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TheRealMafoo said:
The moneys collected at the local level would go to things locally. One mayor would not care what the other mayor did with his money (unless one adjoining wanted to a larger project of some kind). So for example, you would not have some central fund that money went into for school systems, and then one decision on how to manage all schools. You would have 10,000 independently funded school systems, all funded from the people who live in that community. Sure, rich areas would have better schools then poor areas, but that's true today. What would happen however, is all schools would be better, because far more of the money would go to the school, If someone tried to embezzle school funds for some other project, it would be clear to the community it was being done, and it would be easy to elect someone new (because it's a small community). The prefect world would be one government that did everything right. Governments are run by humans, so that's never going to happen. The next best thing, is a government with the most accountability. That's small government, decentralized. |
And for those small things that would probably work. However, for situations dealing with more international issues, coming to a decision about how the collective should act would take way too long (more often than not). I agree that certain things are better left to local decisions, but other decisions require a more centralized approach.
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hmm, not sure on that one.
certainly the "war on terrorism" is not a war that any proper Democratic Socialist nation would take part in.
I dont know that its openly a war "on" socialism though, at least not anymore so than most things that capitalist nations do (imperialism of culture, economics, and all that dross)
Haha. Yeah, damn the government for passing a law that made it illegal for anyone but Comcast to sale cable in this city. I'm really suprised that illegal cable companies are still able to operate in other regions, I guess the government hasn't found out about them yet. Also, American Water would be happy to let another water company use their piping system and right of way to sale water to its customers, but the government stepped in and told them not to.
If there was some way to get rid of government and live in a type of feudal, oligarch system, that would be ideal. I think they did that in the Middle Ages, must have been a great time to live.
Oh shit Mafoo I can see now how the country would balkanize if local areas were upkept just by local taxes.
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TheRealMafoo said:
Yes. For two reasons. |
1. I disagree. Reagan's administration was the one where "endless huge deficits" became okay somehow. And then there's the whole thing with deregulating everything in sight -- oops S&L disaster etc. And didn't he start his first term with the biggest tax cut in history? Oops, too big, now they passed the biggest tax hike in history to tone it down.
I will be fair and admit that significant deregulation was already underway under Carter. And also that the S&L thing would definitely (judging by the Wikipedia article) constitute gov't intervention that you and I can both agree on disagreeing with.
2. I can only say I don't have the same interpretation of Obama's character at all.
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Will we ever see in this world another powerful country to do the following....
Forms one party dictatorship.
Right wing conservative government.
Outlaws all political opposition.
Imposes Martial Law, uses military and secret police to enforce the law..
Outlaws certain religions.
Builds an Advanced Nuclear Weapons Program.
Builds largest armies with the most advanced technology and weapons.
Invades a foreign country.
They are the Rogue states of US and Israel.
Current wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, who is next? Iran or Pakistan.
China and Russia must be getting sick and tired seeing the US-Israel pact flex its muscle on its allies.
| numonex said:
Will we ever see in this world another powerful country to do the following....
Forms one party dictatorship. Right wing conservative government. Outlaws all political opposition. Imposes Martial Law, uses military and secret police to enforce the law.. Outlaws certain religions. Builds an Advanced Nuclear Weapons Program. Builds largest armies with the most advanced technology and weapons. Invades a foreign country.
They are the Rogue states of US and Israel. Current wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, who is next? Iran or Pakistan. China and Russia must be getting sick and tired seeing the US-Israel pact flex its muscle on its allies. |
capitalism does all those things, its just insideous.
| numonex said:
Will we ever see in this world another powerful country to do the following....
Forms one party dictatorship. Right wing conservative government. Outlaws all political opposition. Imposes Martial Law, uses military and secret police to enforce the law.. Outlaws certain religions. Builds an Advanced Nuclear Weapons Program. Builds largest armies with the most advanced technology and weapons. Invades a foreign country.
They are the Rogue states of US and Israel. Current wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, who is next? Iran or Pakistan. China and Russia must be getting sick and tired seeing the US-Israel pact flex its muscle on its allies. |
Neither Israel nor America is at war with Afghanistan or Iraq. America is allied with both countries, fighting rebels from within.
Without coalition troops, those two countries would have collapsed a while ago.
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Will we ever see in this world another powerful country to do the following....
Forms one party dictatorship. Right wing conservative government. Outlaws all political opposition. Imposes Martial Law, uses military and secret police to enforce the law.. Outlaws certain religions. Builds an Advanced Nuclear Weapons Program. Builds largest armies with the most advanced technology and weapons. Invades a foreign country.
They are the Rogue states of US and Israel. Current wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, who is next? Iran or Pakistan. China and Russia must be getting sick and tired seeing the US-Israel pact flex its muscle on its allies. |
You're not trying to Rol every one, are you? 
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