jimmyk

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by jimmyk 10y ago
>I may not be the right guy to articulate it, as I don't have a deep knowledge about Us history, but in the past, other ethnics that currently are considered Americans had a though time adapting, like the Irish, didn't they? Ye
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How about you address the second part of my previous post?
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We don't decide what we collectively want to do with a simple popular vote.
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I'm glad you actually looked up what happened. Now would you please revise your original statement to read: >the poet's Washington and New York elite friends put them on the statue to make European immigrants feel warm and fuzz
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by jimmyk 10y ago
The foreign creators of the statue put the words of a poet of questionable allegiance on there to reflect how they wanted America to act.
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When the constitution doesn't quite suit us, we amend it. When we want heavier restrictions on immigration than some poem recommends, we elect Donald Trump.
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>Maybe, because it worked?...immigration is the core constitution of the USA. Immigration from where in particular? US immigration law is vastly different now compared to before 1965.
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Some random poet's words got put on a statue, so we're now forever bound to obey them?
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>They need an effective government and socialized medicine. Charity is not a workable solution. Whether the charity comes through government or private organizations is not relevant to my point. The point is that they need someone else t
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by jimmyk 10y ago
If someone can't afford either A) the monthly premiums for a plan with a low deductible or B) the high deductible associated with a low premium plan, then that person is not capable of paying for their own health care and needs charity
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What is insane about wanting to pay a low monthly premium in exchange for insurance that only kicks in for very expensive events?
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>If insurance companies have to take all comers Then they're not insurance companies any more.
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>The Federal Reserve has the authority to create money to redeem any US government security. We're all aware. Whether the money is taken from the next generation or from the federal reserve is irrelevant. The point is that it's
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>The Fed can buy the bonds and hold them in perpetuity. And what cash will they give to the SSA in exchange for those bonds? Where will that come from?
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The point is that in order for government to pay back its debts, it has to tax people (or fire up the printing press).
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Do they not count as "our children" if they're rich?
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Who is going to be paying the taxes needed to pay off those bonds?
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With technology there is no upper limit on productivity. But it will never be enough to satisfy all human wants and needs. We will always be able to produce more than enough. More than enough for what purpose ? We coul
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by jimmyk 10y ago
I'm talking about economic scarcity. In economics, scarcity does not mean you don't have enough of something to fulfill some particular purpose. It means you have to make trade-offs. If I spend my day chopping wood, I can't s
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Do you not believe there are scarce resources? Or do you not believe money is used to direct how those scarce resources are used?
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What do you have against your brother putting $500 back into the economy? That's good for everyone How is it good for everyone else? Everyone else now collectively has $500 less to spend on other goods and services. Instead of
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The fact there's a section of the population who believes that poor people won't turn to crime before starving to death simply amazes me. Who believes this?
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Absolutely. If you don't like it, sell them weed and then you have their $500. Except now, you've used your time and resources to produce weed instead of other goods and services. The people who would have used that $500
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by jimmyk 10y ago
Isn't that what the naturalization debate is about? I'm talking about lawful permanent residents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_residence_(United_St... They are not given the right to vote a
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>s/generally speaking/very specifically speaking/r. Foreigners don't live here and don't pay taxes. That is clear-cut, unlike gender. This is not an accurate analogy. In the US, there are millions of permanent re
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>It's ludicrous because saying we should decide social policies based on generalizations of groups of people is a bad idea. Replace women with any group: LGBT, people of color, poor people, foreigners, etc. We don't let foreign
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>This statement depends on who you are. Attractive males and females both get more sex than unattractive ones. It's difficult in the sense that not a lot of people can do it. >It's bad for society to oppress classes of peopl
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>So you recognize the inequality inherent in the situation. Yes, I think the inequality inherent to the relationship between men and women will inevitably result in people being impressed by certain accomplishments when done by men and o
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>Now what does confuse and upset me is the way in which we rarely describe women as being able to have lots of men - the slut problem. We do describe women, in a positive way, as being able to have lots of men -- we just call them suitor
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> E.g. the long nose stereotype is there for a reason. Is there actually any science behind that? I'm under the impression that it's not actually possible to identify any ethnic groups based on the stereotypical jew nose. >T

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