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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S. maltophilia who wrote (123403)	7/3/2010 5:53:16 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

>>Geez, guy, do you bring your waterboard to this site?<< this could reasonably indicate that i supported bush and his terrorist torture actions... perhaps that isn't how you meant it, though. it sounds like you meant it in an apolitical way based on what you are now saying - and i can see you might have been saying i'm grinding on Knighty a lot. yeah, i'm guilty - but enabling the criminals is one reason they get to brutalize so many people. >>Government owned banks- how socialistic <g> - or bank owned government - worse.<< actually, state owned banks is right up the alley of the constitution - state powers trump federal powers, which were severely limited. i'm not for labels, i'm for what WORKS. north dakota's banking system has worked very well for almost 100 years. >>I don't think 50 state systems is the way to go. Got Balkanization?<< balkanization is a good thing! it is EXACTLY what our founding fathers desired. the problem with centralized powers is that they become a single point of failure. the cronies take over one group and they CONTROL IT ALL! this is why communism has never been implemented. communism is centralized and IMMEDIATELY TURNS INTO A DICTATORSHIP for the benefit of the dictator and his buddies. one point of failure - the nation is captured. >>good luck cashing your California/Michigan check in ND. Who you gonna sell your wheat crop to?<< north dakota uses federal reserve debt notes and their debt notes are accepted everywhere. gladly. if we end debt based money, this could work. it would be dramatically better than what we have today. but i'm not locked into anything - i just want a system that values the individual and works for the citizenry, not a system like our current one that devalues people and works against them. what did you think of vrabel's lesson 6.2? do you think his paradigm is wrong or right? why?