Do we really need more aircraft carriers? How much have we spent on the F35 and drones already? Divert military spending towards the troops, intelligence and special forces. Cut military spending and discretionary military spending in general.

Increase legal immigration, deport illegal immigrants.

Legalize, tax and regulate cannabis. Focus the war on drugs on drugs that make people emaciated and toothless.

Public education adopts practices from Finland, Shanghai cram schools and Jamaican school sports. Promote STEM and introduce computer programming from an early age. Humanities should promote a more scientific attitude.

End all mercantilist policies, the only extra taxes on imports are those needed to fund customs searches, only arms shipments and related materials are regulated beyond normal. Explain to voters that the best way to respond to foreign competition is immediately and to remain competitive.

Fact: If an economic downturn is due to physical causes not due to lack of aggregate demand, lowering interest rates and increasing government spending will result in stagflation.

While keynesian economic was logical and sound, modern neo-keynesian economics has nothing to do with it, it is mainly the result of political lobbying to abuse central banks.

The federal reserve's role is to respond to the market value of capital, lowering rates in proportion to how much of the downturn is due to lack of aggregate demand. The economy is neither driven by spending or supply alone, it is driven by both, you promote spending by facilitating the development and production of quality goods and services at low expense, enough to tempt even the most miserly of holdouts.

What else? Have I missed anything?

Everyone repeats it, like its cure for cancer.
Why would i want to drink water with fluoride, pesticides and heavy metals?

Aussie candidate draws flak for lewd website

AN AUSTRALIAN candidate for the national Parliament was yesterday forced to apologise for a personal website which reportedly carried hundreds of lewd jokes, including a remark from him about "tit banter".

   Conservative Liberal Party candidate Kevin Baker has since shut down his forum site for Mini Cooper car enthusiasts, which also reportedly contained references to incest and racism.

   The Sydney Daily Telegraph reported that the website included jokes about the Pope being a paedophile, and others which made light of incest.

   It said that Mr Baker, who is the director of a children's charity, had written in one post: "Seems a bit like 'Tit Banter'..." - AFP.

A man was about to open his house door.

Man : "Oh no! I've forgotten my keys!

Thank goodness a locksmith had pasted his ad on my meter box."

Later...

Locksmith : "There, I've unlocked your door. That'll be $50."

Man : "You mean it's free of charge or I'll report you to the authorities for vandalising public property with your stickers..."

Legal Question : Should the man pay the locksmith and should the locksmith charged with vandalism ?

Leinster House, Kildare Street ,Dublin
LOCK OUT OR DÁIL ÉIRE/IRISH GOVERNMENT
We need to stand up to them. On the 18th of September I am calling on everyone to come and support this lock out.You have plenty of time to organize baby sitters, day off work, or better still national strike. Make your voice heard. If 5am is too early come when you can. We will only have one shot at this so make it count. A blue flu day would help and any army personnel would be more than welcome HERE IS A GREAT COMMENT FROM TARA ON THE JOURNAL REGARDING THE LOCKOUT ON SEPTEMBER 18TH

Tara Wilson-Black

Protest is from 5am-9pm which makes it viable for everyone, join the protest prior to work OR after work. The important thing is we all show solidarity and humanity for those people affected by the governments austerity. I am going because this government lied to gain power, they have no mandate, they did not keep any of their pre-election promises and they continue to tax the weak, vulnerable, disadvantaged and one section of society while protecting themselves and the banksters. Austerity does not work the young are emigrating in their droves, people are committing suicide, families are being evicted, children are going to bed hungry, we have no proper access to healthcare, education and the latest tax “broadcast” is just another way of pilfering money to pay the Troika, make no mistake it is not for RTE or any other broadcasts, its for the Troika because our government are too spineless to stand up for the very people who voted for them to protect them. Out Government are nothing short of gangsters, they are stealing from ALL of us. They are giving the revenue powers to put their hands into your bank accounts, pensions, wages and I for one did not vote for that. Sept 18th, 5am – 9pm, humanity calls.

Liberal: "This war sucks, man, we shouldn't be fighting."
Pro-war Person: *Shows liberal videos of Muslims decapitating people*
Liberal: "Pff, stupid nazi neo-con. People suck."

Dicuss.

You are letting the United States government off for being intellectually backward! by making them whole system seem normal, in comparison to yourself.

Dear Great Britain,

as an American citizen I would like to apologize. Our leaders have ruined the friendship, if you will, that was supposed to mean something between our great nations. Nobody can blame you for staying out of a war because 90% of us don't want one either!

This is a president who gave back a bust of Winston Churchill. A man 1000 times better a leader than Obama ever will be, hopefully this can be mended over time. If not, it's been a hell of a century.

Did /pol/ get hacked?
Did mooties pull the plug?
H-here we go...

So 2 crazy tribes are at war constantly, then one empire bashes their armies, unites the lands and brings them better technology. The efforts of the empire to unite everything results in the basis of a strong future nation state when they finally leave.

Compare India to Africa, India's only major political troubles were border disputes with China, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

All of these countries maintained a semblance of democracy despite being as poor as Africa for many years, while China went through Totalitarianism and Africa suffered from a patchwork of military dictatorships (except in South Africa).

Empires have problems though when they have to compete with other empires, as we have seen in Africa, or when they cannot maintain security.

I'm going with "yes". Where empires failed, if the empire never interfered I do not believe countries would always end up like Thailand or Japan, I believe the same factors that led to the fail of empire would also lead to their failure as traditional societies trying to advance to modernity. They would end up like Ethiopia during the 70s and 80s or China after ww2.