america before ther nanny state

[athlonmank8]

You brought up a great point. We should definitely get rid of national defense as well, since that is probably one of our biggest "nanny state" programs.

How much did Iraq cost again? Man, what a waste.

In fact, "Nanny State" is probably being a bit conservative. I'd coin some sort of mental condition instead.

$1 trillion+ could have been saved and put in our piggy bank.

 

[athlonmank8]

Probably one of the best points of the article.

It all makes you wonder: If Americans could thrive without an entitlement state a century ago, how much easier would it be today, when Americans are so rich that 95 percent of our “poor” own color TVs?

Exactly. What in the world is a color TV doing in their living room? Apparently they didn't get the memo that they could just finance it and default on the payments instead. Similar to what the "rich" did when we gave them the $700 billion bailout.

This is why I don't argue about this shit. Yet idiots like the OP chose to do it because they don't know any better. There's always a guilty party somewhere so it's probably good to just keep your mouth shut.

 

[shortie]

color TVs serve the essential function of mass control

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from Vinny1:

You have got to be kidding? Do you have children? Would you send your children to work in a coal mine or in the garment industry?

It's nice to be one of the privileged and actually have a choice.

 

[Vinny1]

Quote from shortie:

color TVs serve the essential function of mass control

Most of the shows on TV nowadays are crap. I cancelled my cable 6 months ago, and just rent shows and movies on Netflix. Can't beat the old shows like All in the Family and Three's Company.

 

[RewriteQuran]

US Visa/Outsourcing must be linked to Caste system in India and Human Rights in China
http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/29/un-says-indias-caste-system-a-human-rights-abuse.htm
http://www.rediff.com/business/slid...forced-to-sign-no-suicide-pledge/20110504.htm

 

[zdreg]

Quote from shortie:

color TVs serve the essential function of mass control

thanks. there is no need for me to be part of the masses. I will take my B & W TV out of the closet.

 

[Debaser82]

Since the FED live expectancy has basically doubled.

 

[trefoil]

Funny. The usual nostalgia for a past golden age that never actually existed, except of course in the mind of the person doing the writing.
Just to take one for instance: polio was eradicated only in the fifties. There are still a few people walking around (kind of) today who were disabled by the last polio epidemic.
The administering of the vaccine to eradicate it was mandated by that horrible nanny state.
I could multiply examples forever, but really all you have to do is go take a look at the actuarial tables to see the effects of things like early vaccinations, mandatory schooling, anti-child labor and sweatshop laws, housing codes, and all the other things people just take for granted, as if it were as natural as the Sun rising in the East that most children born today would make it to their fifth birthday intact and in good health.
Except that didn't just happen. It happened because someone thought to make it happen, and then did, mostly by getting the state to step in and stop the diseases (whenever the advance of medical science made it possible) or the practices that would otherwise have kept us attending the funerals of children more frequently than we do those of people who died old.

 

[oldtime]

the Red Cross shows up to help at almost every disaster worldwide. With everybody talking about cuts in medicare and social security, why are they not also talking about cutting the Red Cross? It must cost a fortune to do all they do.