For sure. Prisoners, being the scum of the Earth, will of course vote Liberal. There's similar EU measures being unveiled to force European nations to give the vote to criminals too.
I'd be wary of advice on here with a question like yours, after all this is a site for singles, many of which will have been divorced themselves. So there'll be a bias in the advice you'd get.
How realistic was Capitalism at then end of the feudal era?
And besides, how much of what I said could be true for China or Singapore, today? How many shoes on the feet of the Chinese were made in France? And looking at how China is doing today and how well we are not, it would appear that living off the backs of others doesn't work well in the long run.
So Capitalism wouldn't speculate and fall into recession, without government? Capitalist's wouldn't outsource to the cheapest labour they could find, without government?
Well, when you look at what our countries really need to import then it's raw materials. In my mind we should exchange our finished goods for their raw materials - so i'd opt for many bilateral trade agreements based on a near barter system. We don't need to export goods for money if our own people have the purchasing power to consume what we produce. We achieve this purchasing power by naturally obtaining full-employment and raising the cost of consumer goods to facilitate decent wages.
This would provide my country, and yours, with everything it needs to prosper - with the added bonus of smashing the power of the financeer and granting power to the producer - and in my opinion, society should put the productive entreprenuer before the banker parasite.
It could be done Atwoz. We could forbid non-essential outsourcing in law under penalty of exile and ban all non-essential imports that could be domestically produced. It is insane to employ China to tailor our shoes when we have millions of our own people doing nothing - and the internationalist, freetrading traitor could hang himself for all I care.
You could spend money on labour-intensive public works, slum clearing and logistical improvements within the country - all of which would support production at home. However, the horrendous bureaucracy that is the state would require an executive leader to enact such measures productively, a leader to oversee the vested interests of local authorities.
The West is not gone. It's just that its people have become soft and that our attitude towards life, to a large degree, cultivates failure. This situation can surely not continue given the reality of things as are and under the prospect of things to come. Just because the middle-aged of today have achieved the greatest failure and decline in over a 1000 years of Western history, does not mean the next generation will be such a miserable disgrace.
Take the figure of the people that have died as a result of nuclear power. Compare this figure to the amount that would die if food prices were to increase dramatically, which is what would happen if we were to abandon nuclear power.
Abandoning nuclear power is a non-argument. We'll quietly return to the idea of it being the best solution to our energy problems.
Perhaps, in a way, women do not punish themselves so much during the break-up. But i'd say they're far more likely to punish all men, everywhere, for a past break-up. Men let these things go much easier, whereas a Woman never forgets.
If I was having a punt, I'd say the Syrian regime may stay.
Everytime i've been to Syria there just hasn't been the same atmosphere of unhappiness and resentment towards the regime that there was in Egypt and other parts of the ME. Needless to say, I wouldn't be surprised if the protestor's don't really capture the hearts and minds of the Syrian people.
Enrichment. I would suggest you move to a working class, city area. I think your view on the enrichment that comes from cultural exchange would change quite dramatically.
I'd agree that the Market, being as imperfect as everything is, doesn't always fairly ascertain the true value of people's work, footballer's being a good example.
As for hierarchy, how else are you to reflect the natural inequality of the Human species? In a society based upon equal opportunites, there would, and could, never be equality of achievement. There would always be a hierarchy that grants power to the achiever.
Neither of us are appeased, it certainly doesn't sound that way. Yet, in my opinion modern Western society lacks self-discipline, not rebelliousness.
Hatred of the West, from the West, is just politicised ingratitude.
Today, what we have is a reverse of Patriotism. Where instead of supporting your country and culture through loyalty, gratitude and respect the norm is now to oppose it, and to support any culture that works against your own no matter what the opposing culture represents.
Flim flam. If what you say is true then why not keep Gaddafi in power? He was in our pockets anyway, or do you wish to ignore that fact as it defeats your agenda?
You're moving into the territory of how time is perceived, which truly does shift under different circumstance. However, time also measures the sequence to events and in this sense time is constant.
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RE: voting rights
For sure. Prisoners, being the scum of the Earth, will of course vote Liberal. There's similar EU measures being unveiled to force European nations to give the vote to criminals too.