Let's not just agree to disagree, let's agree to live in different countries where both of you can implement your choice of economic systems on what is now US...
My biggest worry is that she could suppress me or us broadly speaking including seasteaders or island based secessionists in Puerto Rico, Hawaii (which was...
Let's not agree to live in different countries--let's agree to live on different planets. A billion miles of Space is better than any border. And let's not...
... Who needs one far-reaching comprehensive plan?! This is worth reading btw: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care -- Anton Sherwood *\\*...
Did I need to specify a plan to just rid of all those competion-restricting laws... When/if I end up in hospital will put up a sign behind my bed reading DID...
Well the important point is that it is a STATE LEGISLATURE driven process. We may not get everything we WANT with one, but we will no doubt get what we NEED ....
You'll never be able to get rid of all the politicians and interest groups. but who would you rather have deciding your futures---those from your neck of the...
By heavily paid contraception I mean a tax funded program with overpopulation goals similar to China's one child policy, but instead of forcing contraception,...
- Interesting situation - might this provide an opportunity to encourage the Navajo to reaffirm their sovereignty as some Lakota groups have? Gned the Gnome -...
replace representative majority rule governance with direct democracy where laws can only be passed if 90% of everyone over 13 years agrees and you'll have a...
good ideas ... replace representative majority rule governance with direct democracy where laws can only be passed if 90% of everyone over 13 years agrees and...
- Actually there's a partly new thing called Free Association / Delegable Proxy which looks promising. I bet that a combination of DP and Virtual Cantons would...
Thanks for explaining that, Al. Space is beautiful and billions will want to live there. Domed cities and Gerard O'Neill spaceship colonies, etc., are all...
Russell <http://www.republicoflakotah.com/2009/russell-means-with-dr-katherine-albre cht/> Means Interview with Dr. Katherine Albrecht September 12, 2009 by ...
Its simple really. I've just written to my Governor of the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" to establish a Commission to determine what the u.s. house ...
- Interesting idea, and a compromise between the current de facto system and the URT's model. The logical extension of your suggestion, with some of our model...
I would prefer districts (and gerrymandering) be eliminated by electing congress statewide by parliamentary system with each party getting seats in proportion...
I'm very new to this list so I have a basic question: Isn't the whole idea of government based on any contiguous land mass - whether it's big, like the current...
I don't consider individual secession to be realistic, though Gned does. Neighborhood secession from big cities is a very important concept especially to...
Thanks. A few clarifications: It's not realistic because it realistically wouldn't work, or because it realistically can't be gotten from here? What is not...
- Ultimately you've got it right, and it's called Panarchy, which means multiple competing local gov't's in the same territory, no more territorial monopolies....
I meant primarily that it can't be gotten to from here. Once I established that, the other question is moot and so I don't have to consider it or make a...
- Interesting idea, including your initial discussion of why the current system is so badly flawed that the normal process may already be beyond repair, but I...
One thing I need to mention here as a reminder is that voting machine issues like paper printouts are already highly decentralized, usually decided at the...
I can't speak for others but I don't see how a movement based around "faith" is going to get me involved... The first page says something about "Faith in ...
As Benjamin Franklin said on the last day of the Constitutional convention in 1787. "In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8310928.stm Terms for Sudan referendum agreed Armed man in southern Sudan 23.9.09 More than 2,000 people have died in ethnic...
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