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Dec 14, 2005 00:38

YOU CAN ASK ME SIX
QUESTIONS:

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No matter how random, revealing, rude or
pointless, I promise to answer them 100% truthfully.

I do reserve the right to answer at all though

And y'know..repost in your lj and the whole shebang

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ex_darklord December 15 2005, 21:53:54 UTC

1. What would you buy/do if you were insanely rich?

2. Any plans on your future home? Like where you want to live?

3. Favorite movie(s) of all time?

4. Do you fit in social situations easily?

5. Did you like my gift and card? (Once they ever arrive)

6. When are you, me, and Karb going to become roommates in some house somewhere? (ha)

lemurstew December 17 2005, 02:30:39 UTC

1. I would spend the rest of my life in school with travel in betwee. And I would study fairly useless things like literature and philosophy, and travel to cool places like Timbuktu.

2. I'd kinda like to live on the West Coast, or at least keep that as a home base and travelwork in other places. Here in BC will always be home though.

3. Boondock Saints, Sin City, A Beautiful Mind, Nausicaa and Fiddler on the Roof. Ask me later and you'll get a different list ^_^

4. Yes, No, Both. At the same time.

5. Aren't here yet. Yey customs >.<

6. When are you two moving to Canada?

ex_darklord December 17 2005, 04:39:26 UTC

BC is on the west coast. And I'm never living in a foreign country, my brothers are doing it already, that's enuf.

lemurstew December 17 2005, 04:44:43 UTC

exactly. And it will always be my stoppig home point, no matter where else I go

and..Canadas not -that- foriegn..we speak almost the same brand of english

ex_darklord December 17 2005, 06:06:09 UTC

then why won't you live in USA?

lemurstew December 17 2005, 06:08:06 UTC

because I'm a bit more socialist than capitalist

ex_darklord December 17 2005, 06:09:04 UTC

just slogs down the economy

krazedkoi December 17 2005, 18:54:24 UTC

Oi! the US isn't Capitalist...
They used to be, when minds like Jefferson and Franklin influenced the country. Now the US is such a government controlled mess that it can't be called anything resembling real capitalism. In capitalism, government intervention of the economy of any kind is frowned upon. Communism is the revsere, where the governing body has complete control of the economy.
Besides, here in Canada we have rocks and trees!

lemurstew December 17 2005, 21:24:51 UTC

ahh, but the government isn't controlling business in the US! The business is controlling government huzzah! So it's a boggy beauracratic (I can't spell it! *sobs*) mess. Much like Canada but with less free health care and more money!

And we also have trees and rocks! And water!

ex_darklord December 17 2005, 23:48:26 UTC

A government controlled mess? Yet still the largest economy on the planet? We may not be pure capitalists but we're probably the closest of anyone. Yeah I miss the Jefferson days. Our government has grown too large. And down here we have lots of trees and rocks too and trees with rocks under them.

lemurstew December 18 2005, 09:19:59 UTC

but we have trees and rocks and water! With the water we make electricity, to sell to California huzzah!

capitalism theleftovers January 23 2006, 04:49:23 UTC

When Jefferson and Franklin were big, the ideology of Capitalism was barely formed. If the American Revolution had taken place 40 years later it would be called a socialist uprising by the colonists to redistribute the Northwest Territories to themselves.

The idea of unrestricted free markets makes perfect sense up until about the time we developed commercially viable steam engines. Now our best political/economic professors are about 300 years behind technology.

If Adam Smith were to edit a new edition of Wealth of Nations, he would ad a chapter about the Invisible Hand's largest component being severely limited consumer transportation options and extremely limited commercial shipping options.

Re: capitalism krazedkoi January 23 2006, 21:31:03 UTC

I very much doubt the man who said that "when the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is freedom" would have accepted a socialist state ( ... )

Re: capitalism theleftovers January 23 2006, 21:47:18 UTC

The stock market crash of 1929 happened simply because the roaring 20s happened. The speculation would have happened regardless of how much banking regulation there was. If anything, banking regulation prevented it from getting much bigger before bursting ( ... )

Re: capitalism krazedkoi January 23 2006, 22:01:39 UTC

Society has essentially passed the point where Anarchism, in any form, can work. The Fiat money system isn't more stable that the gold standard, but it does work better for a global economy. With the size of populations and the prevailing power of said Big Box Stores a directly empowered form of control (government) is required. I however, am not a large population, and can apply anarch principles to myself ( ... )

Re: capitalism theleftovers January 23 2006, 22:09:02 UTC

You might find some of Ravi Batra's works interesting. The Myth of Free Trade and Great American Deception were interesting.

After the Blue by Russel Like explores the deeper meanings of any particular political philosophy while lampooning what modern proponents of it have left us with.

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