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I'da payed substantially more to be towed out to the gulfstream and spent a few years trying to keep it from sinking.
The only thing stupider than the US government is the US citizen, notwithstanding stupid illegal aliens tha are too stupid to make it in their own fucked up countries and think it's actually better here.
What group of slimeball politicians got paid under the tablefor this latest episode of fuckme-imamerican?

Well nitwit, you could have bid on it. You generally need to be a telecommunications maganate before you go out buying aircraft carriers and parking them in the middle of the ocean.

How do you feel about the fact that Darl McBride said that SCO owns C++?

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We are stardust, man.

I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld.
When I die, they will put me in a box
and dispose of it in the cold ground.
And in all the million ages to come,
I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again.
So won't you run and play with me here
among the teeming mass of humanity?
The universe has spared us this moment.
~~Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

This. I have never understood either. We're not changing the amount of time each day. If you need more light, change your hours. There is a very good image here that helps to explain (the purple one): http://www.thefullwiki.org/DST

That's because of the upper half of the LP and the entire UP. Notice I also didn't say Michigan. I said Detroit to Indy to Chicago.

http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/03/2/2/1/82844353121028239.gif

Look at this population density of Germany: http://www.bibb.de/images/inhalte/a21_ausbildungsmarkt-aufschwung_en_02.jpg

And then look at the population density of states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population_density There are plenty of states that have higher density than the employment districts in Germany with nowhere near the services.

Don't make a straw man argument about infrastructure. I'm talking about the billions of dollars in useless federal and state regulation, taxes that are taxes upon taxes. The ponzi scheme that is social security, which just came under threat from the Obama administration of having its funds cut off even though only $.25 on the dollar go to pay current benefit recipients, meanwhile the federal government has been borrowing $.75 of every dollar paid into social security. And they have the audacity to tell us, sorry now we're going to borrow $1.00 of every dollar paid into the already empty fund! You can keep payin' us but we're going to be paying our federal workers and entitlement programs with that money. And what's Obama's solution to the problem? Raise taxes by 1 trillion!

"The feds" don't print money, "the fed" (federal reserve bank) prints money which in turn is borrowed by "the feds" (federal government). The federal reserve bank is no more the federal government than federal express. They are two different entities, one of which ("the fed") was quite unconstitutional. They borrow money from foreign governments and others in the form of t-bills that must be paid back with interest. That goes to 1. devalue the currency because more is in circulation and 2. borrowing on behalf of the public makes the public liable to pay back such funds, and was the unconstitutional bit, along with having a currency that is not backed by gold as it was intended by the framers. How now it is constutional when then is wasn't? The Living Constitution. Duh!

"General welfare" is perverted in numerous ways thanks to the liberal doctrine of the Living Constitution. Now that the flood gates are opened to the free interpretation of the meaning of the words in the constitution welfare can mean just about anything. As James Madison said: " What a metamorphosis would be produced in the code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern sense." Indeed, that is the key reason why the government today is so alien to the principals of founders. If you can take "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed" to mean " we shall infringe upon the right to bear arms any time we damn well please." what can't you do?

I guess that made the Soviet Union not a government, then. The Soviet Union owned every enterprise and so "produced" a lot of stuff, and its tax (turnover tax, to be precise) was just an accounting measure, no different than the administrative department of a corporation acquiring money from the other departments.

Oh, and since we're talking about the Soviet Union: you know the delightful free market? The shock doctrine to implement it cut Russia's GDP in half in an instant. The market you so praise needed 17 years to get back to zero. The competition provided by the market provided great incentives to asset-strip in the face of a destabilizing state: those who did ended up with stable money abroad, and those who didn't got bought up by the oligarchs who did.

You'll probably say that since the USSR produced stuff inefficiently, it didn't actually produce anything, but by the same reasoning, I could say that since the productivity (GDP/work hour) of certain Scandinavian mixed economies (and Belgium) are much greater than the US, mixed economy is more effective than a mostly free economy and so your conclusion doesn't hold. Or I could take it even further and say that by that reasoning, it's impossible to know whether a certain mode of production actually produces anything, because there might be some yet-unknown feasible method that would do better, which would mean the method already in use isn't productive at all.