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American Revolution

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-30 19:00

So really, what are the chances of an uprising in modern day America?  Not only do you have police everywhere, along with National Guard/Reserves and regular military bases throughout the country, but anyone that dares to fight  is an automatic criminal/militia/fanatic/terrorist.  Of course that means you're judged by the very rules you're trying to overthrow... but what chance is there that someone could overthrow the country's entire rule system and start from scatch, or even have the support of the majority of the people who watch TV and see everything thtrough a filtered media that puts negative spin in order to dissuade the efforts of a revolution?  The problem is the majority of the population is content and complacent.  Revolutions occur when the majority is poor, pissed off, and tired of the current system.  It would require people to have no access to their books, television, movies, computers, video games, or anything else to distract them.  It would require wealth to diminish to nothing, houses to lose their value, and utilities and public programs to become completely ineffective.  I don't see any of this happening unless the US is assraped by the Middle East or communist Asia.   

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-02 22:25

>>59

  Than take it up with me.  I have met people in financial trouble that went on welfare for a period of time because they had no other choice.  they went back off of it when they could.  My parents go to food banks because my mother is currently working a part time job at walmart while going to school, and my father is a lazy good for nothing asshole the way the others i complain about are.  I have also met people like my father, a whole bunch of them in southern ohio, that feed off of the social system.  Because they don't have to work they don't.  it's as simple as that.  I am not saying that poor are lazy.  I am saying that poor welfare bums and other bums that loaf around on ineffecint social prorgrams are lazy.  and that lazy 12 year old can still outsmart you.  he just isn't as stuborn as me in pressing matters.
>>57
     >>58 is totally right
 "I will, however, lol hard at your idea that people in politics are held accountable for anything and that people in businesses are not. Talk about a warped view of the world."
        When the business man makes a mistake the business suffers.  he suffers as a result of that.  a politician just covers it up with other shit.  A CEO that fucks up and causes the company to loose millions is going to be fired by the board of directors.  don't believe me read up on business and look how often boards of directors get tired of administrations and hire a new CEO.  Also if i am a manager and i fuck up i get fired.  the private sector is just as responsible because they have their stake in it all the way though.  If i fuck up my job i get fired.  if anything the government is much less so.  I can get fired imediatly after fucking up, you may have to wait 6 years if a politican fucks up.  and imagine how much worse shit he can do durring that period of time.  Also if they are so responsible how come the national debt is so high.  don't even say because of tax cuts, it's because of overspending.  the government doesn't need to spend a fraction of the money it does.  the federal governemnt collects every dollar currently in circulation over 3 times every year in taxes.  if you count state and local taxes it gets much worse.  what the fuck needs that much money.  and then can still be in debt.  The budget doesn't need cut, it needs hacked slashed and a piss taken on it.  both sides are guilty of the money spending, but we need someone who is willing to cut the budget, and take responsibiltiy for cutting it.  the problem is that politicans love to say they will cut the budget, none are willing to deal with alienating someone by cutting the wrong thing out.  The govenment doesn't fuck things up some of the time.  it is not the exception when the government fucks something up.  the big beurocratic government fucks things up almost all the time.  the only part of the govenment that runs anything near efficient is the armed services.  Because they are more accoutable because everyone is waiting for them to fuck up.  The government should get the fuck out of everyones lives.
      I understand some social programs, i understand government regulatory agencies, i even understand limited welfare spening.  But too much is too much.  Are you really willing to give the government sole responsibilty for all healthcare in the US.  Why are you going just for health care anyways.  Why is nobody petitioning for socialized food industy.  I mean everyone needs food well before they need healthcare.  But i am ranting.  The point is to get the government the fuck out of my life.  it doesn't do much of anything right, and when it does do something right it's usually though dumb luck.

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