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Kiroen I'll hopefully address your post tomorrow, but I'm a bit sleepy right now. I just want to make this one comment. THIS is why the State Governments are supposed to be able to make the majority of the choices as opposed to the Federal Government. It's competition and needs of people depending on who's there and what there is.

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There are flaws with every system as you said. Communism's main one is there's ZERO motivation to achieve anything other than the bare minimum. No incentives. Hence progression comes to a huge crawl. If you want my honest opinion. What would be best overall would probably be a pendulum swaying back and forth between Socialism and Capitalism so it could be rebalanced whenever it gets too out of swing. However none of these systems are ever good if the people are struggling and we're going into massive debt simultaneously. Spending needs to be cut across the board except Education, but even that needs to be re-evaluated and done more efficiently.

Give me a sound argument as to why Communism or Socialism or whateverism is better than Capitalism. Not in theory, the actual implementation of it. I'm willing to listen to anyone who wants to provide evidence in order to try to prove their point.

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Gonna have to disagree with you a lot here. 1. Ted Cruz - You know that fear you have as a small child when your Dad REALLY yells at you? Damn, Ted Cruz knows how to pull something off like that. 2. Mike Huckabee - Well played Mike, well played. 3. Marco Rubio - He didn't come across as hostile or adamant as the two above but he came across very knowledgable, even-keeled, and presidential not letting the heat of the moment get to him in any way. He said things very eloquently most of the time and ultimately was the most persuasive I thought. 4. Chris Christie - I might not agree with much of what he said, but he had the counters speech wise that he needed each time. Still would never vote for the guy. 5. Donald Trump - He came across like...... Donald Trump. He talked big, but ultimately dodged question after question. 6. John Kasich - He was very..... passive, unenthusiastic sounding. He seemed feeble comparatively speaking. 7. Rand Paul - Rand got the short end of the stick, getting considerably less time to talk than all of the other candidates, and a lot of the time he did have he didn't get to speak about anything on his own behalf, it was always on retort to others. He wasn't given a fair shot if you ask me. I agree with him in principle more than any other candidate, but the interruptions weren't good for his public image. 8. Scott Walker - Are you running for Mayor..... or president here man? 9. Ben Carson - He seemed all around nervous. 10. Jeb Bush - Every time he opened his mouth I thought I was listening to Mr. Rogers.

For his sake I hope he's a #genwunner

Before the debate: After the Debate: Marco Rubio - He came across as knowledgeable, he talked about the real issues at hand, and overall he seemed the most fit for being president out of all the candidates up there. He didn't waste time calling others out he gave us his ideas and didn't just think within the box. He stresses education which is something I completely agree on. The only downside in my opinion of what he said is that he doesn't support abortion under the circumstances of rape or danger to the mother's life. Ted Cruz - This dude has balls man. He's a damn wolf. An assassin. He'd make any democrat have to bring their A game each and every time. Rand Paul - Not surprisingly to me, Rand Paul got far and away the least time to speak. He had to interrupt often times to get what he did. They gave him the short stick. And while I agree with Paul whole heartedly on the comments he made in the spat between him and Christie, I believe the public is going to favor Chrstie as a whole in that. I think if Rand didn't have an up hill battle before last night, he certainly does now. Mike Huckabee - As someone who's run multiple times before, I sort of came in with the mindset "we've seen him before, if he was going to amount to anything we would have seen it by now." Well I'll be damned he put on a fairly good show. I can definitely get behind this "fair tax" which taxes consumption rather than revenue. After the debate he explained that by taxing revenue instead of consumption, it actually puts domestic businesses at a big disadvantage to international counterparts and that really hurts a lot of companies. He seemed to know what he was doing up there from start to finish. Ben Carson - Here's where the drop off starts in my eyes. I liked his answers for the most part, however I think his lack of political experience is ultimately something that can not be ignored. I like his outlook on the economy, but I'm not big on military expansion. I believe our Military needs to be better utilized not more funded. Jeb Bush - I'll say this, I didn't know the exact state of Florida, but it seems to overall have done well in his hands. I didn't come in with high expectations for him, but he did exceed the ones I had. I'd be comfortable enough with him to vote for him at this point. Scott Walker - Wasn't too big on what I knew about him coming in, but I wanted to hear what he had to say. He really didn't impress me too much. He used a lot of generic thoughts, ideas, and nothing stood out about him. Donald Trump - He took away time that could have been used for real candidates for his little publicity stunt. He doesn't -really- want to be president. John Kaisch - Pretty much the same as Scott Walker but he just seemed even more vanilla. Chris Christie - I'd vote Bernie Sanders over him, hell maybe even Hillary. This dude's a joke.

Not usually too into Disturbed anymore, but I dig this remix.

The question is where do we define the very rich? I'm all for low taxes on people who are actively providing more and more jobs. It's a different story if people are just making money by manipulating money. Does the individual or business in question provide a good or service that ultimately benefits the economy as a whole by promoting greater flow of money? Or are they instead just manipulating the system to their advantage? What portion of the business is being put forward to create more jobs or better quality good or services? https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_2012.pdf Small businesses comprise what share of the U.S. economy? Small businesses make up: 99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms 64 percent of net new private-sector jobs 49.2 percent of private-sector employment 42.9 percent of private-sector payroll 46 percent of private-sector output 43 percent of high-tech employment 98 percent of firms exporting goods 33 percent of exporting value. Raising taxes on the top 1% greatly hurts small businesses and in turn many Jobs are lost. I have a thought that did just cross my mind. Raise taxes on the very wealthy, however if the individual in question makes the majority of their earnings from a business they own, they'd have lower tax rates than say a hired CEO, or anyone else who is making in the big bucks without actually being the grandmaster. There would obviously have to be more in depth examination and ways to close loop holes, but this seems like a pretty good starting point in my opinion. Realistically the top 1% is vilified, but it breaks down even further. The top .1% or .01% could be seen as those who are most inclined to have just ludicrous amounts of money. The line for the top 1% is only $400,000 annually for a household. If you're looking at growing small businesses who would hire more people to expand their business, raising taxes on them puts a hurting on a huge portion of the small business jobs. I think we need to take it back to the roots. We need to provide better education for more people in order to give better opportunities for more to succeed. Even modest estimates have 100% funded post high school education at about $70 Billion per year. Now look at how much we're spending on the military annually. The US Military budget comes out to over $580 Billion. Why do we need so much there? Oh and the following are 100% absolutely our allies. >UK >France >Japan >Germany >South Korea >Italy >Israel >Australia There's also a slew of other programs run by the government that are completely inefficient, corrupt, and mistreated that could stand to be cut to put funds to better use. Many of which are under the radar. We need to educate the masses first, and not punish those that are actively creating jobs and goods or services. If there's a way we can increase tax rates without harming the potential for jobs then I'm all for it.

Precisely. If you can come up with a better alternative, then I'm all ears, but every system now has it's flaws. Every system has it's benefits in theory. Unfortunately, economics has countless variables that make it difficult to really have things go optimally for very long. As harsh as it sounds and I'm not saying things are best the way they are right now, but "To be a winner there must also be a loser."

Absolutely not.

I don't think that'd be hard to code but perhaps a wee bit tedious, not out of the question if you wanted to go that route.

Alchemi, the Shadow Ball and Psychic on Ledian was a Copy Paste Error, feel free to remove or delete those as you see fit.

It's that time of year again. Pre season starts this sunday with the Hall of Fame game in Canton Ohio. Pittsburgh vs Minnesota http://www.nfl.com/schedules/2015/PRE0 I'd ask who ya got, but it is pre season.

Ledian HP 55 -> 65 Attack 35 -> 75 Defense 50 -> 50 Special Attack 55 -> 75 Special Defense 110 -> 110 Speed 85 -> 105 BST: 390 -> 480 Type: No change Ability: -Early Bird +Sheer Force TM Compatibility: +Psychic, +Shadow Ball Moves: Comet Punch L1 -> Drain Punch L1 Swift L41 -> Dazzling Gleam L41

Its senses.

I'd say one fan game forum is plenty. A lot of them I honestly have doubts if they'll ever come to fruition fully. I don't find it necessary myself. As for implementation help. We could start a thread and pin it. I won't be the one to start it though.

5/10

Per request from Kurotsune The conversation that lead to this.

Today I learned I'm a Lion and my sister was shot. http://wqad.com/2015/08/03/cecil-the-lions-brother-jericho-alive-and-well/