Well, I am not very happy about annexing Quebec. We can just let them be by themselves. But otherwise I think it might be neat. We have a lot in common culturally, and I'm guessing there would be many mutual economic advantages.

I know where NZ is. You are located somewhere to the right of Australia. I know that's vague, but hey it's better than some answers here.

But again, I know little of your political climate, only that you have a few debates regarding government hand outs for Aborigines. You also have some really odd and unique critters, like kangaroos and black swans! But really, what's the point of merging Aussie and NZ?

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Noir,

Supposing that health care in Europe operates efficiently and effectively (it works), it does not mean you can reproduce the results in the US. Every country has its own unique circumstances, and Sloth's argument concludes that given conditions 1 and 2 socialized health care is impossible in the US. The way to dispute his argument is not to cite a European counter example with socialized health care and malpractice law suits because it misses the point. Instead you have to challenge the conditions he stated that obstruct having socialized health care in the US.

Those conditions are

1. If socialized health care, then health care employees could become government employees.
2. Government employees can not be sued in the US.

His argument is
1
2
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3. Health care employees could not be sued in the US.

and

If 3, then influential lobbyists would gain sufficient political support to block it.

I'm actually not sure that 2 is true, and I don't think 1 is necessary.

I'm talking about the Theban sacred band, the Spartan army, and sometimes other Greek and ancient armies. You could improve combat effectiveness by having your military divisions full of horny gay lovers.

Of course, not that I think that should happen. It could be detrimental to morale given our current culture, but in a different culture (like some Greek cities) it could be very beneficial. Today, it would create divisions and mistrust having dudes hitting on heterosexuals, and that's an effect you don't want among troops.

Some of the most elite and effective military units in history were gay or bisexual.

Now all Loz needs to do is get pounded.

Go Skoe!

Not really, because the social security cap is going up. That will add another 5% to the taxes of upper middle class people who mistakenly believe they are gaining a tax savings. Now I know he said that upper middle class incomes would have less income tax, but he never said anything about it being more than 10%.

Obama is going to increase funding to education and health care, but he's going to make the system worse. I have no problem funding education, but not until the frivolous programs are eliminated like sports teams, music, art and blah blah blah. What we need are free-market solutions to increase the efficiency of our public services, not more fuel to the fire or middle men.

Bush?

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I wouldn't be able to stop cheering .

Long live Emperor -whoever-deposes-obama

If Obama gets assassinated, it will probably be staged by the CIA or some military agency.

Actually, a military coup is going to be the most possible than it has ever been since the early 1800s.