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Freedom from inequality comes from freedom to buy and sell goods and labor without* restrictions or borders, inequality is near all time highs because of crony capitalism and corrupt governments.
Edited for clarity
http://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_a... lists median net worth over a million\
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/millionaires-club-fo... also puts median net worth over 1 million
http://time.com/373/congress-is-now-mostly-a-millionaires-cl... also lists median net worth over a million
http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/12/news/economy/congress-wealth... also puts median net worth above 1 million
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/01/13/Congress-worth-43B... also puts median net worth over a million
Also you don't get a million in debt by being poor.
We've somehow been suckered into supporting a massive class of very expensive bureaucrats whose main interest are themselves, power, and the rich. Who believes laws and regulations create wealth and prosperity, they are burdens and restrictions on the productive.
Congress has enough time to fundraise, they have plenty of time to legislate and they do legislate extensively and almost exclusively in the interest of those who give them money.
It has nothing to do with partisan gridlock, that's a complete sideshow circus, notice how large companies routinely get their special interest laws passed no matter what side of the aisle is in charge.
Congress is bought and paid, believing otherwise is to ignore the obvious.
I wouldn't mind an apt-get 1984.txt
But if the words good and evil are to mean anything then the torture and murder of innocents must qualify as evil. Spare me your grad school real-politics analysis, none of which justifies torture because it categorically cannot be justified.
Of course they should go to jail, justice is blind, the law applies to all, look up the magna carta. When some are more equal than others injustice and corruption occurs, we see it vividly throughout the US corporate-fascist complex.
One law for some, another for everyone else.
I've seen much worse astro turfing throwing off large discussions by unused accounts hundreds of days old, and no response from mods. Mod policy is arbitrary and cultish.
If people want to talk about safety, driving a car is one of the more dangerous activities, certainly more dangerous than walking.
I think the quote speaks for itself.
Of course they commit hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud so it doesn't much matter.
Reminds me of Eclipse Phase nano swarms. The video suggests these are less than a meter in length and not yet weaponized (although the nice CG at the end suggests they will be firing off missiles to blow up random buildings in a desert like environment).
Whatever your opinion is it doesn't really matter, the US government will continue in this direction because it is expedient.