The federal government is supposed to follow the Constitution. The Constitution says the federal government is to provide for the common defense. It does not say it should fund public schools. The federal government is not even supposed to be able to do things not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. I take it, by your post, you're against the Constitution?
>>On the other hand, I want to see Bush-voters who cheered "4 more years" to suffer financial & economical devastation.
Tolerance is now how you treat your friends, it's how you treat your enemies. Wishing someone who doesn't agree with you finanical ruin doesn't seem very nice to me.
Can you please cite some evidence of who I voted for? Can you please cite evidence of 100,000 "innocent civilians including women and children" being "wholesale slaughtered?" If Iraq was "110% innocent", why did it break so many UN resolutions that called for action? Why did it break the cease fire for Gulf War I?
Bin Laden probably did have a buddy named Sadam. But Saddam Hussein and OBL have never been friends. We also know Iraq had WMDs because we have the receipts.
Wouldn't that make all governments terrorist organizations? After all, only gov'ts without police or armed forces wouldn't fit that category, and those usually don't last too long.
Terrorism will always exist when someone has more than someone else. Therefore, the only way for terrorism to not exist is for me to be the only person left;-)
Besides, I always thought two wrongs (killing and revenge) don't make a right.
Thankfully, many of us here were not born when those incidents occured, and no similar student killings have occured since. Of course, the gov't taking away guns is a different story.
Technically, everything bad that ever happens to any of us, once we're older than 16 or so, is our fault, because we didn't take the initiative to take our own lives. Nothing bad can happen to you if you're dead.
As one with a sibling that suffers from depression, "being sad" has all sorts of consequences that most people wouldn't begin to think about unless it impacted them personally. I also believe that you are doing a great disservice to those who suffer from depression and other mental illnesses by labeling them "non-existant 'diseases.'"
It's not the federal gov't's job to spend money on entitlement programs or education. It is their job to spend money on defense. One might argue those would be the job of the state or local gov'ts.
I'd also argue the invasion of Iraq doesn't approach the definition of illegal, since there were resolutions and treaties dating from 1991 that called for military action if they were broken, and they were.
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Why don't I ever hear this much discussing on how pro-gun sites are firewalled at schools?
Sentinals/ guards/ whatever in WoW tell you where useful NPCs are in town, too.
So how would paying for public schools help me, who hasn't attended one since middle school? General should mean everyone, right?
The federal government is supposed to follow the Constitution. The Constitution says the federal government is to provide for the common defense. It does not say it should fund public schools. The federal government is not even supposed to be able to do things not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. I take it, by your post, you're against the Constitution?
You beat me to the punch.
Of course, what I want to know is:
Why do so many Slashdotters think federal government funding is the key to so many local issues?
I never claimed Republicans are tolerant, and neither do they. But Democrats DO claim to be tolerant.
>>On the other hand, I want to see Bush-voters who cheered "4 more years" to suffer financial & economical devastation.
Tolerance is now how you treat your friends, it's how you treat your enemies. Wishing someone who doesn't agree with you finanical ruin doesn't seem very nice to me.
Can you please cite some evidence of who I voted for? Can you please cite evidence of 100,000 "innocent civilians including women and children" being "wholesale slaughtered?" If Iraq was "110% innocent", why did it break so many UN resolutions that called for action? Why did it break the cease fire for Gulf War I?
I'm playing devil's advocate but I would like to know what the balance is.
Bin Laden probably did have a buddy named Sadam. But Saddam Hussein and OBL have never been friends. We also know Iraq had WMDs because we have the receipts.
If you vote for "what benefits everyone," how is that different from saying, "I know what's best for you?"
You cannot be a Christian and a fascist. They are, by definition, mutually exclusive.
If they scare one person, they're terrorists. I bet we can find one person in each country scared of the police or army... what do you think?
Wouldn't that make all governments terrorist organizations? After all, only gov'ts without police or armed forces wouldn't fit that category, and those usually don't last too long.
Terrorism will always exist when someone has more than someone else. Therefore, the only way for terrorism to not exist is for me to be the only person left ;-)
Besides, I always thought two wrongs (killing and revenge) don't make a right.
We had the receipts.
Thankfully, many of us here were not born when those incidents occured, and no similar student killings have occured since. Of course, the gov't taking away guns is a different story.
Like John McCain?
It is the job of the federal gov't to spend money on defense, it is the job of the state and local gov'ts to spend money on education.
I'd be willing to wager that most trading partners of the US would prefer the US didn't suffer the consequences outlined in your quote.
Technically, everything bad that ever happens to any of us, once we're older than 16 or so, is our fault, because we didn't take the initiative to take our own lives. Nothing bad can happen to you if you're dead.
Stupid argument, but true.
I'd rather have a galactic virgin, but Cmdr. T'Pol looking.
I mis-read the title. I thought Uncle Sam was going to give me $50 for downloading stuff. If it was pr0n, I'd be set for life.
As one with a sibling that suffers from depression, "being sad" has all sorts of consequences that most people wouldn't begin to think about unless it impacted them personally. I also believe that you are doing a great disservice to those who suffer from depression and other mental illnesses by labeling them "non-existant 'diseases.'"
It's not the federal gov't's job to spend money on entitlement programs or education. It is their job to spend money on defense. One might argue those would be the job of the state or local gov'ts.
I'd also argue the invasion of Iraq doesn't approach the definition of illegal, since there were resolutions and treaties dating from 1991 that called for military action if they were broken, and they were.