I love how he believes in the part of skateboarding that is about your perspection. He has always been one of the dudes I've looked forward the most to see!
...as for the wrong sponsors in Europe - I just read an interview with the guy that makes CPH PRO, and he makes no money of it himself. So I think a lot of these events just take what money they can get to make the best event possible, and I really have a hard time seeing the problem in that.
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The Ron Paul hate here blows my mind...what do people have against liberty? I don't get it? The guy was one of the biggest anti war advocates in congress for years, spoke out against current banking system, bail outs and government corruption under all administrations, crossed party lines, is critical of both major political parties and the political system in general. I mean I'm not saying you should love the guy or that he's perfect but come on...
Jake is rad, he is truly one of a kind on and off a board.
RON PAUL ISN'T LIBERTY FUCKWAD, WALLRIDES AND NO COMPLYS ARE
The whole idea of liberalism and neo-liberalism doesnt even comply logically with democracy. You cant have democracy with liberal policies. Lets say that you legislate in favor of buisinessmen(not to mention that small companies dont benefit from such laws as they compete massive companies with massive capital), this automatically means that you are legislating against workers. This means that if the capitals dont pay taxes LEGALLY someone else has to pay taxes(debt crisis is that rich people dont pay thus creating shortage), plus the workers get smaller salaries, they have to pay from their own pocket for their pension etc etc. On the other hand buisinessmen cannot exist without workers and lets say that there is an average of 5 workers per buisinessman in a country. This means automatically that everytime you legislate you favour one man against 5. Democracy my ass.
Your understanding of it is a bit different from mine, so I don't know who is right. Anyways - you'll need some of that evil corporate money to be able to have a social security net, and if there's too high taxes then no one will be able to compete against other countries where the taxes are lower and therefore the state won't make any money.
I find myself somewhere between a good social security net and the acceptance that it's the free market that has to make the money for all the welfare - so I guess I'm a social-liberalist.
My understanding of liberalism is that it's more focused on personal freedom and neo-liberalism is focused on the freedom to make money on anything i.e. cars, bandaids, drugs, or guns - but I might be a little wrong (And the part where the rich pays less taxes is some stupid conservative idea, it has nothing to do with freedom not treating people equally! Also no system works if people bend the rules or act against them, so I think it's a bit wrong to judge the ideology from that perspective).
And as said USA is very different from Europe. The most liberal party in Denmark are more socialist than the democrats in America.
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