False, Democrats reneged on promised spending cuts. Reagan passed the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act—which congressional Democrats promised would involve a ratio of $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases (which they said would consist only of closing loopholes). TEFRA passed later that year, and the tax increases certainly happened but, as Reagan later put it in his autobiography, “the Democrats reneged on their pledge and we never got those cuts.
Yea, I remember that. Cash for clunkers, otherwise known as Demolishing cars that poor people really need for 2000 dollars, and enslavement to banks for new car loans. Obama sure does hate those bankers.. har har har
Control occurs at 51. Freedom from any constitutional checks and balances happens at 60. Also that independent was Joe Lieberman, and he is only independent because the Democrat party abandoned him in his local race because they thought they could get someone more radical. He still caucus's with the democrats which gives them 60.
If you want 51 to be able to ram things through, I'd be careful what you ask for. There are times that republicans take the triple crown. It's bad for the country for either party to change things too fast.
Lol, he's socializing medicine, but the risk and liability? That's still privatized.
I wouldn't care about the pay so much if I were you, since you will still likely make enough money to pay off your 11-15 years of college. I'd be more concerned about the government dictating how, how long, to who, and other aspects of doing your job.
1. You don't count any government assistance, which there is quite a bit at that level. 2. Have you driven through the barrio lately? I lived there for 5 years, most folks have big screen TV's, and really nice cars. How exactly does that happen with your little formulation? I'll tell you, there is a ton of money made that isn't reported to the government. The grey market in the U.S. is huge.
Your working class family can't afford a 125 dollar window unit? Damn that's poor. When we were poor that's all we had, of course our house was only 900 sq ft, so that was more than enough to keep it cool since I put a ton of insulation in that little house.
I'm a college graduate, I own two rent houses paid for, and a home that will be paid off in 7 more years, we have two cars, and cable (basic) tv, and internet. I also have a family of 4.
Sounds impossible? Our cars are ten years or older, and we pay cash for them as cheap as possible, and get them fixed by a friend that does it on the cheap. A ten year old car of today has more legs than a new car in the 60's. We budget BUDGET BUDGET. We shop at thrift stores sometimes, sometimes craigslist, then sell what we don't need on craigslist, or donate it to the women's shelter. Each of us get 150 dollars a month in spending money, and when that's' gone it's gone. Eating out is once a month, all other meals are at home or leftovers. We don't use credit cards, we put money back every month, and take one vacation a year. Every other year its' a family reunion, on the others we drive to somewhere a day away and stay a week, and save money on our trip by eating sandwiches etc. Our first house was in the barrio, was tiny, run down, looked like crap, and was very affordable. We spent our nights and weekends putting in insulation, siding, floors etc, and when we outgrew it instead of selling it we used our piggy bank to put a down payment on a new house.
I guess what I'm trying to say is you can still do what you want to do just like the 1960's, you just have to live like people did in the 1960's, before people went out to eat every day of the week, sometimes twice, lived on credit cards, had TV's in every room, a brand new leased beamer in the driveway to impress the neighbors who haven't even noticed. Who buy their kids a new car on finance. Who take trips to Disney on the Chase Manhattan Rewards Visa and spend the next 4 years paying it off. People who think their first newlywed house needs to be in a McMansion far away from the "dark skinned" areas of town, and end up paying some bank 60 percent of their take home pay for the privilege of essentially renting a home because of the crazy mortgage they chose.
You have to decide if you want to live like your rich now, or be rich later, but you can do whatever you freaking want, it's America.
1. Almost nobody supports a family at minimum wage, it's a teenager wage. The rate it is set at is one reason the teenage unemployment is so horrific right now. I own a small business, and would love to give an opportunity to a teenager to learn technology, be a gofer, and whanot, but I can't afford it, so I don't. 2. Minimum wages do affect union pay scales, which is why democrats love raising it.
Yep, I'd take Nixon over the lot of em. Ended wars, check. Brought capitalism to China check. Nuclear arms control check. Created the EPA check. Provided tapes as one of the only insights to how every president actually goes about making decisions, a rough mix of politics, personal glory, and what's good for the country. check. Had a cool middle name (Millhouse) check.
That's a visual guide, look for the control of senate during his terms.
Some of our best spending control was in the 104th when the republicans forced Clinton to balance the budget. I wouldn't mind a house and senate controlled by R's and a president controlled by a D if it worked out the same.
Actually it does trickle down from high earners, it just don't trickle down *much* from people who have all the wealth they need already such as Warren Buffet, or what not. Your local surgeon spends every dime he makes on people doing things for them, building things for them, or buying things. I have quite a few surgeons that are customers, and they probably save less than I do at the end of the day even though they earn 10-20 times what I do. Most high earners measure wealth in income not in savings.
Of course that doesn't (for your exact example) count the earned income credit 5,236, food stamps 8016 a year, free school lunches, and sometimes breakfasts for your kids, and section 8 housing which varies by locality, and money earned on the side by doing odd jobs.
Yes I've been poor, capitalism is the only way out.
No I'm not saying things need to be changed one way or another, just that you aren't showing the whole picture. I have two rent houses, one of them the good people living in meet poverty line threshold, and they both drive nicer cars than I do.
Rent is 550 a month for a 3 bedroom 1 bath house that is 900sq ft and that includes water utilities paid, and I used to live there it's a nice little house before you accuse me of being a slumlord. I'd live there tomorrow if I didn't have 4 kids and a wife.
I haven't seen it here, but you could pick up something like a dell optiplex 755 for dirt cheap on ebay, put a raid card in it, a couple 1tb hard drives, and put linux on it, and make shares using samba. That's exactly what we do at our IT shop, and it works fine for us. We install windows servers all the time, but we just don't need it, and our email is gmail, our web services are VPS servers at a host. If you are worried about replacement parts you could just order two of the exact same machine and keep one dark:)
My suggestion no matter what people here say is to then do a backup to the cloud using Jungledisk as a client, and Amazon or Rackspace as a storage provider. If you generate your security keys and opt not to give them to Jungledisk the keys to store for you then I'm not exactly sure how they are going to cough up your data to the "wrong people." The only people that could legally get them to turn over data would be the feds, and that would be your dream since it would mean they invaded your client attorney privilege thus pretty much self destructing any case they might have had. If they were going to get your data from a cloud service, it would be a lot easier to just bust into your office, but that doesn't happen at least by the government as it's self defeating.
You would post on your wall. For example if I said that +Rob Malda knows what's he's talking about then he would get alerted at the top right of his screen to take a look at the post.
Just to kind of clue you in a bit, we aren't a Democracy let alone a healthy one. We are a Republic.
-- At the close of the constitutional convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
I hear this "but they won't know what they are doing!@!@!" argument all the damn time.
Well if that's the case maybe they will simplify things. I'm sorry, if we can get a new president which is one of the three branches of government for 8 years, then to say we can't replace a senator every 12 years is just silly. If we have two 6 year terms with elections every two years staggered through the states then we end up with one term where they are clueless the first year sure, but then they get their sea legs under them they get down to business for 5 years. If you need more than a year to figure out your job, then you really aren't smart enough to be there anyways.
The electoral system means that politicians have to think about all of the country, not just cities. The electoral system guarantees that even low pop states like RI and AK get a chance at some attention.
If people know they can only serve for 12 years, then they have to go live under the crap they passed into law maybe they will think twice before passing some of this garbage. And honestly, who works for one job for 12 years anymore. Sure some folks do, but it's far from the norm.
I concur with term limits, however I do not agree that it's a politicians job to listen to constituents. This is not a democracy it is a republic. We elect people to make decisions, and we don't elect them if they don't make the decisions we liked. It is up to them to make decisions and decide who to listen to once elected.
You know, I actually do believe in a two party system, because even in countries where there are multiple parties, they still just all gang up and make a two party leading system with a majority and a back bench in play. However, I find myself leaning more and more heavily libertarian. I mean, I don't do drugs, but fuck it you can if you want. I don't use hookers, but if someone wants to make money with their crotch, whatever.
I mean if we had a strong libertarian party I don't think we would see schools shut down, the borders dissolved, and the military dismantled, or some of the other more zany libertarian stuff, but I think it would however go a long ways to push to shit that just makes sense. At least we would have some folks that would stand up and make other politicans look stupid for trying to legislate right wing morality, or liberal ethics.
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Hold your arm out in front of you for 20 minutes and tell me how great that touchscreen interface is.
Windows 8 is full of fail, just like the Nintendo power-glove, and for the same reason.
We need to save both from both.
False, Democrats reneged on promised spending cuts. Reagan passed the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act—which congressional Democrats promised would involve a ratio of $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases (which they said would consist only of closing loopholes). TEFRA passed later that year, and the tax increases certainly happened but, as Reagan later put it in his autobiography, “the Democrats reneged on their pledge and we never got those cuts.
Source NRO
And Kennedy was a neocon.
Oh, did you forget Kennedy cut taxes to get out of a recession that had happened prior to his becoming president?
Yea, I remember that. Cash for clunkers, otherwise known as Demolishing cars that poor people really need for 2000 dollars, and enslavement to banks for new car loans. Obama sure does hate those bankers.. har har har
Control occurs at 51. Freedom from any constitutional checks and balances happens at 60. Also that independent was Joe Lieberman, and he is only independent because the Democrat party abandoned him in his local race because they thought they could get someone more radical. He still caucus's with the democrats which gives them 60.
If you want 51 to be able to ram things through, I'd be careful what you ask for. There are times that republicans take the triple crown. It's bad for the country for either party to change things too fast.
Lol, he's socializing medicine, but the risk and liability? That's still privatized.
I wouldn't care about the pay so much if I were you, since you will still likely make enough money to pay off your 11-15 years of college. I'd be more concerned about the government dictating how, how long, to who, and other aspects of doing your job.
1. You don't count any government assistance, which there is quite a bit at that level.
2. Have you driven through the barrio lately? I lived there for 5 years, most folks have big screen TV's, and really nice cars. How exactly does that happen with your little formulation? I'll tell you, there is a ton of money made that isn't reported to the government. The grey market in the U.S. is huge.
Your working class family can't afford a 125 dollar window unit? Damn that's poor. When we were poor that's all we had, of course our house was only 900 sq ft, so that was more than enough to keep it cool since I put a ton of insulation in that little house.
Really? So I should go to a poor person the next time I need a job then?
Sorry, that was a typo, I have a family of 6. Three preschoolers, and a teenager.
I'm a college graduate, I own two rent houses paid for, and a home that will be paid off in 7 more years, we have two cars, and cable (basic) tv, and internet. I also have a family of 4.
Sounds impossible? Our cars are ten years or older, and we pay cash for them as cheap as possible, and get them fixed by a friend that does it on the cheap. A ten year old car of today has more legs than a new car in the 60's. We budget BUDGET BUDGET. We shop at thrift stores sometimes, sometimes craigslist, then sell what we don't need on craigslist, or donate it to the women's shelter. Each of us get 150 dollars a month in spending money, and when that's' gone it's gone. Eating out is once a month, all other meals are at home or leftovers. We don't use credit cards, we put money back every month, and take one vacation a year. Every other year its' a family reunion, on the others we drive to somewhere a day away and stay a week, and save money on our trip by eating sandwiches etc. Our first house was in the barrio, was tiny, run down, looked like crap, and was very affordable. We spent our nights and weekends putting in insulation, siding, floors etc, and when we outgrew it instead of selling it we used our piggy bank to put a down payment on a new house.
I guess what I'm trying to say is you can still do what you want to do just like the 1960's, you just have to live like people did in the 1960's, before people went out to eat every day of the week, sometimes twice, lived on credit cards, had TV's in every room, a brand new leased beamer in the driveway to impress the neighbors who haven't even noticed. Who buy their kids a new car on finance. Who take trips to Disney on the Chase Manhattan Rewards Visa and spend the next 4 years paying it off. People who think their first newlywed house needs to be in a McMansion far away from the "dark skinned" areas of town, and end up paying some bank 60 percent of their take home pay for the privilege of essentially renting a home because of the crazy mortgage they chose.
You have to decide if you want to live like your rich now, or be rich later, but you can do whatever you freaking want, it's America.
1. Almost nobody supports a family at minimum wage, it's a teenager wage. The rate it is set at is one reason the teenage unemployment is so horrific right now. I own a small business, and would love to give an opportunity to a teenager to learn technology, be a gofer, and whanot, but I can't afford it, so I don't.
2. Minimum wages do affect union pay scales, which is why democrats love raising it.
Yep, I'd take Nixon over the lot of em.
Ended wars, check.
Brought capitalism to China check.
Nuclear arms control check.
Created the EPA check.
Provided tapes as one of the only insights to how every president actually goes about making decisions, a rough mix of politics, personal glory, and what's good for the country. check.
Had a cool middle name (Millhouse) check.
Reagan couldn't get the cuts he wanted through the Democrat senate even though they promised him when he increased spending to pull out of the recession they would cut spending afterwards. http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/l/bl_party_division_2.htm
That's a visual guide, look for the control of senate during his terms.
Some of our best spending control was in the 104th when the republicans forced Clinton to balance the budget. I wouldn't mind a house and senate controlled by R's and a president controlled by a D if it worked out the same.
And how long do you intend to run the engine on ether? At some point it has to run on the fuel lines.
Actually it does trickle down from high earners, it just don't trickle down *much* from people who have all the wealth they need already such as Warren Buffet, or what not. Your local surgeon spends every dime he makes on people doing things for them, building things for them, or buying things. I have quite a few surgeons that are customers, and they probably save less than I do at the end of the day even though they earn 10-20 times what I do. Most high earners measure wealth in income not in savings.
Of course that doesn't (for your exact example) count the earned income credit 5,236, food stamps 8016 a year, free school lunches, and sometimes breakfasts for your kids, and section 8 housing which varies by locality, and money earned on the side by doing odd jobs.
Yes I've been poor, capitalism is the only way out.
No I'm not saying things need to be changed one way or another, just that you aren't showing the whole picture. I have two rent houses, one of them the good people living in meet poverty line threshold, and they both drive nicer cars than I do.
Rent is 550 a month for a 3 bedroom 1 bath house that is 900sq ft and that includes water utilities paid, and I used to live there it's a nice little house before you accuse me of being a slumlord. I'd live there tomorrow if I didn't have 4 kids and a wife.
I haven't seen it here, but you could pick up something like a dell optiplex 755 for dirt cheap on ebay, put a raid card in it, a couple 1tb hard drives, and put linux on it, and make shares using samba. That's exactly what we do at our IT shop, and it works fine for us. We install windows servers all the time, but we just don't need it, and our email is gmail, our web services are VPS servers at a host. If you are worried about replacement parts you could just order two of the exact same machine and keep one dark :)
My suggestion no matter what people here say is to then do a backup to the cloud using Jungledisk as a client, and Amazon or Rackspace as a storage provider. If you generate your security keys and opt not to give them to Jungledisk the keys to store for you then I'm not exactly sure how they are going to cough up your data to the "wrong people." The only people that could legally get them to turn over data would be the feds, and that would be your dream since it would mean they invaded your client attorney privilege thus pretty much self destructing any case they might have had. If they were going to get your data from a cloud service, it would be a lot easier to just bust into your office, but that doesn't happen at least by the government as it's self defeating.
You would post on your wall. For example if I said that +Rob Malda knows what's he's talking about then he would get alerted at the top right of his screen to take a look at the post.
Just to kind of clue you in a bit, we aren't a Democracy let alone a healthy one. We are a Republic.
--
At the close of the constitutional convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
I hear this "but they won't know what they are doing!@!@!" argument all the damn time.
Well if that's the case maybe they will simplify things. I'm sorry, if we can get a new president which is one of the three branches of government for 8 years, then to say we can't replace a senator every 12 years is just silly. If we have two 6 year terms with elections every two years staggered through the states then we end up with one term where they are clueless the first year sure, but then they get their sea legs under them they get down to business for 5 years. If you need more than a year to figure out your job, then you really aren't smart enough to be there anyways.
The electoral system means that politicians have to think about all of the country, not just cities. The electoral system guarantees that even low pop states like RI and AK get a chance at some attention.
If people know they can only serve for 12 years, then they have to go live under the crap they passed into law maybe they will think twice before passing some of this garbage. And honestly, who works for one job for 12 years anymore. Sure some folks do, but it's far from the norm.
I concur with term limits, however I do not agree that it's a politicians job to listen to constituents. This is not a democracy it is a republic. We elect people to make decisions, and we don't elect them if they don't make the decisions we liked. It is up to them to make decisions and decide who to listen to once elected.
The Atlantic is a joke, just look at their business pages. They try to be provoxative , but are in general universally poorly researched, and inane.
You know, I actually do believe in a two party system, because even in countries where there are multiple parties, they still just all gang up and make a two party leading system with a majority and a back bench in play. However, I find myself leaning more and more heavily libertarian. I mean, I don't do drugs, but fuck it you can if you want. I don't use hookers, but if someone wants to make money with their crotch, whatever.
I mean if we had a strong libertarian party I don't think we would see schools shut down, the borders dissolved, and the military dismantled, or some of the other more zany libertarian stuff, but I think it would however go a long ways to push to shit that just makes sense. At least we would have some folks that would stand up and make other politicans look stupid for trying to legislate right wing morality, or liberal ethics.