Does National Socialism have any truth or relevance to it?

[Rabid Headbanger]

Absolutely. However, you have to look at the nuke plants now, for example. Is it going to cost more to completely upgrade the plant or build a new one since technology has improved?

Then scrap the fucker and build another one!

I don't see the downside. Sure it's going to cost money NOW. But in the future we'll thank ourselves for investing in progress.

It's a better use of money then lauching fuel devouring rockets into orbit. It's a better use of money then that useless fucking space station.

Perhaps before we begin to think about mars we can look at our own planet first.

 

[The Ozzman]

Then scrap the fucker and build another one!

I don't see the downside. Sure it's going to cost money NOW. But in the future we'll thank ourselves for investing in progress.

It's a better use of money then lauching fuel devouring rockets into orbit. It's a better use of money then that useless fucking space station.

Perhaps before we begin to think about mars we can look at our own planet first.

I'm not disagreeing. I was commenting on your point about overhauling the current ones.

 

[skeptik]

I wonder if any of Mort Divine's sources were written by ghosts.

 

[cookiecutter]

Too bad France didn't have a high school speech to deter them from making their air clean and their power inexpensive. They're all doomed

 

[waif]

But regardless, we are gonna have to find a new way to run our cars.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Magic.

 

[waif]

Rage.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

It's been well documented that rage and automobiles are a poor combination.

 

[waif]

No, we need to channel that road rage. All that raw anger being wasted, when we could use it to fuel our cars!

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

My car is too sensible to run on rage. Hope, maybe. But not rage.

 

[Mort Divine]

Mana.

 

[waif]

Shit.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

 

[cookiecutter]

Stop

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

Ok.

 

[byrne]

They can't raise taxes much more without it hurting the middle-class badly, especially if we continue fighting unconstitutional, money-sucking wars (Iraq and Afghanistan will cost up to 7 trillion by the end of the year, according to economist Joseph Stiglitz) and continue maintaining a huge foreign presence. You can't solve the deficit problem without dealing with inflation and foreign policy. The average American family is losing $1,000 more a year because of inflation and unfair taxation. The US Dollar Index reported today that the dollar is at it's lowest point since 1973. It's fallen 13 percent against the Euro because of subprime-mortgage losses, the worst housing market in 25 years, and now credit costs are soaring because the Fed has cut rates five times since September. If the dollar fails, the middle-class will be all but wiped out.

As far as taxes, maybe a flat-tax with no exemptions is in order?

But maybe instead of calling me crazy, you can do the research yourselves, no? Maybe looking into the Federal Reserve and the NAFTA agreement would clarify some shit too

You can't fix the economy unless you look at the whole picture.

the american dollar is weakening because the recessive state of the economy. the most telling factor with respect to this is the overnight cash rate set by your federal reserve, relative to other economies, not the sub-prime disaster.

e.g. the AUD is strengthening, with our central bank increasing said cash rate around 7 times in the last 18 mths by 25bps each whack.

also, the best way to reduce government debt (and i assume you are talking about national debt rather than foreign debt) is to reduce spending ... rather than increase taxes. the australian govt did this 12 years ago and it worked like a charm. once national debt is repaid, then tax cuts / spending cant being dealt with.

 

[skeptik]

That is obviously the best way, but unfortunately our deficit is so massive (i.e. like nine trillion dollars) that simply reducing spending is just one small pieces to a greater puzzle we must build if we seriously intend to eliminate the national deft. I honestly don't know if it can be done within a decade.

 

[The Ozzman]

It can't.

 

[waif]

Can't.

 

[Nixuz]

But regardless, we are gonna have to find a new way to run our cars.

From what I understand, cars can be made to run on this stuff called "electricity". Apparently nobody wants these cars because they are neither loud nor fast.
These Nuclear power plants are supposed to have tons of this "electricity" stuff just sloshing around.
What I think is, we should get one of those "electric" cars, and maybe head over to the nuclear power plant and scoop up some of that "electricity" into some sort of container. Later on we can figure out a series of tubes to funnel some of the "electricity" to our garage so we can fill our car from there...maybe, there are an awful lot of kinks to this idea...