Footnote: Reagan wanted to transfer most of social security from the federal level to the state level. Why? To avoid the US constitution, there are big differences between the North and the South. If every state could decide on its own how the social program would look like, most states in the south would start a program of “charity”. In the US Constitution, every US Citizen has the RIGHT to live and have use of all goods, but the “charity” program would look quite different. People should be begging for help, and the “rich” who provide money will feel good afterwarts. This is in contrary to the social democratic state, because it’s not only unconstitutional, but creates a gap between the “good people who give” and the “poor who have to accept”.

I was there some years ago, and I guess you have been too, but I never managed to explain it to others so well.
The treatments can be simple and very effective, it’s a tragedy if lives are lost for lack of it.

Suicide is an act of extreme violence against all those left behind as well, and I hope support is available to Geforce and everyone else affected by this sad event.

Don’t worry. It’s my friend however how selfish this may sound it’s not a family-member. True, it hurts, but it would be even more selfish of me if I said I was the one who was suffering most because that’s not. His girlfriend who he called to minutes before dying, his younger brother. It’s up to us to help them. That doesn’t change the fact I’m saddened myself and can’t sleep well, though I realise for the parents and family it will be something they’ll have to carry with them for the rest of their days.

Here’s the machine that says *PING*

Asking for apologies is about the worst thing you can do. Look, some simple words are not going to bring back the millions of people gassed in Auswitch. Apart from that, you are opening and old wound again, namely the people who have fought in the war (on both sides), it makes it look like the whole war was rediculous and can now be forgotten.

Not all Germans were nazi’s true, but all Germans were most certainly contaminated with the nazi virus. A mass murder on that scale, never seen in history before, is not the work of a couple of individuals. The nazi state was like a Ford Company, in which all employees were gassing people instead of building cars. Sorry for my words, but I guess this comes near reality.

Anyone read Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code? It’s probably the best sold book at the moment but is it really that good?

The welfare state book, is it about Rawls?

Isolationism has never worked for the US. The Monroe-doctrine made an end to this already in the late 1830’s. The US is what one could call a active foreign policy. Isolationism will be worse for the US than the rest of the world.

Indeed, it’s the ISAF and not the US who tries to maintain at least some stability in the country. Frankly the outcome of these elections are not that important, more important is that they were able to organise them without too much trouble. If one democratic candidate accusses the other of fraude, that’s one step in the good direction :).