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Ugg. How is the government paying for that borrowing? Well, realistically, they'll probably pretend they don't have to until the roof falls on their head since that's US Government SOP, but in theory they're taking it from other people via taxes. What the ? I already addressed this! The 2%...

Well, infrastructure and education are legitimate government roles, so fine. However, the money given to GM didn't come from nowhere. That's wealth redistribution, not wealth creation. I refer you to Venezuela for an idea on how redistributing wealth by government fiat is a bad idea. You...

There's a key assumption I think I'm missing here. Some people have more money then others, ok. How does people having more money hurt the people who have less money, exactly?

... Huh? Government spending doesn't create wealth, quite the opposite in fact. It might increase the money supply, but more money without more wealth just creates inflation. Wealth generally increases as a rule, so continually putting out more money to match it is generally a good idea. This...

Fair enough. Uh... no, it doesn't. Growth is based on an increase in wealth, which can mean an increase in efficiency or an increase in resources. Growth based only on borrowing is a "bubble" which inevitably collapses in short order. The Dutch Tulip bubble is the easiest example of this...

Start at Jerusalem and spread out until people stop shooting at each other. Ship one side to China and one side to the Great Plains.

10% or so.

Every group. It would be a huge cost, but it might be less then the military commitments and such that having the land occupied currently costs.

This may be one of those situations where depopulating the entire region (by moving everyone out, if nothing else) and walling it off would be the easier and cheaper solution.

I'm not quite sure how you would separate economic debt from monetary debt (indentured servitude?), but yeah, the economy isn't perfect by any means and having too much debt is certainly a bad thing. This is why you hear me complaining about excessive national debts now and again. I can think...

There is a bit of a "first cause" problem with money. This is why basic economic systems are based on commodities, which have some use other then as a means of exchange. However, commodities exchange as money gets annoying and hazardous at a point which our society is well past. So we have...

I'm missing the bit where it's necessary for person B to go into debt to pay person A back. In many cases, person B is using the loan to create wealth, a portion of which is used to pay back person A. They start a business, find new resources, create efficiency, or fulfill a need; this creates...

Dean and blue, is it really that surprising to you that many people depend as much or more on emotion as logic to make decisions? Or that bringing a child into your life is a heavily emotional question? Also, the distinction between having sex and having children is an incredibly recent one...

Bullies? Yeah, screw those jerks. Not defending them. The way I think of it, there's two sides of offense. There's the giving of offense, and the taking of offense. The giving of offense requires a deliberate and malicious action which is intended to cause offense. The taking of offense...

Gotcha. Women are helpless creatures who can't stand up for themselves and men are savage brutes who will stop at nothing to get their way. Always nice to see Joe exposing the misanthropic roots of liberal ideology. :lol: So? People are not responsible for other people's idiotic delusions...

Genetic imperative.

When I was growing up, not knowing anything more then the basic facts of gender biology, I quite honestly said several times that I was glad to be born male. Being older and knowing more about gender politics - I'm gladder then ever to have been born male. The system is stacked in my favor you...

My thoughts: This is very sex-negative. Just because you want to have sex with someone doesn't mean that you're degrading them. Heck, it's a compliment - they liked her enough to want to include her. Now, to take it another way, she might be saying that it's not ok to assume everyone would...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-28/german-court-bans-circumcision-of-young-boys/4096998 "Jewish and Muslim groups have protested after a German court banned the circumcision of young boys for religious reasons, in the first ruling of its kind in the country. The court in the western city of...

There seems to be an odd assumption at work here - that a person who is mentally ill is necessarily incompetent. Crazy does not equal stupid - crazy people are completely capable of formulating and carrying out elaborate plans. Heck, there are many psychotic people who use their desire for...