How do I carry dollar coins in my wallet, again? The dollar used to be worth something, so you could carry a handful of mixed change (including silver and gold $1, 3, 5, 10, and 20) to use during the day. I guess that eliminating the $1 bill is a tacit admission that is it worthless and not worth carrying.
Placing the raising of children over the acquisition of stuff does not demand high birth rates. The old folks are not protesting couples having only 2-3 kids; they're protesting the idea of collecting lots of crap (and debt) over having any.
Ponzi schemes break down because eventually, you cannot grow the base fast enough.
That's the whole point, genius. What part of, "our birth and immigration rates are going down" did you not understand? We aren't bringing in enough marks to pay off the earlier marks.
it is a terrible and wasteful thing to have large sums doing nothing in a bank account
My money does not "do nothing" in a bank account. That bank uses it (lets ignore the implications of fractional reserve banking for now) to make investments. We could have put the SS money into relatively risk-free investments and gotten a little interest PLUS a tiny stimulation to the economy to boot. Instead, we spent it on all the government programs that have little or no measurable return. And don't tell me that even low risk is too much risk, at the same time those same leftists are telling me that the millions Obama wasted on doomed "green energy" companies were legitimate "investments".
Your examples are meaningless red-herrings. Money in a bank has been covered by the FDIC since 1933, so that's a bit of a tangle even bringing it up. And at least gold under a mattress is real money in your possession. The SS "trust fund" is more like giving your gold to the supermarket, the power company, the landlord, etc. and claiming it's "savings".
Re: your sig: we had dozens of districts in Philadelphia vote 100% for Obama in the last election. Dozens. You'd think at least one would accidentally vote for Romney. This happened in 2008 as well, in slightly fewer districts. It's over in the USA.
Because most people don't have your evidently photographic memory. Having a GPS read the directions to you is safer then trying to read written directions.
The ecosystem is not destroyed. The oil that entered the water is organic and constantly enters the oceans naturally. BP's negligence caused it to enter far more rapidly than the ecosystem could handle. This resulted in great immediate harm to sea life, but not permanent.
See, that's why red light cameras are great: a computer issues a ticket through the mail for very little overhead. No police needed. So we have paid fewer cops on the street to protect us from real crime (and the ones there are sneaking around in unmarked cars looking for moving violations instead of being a deterrent) and lots of revenue.
I've never had a problem stopping for a red light, not once and neither have I had anyone go into the back of me at traffic lights.
I have. There is an intersection near me that has the following characteristics:
Irregular four way (the cross streets don't meet in the same place, so there is a right turn lane with a YIELD;
At the bottom of a hill;
With limited visibility from one direction coming down the hill;
And a yellow signal that is less than 3 seconds long (which is probably a law violation)
Everyone knows about these problems, but they don't implement the fixes (a "RED SIGNAL AHEAD" sign coming down the limited visibility direction and a longer yellow would help greatly) because they're the government and they don't have to.
The people tailgating are the ones causing the accidents.
That's an easy thing to say, but people running lights were causing the problem before. So now the tailgating has become evident. What's your solution for this? A pie-in-the-sky drive-by-rail system? Or perhaps outlawing cars and making everyone use buses (hope they don't tailgate)?
Congratulations for winning your argument against your narcissist, utilitarian, anarchist straw man. Now, try arguing against libertarian viewpoints next time.
You entirely missed the point that when debating a libertarian, a socialist invariably refers to areas in anarchy (or, in reality, local control) like Somalia. This, in case you haven't heard of it, is a "straw man" argument just like referring to North Korea as an example of a socialist government. Get it?
Or feed the documents into the shredder in the correct direction, not sideways... or use a modern diamond-cut shredder. Which makes me believe that this was an intentional-- a creative way to leak information to damage the police.
Since yo claim to know more than the CBO, I'm eager to see your numbers. Hint: they also call the wars a big problem, but at least those are slated to end while our future unfunded liabilities GO ON FOREVER BY DEFINITION.
The US entered economic downturns that started off as bad as the Great Depression. The difference was that in 1920, 1873, etc. the federal government did not attempt to intervene as Hoover and FDR did. None of those downturns lasted as long as the Depression, and yet progressives have the GALL to claim that their programs worked when it took WWII to end the stagnation.
You're attacking a straw man. No one is trying to get rid of Medicare or Social Security; we just need to reduce the expense. It needs to become cheaper and more efficient; waste and corruption is making it far more expensive than it needs to be. Ignorant Canucks who belittle the situation are not helping.
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How do I carry dollar coins in my wallet, again? The dollar used to be worth something, so you could carry a handful of mixed change (including silver and gold $1, 3, 5, 10, and 20) to use during the day. I guess that eliminating the $1 bill is a tacit admission that is it worthless and not worth carrying.
Placing the raising of children over the acquisition of stuff does not demand high birth rates. The old folks are not protesting couples having only 2-3 kids; they're protesting the idea of collecting lots of crap (and debt) over having any.
By the way, I'm from Generation X and we haven't done shit either.
That's the whole point, genius. What part of, "our birth and immigration rates are going down" did you not understand? We aren't bringing in enough marks to pay off the earlier marks.
My money does not "do nothing" in a bank account. That bank uses it (lets ignore the implications of fractional reserve banking for now) to make investments. We could have put the SS money into relatively risk-free investments and gotten a little interest PLUS a tiny stimulation to the economy to boot. Instead, we spent it on all the government programs that have little or no measurable return. And don't tell me that even low risk is too much risk, at the same time those same leftists are telling me that the millions Obama wasted on doomed "green energy" companies were legitimate "investments".
Your examples are meaningless red-herrings. Money in a bank has been covered by the FDIC since 1933, so that's a bit of a tangle even bringing it up. And at least gold under a mattress is real money in your possession. The SS "trust fund" is more like giving your gold to the supermarket, the power company, the landlord, etc. and claiming it's "savings".
Re: your sig: we had dozens of districts in Philadelphia vote 100% for Obama in the last election. Dozens. You'd think at least one would accidentally vote for Romney. This happened in 2008 as well, in slightly fewer districts. It's over in the USA.
Because most people don't have your evidently photographic memory. Having a GPS read the directions to you is safer then trying to read written directions.
The ecosystem is not destroyed. The oil that entered the water is organic and constantly enters the oceans naturally. BP's negligence caused it to enter far more rapidly than the ecosystem could handle. This resulted in great immediate harm to sea life, but not permanent.
Meh. The US Vice President told a bunch of black folks in a church that the Republicans were trying to put them back in chains.
See, that's why red light cameras are great: a computer issues a ticket through the mail for very little overhead. No police needed. So we have paid fewer cops on the street to protect us from real crime (and the ones there are sneaking around in unmarked cars looking for moving violations instead of being a deterrent) and lots of revenue.
Driver swerves in front of you from side street. You hit him square in the back and according to the law, it's your fault.
Oh, BTW your needless roundabouts are wearing out people's breaks and wasting fuel. Why do you hate the planet?
I have. There is an intersection near me that has the following characteristics:
Everyone knows about these problems, but they don't implement the fixes (a "RED SIGNAL AHEAD" sign coming down the limited visibility direction and a longer yellow would help greatly) because they're the government and they don't have to.
That's an easy thing to say, but people running lights were causing the problem before. So now the tailgating has become evident. What's your solution for this? A pie-in-the-sky drive-by-rail system? Or perhaps outlawing cars and making everyone use buses (hope they don't tailgate)?
Congratulations for winning your argument against your narcissist, utilitarian, anarchist straw man. Now, try arguing against libertarian viewpoints next time.
Who are you arguing with? I doubt there is a single true anarchist in this entire discussion.
No, clearly the GP poster was the dumbest... and surprisingly, modded down accordingly.
You entirely missed the point that when debating a libertarian, a socialist invariably refers to areas in anarchy (or, in reality, local control) like Somalia. This, in case you haven't heard of it, is a "straw man" argument just like referring to North Korea as an example of a socialist government. Get it?
16 color CGA? Luxury! In my day, we had FOUR colors in CGA, and besides the stalwarts white and black, we had creamy cyan and magnificent magenta!
Hypermilers: driving at half the speed limit on the highway, then subsequently twice the speed limit at off ramps since 1985.
Protip: trolls need to be funny.
Or feed the documents into the shredder in the correct direction, not sideways... or use a modern diamond-cut shredder. Which makes me believe that this was an intentional-- a creative way to leak information to damage the police.
Since yo claim to know more than the CBO, I'm eager to see your numbers. Hint: they also call the wars a big problem, but at least those are slated to end while our future unfunded liabilities GO ON FOREVER BY DEFINITION.
The US entered economic downturns that started off as bad as the Great Depression. The difference was that in 1920, 1873, etc. the federal government did not attempt to intervene as Hoover and FDR did. None of those downturns lasted as long as the Depression, and yet progressives have the GALL to claim that their programs worked when it took WWII to end the stagnation.
You're attacking a straw man. No one is trying to get rid of Medicare or Social Security; we just need to reduce the expense. It needs to become cheaper and more efficient; waste and corruption is making it far more expensive than it needs to be. Ignorant Canucks who belittle the situation are not helping.