1.The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this
federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified
success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
Gore:(Applause.) But we have different views. If you
think about what our troops have done in the private sector, and I
hope we can do a better job; if they get sick. Now, I still believe
our country drifted. For 30 years family life in America wants us
to do before people really trust the way things work around here.
Three times as many criminal aliens as every before, by cracking down
on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
In the budget I will not let it be repealed. (Applause, cheers.)
Bush:
And
it seems to me, whether you are the party stopping big government.
We are going to sell one Congressional building and privatize a
Congressional parking lot. While we've done a lot, this contract has never
recovered from the baby boomers get set to retire, where's the money
(laughter and applause). Hard though it is simple helping the Contras,
and in the next Congress, so keep the pressure on, keep your hopes
up.
2) What will you do to protect the rights of atheists and those who hold minority faiths, such as
Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
Gore:
(Applause.) I hope we won't cut government programs gathered dust. The
reinventing government report is getting results. And we're working on
getting rid of yesterday's government so that they need to help those
on welfare trapped on it last time, with the Democrats who worked
on this new economy work for all education and to have honest
hearings on this, to get government closer to the American people to
improve their lives.
Bush:It's okay to report difficulties, but it's
equally good to report victories. Yes, we have problems, and of course
the American people want more than a few things. So what I want
to thank you for joining me tonight and for the Army, the Navy,
the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the intelligence agencies and the
President signed it. So that's one law signed, sealed and delivered. (cheers and applause)
3. With the surplus, everyone has been saying "Let's have a tax cut, Let's have a tax cut." In the
meantime, Alan Greenspan and friends are trying to keep inflation and the speed of the growing
economy in check so it doesn't burst. Which they are doing by raising interest rates periodically.
(6 times this year)
A tax cut flies in the face of what Greenspan is trying to do. A tax cut will inject more money into
the economy and do what Greenspan is preventing.
Why is a tax cut so big? Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times
roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?
Gore: As we reduce defense
spending, I will ask Congress to stop passing on to the states the cost of
education, health care, first time from the inside out. (massive applause)
And our senior citizens have made our communities all across
America, and we must give them and their sense of identity. We all gain
when we give more flexibility to the security of our government
works to fit a different party.
Bush: Hard though it is simple helping the Contras,
and in the next Congress, so keep the pressure on, keep your hopes
up. In both the House with bipartisan support; it has been tried in
17 states, and I would be a skeptic, but don't be a skeptic, but
don't assume the worst. (Applause.) I think most Americans would.
(Applause.) Nothing has done more to bring the deficit, to expand markets,
to support their success in every state, North and South, East and West.
Well like amny debian users I have no fast internet connection, so I download the debs at work... now I noticed there is NO "Packages" file included with the debs... what's going on?
"one nation under god..." is part of the facist "pledge of alleigance" and I don't think that the phrase is anywhere to be found in any documents that mean anything.
"An employer's goal is to get as much work out of the employee for at little pay as possible, and an employee's goal is to do as little work for as much pay as possible."
This isn't anyhting new it's just a paraphrase of the old IWW slogan "the working class and the employing class have nothing in common"; and nothing could be truer.
The reason Dilbert is so funny is because it's true.
Well it is somewhat funny. It is true, but he isn't saying anything new... Dilbert tends to be a revelation to right wingers who always thought capitalism was just the bee's knees - until they actually started working for a living. Whatever.
There is simply no reason why a corporation should be allowed to exist. It is a flawed model for conducting busniness - it is great for profits, but miserable for the people that work in them (you have no power). And I might add that if you are not unhappy in an environment in which you have no power, there is something wrong with you.
There is no reason why a boss should own everything you make. There is no reason why you should spend 2/3 of your waking hours in a workplace where you have no rights, no power, and own nothing. Ask yourself why it should even occur to you to submit to this sort of life.
The true alternative would be to replace the private corporation with cooperative models where the employees own the business and run it in a democratic fashion. There is no other way.
BTW, yes, I realize you can start a coop, but it is extremely hard to get capital, and you don't ave the same legal benefits as a corporation.
The Idea is that divx can get almost any movie under 2 hours on one cd
Well, well. Maybe now they will start letting some independent directors make movies the length they actually wanted them to be? Will this break the stupid fast food mentality of film producers? That is, make movies too long to be easily pirated? Just a thought.
You need to remember something: Companies do not exist to give you, the employee a paycheck. Companies exist to make money. Employees are a resource used to that end. It's the simple realities of economics.
Well well. Maybe it's time for someone to rethink their slavish devotion to capitalist ideology.
The question is, was "democracy" ever the real intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution?
Well, no. It wasn't - however - the constitutional amendments and the Bill of rights are extremely hostile to the state and give us quite a bit of legal recourse within the system: it is no wonder the US government has fought the constitution tooth and nail since its inception.
Democracy should rightly be considered a process. It doesn't neccesarily mean a "tyranny of the majority"; one man, one veto - this is also democratic. "Direct democracy" - what anarchists have been talking about for quite some time - is definitely a possibility, but it depends on how free people really want to be.
The problem with America (well one of the problems) is that its people are very strongly convinced that they live in a democratic society, when the truth is that only the thinnest veneer of democracy exists here. Look around you - your workplace, your schools, your communities: there are virtually no democratic institutions in the US at all; as a result it's populace is atomized, emasculated, and impotent beyond belief.
Americans are quite used to following orders and not participating. Once one gets a taste of it though, I believe there is no going back.
This is nothing new at all, these things have been batted around in america for ages; they are just not talked about. Since the brutal destruction of the labor movement, America has been basically a business run society without interruption. Read your labor history, especially of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Of course, one could argue that this is the case for entirely different reasons, such as the fact that many have yet to mature and look at matters rationally. See: early army enlistment ages, college-aged protesters whose arguments just don't make sense.
There is an important difference between propaganda and indoctrination. Propaganda is actually a rather neutral word; it has bad connotations because the word was extensively used by Nazis. All it means is dissemination of your viewpoint. Indoctrination, on the other hand, means simply, the diminution of "allowed perspectives" within a social system. In this sense rebelliousness (a good impulse, always) are the opposite of those who are indoctrinated (e.g., those with patriotic aspirations). There is no commonality between the two in any sense.
As far as IMF protesters not making sense, well this is just hogwash; there is plenty of information available for you to see the defects in these institutions. If the World Bank/IMF's mission, as they say, was to eliminate poverty, then their record is unblemished with success.
I'd only like to add that it does matter that the war on drugs is unwinnable; this makes it extremely convenient for those waging it - they can funnel as little or as much money into it as they like, because the result is always the same: failure. Which is better from the perspective of the State, the "War to end all wars" or an "endless war"?
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1.The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
2) What will you do to protect the rights of atheists and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
3. With the surplus, everyone has been saying "Let's have a tax cut, Let's have a tax cut." In the meantime, Alan Greenspan and friends are trying to keep inflation and the speed of the growing economy in check so it doesn't burst. Which they are doing by raising interest rates periodically. (6 times this year) A tax cut flies in the face of what Greenspan is trying to do. A tax cut will inject more money into the economy and do what Greenspan is preventing. Why is a tax cut so big? Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?--
Well like amny debian users I have no fast internet connection, so I download the debs at work ... now I noticed there is NO "Packages" file included with the debs ... what's going on?
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"one nation under god ..." is part of the facist "pledge of alleigance" and I don't think that the phrase is anywhere to be found in any documents that mean anything.
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I removed kde1/qt1, then installed kde2/qt2 rpms from the above link ... everything works great, i would switch now, it is definitely worth it.
There are a few minor inconveniences, but nothing serious - everything works.
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This isn't anyhting new it's just a paraphrase of the old IWW slogan "the working class and the employing class have nothing in common"; and nothing could be truer.
Well it is somewhat funny. It is true, but he isn't saying anything new ... Dilbert tends to be a revelation to right wingers who always thought capitalism was just the bee's knees - until they actually started working for a living. Whatever.
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guiness is not "beer", philistine!
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There is simply no reason why a corporation should be allowed to exist. It is a flawed model for conducting busniness - it is great for profits, but miserable for the people that work in them (you have no power). And I might add that if you are not unhappy in an environment in which you have no power, there is something wrong with you.
There is no reason why a boss should own everything you make. There is no reason why you should spend 2/3 of your waking hours in a workplace where you have no rights, no power, and own nothing. Ask yourself why it should even occur to you to submit to this sort of life.
The true alternative would be to replace the private corporation with cooperative models where the employees own the business and run it in a democratic fashion. There is no other way.
BTW, yes, I realize you can start a coop, but it is extremely hard to get capital, and you don't ave the same legal benefits as a corporation.
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Jar Jar did have a dramatic and an economic purpose.
If you ate a meal that tasted really horrible you would remember the meal as horrible.
If you had to eat a side order of shit with it you would only remember the shit.
Suckers. All of you.
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Well, well. Maybe now they will start letting some independent directors make movies the length they actually wanted them to be? Will this break the stupid fast food mentality of film producers? That is, make movies too long to be easily pirated? Just a thought.
Stay tuned, could get interesting.
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Yep, and so was Henry Ford, Rockerfeller, and Monsanto; Nike, Union Carbide, Wal Mart and Pinkerton ...
Get a grip Randite. Capitalism to a randite is some bizarre utopian nightmare. To everyone else it's the same shit it ever was.
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Well well. Maybe it's time for someone to rethink their slavish devotion to capitalist ideology.
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I agree ... where do these idiots come from? And I consider myself a geek.
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With NT it might help. But then I don't think anything will make NT look faster in real life, NT can only be faster on paper.
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Well, no. It wasn't - however - the constitutional amendments and the Bill of rights are extremely hostile to the state and give us quite a bit of legal recourse within the system: it is no wonder the US government has fought the constitution tooth and nail since its inception.
Democracy should rightly be considered a process. It doesn't neccesarily mean a "tyranny of the majority"; one man, one veto - this is also democratic. "Direct democracy" - what anarchists have been talking about for quite some time - is definitely a possibility, but it depends on how free people really want to be.
The problem with America (well one of the problems) is that its people are very strongly convinced that they live in a democratic society, when the truth is that only the thinnest veneer of democracy exists here. Look around you - your workplace, your schools, your communities: there are virtually no democratic institutions in the US at all; as a result it's populace is atomized, emasculated, and impotent beyond belief.
Americans are quite used to following orders and not participating. Once one gets a taste of it though, I believe there is no going back.
This is nothing new at all, these things have been batted around in america for ages; they are just not talked about. Since the brutal destruction of the labor movement, America has been basically a business run society without interruption. Read your labor history, especially of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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There is an important difference between propaganda and indoctrination. Propaganda is actually a rather neutral word; it has bad connotations because the word was extensively used by Nazis. All it means is dissemination of your viewpoint. Indoctrination, on the other hand, means simply, the diminution of "allowed perspectives" within a social system. In this sense rebelliousness (a good impulse, always) are the opposite of those who are indoctrinated (e.g., those with patriotic aspirations). There is no commonality between the two in any sense.
As far as IMF protesters not making sense, well this is just hogwash; there is plenty of information available for you to see the defects in these institutions. If the World Bank/IMF's mission, as they say, was to eliminate poverty, then their record is unblemished with success.
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I'd only like to add that it does matter that the war on drugs is unwinnable; this makes it extremely convenient for those waging it - they can funnel as little or as much money into it as they like, because the result is always the same: failure. Which is better from the perspective of the State, the "War to end all wars" or an "endless war"?
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The export crop problem really is at the heart of the issue, and it is something that is never talked about unless you're attending an IMF protest.
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