Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (54454)	10/5/2013 12:36:24 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 85487

All of that socialism above was achieved by democracy. You're right but the USA is a constitutional republic. "The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule . . . a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights . . . . The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights." aynrandlexicon.com

To: koan who wrote (54454)	10/5/2013 12:45:10 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 85487

Sarah Kliff at Wa Post looking for ONE Obamanable Care signer: Sarah Kliff @sarahkliff [iframe title="Twitter Follow Button" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button" id="twitter-widget-10" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.1380844203.html#_=1380990269318&id=twitter-widget-10&lang=en&partner=undefined&screen_name=sarahkliff&show_count=false&show_screen_name=false&size=m" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="width: 59px; height: 20px;" allowtransparency="true" data-twttr-rendered="true"][/iframe] Has anyone out there bought health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace? I would like to talk to you! Email Sarah.Kliff@washpost.com ... As Twitchy reported, reporters have been desperately searching for the mythical creatures known as Obamacare purchasers. One journo at HuffPo was flummoxed by the very idea that some of the exchange websites might be, you know, lying about numbers. He was also befuddled by the fact that many Americans are receiving cancellation notices. Keep your plan? Ha! Totally kidding guys. Other journos, however, have been searching for confirmation of the White House claims that people have bought through the exchanges. You know, the exchange websitesthat are error-riddled and full of constant glitches. .... twitchy.com

To: koan who wrote (54454)	10/5/2013 1:31:17 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

I want the same thing they have in the rest of the western democracies... Here is what a free education gets you in Canada. see video bottom of page usask.ca This is Professor Pamela Palmater an Indian lawyer and professor and product of that free education. dal.ca Due to her aristocratic Indian status she was not required to take a full course load.

To: koan who wrote (54454)	10/5/2013 10:55:58 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

David Stockman Explains The Keynesian State-Wreck Ahead - Sundown In America Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/05/2013 - 18:38 David Stockman, author of The Great Deformation, summarizes the last quarter century thus: What has been growing is the wealth of the rich, the remit of the state, the girth of Wall Street, the debt burden of the people, the prosperity of the beltway and the sway of the three great branches of government - that is, the warfare state, the welfare state and the central bank... What is flailing is the vast expanse of the Main Street economy where the great majority have experienced stagnant living standards, rising job insecurity, failure to accumulate material savings, rapidly approach old age and the certainty of a Hobbesian future where, inexorably, taxes will rise and social benefits will be cut... He calls this condition "Sundown in America".