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So you will finance future wars yourself? And you will hire bank regulators yourself? And you will hire restaurant inspectors yourself? Go eat at an unregulated/uninspected restaurant. Good luck.

So how does Haliburton get its money? What about Blackwater? Didn't those two firms hire people? Where does that money come from? And what about defense industry technological breakthroughs that make it to the private sector? The internet? Microwaves? Your zero-sum statement is quite...

I didn't mean to be literal. My issue is with the seemingly lack of humility in some posts. It's a goddamn depression we're in. Anything goes and anyone can get wiped out. I've seen enough millionaires to blue collar workers lose from everything to almost everything they've worked for...

How do you know that your source of income is stable or secure? No ones' is. Maybe Moore will be sticking up for you.

Some more food for thought: What ever happened to this prediction? China to Supplant U.S. as World’s Largest Manufacturer by Next Year http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/08/11/china-manufacturing/ And what about this? China's Manufacturing Jobs Surged As American Jobs Disappeared...

I think it's both.

I agree with that line of thinking. But it also strikes me as very 2003. Their auto manufacturing has taken off... their defense industry too... I don't think the old stereotype applies. I am by far no expert - but you have to admit, they have come a long way. I'm still doubtful about...

Scataphagos brings up a good point. I'm looking into it. Specifically: 1. Under GWB, there was a move to categorize fast food jobs as "manufacturing" jobs. I still don't know what came of it. How do we define "manufacturing - and how do others define it? Is it apples to apples or...

I agree. There are structural issues in the economy that transcend politics. I would also add - BOTH parties spend irresponsibly - it's the nature of the beast.

Retirement is a Fiction. Inasmuch it has worked in the past - don't forget, it took place under unusual circumstances. A society based on: a 60+ year old post WWII credit bubble, cheap energy and low EROEI, abundant younger workers to feed the pension/401K, etc, and a smaller (cpmpared to...

Henry Kissinger won the Nobel as well...

You have to admit, that in a truly capitalist society, supply and demand do not only affect prices, but wages too. Illegal immigration financially kills those that work entry level and lower level jobs. Working in a slaughterhouse, picking vegetables under the glaring sun, or flipping...

Yea, they had no problem with Bush destroying the Constitution, but as soon as a Black President gets elected, they all become constitutional experts and armed to the teeth! As if what we see going on in America happened overnight. Dumbasses.

I agree that we are heading for difficult times. But what annoys me is that Bush was the same as Obama is! And where were all the Constitution Loving right wing nuts then? That's why I am a pessimist. Each half of the population thinks it's the other half's fault. And all the while...

When it comes to determining if there is a god - there are no experts. Thus, the title of this thread is moot. For every genius religious scientist there is an atheist one. Reliance on "expert" opinion is futile. This thread is useless. Worse still, are the ones that argue that their...

Geography: Iran Caspian Sea Actually... I would even venture to say that Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan are all related. But let the little people argue that Kosovo was a democrat thing and Iraq a Republican thing. They don't realize that it's a US thing. Wthout control of that area...

Hey, I'm skeptical either way. The images of glaciers and icecaps and Greenlands' extended growing season are not things I learned from Al Gore - a lot of sources have documented these things. As for the European chart - don't forget the maunder minimum impacts that chart. It was a...

Not being adverserial here, but how do you explain the pictures of diminished glaciers, icecap breakoffs, and the lengthened growing season in Greenland? A chart from tasmania isn't a strong enough argument for me.

I agree dcraig. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were a great buffer. But so too was the geology- the US mineral rich in gold and oil. Actually the US was the world's leading exporter of oil well into the 1950s. Another nudge for American Exceptionalism. Great Britain too, was a power that...

That works too. I fear that no big country can adequately rule a large population and land mass the way, say a country like Sweden can. Freedom will ultimately suffer. I see Russia, China, and India ultimately being run the same way. Authoritatively.