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Posted: 2/21/2006 11:51:31 AM EDT
[#1]
An island and my own army...
to keep you fuckers the hell out. 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 11:55:52 AM EDT
[#2]
1 billion is not enough. You could probably make a dent with 10 trillion though.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 12:09:38 PM EDT
[#3]
Definately the island, and whichever one was as large as I could afford with half a billion.
I'd adopt the US Constitution, without income tax amendment. Except rephrased in modern terms, and EXPLICITLY STATED that no Bill of Rights Amendment may ever be repealed. And change the second to "The right of the people to own guns will not be violated, infringed, regulated, controlled, taxed, or in any other way limited." Oh, and get rid of the commerce clause since there won't be any states in the first place. In fact, get rid of congress altogether and use direct democracy. Nothing like a government where the people themselves, not a seperate representative body, have equal say in government as a president and court system. Business would build the needed infrastructure (I'd convince them it's an investment) then the people would pay boatloads to get to the island. But what would I name it? That's the tricky part. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 12:16:01 PM EDT
[#4]
Counter Soros
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Posted: 2/21/2006 12:18:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/21/2006 12:26:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/21/2006 12:30:32 PM EDT
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There's a reason I made it only a billion...just because you can't do it all. You'd have to accept that you're just doing one small part in the battle and you can't contol everything. Just like the olin foundation you'd have to do what good you could and accept that. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 12:30:47 PM EDT
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I think the island thing would be cool, but only if I can have a mote around it to keep mexicans from migrating to my island.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 12:31:50 PM EDT
[#9]
Screw America Its an Island for me Blow and hookers for everyone
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Posted: 2/21/2006 7:18:52 PM EDT
[#10]
A billion dollars is not nearly enough to even begin to fix the problems this country has. Look at New Orleans.. How much money has dissapeared down there? And yet the city is still a wreck, and hurricane season is about 3 months away. I don't think there IS enough money on the planet to fix all the things in this country that need fixed.
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Posted: 4/5/2006 10:33:07 AM EDT
[#11]
Bump why not
Island for me with very strong immigration laws |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 10:37:27 AM EDT
[#12]
What is America, I don't see it anymore
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Posted: 4/5/2006 3:43:17 PM EDT
[#13]
Spend almost all of it on spelling lessons for most of the posters here?
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Posted: 4/5/2006 3:48:58 PM EDT
[#14]
My own island.
I can see it now ... PMS Goddess of all I survey!!! I will be a wise and benevolent ruler... 
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Posted: 4/5/2006 5:16:08 PM EDT
[#15]
An island...Population 100, clothing is optional.
Consensus says; Males = 1, Females = 99. Male buddies can visit on the weekends. |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 5:20:02 PM EDT
[#16]
Island-bound.
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Posted: 4/5/2006 8:43:14 PM EDT
[#17]
The only things that could fix this country are generations of proper education (which the government has no intention of providing) or a revolution by a gorup of people that don't exist.
Island for me. Starting from scratch would be much easier. In adddition, when my island-nation proves the statists of the world wrong, it would be that much harder to argue against true liberty. |
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Posted: 4/5/2006 11:23:54 PM EDT
[#18]
Island, my own Defense Froce, tanks, helos, nice beaches, and big boobed hotties. Oh yeah, the wife locked in the tower of my Castle on the hill.
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Posted: 4/5/2006 11:42:15 PM EDT
[#19]
I'll take an Island to go chuck. This place is beyond the help a billion could do, even though we are still the best country around that ain't saying to much when you look at the others.
 
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Posted: 4/6/2006 12:37:15 AM EDT
[#20]
I would buy Svalbard
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Posted: 4/6/2006 12:43:07 AM EDT
[#21]
I would buy the island, then use it to clone dinosaurs.
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Posted: 4/6/2006 1:27:38 AM EDT
[#22]
Island, hookers, blow, guns, sea-monkeys, more hookers, more guns, and beer.
Lots and lots of beer. |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 2:41:26 AM EDT
[#23]
The USA was pissed away long before GWB took office
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Posted: 4/6/2006 3:21:31 AM EDT
[#24]
Sorry, but one billion ain't gonna do crap for America.
I'll write when I'm settled on my island. |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 3:36:53 AM EDT
[#25]
Wisdom is the ultimate weapon of war, use the billion dollars for a American patriot college.
Too many innocent people in jail to run away and forget them, too many gave their lives for freedom for me to cowardly run away. Fight the good fight, war the good warfare. |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 3:37:48 AM EDT
[#26]
ARF Island, I like the sound of that, All sane ARF.comers welcome. Can you imagine the size of the range we would have.
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Posted: 4/6/2006 1:04:37 PM EDT
[#27]
In classic ARFCOM fashion: GET BOTH.
1B for your own island/country, 3B to fix the US. |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 1:12:03 PM EDT
[#28]
Hmm, this is an easy one.
ooooh, my own Island Paradise. [Corona commercial background] hmm. 
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Posted: 4/6/2006 10:36:25 PM EDT
[#29]
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Column 1 Georgia: Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton Column 2 North Carolina: William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Column 3 Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Column 4 Pennsylvania: Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean Column 5 New York: William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark Column 6 New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts: Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire: Matthew Thornton]
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Posted: 4/6/2006 10:40:12 PM EDT
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They swam the Rio Grande They rafted to Miami I'd share my thoughts as far as what I'd do, but my tinfoil hat tells me that could be used against me in a court of law... especially since amnesty seems reserved only for those who don't belong. |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 11:06:36 PM EDT
[#31]
1 billion dollars to throw away meaninglessly trying to fix America (not nearly enough...) or my own island that I could buy to help get freedom loving Americans freedoms that are being taken away every day?
Um, duh. I'd give free admission to the 24hour firing range (indoor/outdoor) and a free AR-15 to those that receive citizenship.
10 trillion would be enough to make this country like it FUCKING SHOULD BE!!! |
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Posted: 4/6/2006 11:21:30 PM EDT
[#32]
I'd buy Swaziland. Best name for a country ever--even if it has the highest level of AIDS infected people on the planet. IT STILL SOUNDS COOL!
1 Billion isn't going to change SQUAT in the US. A couple trillion? Maybe. |
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Posted: 4/7/2006 12:32:06 AM EDT
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I wonder what percentage of all of the ARFers incomes on here it would take to come up with 1 billion. Think of it as a one time income tax. For a stake in a country made of truly ideal island(s), I would devote %500 of my annual income - which may sound like a lot, but honestly people are spending that much on buying new houses. If it meant building an infastructure from scratch, so be it. A lot of the electrical conveniences are time wasters anyway...though a microwave and freezer are still terribly nice. Just think about it for a moment...with just 10,000 people putting forward $100k a piece would be the amount in question on this post. $1 billion may seem like a lot, but it could be quite doable over time with a large group that would be dedicated. Its a shame that a large group of like-minded folks wouldn't do this...or would they? hock.gif
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Posted: 4/7/2006 12:57:20 AM EDT
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Looks like Im shit out of luck.....
There dont seem to be enough islands...
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But seriously if I thought it was possible to get America back on track I would put the billion there. But there is no denying a aircraft carrier sounds cool :)