I broadly agree with 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5 - most of the social and foreign policies. I'm ambivalent or need clarification on 1.5, 1.6, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 4.0 I broadly disagree with all the points from 2.0 to 3.0 - the economic policies.
Without all the other radical remodeling of the capitalist system in the other parts, this is a deadly delusion as the whole liars loan, and bailout fiasco has shown. Privatize social security with the mess we have now, you're handing people over to unrestrained criminal fucks. May as well drop baby chicks into a meat grinder, and naively hope they pop out the other side whole.
Whereas leaving Social Security in the hands of Congress is not handing people over to unrestrained criminal fucks?
Before you guys disband Social Security, I want back every dime I've put in since my first summer job in 1967. You can keep the interest (and spare me the speech about the Ponzi scheme for once, mmkay? I get it. Not disagreeing, just bored with the speech). Just give me back the principal and let me invest it. Then you can rob each other blind with my blessing.
I'm reminded of a Jack Handey line from an old SNL. "If you ever drop your car keys in molten lava, just let 'em go, cuz man, they're gone".
Why not just say, "only Diacanu has good ideas" and be done with it? It would save a lot of time and eliminate a lot of ambiguity.
I have yet to find someone that wants to privatize SS that does not advocate grandfathering in everyone who has already contributed on an "explicit opt out" basis. In other words, no new enrollments in SS, but old enrollments are still valid. Anyone already enrolled who wants out has to say so.
The reality would be a gradual tapering-off of benefits and payments, I imagine. Everyone would be taking a bite of a big shit sandwich, but you can't just keep fucking over each successive generation a little bit more than the last because you're not willing to face the reality of a failed program. So the less government meddling, the fewer costly, failed attempts at social engineering it makes.
Then you get wild west robber barony. You're still tilting at windmills, nothing means nothing. Entropy gnaws at your bones no matter what.
So why not retain more control over you and yours while you circle the drain? What's the advantage to collectivising the suicide pact and making it official?
(Deadpan) No matter what you do, you're gonna die. You, you, you, you're gonna die. You're gonna die, you're gonna die, you're gonna die. You, the chick over there, maggots are gonna come out of your tits. You're all gonna die. Doesn't matter what you do.
So this massive oil spill, that's because the market wasn't free enough? Or because BP wasn't having its property rights respected enough? Come on.
Control is not an all-or-nothing proposition, and never will be no matter what social structure you impose. Even controling your own rate of decay is preferable to leaving it in someone else's hands.
No, it's because that is one of many industries being shielded from the consequences of its actions. BP should not survive this incident intact, but it will, and not because of anything resembling the pressures of a free market.
Any liberals (or anyone else, of course) who are angry at BP for their handling of this oil spill are perfectly free to boycott them and never buy their gas again. That's pretty free market.
The liability cap is irrelevant. BP's already stated that they'll handle all legitimate damage claims.
Yeah, and I'm sure they don't have an army of high-paid lawyers making plans to ass-rape the definition of "legitimate" as we speak.
They could have 2 armies of lawyers and still be outnumbered when it comes to these liability claims.
If their "public statement" of paying for all legitimate claims isn't explicit and binding, the liability cap is still in play no matter what PR damage control spin they attempt. I won't believe a word of it until they voluntarily exceed the cap by a noteworthy degree.
If we are going to incur trillions in debt in order to supposedly stimulate the economy and fix various economic ills anyway, i think refunding every dime every living soul has paid in to date would be an OUTSTANDING alternative to what has actually been done instead.
I've been wondering why the fishing and tourist industries haven't already filed suit. I found out today that they have. The article I was reading said that BP, Transocean, Haliburton, et. al. have all been named in 23,000 individual lawsuits.
Massive oil spill = Shit happens No one should be under the illusion that any political philosophy will keep shit from happening.
