Several problems with total socialism. You can only get what your overseer gives you. If you want more, too bad. If you don't like your job, too bad.
I grew up on a farm. Hot, dirty work, but as a child I couldn't leave, slavery, right? At 16 I had a new car, as did my brother and sisters when they turned 16, still slavery? Daddy had a profitable farm. We didn't need cars and on a socialist farm we wouldn't have.
Just as the Bible says, we need moderation in all things. Unbridled corporate capitalism is bad, just has total socialism is bad. Look at China, Mao's communism killed millions, now with limited capitalism their economy has boomed. We will always have greedy rulers, we as the ruled have to set some limits. If you were in the Ukraine which side of the barricades would you have been on?
My daughter's miniature dachshund has learned how to smile. She lowers the front of her bottom lip. Looks pretty creepy actually. She also "talks". Her best words are yep, uh huh, and I love you. She knows dozens of spoken words. Saying kisses will get you a mouth full of dog tongue, the word "treats" will get her and rest of the pack into the kitchen and standing on their backs legs begging. And I used to hate dogs.
Bankers control the money flow. They don't just skim a little off the top, they take all they can. If you use their services they know how much you can pay and that's what they charge. Through out history the Jews ran the financial institutions so they collected a lot of hate. Animosity for individuals got transferred to the group as a whole.
Exactly, I live in northeast Florida. Farmers grow potatoes in the winter and plant corn in June after the potatoes are dug out on the same land. Yields are at the national avg, about 160 bu per acre.
Hundreds of thousands of acres in Florida have been followed because of NAFTA. We get plenty of rain and few hurricanes. The Californian labor force will feel quite at home, many of their cousins are already here.
Think of minimum wage as a regressive tax on employers. Large, successful businesses can probably easily pay higher wages but a struggling small business might go bankrupt if labor cost rise.
It's not just humans. My daughter is a hair dresser. She brought home a mannequin head with a full head of hair to practice on. Her husband mounted it on a pedestal so she could reach it easy. Later their miniature dachshund came in the room. When she saw it she went bat-shit insane attacking this disembodied head.
Yep, lazy. At the age of 46 I decided to try college. My boss let me take two days a week off and I had night classes two other days after work. I still got in almost 40 hours at work with long days and working Saturdays. I only did it for one semester but I did get a raise and put on salary.
My 29 year old son in law needs one more semester to complete his AA. He could move up to management then but he wont make the effort.
Google "Garber Auto Mall", Ford, Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Nissan, Hyundai Dealer, Serving MI, IL & Fl. All these makes, one (huge) lot.
I feel your pain. I helped my daughter with her math homework every night her senior year. Tears, lots of tears. An otherwise straight student she couldn't add two simple fractions much less graph a function with negative numbers. When cooking if she wants to double a recipe she uses an app on her smart phone. If it involves more numbers than that she will open up her laptop and use Excel. She got a cosmology degree and works full time.
Re the farm bill, it's from congress, of course there's pork. However, do you want to depend on poor farmers to feed you? A small farm is a million dollar investment and you're lucky to get 5% on the investment and zero for your labor and management. Why yes, I did have a third share of a million dollar farm. I only made about thirty thousand a year and when we lost out all I got was a fifty thousand dollar tax bill for capital gains on money the bank got. It took me ten years at a hourly job to pay that off. Crop insurance doesn't pay for low returns, just low yields.
Wont work. Voters have finally started voting in their own (short term) best interest. A lot of people are poor, they believe they can make their lives better by voting money away from the rich.
I consider myself a libertarian Tea Party-er. What part of the GOP platform would lure Independent voters away from the Democrat platform if the GOP embraced gay marriage, the ACA, and immigration reform? I can not see how trying to be just like the Democratic party will help when there is already a perfectly good Democrat party to vote for.
My son was a supply contract officer in the US Air force. After four years he declined to reenlist, instead he got a law degree and today is a contract analyst for a fortune 50 company. Competent people run from government employment.
Just the opposite for inland Florida. Much of the swampland people bought cheap thirty years ago is high and dry. Neighborhoods flood because houses are built low on a slab instead of the traditional 24 in pilings. My cousins, brother, and I spent many hot summer days in the 1950s playing in the cool sand under our grandfathers house.
"The" people (citizens) are protected. The second amendment states that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. So if an undocumented person walked across the border with an AK 47 strapped to his back you would be OK with that? It is reasonable to search and detain criminals. Just because you made it one foot across the border you don't gain all the rights of a citizen.
Does the number 666 mean anything to you? Every purchase scanned and uploaded to the national data base. When you reach your calorie allotment for the month you can't buy anymore.
Well, for me, after 40 years of backbreaking work, I'm on disability with Medicare. My wife had to quit her part time job to care for her bedridden mother. $19.20 a month for her and or college student son isn't "free" but close. Florida-blue's payment portal is down and I had to make my second payment over the phone but the insurance is active and my wife paid a $5 co-pay for her last doctor visit.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres
That is twice the area of my state of Florida. They can't have just a tiny bit to pile their sand on.
Guaranteed money maker. I had two children graduate from FSU in Tallahassee, Fl. My daughter also got her masters and PhD so I got to experience this four times. The ceremonies are held downtown. This is the state capital so lots of government buildings. On Saturdays the offices are closed but their parking lots are still for government employees only. You have to park a half a mile away and walk by hundreds of empty parking spaces. Paying a fine would be no problem for many but your vehicle is towed so few even try.
Oklahoma, almost in the middle of nowhere, Atlanta, business hub of the South. You did notice how many of the vehicles on the road were eighteen wheelers. Traffic is almost bumper to bumper all day long at 60 mph. The mid-day business traffic was on the road with the school and commuter traffic at the same time and only going 20 mph.
Schools and business should have closed on the 4 am warning and I blame the people who put their kids on the bus and went to work. They should have put on some hot cocoa and waited to get enough snow to build some snowmen and do some sledding. In 05 I had to stay at work making hurricane preparations and got caught in the evacuation traffic for two hours. The business was closed for five days and my power was off for 10. Next storm we did the same thing but it turned at the last minute and we didn't get any wind. You never know.
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Several problems with total socialism. You can only get what your overseer gives you. If you want more, too bad. If you don't like your job, too bad.
I grew up on a farm. Hot, dirty work, but as a child I couldn't leave, slavery, right? At 16 I had a new car, as did my brother and sisters when they turned 16, still slavery? Daddy had a profitable farm. We didn't need cars and on a socialist farm we wouldn't have.
Just as the Bible says, we need moderation in all things. Unbridled corporate capitalism is bad, just has total socialism is bad. Look at China, Mao's communism killed millions, now with limited capitalism their economy has boomed. We will always have greedy rulers, we as the ruled have to set some limits. If you were in the Ukraine which side of the barricades would you have been on?
My daughter's miniature dachshund has learned how to smile. She lowers the front of her bottom lip. Looks pretty creepy actually. She also "talks". Her best words are yep, uh huh, and I love you. She knows dozens of spoken words. Saying kisses will get you a mouth full of dog tongue, the word "treats" will get her and rest of the pack into the kitchen and standing on their backs legs begging. And I used to hate dogs.
Bankers control the money flow. They don't just skim a little off the top, they take all they can. If you use their services they know how much you can pay and that's what they charge. Through out history the Jews ran the financial institutions so they collected a lot of hate. Animosity for individuals got transferred to the group as a whole.
Wasn't He and three million others given amnesty by Reagen?
Exactly, I live in northeast Florida. Farmers grow potatoes in the winter and plant corn in June after the potatoes are dug out on the same land. Yields are at the national avg, about 160 bu per acre. Hundreds of thousands of acres in Florida have been followed because of NAFTA. We get plenty of rain and few hurricanes. The Californian labor force will feel quite at home, many of their cousins are already here.
Apple was known for making computers. Then they started making idevices. You don't think anyone would buy an iCar?
Think of minimum wage as a regressive tax on employers. Large, successful businesses can probably easily pay higher wages but a struggling small business might go bankrupt if labor cost rise.
It's not just humans. My daughter is a hair dresser. She brought home a mannequin head with a full head of hair to practice on. Her husband mounted it on a pedestal so she could reach it easy. Later their miniature dachshund came in the room. When she saw it she went bat-shit insane attacking this disembodied head.
Yep, lazy. At the age of 46 I decided to try college. My boss let me take two days a week off and I had night classes two other days after work. I still got in almost 40 hours at work with long days and working Saturdays. I only did it for one semester but I did get a raise and put on salary.
My 29 year old son in law needs one more semester to complete his AA. He could move up to management then but he wont make the effort.
She's cosmetologist ( Hairdresser), I feel stupid. :(.
Google "Garber Auto Mall", Ford, Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Nissan, Hyundai Dealer, Serving MI, IL & Fl. All these makes, one (huge) lot.
I feel your pain. I helped my daughter with her math homework every night her senior year. Tears, lots of tears. An otherwise straight student she couldn't add two simple fractions much less graph a function with negative numbers. When cooking if she wants to double a recipe she uses an app on her smart phone. If it involves more numbers than that she will open up her laptop and use Excel. She got a cosmology degree and works full time.
Re the farm bill, it's from congress, of course there's pork. However, do you want to depend on poor farmers to feed you? A small farm is a million dollar investment and you're lucky to get 5% on the investment and zero for your labor and management. Why yes, I did have a third share of a million dollar farm. I only made about thirty thousand a year and when we lost out all I got was a fifty thousand dollar tax bill for capital gains on money the bank got. It took me ten years at a hourly job to pay that off. Crop insurance doesn't pay for low returns, just low yields.
Wont work. Voters have finally started voting in their own (short term) best interest. A lot of people are poor, they believe they can make their lives better by voting money away from the rich.
I consider myself a libertarian Tea Party-er. What part of the GOP platform would lure Independent voters away from the Democrat platform if the GOP embraced gay marriage, the ACA, and immigration reform? I can not see how trying to be just like the Democratic party will help when there is already a perfectly good Democrat party to vote for.
My son was a supply contract officer in the US Air force. After four years he declined to reenlist, instead he got a law degree and today is a contract analyst for a fortune 50 company. Competent people run from government employment.
Just the opposite for inland Florida. Much of the swampland people bought cheap thirty years ago is high and dry. Neighborhoods flood because houses are built low on a slab instead of the traditional 24 in pilings. My cousins, brother, and I spent many hot summer days in the 1950s playing in the cool sand under our grandfathers house.
"The" people (citizens) are protected. The second amendment states that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. So if an undocumented person walked across the border with an AK 47 strapped to his back you would be OK with that? It is reasonable to search and detain criminals. Just because you made it one foot across the border you don't gain all the rights of a citizen.
Does the number 666 mean anything to you? Every purchase scanned and uploaded to the national data base. When you reach your calorie allotment for the month you can't buy anymore.
Well, for me, after 40 years of backbreaking work, I'm on disability with Medicare. My wife had to quit her part time job to care for her bedridden mother. $19.20 a month for her and or college student son isn't "free" but close. Florida-blue's payment portal is down and I had to make my second payment over the phone but the insurance is active and my wife paid a $5 co-pay for her last doctor visit.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres
That is twice the area of my state of Florida. They can't have just a tiny bit to pile their sand on.
Guaranteed money maker. I had two children graduate from FSU in Tallahassee, Fl. My daughter also got her masters and PhD so I got to experience this four times. The ceremonies are held downtown. This is the state capital so lots of government buildings. On Saturdays the offices are closed but their parking lots are still for government employees only. You have to park a half a mile away and walk by hundreds of empty parking spaces. Paying a fine would be no problem for many but your vehicle is towed so few even try.
Oklahoma, almost in the middle of nowhere, Atlanta, business hub of the South. You did notice how many of the vehicles on the road were eighteen wheelers. Traffic is almost bumper to bumper all day long at 60 mph. The mid-day business traffic was on the road with the school and commuter traffic at the same time and only going 20 mph.
Schools and business should have closed on the 4 am warning and I blame the people who put their kids on the bus and went to work. They should have put on some hot cocoa and waited to get enough snow to build some snowmen and do some sledding. In 05 I had to stay at work making hurricane preparations and got caught in the evacuation traffic for two hours. The business was closed for five days and my power was off for 10. Next storm we did the same thing but it turned at the last minute and we didn't get any wind. You never know.
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