If it's publicly, federally funded but the Const. doesn't say you can do it, it's Unconst. Medicare and SS are both Unconst. But nobody has challenged them because of the standing issue. Then Tenth Amendment is clear. Of course, if we wanted to add the amendment tomorrow, I bet $5 it'd pass easy.
BTW, fire depts are local, not federally funded. The argument isn't over local funding, it's over federal funding. Unless you're aware of a federal fire service that can come visit us here in rural NH.
As for freedoms, if the gov't requires me to be insured and I don't want it, they're taking away my freedom to be uninsured. Whether that's a good idea or not isn't up for anyone but ME to decide. Unless you're a tyrant.
Actually, he didn't say it couldn't be changed. The method of changing it is easy. It's just practically difficult. The document, though, is supposed to put a limit on gov't powers and guarantee individual rights.
If people really want it changed, just get 2/3 of the country to agree with you and you're good.
Because all corporations in China are owned, at least partly, by the gov't?
Your oil point is dead on though. We should be weening ourselves off everyone's oil, not looking for an easy fix. Then we can tell all these people to piss off.
I thought socialism worked in the Nordic countries because of the socio-economic equality they've always had? Where as, say, South America got the ass-end of Spain and Portugal's aristocratic exports, and are still suffering through the two-class system today.
No, the NH Constitution guarantees the right to armed revolution. Look it up. We just don't have to use it because, well, NH is still the best place to live in the USA.
Heck if NH left the union (not that I'm advocating that) we'd have MORE money. For every dollar we give to Uncle Sam, he gives us $0.60 back.
And besides, the "armed rebels" should only be armed and rebelling if everything else has gone wrong. We're still on soap and ballot, just the way it should be!
1.) Yeah, I know it's a successor state. But the old USSR isn't around to argue with.
2.) Interesting. I didn't know that (thanks!). But AK-47s get patents, not copyrights, unless you were using that as an example of IP laws in the USSR.
New Hampshire. Hence the "Live Free or Die." It's the state motto. We don't require seat belts for adults or helmets for motorcyclists. Or car insurance.
Actually, what's really funny is mayors in MA and NY trying to sue NH gun shops for selling "illegal" guns to those states when the guns are perfectly legal here, and we don't have problems like they do.
Maybe they just suck. I mean, MA has 10x the murders of NH.
But only 5x the population.
And even with the lack of gun laws in NH, a huge percentage of murders are done with knives.
Why treat the symptom and leave the problem hanging around? After all, NH, ME and VT all have lots of handguns and a low crime rate. And why is that? Socio-economic equality. When everyone is pretty much the same, and have something to live for and look forward to, bad stuff doesn't happen.
And, of course, restricting handguns in places tends to just make it easier for the predators to pick their prey.
>>The Bush administration's foreign policies have been a total disaster and they have left our country at the weakest and most vulnerable position it's ever been internationally.
Maybe recently, but I bet we were way closer to being boned in the ass back in 1783:-)
Not that Bush is a good president, or even a mediocre president.
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If it's publicly, federally funded but the Const. doesn't say you can do it, it's Unconst. Medicare and SS are both Unconst. But nobody has challenged them because of the standing issue. Then Tenth Amendment is clear. Of course, if we wanted to add the amendment tomorrow, I bet $5 it'd pass easy.
BTW, fire depts are local, not federally funded. The argument isn't over local funding, it's over federal funding. Unless you're aware of a federal fire service that can come visit us here in rural NH.
As for freedoms, if the gov't requires me to be insured and I don't want it, they're taking away my freedom to be uninsured. Whether that's a good idea or not isn't up for anyone but ME to decide. Unless you're a tyrant.
Actually, he didn't say it couldn't be changed. The method of changing it is easy. It's just practically difficult. The document, though, is supposed to put a limit on gov't powers and guarantee individual rights.
If people really want it changed, just get 2/3 of the country to agree with you and you're good.
Easy. Federally-funded health care in the US is Unconstitutional. The Constitution doesn't say the gov't can do it, so they can't.
I wish more people understood enumerated powers better. It would greatly relieve the number of arguments that we all have here.
If it has opinion, it's an editorial. If had has "Just the facts, ma'am," then it's a documentary.
If your facts are good, you don't need to opine on anything.
>>That said, we both probably spy on each other as much as possible.
Well, yeah, that's a given. Friendly rivalry is a good thing. The French have been our friends for a heck of a long time.
I thought France was regarded as being very, very good at industrial espionage. Shouldn't we be afraid of them?
Because all corporations in China are owned, at least partly, by the gov't?
Your oil point is dead on though. We should be weening ourselves off everyone's oil, not looking for an easy fix. Then we can tell all these people to piss off.
I thought socialism worked in the Nordic countries because of the socio-economic equality they've always had? Where as, say, South America got the ass-end of Spain and Portugal's aristocratic exports, and are still suffering through the two-class system today.
No, the NH Constitution guarantees the right to armed revolution. Look it up. We just don't have to use it because, well, NH is still the best place to live in the USA.
Heck if NH left the union (not that I'm advocating that) we'd have MORE money. For every dollar we give to Uncle Sam, he gives us $0.60 back.
And besides, the "armed rebels" should only be armed and rebelling if everything else has gone wrong. We're still on soap and ballot, just the way it should be!
Actually, I just wanted to see what you'd say.
It's just that the Libertarian in me hates telling people what do to.
Who are we to prevent someone from offing themselves if they really want?
Sounds like restricting freedom to me.
Well, we can vote.
:-)
Bad choices are still infinitely better than no choices.
Heck, my state guarantees the right to armed revolution
1.) Yeah, I know it's a successor state. But the old USSR isn't around to argue with.
2.) Interesting. I didn't know that (thanks!). But AK-47s get patents, not copyrights, unless you were using that as an example of IP laws in the USSR.
Err, this won't help anyone in my state.
Sales tax (and income tax) is for suckers and commies.
You didn't answer the question.
Heck, the poster may live in California, which has different (stricter) laws than the other 49 states.
Yeah, but when the CIA was making 'em, the "borrowed" from the Soviet Union. Said union no longer exists, and they didn't have IP laws anyway!
New Hampshire. Hence the "Live Free or Die." It's the state motto. We don't require seat belts for adults or helmets for motorcyclists. Or car insurance.
Actually, what's really funny is mayors in MA and NY trying to sue NH gun shops for selling "illegal" guns to those states when the guns are perfectly legal here, and we don't have problems like they do.
Maybe they just suck. I mean, MA has 10x the murders of NH.
But only 5x the population.
And even with the lack of gun laws in NH, a huge percentage of murders are done with knives.
Why treat the symptom and leave the problem hanging around? After all, NH, ME and VT all have lots of handguns and a low crime rate. And why is that? Socio-economic equality. When everyone is pretty much the same, and have something to live for and look forward to, bad stuff doesn't happen.
And, of course, restricting handguns in places tends to just make it easier for the predators to pick their prey.
>>The Bush administration's foreign policies have been a total disaster and they have left our country at the weakest and most vulnerable position it's ever been internationally.
:-)
Maybe recently, but I bet we were way closer to being boned in the ass back in 1783
Not that Bush is a good president, or even a mediocre president.
>>I mean overthrowing your government is a crime after all.
Not everywhere. My state constitution guarantees the right of armed revolution.
Live Free or Die, baby!
It would take about 100 years, but if you got rid of sex, I'm pretty sure the violence level would drop noticeably :-)
What happens if the whacko is/ was a student?
>>Isn't US one of the most armed countries in the developed world?
It varies by locality. Federal system and all that.
>>Personally, I trust me more than I trust some teacher. Likewise, I don't trust other people to do what's best for what's important to me.
Which is exactly why the cops shouldn't be the only one with guns.