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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I don't know if anyone's tried, but there's a bad situation where the private prison system has become what a large part of our force relies on in order to get enough money to function. And the far right cutting ever more funding to the police as they funnel it all into the military. So... it's got consequences, if they do it. Pretty severe ones, and in several places they're already understaffed.
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Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't really think that police and military are funded from the same place. Military is all federal, and police are primarily at the state and municipal level, so I don't see how you can blame anyone for funneling money earmarked for the police to the military.
Representative Steve King (R-IA) announced on Twitter that he would not run for Senate in 2014.
http://aattp.org/south-carolina-house-attempting-to-make-obamacare-a-crime-video/
Is that even possible to enforce?
@Ace: They could try arresting people who bought insurance. Or they could do what Kansas is threatening to do on gun control and arrest officers who come to arrest people who refuse to pay the Obamacare fine.
Personally, I'm wondering what happens if Kansas police actually take the law seriously and try to arrest ATF agents. That's just asking for a shooting incident.
If you want to get technical the federal government is what's keeping the states unified and protected which could be seen as them being necessary for the states to have power.
The way I understood it was that the states came first unless the federal government is granted power in this area due to the constitution. That's the logic behind the supremacy clause.
Maybe that might be a good thing for everyone? And since there's such a sharp divide between cities and countrysides, why not have city-states, Singapore-style?
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Because that is a hilariously huge change and such changes never go smoothly.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."I'm pretty sure that would crash America's, and by extension the world's, economy. You'd also get into some pretty fierce border/territory wars between the cities and the country and there wouldn't really be anyone to enforce order and make the two sides play nice. We'd also be in danger of terrorist attacks because there wouldn't be a government to defend us.
Yees, because Hong Kong was at war with China, Singapore is always struggling with her neighbors, and they're both constantly struggling with terrorists. As it turns out, this was not the case. The Government isn't some sort of lynchpin protecting society from collapse, and it's not an absolute guardian against a Hobbes Was Right scenario. It's a consensus reality built on people's need for stability. US States growing truly independent from each other doesn't mean they'll automatically be at each other's throats; that one could have such a low opinion of one's countrymen's common sense strikes me as comical.
I also don't see how it would crash anyone's economy. There is such a thing as trade, you know?
edited 5th May '13 10:23:24 AM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The police have a union, though. Or at least they're supposed to.