YOU CAN'T SUBPOENA ME I'M THE PRESIDENT

Hello President Cheney.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

But, yeah. Hello President Pelosi if Bush AND Cheney got the axe. Ahahaha wishful thinking.

I dunno how I feel about her grandkids being close to The Button.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Oh don't be so dramatic. If the Democrats fail to grow a pair of balls and Republicans start talking about ending the war, we could be looking at another Republican majority with a Democratic president.

Not too bad with the Clinton presidency, all things considered.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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Exactly what is the problem with socialist values sneaking in?

It could be because socialist systems are woefully inefficient and lack the ability to generate significant capital because they encourage people to underperform. I mean, this is why the French elected Sarkozy. At some point there's going to be a generation that's fed up with fronting the bill for the previous one's excesses.

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"Listen, can I just shoot you and get this over with? Hell, if I don't get arrested by the police and go through the courts, it's like I never did it at all!"

It's essentially the same argument behind Court interpretation of the Constitution. Something isn't technically unconstitutional until the Supreme Court declares it to be so. I mean, US courts didn't even start interpreting the 2nd Ammendment as a collective right until the 1930's. It doesn't matter how stupid the decision is, it sets precedent.

This is essentially the same argument that Night Phoenix and the White House is making. It doesn't matter how much you don't like it, it isn't technically incorrect.

How ya doing, buddy?

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I could live with a lot of government control if it's done right.

Ah, there's the rub. How can you determine whether or not something is being done "right" in an instance where you have a state-run monopoly? The only way to do so is to judge by comparing to other nations. So by comparison, Cuba and Zimbabwe are shit poor, China is transitioning into a market economy, and the Soviet Union, oh that's right, fucking collapsed.

Now Western Europe is facing serious economic reform because their massive welfare states are economically insoluble, and they're falling behind significantly in productivity compared to Americans and the Chinese.

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Also, isn't it the desire for personal prosperity that causes a majority of the injustice in society?

Well you might as well get into the territory that there's no selfless act. Injustices occur because certain actors act to benefit themselves at the expense of someone else. A government monopoly doesn't make this situation any better, in a lot of ways it makes it worse. The only thing which could be worse than state monopolies are state-backed cartels, which is basically how our healthcare industry operates.

I was speaking idiomatically.