Author Topic: What's wrong with this country?  (Read 22630 times)

Tallpine

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Re: What's wrong with this country?
« Reply #125 on: August 16, 2007, 01:32:01 PM »
Well stated, jnojr

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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it.  - Ursula Le Guin

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Re: What's wrong with this country?
« Reply #126 on: August 16, 2007, 03:09:13 PM »
Worked for Switzerland for half a thousand years or so.

--Len.


Ah yes, Switzerland, that bastion of Utopian Libertarianism for
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half a thousand years or so
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"free trade in gold teeth, art and family heirlooms with all, wars and entangling alliances with none."

Now there's something to aspire too!
Personally, I do not understand how a bunch of people demanding a bigger govt can call themselves anarchist.
I meet lots of folks like this, claim to be anarchist but really they're just liberals with pierced genitals. - gunsmith

I already have canned butter, buying more. Canned blueberries, some pancake making dry goods and the end of the world is gonna be delicious.  -French G