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I made two distinct comments. if you can not take the time to clarify yourself, why would I take the time to answer.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
Sorry. Please explain both.
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The appeals court found the law racist in all ways possible. As stated in the article and in their 83 page court decision

"Last month, a three-judge federal appeals panel struck down the North Carolina law, calling it “the most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow.” Drawing from the emails and other evidence, the 83-page ruling charged that Republican lawmakers had targeted “African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Roberts and his Supreme Court ruled in gutting the civil rights voting act, that there is no racism left in these United States that needs to be fixed through federal oversight. In refusing to rule on the appeals court, the 4 conservative justices did comment they would have heard the appeal from the Governor of NC if they had a majority.
 
Andy Dukes said:
The appeals court found the law racist in all ways possible. As stated in the article and in their 83 page court decision

"Last month, a three-judge federal appeals panel struck down the North Carolina law, calling it “the most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow.” Drawing from the emails and other evidence, the 83-page ruling charged that Republican lawmakers had targeted “African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Roberts and his Supreme Court ruled in gutting the civil rights voting act, that there is no racism left in these United States that needs to be fixed through federal oversight. In refusing to rule on the appeals court, the 4 conservative justices did comment they would have heard the appeal from the Governor of NC if they had a majority.
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The GOP has inherited the Southern racists that used to be democratic. Now the GOP spends all it's time denying that racism still exists, except of course, when they see it being demonstrated by people of color or when practicing it themselves.
 
Wez said:
The GOP has inherited the Southern racists that used to be democratic. Now the GOP spends all it's time denying that racism still exists, except of course, when they see it being demonstrated by people of color or when practicing it themselves.
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Maddow had an interesting take on Nativism, how it comes back at certain parts of our history going back to the early 1800's against Catholics and how it coincides with the lack of power of one of the two parties in our two party system.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-nativist-speech-follows-dark-us-pattern-755626563851
 
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Andy Dukes said:
The appeals court found the law racist in all ways possible. As stated in the article and in their 83 page court decision

"Last month, a three-judge federal appeals panel struck down the North Carolina law, calling it “the most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow.” Drawing from the emails and other evidence, the 83-page ruling charged that Republican lawmakers had targeted “African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Roberts and his Supreme Court ruled in gutting the civil rights voting act, that there is no racism left in these United States that needs to be fixed through federal oversight. In refusing to rule on the appeals court, the 4 conservative justices did comment they would have heard the appeal from the Governor of NC if they had a majority.
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Vote for Gary Johnson
 
Wez said:
The GOP has inherited the Southern racists that used to be democratic. Now the GOP spends all it's time denying that racism still exists, except of course, when they see it being demonstrated by people of color or when practicing it themselves.
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Vote for Gary Johnson
 
America is facing a higher education bubble. Like the housing bubble, it is the product of cheap credit coupled with popular expectations of ever-increasing returns on investment, and as with housing prices, the cheap credit has caused college tuition to vastly outpace inflation and family incomes. College tuition payments have rapidly risen far faster (tuition and fees up 440+% from 1982 – 2007), vs. cost of living increases of 106% and family income growth of 147% during the same period, while the rate of return for a college degree is decreasing. Now this bubble is bursting.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds explains the causes and effects of this bubble and the steps colleges and universities must take to ensure their survival. Many graduates are unable to secure employment sufficient to pay off their loans. Already we have about $1 trillion [now $1.3 trillion] in outstanding student loans, many in default (payments are being made on just 38% of the balances, down from 46% five years ago), and they can’t be discharged through bankruptcy. As students become less willing to incur debt for education, colleges and universities will have to adapt to a new world of cost pressures and declining public support.--Glenn Reynolds
 
Hong kong is probably the most successful economy of the last half century, going from abject poverty to opulence without a natural resource of any kind. It did so largely because one man, Sir John Cowperthwaite, the financial secretary of the colony in the 1960s, insisted on minimal government interference in commerce, on low taxes and little regulation, infuriating his LSE-educated superiors in London with his refusal to follow their socialist plans. Yet when I was in Hongkong recently and met the free-market Lion Rock think-tank, I was struck by how pessimistic they felt about winning the argument for small government, even there.

By contrast, I can point you to a list as long as your arm of countries ruined by too much government. Venezuela, North Korea, Belarus and Zimbabwe are top of the list today, but Hitler, Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot (plus most empires) are egregious reminders that government is a more dangerous toy than markets ever could be.

Why is economic libertarianism out of favour? Unlike welfare-socialism and crony-capitalism, it fails to create vested interests dependent on its subsidies. The whole point of running for president is to be able to hand other people’s money to your favourite causes and generate grateful patronage. Laissez-faire robs you of that treat.
 
Have You Ever Heard Of Joe Sutter? You Should.

http://cafehayek.com/2016/09/41339.html


Mr. Sutter served alongside Mr. [Neil] Armstrong and Sally Ride as part of a presidential commission to investigate the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger accident that killed seven astronauts. In his autobiography, Mr. Sutter recalled that Ms. Ride “took exception” to comments he had made about the safety culture of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which he found lacking in comparison with his world of commercial aviation.

Owners, managers, workers, and customers in the world of commercial aviation each have strong incentives to optimize safety. In contrast, because NASA has no owners – no residual claimants – to reap disproportionate monetary rewards for better supplying safety or to suffer disproportionate monetary losses for failing to optimize safety, it is no surprise (to an economist) that commercial aviation is safer than any government-run aviation outfit. Note that, despite the late and not-lamented Civil Aeronautics Board and the still-active Federal Aviation Administration, commercial aviation is safe not because of such government oversight but, rather, because private agents have strong incentives to optimize safety. (It’s possible, by the way, that F.A.A. and other government oversight makes commercial aviation too safe – which, if true, might mean not only that customers pay too much money to fly but also that more people die and are injured while traveling than would be the case if commercial aviation were not made excessively safe by the state. This latter possibility arises because, travel by more-dangerous automobiles being a substitute for travel by safer commercial aircraft, the higher the costs to passengers of flying, the greater the number of person-miles logged on highways and roads.)
 
Yea right, the pursuit of profits have never led to compromises in safety, get real. The FAA has made flight too safe my ass...
 
Wez said:
Yea right, the pursuit of profits have never led to compromises in safety, get real. The FAA has made flight too safe my ass...
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You just burned a trail across the pacific and back. Did the airline profit? Did they compromise safety? Get real. God Bless Sully.
 
Wez said:
Not sure why some ppl spend all day talking about the benefits of free markets to a bunch of American Capitalists, it seems a huge waste of time.
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Stamping out ignorance is not a waste of time. Because of free markets I get to use my time any way I see fit.

 
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