ignorance unbound

Ahnimus

That's awesome dude!

That should be in a movie or something.

In Ontario they give you like 48 hours to show a valid insurance. They don't tow the vehicle, or at least didn't for me.

I was driving my GF's car and was pulled over by a cop. He says "Your sticker is out-of-date." and of course I said "I had no idea, this is my GF's car." So he asks for license and registration. The registration wasn't even in the car and the insurance was out-of-date as well. I gave my girlfriend hell. She had both the registration and the up-to-date insurance at home. I actually knew the sticker was out-of-date though. I drove the car more than she did.

lukin2006

CorporateWhore wrote:

The government has no responsibility for any of the success I've ever had or will have. I owe it absolutely nothing.

I am what I am because of my parents. If the government got off our backs, that would be a good thing not a bad thing.

I love how these people think the government has such urgent responsibilities for the welfare of our people. That's bullshit. The government fucks up at every social program it institutes. It has no constitutional right to institute any social programs. The economy has done well in the past without any government intrusion into our lives.

Here's how I put my power structure:

People
States
Federal government

If anyone is running social programs, it should be the states and not the federal government. The federal government cannot constitutionally address anything pertaining to the social welfare of anyone.

I couldn't agree more, the government sucks, the bottom line the government couldn't run a hotdog stand at a profit.

Commy

yield2me wrote:

So you are saying that our wealth in this country is coming from "bullying" other countries? Give me some examples of the mass amounts of wealth that are coming from these countries we exploit.

How about the billion dollar oil deals to haliburton and co following the invasion of Iraq? the most recent example...

Or when Haiti was exporting grain to the US while its citizens starved, and while we were exporting our homegrown wheat to asia....

Or when Colombia had to cut the price of its coffee, and was forced to export it to the US at a much cheaper price-part of the structural adjustments they were forced to make following its loan from the world bank, forcing many of its farmers to switch products, to cocaine mostly.

those are just off the top of my head, but there are literally dozens of examples. that's how empires work-divide, plunder and subjugate.

american

Commy wrote:

How about the billion dollar oil deals to haliburton and co following the invasion of Iraq? the most recent example...

Or when Haiti was exporting grain to the US while its citizens starved, and while we were exporting our homegrown wheat to asia....

Or when Colombia had to cut the price of its coffee, and was forced to export it to the US at a much cheaper price-part of the structural adjustments they were forced to make following its loan from the world bank, forcing many of its farmers to switch products, to cocaine mostly.

those are just off the top of my head, but there are literally dozens of examples. that's how empires work-divide, plunder and subjugate.

Don't we buy the most cocaine that comes out of Columbia? Was Columbia forced to take out a loan from the world bank? We made Haiti export grain to us? Doesn't Haliburton make its money off of the federal government?

Commy

american wrote:

Don't we buy the most cocaine that comes out of Columbia? Was Columbia forced to take out a loan from the world bank? We made Haiti export grain to us? Doesn't Haliburton make its money off of the federal government?

you asked for examples so i provided them. and there are literally dozens more.

american

Commy wrote:

you asked for examples so i provided them. and there are literally dozens more.

I asked for nothing.

Commy

Right, i thought you were the original poster i had directed my comments toward.


Here's the thing. State power serves big business to some extent-that's no secret. It wasn't an exaggeration when John Dewey said "politics is the shadow cast on society by big business."

State power, though violence, opens the door for big business and grants them access to the resources and labor pools of the conquered territories. In turn big business ensures state power is stable and firmly in control of the public, meant to be spectators, not participants. A state is democratic to the extent that its citizens have meaningful participation in the decision making process-and in the United States that participation is very limited-the goal of both big business and the government. Open doors abroad and keep the public in line at home.

And nowhere is that truism more evident than in the United States, supposedly the free society every country aspires to become. And there is a reason for that. In China they could care less about public opinion, for the most part, because if there is dissent they can simply dissappear the dissenters or jail them, while in the US they don' thave that luxury. Instead they must control public opinion-and I can give plenty examples of that process if you need them.

catefrances

Ahnimus wrote:

Yea, I'm Canadian and I pay a lot of attention to other countries, and not just the ones we are bombing.

Let's see, Australian's speak English and their PM is John Howard.

Australia was originally populated by European nations sending criminal exiles to the region.

2 out of 3 ain't bad.

the colony of new south wales from which australia grew, was founded as a penal colony by just one european country - ENGLAND.
the first white inhabitants were a mixture of convicts, military and free settlers.