Model Forum / General / Rockets / November 2006

  Ummm... because anarchy is worse?  :-)

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You are the perfect example for an answer to your own question;
apparently not.

You whine and cry about the society, then propose killing a bunch
of people as some type of moronic response to the perceived
social ills.

If you want to see the real problem with America, drag your
knuckles across the floor and go look in a mirror.

YOU are the problem. Doesn't understand what's happening.
Doesn't know what to do about it. Confused. Ignorant. Prone to
violence. A quitter.

YOU are them. YOU are the problem.

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Plonk.

I think what we saw last week is an example of Americans doing
something.  While I'm not really happy with the exact outcome, I am
happy that our political process works to the point that we were able to
hold an election during a time of conflict that ended up changing the
balance of power in the Legislative branch.

Why would Americans do anything else?  On average we enjoy one of the
best standards of living in the world.  We have an economy that is
expanding, even in time of conflict.  And on any given weekend we can
find a rocket launch within a 100 miles of us (or at least some of us
can!).

Of course you'll say this response is predictable.

I do not reply to this type of question but.  If you do not like the
government or have lost faith in the government then you two ways to
respond A. Leave now and do not look back. B. Work in the system run
for office and do the stuff that needs doing.

Donald A. Laskey

Off your meds I see.

Why don't you be a true American leader and fix this problem for us.
There is no reason for you to have to put up with the government.

Phil

Short answer; Because it works.

When it doesn't work we change it.

Every couple of years we get to legally overthrow the government.  We
just did last week.  We did it before in 1994.  On both occasions,
government dysfunction was addressed by voter action.

Yes, you won't get every little thing you ever wanted out of the
government.  Tough sh.t.  Suck it up and walk it off.  Somebody else
didn't get every little thing he wanted out of the government either.
Life's a bitch.

If this place is so bad, why do so many people actually want to
relocate here?  Our birth rate is actually in decline.  The reason for
our population growth is immigration.  About six million or so folks
are willing to risk deportation and imprisonment to reside here
illegally.  Sounds like SOMEBODY actually likes it here.

I've seen the third world.  It makes me incredibly grateful to be
American.  The poorest American in Appalachia or the inner city enjoys
a life that is quantum levels better than a six-year-old Elbonian
factory worker turning out Reebocks for ten cents a day and all the mud
pies he can eat.

And sometimes we don't like what's going on and remind our elected
leaders that they are working for us, rather than the other way around.
That isn't a weakness, it's our greatest strength.

You are guaranteed the right to *pursue* happiness, dude, but you gotta
catch it for your self.  TANSTAAFL.

Evolution is overrated.  During this current interglacial, politicians
evolved.

Bill Sullivan

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
Ambrose Bierce

I put up with my government because they can kill me and now they can
disappear me... god bless america!

terry dean
nar 16158

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***Because it works "good 'nuff".

***For twenty years I complained about having idiots for bosses.
***Then I was self-employed for a while and I STILL HAD AN IDIOT
***FOR A BOSS.

***Tearing down bad governments is easy.  Building new ones that work
***better is very, very hard and complicated.  Fail and you starve.

***It's basic human nature.  Hardly anyone ever learns from history.

***Yes.

***It seems not.

+McG+