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I wish someone would thank them for getting rid of the death panels.
Funny how people forget the bullshit scare tactics used to turn people against their own health care.
Funny how people forget why we needed the ACA in the first place, and why our health care is so expensive....we don't turn away people who can't pay. Instead we bill them at two to three times the price the insurance companies pay, then pass the cost on to those who do pay after ruining their financial future.
No, wait, none of that is funny, it's just dumb.

True, I did not consider international applications.

Milled steel would sort of defeat the scare tactic of a "totally invisible, undetectable" gun.

Anything fully automatic would immediately fall under NFA and be extremely illegal if not held to the strict standards in the Act.

Printable guns are another scare tactic. We are talking about guns that can only fire small caliber rounds and that still require at least a few metal components. There is no such thing as a totally untraceable, all plastic gun. Technically, if there were such a thing, it would be illegal under existing law.

Ghost guns are another freak out buzz word. It's a grey area that is quasi legal as long as you only make it for yourself. If you plan on making them and selling them, you are fucked.

Hell, I can go down to Lowes and buy materials to make a higher caliber zip gun that is actually going to be deadlier than a plastic printed one. With a cork, some glue,plastic vanes, a nail, and a shotgun shell I can make a grenade. With some matches, pipe from Lowes, a firecracker fuse, and threadlocker I can make a pipe bomb.

The point being, you can make damn near anything deadly with some work and access to everyday components. If you want to frighten a gullible populace with a scary plastic 'gun' to further your agenda against guns in general, it's child play to do so.

OMFG. Just fucking pop it and it'll go away. I've never once had a pimple get WORSE after I cleaned it the fuck out. Scare tactics and fake news all up in this motherfucker.

But seriously, pop it and it solves every problem in your life.

To be fair some of those programs should be eliminated. In the big picture these table scrap spending issues.

Homeless need food and shelter more than I need PBS or GOV funded arts programs.

Americans need to work longer before opting for social security.

Our defense spending does need to be cut.

Our national debt does need to be lowered.

WE need not to be fighting if /when defenses cutting / social security adjustments issues come up.

Death panels and throwing grandma off the cliff scare tactics need to stop.

Yeah, they're doing it wrong again. Something they did or just some nebulous culture shift around ~2000 or so seemed to actually work, and it takes about four or five years before you can know whether what you did worked or not. Prior to the 2000 thing, it was scare tactics, which don't work on invincible teenagers. Then they switched to a less dramatic "it's not a big deal, it's okay to chose not to smoke" approach, which I think was the good one.

The real problem (in the US at least) is the 17 and 18 year-old kids smoking, which means the 13-16 year-old kids do it to be like their older peers. If you can break that cycle, even just once, you come as close to solving the problem as you can. But, since there is this lag time between the beginning of the cycle and it coming full circle, the industry assumes it was the most recent ("evil tobacco corporations taking advantage of you") effort that was actually the effective one. I don't think it is. I especially don't think it will work on college-age demographic they're targeting. It's still "The Man" telling them what to do, even if it's a different hand of "The Man."

Okay, if this seems angry it is because it is. My wife and kids were hit head on by a car (Who sped up to get around the car she was passing...,) in a new van we just purchased, by a lady with no insurance. In Florida we get fucked for it (Thankfully they are alright...)

So here goes. You work for a bunch of cum guzzling money grabbing fuckfaces. It is a shameful job, unappreciated because your bosses want the most money at the expense of those who have just been through a terrible, horrible ordeal.

Insurance companies donate billions to lawmakers to keep these fucking stupid laws up. Florida's You-Pay-for-Uninsured-Motorist's laws are proof-fucking positive about that. "I am responsible so fuck my asshole wide please."

And the scare tactics of god damn claims adjusters?! Holy fuck, that shit would be considered assault anywhere else. Congratulations if you are one of the rare ones that don't threaten or low-ball...

Of course your company would charge it as 50-50 (or 70-30.) They would do it in every situation they could. Because it's all about the money to those anal-warted motherfuckers.

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I disagree. It SHOULD be a PSA for defensive driving, but instead it's a scare tactic to try and convince people that driving 7km/h over the speed limit is killing the children of hard working folks.

This PSA puts the emphasis on the speeding as though it's the problem. The real defensive driving lessons people need to prevent such an accident have nothing to do with speed. Obviously the guy driving out in front of the oncoming car should never do that, and that's not a small mistake, that's a kill myself and everyone in the car with me mistake. Lastly, the more important point that lots of drivers could stand to learn is regardless of if you are speeding or not, watch the road ahead for cars that might cut you off, and if it looks like they are start slowing down. If I spot a guy coming in too fast on a stop sign ahead, or rolling up to it, I slow down even though I have right of way, just in case. 9 times out of 10, it turns out it didn't matter, but it has spared me an accident on more than 1 occasion where even a little below the speed limit, there was just no way I was gonna slow down.

And the 7km over IS a ridiculous line for the PSA to draw. Just compare the difference that extra speed makes to your stopping distance and time to the difference in judgment required of the guy pulling out. The guy pulling out is gonna misjudge the oncoming traffic arrival time and distance by more than a second or meter or two.

Ok, I sat through the mostly flat increase in funding (against a backdrop of exponential inflation, meaning a real world decrease in funding) and thought, is this going somewhere?

Then I thought... ok, how many more comedy scare tactics are they going to use.

Then... then I got to 'Floride is the main ingredient in sarin nerve gas'. Yeah. I'm done.

You know what else is in Sarin gas? Carbon! We must cleanse our bodies of carbon, to protect our precious bodily fluids!

no one is for blatant wealth redistribution, it's a huge strawman conjured up by the right. No has ever advocated that the government should come in and forcibly take everyone's money and redistribute it evenly. It's another scare tactic boogeyman the right likes to conjure.

the problem is, as you've already said, a taxation system that HEAVILY favors the already rich.

There will always be rich people and there will always be poor people. for as long as we have currency, this will always be the case. the question of fairness and how rich people are treated differently than the poor. The rich are allowed to get away with things the poor would never get away with. In certain cases, rich people get many perks for free that a poor person would have to pay for which is the opposite of what should happen. A rich person, by definition, can afford more without being burdened.

If you believe in the founding principles in America, you believe that every person is equal. Rich people are not "better" than poor people" rich and poor alike are endowed with rights that cannot be taken away. Yet the reality is quite different.

The problem is two fold:

1. When you have not just rich people, but uber rich people, It's far easier for them to exert influence over the gov't to get them to make rules that favor them so they can get even more rich. Elections need to have all private money removed from them...period. voting with your money is not equal. 1 person, 1 vote, end of story.

2. As I said before all things being equal, it wouldn't matter so much that there is a huge disparity in wealth if even the poorest of us didn't have to worry about basic necessities such as health care. One major illness and everything you've worked for is gone in an instant. This simply is not fair. Only the rich and uber rich are not seriously hampered by major illnesses

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Evoking Jeremiah Wright is not a scare tactic. It is a legitimate question to be answered for 2008 or 2012.
Of course, after Obama threw him under the bus, all those questions went away. No man whose pastor and spiritual mentor preached 'God damn America' should ever inhabit the White House.
If you disagree, then you don't really see how America is the greatest country in the world, and you should vote for someone who feels the same way...Obama.


I don't think anyone with a pastor should inhabit the white house.

^ No its not a scare tactic its a red herring, and you are a troll

America is the only country where everything you say about it is true, good and bad. I can deal with the chaos.

Evoking Jeremiah Wright is not a scare tactic. It is a legitimate question to be answered for 2008 or 2012.

Of course, after Obama threw him under the bus, all those questions went away. No man whose pastor and spiritual mentor preached 'God damn America' should ever inhabit the White House.

If you disagree, then you don't really see how America is the greatest country in the world, and you should vote for someone who feels the same way...Obama.