The National Debt: Apocalypse Now
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Now, the question is how does one apply this tactic to the government without bloodshed...
Only other real alternatives are wade through the system with superuser privileges, or upgrade the hardware (i.e. discover the 'next big thing' and stimulate enough growth to make 100 trillion seem like pocket change)
Vote with your feet. Emigrate to a country that's more to your liking.
The prime idea (that America is a nation that is suffering due to over bothering) is common enough, and an interesting question to boot. The question he deftly avoids is whether falling into such debt through payouts to well-placed citizens is an inherent flaw of democratic systems.
He instead goes into partisan nonsense and avoids giving anything other than a general "THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS" vibe. It is a general rant; not focused on anything, with a vague threat about "a tsunami coming".
Even if the government concentrated on the external debt, you'd still have agencies hiring inspectors to enforce labour laws and H2Bs being brought in by large IT companies.
Flagged.
Taki, the owner of the website, is a well-known antisemite.
But I'm just another "liberal" calling "everything" racist, right?
This article is fucking stupid. Why do I keep seeing articles from racist websites on Hacker News?
Now that's insightful thinking!
Evidence? Since it's so well-known, I assume it won't be hard to supply.
And why should we even care? If they are racist, or like listening to Vanilla Ice, or something else sick, that's their problem.
Our problem (as citizen's of OECD countries) is that the regulatory welfare states we live in -- all of them -- are rapidly going bankrupt (hello Greece, Spain, Portugal, Britain, Japan, Italy, and soon the US). Even worse, the young people who are going to bear the brunt of this (which would include most HN readers) seem largely unaware of it. That is why this article is important.
So, would you explain how your ad hominem argument refutes what he is saying? Actually, it's kind of a second-order ad hominem, since you aren't even accusing the author of racism. There's still time though!
Look, this isn't a courtroom, and I'm not your research assistant. The fact that Taki and Vox Day are racists is well-known to anyone who knows anything about either of them. If you don't believe me then I suggest you Google and do some reading. I'd link to lmgtfy, but I don't want to be insulting. Taki characterizes himself as an anti-semite. Vox Day has an extensive written record of racist writings.
1. This article was incoherent and stupid, and it's on Hacker News.
2. A racist website was posted on Hacker News.
My time was wasted. I can't get it back, so I'll react instead to make myself feel better.