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Dale Hodgins wrote:The problem with entitlements is that for one group to be provided for, another group must be enslaved. My definition of enslavement is for someone to be compelled to provide goods or services to others. I'm enslaved by those on welfare or collecting state financed pensions..... There is no reason why I should work to provide for those who have failed personally or economically.
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Dale Hodgins wrote:I think it could be argued that most American's have benefited economically from various violent international escapades. I doubt that many people within the tropics have benefited whether the bullets were from their own countrymen or a foreign power.
I think the last time American soldiers were deployed in a mission that really had to do with defending the U.S. from invasion was during WW2.
When I was 18, I worked for an old German special forces guy who was Russian born and spent the war destroying Russian infrastructure. He showed me dozens of scars from machine gun holes, to frost bite damage to a big piece of meat that was folded back from a mortar blast. Still, he felt that the war had been the greatest time of his life and he missed it. He was an alcoholic. A different sort of guy. I don't believe that Jakob's actions benefited anyone. He received a small pension for it.
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Dale Hodgins wrote:I think it could be argued that most American's have benefited economically from various violent international escapades. I doubt that many people within the tropics have benefited whether the bullets were from their own countrymen or a foreign power.
I think the last time American soldiers were deployed in a mission that really had to do with defending the U.S. from invasion was during WW2.
When I was 18, I worked for an old German special forces guy who was Russian born and spent the war destroying Russian infrastructure. He showed me dozens of scars from machine gun holes, to frost bite damage to a big piece of meat that was folded back from a mortar blast. Still, he felt that the war had been the greatest time of his life and he missed it. He was an alcoholic. A different sort of guy. I don't believe that Jakob's actions benefited anyone. He received a small pension for it.
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....and you are right, our nation has not been under external threat in well over a half century, manufactured crisises and blatent lies aside.
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Landon Sunrich wrote:
Asmedean - I think you bring up a very good point - What is rule of law if not an entitlement? I had just turned 15 and was on beginning High School on 9/11/01 and watching the largest buildings in lower manhattan (where half of my family lives) blow away as dust was an experience too shocking to ever forget. In fact I would say it was a large shaping factor for me. However I am not sure whether we draw the same conclusions and lessons from these tragic events or not. I personally, see its proximity to the most highly contested (and many would say stolen) election in recent history, the massive insider stock trading, and the involvement of many vested interest from the energy and defense sector (as well as many authors of the Project for the New American Century) as reason to wonder if perhaps like pearl harbor there was some foreknowledge and complicity in the events of the day.
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Robert Ray wrote: .....I'd prefer we left the military and police out of the discussion and rather discuss how to insure and provide access to water food and shelter.
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Robert Ray wrote:
.....This isn't an easy discussion that needs to be muddied by bringing in military or law enforcement into it at the start.....
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John Polk wrote:Nature gives humans the right to be born, and the right to die.
Nature also provides more than enough food and water for any human to survive.
The materials to build shelter are also provided.
Societies, however, expect each individual to somehow earn those necessities if they want to participate within that society.
There is no 'free lunch'.
Long before mankind had bows & arrows, fishing poles, (or cash), they had figured out how to obtain these necessities. The food is still out there for any hunter/gatherers that want to go back to that primitive life. For those of us that prefer to be a part of a society, there are prices we need to pay to obtain these goods. Society owes us nothing - we owe society for providing a richer lifestyle for us.
Dale Hodgins wrote:The problem with entitlements is that for one group to be provided for, another group must be enslaved. My definition of enslavement is for someone to be compelled to provide goods or services to others.
Our inability to change everything should not stop us from changing what we can.
Our inability to change everything should not stop us from changing what we can.
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"You must be the change you want to see in the world." "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
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