I didn't say every single person will try to spend as much as possible when they don't have to pay the bill. I said they aren't incentivized to control spending. That's true.

It's just basic economics. When you aren't spending your own money, you aren't incentivized to control costs.

A lot of labor laws that are viewed as pro-labor were actually laws to prevent blacks from entering the market, since they would work for less money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUBK9_4OQIs

Most seem to be viewing this through the wrong grid.

College tuition is in bubble territory right now. That bubble is in the process of bursting. Kids with money are the way to prop things up for as long as possible. It's as simple as that.

"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, but Sam Colt made them equal."

" But thanks to the mindless 'fuck governmnet' attitude, at least here in the States, government is pressed for dollars at all levels."

It's only pressed for dollars because they really aren't efficient. And pension costs, etc. They get plenty of money.

I'm speaking as someone who interned one summer for a government job, my wife worked at a county government, and my mom spent an entire career in state government.

A plot to show people that libertarians are on to something.

Don't interrupt a good rant with facts and logic.

That's important to keep in mind and I agree. But it still stinks for the people who have trouble making the adjustment.

This is known as the old "Firefighters First" trick.

You could lay off your cousin who does nothing. Or you could close the fire department. Close the fire department and ask taxes to be raised.

Also known as the "Washington Monument" ploy.

As someone with a kidney disease, let me note my dissent.

And how far back did your past data go?

I would think people who are still on Windows would be more willing to take a look at getting a Mac if they have to learn a new UI anyway. Although I'm sure it wouldn't hurt Linux, but I don't see a mass exodus of Windows users to Linux.

The government is very much like the mafia. They don't really care what you are doing most of the time. They just want their cut.

But hey, we pay all these taxes by providing jobs for the food vendors and salaries, etc.

That's nice. Pay me.

Right. Depends on whose "ethics."

Not to go Godwin, but Germany, for the time, was pretty advanced educationally. Soviets didn't do too bad for themselves. I'm sure the Gulag Archipelago testifies otherwise.