tfurrh
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Still waiting on those facts...

Another good one. So far every show was one my family watched regularly. Space 1999 Moving On Kung Fu (of course) Rockford Files

Ok, you sucked me in. I NEVER missed an episode of this one. My hands down favorite 70s TV show ever, bar none.

Man, I stepped out of this thread due to your willful ignorance and doublespeak - just seems like a lost cause. It's so simple, if you want your home to operate without foreign products, stop buying them. But why force the rest of us?? This isn't hard. For some reason, socialists always think that because they want to live a certain way, everyone else should be force to live that way, too. I like my Scotch and my bourbon. I don't need a government middle-man making me pay HIM a fee because the bourbon lobby funding his campaign doesn't like the competition. I was going to spend that money on my kid's piano lessons, but I guess now his piano teacher will have one less student and my kid will learn on his own. Thanks, socialist busybody!

What? No more Kolchak fans?

It’s one of my faves too. I rewatch it every now and then when I’m feeling nostalgic for the 70s.

Looking around this forum lately I’d say we don’t need governments for that. We’re doing a pretty damn good job of it ourselves.

Man, you just don’t get it. We’re going to TAX our way to prosperity and security. Oh wait, we’ve got to do one more thing. Maintain a rigidly enforced hegemony. You know, looking at that again, it kinda reminds me of something.

Well, you and I have a slightly different take on Trump. I do think Trump is a monkey wrench to their plans. I just think he's useful to them. He's shown very little inclination to reduce government power - only a strong inclination to use it. But he can't be relied upon to use it in the way they want. So, instead of ignoring him, they use him to help grow their power for the next round. It's risky, but not as risky as having a true liberty candidate start attracting people.

For me, the appeal of RFK has nothing to do with his prospects of winning. We're screwed no matter who the figurehead is. For me, it's about causing the DNC heartache. I see anything that causes the machine some grief as a good thing. Their plans for us didn't include Kennedy. I'll take as many curveballs to their plans as possible.

Your first comment is patently false and there is an abundance of real life evidence and experience to demonstrate that fact. I’ve presented just a tiny little bit of it above, which, if past experience with you is any guide, you’ll probably just blithely dismiss as “not compelling.” Your second line above merely amounts to saying “let them eat cake.” I guess it’s always nice when you can offload most of the suffering necessary in the attempt to reach your own glorious view of the way things ought to be onto others. It makes it so much easier to make those “difficult” decisions, I’m sure.

Now see? There IS a market based solution for almost every problem!

Here are a couple more quick ones: Kidney stones are a pretty common medical issue here in the US. Every year about a quarter million people are hospitalized for kidney stone treatment. In 1985, 1149 died due to complications arising from kidney stones. Well, back in 1984 a West German company had developed-ed a new lithotripter machine that could be used to destroy kidney stones from outside the body using shock waves. The procedure is much less invasive, painful and dangerous than then traditional kidney stone surgery. In order to “protect” US medical equipment manufacturers, not a single one of which was even contemplating a machine like the West German lithotripter at the time, the US slapped a hefty tariff on the machine. One hospital, upon importing just one lithotripter paid a tariff, just the tariff of $189,964.32?!? As one might imagine this insane tax discouraged a great many from quickly adopting this life-saving technology and as a result there were many unnecessary deaths and many many more patients had to endure the much more painful and invasive traditional treatments. Another:

Good call. Can’t wait to pay even more for everything so a bunch more indolent dullards can be made safe and secure in their brand new government jobs!

Tell that to the American poor and middle class who at the moment are burdened by levels of price inflation that are really putting a bite on them. I’m sure they’d be delighted to pay even higher prices for the goods and services they need every day in order to accommodate the protectionist tariffs you and Swordy delude yourselves into believing will help them out. “In the long run,” of course. If they survive intact to see it.

ROTFL!