another wouldn't have to. And because neither state is obligated to save the other if it goes bankrupt, we rapidly see which approach is more realistic. If you ask me, the threat to the dollar is a subtle one -- we no longer make much of anything here in the USA. Our agriculture and manufacturing sectors are minimal, but in entertainment and moving money around through paper finance, we're strong. But those industries are ephemeral, and so not a good basis for a long term plan. Diversified industry is best. We see it here in Houston -- when the energy firms take a dump, the city is a ruin for a decade, and otherwise, it's boomtown. |