....the Möbius strip....this will keep me happy...'till they come to get me ta da.....
Posted on 05/04/2016 9:09:48 AM PDT by mrbinga
Watching this year’s presidential nomination process from Australia has been a very interesting affair. I can’t say I’ve followed every single speech or piece of news, but I’ve certainly kept abreast of what is going on and have seen plenty of articles and commentary from people on my feed putting their opinions forward. What interests me the most are the people and media pundits who emphatically denounce Bernie Sanders and his supporters. The reasons all generally boil down to the fact that he is the reincarnation of Karl Marx and he wants to turn the U.S. into a communist state. That he is so far left of centre that he’s basically off the chart.
For those people, here’s a reality check.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
Terrific reply ... thanx
Just another Aussie tosser...
....heh heh heh ... welcome to MY hell ... How’d you like THAT for NASCAR ... NO turns !
Is my all time favorite
A decade ago, a kook like Sanders would never have been a serious contender for the Democratic nomination.
That he’s as popular as he is shows how much the country has changed.
As the Democrats slide towards the Marxist Left, the GOP is moving left to occupy ground formerly held by moderate Democrats.
Which are increasingly an extinct species.
Obama never was and is not a natural born Citizen.
The settled law of the land is that the US President must be a natural born citizen, and that to be a natural born citizen, you must have been born in the United States to parents both of whom were US citizens when you were born.
You may disagree with the goal of the Constitutional Convention, and/or with the means they chose to achieve it. But it's not a technicality, not an anachronism no longer relevant in modern times, nor is it racist. Especially in modern times, it enables persons of any race or ethnic heritage to become President. And it's what the Constitution requires.
You may also disagree with binding precedent regarding the meaning of "natural born citizen" as established in Minor. But in our system, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court's interpretation of it, are the "supreme law of the land." And if one faction gets to disregard the Constitution and/or the Supreme Court because they disagree, then that sets a precedent where all other factions can do the same.
Maybe those countries on the “happy index” are populated with people who don’t really want to be free.
I think it is absolutely impossible to reform our present health-care system. It is so large, so complex, so dependent on government money, and with so many powerful interests having bought in - it can not be reformed.
I would start a new health-care system alongside it. A completely free-market one. Let them even physically have their own land in each town (like free-enterprise zones), where doctors and patients are free to establish any agreement they wish, and where prices are clear and payments are a matter between provider and patient only.
Pleasure.
poit!
KYPD
Unfortunately, to keep those freebies, you have to squash individual rights and make it against the law to buy or sell things. The government becomes your employer, grocery store, your transportation, your provider. When they say you can’t have this that or chicken fat, your stuck because It’s against the law to make good for yourself. Think that the NSA is bad now...just wait.
... you're too kind.
You are EXACTLY right.
All Aussies aren’t the same.
What if a ‘black lives matter’ person wrote an article and some Aussies mused that he didn’t think Americans were so radical...
(the) Observer [Pete Ross - 04/25/16]
Sander's desired outcome is socialism.Socialists know that there is a cause-effect relationship between their actions and the achievement of their final goal. Small steps that are successful and that gradually lead to a final desired outcome are a way to provide socialists with the opportunity to make the operation of cause-effect realtionsips real and tangible, which helps to motivate them to keep trying.
So you’re against universal health care or college education because you don’t think it can be paid for, but you’re happy for your government to spend that amount of money on your military when the last time you actually had to defend yourselves was over two centuries ago?
Two principles of the founding fathers are:
1) peace through strength
2) one of the legitimate functions of government is protection and preservation of the natural rights of citizens from internal and external threats.
These combination of these two principles requires a strong military. And the fact that we have not needed to defend ourselves means that the founding fathers were right.
I think I know what you are getting at, but since the government makes the laws, it seems appropriate for the government to do something about enforcing them.
What a bunch of BS. Look at what they use as statistics
Ah yes, a gathering of Master Debaters. Nice.
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