[quote]AssOnGrass wrote:
Whining isn’t going to change a God damn thing.[/quote]
Well being as none of us make policy, that’s really all we have to do…
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
AssOnGrass wrote:
Whining isn’t going to change a God damn thing.
Well being as none of us make policy, that’s really all we have to do…
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That’s the equivalent to…
“I’m unsuccessful because the white man keeps me down”
or
“I didn’t get the job because I wasn’t Ivy league”
Did MLK whine or did he go out and use the extraordinary freedoms given to the people of the US to get things changed?
Did the Women whine when they didn’t vote or did they exercise their right to an opinion?
[quote]AssOnGrass wrote:
This is a golden opportunity in history for people to to exercise what our freedoms can really do. Let’s do something before we lose this great honor our society has been granted. No other nation in history has been so free from government oppression, I hope people realize this.
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If you mean the US now, you are dead wrong.
There are a lot of countries with a freer press, economy and/or less government intrusion into the private life of its citizens.
AOG:
BIG theoretical on Paul winning.
However; for discussion:
No; him winning the Nomination would have just meant a landslide win for the Dems.
I applaud with many of you his stand on a Federal Government that is too big, too wasteful and too intrusive; and that many Federal agencies need to be cut back if not completely eliminated.
However; with this stand, even if he DID become President, Congress as a whole would never support many of these ideas.
Mufasa
[quote]pushharder wrote:
orion wrote:
…There are a lot of countries with a freer press, economy and/or less government intrusion into the private life of its citizens.
I find this claim interesting and I’m not necessarily disputing it. I have been thinking for the last couple weeks of starting a thread along this line.
So name the countries that meet the above criteria.
Please, whatever you do, don’t name some socialistic European country(s) with nationalized healthcare and restrictive private gun ownership laws or I’ll laugh your ass right out of the room.
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I think I posted them before, lets see if I can find the indices, the economic index is the easiest, and probably most important one, from the American Heritage Foundation.
http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/topten.cfm
Here are several indices on one wikipedia page:
democracy index:
freedom of the press:
Austria is awesome, libertywise?
Makes me kind of wonder how much shit other people are prepared to unquestioningly swallow.
And that the USA is pretty good libertywise.
Not awesome, but kind of like the kid that is really talented but could not care less, the spoiled little preppie.