All issues are political[; and politics] is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. - George Orwell
Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms. - Aristotle
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. - Thomas Jefferson
A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject. - John R. Lott
Your arguments make no sense to me. If you do not understand what the Second Amendment to the American Constitution means then I pity you. In spite of what the leftist media would like you to believe, not everyone is a redneck, watches Dukes of Hazzard, likes NASCAR. Some of us just believe in the dream of freedom, not the yoke of socialism or communism. America was founded because the British Oligarchy learned the hard way when "CITIZENS" pick up arms and fight tyranny, the *archy loses. Even the Canadians understood before the clowns like Trudeau and his wife (nice cooter!!!) starting giving it all away just like the british and labor party.
Doing better than your health care system, at least for another year or too.
Seriously, why do you defend this tyrannical crap? I love your country. I went to school in Bellingham and spent a lot of time in Vancouver. You should be fucking pissed of about this crap, instead you roll over, offer it up, and slurp it up. Grow a pair, your country had them once.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin
In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, -- if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. - Benjamin Franklin
There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. - Ed Howdershelt
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. - Thomas Jefferson
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. - Ayn Rand
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to saintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. - George Washington
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. - Frank Herbert
In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up. - Pastor Martin Niemöller
Presidents don't enact the budgets, Congress does. The President submits a budget, the congress enacts it and the President can then veto it. How often has that happened?
Your graph does not show total debt and total obligations. I'm not going to get into a Republocrat vs. Demopublican debate. They are the same to me - they take and spend. There is no difference of you look at it honestly.
BTW - Most of the long term obilgations (SS, Medicare, Welfare) have come from the entitlement programs - who enacted those?
The bailout is one big special interest deal. Remember the "no earmarks" and "transparent budget process" pledges?
To quote Ms. Olson, "National Taxpayer Advocate" at the IRS (talk about a thankless job!): "But given the near universal sentiment that the tax code is in dire need of reform, why hasn't it happened? In my view, it's because elected officials believe the political risks of putting forward a proposal to vastly simplify the tax code outweigh the political benefits. Each tax break has a constituency, and constituencies that stand to lose benefits tend to organize quickly to protect their interests." 535 Congresscritters and Senators, 49,000 lobbyists in Washington, you do the math!
Why do I think taxes will go up? Because Government debt is going up. Entitlements are going up.
"As a result of the 2001 tax cuts enacted by a bipartisan Congress and signed by President George W. Bush, the share of taxes paid by the top 10% increased to 72.8% in 2005 from 67.8% in 2001, according to the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).(WSJ, April 13, 2009). The top 10% is people who made > $92,400.
"According to the CBO, those who made less than $44,300 in 2001 -- 60% of the country -- paid a paltry 3.3% of all income taxes. By 2005, almost all of them were excused from paying any income tax. They paid less than 1% of the income tax burden. Their share shrank even when taking into account the payroll tax. In 2001, the bottom 60% paid 16.3% of all taxes; by 2005 their share was down to 14.3%. All the while, this large group of voters made 25.8% of the nation's income." From the same article.
ANY shrink of the government will be a benefit to the economy. The government does not produce wealth, it diminishes it.
The economic term is "velocity of money" but the short form is that that the government is not as efficient as the free market and that is another form of taxation - by supporting bureaucratic inefficiencies through coercion. A short definition of "Velocity of Money" is the number of times that money changes hands in a year. In the free market, it is about 12. You buy a steak in January. The butcher pays the baker in February. The baker pays the candlestick maker in March, etc.
In the real world you work for two weeks and get your paycheck. A week later you pay your monthly bills. The post office takes few days to deliver your check and then it gets deposited. Every dollar changes hands about once a month. A government dollar has a velocity of money of about 4, or 1/3 that of a free market dollar. It takes the government three times as long to spend a tax dollar that came out of your paycheck or from sales tax. When you pay your payroll taxes in January, the bureaucracy is so inefficient that the government does not spend that money until April. If you doubt that the government is inefficient, head on down to the DMV and see how long it takes to do something simple like renew your driverâ(TM)s license!
That also means a free market dollar contributes $12 to the GNP (Gross National Product) as it changes hands 12 times a year and a taxed dollar contributes only $4 to the GDP as it only changes hands once a quarter. Here is the key: for every taxed dollar, the economy loses $8 dollars!!! This is also the reason that tax cuts stimulate the economy so much!
This is the major problem with the political system. The people voted for change - news flash here, there won't be any change except what is left in your pocket. The machine must be fed. The US tax code is so bloated and filled with special interest deals that unless government shrinks, TAXES WILL GO UP! This is a Demopublican problem. There is no differences between the parties - and they are partying on your money.
If you push on the balloon it will expand somewhere else.
Buckle in, this is not going to change unless all the bastards are thrown out, ALL OF THEM!
Thank God (Judea-Christian of course) the other following titles are still available:
"I'm a Corrupt Politician - Color Me Green!" By Chris Dodd, Barney Frank (extra lollipop pages!), and Harry Reid, sing along pages by Hillary and Nancy!
"I'm Black & Red at the Same Time - I'm Your President"
"I personally rather run the risk of seeing pictures of dead family members online rather do something that could lead to the hindrance of free speech because as it's been said this isn't a problem with free speech. It's a problem with some clowns not taking their job seriously and it's rather common as I knew a volunteer fireman who kept a photo album of accident pictures and he had shown them to people like it was his pride and joy.
People have always been like this and always will and you can't stop it by passing a law. You only end up ruining life for those with decency."
Yes, but it will be grandstanded by the legislature in the interest of "protecting us". This is the same reason we have the "Patriot Act" and "Fusion Centers". The politician will say that it is better to take away the rights of millions to save a life - hence the nanny state which is another name for fascism.
I do understand that you wrote in Java but as someone who would not piss on my cellphone company if they were on fire (Verizon) it think your best best is the iPhone/iPod platform. I have a Touch and I've spent half my game budget on it. You get a great distribution platform, your app is secure, and the hardware is nice. I would never pay for any app on my cellphone today.
I'm not a developer or even a fanboi, I just like the device. It replaced my Palm Pilot and I would have an iPhone if my company would pay for it instead of the verizon POS I have today.
You mean like the collective intellgence of Britney Spears Fans? The collective intellgence of American Idol fans? The collective intellgence of Outcome Based Education policies? The collective intellgence of "Where I be gettin' my free mortgage?" The collective intellgence of Kyoto Treaties? The collective intellgence of the Tax Code? The collective intellgence of having 49,000 lobbyists and only 535 congresscreeps?
I may be going out on a limb but I'm thinking that most are missing the "socio-political subtleties"
Suggestions: An IQ test to vote (and get a drivers license.) You must actually earn something to get a tax return. You must pay taxes to vote. You must serve in the military to vote. An IQ test to be in the Congress? (Say 130?)
Since I was old enough to understand, when oil hit $10, $20, $30, $40, $50, $60, $70, $80, $90, $100, $110, $120, $130, $140, $150, and when solar PV efficiency hit 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% etc. then all the problems of the world would be solved. Oh, yea, where are the flying cars?
I'm sure the failure to realize this freedom, utopia, and the Star Trek economy is somehow George Bush's fault with Dick Cheney in the background pulling the puppet strings but frankly I'm sick of these bullshit stories on slashdot.
How about some real science with real progress and numbers about how this is really going to make a difference? Never mind the real destruction of wealth and food production the ethanol custerfuck has brought about, how about some real progress on alternative energy?
Oh yea, just a hint, get the fuckwit demopublicans politicians out of the process?
There is an concept in economics called the velocity of money. It is measured as the number of times money changes hands in a year. I pay the butcher $1 in January, he pays the baker that dollar in February, and the she pays the candlestick (LED carbon friendly candles of course) maker $1 in march, etc. The velocity of a free market dollar is ~12.
Now if I pay that $1 in taxes, it takes the government 3 months to spend that money due to bureaucratic overhead. The velocity of a taxed dollar is ~4.
4 minus 12 is -8 or for every taxed dollar, the gross national product is reduced by $8. This is why tax cuts stimulate the economy so much. You and I deciding what something is worth is more efficient than the politicians.
This is why Musk can do so much with so little compared to NASA.
This is why Libertarians believe in the free market. It is not Randoid philosophy, it is the way the world works.
This issue is about ownership. Does your argument imply that I can come live in your house in 3-5 years and it is public domain? Hell, we're all coming over!
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All issues are political[; and politics] is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.
- George Orwell
Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms.
- Aristotle
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject.
- John R. Lott
Your arguments make no sense to me. If you do not understand what the Second Amendment to the American Constitution means then I pity you. In spite of what the leftist media would like you to believe, not everyone is a redneck, watches Dukes of Hazzard, likes NASCAR. Some of us just believe in the dream of freedom, not the yoke of socialism or communism. America was founded because the British Oligarchy learned the hard way when "CITIZENS" pick up arms and fight tyranny, the *archy loses. Even the Canadians understood before the clowns like Trudeau and his wife (nice cooter!!!) starting giving it all away just like the british and labor party.
Doing better than your health care system, at least for another year or too.
Seriously, why do you defend this tyrannical crap? I love your country. I went to school in Bellingham and spent a lot of time in Vancouver. You should be fucking pissed of about this crap, instead you roll over, offer it up, and slurp it up. Grow a pair, your country had them once.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, -- if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
- Benjamin Franklin
There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order.
- Ed Howdershelt
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
- Thomas Jefferson
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
- Ayn Rand
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to saintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.
- George Washington
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
- Frank Herbert
In Germany, they came first for the Communists,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . .
And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
- Pastor Martin Niemöller
Presidents don't enact the budgets, Congress does. The President submits a budget, the congress enacts it and the President can then veto it. How often has that happened?
Your graph does not show total debt and total obligations. I'm not going to get into a Republocrat vs. Demopublican debate. They are the same to me - they take and spend. There is no difference of you look at it honestly.
BTW - Most of the long term obilgations (SS, Medicare, Welfare) have come from the entitlement programs - who enacted those?
The bailout is one big special interest deal. Remember the "no earmarks" and "transparent budget process" pledges?
To quote Ms. Olson, "National Taxpayer Advocate" at the IRS (talk about a thankless job!): "But given the near universal sentiment that the tax code is in dire need of reform, why hasn't it happened? In my view, it's because elected officials believe the political risks of putting forward a proposal to vastly simplify the tax code outweigh the political benefits. Each tax break has a constituency, and constituencies that stand to lose benefits tend to organize quickly to protect their interests." 535 Congresscritters and Senators, 49,000 lobbyists in Washington, you do the math!
Why do I think taxes will go up? Because Government debt is going up. Entitlements are going up.
"As a result of the 2001 tax cuts enacted by a bipartisan Congress and signed by President George W. Bush, the share of taxes paid by the top 10% increased to 72.8% in 2005 from 67.8% in 2001, according to the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).(WSJ, April 13, 2009). The top 10% is people who made > $92,400.
"According to the CBO, those who made less than $44,300 in 2001 -- 60% of the country -- paid a paltry 3.3% of all income taxes. By 2005, almost all of them were excused from paying any income tax. They paid less than 1% of the income tax burden. Their share shrank even when taking into account the payroll tax. In 2001, the bottom 60% paid 16.3% of all taxes; by 2005 their share was down to 14.3%. All the while, this large group of voters made 25.8% of the nation's income." From the same article.
ANY shrink of the government will be a benefit to the economy. The government does not produce wealth, it diminishes it.
The economic term is "velocity of money" but the short form is that that the government is not as efficient as the free market and that is another form of taxation - by supporting bureaucratic inefficiencies through coercion. A short definition of "Velocity of Money" is the number of times that money changes hands in a year. In the free market, it is about 12. You buy a steak in January. The butcher pays the baker in February. The baker pays the candlestick maker in March, etc.
In the real world you work for two weeks and get your paycheck. A week later you pay your monthly bills. The post office takes few days to deliver your check and then it gets deposited. Every dollar changes hands about once a month. A government dollar has a velocity of money of about 4, or 1/3 that of a free market dollar. It takes the government three times as long to spend a tax dollar that came out of your paycheck or from sales tax. When you pay your payroll taxes in January, the bureaucracy is so inefficient that the government does not spend that money until April. If you doubt that the government is inefficient, head on down to the DMV and see how long it takes to do something simple like renew your driverâ(TM)s license!
That also means a free market dollar contributes $12 to the GNP (Gross National Product) as it changes hands 12 times a year and a taxed dollar contributes only $4 to the GDP as it only changes hands once a quarter. Here is the key: for every taxed dollar, the economy loses $8 dollars!!! This is also the reason that tax cuts stimulate the economy so much!
This is the major problem with the political system. The people voted for change - news flash here, there won't be any change except what is left in your pocket. The machine must be fed. The US tax code is so bloated and filled with special interest deals that unless government shrinks, TAXES WILL GO UP! This is a Demopublican problem. There is no differences between the parties - and they are partying on your money.
If you push on the balloon it will expand somewhere else.
Buckle in, this is not going to change unless all the bastards are thrown out, ALL OF THEM!
Thank God (Judea-Christian of course) the other following titles are still available:
"I'm a Corrupt Politician - Color Me Green!" By Chris Dodd, Barney Frank (extra lollipop pages!), and Harry Reid, sing along pages by Hillary and Nancy!
"I'm Black & Red at the Same Time - I'm Your President"
and
"We're America - We Were Brave and Free"
are still available!
Yes it is. Pick up a history book.
Once you have everyone suckling at the big government teat rather than being self-reliant it is very easy to find the neck to put the jackboot on!
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
"I personally rather run the risk of seeing pictures of dead family members online rather do something that could lead to the hindrance of free speech because as it's been said this isn't a problem with free speech. It's a problem with some clowns not taking their job seriously and it's rather common as I knew a volunteer fireman who kept a photo album of accident pictures and he had shown them to people like it was his pride and joy.
People have always been like this and always will and you can't stop it by passing a law. You only end up ruining life for those with decency."
Yes, but it will be grandstanded by the legislature in the interest of "protecting us". This is the same reason we have the "Patriot Act" and "Fusion Centers". The politician will say that it is better to take away the rights of millions to save a life - hence the nanny state which is another name for fascism.
Wish I had a mod point - well said!
These same freedoms are the ones terrorists exploit for their causes.
These outrages cannot be legislated away in a free society but will still be used for political gain and propaganda by our so called representatives.
McCain would have been superior because of his ideology that is actually backed up with a lifetime record of achievement supporting those beliefs.
$8.99/month for 1 disk out at a time, unlimited number of rentals per month.
I do understand that you wrote in Java but as someone who would not piss on my cellphone company if they were on fire (Verizon) it think your best best is the iPhone/iPod platform. I have a Touch and I've spent half my game budget on it. You get a great distribution platform, your app is secure, and the hardware is nice. I would never pay for any app on my cellphone today.
I'm not a developer or even a fanboi, I just like the device. It replaced my Palm Pilot and I would have an iPhone if my company would pay for it instead of the verizon POS I have today.
You mean like the collective intellgence of Britney Spears Fans?
The collective intellgence of American Idol fans?
The collective intellgence of Outcome Based Education policies?
The collective intellgence of "Where I be gettin' my free mortgage?"
The collective intellgence of Kyoto Treaties?
The collective intellgence of the Tax Code?
The collective intellgence of having 49,000 lobbyists and only 535 congresscreeps?
I may be going out on a limb but I'm thinking that most are missing the "socio-political subtleties"
Suggestions:
An IQ test to vote (and get a drivers license.)
You must actually earn something to get a tax return.
You must pay taxes to vote.
You must serve in the military to vote.
An IQ test to be in the Congress? (Say 130?)
Out of mod points but well said.
p.s. yes, "Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays"
Since I was old enough to understand, when oil hit $10, $20, $30, $40, $50, $60, $70, $80, $90, $100, $110, $120, $130, $140, $150, and when solar PV efficiency hit 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% etc. then all the problems of the world would be solved. Oh, yea, where are the flying cars?
I'm sure the failure to realize this freedom, utopia, and the Star Trek economy is somehow George Bush's fault with Dick Cheney in the background pulling the puppet strings but frankly I'm sick of these bullshit stories on slashdot.
How about some real science with real progress and numbers about how this is really going to make a difference? Never mind the real destruction of wealth and food production the ethanol custerfuck has brought about, how about some real progress on alternative energy?
Oh yea, just a hint, get the fuckwit demopublicans politicians out of the process?
There is an concept in economics called the velocity of money. It is measured as the number of times money changes hands in a year. I pay the butcher $1 in January, he pays the baker that dollar in February, and the she pays the candlestick (LED carbon friendly candles of course) maker $1 in march, etc. The velocity of a free market dollar is ~12.
Now if I pay that $1 in taxes, it takes the government 3 months to spend that money due to bureaucratic overhead. The velocity of a taxed dollar is ~4.
4 minus 12 is -8 or for every taxed dollar, the gross national product is reduced by $8. This is why tax cuts stimulate the economy so much. You and I deciding what something is worth is more efficient than the politicians.
This is why Musk can do so much with so little compared to NASA.
This is why Libertarians believe in the free market. It is not Randoid philosophy, it is the way the world works.
This issue is about ownership. Does your argument imply that I can come live in your house in 3-5 years and it is public domain? Hell, we're all coming over!
I thought it was the Areola Borealis?...
ill-tempered gerbils?
One of the most engrossing games I have played in years! Also, no DRM, great developer support.
It in nice to be treated like an adult by the developer!
oops...
Or lawyers...
Henry VI Part 2 Act 4. Scene II