I don't think I've ever seen so many strawmen built on weird assumptions trying to argue that a credit union is communist and belonging to one means trying to get rid of the government. I think you need some deprogramming or at least some education. I mean to be so down on Groucho Marx, I mean it's true I got conditioned by watching You Bet Your Life as a youngster but you act like it's the worse thing ever.
You mean that after Germany declared war on you, you joined the fight rather then surrendering.
It's the Conservatives who label the 50-60's America's golden age. You're right that no one paid the 90% top end. Instead they paid their workers better, put money back into their business and such which led to a fairly robust spread of wealth and the average person doing OK financially.
Why do you think that socialism has to involve the government, besides things like enforcing contracts.
From the American Heritage dictionary,
noun
Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
My Credit Union is owned collectively, same with various Co-ops I deal with, though I'm not a member of most of them.
Wiki has much more on it, starting with,
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems[1] characterised by social ownership of the means of production,[2] as opposed to private ownership.[3][4][5] It describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems.[6] Social ownership can take various forms, including public, community, collective, cooperative,[7][8][9] or employee.[10][11] As one of the main ideologies on the political spectrum, socialism is the standard left-wing ideology in most countries.[12] Types of socialism vary based on the role of markets and planning in resource allocation, and the structure of management in organizations.[13][14]
Socialist systems are divided into non-market and market forms.[15][16] A non-market socialist system seeks to eliminate the perceived inefficiencies, irrationalities, unpredictability, and crises that socialists traditionally associate with capital accumulation and the profit system.[17] Market socialism retains the use of monetary prices, factor markets and sometimes the profit motive.
Personally, I like the market forms, which are hopefully more resistant to authoritarianism.
OTOH, America's golden age was at a time when the top tax bracket was up around 90%.
Yep, better to borrow the money to give to the wealthy elite.
Credit Unions and Co-op's are about as socialist as you can get and often quite successful. Socialism can be quite compatible with the free market as long as the government doesn't interfere too much to help the capitalists.
Mosquitoes are tiny and offer very little nutritional value, so the caloric cost of hunting them isn't profitable for anything significantly larger than the mosquito. Bats, for example, get less than 1% of their diet from mosquitoes.
The larva are perhaps more important for the food chain. Fish food might be important, especially for the young,
Looked it up in case my memory was bad. From wiki,
Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternative definition is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition; it may include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and squash, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses, but exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains.
Which agrees what I was taught in school.
Could be worse, handing them to religious nut jobs to sexually abuse. Of course some governments are full of religious nut jobs so you have the worst of both worlds.
Weights and measures would be exactly as it sounds, your Federal government decides what an inch, etc is. It did this in 1866, passing a law that 1 metre = 39.37 inches, or an inch = 25.4000508 mm. And on July the 1st, 1959 declared the yard of exactly 0.9144 metres or 25.4 mm exactly, aligning with the British Commonwealth.
Imagine if different States had different inches, even that 2 millionth of a difference adds up.
Remember too that weights and measures were one of the 1st things regulated in the middle ages, selling under weight bread or meat was a serious crime, so the need to regulate was well known when your country was founded.
Yes, originally the idea was that BC would change to DST in sync with the US western States with the law passed in 2019 IIRC. Then this year the Premier decided to unilaterally change it. The excuse being that with our relationship in the dumps, we were tired of waiting. The cynic view was the change was to distract from the budgets deficit. Now we'll see what happens this winter when the clocks don't change.
Ontario passed a similar law, where they're waiting on NY and Quebec to implement it.
Yes, it is interesting how our countries have evolved. It's the opposite here, originally we had a strong Federal government as we had just watched your civil war. It has evolved to the Provinces having a lot of power and the Federal government less. Partially due to us having a living Constitution. The feds can still use bribery. Healthcare, Provincial thing, the Federal Canada health Act says if the Provinces meet certain criteria, Federal money will be supplied. I think that is how highways work down there.
We also don't have something like the Interstate Trading Clause, it's easier to trade with America then other Provinces, though Trump has motivated us to fix that. It's all a balancing act and part of it is having independent courts. Helps that Judges have mandatory retirement at 75 here.
Luckily the towns etc don't seem to be inclined to randomly change time zones, just decide which side they'll be on, and stay there, while others not near the border don't even consider unilaterally changing their zone.
But yes, things should be local if possible. Here, all the feds do is make suggestions and even let the Territories decide on their own and I'd guess the courts would stop the Federal government from intruding on the Provinces time management if a Province took it to court. Always seemed weird to me that the States were hampered by Congress from deciding on these types of things.
The solution of problems is the most characteristic and peculiar sort of voluntary thinking. -- William James
