Jimayo

I'll have three drinking shirts, but that'll be my favorite no doubt. Perfect line.

I cannot wait until we pay off the credit cards so I can buy this shirt: http://teemoving.com/iknowthing Best drinking shirt ever.

Could become? It's the currecy of choice for illegal transactions online.

A bunch of morons agreeing with you means nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Well then, you need to go back to before we formed tribes. Because the basis of the society was cooperation to take down mastodons. Everyone could get more meat if they worked together.

Why am I not surprised you are king of supposition, hyberole and strawmen? You assume we can't make money while being safe and clean. You assume we can't profit without raping the environment and increasing production. And then you pretend that's how things are done in norway. Come back when you want to discuss reality instead of your libertarian fantasy land.

Yeah, we totally couldn't do that. We totally couldn't nationalise our immense natural resources and have high taxes on the top earners. It's impossible!

I'm sorry, but I value a safer, healthier, well educated population to your right to have more than you need. And we have way more natural resources in canada than norway does. A lot more than 6 times as much, as would be the percentage difference in population, so you're "point" isn't really much of one. And you know what's worse than having your money taken? 28,000,000 pissed off starving people. It's good for the wealthy too. One would think they could have afforded a good education that includes lessons in history. You can only boot stomp the poor for so long. There's not that much difference between inherited wealth and inherited titles and the idea that it's just a matter of working hard is asinine. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/29/poverty-mental-capacity-complex-tasks

Why do people always says, it only works their because of the small pop? How does that disprove that it can work? We've never tried it here but you assume it can't work based on what exactly? That there's more people here? How does that mean it can't possibly work? I'm going to continue to point at scandinavian countries because they have a system that works for the vast majority. That system makes life much better overall. Your selfish desire to garner more than you need may make you wish to lash out at the clear success of their system, but I prefer low poverty, high average and median salaries, and low crime. You can have your prison population like the U.S. if that's what works for you. Hopefully you won't get knifed by some desperate starving person but I wouldn't count on it.

You claim people will black market around high taxes. Norway is a social democracy with some of the highest taxes in the world. They also have an average salary of 80,000. Turns out people just pay the taxes and compete the salaries with the high welfare.

I think you're wrong. It think the wealthies plan has worked and they've used mass media to condition enough to the population to fall into line. I think we're in for some hard times before another revolution. I'm starting to think the flow of events from Star Trek might be fairly accurate.

Trump went bankrupt three times. The only reason he's still around is because he's trump. As for bush, you mean the company that went belly up and bought out. Where, as a member of the board of directors at the new company, he was investigated for insider trading. Totally proves you right.

I don't think it's inevitable. I agree with everything, but I don't have faith in the population to take control from the wealthy elite. I see socialism as the prefered method, but I agree that a 17th century agrarian style serfdom-plutocracy as an entirely possible stage to hit.

Right, Donald Trump is wealthy because he totally earned. Bush was capable. I mean he was elected so he must of been. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/29/poverty-mental-capacity-complex-tasks Same opportunity being born wealthy. It's totally all about work ethic.

No, that's your libertarian bull. Social democracy works and socialism likely would too. But hey, frack them, you got yours.

Really? Norway and it's $80,000 average salary says hi.

There is not one? I'm pretty sure there is at least one in this thread caling you greedy.

No we haven't. By the logic that Russia was "communist" so communism doesn't work then North Korea proves that democratic republics don't work.

You should read the greatest show on earth. Did you know horses are native to north america?

No, it would increase the crime rate. It's ****ty and I wouldn't trust any info from the bulls*** cato institute. Welfare and other social programs need to be vastly expanded in this country. Not only can we deal with poverty by such actions but crime as well. There's a reason norway has the lowest crime rate on the planet.

That's because you live in a world that is different from reality. In reality the vast majority of people want to work and you don't understand that. Most people don't want to sit around and be taken care of by the government. It's called pride. And the stats back up that version of reality as opposed to yours. The number of people who spend more than 5 years on welfare is less than 20%.

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So you're suggesting lottery type odds imply significant uncertainty? You don't understand what a scientific theory is. Thanks for playing.

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