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Wandering Jew
edited 25th Jul '14 2:15:53 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
...well, can someone give me a summary of the film> I want to know how outraged I should be really.
More like giant cherries
It's stimulus, it's big government expansion (even if state-administered as block grants), it's great for the underpaid social worker set, it's utterly un-Republican aside from the general conceit that the poor are simply making hundreds of mistakes with their lives.
Not if they immediately gut the program.
It's just another stealth abolition of the safety net.
edited 25th Jul '14 5:42:04 PM by storyyeller
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play
So, if it's politically impossible to kill the existing welfare state, replace it with a new one that has "bipartisan support" and then kill the new system?
Um. Doesn't sound like something that can work.
On the guy's desire to make sure kids are forcibly exposed to a conservative view of America, all I can think of is "Teach the Controversy."
edited 25th Jul '14 6:15:51 PM by Ramidel
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Still waiting for Birth of a Nation to be shown in history class here.
Oh really when?
Gunpla is amazing!
Still doesn't stop all the conservative politicians on my TV going "I WILL END OBAMACARE"
Wandering Jew
PETA Offers to Help Detroiters Pay Water Bills If They Go Vegan for a Month.
edited 25th Jul '14 9:27:06 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
Eh, there are worse strings donors could attach, though PETA has to realize vegan is expensive for poor city folks.
No, they don't, and if they do, they don't care. PETA are first-order Attention Whores and moonbats.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
The Potato's Choice
Wandering Jew
Senator John McCain says the execution of an Arizona inmate that lasted two hours was torture.
The Potato's Choice
edited 25th Jul '14 11:56:19 PM by PotatoesRock
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. - Douglas Adams
Professional Forum Ninja
A bill has been passed decriminalizing the unlocking of cellphones.
HGW XX/7
You know Reason magazine? That journal of the Koch brothers/plutocrat Republican Right? Well, turns out that their archives contain some rather embarrassing back issues.
Both Martin and Greaves were deeply involved in leading anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denier outfits before, during and after Reason hired them as contributors; and shortly after they appeared in Reason’s “special issue,” both Martin and Greaves served as editorial directors in David Irving’s favorite neo-Nazi outfit, the Institute for Historical Review, described as “the world’s single most important outlet for Holocaust-denial propaganda” by the Anti-Defamation League.
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Reichson magazine, maybe? I got nothing.
edited 26th Jul '14 10:54:46 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
A procrastination in of itself
Sounds like the Heil.
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
I always thought the Kochs were more like the Barclay Brothers than Lord Rothermere.
Direct all enquiries to Jamie B Good
Brownback's not just a candidate for governor, he's the incumbent governor.
Yep, and he's run his state's finances into the ground, and certain other things (I think education) are about to crash as well.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Potato's Choice
edited 27th Jul '14 4:41:59 AM by PotatoesRock
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. - Douglas Adams
Gunpla is amazing!
America is supposed to be the super hero super cop of the world don't you know?
I mean, when Reagen was president, he single handedly won the cold war and there was zero violence going on around the world!
edited 27th Jul '14 8:24:55 AM by Thorn14
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Even though it's just the Cheney-Bush 2.0
A little bit off-topic, but does anyone have a good article for introducing people to the for-profit prison industrial complex? My parents still don't believe that privatized prisons exist, and can't understand how you would possibly make a profit off that.
Explain it simply to them.
So the government normally has to build and maintain a prison and its facilities and services to house prisoners.
Simply imagine the government paying a private company to do the exact same thing. The private company does it for the government, and charges a small fee for the convenience of not having to do it themselves.
It's really not that farfetched.
edited 27th Jul '14 10:49:53 AM by GlennMagusHarvey
Yeah, see, that concept in itself is rather confusing. As some rich American once said: "Never pay any profits".
So one might wonder how it is that privatising prisons is supposedly cheaper when you are essentially paying a middleman to do work you could've done yourself.
Of course, this is because private companies have less qualms about violating human rights in order to turn a profit, but then you get people to wonder how this is allowed to happen in a supposed first-world country.
American prison system sucks, yo.
edited 27th Jul '14 10:57:21 AM by Kayeka
It is an interesting about-face on the poverty thing, given that the whole "life coach" thing would require a massive new government infrastructure on the scale of the FBI in terms of needing an endless parade of social workers all over the country. It's stimulus, it's big government expansion (even if state-administered as block grants), it's great for the underpaid social worker set, it's utterly un-Republican aside from the general conceit that the poor are simply making hundreds of mistakes with their lives.
The solution that the left and the right-libs seem to agree upon is direct cash stipends (envisioned by the right-libs as a negative income tax, but amounting to the same thing). That's the real solution, and then you save money by not having to give everyone a SNAP card and cut the number of bureaucrats in half, while increasing the consumer economy as the poor are now free to spend that money at will.