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State-Church Separation

Brovo said
How about the Taiping rebellion? Twenty million deaths.My point isn't to defend the communist manifesto, it's to tell you why religion and government don't mix. The middle east is a perfect example of that right now. Sharia law is a perfect example of it. So on and so forth.There is an inexhaustible amount of evidence showing why mixing the two is just a bad idea flat out.Besides, in American schools, I don't think teachers could hand out Communist Manifestos and not get chewed up for it. Not even if they did it to teach what's wrong with the theory and how it doesn't account for human nature.

Sorry, Mao's still got the Taiping rebellion beat by a factor of 4 (I went with the highest estimate, 78,000,000 to fit all other killings he might have done under the folds). And then if we're including wars, Korea, Vietnam, Greek Civil War. Communism, in its short 170-ish years, has been able to kill more people than any other ideology. Mao plus Stalin plus Pol Pot is 90,000,000 is. For context. WW2 killed around 72 million. So if you're asking me which I would rather have the government totally insulated from, Communism, in a heart beat. I would rather live in Iran than North Korea.

Cool thing I learned about Reagan

Don't take my word for it. From 1960,

Winning moderates: Nixon, GW. 3 terms total.
Losing moderates: Nixon, HW, Romney, Goldwater, McCain, Dole, Ford,

Winning Conservatives: Reagan, HW the fist time. 3 terms
Losing conservatives: Fat zero.

Cool thing I learned about Reagan

I wish they were stronger. They represent the money side of the McCain-Graham style establishment republicans. You all should love the Koch Brothers, they are the reason we keep putting up moderates in the presidential elections for you to clobber.

Net Neutrality is Dead..

Brovo said
Not government. The government had nothing to do with the inevitable failure of the free market in this case to stop a snowball effect with corporations. Though it certainly isn't helping the point by killing net neutrality. Then again, I'm pretty sure everyone knows by now that the States' government is heavily corrupted/influenced by corporations... Hm...

Government gave the de jure monopolies. Which is a giant problem. But otherwise, you are right, Government is corrupt. I get so tired of hearing people say the government is corrupt and then hearing from the same people that it needs to be bigger. The bigger government is, the more reason Corporations and the Rich have to pump money in it. And who is government going to listen to? The people with money. The three richest people in America want government bigger for a reason.

State-Church Separation

Lol, History? Add all the crusades up, multiply the body count by 9. That is the body count of ONE communist leader. Namely, Mao. Communism is just as fanciful as any religion. Replace God with Proletariat, Heretics and Heathens with Counter-Revolutionaries.

State-Church Separation

Better question, why should there be any particular insulation from religion? Hypothetically here in the US, a school could distribute Communist Manifestos but not have a moment of silence for prayer. What exactly is the practical difference?

Cool thing I learned about Reagan

Uh, the Koch Brothers are actually very lukewarm republicans. Relating to the subject matter, they are for gay marriage.

State-Church Separation

We could always make this a discussion of sonething controversial. For example, the Arabs had stolen Judea from the Christians. In effect, they started the religious wars and the Christians were retaliating. Why do we not equally vilify the conquests of the Rashidun or the subsequent caliphates?

Minimum Wage

Numbers source forthcoming. They are from Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, the former a professor at George Mason, the latter an economist. When I first cited Prof Williams I was unaware of his libettarian bent so I will find a more neutral source to back it up.

In the meanwhild, Gwazi proved the point I was making about the racists and the minimum wage. The racists, particularly outside the south, could not get business to ban black labor. So instead they stole the only means the black people had to compete with a unionized and much larger white workforce by creating a minimum wage to prevent the blacks from undercutting them. It was only a trivial step to negotiate closed shop with management. Since blacks were banned from many unions, the unions had succeded in keeping blacks down.

The overtly racist union is a thing of the past, but their policies are still around, still oppressing the black man. Denis Kearney is a perfect example of the racist union leader. Google him and have your minds blown.

So the party which was instrumental in defending slavery, which had a KKK member very high in its ranks up until the early 2000s, which tried to filibuster Civil Rights is still doing its darndest to keep blacks down. Minimum wage prevents young blacks who cannot get good educations, particularly as the war on Charter Schools continued, from getting work experience and thus ever moving up. It does not end the cycle of poverty, it perpetuates it.

Nobody finds it the least bit connected that the minimum wage corresponds with an enormous migration of blacks from the south?

Minimum Wage

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm

Not only is black teenage unemployment higher, labor participation is lower.