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I appreciate that your suggestions were government owned media.

I gotta kinda agree with you. The final jobs report before the re-election of President Obama was doctored by practically a whole percentage to help his re-election. The press reported it as fact and didn't bother looking into a mega huge bump in jobs. Additionally, there was the equivalent of radio silence when an American ambassador was under assault for hours and available troops were told not to save him. The extent the media went to to re-elect President Obama was unethical.

The only people who hate this movie are those who want to look like sophisticated critics and the overly sensitive. Every bad review I've read are borderline illiterate and moronic, and they are on legitimate websites. I'm sorry but this movie isn't serious, because it's a comedy. Yes there are sexist, anti-semetic, and homophobic jokes. The writers realize these aren't allowed in a normal public situation, that's the joke. We never hear about North Korea because we don't really have a solution to a nuclear capable totalitarian dictatorship. It's good to put the spotlight on them.

I bought the full version in HD. Because 'Merica! WOLVERINES!

Right now my wife and I have an Atari remake, a Neo Geo remake, an Xbox, and an Xbox 360 setup on our tv. I wondered how easy would it be with emulation to make my six month old son progress through video game history in order, like we did growing up. Great idea.

California had such a problem with Democratic gerrymandering (no state seats are essentially Republican regardless of the large swaths of the public that vote Republican) that they had to create a state district commission to try and fix it.

If you understand libertarianism you'd understand that consumer protection and federal education programs are contrary to the libertarian platform. Allowing governments to experiment with those issues at state and local levels is harder for governments, politicians, unions, and corporations to influence than 60 senators. Libertarians are the true populists.

No I never did notice that. I post with my screen name. But I've also watched my karma go down because progressives use down votes to silence dissent. Maybe the pro Republican commenters are tired of being punished for their opinion?

How exactly does taxing someone empower them. You don't even need taxes for social programs, just look at our deficit.

That's not even arguing that small business owners are most hurt by artificially inflated wages.

My bachelor's of science in economics from a reputable university qualifies me to say I know of which I speak.

Germany was suffering from the global recession just like every country but the socialist government chose Keynesian stimulus to try to save the economy. Social upheaval was already fomenting from the loss of jobs but hyperinflation contributed to the social upheaval. Hyperinflation is caused by loss of investor confidence. We use fiat currency based on the trust in value. Overspending decreases trust in a currency. Just look at Greece's woes based on overspending and lack of revenue. Greece's social upheaval was also partly due to a recession and overspending. In both these cases the roots are just the opposite order chain of events then you mentioned.

Anyway. I take the time to refute closed-system people saying things like stupid right wingers, not for your benefit, but for others reading it. If you're reduced to ad hominem attacks against 51% of the country then you're mind is made up, which is fine. Some kids, learning in public schools, have no idea about the bias in public. They might have no idea some people want the government to stop "helping." But since no one benefits from reading this you can have the last word. I won't argue anymore.

No idea where you got your facts. Your numbers are completely wrong. https://static.nationalpriorit...

Those are OMB numbers. The military budget is part of discretionary spending. Most the social programs are mandatory spending. We spend way more of our budget on social programs combined than the military.

https://static.nationalpriorit...

I'm not interested in arguing whether the balance is correct. Hopefully seeing the real numbers gives you a better insight that your idea of the budget is orders of magnitude wrong.

Russia has one aircraft carrier and China has at least one being refurbished from Russia. http://rt.com/news/china-super...

Since the 2014 election the only congressional representatives that are Democrats are Progressives. Greens, liberals, progressives, government unions all vote Democratic. The reason Congressional Democrat's voting record might look center right is because the absolute majority of America is center right. The modestly watered down progressive goal of government run Healthcare caused a huge repudiation of the Democrat's fortunes. America does not want progressive policies that's why Democrats in Congress can't push the ideas.

Ask the Weimar republic how spending out of a recession helps. Or better yet, we just had a huge stimulus. Did that get us out of a recession?

I'm just glad I didn't fall for a troll. I'd expect a smart conservative to plant a subtle joke like that.

Your argument about external costs in welfare is hard to agree with when no one pays the full budget deficit anyway. If both progressives and conservatives agreed to a balanced budget and we agreed to a compromise on the size of the safety net and size of the military and then raised revenues to match expenditures then I'd agree this is a problem. I think inherently, progressives are worried that if Americans knew the total cost of these expanded welfare programs they wouldn't want them.

But progressives want it both ways. They want to complain that current minimum wage laws are putting people on welfare and then they want to raise welfare poverty level requirements to add more people. That seems like the bigger issue than poor people affording vegetables at Walmart.

Us stupid right wingers didn't ask Jonathan Gruber to draft an unsustainable health care bill. Nor did we ask the Federal government to raise food stamp access to multiple times above the poverty level. Maybe you're trolling but I think you meant "getting more expensive goods DESPITE the goods having a lower sticker price. You could possibly be right if there wasn't a deficit.

What if your labor is robots? Capital doesn't need labor as much as labor needs capital. Just a fact.