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Three strikes law.<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by orlandochris
I'm struggling to see how you can think that it is a bad thing![/quote]Fairly simple really. It's not justice. It's just a simplistic and reactive intervention to appease the media and the masses who don't really know in detail what it involves.

I know the tabloid media love to ridicule the judiciary but in general I think the judicial system should be run by them with as little interference as possible from politicians.

(oooo, check the time of this post!)

Things I like about America.

Good manners, politeness and friendliness of most people. Not the metronomic 'have a nice day' but the smile and sincere greeting from the 80 year old who insists on bagging your stuff in Publix [msnembarrased].

The system of welfare. If you are unlucky enough to lose your job, we'll help you for a short time then you are on your own. No population of people dependent upon the state, no parasites. I simply think that the number of people milking the welfare state in the UK can't be sustained. There are whole families who have never had a job between them in their whole lives. Surely it is absurd when people say they can't afford to work, they get so much from the state?

The spirit of rugged individualism.

The old guy who sings greetings at the door of Walmart, Cagans Crossing [grin].
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People do milk the State here..and they will even more now with all the changes making the US more like the UK when it come to welfare..