Your representation can't be taken away. It can only be given away. If your representative is not representing their district, vote them. It's YOUR responsibility.Otherwise you give it away. Don't tell me it can't be done. Because it just was done last year.
Of course maybe your gripe is that "your side" lost and now, suddenly, democracy is broken.
Most people don't want to be in the one percent. At least not enough to do what's required.
I have seen it happen first hand several times. People I know who were putting in their 40 hours to pay the bills and feed their kids, working from 6 until 2am on their own business and making it work . Now they are either part of the one percent or darn close to it.
Now I am working until 2 am on my project, along with my business partners, and we expect to also be up in at least the 5% within a few years and we don't need fuckers like you messing it up.
So you just keep whining and I'll be sure to yell "See ya sucker!" when I drive by in my new...probably "new to me" truck because I'm not dropping $50k on a stupid vehicle even if I do make it to the 1%.
Holy Hell. If I were in the same room with you I'd slap you upside the head.
Quit whining and become the 1% yourself. It only requires an income of $350,000. Yeah you read right. $350k is approximately where the 1% income begins. Most small business owners with 20 or so employees have a good chance of being part of the 1%. Two moderately successful workers in New York City can be part of the 1%. Shit, the parents of many of the protestors are part of the 1%.
One thing we don't need are laws that would prevent people from becoming part of the 1%.
*Sigh* Repeat after me, "Congress has the power of the Purse.
Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming into fiscal sanity by the Republican Congress.
Bush is at fault for not vetoing Nancey's crazy spending after 2006, and then there is the fiscal unholy alliance between Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress that showed us all what it means to spend like a drunken sailor.
Technologically and legislatively speaking, Nuclear Power is stuck in its infancy, R&D cut off at the knees by the anti-nuke crowd and pandering politicians refusing to consider updating and enhancing the legal frameworks governing nuke plants.
I would suggest:
1. Encourage the development of smaller, modularized that could be factory built and delivered. 2. Periodically select reference designs that would be pre-certified and then protected legislatively from endless challenges by the anti-nuke crowd. 3. Wave or at least moderate the giant money sponge called Environmental Impact Studies. It's shouldn't take 5 and 5 truckloads of EPA paperwork years to start building a plant. 4. Start reprocessing fuel. Why store it when you can burn it down to practically nothing?
Well, to be fair he only "Discovered" it, he apparently didn't create it. I wonder who actually created it and then just left it lying around for him to "discover"?
National Policy is shaped by compromise on local policy. Your Rep needs to make sure YOUR local interests are represented. Otherwise, we would just hold At Large elections and no one would have a local representative.
Plus, people forget that the representatives are there to represent YOUR interest. Not the interest of umpteen thousands in some other state. A Senator or Representative have no business looking at national polls, online petitions or otherwise.
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What bullshit.
I have seen it first hand at least 3 times. If you are not succeeding, don't blame others, look in the mirror.
Your representation can't be taken away. It can only be given away. If your representative is not representing their district, vote them. It's YOUR responsibility.Otherwise you give it away. Don't tell me it can't be done. Because it just was done last year.
Of course maybe your gripe is that "your side" lost and now, suddenly, democracy is broken.
Yeah...figured.
Nice.
Quantum C. You never know what the variables may hold.
"...are owed..."
That about sums up OCW. People who think they are owed something.
I deserve what I earn. Not to have it taken away and given to those who didn't earn it.
It's just luck
To paraphrase Yoda, that, is why you will never be in the 1%.
It won't be long before someone does say Doughnuts cause Global Warming. Or, Global Warming causes doughnuts. Does it really matter?
The key point is that the increasing tax revenues were not immediately allocated to new spending.
Most people don't want to be in the one percent. At least not enough to do what's required.
I have seen it happen first hand several times. People I know who were putting in their 40 hours to pay the bills and feed their kids, working from 6 until 2am on their own business and making it work . Now they are either part of the one percent or darn close to it.
Now I am working until 2 am on my project, along with my business partners, and we expect to also be up in at least the 5% within a few years and we don't need fuckers like you messing it up.
So you just keep whining and I'll be sure to yell "See ya sucker!" when I drive by in my new...probably "new to me" truck because I'm not dropping $50k on a stupid vehicle even if I do make it to the 1%.
Well said. Bravo.
I defer to ScentCone and his response to your inane post.
Holy Hell. If I were in the same room with you I'd slap you upside the head.
Quit whining and become the 1% yourself. It only requires an income of $350,000. Yeah you read right. $350k is approximately where the 1% income begins. Most small business owners with 20 or so employees have a good chance of being part of the 1%. Two moderately successful workers in New York City can be part of the 1%. Shit, the parents of many of the protestors are part of the 1%.
One thing we don't need are laws that would prevent people from becoming part of the 1%.
Someone should take an ice ax to his head. Sooner the better.
*Sigh*
Repeat after me, "Congress has the power of the Purse.
Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming into fiscal sanity by the Republican Congress.
Bush is at fault for not vetoing Nancey's crazy spending after 2006, and then there is the fiscal unholy alliance between Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress that showed us all what it means to spend like a drunken sailor.
No one writes COBOL anymore.
We just tweak it.
Death
Taxes
Dumbasses
Hey! What's this post from 30 years ago doing here in 2011?
Perhaps Flyover country should just build and use all that cheap energy for themselves.
Not by the U.S. that I know of. But I've been drunk many times since the ban was put into place by Carter.
Technologically and legislatively speaking, Nuclear Power is stuck in its infancy, R&D cut off at the knees by the anti-nuke crowd and pandering politicians refusing to consider updating and enhancing the legal frameworks governing nuke plants.
I would suggest:
1. Encourage the development of smaller, modularized that could be factory built and delivered.
2. Periodically select reference designs that would be pre-certified and then protected legislatively from endless challenges by the anti-nuke crowd.
3. Wave or at least moderate the giant money sponge called Environmental Impact Studies. It's shouldn't take 5 and 5 truckloads of EPA paperwork years to start building a plant.
4. Start reprocessing fuel. Why store it when you can burn it down to practically nothing?
Well, to be fair he only "Discovered" it, he apparently didn't create it. I wonder who actually created it and then just left it lying around for him to "discover"?
National Policy is shaped by compromise on local policy. Your Rep needs to make sure YOUR local interests are represented. Otherwise, we would just hold At Large elections and no one would have a local representative.
I keep imagining mobs of computer users running down these "creators", much like Qaddafi was, and putting bullets in their heads.
That's where this kind of thing ends up.
Plus, people forget that the representatives are there to represent YOUR interest. Not the interest of umpteen thousands in some other state. A Senator or Representative have no business looking at national polls, online petitions or otherwise.