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House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary
An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in United States political history, the House Majority Leader has been defeated in his primary election. Long time Republican congressman and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was defeated by 10 percentage points in the Virginia primary by Republican Tea Party challenger Dave Brat. This shocking defeat is likely to upset the political balance of power in the United States for years to come."
The overwhelming majority of climate scientists (95+%) agree that climate change is both real and man-made:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
So you can listen to the one outlier instead of almost every climate scientist on the planet if you want, but that's essentially the same as putting your fingers in your ears.
After a grueling 5 seconds of googling...
... Sigmon found a denialist site. Good job! The parlor trick he used to get to this misleading conclusion is explained here.
And, clearly, an 'Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change' could never publish anything that is false... I mean... They're intergovernmental and everything!
The New Deal happened.
Blame FDR if you want to blame someone for changing the dynamic. He created the welfare system. And when that was added to by LBJ with the Great Society program it meant that being a US citizen puts a liability on the US government to provide for you.
In our early colonial phase do you know what the US government was required to provide for you?
Law and order.
Protection from invasion.
Due process in courts.
That's about it.
So tell you what, scale back all the federal welfare to that... and you can open the borders as wide as you want. But if you keep the welfare system in place and open the borders... the system will choke.
We're already seeing a lot of inflation at current expenditures and that is before the ACA and medicare expansions hit the budget. If you add open immigration on top of that we're going to turn into a hyper inflationary banana republic.
On the bright side... think of it like this... we'll finally have made Mexico equal to the US... by making the US equal to mexico.
Happy? You always wanted to live in Mexico right? Well, the US is going to be mexico if this goes through. And its hard to think of a funny punch line to this whole stupid mess.
None of you deserve to live in first world country. You lack the wisdom to grasp what it takes to preserve such a society. So you do this and you won't live in it anymore. None of us will. You'll have killed it.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.