Jfaust's Waterfall
People are already getting killed over drug wars, because it is illegal. If the government can legally control trade of things such as marijuana, there won't be shady cartels and smuggling. People are already using marijuana on a daily basis, legalizing won't change that. However, the government will make a profit off of the taxes on these people.
Prohibition is ineffective and makes the government look powerless. During alcohol prohibition, people drank despite laws. Today, a large amount of Americans smoke marijuana on a somewhat regular basis. The government is throwing money on the war on drugs, which is not effective. It costs lots of money to prohibit things, when there is an opportunity to make money off of these things.
Once a stereotype stars, it is very hard to stop it. Stereotypes of Jews are still around today. There is a snowball effect and one a stereotype starts and is almost impossible to stop it. It is easiest to try to prevent stereotypes from starting.
I agree. Because the children weren't in school, they were unable to get an education. Because they couldn't get an education, they were stuck working in a factory their entire life. The cycle continues until conditions are finally improved.
It is being forced though. The citizens of places like Iraq and Afghanistan can't tell us how they feel about our military presence. Nationalistic journalism just says that they want us there, but we have no way of knowing if this is true. Many of the people shooting at our soldiers are citizens of these countries who don't like our presence.
It was a good idea. We have plenty of oil here which is cheaper for us. People complain about pumping oil out of the United states and how it ruins the environment, but they turn a blind eye when it is in another country, even though it stills ruins the environment there.
I agree. People want recall him just because they don't agree with his political opinions. Many people don't agree with Obama, but that doesn't mean he should be impeached. This is just part of a democratic election. This recall is also costing the state lots of money. Or economy is terrible and we can't afford to spend money on something trivial like a recall election.
We are in debt hugely, but we are still spending money on things like foreign wars in Afghanistan. Soldiers are dying and nothing is being accomplished but we are still spending money. Our economy is terrible but we are still trying to fix middle eastern economies.
I agree. European relations were tense and the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was an excuse to go to war. American got dragged into it and should have remained neutral or tried to negotiate. We should have just not gotten involved like Canada did during Vietnam.
America being founded on colonies shows how we have always been imperialistic but this isn't necessarily a great thing. The reason we rebelled from the British is because they were over controlling and imperialistic. 300 years ago we thought that that was bad, but now we are doing it to other countries.
It was a terrible time, but it was necessary. The terrible things that happened then lead to the creation of things such as the FDA and labor unions.
Often those other countries did not want help. The Vietnamese citizens hated american soldiers. We did more harm then help and just aggravated the people. In the end, we pulled out with no victory, instead just dead soldiers.
We overstepped boundaries in the Spanish-American war. We had no reason to show other countries the we wouldn't back down. As a country, we would have had no problems if we didn't get involved. The war just brought fighting and poor rapport with other countries.
