Up until WW II the average life expectancy of a rural adult male was 34 and a city male was 42. Then all the medical advances kicked in and we have 3.5 generations in the work force and voting force - each has their own agenda, each has a completely different experience, related by not the same political polarities, and all are attempting to effect their agenda with the same limited resources.
For anyone whom doesnt know about it trumps administration has created a website for actual news on election updates since every platform is suppressing everything it's called thedonald.win
@meglide I do not care about the size of government. It must be the necessary size to do the job correctly. Small is as bad as large if the result is failure.
@ImNotGas 1 in 73 men were permanently disabled and 1 in 143 killed on the job annually. In a community like mine where the total population is 325 the infant mortality does not have any significant effect.
Libertarian viewpoint is have the government only do what it absolutely has to do ... and thus smaller is better because the more the government does the more it is likely to violate or infringe your rights
Thanks @Maw I appreciate that. Today was a long one for a lot of reasons. Appreciate all the support. I'm off for the evening, everyone thanks again and have a wonderful night!
I too am going to go relax for a bit before bed. I will still be available to moderate for a few hours if something comes up, so hit me up and I'll take care of it if I'm awake.
@Phil The defeat within a generation of typhus, cholera, distemper, rickets, gonorrhea, syphilis, mumps, measles, chickenpox, legionaires, yellow fever, malaria, tuberculosis, polio, etc. accounts for a vast amount of that change.
@meglide I am aware of the Libertarian point of view. I consider it shortsighted based on my study of history, humanity, ethics, politics, and religion. It has valid critiques, but is no less devastating an ideology than Marxism in that it would never work.
for those of you can't sleep ... I'll be doing a little probability and statistics here on those duplicate ballots in AZ ... probably put me to sleep also
@meglide Maybe you mean when your employment contract included company housing, limited you to the company store, and if your family exceeded your allotted income the company would arrest you and put you in their private debtor's prison until you had worked off whatever your family was continuing to charge to survive.
Trusts is what brought us the Federal Reserve, eventually fiat currency and fractional reserve banking, and ever expanding federal government encroaching into our lives ... so no Trusts are not Libertarian
@Whithers the biggest predictors of life expectancy are education (in the west and USA) and in the developing world having access to a toilet, clean water and sanitation.
