Not sure what the last comment means, but if you think this kind of horseshit doesn’t happen in the military on the regular, I’ve got some very expensive muffins to sell you.
This sounds is exactly what somebody in power would want, and gets payed to push for. So this is the prevailing attitude and thoughts of the right wing elite.
This is the response of the average “mainstream”, american. Screams louldly and does not pay attention to what is really going on. they just go with it because it gives them something to believe in.
You are right, some things need to stop. Like giving aid to Pakistan, Saudi, Isreal. Private contracts for private security firms need to end now because not only is it a waste of money, but these firms shit on the people of other nations really bad and only serve to fuel the hatred for America. Random CIA operations also need to stop being funded, its not right that America gets to fund its own terrorist organization while anybody else who tries is labeled a terrorist and a threat to false freedom. And other unnecassery bullshit, its absurd that our own soldiers have to buy thier own protective gear when in combat.
However, the research department should not be shut down. Yes we need a multi-billion dollar jet. Why? Because those advances translate to civilian use, and benefit us a lot.
RESEARCH IS NEVER A WASTE, ITS THE MOST PROFITABLE THING ANYBODY CAN DO
No argument from me. As an intellectual enterprise, exploration and the development of new technologies help us to achieve our highest aims, which is ennobling ourselves and understanding our place in the order of things.
It sticks in my craw that many of those new technologies are often turned against others who don’t have access to those technologies, but shutting off our curiosities and stifling the advance of civilization is not the solution.
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i didn’t mean to imply that you would think as such. It was more of a general statement. People seem to think that reasearch is a waste of money.
My friend took astronomy last semester and college, and that class is lettered with idiots, and he told me that in one of the questions asked by the instructor was if NASA was worth it, and is it worth the money?
To my suprise, the majority of retards said it was a waste, didn’t accomplish anything, and needed to be shut down.
It turns out, this is a very common opinion among people today…
Speaking of reasearch?
well its not really reasearch in the traditional sense,
Doctors and how they do things. I’ve noticed, and have read that doctors pump people full of medication. And this is true to a degree. Now there are a lot of conspiracy theories as to why. One is that doctors are bought by big pharma companies. But is it really so, I think it has to do with the number of ambulance chasers that are around. Any small mistake is met with sever punishment. Extravagant fees, prison, and revoking of licenses. Sure there needs to be consequences to ensure gross negligence isn’t a common occurrence. But its out of control. I was discussing with a few people about why doctors would take the pill approach, and we concluded that they do it as a sort of saftey net. They pump you full of medication and they always retain the most possible amount control over a patient to avoud such legal fees. Its hard to sue a doctor for somebody OD’ing or crossing medication after the doctor thoroughly explained what and what not to do. As opposed to offensive practices like surgery.
One idea as to why we concluded this is because giving medication to a patient is defensive care. The same can be said about c-sections, its a defensive approach to medical care, which is why C-sections are so encouraged.
So,
the amount of legal ramification that a doctor, or better said, a hospital can run into because of the current legal system, contributes greatly to the high cost of medical care?
C-sections are not encouraged. It’s the least favorable option. Always.
They also got you Americans 60 billion dollar air conditioners for a questionable war.
October 15 Global Day of Revolution. Figure out what’s going on near you.
Check out the website. The main groups I know of participating are Occupy Wall St movement and Stop The Machine. People around the world are going to be out demonstrating, and who knows what else will happen. 
Canada is joining the Occupy bandwagon (late as always). Im gonna be too busy drinking on the 15th
Wow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmUuxymOimk&feature=feedu
It’s crazy that they fight for their freedom of religion. It all started when people burned down a christian church cuz they aren’t allowed to build or expand churches without government permission. Christians and Muslims together who would have thought.
Not surprising at all, the people are so busy fighting each other that they tend to lose sight of the real enemy. In small instances the corrupt can flee but if people wake up all over the world then the corrupt will have no where to run and they can’t maintain power without having the people work like slaves and then leeching off of them.
Damn, all the freaks are coming out for this mess.
Response:
Oh snap 
…would have been a little better if he prefaced that with "Don’t fuck me… "
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^I liked this, then I disliked it, then I liked it again just because he is saying things that make sense.
But the message of Occupy Wall St and the whole global Occupy movement, is that the 99% wants a better world for everyone. It’s that easy. We’re in the preliminary stages where we’re just trying to get more attention and inform people about what is going on around them.
In this past month since I started following this movement, I have been reading articles, watching documentaries, and learning more and more. This movement has had the power to take me out of my daily routine and actually give a damn about our current situation as a nation and as a planet. And this past weekend I spent my Saturday at my local movement, and I can honestly say just from that day of listening to people speak and discussion, I learned almost the equivalent of what I had learned in this past month.
Just think if protestors out there can reach other people in this country, or anywhere in this world for just long enough for them to step out of their isolated mindset and think about the world. If they can do that than I do think they have accomplished something.
“Let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination.”
Not everyone has to go out and support it and be in the streets. People can show support just by discussing it in conversations, creating more awareness, and just doing whatever they can.
NOV 5 is the day when everyone is going to move their money out of large banks and into local credit unions or small banks. You can do it before then though.
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how is that going to be achieved?
Yes the rich have to put their part to. As do the poor or middle class
I’ve lost faith in the movement last Thursday because I saw a couple videos on the “millionaire’s march”, and what I got out of it was that
its not fair that he has 90 gazillion dollars and I don’t.
The bigger this movement gets the more weary I get about it. It has all the right intentions, and it has every right to demand what they demand. but when its formatted in a way where the slogan is, “We are the people we demand this now”, well I can’t trust a movement like that.
Yes we need change, change in monetary, foreign, and domestic policy. but how are they going to do it?
Maybe its just my cynical side, but I don’t like to complain about things that I don’t have solutions to. I especially don’t trust the masses, since history, time and time again shows that although it might want what is best, when they do finally get what they want, the system is even more broken.
Statistically, most of these people are not professional economists or policy makers. That means they probably don’t have solutions, at least not specific ones, but it doesn’t mean they can’t be pissed off or recognize that they’ve been getting hosed more and more over the years. I don’t think it’s fair to pin the legitimacy of their anger on whether or not they know the best way to change things. Hell, I wouldn’t put myself front and center at the problem solving party.
It might take a relatively small segment of the population with education and influence in the right areas to develop those solutions, but it might also take a lot of pissed-off people to spur that small segment into action.
“Never doubt that a small group of thought, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead
Well isn’t this some shit.
Shit like this doesn’t even really shock me anymore… just cracks me up at how starkly it highlights how debt has become an utterly abstract, almost completely imaginary concept.
$100 trillion? You might as well ask for a kajillion bajillion dollars.
Also, fuck those assholes.