But what about this... do you realize that in order to grow one single cow, an ENTIRE PLANET had to come into creation, first? Do you know how much energy that required????
First of all, it is flat-out wrong to suggest that one person is not allowed to have an opinion about how another person spends their food stamps. The fact the the stamps come from tax money means EVERY tax payer has paid for the right to have an opinion about it. See also: subsidized health care, and how it makes everyones lifestyle everyones business (I propose all dangerous, injury-causing leisure time activities now be banned for that reason, and I will decide what is "dangerous").
Secondly, I disagree with the notion that just food is cheaper at a grocery store than healthy items, and that it isn't fair to expect poor people to eat rice every day. I am the procurer of provisions in my household of 3, so I have direct experience. "Staples" are refreshed, and used up, every month. To suggest I am being forced to supplement our meals with ten pounds of rice and a bag of potatoes every month is ludicrous, it is just intelligent home economics. Many hours of my free time are also spent in gardening every summer, and tomatoes and onions from that garden are eaten year round after I can it up, an inexpensive technology that has existed in its current form for a couple hundred years, at least.
The only way to fix the problem of "spending their food stamps on steak and lobster and junk food" is just to remove that choice completely. If someone is poor enough for food stamps, then we consult the Official US Government Dietary Needs table for the person at that sex at that age, and they get a box every 2 weeks with exactly the nutritious food they need, at the appropriate calorie level for their age, with enough snack cakes for small dessert every evening. This makes the fiscal conservatives happy... less money is being wasted. This also eliminates the ignorance of a person not knowing which foods are nutritious, and then the government can also even out the production of agricultural products and possibly remove the need for farm subsidies. If the government KNOWS it is going to need X amount of bread each month, then it can more intelligently utilize the nations bread producers. This makes the central-government socialists happy.
Really, it's win/win/win. If the person on the dole still wants a lobster once a month, no one will stop them, they can use their allotment of cigarette money for that week.
SCOTUS will rule that spying on Americans' phone records is perfectly legal because it is a privacy tax, in that they will take away some of your privacy, and the federal government has the power to levy taxes.
It worked for Obamacare, so why the hell not.
What makes you think this administration has any interest in following the law? Why do you think the media would call them on it if they pulled out his fingernails on live TV during prime time? So far Obama does anything he wants and creates new laws at press conferences with a wave of his hand, with impunity. Snowden better make sure he doesn't get caught, he embarrassed too many people and we always need a new distraction from the Obamacare debacle.
I used to have ambition to form cogent thoughts. I used to use my logic and education to say things like, "Obamacare as a model can never be as good as what they are saying, economics doesn't work like that" and, "Maybe we shouldn't be using drones to kill people willy nilly," and "Maybe this administration should use its power to curb the abuses the American people are suffering at the hands of the TSA."
After you get called "racist" enough times for saying these things, you no longer care to try to fix the problems we face as a country. You almost start to dislike the people who call you a racist, and you almost wish bad things for them, like getting everything they claim to want from their elected officials.
If someone figured out how to make a 1 kiloton explosive device by combining parts from an old toaster with those of a microwave oven, I wouldn't want that information "out there," either. Every 1000th house, or so, would become the center of another Hiroshima.
Before grants and guaranteed college loans, colleges could only charge what the students could afford. I myself graduated from a big 4-year state college in the 80's for a total cost of $21k, and I was an on-campus student.
Now we have grants and the ability to take out tens of thousands of dollars... per year... for tuition. All an adult student has to do is sign his or her name, and it is like free unlimited money for all the education you can eat.
How can anyone be confused by the idea that colleges will adjust their cost by the amount their customers can afford to pay? This is econ 101, here. When these stupid adult children can afford $50k to get their art history degree, why do you think a college won't increase their price to accommodate the sucker windfall?
Want to watch the price of college plummet? Remove all loans. We'll return to the days of "only the rich can afford college/not fair!", but at least the stupid will not be graduating under a mountain of debt from which they will never be free. The truly academically gifted and motivated will get scholarships no matter how poor they are.
I'd gladly give up the Mars skycrane if it meant an end of humiliation before I got on a plane. I am mildly handicapped, for me it is humiliating getting searched by those TSA scum.
Now I only fly when I absolutely must (exactly once since the Rape Scans/groping procedures went in), instead of frequently and for pleasure. The world has gotten smaller, for me. I hate this road we are traveling.
He wasn't anti-gay rights because he is EVIL, it was because it was his honest opinion that it was wrong for the society, and he had the arguments to back up his point of view. I never agreed with his arguments, but I saw where he was coming from.
I'll take an honest bigot over a devious do-gooder any day of the week.
Not their safety, but the fact that 3d printers WILL be in every home one of these days, my guess is within 10 years, and kids will be able to print a weapon whenever they want to.
I am a Marine. I have no problem with responsible adults owning firearms. Bit I DO have a problem with moody teens or curious children being able to produce one whenever they want.
Last I heard, hiding behind citizens does not stop a predator drone pilot from firing, and he will then be awarded a medal for taking out your sister's wedding party.
They don't even have the simpler models working yet, and now they want to make a gigantic one capable of generating even more flawed conclusions which will be used to generate even more idiotic laws.
About once every year for the last 15 years. I buy a CPU that is at the good price point, which always means there are 2 or 3 more faster chips in that same socket. Later, when those faster chips hit the good price point, I upgrade on the same mobo.
The President has a "Kill List." The death penalty is executed, at least, as the result of a trial by jury. Capital punishment is not even close to the thing that gives the government "too much power."
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But what about this... do you realize that in order to grow one single cow, an ENTIRE PLANET had to come into creation, first? Do you know how much energy that required????
That tax money never returns to the middle class. Do you think it is a coincidence some of the richest counties in America are around DC?
... is to do away with the program completely.
First of all, it is flat-out wrong to suggest that one person is not allowed to have an opinion about how another person spends their food stamps. The fact the the stamps come from tax money means EVERY tax payer has paid for the right to have an opinion about it. See also: subsidized health care, and how it makes everyones lifestyle everyones business (I propose all dangerous, injury-causing leisure time activities now be banned for that reason, and I will decide what is "dangerous").
Secondly, I disagree with the notion that just food is cheaper at a grocery store than healthy items, and that it isn't fair to expect poor people to eat rice every day. I am the procurer of provisions in my household of 3, so I have direct experience. "Staples" are refreshed, and used up, every month. To suggest I am being forced to supplement our meals with ten pounds of rice and a bag of potatoes every month is ludicrous, it is just intelligent home economics. Many hours of my free time are also spent in gardening every summer, and tomatoes and onions from that garden are eaten year round after I can it up, an inexpensive technology that has existed in its current form for a couple hundred years, at least.
The only way to fix the problem of "spending their food stamps on steak and lobster and junk food" is just to remove that choice completely. If someone is poor enough for food stamps, then we consult the Official US Government Dietary Needs table for the person at that sex at that age, and they get a box every 2 weeks with exactly the nutritious food they need, at the appropriate calorie level for their age, with enough snack cakes for small dessert every evening. This makes the fiscal conservatives happy... less money is being wasted. This also eliminates the ignorance of a person not knowing which foods are nutritious, and then the government can also even out the production of agricultural products and possibly remove the need for farm subsidies. If the government KNOWS it is going to need X amount of bread each month, then it can more intelligently utilize the nations bread producers. This makes the central-government socialists happy.
Really, it's win/win/win. If the person on the dole still wants a lobster once a month, no one will stop them, they can use their allotment of cigarette money for that week.
SCOTUS will rule that spying on Americans' phone records is perfectly legal because it is a privacy tax, in that they will take away some of your privacy, and the federal government has the power to levy taxes. It worked for Obamacare, so why the hell not.
...to raise a child poorly.
What makes you think this administration has any interest in following the law? Why do you think the media would call them on it if they pulled out his fingernails on live TV during prime time? So far Obama does anything he wants and creates new laws at press conferences with a wave of his hand, with impunity. Snowden better make sure he doesn't get caught, he embarrassed too many people and we always need a new distraction from the Obamacare debacle.
I used to have ambition to form cogent thoughts. I used to use my logic and education to say things like, "Obamacare as a model can never be as good as what they are saying, economics doesn't work like that" and, "Maybe we shouldn't be using drones to kill people willy nilly," and "Maybe this administration should use its power to curb the abuses the American people are suffering at the hands of the TSA."
After you get called "racist" enough times for saying these things, you no longer care to try to fix the problems we face as a country. You almost start to dislike the people who call you a racist, and you almost wish bad things for them, like getting everything they claim to want from their elected officials.
That if the Earth was removed from our sun's orbit, that our climate would not change because the sun is not a factor in the Earth's climate?
How do you guys plan to get into space and also stay under the radar?
Free, open source software reduces the opportunity for graft. You don't think 100% of the money DC spends is honest, do you? Or even 50%?
If someone figured out how to make a 1 kiloton explosive device by combining parts from an old toaster with those of a microwave oven, I wouldn't want that information "out there," either. Every 1000th house, or so, would become the center of another Hiroshima.
Before grants and guaranteed college loans, colleges could only charge what the students could afford. I myself graduated from a big 4-year state college in the 80's for a total cost of $21k, and I was an on-campus student.
Now we have grants and the ability to take out tens of thousands of dollars... per year... for tuition. All an adult student has to do is sign his or her name, and it is like free unlimited money for all the education you can eat.
How can anyone be confused by the idea that colleges will adjust their cost by the amount their customers can afford to pay? This is econ 101, here. When these stupid adult children can afford $50k to get their art history degree, why do you think a college won't increase their price to accommodate the sucker windfall?
Want to watch the price of college plummet? Remove all loans. We'll return to the days of "only the rich can afford college/not fair!", but at least the stupid will not be graduating under a mountain of debt from which they will never be free. The truly academically gifted and motivated will get scholarships no matter how poor they are.
I'd gladly give up the Mars skycrane if it meant an end of humiliation before I got on a plane. I am mildly handicapped, for me it is humiliating getting searched by those TSA scum.
Now I only fly when I absolutely must (exactly once since the Rape Scans/groping procedures went in), instead of frequently and for pleasure. The world has gotten smaller, for me. I hate this road we are traveling.
He wasn't anti-gay rights because he is EVIL, it was because it was his honest opinion that it was wrong for the society, and he had the arguments to back up his point of view. I never agreed with his arguments, but I saw where he was coming from.
I'll take an honest bigot over a devious do-gooder any day of the week.
They are saving a fortune on taxes.
Not their safety, but the fact that 3d printers WILL be in every home one of these days, my guess is within 10 years, and kids will be able to print a weapon whenever they want to.
I am a Marine. I have no problem with responsible adults owning firearms. Bit I DO have a problem with moody teens or curious children being able to produce one whenever they want.
The government can and will do whatever it wants, including directly violating the law of the Constitution, without consequence.
Domestic wiretaps and killing Americans without trial are proceeding full steam ahead. It's so normal it isn't even a talking point any more.
Last I heard, hiding behind citizens does not stop a predator drone pilot from firing, and he will then be awarded a medal for taking out your sister's wedding party.
I am very relieved that youtube is protecting me from dangerous information. I might hurt myself or others.
Spent shell casings typically rains down when an aircraft is firing, "blanks" or not. I wouldn't want to be under it without a kevlar.
They don't even have the simpler models working yet, and now they want to make a gigantic one capable of generating even more flawed conclusions which will be used to generate even more idiotic laws.
When you can't sit due to Dad's foot in your ass.
About once every year for the last 15 years. I buy a CPU that is at the good price point, which always means there are 2 or 3 more faster chips in that same socket. Later, when those faster chips hit the good price point, I upgrade on the same mobo.
I can't believe this is all that uncommon.
The President has a "Kill List." The death penalty is executed, at least, as the result of a trial by jury. Capital punishment is not even close to the thing that gives the government "too much power."
If you learned one thing from the study of human history, it is that human life is extremely cheap.