Women were burned at the stake in the name of Christianity. Humans misapply, misunderstand, and exploit...by nature.
Pointless. The monster is at our throats because we didn't kill it back in the 50's when it began to infest our schools. No more time for strategic planning, Sun Tzu, Marx, Engels, or reaching across the aisle. It has to be killed now, not studied a while longer until we can meet Sun Tzu's standards.
Yes, I was reading about the Roman Catholics burning a woman at the stake just last week.
What monsters have you slain? And in what way?
Academic perch...study...the rest will fight the battle? Lots of uninformed conclusions being drawn. Enjoy.
Yes, you have a perfect grasp of theory and intentionally misunderstood BS. And that's about it. Unless you want to regale us with your "monster-killing" tales.
Interesting that you turn the debate into an emotional personal attack. If at some point you would like to have a respectful personal discussion, we can do so over skype (or some similar platform) and keep our personal business personal. Here, we can have a respectful public discussion--or none.
None works for me. I don't have enough hours in the day to debate the merits vs the pitfalls of various political systems proven over and over to be deadly failures.
The system that was supposed to account for the human nature of control and corruption was our Constitution. It is designed more as a document of what government can't do rather than can do. Unfortunately, a few of the lines have been misinterpreted such as the Common Good Clause and the part about the militia in the second amendment. Another unfortunate event is if the government really wants to do something they just ignore the document ,for example the Federal Reserve and Article I, section 8, Clause 5 of the Constitution. Or throwing some kid out of school when he brings his bible (or his Koran)which is definitley a violation of Amendment 1 of the Bill of Rights. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The problem we have in government has always been a spending problem not a collections problem.
I'd say it's both. To many loop holes for business to skirt paying what they should. Sadly the people that are also in charge of closing those loopholes also get kickbacks. A US business should not be allowed to figure ways to pay less federal tax than a US family.
Businesses will always find a way to pay less in taxes, if they pay more here, they will move somewhere else. Lets keep businesses in the business of producing goods and services and employing people. Our economy survives on people having jobs and spending that money on goods and services, that generates tax revenues for the government. In order for there to be jobs, we have to have business and manufacturing in this country.
I find it funny you pick that headline but not the guy who ran a car into a crowd in Charlottesville. It's not like violence isn't on both sides, and it's not a "indoctrinated out of your Youth" thing, or are you forgetting the race issues in the 50's 60's and 70's? Hell in the 20's it was so bad the Tulsa Police actually fire bombed a black neighborhood because they tried to prevent a lynching. Violence isn't new, the problem is that in at least in the 60's There were people like MLK and the Kennedy's that were specifically calling for peaceful protests. Today we have a president actively acting like violence is okay to turn an eye to with snide, off the cuff comments, then acts like he has no idea why violence would happen.
