And then they decided to say that moonshine has vitamins. It does, but it's still homemade and it is dangerous.

And moonshiners! They saw a profit and reached to seize the opportunity. They would do anything to turn a profit. Anything morally wrong is now right for them!

They did this to help the children of alcoholics and to attempt to eliminate drinking crimes.

Prohibition is a temporary thing to help give the government face. That way they can say, "oh, we did that, uh-huh, yep, no doubt about it, we have control." The junk always comes back stronger. The drug trade has its own economy, the more it is prevented, the more demand there is, and the less supply. This makes it extremely valuable.

Prohibition creates a danger effect, making people want to do it because it is a no. So reverse psychology shows that people will naturally do it to fight back.

I think that people are too literal with their promises. Think about it, what promises, within reason, has he not kept? What promises did he make that he didn't keep that were within his power?

Leif Ericksson was a person that discovered America supposedly. Some people say Amerigo Vespucci did as well though! I think that people had kept America a secret for as long as they could. Perhaps to better their own standing?

But people say that he is the cause of disease in America! He also brought greed and less peace with nature. He is also the cause of much bad blood between America and Native Americans in the future!

Power does funny things to people. And people do funny things to power! Hitler, for example, he was a bit messed up in the head, but he convinced many people to their deaths in WWII.

Trains took quite a while to catch on. But when they did they became a very useful method of transport. They took a while to replace horses. But horses are easier to grow. They are also easier to maintain!

Cannibalism is generally frowned upon in society. But they survived. It's not like they murdered each other but they ate their dead. I guess it saves the trouble of burying them!

Communism is a good system for equality. But it doesn't allow for progression or the pursuit of money. I personally don't believe in communism as that means that sometimes dictators are taking all the excess.

We always rebuild the countries we bomb! It's like we're that bully on the playground who feels remorse.

Our Iraqi war is mostly technological and planning. WWI was all about new tech. But they used the tech in an old fashioned way, making it 10 times as brutal.

I think that WWII was just an extension of WWI because of the short period between and the bad blood with the German people. Hitler may have been evil but we weren't particularly kind to them either.

In the movie we watched in US History Class people were shown in bad conditions. And that was just a movie. Imagine the real thing! I don't think that you could ever sleep again afterwards.

Prostitution should be a freedom. It happens anyway and it would be safer if they put laws in place to protect it rather than stop it. There is less cost in adding safety laws than chasing down people.

The SOPA is causing much dispute from the people who make web products. I would personally hate to have SOPA go through. I value my privacy and Google already helps to control this problem. I don't think it will go through. There are too many people who don't want this to go through.

I would like your opinion. Did Christopher Columbus bring about the destruction of the innocence in America?

The best part about Obama is that he tries and doesn't seem to have a large agenda for himself. He promised to do more than he could handle, yet all presidents do. I don't see why this makes such a big deal that he hasn't done all of it yet.

What makes Obama such a great president beyond the fact that he is democratic? I don't think any of the canidates are idiots, or they wouldn't have gotten this far. Obama COULD do a lot more but most likely won't as it is likely that he won't be reelected.

Link to a somewhat biased article about Obama's chances of reelection.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/01/09/poll-americans-2-1-fear-obamas-reelection

This is one of my favorite topics to talk about. When humans find something that's different than them, they try to create an illusion of similarity by forcing it onto others. This happens to animals all the time. "Humanizing". An act of evil to us may be survival to them.

This is the definition of humanizing

make or become human: to make something human or like humans, or become human or like humans

It's true, but all countries have a certain sense of honor. We are part of the country and therefore the imperialism. And we are therefore prone to calling the country great.

They were imperialistic. They were also nationalistic and had a lot of pride. Manifest Destiny drove us West, imperialism drove us out.

Not entirely. They weren't lying to people, they were exaggerating the painful truth. What they did was try to dig up interesting dirt to increase their own fame.

The world is watching for the new presidential canidate. I think that Obama hs no chance because the accomplishments he promised weren't completed during his time in office.

If drugs were legal, the sneakiness would be over! People wouldn't need to be chased by cops and people would get bored. There would be no thrills from the sneakiness and the chase.

People need to protect the nature on earth from the people who want to destroy people.

I agree with you technologically and in the need for knowledge. Philosophically we need to move back to a time where people trust other people and nobody needs to be bitter or greedy.

We still need consumer protection so people aren't put into the poor house by greedy business owners.

Prostitution should be allowed, but protected by laws similar to factory laws, for safety of the workers.

Casual drug use should be allowed, but discouraged, for people as it can hurt you to use some drugs.

Unions are for people's protection and business protection. Labor unions allow for civilized negotiations.

You're agreeing with me, for one. For two, I support use of Pinkertons.

I'm sorry I forgot, you don't need money to pay for food it just magically materializes on your table. And sorry, it's cloth.

Minimum wage is needed to pay for food on my table. The people of this country need money to survive. If there's no minimum wage, who says you won't try to lower it past a dollar?

Instead of raising minimum wage, the shopkeepers can reduce the amount to pay for goods. It saves paper. *Laughs

I like the minimum wage. It helps me provide for my family.

I agree that you need to respect your workers, but Pinkertons are protection for men who run the decent businesses.

Standing up for yourself doesn't include hitting the people next to you. That's violence, not courage.

Complaining is different than starting violence anyway. You can't promise us better pay because you will lie.

Pinkertons are hired policemen where policemen are needed. There is little law that can control the mobs.

Saying what you feel is different than violence against people who don't deserve it.

Pinkertons aren't bad people. They are paid to do their job, just like the rest of us. They get a bad name because they just happen to fight in their job.

People do bad things when they're angry. Those people who get riled up aren't in the right either.

The businessmen who give us jobs that are horrible still don't need to die. It's not right. I agree with Pinkertons.

The jobs you gave us are bad for the economy. If we have no money to spend then we could die. I don't see a dream in starving.

Pinkertons are out there stopping the violence against everybody. Not there to hurt us.

I say go ahead! If you want to waste your money go right ahead! Pinkertons are expensive!

They didn't cut back to help the workers. They don't really care about them.

The people who work, no matter how many hours, still get paid less for the amount. If the worker is doing more efficient work they should get paid for it. If you make 10 products a minute, you should get paid by the product, not the minute.