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If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.
Albert Einstein
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@realDonaldTrump on Bush's Spanish: if we are supposed to speak Native American, which dialect do you speak--Cherokee, Apache, Sioux, other?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 7, 2015
@realDonaldTrump's labor protectionism is Luddite. The US is the leading agricultural exporter, 2% of the labor force. China: over 33% LF.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 7, 2015
Anti-immigrants cite Friedman's welfare state argument but fail to quote: "Illegal Mexican immigration...over the border, is a good thing."
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 7, 2015
What countries stand to gain if Trump managed to succeed in spending $600B we don't have to uproot contributing members of American society?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 7, 2015
We don't need judicial restraint but judges who restrain the tyranny of government.
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 7, 2015
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Great Talk On the US Government Heresies Against the Constitution
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(Libertarian Republican). This is a perfect representation of what state worshipers want to do with society as a whole.
Here's Clinton's real campaign song: https://youtu.be/lh3gmOZQiiQ
(Justin Amash). “The president’s made it very clear he’s not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood, so that’s another issue that awaits a new president, hopefully with a different point of view about Planned Parenthood,” [Sen. Maj. Ldr. Mitch] McConnell said on the Kentucky station WYMT’s “Issues and Answers.” That argument is unlikely to sit well with conservatives eager for a confrontation. “Establishment Rs say, "Wait till we have a GOP pres." If that happens, they'll say, "Wait till we have a filibuster-proof majority."#excuses,” Freedom Caucus member Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) wrote on Twitter.
We need to end ALL federal subsidies and other tax gimmicks.
It's amazing how hard Republicans will fight to defund Planned Parenthood, defund Social Security, defund Medicare, and defund programs to feed starving children, but they always find money to put towards an increasingly absurd military budget and tax cuts for their corporate sponsors. I can't wait until Donald Trump causes the GOP to finally collapse.
It's amazing how many left-fascist trolls are willing to steal and spend other people's money in throwing more money at failed government programs that primaily benefit the bureaucratic parasites. I can't wait until the federal government collapses if and when the political whores' house of cards falls down on their morally corrupt asses.
(Independent Institute). "She should not be forced to violate her religious convictions. But, she also should not remain in a government job in which she is unwilling to do what the job legally requires. So, let her follow her religious convictions, free her from jail, and fire her from a job that, on religious grounds, she doesn’t want to do."
The author doesn't seem to know that the County Clerk is an elected position; she's not a civil servant. In fact, failing to fulfill her duties is a misdemeanor and grounds for impeachment. The Kentucky governor and attorney general have told her to resign or comply with the law. She also refused to allow her 6 deputy clerks to process the paperwork, so this is not simply an issue of religious accommodation but she's obstructing the law, a violation of the rule of law.
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(liberty.me). Just imagine. The United States federal government randomly picks 11 million people from the street, puts them on a boat and deports them. Imagine the economic catastrophe for the remaining people.
Solid essay. Some nitpicks: Friedman didn't oppose unauthorized immigration. Here's what he actually said: "Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It’s a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It’s a good thing for the United States. It’s a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it’s only good so long as it’s illegal." By the last point, he is really pointing out that unauthorized aliens don't qualify for welfare state benefits. The author doesn't look enough at the history of the migration problem. For example, we had fairly open borders until 1924 (start of the Border Patrol); open immigration (with some ugly exceptions, i.e., Asians) existed until WWI. Shamefully, 3 GOP Presidents scapegoated immigrants in the post-WWI and Great Depressions (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover), but from 1942-1964, with war-related labor shortages, the US instituted the Bracero (guest worker program) which reduced immigration arrests by up to 95%. It was the labor unions' leaning on a Democratic Congress and White House that led to the status quo. Interestingly enough, the anti-liberty immigration quotas did not apply to Western Hemisphere countries until the 1965 immigration act. The author doesn't discuss keyhole solutions that shamefully none of the GOP immigration restrictionists discuss, e.g., establishing a flexible guest worker program. (Lincoln contemptuously considered the anti-immigrant Know Nothings in the same category as slaveowners.) http://openborders.info/keyhole-solutions/
This would create prosperity, not catastrophe
Don't be a retard. Maybe deporting nativists would...
Ok so if the reason people are pissed about the " illegal immigrants " is because they pay no taxes yet get benefits what if there were no taxes or government benefits would these same people be so against these immigrants or would they be excepting of them . That's what I would like to know.
No, it's simply the rationalization of anti-immigrants. Recall these people cite Friedman, but Friedman actually pointed out that unauthorized immigrants are good for the US economy. And they do pay taxes (among other things, their and employers' social security contributions have shored up social security by nearly 3/4$1T) and they are ineligible for welfare.
It's all a moot point since it couldn't be achieved anyhow. They MIGHT be able to get people to leave on their own if the jobs and welfare benefits were dried up, and that's just a maybe.
You might want to focus on the fact there are 1M fewer unauthorized immigrants today than in 2007. So DUI is legal as long as you male or home safe and don't hot anyone? That's bullshit and you know it. Laws exist for a reason and should be respected. End of discussion.
Laws exist for the benefit of the ruling class. End of discussion.
Imagine the chaos for the countries that are supposed to accept 11 Million people...I doubt they will take them...and then what?
Economically illiterate rubbish. "Based on March 2008 data collected by the Census Bureau, the Center estimates that unauthorized immigrants are 4% of the nation’s population and 5.4% of its workforce. ..Most children of unauthorized immigrants—73% in 2008—are U.S. citizens by birth....The 2007 median household income of unauthorized immigrants was $36,000." Note that 1M unauthorized immigrants have left the US since 2007 and now account for 3.5% of the population. Roughly 45% of households own a home, and they have shored up social security, for which they are ineligible, by about 3/4$1T. They are important contributors to the economy as workers and consumers. Even Milton Friedman, who anti-immigrants love to quote on the welfare state, actually said, "Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It’s a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It’s a good thing for the United States. It’s a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it’s only good so long as it’s illegal." And so, the economically illiterate OP needs to really ask is "what countries stand to gain if the xenophobe Trump managed to succeed in spending $600B we don't have to uproot contributing members of American society?"
(Proud to be an American). Donald Trump says that if Jeb Bush is running for the American presidency, he should stick to speaking English. Do you agree or disagree with Trump on this?
If we are supposed to speak Native American, which dialect do you speak--Cherokee, Apache, Sioux or other?
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Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists
Tina Turner, "The Best". One of my all-time favorites.
