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[GlyphGryph]

Want to be a psychologist? Make your own job, if you can't find one!Or you know, plan properly.

Just wanted to say - the sheer number of restrictions on "making your own job" are fracking absurd. I wish their were actual small-government candidates who made it a point to try and remove many of those protectionist, authoritarian licensing and regulation provisions to allow people to self-employ, legally, easier.

I know lots and lots of good entrepreneurs, providing services people want, and not one of them started out doing things legally because making your own job, legally, is nearly impossible.

I mean, fuck - we recently had some students who were giving weaves and touch up cuts shut down hard because they couldn't afford to pay for the 500 licensing fee just to apply. In addition, the law prohibits anyone without a college degree from cutting hair. Ever. Under any circumstances. And, in fact, they can decide to not give you a license after all if they just don't like you.

It's pretty messed up, all told.

Unfortunately, the Republican's are just as big supporters of this sort of bullshit as the Democrats are,

[FearfulJesuit]

In addition, the law prohibits anyone without a college degree from cutting hair. Ever. Under any circumstances.

Wait, bullshit! Citation, please?

[GlyphGryph]

Eh, sorry, that's not entirely accurate. It prohibits them from cutting hair FOR money, every, under any circumstances.

Sorry about that, sort of an important bit to leave out.

[kaijyuu]

Around here it's illegal to set up any sort of shop without a license. That includes lemonade stands and yard sales and the like.

No one actually cares. The law's unenforced unless large scale sales (cars, etc) are being made.


I don't think any 12 year old cutting their friend's hair for 5 bucks is going to get arrested.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

But it does allow the police to abuse people based off of personal preference.

[GlyphGryph]

People shouldn't have to break the law to do things everyone finds acceptable to do. And sometimes, it DOES get enforced.

[FearfulJesuit]

Eh, sorry, that's not entirely accurate. It prohibits them from cutting hair FOR money, every, under any circumstances.

Sorry about that, sort of an important bit to leave out.

Citation, please.

[GlyphGryph]

Man, I'm all over the place this morning. I can't believe I wrote college. I meant high school. Bluh, I'm just going to slam my face into the wall for a while over here. Keep getting colleges and high schools mixed up. Not the only place it has happened recently.

http://www.beautyschools.edu/About_The_Industry/Licensing_Requirements

Is at least a cite for THAT bit. Bluh bluh bluh. The actual stuff is here:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/NHTOC/NHTOC-XXX-313-A.htm

Though that's not all of it.

I still see it as unacceptable, but probably a lot less crazy sounding than what I wrote to you.

[KaelGotDwarves]

How Rick Santorum could take Republicans down with him

Interesting Washington Post Op. Ed with much insight or troll-baiting article? Why not both?

[FearfulJesuit]

Man, I'm all over the place this morning. I can't believe I wrote college. I meant high school. Bluh, I'm just going to slam my face into the wall for a while over here. Keep getting colleges and high schools mixed up. Not the only place it has happened recently.

http://www.beautyschools.edu/About_The_Industry/Licensing_Requirements

Is at least a cite for THAT bit. Bluh bluh bluh. The actual stuff is here:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/NHTOC/NHTOC-XXX-313-A.htm

Though that's not all of it.

I still see it as unacceptable, but probably a lot less crazy sounding than what I wrote to you.

Thank you!

It's the curse of being a historian's child, I suppose: bad arguments, in terms of drawing the wrong conclusion from the evidence, I can deal with, but nothing ticks me off more than uncited evidence.

[GlyphGryph]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn-eejMcmuA

And this sort of shit is why Santorum shouldn't be president. The man honestly believes that stuff, I think. It's just... crazy. Complete and total insanity - he just makes stuff up in his own head, and then seems to believe it 100%.

[Frumple]

Standard question, you know if there's a transcript of that somewhere? Beyond really not wanting to actually hear someone say what the article connected to that video is mentioning, I don't want to bother th'other folks in the house with the noise.

If not... bleh. Bleh.

[Leafsnail]

I can't wait to see the source he has for that one.

Oh right, and proof that Rick Santorum can create diplomatic incidents even though he has no foreign policy at all.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I can't wait to see the source he has for that one.

I would bet money that he'd play the religion card if asked for a source.

[RedKing]

I'm all for Santorum winning the nomination. Obama would have the kind of lopsided win we haven't seen in the country since Reagan crushed Mondale in 1984. If he keeps up with the crazy red-meat social conservatism, I don't even think Santorum wins his home state. That kind of an electoral win can be used as a rhetorical hammer, arguing you have a massive mandate from the people and an utter repudiation of the other party's policies (even it was mostly a repudiation of the candidate).

You'd also have an energized Democratic turnout, because....President Santorum. Yeah, makes my skin crawl too. Energized turnout + probably a depressed Republican turnout = tectonic shift in Congress. Could reset the clock back to before the "Tea Party Revolution" in 2010. And suddenly shit starts getting done again. With a much lower chance of a Tea Party-type surge in 2014.


EDIT: Remember "Operation Chaos", back in 2008 when Rush Limbaugh urged Republicans in open primary states to go vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries? Well, payback's a bitch.

Summary: DailyKos is calling for Democrats and independents to turn out in the open primary states and vote for Rick Santorum.