I'm not some rich asshole. I make about 60K a year and between taxes and expenses I do okay but I'm not living high. I work hard for what I have and yeah I don't like people that don't want to struggle being given money that I worked for. Exactly. I have compassion for the truly needy and unfortunate but I personally know too many deadbeats looking for an easy buck that prey on the public system. I have relatives, some by marriage and some (to my shame) by blood that do just that. They're able to work but game the system. I'm not talking about the black welfare mom with 12 kids but instead one is my niece, 30 and healthy except for her in and out of drug rehab habit. My sister is raising one of her kids and one of her ex-husband's mother is raising the other. The two dads are gone and no child support from them. She wont work. Not at all. She's my relative and I wish she was dead. We've placated and supported her kind for decades and all we get is more and more and more of them. They're starting to break the system that was created for people that genuinely need help but we can not do anything about it. I know of dozens just like her personally. There are millions of them and their children have almost no chance. It breaks my heart but giving them money just makes the problem grow.
Why are we paying for people to go to the hospital? I pay when I go so why do I have to pay when someone else goes? My "fair share?" What the hell is wrong with you people that feel you are entitled to what I earn? I pay my taxes. Fuck you.
That is for a family policy. I have some pretty large copays but with a 4500 dollar catastrophic limit it'll keep me from going bankrupt in case of serious illness.
If we didn't have this socialization you're so in love with I'd just die. I have insurance because I choose to do so because it makes sense for me and my family. I work for it and pay a lot for it because it's important to me. The important thing is that it is my choice and that is what freedom is. Your kind just want freedom to reach in my pocket and take what I earn. Fuck you.
You really can't see the difference? If I buy a 700 dollar a month policy (what I have now) then I pay 700 bucks for that insurance. I already paid tax on that money when I made it through payroll deduction. Now if I decide not to take insurance and instead stick that money in my pocket they will take the original tax PLUS more money as a fine to penalize me for not doing what they want me to do. That is Double taxation. Now we go to the other scenario. I pay tax on the 700 dollars through payroll deduction when I make it. I pay my 700 dollars to the insurance company and at the end of the year 1 take a deduction for 700 dollars times 12 for buying Insurance. See the difference. Under scenario number two I actually get a break for doing what they wanted me to do instead of the assfucking I got in scenario one or the neutral effect that I had before the "Affordable Care" act. If they really wanted to be fair they would have used scenario 2 but instead they're fucking me. I know it and I fucking don't like it. Maybe I have to take it but I'm pissed about it and I don't give a shit who knows it.
The tea party isn't cheering for the ultra rich. They're bitching about getting taxed to death. T-Taxed E-Enough A-Allready TEA party. Get it. Fucking idiot. We want an end to the incessant tax and spend cycle. Where in hell do you see any mention of taking away rights from people. Unless you're talking about their right to take all my money. Moron.
That capability is a result of technology. There is no way to stick that genie back in the bottle. The problem is that no one is holding them accountable for breaking the law. Some of these people should be locked up for 30 years or so.
Have you ever talked to any of these people about the fact that facebook datamines them and sells all their personal info? I have. To dozens of people. Out of all of those, every single one without exception, the response was always some form of "so what." Yeah they don't want their friends to know what they're talking about on the phone maybe and they probably don't want their coworkers knowing all about them but when it's just some faceless global corporation it's like it's okay. Really all the stuff that I had on facebook, which was very little, I basically didn't care about either but then I kept my personal info to a minimum. A lot of people have their entire lives online.
Kind of like someone putting a gun to your head and saying "pay me ten grand or I blow your brains out!" No one is forcing you to pay, you can always take the other choice. Listen to yourself. If they gave you a tax deduction for buying insurance your analogy would be fair. In fact, years ago people got tax breaks for their insurance premiums. They took that away and their answer is "buy insurance or pay a tax" so that now you get penalized on the back side as well as the front side. Think before you post.
The fact is that over 90 percent of the public doesn't give a shit about privacy. If they did facebook would have disappeared by now. I deleted my facebook account 3 years ago, I only had it at all to see pictures of my grand children that my daughter and daughter-in-law posted there. Eventually I got so annoyed with facebook's crap I just deleted the damn thing. All this ranting is pointless though because almost everyone on facebook knows that they have no privacy and don't care about it.
They are subject to the law. The problem is that the people in charge have turned a blind eye to the lawlessness. We recently had a federal employee take the 5th before congress. What kind of bullshit is that? She should have been fired immediately. Nope, just moved to a new high paying job. There are no consequences anymore for law breaking if you're at a high enough level. Until that is fixed things will only continue to spiral down. Intelligence and spying are necessary activities but the elected representatives of the people can't shirk their responsibility to oversee these agencies and keep them within bounds.
It's hardly fair to expect people to get a job just to eat. Everyone is entitled to food, shelter and reasonable transportation. It say's so in the US Constitution.
The local Walmart was lacking in any backup method. They had at least 50 buggies packed full of food sitting around the registers and a lot of pissed off customers. Glad they got it back up, I don't look forward to that riot.
I was never aware that the term Jew was an insult. I know I have heard Jewish people refer to themselves as "Jew" many times. Don't the Jews run Israel? It always seems that way.
I hate it but I have to agree with you. You've summed up the Republican party amazingly well. I can always pick who's going to win the primaries by looking to see which one I hate the most. Last time it was Romney. The only good thing about that was the 20 dollar bet I won on how he'd be the nominee. The other guy said "they wouldn't dare nominate that dickhead!" Little did he know. Ah well. I keep hoping for a third party to rise up. Maybe the Moderate party. Or the checkbook balance party. Moms that manage to run a household of 5 on 50 grand a year would do a lot better than the morons in charge now.
"We've got to nuke the GM system. We've got to throw away Sloan's book ((My Years With General Motors, former chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr.'s description of GM's management system)). It's like the Old Testament -- frozen thousands of years ago. We still believe that we can find the right page and paragraph to give us the answer to any question we have today. When you get down to the guys who actually have their hands on things, they know what to do. They can design, engineer, and build the best products in the world. My question is: Why haven't we unleashed their potential? The answer is: the General Motors system. It's like a blanket of fog that keeps these people from doing what they know needs to be done. I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At GM, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is go hire a consultant on snakes. Then you get a committee on snakes, and then you discuss it for a couple of years. The most likely course of action is -- nothing."
Quit spying? What fantasy world are you living in? The problem here is that the spies are out of control. These assholes have decided they don't have to answer to anyone and are above any laws. When they lie to Congress they should go straight to fucking jail and throw the key away. This idea that the end justifies the means is the root of all sorts of evil. When people operate outside the law they are brigands and should be treated as such.
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I'm not some rich asshole. I make about 60K a year and between taxes and expenses I do okay but I'm not living high. I work hard for what I have and yeah I don't like people that don't want to struggle being given money that I worked for. Exactly. I have compassion for the truly needy and unfortunate but I personally know too many deadbeats looking for an easy buck that prey on the public system. I have relatives, some by marriage and some (to my shame) by blood that do just that. They're able to work but game the system. I'm not talking about the black welfare mom with 12 kids but instead one is my niece, 30 and healthy except for her in and out of drug rehab habit. My sister is raising one of her kids and one of her ex-husband's mother is raising the other. The two dads are gone and no child support from them. She wont work. Not at all. She's my relative and I wish she was dead. We've placated and supported her kind for decades and all we get is more and more and more of them. They're starting to break the system that was created for people that genuinely need help but we can not do anything about it. I know of dozens just like her personally. There are millions of them and their children have almost no chance. It breaks my heart but giving them money just makes the problem grow.
Why are we paying for people to go to the hospital? I pay when I go so why do I have to pay when someone else goes? My "fair share?" What the hell is wrong with you people that feel you are entitled to what I earn? I pay my taxes. Fuck you.
In some cases that is true but if you research you'll see that it actually depends on different factors. I pay tax on that money.
That is for a family policy. I have some pretty large copays but with a 4500 dollar catastrophic limit it'll keep me from going bankrupt in case of serious illness.
If we didn't have this socialization you're so in love with I'd just die. I have insurance because I choose to do so because it makes sense for me and my family. I work for it and pay a lot for it because it's important to me. The important thing is that it is my choice and that is what freedom is. Your kind just want freedom to reach in my pocket and take what I earn. Fuck you.
When everyone is dead then it's quite peaceful.
Quit trying to bring logic into this.
You really can't see the difference? If I buy a 700 dollar a month policy (what I have now) then I pay 700 bucks for that insurance. I already paid tax on that money when I made it through payroll deduction. Now if I decide not to take insurance and instead stick that money in my pocket they will take the original tax PLUS more money as a fine to penalize me for not doing what they want me to do. That is Double taxation. Now we go to the other scenario. I pay tax on the 700 dollars through payroll deduction when I make it. I pay my 700 dollars to the insurance company and at the end of the year 1 take a deduction for 700 dollars times 12 for buying Insurance. See the difference. Under scenario number two I actually get a break for doing what they wanted me to do instead of the assfucking I got in scenario one or the neutral effect that I had before the "Affordable Care" act. If they really wanted to be fair they would have used scenario 2 but instead they're fucking me. I know it and I fucking don't like it. Maybe I have to take it but I'm pissed about it and I don't give a shit who knows it.
The tea party isn't cheering for the ultra rich. They're bitching about getting taxed to death. T-Taxed E-Enough A-Allready TEA party. Get it. Fucking idiot. We want an end to the incessant tax and spend cycle. Where in hell do you see any mention of taking away rights from people. Unless you're talking about their right to take all my money. Moron.
That capability is a result of technology. There is no way to stick that genie back in the bottle. The problem is that no one is holding them accountable for breaking the law. Some of these people should be locked up for 30 years or so.
Have you ever talked to any of these people about the fact that facebook datamines them and sells all their personal info? I have. To dozens of people. Out of all of those, every single one without exception, the response was always some form of "so what." Yeah they don't want their friends to know what they're talking about on the phone maybe and they probably don't want their coworkers knowing all about them but when it's just some faceless global corporation it's like it's okay. Really all the stuff that I had on facebook, which was very little, I basically didn't care about either but then I kept my personal info to a minimum. A lot of people have their entire lives online.
Kind of like someone putting a gun to your head and saying "pay me ten grand or I blow your brains out!" No one is forcing you to pay, you can always take the other choice. Listen to yourself. If they gave you a tax deduction for buying insurance your analogy would be fair. In fact, years ago people got tax breaks for their insurance premiums. They took that away and their answer is "buy insurance or pay a tax" so that now you get penalized on the back side as well as the front side. Think before you post.
The fact is that over 90 percent of the public doesn't give a shit about privacy. If they did facebook would have disappeared by now. I deleted my facebook account 3 years ago, I only had it at all to see pictures of my grand children that my daughter and daughter-in-law posted there. Eventually I got so annoyed with facebook's crap I just deleted the damn thing. All this ranting is pointless though because almost everyone on facebook knows that they have no privacy and don't care about it.
They are subject to the law. The problem is that the people in charge have turned a blind eye to the lawlessness. We recently had a federal employee take the 5th before congress. What kind of bullshit is that? She should have been fired immediately. Nope, just moved to a new high paying job. There are no consequences anymore for law breaking if you're at a high enough level. Until that is fixed things will only continue to spiral down. Intelligence and spying are necessary activities but the elected representatives of the people can't shirk their responsibility to oversee these agencies and keep them within bounds.
Ah...that's me!
"Remember, the votes necessary to win are the swing voters, the ones that really don't like anybody."
Go back and look, the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" quote (happiness not property) is from the Declaration of Independence.
Ugh! The only American made car uglier was the AMC Pacer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1975_AMC_Pacer_base_model_frontleftside.jpg
It's hardly fair to expect people to get a job just to eat. Everyone is entitled to food, shelter and reasonable transportation. It say's so in the US Constitution.
The local Walmart was lacking in any backup method. They had at least 50 buggies packed full of food sitting around the registers and a lot of pissed off customers. Glad they got it back up, I don't look forward to that riot.
I was never aware that the term Jew was an insult. I know I have heard Jewish people refer to themselves as "Jew" many times. Don't the Jews run Israel? It always seems that way.
I hate it but I have to agree with you. You've summed up the Republican party amazingly well. I can always pick who's going to win the primaries by looking to see which one I hate the most. Last time it was Romney. The only good thing about that was the 20 dollar bet I won on how he'd be the nominee. The other guy said "they wouldn't dare nominate that dickhead!" Little did he know. Ah well. I keep hoping for a third party to rise up. Maybe the Moderate party. Or the checkbook balance party. Moms that manage to run a household of 5 on 50 grand a year would do a lot better than the morons in charge now.
It goes way back. Ross Perot summed it up in an interview with Fortune magazine back in the 80's.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/02/15/70199/
An excellent read. One excerpt....
"We've got to nuke the GM system. We've got to throw away Sloan's book ((My Years With General Motors, former chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr.'s description of GM's management system)). It's like the Old Testament -- frozen thousands of years ago. We still believe that we can find the right page and paragraph to give us the answer to any question we have today. When you get down to the guys who actually have their hands on things, they know what to do. They can design, engineer, and build the best products in the world. My question is: Why haven't we unleashed their potential? The answer is: the General Motors system. It's like a blanket of fog that keeps these people from doing what they know needs to be done. I come from an environment where, if you see a snake, you kill it. At GM, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is go hire a consultant on snakes. Then you get a committee on snakes, and then you discuss it for a couple of years. The most likely course of action is -- nothing."
Quit spying? What fantasy world are you living in? The problem here is that the spies are out of control. These assholes have decided they don't have to answer to anyone and are above any laws. When they lie to Congress they should go straight to fucking jail and throw the key away. This idea that the end justifies the means is the root of all sorts of evil. When people operate outside the law they are brigands and should be treated as such.
Yes, them jews have been blowing up shit all over the US. We need to watch them close.
Two L's. H-i-L-L-a-r-y.