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Comment Re:Cuts (Score 1) 473

The entire "public is less efficient than private" lie that had been repeated so often that everyone now believes it is just that. A lie. The reality is that private industry is far more efficient at corrupting and side stepping morality issues in the quest for a dollar.

Spooner and his American Letter Mail Company's challenge to the postal monopoly at least brought prices down (temporarily). Competitive pricing is moral. Monopoly under threat of caging is immoral. Any questions?

History is a funny thing, sometimes it even makes people who thinks there are "lies" out there have a nice tasty bite of crow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company

Comment Trivial grievance (Score 1) 418

IANAL, but I suspect this will get thrown out of court.

This sounds like a frivolous lawsuit, and quite possibly one of the worst examples of people using the government to solve their problems. Shunning, shaming, and publicizing this message problem is the proper solution -- hit them in their sales in the marketplace.

Comment Reassess Your Hiring Practices (Score 5, Interesting) 245

You hired this employee. Chances are you started off with a relationship of mis-trust:
  - You did a criminal check on the hire
  - You did a drug check.
  - You did a credit check.
  - You did personality test.
  - You used Shockley style brain-teasers to see if they could do things other than what their jobs entail because you don't know how to measure skill, intelligence, or talent.
  - You interviewed in a style of hazing akin to a gang-bang. .. And you still were too stupid to figure out whether or not you had someone who could do the job right.

Sorry, but the tone of the summary makes you look like an asshole, and you deserve whatever you get. This is your wake-up call.

Comment Re:Excellent (Score 1) 1576

Obama is a good man.

If you define someone who carries on the Bush policies of drone warfare who targets more brown children than Bush ever did as a "good man"...sure, you're spot on.

http://www.kesq.com/news/Drones-color-Pakistan-s-view-of-election/-/233092/17287934/-/xehcmcz/-/index.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drone-attacks-are-acts-of-terrorism-168-children-killed-in-america-s-drone-war-in-pakistan-photographic-evidence/30603

I would lead a bit differently than I but he's NOT a "Baby Killer",

Is it mincing words to call him a "Child Killer" instead of a "Baby Killer"?
I don't like either Romney nor Obama, but at least Romney doesn't have blood on his hands by way of a high tech Milgram experiment (droning, death "without consequence").

He's your president. He's your supreme leader.

Hogwash. Tell that to Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, an American citizen who was killed without a trial and due process.
Sorry, just because he didn't push the button doesn't mean he isn't to be held accountable for the savage action. Your "supreme leader" is a traitor to the Constitution he has sworn to uphold, and does not deserve the respect you think he does.

Are "American interests" worth more than a human life of someone in a country that the US is not at war with ? (in Yemen, Pakistan, etc)

Comment Re:A liberal convinced me to take a second look... (Score 1) 461

The average wage slave loses 38% of their take home pay, and then there are the hidden costs of inflation, state & local tax, and the cost increases for businesses that also has to pay taxes.

By the time all is said and done every dollar spent is under close to 75% taxation, which is not just a small subset, it's a majority.

Comment Re:Mitt has more money than the previous ten (Score 0) 461

Mitt has more money than the previous ten Presidents combined, and he thinks that it is OK for a US President to hide his money overseas to avoid paying US taxes. What kind of an example does he set when he thinks it is OK for a US President to do this?

You've got Stockholm Syndrome. Let's end the cycle of abuse and lower taxes for all to a rate that is enjoyable: 0%.

Comment Why isn't he being arrested? (Score 1) 340

For all of the incidents with busts of raw milk and lemonade sales http://www.naturalnews.com/035397_Ventura_county_raw_milk_rampage.html

Why can't he be arrested under the laws too? Brewing in a building held in the public trust...
Next thing you know they will be brewing in courtrooms, libraries, and public schools.

Think of the children!

Comment Putting a stack of Band-Aids on a gunshot wound (Score 1) 170

The two prevalent views in these replies fall into the a) Constitution should cover it all b) Constitution is outdated. I get that.

However, the scope of these laws are getting more and more specific and represent the same kind of tyranny (Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts) that the
  Colonists were trying to get away from. The laws however crafted, if *necessary*, need to be short and sweet. If the power granted by a new law cannot fit into one or two paragraphs these laws should be thrown out, and the representatives should go back to the drawing board.

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