It would be easily and eagerly circumvented by bonuses set into the future.

You are wrong. I've lost a case in New Jersey and never saw a paper because I was out of town. Now I could have reopened the case but I was admittedly wrong and it would have cost a little more time and money to get the same result.

The reality of getting served is not the same as you see on TV.

I'll take the path of social networking, and chinese leveraged manufacturing over focused, directed, multi-front wars and future leveraged debt any day.

It's not a hatred of America as much as an ignorance of capitalism. Many people can't comprehend how it works and need to subscribe to the religion of authoritarianism.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Again, you do not tell the truth about public salaries. Private salaries are a complete number whereas public salaries include a base salary, legally guaranteed pensions (the rest of us wonder what a pension is), and a maze of perks from free cars to collecting sick days.

More educated? So this entitles them to what? Do you believe it makes them better than the unwashed public you write about?

Since you are the public, it follows that you are grossly misinformed as well. In fact, you misrepresent the salaries and defeat you own argument in you second paragraph by saying their real salaries aren't including pensions.

You see, the rest of us take out of what we make and save what we can in retirement funds. They arent guaranteed by law on the backs of other people through taxes and aren't adjusted to inflation. You are not even remotely honest in comparing salaries in the private sectors to public.

Lastly, the problem isn't that California can't tax more through prop 13. That's merely a symptom of the disease of overspending.

I agree, but why stop there, let's take the guns away, too.

Shooting someone for running away or resisting arrest is the stupidest suggestion I've ever heard. Spend a little less time watching Cops and read more about abuse of power, wrongful arrest, and unarmed shootings by police because of "self-defense".

Giving any people that sort of power will guarantee a rash of "necessary force". Dead people can't argue.

2007 Obama:

I don't know...expect him to follow through on what he was elected upon? What was his plan then? In 2009 in his inaugural speech he reaffirmed that United States does not have "to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals." In January, he signed an executive order to close it. Was there a plan in 2009? Incidentally, in 2009 there was a lot of talk about prosecuting Bush for these very acts that are perpetuated today.

Congress didn't create Gitmo, the President did. The new one doesn't have to be an emperor to close it.

Great summary, StikyPad. Thanks for posting this.

The relevant examples to respond to his comment would be criminal cases, not civil. Excellent straw man and subsequent generalization, however.

Of course we can, it's our biggest state.

This is really the most naive worldview I've read in a while. Thanks for the laugh.

All the USPO is at this point is a junk mail distributor. Mail has been by and large replaced by email. They duplicate efforts of private companies that could easily fill any gap they would leave behind. The $8.5 billion loss is the tip of the iceberg if we consider unfunded pension liabilities.

Excellent point.