John Kerry Has This Ass Backwards

"We are beginning to behave like a poor nation," he added, saying some Americans do not perceive the connection between U.S. engagement abroad and the U.S. economy, their own jobs and wider U.S. interests."

Maybe the real problem for Kerry is that US citizens are starting to understand that involvement in foreign wars have undermined their interests in the form of:

• wealth loss through taxation to pay for the wars
• wealth loss through inflation created by Federal Reserve monetary expansion to help mask the taxation to pay for the wars
• the consolidation of political power by the corporations known as the military industrial complex
• the consolidation of information and news by the same corporations into a war propaganda cartel 
• and most of all the loss of life and mental and physical disabilities inflicted on our sons and daughters.  

Maybe he needs to elaborate exactly what he thinks American interests are, because all I can figure is he speaks of the interests of a small power elite that we just had to bail out with the biggest welfare program in the history of the world a few years back.... 

(Quote Reported in Zero Hedge)

ALL or only State Regulated?

"[My constituents are] willing to have that discussion about whether marriage needs to be regulated by the state at all," Turner said.
[emphasis mine]

So lawmakers are going to give us the freedom to enter marriage without the little trip to the court house to grovel before the state and pay our little fee to get married...but wait!!!  Michael Konopasek makes the big jump into the cesspool of fallacy by claiming that this would ban ALL [caps his] marriage in the state of Oklahoma.

Kiesel says prohibiting all marriage is new territory. In fact, the ACLU was unable to find an example of where a state has ever tried to ban all marriage.

Maybe Kiesel and Konopasek are ignorant of history and thus unable to find an example of unregulated marriage. If so they shouldn't feel too bad about it since all education in this country is somehow controlled by the state and these things aren't widely disseminated:


[From The Wikipedia]
For most of Western history, marriage was a private contract between two families. Until the 16th-century, Christian churches accepted the validity of a marriage on the basis of a couple’s declarations. If two people claimed that they had exchanged marital vows—even without witnesses—the Catholic Church accepted that they were validly married.

Some states in the US hold that public cohabitation can be sufficient evidence of a valid marriage. Marriage license application records from government authorities are widely available starting from the mid-19th century. Some are available dating from the 17th century in colonial America. Marriage licenses have been required since 1639 in Massachusetts, with their use gradually expanding to other jurisdictions.

So Oklahomans, led by their buddies in the media are clamoring to be held to standards more abject than those imposed by the Medieval Catholic Church. And to make matters worse, while scrolling through the comments on the News 9 site and Facebook, most of the pro-liberty comments have been scrubbed.....

( Lawmakers Consider Preventing ALL Marriage In Oklahoma )

American Civics 101

Take all of the issues that are important to the politically unconnected voters, put them in a list, and divide that list into two semi-coherent lists. Give one list to each party. These are your campaign promises. Lists can be tweaked by region.

Take all of the things the politically connected want to do to those voters, put them in a list, and divide that list into two semi-coherent lists. Give one list to each party. These are the things to compromise on once elected. Make sure to tie each item to some Chicken Little type of crisis to lead everyone right to the wolves.

Make sure to throw voters some random crumbs. Nothing feeds addictive behavior like random rewards....

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