I agree with this. Personally I prefer a democrat president and a republican controlled house and senate like we had with clinton/newt. Those guys hated each other but they forced each other into a balanced budget, something we haven't had since.
They are now only wanting to keep the cuts for under 250k for a year. Just enough to get through the election. That one is a goner too.
Honestly though, look at how much Obamacare is going to cost. We have to get the money from somewhere, even if it means oppressing every class income. I think it's all a bunch of crap, but if your going to play give everyone freebies, then you really should jack the taxes up. Then maybe people will vote against the freebies.
I mean, really shouldn't that be the way it works? If the government spends massively, shouldn't they tax massively? If the taxes are to oppressive to the populace then they will revolt at the polls, and government will contract. Spending on deficit is just an artificial temporary anomaly, and it hides the taxes in future problems instead of just facing them now.
But the chances are high a crazy person will gain control of a country that already has nukes. Or someone will develop a true brain disorder that drives them insane after they come to power.
Excellent topic. I went to work at a startup at 23, and had a similar mentality. I almost got fired on multiple occasions, but the uppers couldn't figure out whether to pat me on the back or get a restraining order. I originally applied to be a Unix administration because "I knew linux!!11" Actually I knew HPUX, and IRIX pretty well too at the time. The hiring manager kind of laughed and said I could work in tech support, and they would evaluate me. After a month in tech support I got tired of not having any documentation so I set upon documenting every damn thing on the planet, and then for good measure I used an open source search engine to make intelligent indexes of the docs, and provide relevant scored results. Sounds great right? Well the owner of the business actually sat on my desk for an afternoon just discussing how awesome it was. His conversation with me that day was longer than any conversation with any engineer or below employee he ever had. I was tickled pink, till the next day when the guy that hired me called me into his office.
He handed me my first write up. I had 1. Installed unauthorized software on company equipment without authorization. 2. Put project level hours into something that wasn't authorized as a project, and 3. unrelated to this I had also installed bash on the sco aquiring server, and compiled vim, gcc, less, and a whole host of tools to make SCO not suck tremendously, and he proceeded to blame the segmentation faults the server had been having weekly since before I was hired on my rogue freeware tools.
Now, at the time I was devestated, and thought he was the biggest douchebag on the planet. After all the owner had loved what I had done, and was pleased as punch, he even said he wished other people took that sort of initiative.
Ten years later, I understand at least a bit where the manager was coming from. They were trying to track down the problems with the server, and had implemented a code freeze, and at the same time everyone in support, and some folks in technology were starting to run bash as their primary shell, and put the path to my OSS utilities in their paths. Since the server was much easier to work in with these tools the server was being put under even MORE load. The project I created shorted everyone in the management chain all the way up out of the kudos, including my manager, his manager, and the guy that hired me. The project manager would have definitely approved the project since he was always griping about documentation, but I took him out of the loop, and made him look stupid when he didn't know the search engine existed when his boss asked about it, and made both of my superiors look like they didn't know what the hell was going on (even if that was the reality). Also the software I installed was on an old junky machine in the corner of the data center, but the problem was that it was on the primary network where PCI data flowed, not a great place security wise to be putting anything like that.
With that being said a week or so later I got promoted out of tech support and in to InsallShield developer(remember them?), and field implementation engineer. In retrospect I think this may have been because my project was too popular to fire me, but management wanted me as far the fuck away from their data center as possible.
That will probably go to the supreme court I'm guessing, because giving a president the ability to not enforce the law seems dangerous to me. I mean, what if a president didn't agree that slavery was so bad, and decided not to prosecute or enforce anti-slavery laws. What if a president didn't like the laws against polling place intimidation, so decided it was OK if his party thugs beat people up at the voting booths? What if a libertarian president decided that the income tax was unconstitutional no matter what the supreme court said, and decided to stop enforcing payment of taxes?
To you all that is OK!
Giving a president the leeway in how to enforce things has to be a given if the law does not dictate exactly how it is enforced, I get that, but saying a president can invalidate any law congress passes and the Supreme court deems constitutional? That's a damn mess is what that is.
LOL that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Texas was a territory of Mexico, if you were Texan that meant you were a Mexican citizen. The battle of the Alamo was Mexicans butchering Mexicans. Were there illegal immigrants to Mexico, sure. That's just an historical example of what happens when you don't enforce your borders. If you want your country to be torn apart, just let folks in with no checks. Makes a great example of why we are failing to maintain the integrity of the United States.
FYI I'm for immigration, in fact I'd like to see it opened up a LOT, because immigration is a great thing. However, I want it to be legal immigration, where people in the county view this as THEIR country, and have ownership in their country. Illegal immigration is a really _BAD_ thing for any country.
Sorry, Santa Anna shouldn't have signed the piece of paper, no do-overs. If they want it back they should arm up and attack us and see if they can take it. That's how it's done in nation building. It might not be civil, but right makes right. Legally they can say what they want, but their leader made a stupid tactical decision, and admitted defeat, and signed the paper, Texas was independent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_Velasco
Of course afterwards they denied it happening, but that's crap and everyone knows it, but Anna wouldn't be the last dictator to make claims like that. Then of course we had a war over it, and border disputes, in which Mexico was soundly defeated. At that time the U.S. should have rightfully just taken Mexico over (something the Mexicans expected after we conquered Mexico City, because again, you take a capital and that country is pretty much yours if you can quell the rest of the country), and made it all a state, but largely because of racism against Hispanics, and the south not wanting another free state (Mexico did not have slavery).
I actually consider this the United States largest blunder in it's history. Had Mexico been forced into statehood as a conquered nation, then today Mexico would probably have been the most successful and richest state in the United States possibly more successful than California and Texas combined with their resources, beauty, and year round growing season. As it is it's a corrupt piece of crap country full of drugs, violence, corruption, poverty, and squandered resources. That's really too bad because much of the culture of Mexico is amazing, and the people in good governance would be outstanding Americans.
This is simply untrue, and a distortion. Liberals love attacking Texas for it's schools, but one of the main reasons our schools suck is because of Illegal immigration. How the hell do you make a school great when half of your students can't understand what you are teaching, and their parents don't give a crap about their education, they are just using the school as free food and day care. It gets worst the closer you get to the border.
I'm sorry if you like your gardener because he's hispanic and you don't have to pay taxes, or a good wage because you pay him under the table in cash. It really doesn't help the country as a whole though.
WE did not take ANYTHING from Mexico. Texas fought and war of independence and won, but was horribly in debt. Texas was very vulnerable, and it was possible that it would be invaded and conquered, so it joined the U.S. out of fear of brutal reprisal from Mexico, which was much stronger. Before that Texas was under Spain and France. What you just said was as stupid as saying the United States stole Texas from France.
The rest of your post is just as full of nonsensical uneducated drivel. My wife is Hispanic, and fully supports this law. My in laws are from Texas and also support it. Hispanic people in Texas, and Arizona are hit harder by problems caused by illegals than white people are. Your probably just another northerner that doesn't understand any of this problem, but thinks he has all the answers. When bush went after meat packing plants for hiring illegals the democrats ripped him.
Untrue, you must carry your passport with you at all times. If you get robbed then you need to report the theft to the police so they have the record of the theft, then your consulate and get another one issued ASAP. Pretty much what you should have done in any recent history.
The law has nothing to do with being able to work in the US, it has to do with being a U.S. Citizen, or a non-citizen that is allowed to be in the country. The police then walk back to their car, and pull up your information in their dash computer. Pretty much the same way they check your information RIGHT NOW.
Doesn't matter anyways, the department of justice came out today and said they aren't going to do anything about illegal immigration anymore in Arizona.
Just another reason to kick these jerks out of office. If you don't like a law then change it, if your job is to enforce the law and you don't like it then don't run for the job of enforcing the law you don't like, and can't change.
Personally I think the laws banning MJ are just plain fucking stupid. If I was a cop I'd bust someones ass for having it though, because that would be my job. The presidents job is also to enforce the laws, something he is shirking.
Im not interested in outsourcing, and yes it is unpopular but it is the truth . Nobody me deserves anything that we dont go out and earn in this world. This idea that everyone shohld make a 'living wage' which is impossible to acthally define is absolute rubbish.
Not only does that sort of nonsense not make any sense in reality it is actually a detriment against people starting out because they think they are being crapped on because they arent making VP wages when they may not.even be making the company or saving the company more than they are being paid. No company can do this in the long.term without going.out of business. Should be common sense, but around here it isn't.
Is slashdot nothing but.occutards that have never had to make payroll or fire a good employee and friend because they couldn't? What fucking.nonsense. It is SO hard to hire and keep someone hired, and unemployment is a wonderful way of punishing anyone who tries and fails. unemployment makes it so you dont hire someone until it us an.absolutr.necessity, you can't give someone a chance and hope it works out or the state jacks your rates through the ceiling if.it.doesn't but noodle heads with no real experience like you with victim mentalities just keep pushing more disincentives to hire.and.keep bitching about how rich people wont throw money away for nothing but a giant hassle.
I love posts like yours that thinks an employer like me somehow owes something to qn employee. If I dont pay an employee enough they go somewhere else and I have a nightmare replacing them if they weren't worthless to begin with. If the employee costs me more than they generate more income I have to reduce wages or fire them.
Aldo define living wage. When I was 20 I made 12k a yeat and lived fine. Does that mean a living wage is 12 k a year? Should I pay someone 12k a year for.coming to work, surfing porn, and gossiping with and against other employees?
I have had a few problems with some stories that had gross errors, but the bias is pretty level. With that being said I'm OK with the government giving NPR airwaves license free and even a mandate from congress, however I'm not OK with a dime of taxpayer money going to any broadcaster or news agency public or private.
Wow the only vitriolic crap I see being spewed is from leftists like you. Just because I don't think the government should not be funding churches, oil companies, or broadcast stations does not diminish my ability to reason.
So crawl back in your cave and think up better nasty names to call people who's views you are intollerant of, after all name calling is a sign of intelligence right?
Not only that but corn is destroying the Ogalala Aquifer at an alarming rate, which picked up the pace even more when Bush signed that Democrat pushed nonsense about ethanol. Crap like that was what made him an awful president.
Cancer treatment is expensive because someone is willing to pay hundreds of thousands for it (insurance companies). It's the same reason college expenses are going through the roof. Students are willing to spend whatever the government will loan them for college, so why charge less?
Surgeons don't put anyone through useless surgery. I know dozens of surgeons, and the only useless surgeries they do are for people spending big bucks to pump chemicals into parts of their body so certain parts stick out more, and those people pay out of pocket.
The fact you even say stupid leftist crap negates any point you were trying to make.
Poor an indigent people HAVE ACCESS to healthcare other than OR's, they don't think ahead that far, which is why they use the ER.
Because of the way the law is the ER can't tell poor people to go across the street and pay 30 dollars to have someone help them BETTER and FASTER, instead they charge them 600 dollars then harass them and settle the bill for maybe 100 dollars.
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I agree with this. Personally I prefer a democrat president and a republican controlled house and senate like we had with clinton/newt. Those guys hated each other but they forced each other into a balanced budget, something we haven't had since.
They are now only wanting to keep the cuts for under 250k for a year. Just enough to get through the election. That one is a goner too.
Honestly though, look at how much Obamacare is going to cost. We have to get the money from somewhere, even if it means oppressing every class income. I think it's all a bunch of crap, but if your going to play give everyone freebies, then you really should jack the taxes up. Then maybe people will vote against the freebies.
I mean, really shouldn't that be the way it works? If the government spends massively, shouldn't they tax massively? If the taxes are to oppressive to the populace then they will revolt at the polls, and government will contract. Spending on deficit is just an artificial temporary anomaly, and it hides the taxes in future problems instead of just facing them now.
to shoot a load.
But the chances are high a crazy person will gain control of a country that already has nukes. Or someone will develop a true brain disorder that drives them insane after they come to power.
Excellent topic. I went to work at a startup at 23, and had a similar mentality. I almost got fired on multiple occasions, but the uppers couldn't figure out whether to pat me on the back or get a restraining order. I originally applied to be a Unix administration because "I knew linux!!11" Actually I knew HPUX, and IRIX pretty well too at the time. The hiring manager kind of laughed and said I could work in tech support, and they would evaluate me. After a month in tech support I got tired of not having any documentation so I set upon documenting every damn thing on the planet, and then for good measure I used an open source search engine to make intelligent indexes of the docs, and provide relevant scored results. Sounds great right? Well the owner of the business actually sat on my desk for an afternoon just discussing how awesome it was. His conversation with me that day was longer than any conversation with any engineer or below employee he ever had. I was tickled pink, till the next day when the guy that hired me called me into his office.
He handed me my first write up. I had 1. Installed unauthorized software on company equipment without authorization. 2. Put project level hours into something that wasn't authorized as a project, and 3. unrelated to this I had also installed bash on the sco aquiring server, and compiled vim, gcc, less, and a whole host of tools to make SCO not suck tremendously, and he proceeded to blame the segmentation faults the server had been having weekly since before I was hired on my rogue freeware tools.
Now, at the time I was devestated, and thought he was the biggest douchebag on the planet. After all the owner had loved what I had done, and was pleased as punch, he even said he wished other people took that sort of initiative.
Ten years later, I understand at least a bit where the manager was coming from. They were trying to track down the problems with the server, and had implemented a code freeze, and at the same time everyone in support, and some folks in technology were starting to run bash as their primary shell, and put the path to my OSS utilities in their paths. Since the server was much easier to work in with these tools the server was being put under even MORE load. The project I created shorted everyone in the management chain all the way up out of the kudos, including my manager, his manager, and the guy that hired me. The project manager would have definitely approved the project since he was always griping about documentation, but I took him out of the loop, and made him look stupid when he didn't know the search engine existed when his boss asked about it, and made both of my superiors look like they didn't know what the hell was going on (even if that was the reality). Also the software I installed was on an old junky machine in the corner of the data center, but the problem was that it was on the primary network where PCI data flowed, not a great place security wise to be putting anything like that.
With that being said a week or so later I got promoted out of tech support and in to InsallShield developer(remember them?), and field implementation engineer. In retrospect I think this may have been because my project was too popular to fire me, but management wanted me as far the fuck away from their data center as possible.
That will probably go to the supreme court I'm guessing, because giving a president the ability to not enforce the law seems dangerous to me. I mean, what if a president didn't agree that slavery was so bad, and decided not to prosecute or enforce anti-slavery laws. What if a president didn't like the laws against polling place intimidation, so decided it was OK if his party thugs beat people up at the voting booths? What if a libertarian president decided that the income tax was unconstitutional no matter what the supreme court said, and decided to stop enforcing payment of taxes?
To you all that is OK!
Giving a president the leeway in how to enforce things has to be a given if the law does not dictate exactly how it is enforced, I get that, but saying a president can invalidate any law congress passes and the Supreme court deems constitutional? That's a damn mess is what that is.
LOL that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Texas was a territory of Mexico, if you were Texan that meant you were a Mexican citizen. The battle of the Alamo was Mexicans butchering Mexicans. Were there illegal immigrants to Mexico, sure. That's just an historical example of what happens when you don't enforce your borders. If you want your country to be torn apart, just let folks in with no checks. Makes a great example of why we are failing to maintain the integrity of the United States.
FYI I'm for immigration, in fact I'd like to see it opened up a LOT, because immigration is a great thing. However, I want it to be legal immigration, where people in the county view this as THEIR country, and have ownership in their country. Illegal immigration is a really _BAD_ thing for any country.
Sorry, Santa Anna shouldn't have signed the piece of paper, no do-overs. If they want it back they should arm up and attack us and see if they can take it. That's how it's done in nation building. It might not be civil, but right makes right. Legally they can say what they want, but their leader made a stupid tactical decision, and admitted defeat, and signed the paper, Texas was independent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_Velasco
Of course afterwards they denied it happening, but that's crap and everyone knows it, but Anna wouldn't be the last dictator to make claims like that. Then of course we had a war over it, and border disputes, in which Mexico was soundly defeated. At that time the U.S. should have rightfully just taken Mexico over (something the Mexicans expected after we conquered Mexico City, because again, you take a capital and that country is pretty much yours if you can quell the rest of the country), and made it all a state, but largely because of racism against Hispanics, and the south not wanting another free state (Mexico did not have slavery).
I actually consider this the United States largest blunder in it's history. Had Mexico been forced into statehood as a conquered nation, then today Mexico would probably have been the most successful and richest state in the United States possibly more successful than California and Texas combined with their resources, beauty, and year round growing season. As it is it's a corrupt piece of crap country full of drugs, violence, corruption, poverty, and squandered resources. That's really too bad because much of the culture of Mexico is amazing, and the people in good governance would be outstanding Americans.
This is simply untrue, and a distortion. Liberals love attacking Texas for it's schools, but one of the main reasons our schools suck is because of Illegal immigration. How the hell do you make a school great when half of your students can't understand what you are teaching, and their parents don't give a crap about their education, they are just using the school as free food and day care. It gets worst the closer you get to the border.
I'm sorry if you like your gardener because he's hispanic and you don't have to pay taxes, or a good wage because you pay him under the table in cash. It really doesn't help the country as a whole though.
WE did not take ANYTHING from Mexico. Texas fought and war of independence and won, but was horribly in debt. Texas was very vulnerable, and it was possible that it would be invaded and conquered, so it joined the U.S. out of fear of brutal reprisal from Mexico, which was much stronger. Before that Texas was under Spain and France. What you just said was as stupid as saying the United States stole Texas from France.
The rest of your post is just as full of nonsensical uneducated drivel. My wife is Hispanic, and fully supports this law. My in laws are from Texas and also support it. Hispanic people in Texas, and Arizona are hit harder by problems caused by illegals than white people are. Your probably just another northerner that doesn't understand any of this problem, but thinks he has all the answers. When bush went after meat packing plants for hiring illegals the democrats ripped him.
Untrue, you must carry your passport with you at all times. If you get robbed then you need to report the theft to the police so they have the record of the theft, then your consulate and get another one issued ASAP. Pretty much what you should have done in any recent history.
The law has nothing to do with being able to work in the US, it has to do with being a U.S. Citizen, or a non-citizen that is allowed to be in the country. The police then walk back to their car, and pull up your information in their dash computer. Pretty much the same way they check your information RIGHT NOW.
Doesn't matter anyways, the department of justice came out today and said they aren't going to do anything about illegal immigration anymore in Arizona.
Just another reason to kick these jerks out of office. If you don't like a law then change it, if your job is to enforce the law and you don't like it then don't run for the job of enforcing the law you don't like, and can't change.
Personally I think the laws banning MJ are just plain fucking stupid. If I was a cop I'd bust someones ass for having it though, because that would be my job. The presidents job is also to enforce the laws, something he is shirking.
Im not interested in outsourcing, and yes it is unpopular but it is the truth . Nobody me deserves anything that we dont go out and earn in this world. This idea that everyone shohld make a 'living wage' which is impossible to acthally define is absolute rubbish.
Not only does that sort of nonsense not make any sense in reality it is actually a detriment against people starting out because they think they are being crapped on because they arent making VP wages when they may not.even be making the company or saving the company more than they are being paid. No company can do this in the long.term without going.out of business. Should be common sense, but around here it isn't.
Is slashdot nothing but.occutards that have never had to make payroll or fire a good employee and friend because they couldn't? What fucking.nonsense. It is SO hard to hire and keep someone hired, and unemployment is a wonderful way of punishing anyone who tries and fails. unemployment makes it so you dont hire someone until it us an.absolutr.necessity, you can't give someone a chance and hope it works out or the state jacks your rates through the ceiling if.it.doesn't but noodle heads with no real experience like you with victim mentalities just keep pushing more disincentives to hire.and.keep bitching about how rich people wont throw money away for nothing but a giant hassle.
I love posts like yours that thinks an employer like me somehow owes something to qn employee. If I dont pay an employee enough they go somewhere else and I have a nightmare replacing them if they weren't worthless to begin with. If the employee costs me more than they generate more income I have to reduce wages or fire them.
Aldo define living wage. When I was 20 I made 12k a yeat and lived fine. Does that mean a living wage is 12 k a year? Should I pay someone 12k a year for.coming to work, surfing porn, and gossiping with and against other employees?
You dont DESERVE SHIT.
And how do you know this program wasn't started under bush. Obama leaked what he wanted you to think nothing more.
I have had a few problems with some stories that had gross errors, but the bias is pretty level. With that being said I'm OK with the government giving NPR airwaves license free and even a mandate from congress, however I'm not OK with a dime of taxpayer money going to any broadcaster or news agency public or private.
Wow the only vitriolic crap I see being spewed is from leftists like you. Just because I don't think the government should not be funding churches, oil companies, or broadcast stations does not diminish my ability to reason.
So crawl back in your cave and think up better nasty names to call people who's views you are intollerant of, after all name calling is a sign of intelligence right?
I always suspected that. It was still a funny show.
Not only that but corn is destroying the Ogalala Aquifer at an alarming rate, which picked up the pace even more when Bush signed that Democrat pushed nonsense about ethanol. Crap like that was what made him an awful president.
Cancer treatment is expensive because someone is willing to pay hundreds of thousands for it (insurance companies). It's the same reason college expenses are going through the roof. Students are willing to spend whatever the government will loan them for college, so why charge less?
Surgeons don't put anyone through useless surgery. I know dozens of surgeons, and the only useless surgeries they do are for people spending big bucks to pump chemicals into parts of their body so certain parts stick out more, and those people pay out of pocket.
The fact you even say stupid leftist crap negates any point you were trying to make.
1. Costa Rica is not a libertarian paradise, although they have abolished their army.
2. Costa Rica really is very very nice if not quite a paradise
Case in point, the supercow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmkj5gq1cQU
This cow is solid muscles based on almost straight biology.
Poor an indigent people HAVE ACCESS to healthcare other than OR's, they don't think ahead that far, which is why they use the ER.
Because of the way the law is the ER can't tell poor people to go across the street and pay 30 dollars to have someone help them BETTER and FASTER, instead they charge them 600 dollars then harass them and settle the bill for maybe 100 dollars.