Andrew Jackson for atrocities committed against the natives.
Franklin Roosevelt for most damage to the future of the country by making the people dependent on government, and don't forget the Japanese internment.
Out of politics we did have Jim Jones, a communist behind a facade of religion, responsible for the Guyana deaths.
One of the ideas is that government shouldn't be doing so much because churches, charities and other groups do some jobs very well already. To tax them makes it harder for them to perform those services.
However, I would support a strong look at profitable churches that are basically hiding behind the tax exemption.
How many Muslim tea partiers are there? Somalia is run under Sharia law with a strong current of feudalism. I haven't seen any tea partiers supporting that as an example.
others use them to set up tax dodges that serve their own interests without providing goods and services to others
And yet others use them to set up organizations dedicated to charity (Red Cross), to labor (any union), to pursue a specific social agenda (Planned Parenthood, NOW, Christian Coalition), for the protection of specific rights (NRA, ACLU), or any number of other purposes.
A corporation isn't necessarily about money. It's just a legal entity organized for a purpose, recognized by the government.
Actually, early roads in the US were privately built. This is especially true in the East, even continuing through the privately built toll road, the Long Island Motor Parkway.
No mention of the vast efficiencies introduced by Standard Oil. They used gasoline to run generators when it was a waste product to others, they even sold the gunk that accumulated on the drills as a salve (a.k.a. Vaseline). They also shut down inefficient units when acquiring competition, and got a much lower shipping rate from the railroads. This was all well before the oil boom hit.
Had Standard Oil never come about, prices probably would have remained about the same under the old, inefficient oil industry.
The student loans cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. How is that not the fault of the student loan industry?
That's government collusion with the industry. If it were purely industry, it could be discharged through bankruptcy like any other debt. But then good luck getting one for anything other than a hard-core, money-earning degree since the risk would be too high for the lender. After several years, the standard pattern for underwater basketweaving degrees will be loan - degree - bankuptcy - continue with life. It's easier to live under seven years of bankruptcy than to pay off $100K in loans.
Fuck this moral hazard shit. If you forgive loans of stupid people, the people smart enough not to take them out should receive the difference
But you know that will never happen. Those people wanting forgiveness for subprime mortgages weren't adovcating that responsible mortgage holders get a break on their mortgages too. Obama and his ilk aren't exactly receptive to the idea of fairness applied to responsible people.
Face it, in this culture, a man who stays out of trouble, doesn't get anybody pregnant out of wedlock, studies hard, gets a good degree, works hard, lives frugally, saves, pays his debts, and makes sound financial decisions is a cow to be milked for the benefit of those who did none of the above in order to get their votes.
Or just search "killed by celebratory gunfire." Thousands (or millions) of such events each year, each with thousands of bullets going up in a populated area, odds are someone's going to get hit.
The trajectory does not have to be low, it just has to be enough off 90 degrees for the bullet to keep a ballistic trajectory instead of tumbling.
Right now a Democratic (yes, not Republican) senator is trying to obstruct Obama from bypassing Senate ratification of this treaty. Obama is of course trying to use his constitutional knowledge to avoid that.
Everybody's supposed to be equal. That creates a two-class system.
Why do I have go learn to be a construction worker (as a German friend of mine happily did) when that guy gets to go to university (as other friends of mine did)? They would still protest over the perceived injustice.
People forget that the American ideal of freedom of speech isn't even shared by other Western nations, much less Islamic ones.
but they don't seem to be a "we want to conquer the West" organization
One of their stated goals is to unite the Muslim world under one caliphate. The definition of that world is all territory Muslims ever held, which includes some of Europe. Evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial showed an MB goal to "settle" the US, destroy the current civilization and its religions, and replace it with Islam.
This is not a nice group of people. Don't forget that one of the early MB leaders was al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who personally met with Hitler and Himmler to arrange the solution to their mutual Jewish Problem.
Within such organizations that is usually limited to what is acceptable under their interpretation of Islam. True freedom to them is the freedom to practice their religion without being offended.
For example, do you really think they would accept "freedom of criticism" directed at Mohammed?
Even now we are technically a federation of sovereign states which granted specific limited powers to a federal government in order to take advantage of the security and economic benefit that comes from being united. The states and the people supposedly retained all other powers not specifically granted to the federal government.
But you see what we have become. You see yourself in 50 years, your countries relegated to what the federal power allows.
You just spent the last ten years working your ass off after an engineering degree to pay off $100K in student loans, and the recent no-talent, jobless graduate with a master's in Elbonian Mud Art gets his $100K in loans written off?
We're rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior. Same with the proposed mortgage forgiveness over the housing crisis.
Students not bothering to read the terms, or not bothering to get help understanding terms they don't understand, does not equal a lack of full disclosure.
However, as there is no real risk, and it free money for the bank, no such diligence is performed and banks happily take tax payer money
Good reason to get the government out of the loop. If the banks must fully accept all risk, no loan guarantees or possibility of bailout, then they will perform all due diligence.
Government meddling very often invokes the Law of Unintended Consequences. Our recent housing meltdown was started by the government meddling in the markets. Student loans haven't fared well either.
If you can't afford it, or aren't talented enough to get scholarships, or won't serve your country to get funding in return, too bad.
These people would probably be marching in Germany, where college is free. Only there, not everybody gets to go. You actually have to be relatively intelligent to get into college. In the US I've seen a college teaching number lines, normally taught in grade school, to incoming students. So they'd be marching for the right of everyone to go to college, even the dumb ones.
Also, don't expect sympathy when a degree in underwater basketweaving won't land you a job.
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Andrew Jackson for atrocities committed against the natives.
Franklin Roosevelt for most damage to the future of the country by making the people dependent on government, and don't forget the Japanese internment.
Out of politics we did have Jim Jones, a communist behind a facade of religion, responsible for the Guyana deaths.
Any other ideas? I'm sure I've missed some.
One of the ideas is that government shouldn't be doing so much because churches, charities and other groups do some jobs very well already. To tax them makes it harder for them to perform those services.
However, I would support a strong look at profitable churches that are basically hiding behind the tax exemption.
How many Muslim tea partiers are there? Somalia is run under Sharia law with a strong current of feudalism. I haven't seen any tea partiers supporting that as an example.
Rush Limbaugh's fact checker has the easiest job in the world.
Not that I like much about Franken's poltics either, but he is a pretty good comedian.
A government with that much power not used to protect individual rights, and instead support warlords, is not libertarian.
And yet others use them to set up organizations dedicated to charity (Red Cross), to labor (any union), to pursue a specific social agenda (Planned Parenthood, NOW, Christian Coalition), for the protection of specific rights (NRA, ACLU), or any number of other purposes.
A corporation isn't necessarily about money. It's just a legal entity organized for a purpose, recognized by the government.
Actually, early roads in the US were privately built. This is especially true in the East, even continuing through the privately built toll road, the Long Island Motor Parkway.
No mention of the vast efficiencies introduced by Standard Oil. They used gasoline to run generators when it was a waste product to others, they even sold the gunk that accumulated on the drills as a salve (a.k.a. Vaseline). They also shut down inefficient units when acquiring competition, and got a much lower shipping rate from the railroads. This was all well before the oil boom hit.
Had Standard Oil never come about, prices probably would have remained about the same under the old, inefficient oil industry.
That's government collusion with the industry. If it were purely industry, it could be discharged through bankruptcy like any other debt. But then good luck getting one for anything other than a hard-core, money-earning degree since the risk would be too high for the lender. After several years, the standard pattern for underwater basketweaving degrees will be loan - degree - bankuptcy - continue with life. It's easier to live under seven years of bankruptcy than to pay off $100K in loans.
But you know that will never happen. Those people wanting forgiveness for subprime mortgages weren't adovcating that responsible mortgage holders get a break on their mortgages too. Obama and his ilk aren't exactly receptive to the idea of fairness applied to responsible people.
Face it, in this culture, a man who stays out of trouble, doesn't get anybody pregnant out of wedlock, studies hard, gets a good degree, works hard, lives frugally, saves, pays his debts, and makes sound financial decisions is a cow to be milked for the benefit of those who did none of the above in order to get their votes.
Or just search "killed by celebratory gunfire." Thousands (or millions) of such events each year, each with thousands of bullets going up in a populated area, odds are someone's going to get hit.
The trajectory does not have to be low, it just has to be enough off 90 degrees for the bullet to keep a ballistic trajectory instead of tumbling.
Right now a Democratic (yes, not Republican) senator is trying to obstruct Obama from bypassing Senate ratification of this treaty. Obama is of course trying to use his constitutional knowledge to avoid that.
Constitutionality does not have to be partisan.
Everybody's supposed to be equal. That creates a two-class system.
Why do I have go learn to be a construction worker (as a German friend of mine happily did) when that guy gets to go to university (as other friends of mine did)? They would still protest over the perceived injustice.
Your quote spoke of freedoms and rights.
People forget that the American ideal of freedom of speech isn't even shared by other Western nations, much less Islamic ones.
One of their stated goals is to unite the Muslim world under one caliphate. The definition of that world is all territory Muslims ever held, which includes some of Europe. Evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial showed an MB goal to "settle" the US, destroy the current civilization and its religions, and replace it with Islam.
This is not a nice group of people. Don't forget that one of the early MB leaders was al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who personally met with Hitler and Himmler to arrange the solution to their mutual Jewish Problem.
He missed.
Deaths are common during weddings where celebratory gunfire is traditional.
Within such organizations that is usually limited to what is acceptable under their interpretation of Islam. True freedom to them is the freedom to practice their religion without being offended.
For example, do you really think they would accept "freedom of criticism" directed at Mohammed?
But then it's no longer a libertarian state. A government with enough power to back those gang leaders obviously has too much power.
Even now we are technically a federation of sovereign states which granted specific limited powers to a federal government in order to take advantage of the security and economic benefit that comes from being united. The states and the people supposedly retained all other powers not specifically granted to the federal government.
But you see what we have become. You see yourself in 50 years, your countries relegated to what the federal power allows.
You just spent the last ten years working your ass off after an engineering degree to pay off $100K in student loans, and the recent no-talent, jobless graduate with a master's in Elbonian Mud Art gets his $100K in loans written off?
We're rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior. Same with the proposed mortgage forgiveness over the housing crisis.
Students not bothering to read the terms, or not bothering to get help understanding terms they don't understand, does not equal a lack of full disclosure.
Good reason to get the government out of the loop. If the banks must fully accept all risk, no loan guarantees or possibility of bailout, then they will perform all due diligence.
Government meddling very often invokes the Law of Unintended Consequences. Our recent housing meltdown was started by the government meddling in the markets. Student loans haven't fared well either.
Take it up with God, if you still believe after getting screwed over that badly.
But it's not the fault of the student loan system.
Now we know why Obama became a "constitutional scholar," to be able to figure out more ways around it when he came to power.
If you can't afford it, or aren't talented enough to get scholarships, or won't serve your country to get funding in return, too bad.
These people would probably be marching in Germany, where college is free. Only there, not everybody gets to go. You actually have to be relatively intelligent to get into college. In the US I've seen a college teaching number lines, normally taught in grade school, to incoming students. So they'd be marching for the right of everyone to go to college, even the dumb ones.
Also, don't expect sympathy when a degree in underwater basketweaving won't land you a job.
In order to achieve its goal of protecting individual rights, libertarianism requires enough government power to prevent exactly this.
There's no reason a type of device should magically become more relevant than the OS.