How about let's ask them to stop putting ANY supernatural bullshit on TV as fact. If people want to believe in magic, that's their problem. If people want to say publicly that magic is real and controls your life (just send money and we'll explain how to manipulate that for a better life), they should all be jailed for fraud. Yes, that includes preachers and clergy, but is not limited to them.

EDIT: or better yet, how about petitioning our representatives to create a law making it illegal to ask for money for anything 'supernatural'? If they want to pretend their magic is real for free, that's fine I guess. That would get most of them out of the racket.

Yes, of course prescriptions were required. How else were the physicians gonna get in on the crony racket, diagnosing "debility" from everything from a hang-nail to gout?

It's a "good" thing the good ole American government had other ways of managing those who didn't abide with their prohibtions.

Now factor in all the people in early life going without quality healthcare/dental and the chronic conditions it might lead to later in life that will eventually bite the taxpayer in the ass...

That's the part that never breaks the surface of this debate, keeping your populace healthy (and happy) pays itself back in a more healthy mid-late age person, capable of staying in the workforce (and ergo generating tax revenue) longer, self funding retirement as opposed to "leeching" off the system, less sick day absenteeism (or alternately, sick workers showing up, working below par and infecting co-workers) etc.

That's not socialism, that's smart.

I'd be amazed if no one ever actually quantified this as a cost/benefit analysis, but it wouldn't play well so I guess the point is moot.

And yeah, the state should regulate the medical and pharmaceutical industries against ludicrous profit taking from the most vulnerable. The current state of play in the US seems more akin to a mafia extortion racket than a service dedicated to maintaining and enriching the health of it's clientele...

That's cat for 'Thank god that racket's over!'

WTF was that? Who was the jackass that started playing music in the middle of Obama's toast, and why did no one else stop it? I would have stopped and asked them to shut that racket off...fuckers. If they want to refuse, revamp the toast to "Well then, Fuck the queen, that disrespectful bitch".
The next time their royalty is here making a speech or toast, we need to interrupt it in the middle with our national anthem and just crank it up if they keep talking, with the crowd joining in!

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They dig their way into attics and crawl spaces and walls, make a racket and a mess of things.

*kids Aww, poor little thing ... who could sleep through all that RACKET?

I was hoping he would let her keep the racket.

"Degrees of darkness" sounds like that meaningless phrase people say when trying to make someone feel better about a shitty situation. Prison systems period. Corrupt rackets, all.

Rodman in his surreal romp to Ill-ville does smell a bit like some diplomatic inroad concocted by handlers designed to prep BabyDic for some lessons in how to keep a nuke out of his anus should he flex according to HIS handlers retardedly brilliant strategies in diplomacy and universal humanitarianism.

I have never imagined Un to have any real power beyond that of his namesake-He's a carbon-copy of the human garbage that was his father, grandfather-The real power is in their jackboots and their thugs.

Milkens' worthy of derision not for his ethnicity, but for his abject sliminess cloaked in a measly veil of philanthropy.
98 counts of racketeering and fraud back in 89'?? He's a chump who gives fuck-all for humanity.

Still on the Forbes 500 list which comprises mostly douchebag fucks.

Federal mafia-funded government schools are an expensive racket. No competition means no need for failing schools to adopt successful schools' strategies.

If government schools weren't merely a dispensary for propaganda, fiberals wouldn't be fighting tooth and nail to keep Black kids in failing schools.

I ordered my current glasses from an online store from canada for $7...with my prescription. It also lets you get out of the racket where they demand a new eye exam every year.

American Dentistry is a huge racket. A single dental implant, (not covered), mysteriously cost right around $1700 USD. The price is the same at any dentist you go to in the entire country.