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Re: Smarm

A quarter of the full price. Half of the uncle-sam's rust belt discount price.

Define "average US businessman" then, 'cause I know a few and they're very decent fellows.

But I'm guessing you're not counting Mom & Pop discount stores as "businessmen".

Re: All the Judges (nationwide) OTHER than the Supremes are elected.

Dan Paul, this is not true. All Federal judges (Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals, District Courts, as well as miscellaneous others such as bankruptcy courts, the Tax Court, &c.) are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The judges on the Courts of Appeals (there are at least 150 of them) also have lifetime tenure. There are ten states which have governors who appoint state judges with the consent of at least one chamber of the state legislature, and in four of these ten states, the state judges have lifetime tenure. In Virginia and South Carolina, it is the legislature rather than citizens of the state that elects state judges. Many states use a hybrid model which started in Missouri, in which a commission draws up a list of candidates, from which a governor appoints one, and at the next election the voters have a chance to eject the new judge from office; if the voters approve of the judge, he gets to serve out the remainder of his term.

@ Dan Paul

And I wish people like you would pack up and move to somewhere like Somalia or Sudan. No laws or government there, it's all dog-eat-dog and devil take the weakest, just the way you like it. You're free to exploit others for your own gain, engage in social darwinism, and kill anybody you don't like. You can even staff your factories with slave labour, if you so wish. Saves having to pay all those lazy good-for-nothing lower-class plebeians, eh?

Meanwhile, those of us who understand the most basic principles of civilisation and respect for others, would like to continue living in the countries that have prospered under those principles, in more fair and equitable conditions, free from the greed and selfishness of bigots like you.

Re: No living in the States for him then (Or You for that matter)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

There you go Dan, something to be proud of!

I have lived in the States (2 years, I liked it)

I worked 10 hour days 6 days a week, now I live in Spain though I'm a Brit, I pay my own medical insurance and expect nothing from anyone but that does not mean that I don't have a social conscience and care about the people around me whether I know them or not.

The ability to form society is one of the things that makes humans successful on an evolutionary scale.

From your post though I doubt you agree with evolution and I expect your notion of social conscience is telling a post traumatic, Vietnam Vet with no legs and a cup in front of him on the street to 'Get A Job! '.

Next time you manage to get your head out of your arse forget patriotism for a minute and have a really good objective look at the land of free and try to turn off the TV and read some real information about the world you live in. An alternative would be to apply for abdominal fenestration then you can keep your head up your arse and still have some small idea of what is genuinely going on around you.

Have a nice day!

Bootnote: You clearly don't know what a chav is but the part of the UK I am from added to my age group and calling me a name like that will get you some of the UK's FREE ER care.