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and death, inheritance and marraige taxes. When you think about it, paramedics are th first on scene ususally, if no ones around, how would anyone know if they let someone die or tried to help them......this is espcially true in the area in which I live.
Just kind of hard to believe that people hired to save your life would let you die. It might happen, it might not happen, but couldn't that happen anytime, even if you don't have a National I.D card???
jaguar291 > yeah, its a real tossup situation, but its more likely if your a designated organ donor. I guess it might just be a local thing, cause I li've in a really backwoods kind of area.
I understand that but this is about the National I.D card. How would the National I.D card effect the job of paramedics?? If a paramedic wants you to die, he won't care what a National I.D card says, he'll/she'll just let you die.
Syini666, I agree with the organ doner thing.
/me has it on his license.. =\
The taxes thing though I completely disagree. Taxes are a neccesity in any government. How else would roads be built, public education be paid for, military force protect you, police forces protect you etc...
I agree some taxes are a bit weird, but the money has to come from somewhere. I always have to laugh at presidents that say "We will have better schools, better military, and LOWER TAXES!" (crowd cheers)
How are we supposed to pay for these things then? Again the money has to come from somewhere. You do benefit from taxes in many ways that go unnoticed. I'm sure if you think about it a bit you will see.
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Hasn't it been proven that our (United States) education system is going down the toilet?? In my opinoin I think our military still sucks, if we're having dead from come back from Afghanistan where they throw rocks and poke people with sticks I think that is sad. As for taxes, I don't know about them, I'm only 15 and don't have to pay them. Hehehe! :)Quote:
Originally posted here by xmaddness
"We will have better schools, better military, and LOWER TAXES!" (crowd cheers)
If you're so worried about the whole organ donor issue, then don't become one. That's exactly the reason I'm not. I'm the type of person who believes there is truth to every rumor, and I doubt anyone would want my used and abused organs when I die anyway. (certainly not with the amount of cigarettes I smoke and the prescription I take)
Jaguar, Believe it or not, the afganies do have some pretty up to date military technology. Some include, RPG's (rocket propelled grenades), ak47's, and all kinds of other morter weapons, and gun turrets. Back in the 80's (i think), Afganistan was in a huge war with the russians. The russians lost. So now all the weapons and munitions that were left by the russians are in the hands of the Afganies. They even have helocopters. I think they had 8 of them before, barly running, but they still have them. I'm also pretty sure they have tanks and other stuff. And the biggest factor is the fact that they are fighting for their own land. This will make any fighter twice as strong. Death in war is inevitable. Especially when its on enemy territory.
And trust me when I say, we do have one of the strongest militaries around, only others that have a big of one is england, britain, and the isralies.
That plus we (United States) helped them out, we trained thousands of them in the Russian-Afghan War. I even read somewhere that Osama bin Laden was trained by some our troops. But come'on we have the power to shoot a missile up a bastard's ass 5,000 miles away and still we have dead troops. :(Quote:
Originally posted here by xmaddness
Jaguar, Believe it or not, the afganies do have some pretty up to date military technology. Some include, RPG's (rocket propelled grenades), ak47's, and all kinds of other morter weapons, and gun turrets. Back in the 80's (i think), Afganistan was in a huge war with the russians. The russians lost. So now all the weapons and munitions that were left by the russians are in the hands of the Afganies.
I think you forgot China, they have (I think) the strogest and biggest army in the world.Quote:
Originally posted here by xmaddness
And trust me when I say, we do have one of the strongest militaries around, only others that have a big of one is england, britain, and the isralies.
Thats true, I knew I forgot another major power. China is considered the sleeping giant.
Also it is true that we did train Osama Bin Laden and half his army to fight against the russians. We also gave them arms during the war, hense some more technology they have. We have already surppassed the point of just throwing missles out after them. A ground war is now inevitable. The afganies are now hiding in underground bunkers in mountains and hills. We don't have the technology to simply say, hey there's a cave showing up on radar or on the sats. They have been constructing these underground bunkers for years after the russian war and many are very advanced. Some have running water, air supplys and pumps, and troop quarters. The only way to find these bunkers is to go out and search for them by foot, planes, and helocopters. And when the helocopters get close to one they begin to get fired upon by sam missles and rpg's. The gulf war was alot easier of a war because they didn't have caves and the terrain was flat dessert. In afganistan it is completely different.
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