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Â¥
2011 Sep 7, 2:27pm
Why do I have to pay more than 1/3rd of my earnings to support all that waste and fraud and someones welfare.
LOL. Google Ron Paul!
Obama is a socialist nutcase
Again, I wish! FWIW, read some Bernie Sanders speeches. Now THAT'S a "socialist nutcase".
Of course, all the socialist countries -- Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany at least -- are doing much better than USA right now.
You really lack the awareness of the world to understand what is going down. Vote Ron Paul and be happy.
Obama continued the Bush policy of saving the banks to limit the dislocation a systemic failure would create. Like all conservatives these days, you seem to just want the system to blow up like at the end of Fight Club.
That's a good cinematic ending but I don't want to live that in reality.
I was asking for bible jokes and it looks like all i got was christian jokers
leo707
2011 Sep 7, 3:40pm
Now, let me describe exactly what he's like and what he wants .....
Pretty good at killing, but even better at fucking.
FortWayne
2011 Sep 8, 1:26am
Obama continued the Bush policy of saving the banks to limit the dislocation a systemic failure would create. Like all conservatives these days, you seem to just want the system to blow up like at the end of Fight Club.
I don't believe in bail outs. If we stop bailing out the elite, other businesses will grow to take their place. We don't need masters, who are too big to fail, and our entire life revolves around keeping them fat and happy.
We don't need masters, who are too big to fail, and our entire life revolves around keeping them fat and happy.
I agree. What they HAVE done is put a temporary patch on a profusely bleeding wound. It is not going to do anything but prolong the inevitable. It is not sustainable. Can someone please confirm the monthly interest alone on the US national debt? 30 Billion or thereabouts? COME ON.
Patrick
2011 Sep 8, 2:02am
We don't need masters, who are too big to fail, and our entire life revolves around keeping them fat and happy.
Sound like you agree with Warren Buffett that America coddles the ultra-rich.
But then you'd be straying dangerously close to Democrat territory...
Patrick
2011 Sep 8, 2:23am
Democrats will at least talk about raising the unfairly low capital gains and dividend taxes on very rich people.
Republicans may not even speak such heresy!
Any Republican who even hints that perhaps the billionaires might not be paying their fair share of taxes would be instantly tarred and feathered, expelled from the party, and branded a SOCIALIST.
Any Republican who even hints that perhaps the billionaires might not be paying their fair share of taxes would be instantly tarred and feathered, expelled from the party, and branded a SOCIALIST.
Well, I could then argue (if that is the case) that they are absolutely right because that alone is no solution either.
Patrick
2011 Sep 8, 3:24am
Think there might be some connection between the US budget problem, the lack of purchasing power in the middle class, and the gigantic untaxed transfer of wealth from the middle class to the top 0.1%?
No, no connection there, right?
FortWayne
2011 Sep 8, 3:49am
Sound like you agree with Warren Buffett that America coddles the ultra-rich.
But then you'd be straying dangerously close to Democrat territory...
I'm not a Republican by any means. I've seen Republicans just like Democrats, make great speeches and promises and than go back to robbing the middle class.
I wish they would fix tax loopholes or address outsourcing of American jobs or cut their frivolous spending. Yet I have very little faith of anything seriously being done. As Troy pointed out, it would rattle the cage more than sellout politicians like to.
leo707
2011 Sep 8, 4:04am
I'm not a Republican by any means.
Ah, the favorite quote of the GOP shill. I suppose it is to make others think that they are just an impartial observer.
When one spends 99% of their posting effort whining about Obama, liberals and democrats it is hard not to see them as a Newscorp/GOP booster. Even if they later claim that they are not a Republican.
I wish they would fix tax loopholes or address outsourcing of American jobs or cut their frivolous spending. Yet I have very little faith of anything seriously being done. As Troy pointed out, it would rattle the cage more than sellout politicians like to.
Republican or not I do totally agree with this though.
FortWayne
2011 Sep 8, 4:44am
Ah, the favorite quote of the GOP shill. I suppose it is to make others think that they are just an impartial observer.
When one spends 99% of their posting effort whining about Obama, liberals and democrats it is hard not to see them as a Newscorp/GOP booster. Even if they later claim that they are not a Republican.
You just choose to ignore all the Bush bashing.
Â¥
2011 Sep 8, 5:15am
the lack of purchasing power in the middle class
what's left of our purchasing power after the health and energy sectors get their piece goes into houses every month.
That is the nature of land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty
We have a policy deficit in this country. Government has the power to radically rearrange things if it so chooses. They haven't done shit since the 1970s tho, other than liberalize things worse (NAFTA etc).
Â¥
2011 Sep 8, 5:20am
You just choose to ignore all the Bush bashing.
You can bash Bush all you want but his and his party's neocon and paleocon mistakes are what screwed this country up.
The major problems we face are: the cost of health care, the defense budget waste, the trade deficit with China (and Mexico), and the rampant rentierism still going on in energy and real estate.
Conservatives don't have any answers for these. Well, Ron Paul at least has a handle on militarism, but his corporatocratic party is rejecting his message on that still.
You can bash Bush all you want but his and his party's neocon and paleocon mistakes are what screwed this country up.
You better read "31 Days" by Barry Werth. If you honestly think this started with Bush? I hate to say IMHO you are dreaming.
Â¥
2011 Sep 8, 5:26am
Can someone please confirm the monthly interest alone on the US national debt? 30 Billion or thereabouts? COME ON.
$10T x 3%/12 = $25B. Intragovernmental is getting another $15B/mo or so in credited interest (Treasury just prints this interest in the form of new bonds).
$10T x 3%/12 = $25B. Intragovernmental is getting another $15B/mo or so in credited interest (Treasury just prints this interest in the form of new bonds).
Thank you for the breakdown.
leo707
2011 Sep 8, 7:25am
You just choose to ignore all the Bush bashing.
No, I see that you complain about Bush from time to time, but you knee jerk response often seems to be "blame liberals".
Truthplease
2011 Sep 9, 11:10am
http://www.goodfuckingidea.com/399/
How about we all just start plugging remote ideas! That works.
*I think* it's very cool that we have a black president
you completely de-legitimatized yourself in one sentence
Ah yes, electing a president because of some notion of affirmative action over competence and merit. What a LOVELY way to choose our chief executive!
It's their liberal democratic way to do so.
tatupu70
2011 Sep 9, 11:19pm
There's a whole lot more demand for their investment bucks than there is a supply of ultra rich people to invest.
There is??? How do you figure?
I agree. It is also very ironic in my opinion, all these claims that there is such a vast supply of ultra-rich people around ready and willing to jump into investment. Then why have so many hideous multi-million dollar mcmansion properties gone under like the Titanic? Why are so many of those greedy clowns who thought they were getting 50M or 75M for their stupid ugly nouveau riche'esk houses have slashed prices ...with still no takers? Is that why most all the high-end designer luxury brands have resorted to lowering themselves to mass discount sites and discount stores? This claim of al these billionaires ready to spend? I do not buy into the BS nor do I subscribe to the publications that put out such shite lists.
Â¥
2011 Sep 11, 10:17am
There is??? How do you figure?
ultra-rich people have no money, obviously.
Poor people have taken all of it, thanks to their control of government.
tatupu70
2011 Sep 11, 10:28am
If that needs explaining to you, then no wonder I've always suspected that you have no true understanding of facts as they really are.
While there is a plenty of capital around for investment, there is just a small number of people who own it relative to the demand for that investment. Duh.
All evidence to the contrary, of course.
Interest rates are near all time lows. Banks paying next to nothing on savings accounts.
I was looking more for some objective evidence rather than you restating your opinion.
Rich people can hire lobbyists... and we know what lobbyists do for a living
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This is excellent! Please email to everyone you know, especially people who are 63 or older.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: I AM 63 & I AM TIRED
*"I'm 63 and I'm Tired"*
/ by Robert A. Hall/
Robert A. Hall is the actor who plays the coroner on CSI if you
watch that show. He also is a Marine Vietnam War veteran.
*/Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms
in the Massachusetts State Senate./*
This should be required reading for every man, woman and child in
the United States of America .
*I'm 63*. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce
and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting
every day, I've worked hard since I was 18. Despite some health
challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick
in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't
inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given
the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very
tired.
*I'm tired* of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to
bankers who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the
government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and
give it to same people who ruined my retirement by gambling with the
whole economy.
*I'm tired* of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep
people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick,
I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times
the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my
salary, then let the Congress-critters who passed the "Emergency Economic
Stabilization Act of 2008" bank bailout help them with their own money.
*I'm tired* of being told how bad social security and Medicare is for America
by billionaires like the Koch brothers who live in luxury because of the
opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the
United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe , the freedom of the press of
China, the crime and violence of Mexico , the tolerance for Christian people
of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela ....
*I'm tired* of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when
every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their
sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims
rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and
Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for
girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for
"adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all
in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them
to.
*I'm tired* of being told that "the rich pay most of the taxes" in the
post-fairness world of Wall Street bailouts, when their tax rate is only 15%
on the money they get from Wall Street, while honest working class people pay
28% on money they actually earn. The one honest billionaire, Warren Buffett,
said it best: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich
class, that's making war, and we're winning."
*I think* it's very cool that we have a black president and that a
black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote
the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish George Bush had not left him with
two wars and a ruined economy. Not a good way to start a presidency.
*I'm tired* of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures"
we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and
mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America , while no
American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious
school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.
*I'm tired* of being told I must lower my living standard every time the
Federal Reserve lowers interest rates on my CDs, which no one is allowed to
debate. We worked hard to save the money we did, but the interest on that is
not going to support us now. It's supporting bankers who get to borrow our
money for almost free, and lend it out at ten times as much interest.
*I'm tired* of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I
must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do.
Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff
white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I
don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I #@*# sure think
druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool
people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried
marijuana.
*I'm tired* of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," when no one
questions the employers who put them to work in the first place. Don't those
employers have some responsibility here? They sure do know they are employing
illegals, but they never get fined for it. And, no, I'm not against Hispanics.
Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics
wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship
any Hispanic person who doesn't have a criminal record and who is
self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three
years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.
*I'm tired* of billionaires and their paid-for Fox News journalists, who would
never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their
privilege-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, sending our boys to die
for their profits. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make
split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth
better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our
troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that
were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even
close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation
and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics
can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and
beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered
Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the
blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims
who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were
Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the
only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of
hiding from in fear.
*I'm tired* of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and
the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are
bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live
in Arizona , where people applaud when a Democratic congresswoman gets shot,
and then auction off the same kind of gun to raise money for the Republican
party.
*I'm tired* of hearing wealthy bankers and CEOs of both parties talking about
innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they
think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense
of entitlement, especially the rich ones who want to cut social security for
everone else.
*Speaking of the rich, I'm tired of hearing people who were born rich complain
about taxes. We ask so little of them. The majority of wealth in America is
inherited, and not earned. Sorry to break that news to you folks, but you can
look it up and see it's true. Americans used to require that the very rich
give back a reasonable amount in taxes considering all that America has done
for them and how little we ask of them, but the wealth pimps have to keep
changing the definition of rich so that they can keep evading their taxes. They
make us pay their taxes for them.
*I'm real tired* of bankers who don't take responsibility for their actions.
I'm tired of hearing them blame the economy, or credit rating agencies or
whatever for their problems.
*Yes, I'm tired*. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm
not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm
just sorry for my granddaughter.
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