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originally posted by: Semicollegiate
a reply to: introvert
Responsibility for one's own life and decisions are not the same as being left alone. Friends and sympathy are real whether the government makes laws about them or not.
Private fire and police companies would probably serve neighboring addresses and maybe even adjoining areas as advertising and public relations expenses.
Before Medicare and the illegal alien invasion, hospitals budgeted 25% of their care to charity.
The only duty a person has to society is to take care of him/her self, which is incredibly easy with no taxes and a good education.
originally posted by: BubbaJoe
The country needs some comprehensive changes in many different direction, but while we all argue left/right the status quo continues to divide.
originally posted by: beezzer
originally posted by: BubbaJoe
The country needs some comprehensive changes in many different direction, but while we all argue left/right the status quo continues to divide.
And that's why a single party, ideology will ultimately fail.
The "status quo" enjoys the bickering and partisan divide.
It hates the idea of unity of purpose. The unity of peace.
I'm just talking about it here, anyway. Not like anyone is going to jump on the beezzer bandwagon. But I'll probably write an editorial or two. I'm on different sites. I'll write to the campaigns.
I'm annoying.
I get heard.
originally posted by: beezzer
So because he didn't turn the US into an authoritarian police-state,, you consider that a compromise?
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: Semicollegiate
Just because you confuse far left with collectivism doesn't mean it is necessarily or that I am. Yeah there's collectivists on the left (the right too!) but I'm not one of them. I have no problem with collectives and I'd probably do fine in one for a while but ultimately I'm an individualist. But left and right see individualism very differently.
The rebel rag issue brings the State to the heel of the people.
The Rebel Flag represents all who died for it, for reasons on left and right. Being against the Rebel Flag in every case is prejudice and ignorance.
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
a reply to: BubbaJoe
You seem to equate volunteer with hired to perform.
I don't see how a volunteer fire department compares to a business with a reputation to protect and contractual obligation to fulfil.
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
a reply to: BubbaJoe
Actually both sides were racist. Even the abolitionists were racist, they were against slavery, not racism. Slavery was legal in New Jersey until 1865. Slaves were used in Rhode Island to build the navy ships that the blockaded the South until 1842.
The Confederate Flag represented self government. Nothing else.
originally posted by: BubbaJoe
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
a reply to: BubbaJoe
Actually both sides were racist. Even the abolitionists were racist, they were against slavery, not racism. Slavery was legal in New Jersey until 1865. Slaves were used in Rhode Island to build the navy ships that the blockaded the South until 1842.
The Confederate Flag represented self government. Nothing else.
The flag you are so quick to support was never the confederate flag. It was a banner used on the battlefield. Slavery was legal in most of the states until 1865, even in Missouri where I live. I might add, it was legal to kill Mormons here in Missouri until 1976.
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originally posted by: BubbaJoe
a reply to: ketsuko
So it is a one issue fight for you? Had my birth control taken care of 27 years ago by getting snipped in the military, whoops, guess you paid for that too.
originally posted by: BubbaJoe
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
a reply to: BubbaJoe
You seem to equate volunteer with hired to perform.
I don't see how a volunteer fire department compares to a business with a reputation to protect and contractual obligation to fulfil.
So now you want to privatize fire and police protection, and make them for profit businesses, and you see no issues with this scenario?
Gee Dave, revenues are down this month.
Dave: well I will go set this place on fire
Seriously, WTF?
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: beezzer
Let's be honest Beezzer. Let's pretend for a moment that you and I are the embodiment of the entire voter base. There is zero we could compromise on. That is where we are as a nation. It's time for a divorce.
That is why States Rights are so important and useful. Libs move to one state, Cons move to a different State.
One Ring to Rule them All is a bear trap. There should be no national government.
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
originally posted by: BubbaJoe
originally posted by: Semicollegiate
a reply to: BubbaJoe
Actually both sides were racist. Even the abolitionists were racist, they were against slavery, not racism. Slavery was legal in New Jersey until 1865. Slaves were used in Rhode Island to build the navy ships that the blockaded the South until 1842.
The Confederate Flag represented self government. Nothing else.
The flag you are so quick to support was never the confederate flag. It was a banner used on the battlefield. Slavery was legal in most of the states until 1865, even in Missouri where I live. I might add, it was legal to kill Mormons here in Missouri until 1976.
I didn't know that about Mormons.
A battlefield flag, which people are dying under, is less likely to represent something denounced by all as immoral, as slavery was, than it is to represent something to die for, like self government.
It should be self evident that the soldiers of the South were not dying for slavery.