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Recent content by DrunkenAsparagus

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    Should public employees be allowed to vote?

    So they have a vested interest in who wins. It's the nature of representative government that everyone has a vested interest in who wins.
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    900 wealthiest Americans exempted from paying 2014 Social Security past Jan. 2nd

    Social Security is a program that transfers a lot of money from poorer and uneducated young people to richer, often more financially stable older people. Obviously, this isn't always the case, and benefits are capped, but I think that if we are going to do income transfers, there should be more...
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    5 Ways Liberalism Destroyed Detroit

    IDK about liberalism itself, but Detroit embodied much of the post-war consensus where the government and big business would cooperate, do each other favors, and plan the future of ordinary citizens and other industry. Sure, unions didn't help in the long-run, but Detorit's problems can also be...
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    Cuba president notes tone of recent relations with U.S.

    Yes, this all happened way before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Why bring up Che wanting a nuclear war if you weren't implying that the embargo was to "contain Cuba"?
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    Cuba president notes tone of recent relations with U.S.

    When? When you have greater openness to the outside world, people inside the country are exposed to new ideas, new goods, and new standards of what their country can be like. The US and international organizations would instantly gain more leverage over the country compared to right now...
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    Cuba president notes tone of recent relations with U.S.

    Since when has economic integration ever been a friend to dictatorship? I can think of many examples of it doing the opposite, i.e the EU and post-communist Eastern Europe. I never said that the embargo was the main reason, but at best, embargo has been useless in promoting political change...
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    Cuba president notes tone of recent relations with U.S.

    Like I said, Raul is a dictator, and I'm not pretending that Cuban economy wasn't wrecked by socialism. That being said, there have been some easing of travel restrictions, small businesses can exist, and the government has said that it wants more economic reform along the lines of post-Mao...
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    Cuba president notes tone of recent relations with U.S.

    Opening up relations with Cuba would be good for Cuban democracy and liberalization. When you have a closed regime, it is very easy for the government to control its people and portray outsiders as boogeymen. With openness, Cubans would be exposed to American goods and ideas. Family members...
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    Immigration: No more Amnesty we need a Wall!

    We've had nearly open immigration for the first 150 years of our country's existence. Right now there simply isn't a way for most unskilled workers without family here to immigrate. Getting rid of a giant shadow economy is a lot more difficult than you'd think, and cracking down would...
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    Immigration: No more Amnesty we need a Wall!

    So I guess people with PhD's and far far more knowledge on the subject than you are "braindead retards"? Well, if you are so much more intelligent than me, show me the actual evidence that changes to the supply curve aren't largely compensated of by the increase in demand. You do realize that...
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    Immigration: No more Amnesty we need a Wall!

    Which iis precisely why we need to fix this problem!
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    What will be the last state to have same sex marriage? [W: 33]

    This is what I think will happen. I think that the only thing that kept the Supreme Court from going further than they did when they struck down DOMA was political support. They didn't want to be seen as legislating from the bench on such a divisive and major issue. I believe that once most...
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    Israel strikes Russian weapons shipment in Syria.....

    Well, this conflict has had a nasty tendency of spilling over borders. It hasn't done so into Israel yet, but they do have a very vested interest in this conflict.
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    New York Raising Age to Buy Cigarettes to 21.....

    You know, I really can't think of a good, utilitarian reason why I'm against this thing. Smoking kills people, and I personally don't smoke cigs. Then again, I'd also like to say that Bloomberg and NYC have absolutely no right to do this. It's patronizing. It's meddling, and it's demeaning...
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    Immigration: No more Amnesty we need a Wall!

    Perpetuating a shadow economy is really not going to help, and it will exacerbate the problem. I'm not justifying these things, but if you allow these people more access, they won't take up nearly as many law enforcement resources. Immigrants do commit violent and property crime at a much...
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