Ron Paul's economic revitalization plan
#21
You have it backwards. The Federal gov't has no authority to confer "group rights", and has no authority in ANY kind of marriage, because marriage is a SOCIAL contract. Conferring group rights is inherently discriminatory, collectivist, and in some cases, racist.
The Constitution protects INDIVIDUAL rights. The smallest minority is the INDIVIDUAL. This obsession with group identity is racist.
For example, "affirmative action" is racist, because the gov't forces hiring decisions based on an applicant's skin color!
The idea that the minority composition of any group is forced to reflect that of the general population, is ludicrous ... one can complain that the NBA is racist in that most of their teams are mostly black!!!
The Constitution protects INDIVIDUAL rights. The smallest minority is the INDIVIDUAL. This obsession with group identity is racist.
For example, "affirmative action" is racist, because the gov't forces hiring decisions based on an applicant's skin color!
The idea that the minority composition of any group is forced to reflect that of the general population, is ludicrous ... one can complain that the NBA is racist in that most of their teams are mostly black!!!
#23
This is already the case. Period. With the exception of Kurdistan, most of populated Iraq is already dealing with secretarian violence on a daily basis.
Absolutely no argument here.
How noble of you to decide that the lives of "a few" other servicemembers are expendable simply because you were in the Army at some point. Your words reek of someone who was in uniform during the extended peace time era. My apologies if I am wrong.
Absolutely no argument here.
How noble of you to decide that the lives of "a few" other servicemembers are expendable simply because you were in the Army at some point. Your words reek of someone who was in uniform during the extended peace time era. My apologies if I am wrong.
#28
You have it backwards. The Federal gov't has no authority to confer "group rights", and has no authority in ANY kind of marriage, because marriage is a SOCIAL contract. Conferring group rights is inherently discriminatory, collectivist, and in some cases, racist.
The Constitution protects INDIVIDUAL rights. The smallest minority is the INDIVIDUAL. This obsession with group identity is racist.
For example, "affirmative action" is racist, because the gov't forces hiring decisions based on an applicant's skin color!
The idea that the minority composition of any group is forced to reflect that of the general population, is ludicrous ... one can complain that the NBA is racist in that most of their teams are mostly black!!!
The Constitution protects INDIVIDUAL rights. The smallest minority is the INDIVIDUAL. This obsession with group identity is racist.
For example, "affirmative action" is racist, because the gov't forces hiring decisions based on an applicant's skin color!
The idea that the minority composition of any group is forced to reflect that of the general population, is ludicrous ... one can complain that the NBA is racist in that most of their teams are mostly black!!!
#31
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While the US and Canada do have the (currently underexploited) ability to support themselves from a petroleum standpoint, the economies of most of the European nations would collapse, along with Japan, Taiwan, China, etc. Hopefully the US and Canadian governments would impose export restrictions and price controls upon their own domestic oil production, to prevent the collapse of the global oil market from driving domestic petroleum prices to an unsustainable level as well.
Why do we send men and women to DIE on foreign land to "secure the oil" WHEN WE HAVE PLENTY IN ALASKA?
Apparently, it's better to send young men and women to their death in a place halfway across the world that doesn't want us there than it is to risk possibly hurting a couple of baby seals, polar bears, egrets, etc. At least, I think it is.
Do you honestly believe Israel would consider that?
Can you imagine living in Baltimore, Maryland in a situation where all the rest of the New England states were Islamic nations who hated you and wanted you to die, and oh by the way, a group of them have declared the District of Columbia to be their homeland and are currently squatting there while shooting rockets at you over the fence.
That sort of thing is pretty much a doomsday scenario. If the Islamic nations of the area genuinely wished to seize Isreal, and managed to secure the financial and technological support of a sponsor state such as Saudi Arabia, then it would no longer be a question of whether or not Israel will survive, but rather how many Muslims they can take with them to the grave.
#33
You want the economy to be fair to everyone. But you take the self centered route of foreign policy. Interesting.
Start by reading this:
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/...onomic_hit_man
#35
DOES ANYONE ELSE NOTICE? Again this has turned into the mentality of ONE ISSUE voters.
What is THE ONE biggest issues that will affect THE MOST OF US?
It's the economy, stupid!
I want to show that this plan is the real deal, (not some bullshit "stimulate spending" plan), and then one issue voter people come out and attack the man instead of the plan.
This ONE ISSUE VOTER mentality seems to be a method of DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Get the country divided into two groups with each group seemingly arbitrarily siding on various LESS IMPORTANT issues.....
What is THE ONE biggest issues that will affect THE MOST OF US?
It's the economy, stupid!
I want to show that this plan is the real deal, (not some bullshit "stimulate spending" plan), and then one issue voter people come out and attack the man instead of the plan.
This ONE ISSUE VOTER mentality seems to be a method of DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Get the country divided into two groups with each group seemingly arbitrarily siding on various LESS IMPORTANT issues.....
#37
Because they are not allowing any man to marry any other man regardless of sexual orientation. I should be allowed to marry my best friend (Joe Perez) and have sexy orgy parties and never once tough each other or look each other in the eye.
#38
Logical fallacy of false analogy. A better analogy is, I hit his car, and he wants me to just get the **** away from his face.
Getting out of the 140+ countries that troops are in, self centered? What a laugh. You have a very very naive view of US foreign policy history.
Getting out of the 140+ countries that troops are in, self centered? What a laugh. You have a very very naive view of US foreign policy history.
In your analogy whose the neighbor?