1) We buy oil at fair market value, even after the countries in question nationalized their oil production - which was by and large owned by western corporations at the time. In effect, the countries in question stole from the West.
2) Really by the time there are no living humans with memory of an event, it's time to stop demanding retribution/reparations/repayment/etc.
It appears that the law clears stores of wrongdoing if they hold you against your will because they think you might be shoplifting and you're acting "suspicious."
This is false. An employee of the store may make a citizens arrest, but guess what if that's not due to an actual crime? It opens them up to all sorts of lawsuits, and even criminal charges.
Private establishments can refuse entry, or demand you immediately vacate, if you refuse to submit to a bag search. However, they cannot bar you from leaving if you refuse a bag search. That is known as kidnapping, and is a felony.
$1.50 above $7.50 is in fact, "far above the minimum wage." Even more so for the -federal- minimum wage, instead of California. What are you hoping for? $15/hr? That sort of position requires skills, boy.
As for their health insurance, who can blame them? Pay attention sometime and you'll find that all companies from all strata of employment are bitching about health care costs. This shit ain't free no matter how much your local soap box screamer has said it is. In fact, as much I expect gov't controlled health care will kill me one day, I suspect that a gov't takeover of some fashion is a requirement of our economy. Otherwise, we're just going to continue getting run over.
Just get ready for that 18 month wait list for hip replacement! Try to keep off it in the meantime.
When P&T are doing shows about religion or bigotry or sex, they tend to make good points. When they aren't, when they're talking about government regulation, like the ADA show, they say a lot of interesting things that are mostly true, and then, somehow, pretend that what they just showed people isn't important.
Interesting, when you start a topic in agreement with P&T, you accept their points, but when you start out in disagreement, you disagree with them.
Jeez, can you fail to do simple math? Current California minimum wage is $7.50 an hour. A half time employee is earning roughly $600/month at that rate. Not anywhere close to where a single adult can live alone without roomates in the Bay Area. However, contrary to popular belief, Walmart pays -over- the minimum wage, so lets give this theoretical employee an hourly rate of $9/hr, and we're up to $720 a month. A full time employee would be up to $1440/month. Given California tax rates, take home pay will be around $576 and $1152/month. Roughly. Guesstimation in use.
-BUT-
SSI covering both the elderly and the disabled can pay as much as $1700/month. Earned income counts against this amount at a 50% discount, meaning that full time employee receives $980 (1700-1440/2) in SSI payments.
Welfare reform made welfare work roughly the same way, although I don't know exact numbers. Half the amount they earn is counted against their welfare payments, and they continue to receive the balance.
These people are still on public assistance
In fact, on a 40 hour work week an employee must earn at least $21.25 to completely eliminate a maximum SSI payment. Before that point, that person is on public assistance!
We don't look for "fundie" Muslim responses either, they just shove it in our face when they [b]kill people[/b].
I much prefer the Christian fundie over the Muslim one. Protesting (even though you in your bias calls it a riot) is nothing more than free speech. Killing people is a bit more.
Women have higher health costs, what with their frequent specialized doctors care, occasional pregnancies, and longer life span. They should be billed at a higher rate as well.
If you're trying to equate gassing masses of people to not giving people free money because they're too distraught to manage getting a job than you sir are a fucking idiot.
Furthermore, do you really think, a withdrawal of US-troops could have any persistent and remarkable impact on the European economy? You know these are hollow threats because, firstly, US have been reducing their forces in Europe for years and, secondly, Germany would have several percentage points removed from their gov't yearly income. Saudi Arabia would have some small towns cease to exist. Japan would simply remove their pacifist requirements of their constitution, they'd make out the best.
US simply need NATO-airbases and military hospitals to pursue their hegemonial strategy. Not since the USSR split.
I'm not buried in tax to support this system either, how much do I pay? 1.5% of my taxable income, something like $10 a week, if that. Which means you make roughly $34k/yr, which explains why your taxes are so low. Progressive tax systems give such low incomes a walk, or nearly so.
You are in fact the person living off the taxes of others. Not as badly as the unemployed "psychologically damaged" guy, but nonetheless your taxes are not supporting your share of the system.
I mostly agree with you, Simon. Isn't it strange that, on one hand, the US spend money on humanitarian goals to help the Third World to fight hunger and desease but, on the other hand, lots of their own people don't even have access to proper medication? Totally correct. We should immediately end all humanitarian foreign aid. Also all military aid, including housing our military in foreign countries like Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Japan at huge cost. Immediate withdrawal.
Most unemployed people are not lazy bums who don't want to work. They are people with psychological problems who feel being outcast from society, and don't belong anywhere. So? Why should I, or anybody, support their psychological issues.
Consider it modern darwinism. Eliminate their genes that cannot handle their modern environment.
Or the fact that Word looks pretty simlar to that of Wordperfect. Did you ever actually use or see Wordperfect? Word is a WYSIWYG editor, and wordperfect is a text mode editor with formatting. It's a lot more like editing html in vim or writing TeX.
Word might very well be a copy of some program, I couldn't say, but it is not a copy of wordperfect.
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1) We buy oil at fair market value, even after the countries in question nationalized their oil production - which was by and large owned by western corporations at the time. In effect, the countries in question stole from the West.
2) Really by the time there are no living humans with memory of an event, it's time to stop demanding retribution/reparations/repayment/etc.
It appears that the law clears stores of wrongdoing if they hold you against your will because they think you might be shoplifting and you're acting "suspicious."
This is false. An employee of the store may make a citizens arrest, but guess what if that's not due to an actual crime? It opens them up to all sorts of lawsuits, and even criminal charges.
Private establishments can refuse entry, or demand you immediately vacate, if you refuse to submit to a bag search. However, they cannot bar you from leaving if you refuse a bag search. That is known as kidnapping, and is a felony.
Actually its pretty easy to keep something this large secret
All evidence to the contrary. Either the story is fake or it's not secret.
$1.50 above $7.50 is in fact, "far above the minimum wage." Even more so for the -federal- minimum wage, instead of California. What are you hoping for? $15/hr? That sort of position requires skills, boy.
As for their health insurance, who can blame them? Pay attention sometime and you'll find that all companies from all strata of employment are bitching about health care costs. This shit ain't free no matter how much your local soap box screamer has said it is. In fact, as much I expect gov't controlled health care will kill me one day, I suspect that a gov't takeover of some fashion is a requirement of our economy. Otherwise, we're just going to continue getting run over.
Just get ready for that 18 month wait list for hip replacement! Try to keep off it in the meantime.
When P&T are doing shows about religion or bigotry or sex, they tend to make good points. When they aren't, when they're talking about government regulation, like the ADA show, they say a lot of interesting things that are mostly true, and then, somehow, pretend that what they just showed people isn't important.
Interesting, when you start a topic in agreement with P&T, you accept their points, but when you start out in disagreement, you disagree with them.
I believe, sir, that that is called bias.
Jeez, can you fail to do simple math? Current California minimum wage is $7.50 an hour. A half time employee is earning roughly $600/month at that rate. Not anywhere close to where a single adult can live alone without roomates in the Bay Area. However, contrary to popular belief, Walmart pays -over- the minimum wage, so lets give this theoretical employee an hourly rate of $9/hr, and we're up to $720 a month. A full time employee would be up to $1440/month. Given California tax rates, take home pay will be around $576 and $1152/month. Roughly. Guesstimation in use.
-BUT-
SSI covering both the elderly and the disabled can pay as much as $1700/month. Earned income counts against this amount at a 50% discount, meaning that full time employee receives $980 (1700-1440/2) in SSI payments.
Welfare reform made welfare work roughly the same way, although I don't know exact numbers. Half the amount they earn is counted against their welfare payments, and they continue to receive the balance.
These people are still on public assistance
In fact, on a 40 hour work week an employee must earn at least $21.25 to completely eliminate a maximum SSI payment. Before that point, that person is on public assistance!
We don't look for "fundie" Muslim responses either, they just shove it in our face when they [b]kill people[/b].
I much prefer the Christian fundie over the Muslim one. Protesting (even though you in your bias calls it a riot) is nothing more than free speech. Killing people is a bit more.
Isn't the floppy already dead? I mean, what can you do with one that you can't do with a USB thumb drive?
Note: Machines without USB connectors are either so out of the mainstream or so old that they don't really count as keeping floppies alive.
We don't eat humans because that would be a huge disease vector. Duh.
This is pure free market capitalism, as I was taught. Not the watered down gov't interfering way we have in the good 'ol US of A.
Women have higher health costs, what with their frequent specialized doctors care, occasional pregnancies, and longer life span. They should be billed at a higher rate as well.
Schwarzenegger would be glad to hear that! While he probably lost some weight since, his BMI was once 33.
They should do this in California, so that Governor Schwarzenegger can pay the $10 for his excessive BMI.
Strategic voting, which our system demands from all sensible voters, does not imply full support of whomever receives a persons vote.
I'd rather have true verifiability in my vote than worry about somebody selling theirs. Secret ballots are so 20th century.
If you're trying to equate gassing masses of people to not giving people free money because they're too distraught to manage getting a job than you sir are a fucking idiot.
Whats the value of your neighbor with cancer? At what point do you cut him off?
Everything has a price.
You are in fact the person living off the taxes of others. Not as badly as the unemployed "psychologically damaged" guy, but nonetheless your taxes are not supporting your share of the system.
Consider it modern darwinism. Eliminate their genes that cannot handle their modern environment.
Also, whilst tanning, read a fucking book. On skin cancer.
Word might very well be a copy of some program, I couldn't say, but it is not a copy of wordperfect.
Yes, the FCC led by dyed-in-whool "deregulate everything right now! Big business knows best!" Republican Michael Powell who was appointed by Clinton
A key point people love to forget.