07-27-2021, 07:58 AM
Were it not for the hippie, Boomer left, a compromise like this would not be necessary.
Same goes for health care, whose compromise would entail abolishing the money-losing penny (which costs 1.6 cents to produce) and rounding up all retail purchases to the next higher nickel, which costs 11 cents to produce, so its composition needs to be changed to its current 75/25 copper-nickel alloy to much cheaper stainless steel (as Canada did two separate times in the middle of the last century). The revenue these two changes would raise would be enough to reimburse hospitals and free clinics for the charity care they still provide to the estimated 30 million uninsured that remain even with ObamaCare. Further revenue can be added by legalizing marijuana for all purposes in all 50 states and imposing a stiff tax on it, and also stiffly taxing "remittances" sent out of the country by illegal aliens, and also on other items that are bought almost exclusively by the underclass, most notably "throwaway" cell phones and their refill minutes - a favorite of drug dealers in particular.
A four-point compromise will also be needed to deal with the problem of excessive force by the police against people of color: First, allow cops to "knee-cap" unarmed, fleeing suspects, instead of always shooting to kill; second, as above, legalizing marijuana, which will cut contacts between the police and communities of color greatly; third, repeal the blatantly racist, classist confiscatory gun laws, like New York State's infamous Sullivan Law (95% of all inmates serving time under that law are African-American or Latino), which will also abolish "stop and frisk" en passant because what the police would be looking for in a "stop and frisk" would no longer be illegal to possess; and fourth, implement same-race policing - only African-American cops patrol African-American-American neighborhoods, only Latino cops patrol Latino neighborhoods, and so on; and if you think that this is "radical," Boston did this very thing in 1850, after the city's Irish Catholics complained of the brutal treatment they were receiving from WASP cops. The resulting mass hiring of Irish police officers directly led to the tradition of the Irish civil servant - which quickly spread not only to other cities, but to other uniformed services as well, particularly fire departments.
Instead of an Age of Aquarius, we are stuck with an Age of Compromise.
Same goes for health care, whose compromise would entail abolishing the money-losing penny (which costs 1.6 cents to produce) and rounding up all retail purchases to the next higher nickel, which costs 11 cents to produce, so its composition needs to be changed to its current 75/25 copper-nickel alloy to much cheaper stainless steel (as Canada did two separate times in the middle of the last century). The revenue these two changes would raise would be enough to reimburse hospitals and free clinics for the charity care they still provide to the estimated 30 million uninsured that remain even with ObamaCare. Further revenue can be added by legalizing marijuana for all purposes in all 50 states and imposing a stiff tax on it, and also stiffly taxing "remittances" sent out of the country by illegal aliens, and also on other items that are bought almost exclusively by the underclass, most notably "throwaway" cell phones and their refill minutes - a favorite of drug dealers in particular.
A four-point compromise will also be needed to deal with the problem of excessive force by the police against people of color: First, allow cops to "knee-cap" unarmed, fleeing suspects, instead of always shooting to kill; second, as above, legalizing marijuana, which will cut contacts between the police and communities of color greatly; third, repeal the blatantly racist, classist confiscatory gun laws, like New York State's infamous Sullivan Law (95% of all inmates serving time under that law are African-American or Latino), which will also abolish "stop and frisk" en passant because what the police would be looking for in a "stop and frisk" would no longer be illegal to possess; and fourth, implement same-race policing - only African-American cops patrol African-American-American neighborhoods, only Latino cops patrol Latino neighborhoods, and so on; and if you think that this is "radical," Boston did this very thing in 1850, after the city's Irish Catholics complained of the brutal treatment they were receiving from WASP cops. The resulting mass hiring of Irish police officers directly led to the tradition of the Irish civil servant - which quickly spread not only to other cities, but to other uniformed services as well, particularly fire departments.
Instead of an Age of Aquarius, we are stuck with an Age of Compromise.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892