Nathan

Supposedly - a tradition among some in the music industry is to give weed to their performers to relax, crack to perform, and meth to make them addicts.

Seniors and children are both subsidized to the tune of around 10,000 dollars a year in regards to public education and social security.

Oddly enough, a subject which Republicans such as Paul Ryan are particularly proud of, maintaining "defense spending," which has gone up 70% in 10 years and will not be decreased even a penny, instead increased. An interesting paradox.

If you ever look at the balance sheet of a large company, they go through all this effort to do business and make a profit, and then the government comes in and confiscates an obscene amount of money. This may be the source of economic and innovative stagnation.

Between two other nations / forces. For instance Assad versus Al Qaeda.

Or does it encourage wars between forces deemed a threat?

A similar example is the issue of capture or kill of terror subjects, some of whom will be citizens. It has been reported that the Obama administration has a preference for kill, regardless of Constitutionality or extreme ease of capture.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-mulls-drone-strike-...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/utah-...

-Benjamin Franklin

'Senator Rand Paul detailed his views on diplomacy Tuesday in a speech before the Center for the National Interest.....The US, he said, should employ trade and diplomacy whenever possible while scaling back overseas police action...

The Senator criticized neoconservatives for having forsaken this tradition, arguing that they really promote “not a neoconservatism but a neoisolationism in which diplomacy is distrusted and war is, if not the first option, the preferred option.”

“Neoconservatives brag of their desire for engagement, but increasingly preach a doctrine that is hostile to diplomatic engagement,” said Paul. “To this crowd, everyone who doesn’t agree with them is the next Chamberlain. To this crowd, anyone who doesn’t clamor first for the military option is somehow an isolationist. The irony is that the crowd that claims they want to engage often opposes diplomatic engagement.” '

"During the interview, when Binney is questioned about how Edward Snowden could have gotten away with as much data as he did, Binney notes that NSA management and analysts rejected network monitoring and auditing because it could have made them accountable for program results and program costs."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...

Sen. Rand Paul raised questions about the same Hurricane Sandy ad campaign now being investigated by the federal government.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/rand-paul-...

Even as the US sends weapons to the Iraqi government (and Al Qaeda next door in Syria, but surely they couldn't figure out how to cross a border), Al Qaeda has seized control of entire cities.

"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/01/11/is-rand-pau...