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Originally Posted by mburbank
I'd like to start by respctfully asking my esteemed colleague Preecher to blow me.
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ROTFL. You sleigh me, Santa.
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Originally Posted by mburbank
"Abuse of power is the essential nature of government. "
I'll buy that. It's also the essential nature of not government. If you can figure out a system where nobody has any power to abuse, let me know.
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It's not so much taking everyone's power away as it is setting up a system where everyone has the same amount of power to do with as they choose. This is the core of our philosophical and ideological disagreements, ol' buddy. Where you default to repression of high achievers because you believe the Greedy Rich© only ever abuse their power at the expense of the Pitiful Poor©, at least to my understanding... I tend to opt for the separation of business and government (which includes your transparency concepts) in order to avoid abuse of private financial power. In a government where the amount of money one owns has no bearing whatsoever, the poor will benefit from government no more and no less than the rich. Any other way has you in for the penny that eventually takes a pound.
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"I'm not the kind of guy that condones people walking around brandishing weaponry to get their way, even if the weapons involved are in the form of collective good will. "
I will always prefer the weapon of 'collective good will' to the tactical nuke, assault weapon and big piece of wood with a nail through it.
"keep on voting for dissapointment based in pipe dreams."
And the alternative is? Not voting? I admit, there isn' much of a difference, but I think you're hair splitting. What else am I going to do? I could run for office, but who the hell is going to vote for me, and what about how much that would cut into my TV and masturbating?
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While there's a lot to be learned from masturbating... and you know how I always favor education to ignorance... your years of experience in the field have probably already put you past the point of diminishing returns. As for TV, you won't be missing much. You could run for something, but I wouldn't wish that on you if I stopped liking you as much as I do. I think I'd prefer to see you vote a bit more strategically than just voting against those that scare the hell out of you. I'd love to see you voting for the person that best represents your true ideology or abstaining.
If you want to vote against something, try voting against the system... the two party system, that is. I know I'll never bend your perceptions to the point that you will understand your goals can only be met through libertarianism because you are so set on the correctness of your means, which are populist. I want to help the poor, but in a way that works rather than the standard socialist way, where you want to punish the rich. That's a big gap to cross.
Again, these are my impressions based on your posts. I'd like to be wrong, so please correct me if I am, but at least I know I can respect you for your honesty and your straight-forwardness.
I'll trade you write ins. You write in David Copperfield, and I'll write in Nobody Mcdoesn't-Existypants.[/quote]
Haha... I bet my guy would be a better president than yours... even though yours would likely win.