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[Nihil Obstat]

I'm sure it's possible to find. We export A LOT of beef.
Don't believe anyone that tries to talk about mad cow disease. It's a non issue.

[princessgianna]

yea I know! The cases reported were chances in a million!

[Nihil Obstat]

Plus since then the crackdown has been enormous. If a farmer thinks there's even a chance that there might be a problem with a single cow, he kills every single one of the and destroys the meat.

[princessgianna]

he kills all the cows or just the one?

[Nihil Obstat]

All of them. Just in case.
(BSE spreads. I forget how, but it does.)

[princessgianna]

cool never knew that!

Not to mention how his lawyer feels!

[Nihil Obstat]

Now that I think about it, those beef cows have a rough life. They live under pretty gross conditions, to be perfectly honest. That's high density farming too, so killing them all... that's hundreds, sometimes thousands of cows.

[princessgianna]

In japan- they feed the cows beer and give them massages daily! And the price of a piece of steak in like $100!

[Nihil Obstat]

Those crazy Japanese.

[princessgianna]

[Nihil Obstat]

They drink too much warm sake, apparently.

[princessgianna]

I also concede on that too!

[Nihil Obstat]

I've never tried sake, but I'd like to.

[Deus te Amat]

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='Socrates' post='1940249' date='Aug 4 2009, 01:25 AM']I'm getting sick of these insinuations that anyone who's politically conservative or not on board with Obama's socialism is somehow not really Catholic.[/quote]

Seems to me it's the other way around... for some reason, being politically conservative is often considered the "authentic" Catholic position, in spite of the fact that our faith is primarily concerned with morals and ethics; conservative politics is primarily concerned with fiscal matters. Do you see the disconnect?

[quote name='Socrates' post='1940249' date='Aug 4 2009, 01:25 AM']There's plenty about Obama and his policies to be scared about.[/quote]

The only thing that truely worries me about Obama is his anti-life agenda. I don't care for his approach to economics and healthcare, but I'm not concerned that much is really going to change. Just take the good with the bad and work to change what you can.

[quote name='Socrates' post='1940249' date='Aug 4 2009, 01:25 AM']And whatever your opinion is about the "Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks," the federal government attempting to regulate public speech based on its political content a la the "Fairness Doctrine" should be worrisome to any freedom-loving American.[/quote]

My problem with the conservative talk show hosts is their abrasive and arrogant attitudes push people towards the Democratic/liberal side of issues. Unfortunately, it would violate the Constitution to shut them up.

[quote name='Socrates' post='1940265' date='Aug 4 2009, 01:42 AM']The USPS is broke (and will require a raise in taxes to maintain its cheap services).[/quote]

The USPS does not operate on tax revenue. They will need to raise postage prices, just like any business raises prices over time. Still, our mail gets delivered just fine and since the fixed costs are so significant, competition wouldn't provide much benefit.

[quote name='Socrates' post='1940265' date='Aug 4 2009, 01:42 AM']Federal government (particularly the Federal Reserve) is responsible for our current recession by artificially manipulating the market by forcing artificially low interest rates, which create artificial booms and resulting severe busts, rather than allowing the market to be determined by actual supply and demand (in which case the boom-bust cycle is avoided).[/quote]

Do you like when gas prices jump 40 cents in a weekend? That's kind of volatility would occur all over the economy without regulation of interest rates. Perhaps there are other answers besides the Federal Reserve, or maybe the Fed needs some sort of reform, but remember that whatever you gain in a trade-off comes with corresponding costs. With the Fed, we gain long-term stabililty and more predictable growth at the cost of the efficiency of a more purely capitalist economy. It's a trade-off, but one that most Americans gladly accept.

[quote name='Socrates' post='1940265' date='Aug 4 2009, 01:42 AM']Government intervention actually has a horrible track record of actually helping private enterprise (much of our economic disaster was caused, and will be perpetuated by, government subsidization of banks and businesses with unsound practices, which would have been forced to reform or fail, rather than be bailed-out, in a true free market).[/quote]

Then take that up with your representatives. Everything sounds great on paper, including a "true free market," but in real life it doesn't work out so well. It's easy to give government a bad rep just like it's easy to blame our problems on any large institution (General Motors, Microsoft, the Catholic Church). I agree that there are plenty of problems; I disagree that there are solutions. Every so-called "solution" only presents different problems. Fortunately, as a republic, our society has a say in which side of the trade-off we prefer.