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salinen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:55 AM Original message |
The U.S. is a failed State |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. I have some friends who would like to trade citizenship with you |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. I think what he is trying to show is that whatever freedoms and |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
25. I have a few also |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
36. Cool. They can pay my medical bills and my kid's college tuition. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 08:03 PM Response to Reply #36 |
97. Am glad you wrote that. Many countries in Europe and elsewhere have free |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
50. The ole right-wing 'If you don't like it, get the fuck out.' meme. n/t |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #50 |
59. No, I think that was more |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #50 |
81. +1 |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
108. The question is, for how long? It's only a matter of time until the US fails ............ |
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whatchamacallit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
115. dupe |
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whatchamacallit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
117. I guess that means everything is peachy, eh? |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
121. Never a dull moment with you around |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
2. When I read your post, I was reminded of Sinclair Lewis' book, It Can't Happen Here. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
35. Available for free @ Gutenberg, far any who haven't read it. |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #35 |
82. also free at public libraries |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 07:54 PM Response to Reply #82 |
94. Whazza lieberry? |
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travelingtypist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. You've almost got them all... |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
4. What really gets me are the bands of warlords, the roadside IEDs and lack of basic services. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
38. I wonder if the 40 million living in poverty in the USA would agree with you. |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:31 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. That's a problem - but it also means there are 260 million prople NOT living in poverty |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. I'll stand with the 40 million whom the state is failing. nt |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:23 PM Response to Reply #44 |
62. If poverty means a failed state, then there has never been a successful state. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #62 |
66. Like: "We're not Afghanistan or Iraq or Somalia!" |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:07 PM Response to Reply #66 |
71. No: There has never been a successful state in the history of history... |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:24 PM Response to Reply #71 |
87. Poverty, how insignificant when measuring the success and failures of a state. |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
51. Give it ten more years of flat to declining energy inputs and post again. n/t |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:20 PM Response to Reply #51 |
61. But.... I won't have any energy then, will I? |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
143. I have to post this fast because we only get 2 hours of electricity a day here in SoCal |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
5. I thought I was sending this to the "Greatest" but alas someone |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
124. Too many people wearing blinders |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. Wow, that was quick |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
39. Failed states take different forms, here are ours: |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
7. It's not a "failed state." It is functioning. Failed state sounds |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
8. When are you emigrating? |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
9. Yes, the U.S. resemblence to Zimbabwe, the Congo, and the slums of Mumbai and Hyderabad is stunning. |
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Cleanelec (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:54 AM Response to Reply #9 |
23. I think this smiley works for drama queens |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
34. Don't forget the clueless smiley. |
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Cleanelec (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:56 PM Response to Reply #34 |
52. Why have you not left? |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:24 PM Response to Reply #52 |
118. Ahhh. Spiro Agnew's favorite line. |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
10. This is disingenuous at worst, hyperbolic at best. |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. nice fantasy |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:23 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. So you disagree that we're better off than China and India? |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
26. well OK, if you're talking "super-powers" |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
40. This is a distraction, not an argument. |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:11 PM Response to Reply #40 |
58. Been unemployed for over a year and a half. Care to revise your comments? |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #58 |
60. No. nt |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:29 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Here's a website that will help you emigrate from the |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Here's some information from the UN about emigration from |
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Mike Marble (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:39 PM Response to Reply #16 |
45. Ah, the "love it or leave it" brigade. Brings back memories. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:06 PM Response to Reply #45 |
57. Strange, isn't it? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #45 |
63. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that if your nation has failed, |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:33 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. No, the "rational" response when you are an American citizen |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:47 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. There was nothing whatsoever in the OP about fixing anything. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:55 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. The entire post was about fixing this country. |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:41 PM Response to Reply #63 |
109. Or, you'd want to hang around to help fix it |
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lunasun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
133. mostly supported by the war industry - they need that kinda talk |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
28. +1 |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
37. Speaking of disingenuous, it's easy to win if you limit the competition to one. |
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divideandconquer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:50 PM Response to Reply #10 |
48. If you didn't have healthcare, are a Katrina victim, go to a failed school, etc |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 03:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
79. It helps if you lose the myth that we are a "world superpower".. |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #79 |
96. Yep, fuck those haitians, those bastards who died in the tsunami, ohh, we dontate |
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Ghost in the Machine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:25 PM Response to Reply #96 |
119. Yeah.. wonder how much of that donated money was borrowed? |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 07:37 AM Response to Reply #119 |
140. I've watched little kids eat shit off the street |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
13. The country is totally dependant on oil ...a finite resource ...from other countries. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:43 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. The corporations are forcing our country to do this. They're doing |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
17. We're DOOMED! I'm moving to Burma immediately nt |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:42 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I'm thinking Liberia. Their official language is English. |
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salinen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:03 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. Myanmar. |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #31 |
49. I stand corrected. I want to live in Myanmar. nt |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:59 PM Response to Reply #17 |
53. I'm headed to the Faroe Islands immediately. |
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geek_sabre (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
20. And yet, there's no place I'd rather live |
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cowcommander (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
21. So what's your idea of a "successful" state then? |
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salinen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:02 PM Response to Reply #21 |
30. Yes. |
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OregonBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
22. Oh please, we have big problems but we're hardly a failed state. Now Somalia, that's a failed state |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
24. It's ugly, but it's not that bad yet. |
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salinen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Cool map. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:02 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Yeah, |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
32. Strange there is an un-edited OP |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #32 |
42. I think we all agree it could be a hell of a lot better |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. Among the highest child poverty rates in the industrialized world. |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:36 PM Response to Reply #33 |
43. Who's celebrating child poverty? |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:48 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. Is that what I claimed? |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:50 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. That's how it reads. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #47 |
55. "This decline" refers to the country's fall in general...child poverty is one example of that. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
54. We do not have the highest per capita murder rate |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. Incarceration rates are at historic highs. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:10 PM Response to Reply #56 |
84. Murder rate cut in half in 30 years |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:28 PM Response to Reply #54 |
64. Among industrialized countries, the USA has some of the highest |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:58 PM Response to Reply #64 |
70. England, Austria, Sweden and Canada have higher violent crime rates |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:47 PM Response to Reply #70 |
73. Our homicide rates are higher than France, Iceland, Australia, |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:59 PM Response to Reply #73 |
75. Your data is 10 years old |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #75 |
76. And given the global economic crises of the last three years, |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 03:16 PM Response to Reply #76 |
77. Violent crimes across the board falling steadily since 2000. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #77 |
78. Yet for homicides and violent crimes we remain among the highest in the industrialized world. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:09 PM Response to Reply #78 |
83. So what? |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:20 PM Response to Reply #83 |
85. Glad you're "personally" safe. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:28 PM Response to Reply #85 |
89. Those "others" have never been safer. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #89 |
91. Your imagination is running wild. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:54 PM Response to Reply #91 |
92. By your definition nearly every country in the world is a failed state |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 05:08 PM Response to Reply #92 |
93. "Meaningless": Poverty, violence, endless wars, environmental crises, |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 08:16 PM Response to Reply #93 |
98. And none of those can applied to nearly every country in the world? |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:03 PM Response to Reply #98 |
100. The USA is a failing state, not a failed one. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:35 PM Response to Reply #100 |
106. I don't have a simplistic model - I like the Fund for Peace's |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:53 PM Response to Reply #106 |
112. Of course they are, but they are still comparatively high in the USA among industrialized states. nt |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #112 |
114. You really don't pay attention, do you? |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:31 PM Response to Reply #114 |
120. Daily Mail? A Tory report on crime to make Labor look bad? |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:14 PM Response to Reply #120 |
126. Your link calls this decade a golden age in reducing violent crime and murder |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:18 PM Response to Reply #126 |
129. I never denied the significance of this decline, but the link does note, |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:24 PM Response to Reply #129 |
132. So as rates continue to decline, things will be ok. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:29 PM Response to Reply #132 |
134. Look at your numbers, |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:33 PM Response to Reply #134 |
135. So we rationalize our drug laws |
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salinen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #100 |
141. Thanks so much Mix |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
69. "most murders per capita"? Are you sure? |
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TonyMontana (237 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
72. Not a failed state. An empire and a plutocracy. |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
74. agreed. |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
80. US position in the Failed State Index: 159 |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #80 |
90. Among industrialized countries the USA fairs very poorly. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 08:53 PM Response to Reply #90 |
99. It fares better than Italy, Germany, France, and Spain |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:10 PM Response to Reply #99 |
101. But worse compared to these others: |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #101 |
104. They are basically tied |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:33 PM Response to Reply #104 |
105. Where do I say that? |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:36 PM Response to Reply #105 |
107. They are failing too, aren't they? |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:44 PM Response to Reply #107 |
110. The neo-liberal model of the EU |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #110 |
116. I don't ever recall mentioning Somalia |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:37 PM Response to Reply #116 |
122. If you don't understand how bad things are for people now, then you never will. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:09 PM Response to Reply #122 |
125. I understand. I also know that it has been just as bad in the past |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:15 PM Response to Reply #125 |
127. Here are the most recent UN homicide rates globally. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:21 PM Response to Reply #127 |
130. Show the violent crime rates |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:23 PM Response to Reply #127 |
131. The murder rate in 1980 was twice what it is now |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
86. As long as China supplies the money |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
88. How does the US rate as far as people migrating into it - compared |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
95. Bet this poster has never been to the third world, you have no idea how good |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
102. Rome redux |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
103. Somalia is a failed state... |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:47 PM Response to Reply #103 |
111. Think about this: Somalia is pretty much a |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #111 |
113. Seeing as the repubs lost the last election, not that fast... |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
123. K&R with tears. |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
128. I think we live in a failed world |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
136. I entirely agree with you, but we seem to be minority here. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-10-10 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
137. As long as the GOP Party has influence to disrupt America...the USA will FAIL |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
138. Capitalism won, you really think you are going to get your Democracy back? |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:53 AM Response to Original message |
139. You need some perspective. Try reading about how bad the 1930s were. |
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dan_87 (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
142. foreign investment |
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