You can't create wealth with mandates, you just shift costs around or eliminate doctors from the market. The problem is that Doctors are not your slaves. The Supply Curve says that if the government increase the price of inputs, the market equilibrium price will increase. Which devastates lower income families. Nationalized healthcare doesn't eliminate any costs at all, which is why we have 40 trillion dollars of Medicare debt.
The government takes the lives of innocent people so I can't support the death penalty. The cost of taking an innocent life is pretty high too, imo.
I think he already knows that sound very well. He'll probably just be hearing it from a different angle is all.
I understand and agree with the fact that only murderers should recieve the death penalty and we cannot execute lifers for financial convenience. But, I don't understand why he would be placed in solitary confinement and on suicide watch. He's in jail for life with no realistic chance of getting out, why is he being protected? Is it just becuase we want him to suffer the punishment that he is sure to receive in prison? Seems to me that if he wants to die he should be allowed to.
Probably because the government would be sued if they knew that he was possibly suicidal and didn't try to protect him or if he would be hurt or killed in the general prison population.
Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you.
I'll make you a deal if you agree to be consistent. Execute everyone who commits horrible war acts, and I'll let you execute any civilian prison lifers who committed similar acts.
I'm relatively certain that just about everyone who's been convicted of war crimes by a legitimate international body (other than the US) has been executed. We seem to be the bunch of fucking idiots who think that terrorists from other countries have the same legal rights as a dude from Portland, yet execute American citizens suspected of doing bad things in Yemen and Oman and the like. Ready to play consistently, jlprk?
Sure am. You have Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld in custody in one of their own 20-year torture prisons? You do the dirty work and I'll cheer you on from here. Then I'll approve your executing all those petty civilian American lawbreakers you can find who did what they did.
I'm confused a bit...you going to show me where the UN (or any other non-attention-whore body) convicted them of war crimes? I just gave you a list of who HAS been. And which "Torture prisons" are you talking about? Guantanamo?
I didn't say they had to be convicted by a U.S.-controlled institution like the U.N, just that they had to have committed horrible acts in a war situation. As 2 potential terrorists who have now drawn the attention of Project Echelon, we had better keep our alibis straight. Remember, you'll do the executing and I'll cheer you on from here.
