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Why Can't America Be Sweden?

BBC News - UK suicide bomber in Syria named as Abdul Waheed Majid

or they don't like the type of change proposed? I read paul krugmans argument that any change is good, and you guys believe that shit too, like you can do no wrong.

The only reason people resisted healthcare reform for decades previous to obama like under clinton was because they are racist against obama, right?

there's like 50 million more americans that should be alive today

That is part of it, that competition drives us off our lazy asses but it also drives down the price of labor because they are willing to do the same task for less. so yeah it's retarded to say that it's your fault if some 1/2 retarded guy is willing to do your job under the table for a fraction...

literally 1 of those models have ever been involved in a crime(no one got injured). if you are going to spend that much money and enjoy a gun like that you aren't a inner city thug like the 85% of people involved in gun crimes.

If fear causes you to piss your pants you might have a problem, I think that "ignorance is bliss" is more the general area what you are talking about.

who says we should ever be "comfortable" (whatever that means) with a giant apparatus that manages all of us? it sounds like something that you should be ETERNALLY VIGILANT with controlling.

araysar your democrat compatriots not even 2-3 pages ago were explaining how most of the money for pacs aren't spent, so comparing donations to spending is =/= sign me up

And that's only a fraction of the money spent (by all sides) during the elections Democratic super PACs trounce GOP rivals: Republicans intraparty rivals may be hurting fundraising. Pro-Democratic super PACs outspend conservatives Democratic super PACs have early advantage over GOP |...

the union members have no control over who the unions donate to. It is the same thing, large organizations with many employees who have no control.

still doesn't get them in the top 10

You guys were talking about PACs in here? It turns out the 'Evil' Koch Bros are only the 59th biggest donors in American politics. Can you guess who is number one? Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014 | OpenSecrets democrats have raised way more PAC money than republicans have while they have...

sharing of intelligence gathered between all agencies in those countries? the chicago based law firm communications with indonesia Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm This is clearly not ALL about terrorism, and a mission creep of mass surveillance is economic spying NSA...

it's5 eye'smalkariss they all share their information in part to get around their domestic spying laws.

Navys UCLASS Could Be Air to Air Fighter | USNI News they don't have a supersonic drone to do this but eventually you have to imagine they will.

More spying for business US law firm ensnared in spying by NSA ally | TheHill

I had a laugh at this. Republican Lawmakers in Maryland Push Bill to Pull the Plug on NSA HQ Lights Out for NSA? Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to Spy Agency Headquarters - US News

eh the bureaucracies in many of these large corporations hmo's and the like are larger than what the government would have.

no, fuck insurance companies, I was talking about the people who ultimately issue the bill.

not saying cutting out the middle man(especially insurance companies) wouldn't save cost, but SOME of that cost goes towards funding innovation and profit motive and all that, it's not COMPLETELY useless.

yeah they also have the lowest prosecution rate in Europe which seems to under serve the population

Countries that are more than twice the % of rape victims as a % of population than america include Finland and Sweden go Scandinavia!

that's not the point at all, that chart's about dollars taken in vs dollars spent in the state.

No, it is a fact that large majorities of that money is purely military spending like bases. If you are calling military spending "socialism" that's a little more than misleading. https://www.pbs.org/now/politics/defensemap.html#pa alabama gets >4.5 billion in defense spending vs rhode...

apparently they play russian roulette with their sim cards, lucky draw gets the drone strike (and confuses us) heh

Greenwalds new news venture "The Intercept" The NSA's Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program

Yeah except that investigating this area leads one to believe the game is rigged, in today's atmosphere for example the vast majority of new money gets lent to the 1% and that leads to discussion of central banking.

yeah well people have been telling me inflation is good for the economy my whole life, I always said that was bullshit because it's regressive on the poor, but here we are, all the top democrats will say the same thing too.

if 1/2 the people rise out of poverty that would show up as rising income inequality, but with that "a rising tide raises all ships"

Even noam chomsky is sick of the religious worship of marx, he had some intelligent perspective the rest is a religious like obsession.

unemployment is down while overall growth is weak and the difference can be accounted for in working age people dropping out of the labor pool. stocks are high and housing prices have been reinflated somewhat but the underlying economy isn't doing well the numbers for the economy AREN"T...

it took collective effort from many presidents for it to get that far, the bubble was created by Clinton, it only burst under bush, who did know things were bad in 2007 and tried to prevent the bubble from bursting before the elections(couldn't keep it afloat that long).

War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show - NBC News

GOP and Dem Reps Clash over Whether Multiple Agencies Targeted a Republican | Mediaite

In general employers ideal conditions are when they have a large labor pool to choose from (like right now) when someone leaves if they aren't irreplacable you can often see the employer just ask the other people to pick up the slack, atleast for a good period of time, don't like it? they know...

Yeah as much as it sucks to say it, we need those people to work, it's just going to accelerate impeding train wreck that is social security. It relies on transfer payments from those currently working. CBO: ObamaCare Means Less Work; Social Security In Worse Shape - Investors.com

I've seen many pilot interviews from ww2 bomber pilots to present day talk about the act of being in the air disconnects them from what they are doing to the ground, so I would say that effect has been around for a long time, that being said, apparently drone pilots suffer ptsd at the same rate...