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On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:41:26 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 1/19/14, 1:46 PM, Poco Loco wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:43:01 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 1/19/14, 12:37 PM, wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:45:03 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 1/19/14, 11:12 AM, wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:12:02 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: The concept of citizens in this country taking on armed governmental forces is absurd. All the armed citizenry in this county, and there are lots of citizens with guns in this county, couldn't take on the county sheriff. That is absurd if you are talking about more than a few people hiding out in a cabin. Our military has not been very successful in stopping asymmetrical warriors whether it is Vietnam, The Middle East, Africa or South Asia. They kill a lot of people and win most of the battles but they lose the war. (much like the Brits in the latter 18th century American war).. Hey, there's always hope a large number of righties will start an insurrection in the United States and get wiped out...it'll definitely improve the gene pool.  I do not actually believe that we would ever allow a government to get that oppressive before we enacted a political solution but it would be the left who ended up organizing the revolution if it did. I do believe it would come out of a massive financial collapse and the well intentioned desire to find a strong leader with an agenda that sounded good in the beginning and then descended into a dictatorship. Bear in mind every dictator of the last 100 years started with a socialist agenda. Most have the word "socialist" in the title of their government. The only way socialism can exist as a governmental policy is if you have an overbearing government. (be it the Cubans, Venezuela, the Soviets or the Nazis) My Northern European buddies in socialist countries report no problems with overbearing government. Your buddies don't even complain of the overbearing taxes? Wow, mine has started doing that big time. He's also not very happy with providing housing to all the Moroccan and Turkish folks that have been flooding Holland since the borders went away. Funny, fifteen-twenty years ago he was very happy with his 'socialist' country. Times have changed. Good to know your buddies don't mind oppressive taxes. My Norwegian friend who was seriously injured in an offshore drilling platform accident was financially supported and retrained as a teacher and is quite happy with how things turned out. He didn't lose his house or his healthcare or his pension, and his kids went to college. In the USA, he'd be out on the street. Norway would be a great place for you to live. You could get herring prepared in a tremendous variety of ways - including raw. Been there, done that. On a motorcycle trip to Stockholm, we took a ferry from Kiel, Germany to Gotenberg, Sweden. For an extra 25 Deutsche Marks, we got the buffet on the ferry. One whole counter, about 15 feet long was devoted solely to herring in its many forms = fried, pickled in various sauces, raw with various sauces, and so on. What a pig out! One of our group didn't want to spend the money. The next day, about halfway across Swededn, he got hungry. We stopped at a little highway diner where he paid about the same amount of money for a hamburger, fries, and soft drink. Sweden may be a socialist heaven, but it cost me almost $50 to fill my motorcycle tank and about $5 for a wrapped (the cheap kind) loaf of bread at a supermarket. But they put on a pretty good motorcycle rally. |
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