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Ace Acme

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6. We can't have Public Sector solutions to poverty because if we did

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 20, 2013, 04:04 PM

Nov 2013

that might lead people to develop all kinds of ideas (government is competent, government should solve problems, poverty should be solved) that are inconvenient to the Ruling Class.

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Oakland moves forward with surveillance center [View all] Jesus Malverde Nov 2013 OP

Disgusting Dopers_Greed Nov 2013 #1

And hired by christx30 Nov 2013 #2

Just more wrong-headed thinking. Solve poverty and you'll solve violence and crime. NYC_SKP Nov 2013 #3

+1 ...But klook Nov 2013 #5

Yup, all those Libertarian small-government high-tech entrepreneurs Ace Acme Nov 2013 #7

Nope. You have zero, zip evidence that any libertarians are involved in the Oakland center at all. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2013 #8

All the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs are Libertarians Ace Acme Nov 2013 #9

Prejudge much? I thought we were about facts, not the party of making stuff up. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2013 #10

I don't conclude that the entrepreneurs are Libertarians, I observe that they are nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #12

First. . .don't talk about groupthink and the Chinese. I live here. You haven't a clue Nanjing to Seoul Nov 2013 #14

Sadly, many people of both Big One Party poltitics love Surveillance. truedelphi Nov 2013 #11

We can't have Public Sector solutions to poverty because if we did Ace Acme Nov 2013 #6

Federal security pork is very seductive for cash-strapped cities Ace Acme Nov 2013 #4

+1 Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #16

Oakland's police are scarey, and this new Surveillance Center is too. truedelphi Nov 2013 #13

Excuse me, but ... undiegrinder Nov 2013 #15

Has anyone seen abducted children? Spouse abusers? Robbers making off with their goods? randome Nov 2013 #17

Power is inevitably abused. nt Ace Acme Nov 2013 #18

There is always a fine line to be tread, no doubt about that. randome Nov 2013 #19

It's hardly a fine line when they lie about what they're going to do Ace Acme Nov 2013 #20

The stoplight cameras were initially sold "to control traffic (flow)." The real intention was to blkmusclmachine Nov 2013 #21