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• October 9th, 2008

  How far do you think the dow will drop?

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• May 7th, 2009

  Are "Big Government" and "Individual Freedom" opposed to each other?

  To all the advocates of a government in favor of expanding its corruptive influence into every nook and cranny of your lives in the disguise of being for the good of the common man your so far wrong that i have words that can quantify the extremity of your error. Never in history has a government willingly given up any power invested in its self. The issue with bigger government is the fact that it doesn’t stop getting bigger. Granted it may slow its growth at times due to a variety of factors but the point remains that it won’t get smaller willingly. Take for example the USA. In the beginning of this country it had a government that was the closet thing to anarchy that could feasible. In order to insure peace they gave individuals a set of basic rights as a limiting agent on the growth of government and to give the masses something to cherish and value. As the government has aged it has been invested with more and more powers. With each expansion the threat of the masses has grown less and less, because certain programs passivised the people with promises of a security net and others forcibly silenced their dissent. How can a government that has now grown so large be afraid of the masses when all that’s needed to appease them is a new social program? Some may argue that this expansion of government has been for the good of the nation, but i cant imagine how sacrificing the liberties and freedoms of my own self and my future children can be a trade for temporary appeasement. Perhaps the most terrifying thing of an expanding with fewer liberities is the creation of a nanny state. We have already seen this happen with social security, currently many of the elderly are absolutely reliant on the program and will immediately side with the candidate that promises them the biggest expansion of social security or medical benefits. A system of free government cannot exist if it is based on this principle. It ultimately leads to a authoritarian government. I ask you are the benefits you recieve worth sacrificing the liberities and freedoms of your children and their children? I hope is no otherwise were gearing for another era of authoritarian government
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• February 13th, 2009

  Why can't we use some of the existing $11 trillion to "stimulate" the economy and create jobs?

  Printing money can’t be the solution. You MAY lessen the financial strain on a handful of households but the people who need help would be in a worse situation. If the 300 dollars they are living is suddenly worth ten percent less, they will be able to buy ten percent less necessities before they run out of money and be in a worse situation by far. Then the inflation that was started by printing excess money doesn’t go away but keeps building since now everyone has to make ten percent more to make their bottom line. This leads to even more lay offs as companies try to make up that ten percent and even more households in a financial crises. Ultimately leading to a worse situation than we started with.
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• November 15th, 2008

  Amero: probable or not that the US dollar is replaced all together by this hipothetical currency?

  I would say we’ll have the amero within ten years. When we’re forced to default on our national debt our currency will become worthless and the government in an effort to stop inflation will introduce the amero.
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• November 12th, 2008

  What is wrong with taxing the rich?

  Its quite basic, if you tax the rich they’re just going to pass those taxes back to you in the form of more expensive products and services.
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• November 12th, 2008

  Do you ever feel like people in the modern age are weak?

  Yes we are overly reliant on technology and the comforts of modern society. Humans nowadays couldn’t survive in a world where they had to grow their own food or have electricity constantly available. Just look at what happens in a blackout, mass chaos. Imagine if the world suddenly couldnt make electricity, we’d see massive amounts of people dying from lack of water, starvation, infections, and unsafe living conditions. So to answer your question yes, society is to comfortable with its current state in has lost touch with the basic skills necessary for survival.
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