@LHoffman:
@U-505:
Domestic, economic, environmental, and foreign policies are incredibly complex structures and your extremely simplistic viewpoint regarding them just won’t work in a real country.
I think that was not one of his main concerns 505. If you did not pick up on it, this is all fantasy anyway and, yes, a hyperbolic characterization of conservative America (and Canada?); whose rights and structure of government are all at once looked down upon and envied by the rest of the world.
Garg is simply bringing balance to society… and that cracked up nation-state, build-your-own-government-utopia forum he is a part of. Personally I think you need to lighten up a little bit.
Thanks, I had no idea that Garg didn’t run a country.
All I did was ask how his country could be considered economically powerful with a 3% tax rate while fighting an expensive war and I got this:
@wittmann:
And how can Globocom be economically powerful when their army is locked in an expensive war and the tax rate is 3%
Maybe everyone pays taxes and there are no handouts. If a girl gets pregnant she is not given a 3 bedroom house, an income and free gym and medicine. Instead she lives with her parents and has to give up smoking and drinking because she has no revenue.
@Gargantua:
Aside from the fact that subsidized Military spending is basically some of the ONLY spending. (think start-up/investment capital)
The Military is it’s OWN Corporation.
Do you -really- think I would send my military abroad to stamp out “possible” terrorists? pfftp.
1. The only way to win a war properly is to kill absolutely everything in the place you intend to conquer. You can let people run away, but enforce the fact that if they are still there when you arrive, that they are going to die.
2. Imagine less of a conventional military, and more of an ultra-modern work force. Lumberjacks, Miner’s, Hunters, Petroleum workers, etc, armed to the teeth, with Buzzdozers and drilling equipment mixed in with the tanks and helicopters.
When you give permission for total extermination, all the semantics and problems go away. Anybody who really wanted to surive, has left.
There is also no regard or concern for enviromental regulations, unless dictacted by the home government, or the head of the military corporation, if enviromental regulation will lead to the creation of sustainable/long-term assets.
Seems to me Garg put some measure of thought into his response so it’s less wistful dreaming and more an over the top reflection of his real views. And wittmann clearly has a personal beef with social welfare. But, I’m the one who needs to lighten up. Okay. I’ll lighten up.
While we’re on the subject, maybe YOU should lighten up and let Garg police his own thread if he thinks I’m out of line. Not that I’ll listen to either one of you because you’re both a couple of Globocom’s douchebag corporate toadies and I’m a well-respected revolutionary activist in Globocom’s political underground.
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Look, if Garg wants to fantasize about running a despotic, militaristic, neo-fascist, corporate oligarchy with no human rights where it’s ignorant sickly people are rolled by the rampant criminal element and die on the streets, which are made of dirt, by the way, because his government has no money to build roads, schools and police stations then I can fantasize about how miserably it will fail.
But, if he’s going to put some thought into it, which he did, then he should look past his fake narrow viewpoint and consider the bigger fake picture, such as, how the rest of the fake world would respond to his fake actions and how quite a few of his fake policies aren’t so cut and dried. They can be interrelated and come with fake consequences.
