People spout this bullshit all the time. But they never go on to say that the U.S. and Europe produce most of the world's "resources" also.
America is a net food exporter and has been for a long time. Those ships filled with grain in all the third world ports? They came from the West. Those starving children you see on T.V.? They are the result of tin pot dictators, communist leftovers and various socialist utopian visionaries.
Just look at Zimbabwe. once, an exporter of food to the rest of the region, known as the breadbasket of Africa. Then Robert Mugabe came to power, lauded by all the leftists in the West as a man of the people. Now look at it. Inflation in the 1000%+, they can't feed themselves, oppression, and those children you see on late night TV.
Did America cause that? Did my having a second Big Mac cause that? My big screen TV? Nope.
Look at Venezuela. Same story, they just haven't reached the end game yet. Chavez is still the darling of the Hollywood left even as he slowly and relentlessly takes away their freedoms one bit at a time and destroys their economy. If an American President shut down CBS because of their editorial policies, people like you would be shitting bricks 24/7. Chavez does it and the response is, "well, they were fomenting rebellion."
Is the West "stealing" from Iran? not at $105 a barrel we're not.
We don't have a problem of not enough resources. We have a problem of uneven distribution. And that's not caused by Americans raising our own food and feeding ourselves, it's caused by authoritarian governments oppressing their citizens.
And cable, frankly, I call bullshit all over that one. I know hardly anyone that has cable anymore, and of those people that do, almost all of them have it because it's bundled with their internet service.
ROFLMAO!
Poor "poor" people. Cable TV forced on them because of their internet service.
You need to rethink your reasoning for taxes. Taxes enable the government to function and fulfill its enumerated responsibilities. Its enumerated responsibilities does not include making everyone equal to make sure someone "gets something out of society". That is the job of the someone.
And tell me, how much is enough taxes for "the richest?" Why? Do you have any reasoning behind it other than they have more than you?
But my wage is right in line with the industry average, a bit to the high side of that in fact.
If they cut his pay, mine would undoubtedly remain the same. If they increased his pay, mine would also remain the same and probably would even go up a bit.
We go from there are too many/too high taxes to "well, there should just be no taxes at all and there would be no police, fire...blah blah blah". In a word, Strawman.
Find a post where someone says all taxes should be abolished.
ALL of my jobs have been in small to mid sized companies owned and operated by a "rich" person. When one of those companies fell on hard times and that rich person became not so rich, I was laid off.
The company I work for now was started, owned and operated by a rich person.
You may be in the same camp as Harry with his idiot Unicorn speech, but the fact is that most employers are small businessmen and most of them fall into Obama's Eeeeevil rich income range.
As far as cutting goes, ditching NPR may be a small drop in the bucket, but do it several thousand times over with other useless expenditures and it adds up quick. On the other hand, if you took all the money of the "rich" you still wouldn't have enough to pay even for just the NPR type expenditures.
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Nice.
As long as the shark has a laser, we're good!
Load photon torpedoes, standby phasers.
You know their opinion will change just as soon as the shoe is on the other foot.
Also..."The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate..."
Once can argue that the head of the Consumer Protection Bureau is not a vacancy that "happened" since it was never filled in the first place.
I believe the objection is that the agency is funded through the federal reserve.
...and no, that's not an acronym for some Yet Another Language/framework/etc. I mean real fire...as in flame thrower.
Forget it. The idiots in H.R. won't even consider you.
Stick with what you have and retire, then start your own business.
"Exactly the things that Saddam Hussein removed from the Iraqi population."
TFIFY
People spout this bullshit all the time. But they never go on to say that the U.S. and Europe produce most of the world's "resources" also.
America is a net food exporter and has been for a long time. Those ships filled with grain in all the third world ports? They came from the West. Those starving children you see on T.V.? They are the result of tin pot dictators, communist leftovers and various socialist utopian visionaries.
Just look at Zimbabwe. once, an exporter of food to the rest of the region, known as the breadbasket of Africa. Then Robert Mugabe came to power, lauded by all the leftists in the West as a man of the people. Now look at it. Inflation in the 1000%+, they can't feed themselves, oppression, and those children you see on late night TV.
Did America cause that? Did my having a second Big Mac cause that? My big screen TV? Nope.
Look at Venezuela. Same story, they just haven't reached the end game yet. Chavez is still the darling of the Hollywood left even as he slowly and relentlessly takes away their freedoms one bit at a time and destroys their economy. If an American President shut down CBS because of their editorial policies, people like you would be shitting bricks 24/7. Chavez does it and the response is, "well, they were fomenting rebellion."
Is the West "stealing" from Iran? not at $105 a barrel we're not.
We don't have a problem of not enough resources. We have a problem of uneven distribution. And that's not caused by Americans raising our own food and feeding ourselves, it's caused by authoritarian governments oppressing their citizens.
Add on 9,651 charges of credit card fraud.
And cable, frankly, I call bullshit all over that one. I know hardly anyone that has cable anymore, and of those people that do, almost all of them have it because it's bundled with their internet service.
ROFLMAO!
Poor "poor" people. Cable TV forced on them because of their internet service.
Tip...AT&T "nakid" DSL. $20 a month.
The rest of the post is bullshit.
Anyone that's actually made a conscious effort to eat better and lose weight quickly realizes how ridiculously fucking expensive it is to do so
Eat less. Works every time.
Reputable Editors, ethical journalists, military intelligence, etc.
You need to rethink your reasoning for taxes. Taxes enable the government to function and fulfill its enumerated responsibilities. Its enumerated responsibilities does not include making everyone equal to make sure someone "gets something out of society". That is the job of the someone.
And tell me, how much is enough taxes for "the richest?" Why? Do you have any reasoning behind it other than they have more than you?
At least he said please.
Those fuckers should lose half their pay and half their staff.
Because it is a pain in the ass and costly to implement
Treats for his dog
So the obvious way to maximize the efficiency of the economy is to leave it alone. No taxes, no regulation.
All that bandwidth wasted arguing against something that no one is advocating.
Or it could be that a two month extension is impractical simply because of the expense of implementing it.
Payroll systems are not to be trifled with. You don't just go in, start jacking things around and then deploy the changes.
Fucking with payroll is a Big Deal.
My "boss" makes about 40-50 times what I do.
But my wage is right in line with the industry average, a bit to the high side of that in fact.
If they cut his pay, mine would undoubtedly remain the same. If they increased his pay, mine would also remain the same and probably would even go up a bit.
Income inequality is a red herring.
Don't tempt him.
So right there you just killed the discussion.
We go from there are too many /too high taxes to "well, there should just be no taxes at all and there would be no police, fire...blah blah blah". In a word, Strawman.
Find a post where someone says all taxes should be abolished.
Can't?
OK, then maybe we can start the discussion again.
I am ditching all my mods to respond to that.
ALL of my jobs have been in small to mid sized companies owned and operated by a "rich" person. When one of those companies fell on hard times and that rich person became not so rich, I was laid off.
The company I work for now was started, owned and operated by a rich person.
You may be in the same camp as Harry with his idiot Unicorn speech, but the fact is that most employers are small businessmen and most of them fall into Obama's Eeeeevil rich income range.
As far as cutting goes, ditching NPR may be a small drop in the bucket, but do it several thousand times over with other useless expenditures and it adds up quick. On the other hand, if you took all the money of the "rich" you still wouldn't have enough to pay even for just the NPR type expenditures.
Computers shouldn't be running oxygen supplies anyway.