Death Location : is no semi-colon Joined : 14 Dec '08 Moves : 19486 |  05 Nov '09 13:55 :: 2 edits :: 2 recommendations I mean, while they're busy fighting expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and also have to worry about the massive financial bailouts and sinking US dollar, they probably don't have the resources to fight another Civil War at the same time. Carpe Diem, i say! |
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Civis Americanus Sum Location : New York Joined : 26 Dec '07 Moves : 8301 | 05 Nov '09 14:09 Originally posted by Blackamp
I mean, while they're busy fighting expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and also have to worry about the massive financial bailouts and sinking US dollar, they probably don't have the resources to fight another Civil War at the same time. Carpe Diem, i say! Nothing stimulates an economy like war. |
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Location : Netherlands Joined : 27 Oct '08 Moves : 1599 | 05 Nov '09 14:20 Originally posted by sh76
Nothing stimulates an economy like war. Broken window fallacy. |
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Zellulärer Automat Location : Spiel des Lebens Joined : 27 Jan '05 Moves : 34525 | 05 Nov '09 14:24 Originally posted by sh76
Nothing stimulates an economy like war. Unsustainably. |
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Civis Americanus Sum Location : New York Joined : 26 Dec '07 Moves : 8301 | 05 Nov '09 14:29 Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Unsustainably. I still say it would be fun.
But who would get Virginia this time? |
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Death Location : is no semi-colon Joined : 14 Dec '08 Moves : 19486 | 05 Nov '09 14:33 :: 1 edit Originally posted by sh76
I still say it would be fun.
But who would get Virginia this time? it would be divided in three, with one third being given to each of 1. native Americans, as compensation for taking their land; 2. African Americans, as compensation for slavery and Pat Boone; 3. Mexican 'illegal' immigrants, as compensation for all that below minimum wage labour. |
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Ming The Merciless Location : Royal Oak, MI Joined : 09 Sep '01 Moves : 21474 | 05 Nov '09 14:34 Originally posted by Blackamp
I mean, while they're busy fighting expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and also have to worry about the massive financial bailouts and sinking US dollar, they probably don't have the resources to fight another Civil War at the same time. Carpe Diem, i say! Good riddance to them, I say. The greatest mistake we made after the Civil War was to force them back into the Union. We should have let them go ahead and form their own impoverished third world theocracy. Without them blocking progress at every step of the way, the north could have developed into a progressive utopia. But noooooooooo... |
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Civis Americanus Sum Location : New York Joined : 26 Dec '07 Moves : 8301 | 05 Nov '09 14:36 Originally posted by rwingett
Good riddance to them, I say. The greatest mistake we made after the Civil War was to force them back into the Union. We should have let them go ahead and form their own impoverished third world theocracy. Without them blocking progress at every step of the way, the north could have developed into a progressive utopia. But noooooooooo... You mean like Canada has?  |
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Ming The Merciless Location : Royal Oak, MI Joined : 09 Sep '01 Moves : 21474 | 05 Nov '09 14:37 Originally posted by sh76
You mean like Canada has? Exactly! |
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Civis Americanus Sum Location : New York Joined : 26 Dec '07 Moves : 8301 | 05 Nov '09 14:39 :: 1 edit Originally posted by rwingett
Exactly! Canada is also run on a capitalism economic model. Other than the single payer healthcare system, their economic and social model is really not all that much different from ours. |
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Ming The Merciless Location : Royal Oak, MI Joined : 09 Sep '01 Moves : 21474 | 05 Nov '09 14:44 Originally posted by sh76
Canada is also run on a capitalism economic model. Other than the single payer healthcare system, their economic and social model is really not all that much different from ours. They have single payer healthcare AND proportional representation. A Canadian/European version of democratic socialism is probably the best that can be hoped for. |
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Joined : 04 Mar '04 Moves : 1125 | 06 Nov '09 06:53 I actually would be very happy to see, say, Texas, Oklahoma and much of the South expelled from the U.S. The rest of the country would be far better off for it. |
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Enigma Location : Seattle Joined : 03 Sep '06 Moves : 2637 | 07 Nov '09 03:24 Originally posted by Blackamp
I mean, while they're busy fighting expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and also have to worry about the massive financial bailouts and sinking US dollar, they probably don't have the resources to fight another Civil War at the same time. Carpe Diem, i say! Wouldn't it be nice if people would leave that war in the past?? Maybe too much to ask.  |
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Enigma Location : Seattle Joined : 03 Sep '06 Moves : 2637 | 07 Nov '09 03:26 Originally posted by sh76
Nothing stimulates an economy like war. Right you are. The wars in Iraq and Afganistan have really been a big boost to the American economy. Everything is just rosey now...right??  |
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Death Location : is no semi-colon Joined : 14 Dec '08 Moves : 19486 | 07 Nov '09 08:29 Originally posted by bill718
Wouldn't it be nice if people would leave that war in the past?? Maybe too much to ask. damn Yankee northerner carpet-bagger.  |
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