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To: TimF who wrote (51525)8/24/2013 11:53:03 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
Not social science. Social science deals with subjects like democracy, unions, child sweatshops, slavery, segregation, bigotry, despotism and every other aspect of how societies function.

<<No science deals with facts not values (it can study the history, sociology, psychology and even neurochemistry of those values, but then its dealing with facts and theories about values, not actual with the values as a value).

Science is about "is", not "ought".



To: TimF who wrote (51525)8/24/2013 11:55:50 AM
From: FJB  Respond to of 85487
 
KILLER, LEAKERS, AND RACISTS: WHO'S SCREENING GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES?


breitbart.com

In a shockingly short period of time, the American people have learned about four massive failures in our government's ability to treat a red flag like a red flag and screen out troubled individuals before they are given extraordinary access to the most sensitive areas of American national security: Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, and the military.Let's just start with admitted mass murderer, Nidal Hassan, who made it to the rank of Major in the United States Army while throwing up more red flags than a referee at an Oakland Raiders game. Hasan wasn't just a Major; he was an Army psychiatrist charged with helping others heal their mental wounds at Walter Reed.

This, despite reports that Hasan was "very vocal about being a Muslim first and holding Shari'a law above the Constitution," and spoke openly about how the war on terror was a war against Islam:


This officer says he was so surprised when Hasan gave a talk about "the war on terror being a war on Islam" that he asked the lieutenant colonel running the course what Hasan's presentation had to do with health care. "I raised my hand and asked, 'Why are you letting this go on — this has nothing to do with environmental health.' The course director said, 'I'm just going to let him go.' " The topic of Hasan's presentation, the officer says, had been approved in advance by the lieutenant colonel.
Hasan was also able to get away with exchanging 18 emails with Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-ranking al Qaeda cleric. Those emails included Hasan's plan to commit mass murder, on which he would follow through in November of 2009.

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To: TimF who wrote (51525)8/24/2013 11:56:10 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 85487
 
It would be covered in social science classes and thinking government is the biggest monopoly is not correct.

You constantly forget government is a product of democracy where we decide what it will do. Therefore it cannot be considered a monopoly. We are a democracy and WE decide what kind of government we want.
WE are in control!

That is not the case with corporations!

<<Governments have to break up and monitor monopolies.

That isn't a scientific issue. Neither are any of the other issues you mention. Science (in this case largely economics which is pretty soft as a science), can give us useful facts to inform the decision. For examples it can point out the harmful effects of high minimum wages, and other forms of price controls. But it can't say "don't do it" without making a value judgement that takes it outside of science.

Also most monopolies, and the most destructive monopolies are created by government or protected by government. Actually government itself is the biggest monopoly.