@nova3930: It's true that I'm having a hard time figuring out what has anything to do with your discussion here.

@ttk2: But boy you should see the private debt! at 3 times the amount of public debt, it's almost like you're fixating on the wrong debt!

@nova3930: I didn't realize the armed forces were evidence of a freeloading attitude by taxpayers. You should probably get on about dismantling that then.

@screemname: Yes it did - from the very beginning, the United States has been debt-financed.

@andyengle: And what is the entity ensuring the very existence of private enterprise? Ah yes, it is the State.

@GamingTheory: I heartily recommend all socialist literature; 1984 is a shining example.

A far safer idea than the CAMUS automated driving system, which, after a life full of ennui, drives you into a tree.

@TheTheTheTheWhat: "I have only read 3 words of Nietzsche."

@KnightNZ: I highly recommend anything they've put out there. Discovery was one of the best albums of the aughts, I'd argue.

@Cairn Awaits MizJenkins: Here's a rewording from a different vantage point: Unions are designed and intended to make sure the workers get the money they've earned.

@EnochLight: Opiates (including heroin!) were absolutely legal heading into the 20th century. It's hard to fathom living in the 1890s, everybody all strung out.

@worldwidejoe: YES IT IS [www.merriam-webster.com]

@Jackstick: Not I, Caesar, but who knows. All that is only to say that there is quite the abundance of calorie production globally.

@KamWrex: It's not destroyed, its kept in reserve, so that when there are shortages in other areas or crop failures in the near future, they can be released.

Overpopulation is a red herring. The food wasted by the US and EU alone per year would feed 3 billion people 7 meals a day for a year.

@SQ85: Nah, we Marxists are still around. And class consciousness has the added benefit of a wider solidarity!

@Canoehead: Someone doesn't know what the TVA does!

We need a new broadband-focused TVA!

The old bait-and-switch! JM is probably Jose Mijares.

@Paul Balbas: That lawsuit happened around 2003. I got 17 bucks out of the deal.