>You
>see the problem is that
>people in the States believe
>that every issue should be
>decided democratically among the people.
>Not only is that
>unrealistic, but dangerous. Such
>laws that aren't established in
>comparison to previous law will
>cause conflict between the minority
>and the majority.

What you are describing is not democracy. It's bad management (are you surprised that a socialist thinks good management is important ?).

But there's a bigger problem with your statement.

You keep on talking about 'majority' and 'minority' like these are two well outlined groups of people that never change.

What is your definition of both ?
Rich people = minority ? Poor and middleclass = majority ?

What about rich people loosing their money or poor people getting richer ? What about the majority that is PRO guns ? They might be a minority when it comes to being PRO accessible health care, where does that leave you with your theory ?

>It's REALLY hard to add an
>Amendment to the Constitution here.
> If I'm not mistaken,
>it has to be approved
>by 75% of Congress, signed
>by the President (Slick Willie),
>and then approved by 75%
>of the state governments.
>If I'm not mistaking, the
>last amendment approved was the
>Compensation of Representatives Act in
>1992. Before that, 21
>yrs had passed since the
>last one, which gave 18
>yr olds the right to
>vote. There have only
>been 27 amendments passed in
>this country's 224 yr history.
> Other than that, all
>laws made must adhere to
>the Constitution.

My question is : what does this have to do with the US being a republic ? Show me how the US being non democratic and a constitution with only few amendments are directly correlated.

What makes you say this is impossible within a democracy ?

>That's not power to the people.
>That's power to the
>majority.

Correct. ALL PEOPLE is the majority, be it a rather overwhelming majority. I guess 100% majority is a majority too

>Remind me never to live in
>Europe. I don't like
>the idea of one large
>governmental body that can override
>national soverignities. But once
>again, I'm sure the EU
>isn't a democratic government.
>How are representatives chosen anyways?
>Appointed?

Too bad you felt so sure. Don't worry, you're wrong about more stuff.

>Alright. Bush is proposing a
>tax cut that essentially is
>set up that for every
>$10 dollars that the higher
>income earners get, a dime
>will go to the middle
>income earners and a penny
>to the lower income earners.
> Gore is complaining about
>this, saying it isn't fair.
> However what Gore isn't
>telling people is that's how
>the tax bracket here is
>set up, in which for
>every $10 dollars the rich
>pays, the middle class pays
>a dime and the poor
>a penny. Hence, they
>should get back as much
>as they paid. Understand
>now?

How about people who used to pay little taxes (since they were poor) all their life, have become extremely rich the last couple of years and will now get back those $10 when they only paid one penny ? And vice versa ? A poor guy who used to pay $10 (since he was rich) and now gets one penny ?

Great system indeed.

>The average
>American, if they had to
>pay taxes first before they
>could get their full income,
>would be working for the
>government until sometime in mid
>May.

They don't just work for the government. A lot of taxes are being used (at least over here on this 'terrible' continent Europe) for roads, schools, etcetera. Which means people benefit from that.

PLUS companies benefit too (roads for transport), schools prepare kids to be good employees with middleclass values, ...

>But see, that's the problem.
>When you allow the majority
>to control the government, as
>in democracy, that is making
>the government overtly powerful.
>Why? Because the majority
>is going to use the
>government to impose their will.

What's the problem if the majority = 100% ? Meaning that the government provides for all people ?

>I don't allow businesses to control
>my life. Alot of
>people seem to forget that
>you control who you do
>business with, not the other
>way around. Now if
>there are one or two
>businesses in that market, that's
>different,

You're not THAT naive, are you ?
AOL-Time Warner ?
Procter & Gamble ?
Ford ?
Dole ?
Microsoft ?

You don't control who you do business with. Sure, it was your 'free' choice to work with Windows and buy those Dole bananas...


>but competition spurs businesses
>to give the people the
>best products.

Sure, that's why we have cigarettes with addictive toxics in 'm, that's why General Motors got their asses sued for making faulty cars, KNOWING it and still continuing selling 'm (real reason : it was cheaper to keep it faulty and to pay insurance companies now and then than making the car safer)

>believe in government interaction with
>businesses, but only to the
>point where they eliminate fraud
>and cutthroat competition. That's
>it, that's all.

At least we agree on something.
But you plan on doing so with a small government with a $10 budget ? If you want to face billion dollar companies, you need to be at least as strong as them.

>That
>should be decided by the
>laws of that nation based
>on the Constitution (although I
>must say, you guys must
>not be too good at
>making constitutions).

What is your Constitution based on ? LOL. Sad man, no sense of history whatsoever.

>>(I went to university
>>in the UK for 3
>>years), and by the trouble
>>they're having in getting rid
>>of it, and the mess
>>they're making of doing that.
>
>Yeah well what do you expect,
>they're Brits....

Irony/sarcasm translates bad on the Web, ignorance doesn't.


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