One Trillion Dollars

Xz · Mar 22, 2009

This I know. First hand...

Yuki · Mar 26, 2009

Anybody see the latest South Park episode? $90,000,000,000,000.

magikot · Mar 28, 2009

Ramidel said:

People complaining about "government power" miss the point that the government already has absolute power over you, should it choose to exercise it.

If it didn't, it wouldn't be a government.
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To that I respond with this (emphasis mine):

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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DarkFool · Mar 31, 2009

magikot said:

Ramidel said:

If it didn't, it wouldn't be a government.
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To that I respond with this (emphasis mine):

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Magicarp used pwn!
Ramidel is unconcious!

papa_dog_1999 · Mar 31, 2009

Wow. We heard that *Crack* way over here in the Seattle area.
Nice towel snap, Magicarp.
*blink*
Dammit DF. Now you got me doing it.

Grossenschwamm · Mar 31, 2009

Quite poignant, I must say. There's nothing quite like the foundations of our own nation to slap modern government in the face.

DarkFool · Apr 2, 2009

papa_dog_1999 said:

Wow. We heard that *Crack* way over here in the Seattle area.
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You live like an hour from me. If that. Hearing it isn't all that implausible.

papa_dog_1999 said:

Dammit DF. Now you got me doing it.
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*cackles evilly*

Post count +1!

Dark Elf · Apr 6, 2009

Just goes to show how important documents such as the American constitution really are.

Wish I had a trillion of American constitutions in hardened sheet metal. Then I could shove them up the ass of Andreas Malm* and other leftist dumfucks like him.

*Communist who really believes that any criticism against islam is islamophobia and therefore a mental disease. His book is gaining popularity, woe betide us all...

Ramidel · Apr 7, 2009

Of course the people may have a right to overthrow the government; I certainly don't consider the American government to have much inherent legitimacy beyond the fact that a revolution would probably be arranged by the right-wing lunatics instead of the left-wing lunatics.

Now, do they have the power, the will, and the organization to do it? No? Then the government has absolute power should it exercise it.

xElatOth · Apr 7, 2009

Ramidel said:

Of course the people may have a right to overthrow the government; I certainly don't consider the American government to have much inherent legitimacy beyond the fact that a revolution would probably be arranged by the right-wing lunatics instead of the left-wing lunatics.

Now, do they have the power, the will, and the organization to do it? No? Then the government has absolute power should it exercise it.
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See, the genius of the U.S. system (from the govt's perspective) is the institutionalized complacency ingrained in said system.

There is no head to cut off!
The powers are spread across 3 branches and then further disseminated throughout state and local authorities.

Also, by consistently giving percieved handouts, and attempting to and succeeding to, nationalize important things like health care and banking, the new administration is fireproofing their power and ensuring no-one will ever be voted in who hopes to bring America back to the Federalist state it was intened to be in.

Pure genius!
add in the 1-sided media coverage and millions of uneducated and illegal voters and you have a country in trouble :cry:

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