The USA needs a mediator between the needs of the gov't and the needs of the people.

[SeaDaddy1]

We've become too divided amongst ourselves.

Discuss.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Fucking what?

Srsly?

 

[SeaDaddy1]

Fucking what?

Srsly?

Think about it. Srsly.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I vote Ultron. Srsly.

 

[SeaDaddy1]

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

 

[SeaDaddy1]

The Declaration of Independance

Words we don't say anymore, yet we pride ourselves in living such a false lie.

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,........."

http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm

 

[Byron In Exile]

Words we don't say anymore, yet we pride ourselves in living such a false lie.

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,........."

http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm

Most of us are familiar with the document.

Have you something to add?

 

[the_kuntess]

I'm lost.
The governments needs are a direct response to the needs of the people.
Is your democracy different to ours?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

All was lost within a minute after the Declaration of Independence was signed.

If yuh wanna feel ill read what Thomas Fleming wrote of our Founders and Noble Patriots during Valley Forge. The minute the Revolution was over the government built jails and hired tax collectors. Really.

Congress creates new agencies and programs to provide incomes and titles for the imbecile children of pols and elites, and to make jobs for Niggaz with Nail Tech PhDs.

 

[Liar]

This is one of those threads that starts out inane and ends up archaric, isn't it?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

This is one of those threads that starts out inane and ends up archaric, isn't it?

And youre the birdshit that falls on it from the sky.

 

[Liar]

And youre the birdshit that falls on it from the sky.

I'm the bird.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm lost.
The governments needs are a direct response to the needs of the people.
Is your democracy different to ours?

What happens when they become especially needy and discover that they are competing for limited resources?


"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Frédéric Bastiat

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The Great Experiment was fucked when George saddled up to ride off to squash the Whiskey Rebellion.


I wonder if Barry has the first clue which direction the saddle faces on the horse's back.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Great Experiment was fucked when George saddled up to ride off to squash the Whiskey Rebellion.


I wonder if Barry has the first clue which direction the saddle faces on the horse's back.

I wonder if he's eaten horse...

 

[Recidiva]

This is one of those threads that starts out inane and ends up archaric, isn't it?

I'm stuck on the word archaric.

Anarchic?
Archaic?

Cannot proceed.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I wonder if he's eaten horse...

I wager he's kissed a few horse's asses.

 

[Recidiva]

The government is supposed to serve the public.

In America it does so to a large extent. Roads are open if sometimes in disrepair. Schools are open if sometimes in disrepair. Electricity works unless your area is in disrepair.

What we need is more repair.

For that you need taxes.

The large bulk of our tax revenue is pure waste in the form of corruption and ideological folly.

But hiring a watcher to watch the watcher results in another unwatched watcher.

We have checks and balances and that's why there are people arguing. If they all got their way they'd give each other high fives all the time and ignore us completely. That's what happens with no checks and balances.

What we have needs revision, but as yet I don't know how. I do know it isn't to open the Overlook Agency Agency of Agencies.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
Cornelius Tacitus

 

[Wat_Tyler]

"The internet contains only 100% true facts."

~ A. Lincoln

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

 

[Wat_Tyler]

"Weezie!!!!"

~George Jefferson

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

… an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, rigid, far-seeing and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves. It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that.
Thus, taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrial animals of which the government is the shepherd.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

 

[RobDownSouth]

I'm lost.
The governments needs are a direct response to the needs of the people.
Is your democracy different to ours?

It's just typical Rapepublican post-election butthurt.

 

[Liar]

I'm stuck on the word archaric.

Anarchic?
Archaic?

Cannot proceed.

Could be either or really.