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- GeorgesII0
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I have to say that you have no clue about economy, it hurts my liver seeing you drawn in piss
- DrBombay0
I hope JazX dies on welfare.
- wtf?sputnik2
- Why is JazX not entitled to his opinion?shinpo
- he is, I am entitled to mine also. He blames all poor people for their lot in life and I disagree.DrBombay
- wow. anger management counseling might be a good thing for you. seriously. wtf?monkeyshine
- haha, did think that would be taken so literally.DrBombay
- Poor people? I don't blame poor people. I was in the US Peace Corps and grew up poor. LOL!********
- I don't think I will die on welfare. The immigrant crews that I hire and help attain green cards might. Dunno...?********
- JazX is just scared of the brown people taking over... that's all.robotron3k
- how harsh, robo! ;)DrBombay
- It's not the brown people, it's liberals who want to give hand-outs to stay in power. They just are in that group.********
- the old rich white men are the ones who want to stay in power, dipshit.DrBombay
- Old, rich, white men? You mean like the founding fathers? Be careful what you wish for sucker.********
- I think you are only here to argue and do not actually have any beliefs.DrBombay
- So there are rich white men that want to stay in power? What is your disagreement with what I said?DrBombay
- Of course, I don't blame them. They play the game, too. Don't act like there aren't rich@ss, old white Dems.********
- Sh*t, what in the f*ck is Jimmy Carter, etc.? http://goliath.ecnex…********
- do you really always miss the point or do you just play dumb to piss people off?DrBombay
- I thought the point of this post was for me to die on welfare?!?********
- ya dead yet, jazzy? :)turk_182
- shinpo0
^ Pretty harsh.
- The Dr gets REALLY emotional about his politics. Been banned once already for it.locustsloth
- Banned once. Will probably be banned again and will swear at me after this post. Am I right?********
- who cares about being banned?DrBombay
- Dying on welfare, probably ain't half bad looking at what some people get these days.********
- DrBombay0
You right wingers are always so tough to people you don't know. Someone says something directly to someone and you cry, grow the fuck up.
- If you want to be technical, all you said is that WHEN he dies, you hope he's on welfare, or because he's on welfare.locustsloth
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Formulated and popularized by nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals in England, dispensationalism offered a system for recognizing, through a literal reading of Scripture, the whole of human history—past, present, and future—explained in seven Biblical ages, or dispensations. American evangelicals found great allure in dispensationalism’s hyper-Protestant premise—the divine plan, accessible to all through earnest study—and the system was widely promulgated in this country by evangelists like Dwight L. Moody. The most important fundamentalist text, Cyrus I. Scofield’s 1909 Reference Bible, in which the tenets of dispensation are outlined in the margins, sold in the millions, and remains in wide circulation today. Many fundamentalists still accept the dispensationalist view—the late Jerry Falwell was a dispensationalist, as is the Reverend Pat Robertson—and many more are at least familiar with its themes. That is partly because of the spectacular dénouement of the seventh, and final, dispensation—the rapture (sudden heavenly ascent) of saved Christians, followed by a seven-year tribulation, during which the Antichrist and a false prophet will install a one-world religion and the forces of good and evil will clash mightily. After the defeat of the False Messiah, Jesus Christ will return to earth and reign in glory for a thousand years, before engaging Satan in one last battle, at Armageddon.
- autoflavour0
- hahashinpo
- LOL********
- FUCK YEAH! nice work Terrythreadpost
- tommyo0
'Slippery Slope' is actually exactly how our government operates. When you start looking at pretty much every issue we face these days you need to see that it starts with something minor and seemingly innocuous, which then grows and grows. Income Tax was originally pitched as only effecting the richest of the rich, then it widened and widened until only the poorest of the poor weren't paying it. Health care is also a good example. Government mandated that only the smallest companies didn't need to provide HMO coverage, this had negative affects within the health care industry and raised prices dramatically ... now their solution is to provide gov run health care. Banking? They started manipulating banking through the Fed, so that they could try and control our economy more through inflation and interest rates. Now look at the mess we're in. It always starts with something minor, which in turn has an effect, then they step in again to attempt at correcting or exploiting the original even further. Which has more and sometimes deeper outcomes. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Even look at what Bush did with the war. A US President is not allowed to declare war without first getting Congressional approval. But he did. If you think that the liberties taken by government are new they're not. We've seen a steady and constant erosion of Constitutional provisions and outlines since the start. I believe it was Andrew Jackson who favored central banking after Thomas Jefferson and the framers of the Constitution spoke at length about the bad it could do. Same with gold standard money which got tossed on it's head for the last time during the Nixon administration. It always starts with something small that affects things only slightly and then like a iron wedge, it gets driven deeper and deeper until it affects everyone in corresponding proportions. Even if you hate smoking, it's a great issue to follow down the rabbit hole. Here is the timeline: No smoking in airplanes (sounds good!), no smoking inside restaurants (sounds okay!), let's add lots of taxes on cigarettes (huh why?), no smoking 20 ft from entrances (hmm), add more taxes (okay this is getting out of control). Now using the exact same reasoning as smoking, there are some groups in government who are trying to levy extra taxes on potato chips and soda. So you might not like smoking, but you need to realize that it generally starts with something that the 'many' agree with, and then it continues down the line until we're all sitting in the same broken row boat. So in essence Gov runs the country in pure Slippery Slope fashion.
There are quite a few examples I can think of and none of them are positive. Did you know that gov is now helping fund a program that does mental health testing on all school children? It's starting out small, with a few schools, but if successful do you think it's going to stop there? Us tax payers will fund it through taxes, and the big drug companies and psychiatric industry will make billions with their new customers. Slowly and slowly our rights as parents and free individuals are taken bit by bit and it always follows a slippery slope pattern. Usually sold to us through simple word justifications like 'war on terrorism' or 'economic rescue' (not 'bailout' because that would mean that there is someone to blame, which there is).
- So i guess the only solution is to apply this Slippery Slope idea to every issue from each candidate and evaluate where each will end up.locustsloth
- obesity starts for many in vending machines in school causing a lifelong debilitation that costs billions of dollars********
- Well no not really. Neither of them talks about scaling back gov. They both talk about making it bigger...but no taxes?tommyo
- And you think it's governments job to regulate vending machines?tommyo
- Some of you really need to start valuing even the smallest of your current freedoms before they're gone.tommyo
- +1********
- actually, I don't think vending machines have a place in schools selling processed foods to a captive market.********
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Thrasymachus. “The unjust is lord over the truly simple and just: he is the stronger, and his subjects do what is for his interest, and minister to his happiness, which is very far from being their own,” Thrasymachus says. It follows that the only logical course for any human being is to try to be happily unjust, rather than simple—that is, stupid—and just.
- http://www.city-jour…********
- Plato was wise!tommyo
- no, he was an aristocrat and authoritarian.********
- http://www.city-jour…
- SigDesign0
Why is it that it's suddenly BAD for people who make MORE money to pay MORE taxes?
I mean, the alternative is people with LESS money pay MORE taxes, right? It's the loopholes that rich people exploit to pay less taxes, because they can afford excellent accountants. I'm not sure tax rates matter to that extent...
- I'm sorry but I completely disagree with you. You're assuming that gov NEEDS a certain amount of money.tommyo
- And they achieve that amount of money by exploiting the few (rich) by energizing the many (not rich). It's still stealing.tommyo
- So then are you contending that the govt DOESN'T need a certain amount of money, even if it's only a fraction of what they currently want?locustsloth
- currently want?locustsloth
- They're getting exactly the amount that they currently want. Notice again, has any candidate proposed smaller gov?tommyo
- The rich people PAY more taxes than you do buddy. I strive to be rich! I don't want to pay the same %. Get it?********
- What do you do when you don't have enough money to eat steak? You eat chicken. Our gov doesn't eat chicken folks.tommyo
- It eats f*cking Filet Mignon is what it does.********
- Besides, what does it matter to you if the rich are rich? Gov taxes further class envy with this exact argument.tommyo
- how is taxing the poor more and the rich less, not redistribution of wealth?DrBombay
- I'm not saying that at all Rick. Did you know that without any Income Tax our gov would be spending the same amount ...tommyo
- they did in 97. That's 0 income tax from anyone.tommyo
- Imagine our economy and personal wealth without paying 20 - 30 percent on our income.tommyo
- imagine the raging ghettos and crime.DrBombay
- So you are a subscriber to government generated fear then? Just not the ones the Rep's propagandize.tommyo
- What makes you think that if our gov spends less, and we all pay less, that the poor are going to be poorer?tommyo
- Do you really think that the government is helping the poor now? This diagram is pre and post welfare system: http://upload.wikime…tommyo
- http://upload.wikime…tommyo
- early child education, after school activities keep kids out of trouble, its a fact.DrBombay
- That's all you've got Rick?tommyo
- cutting social programs isnt going to help anything as far as crime goes.DrBombay
- Some social programs are fine, a lot are not. But yet we keep pumping money into broken systems.tommyo
- TheBlueOne0
*pops head in. bites tongue. goes back to hulu: http://www.hulu.com/starship-tro…
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what if whole world could vote in US election?
- mccain gets
Macedonia
Georgia
Cuba******** - if the whole world had a coke, now that would be something. ;)monkeyshine
- shows US vote 86% for obama, which is not true********
- subscribers to economist online so far who bothered to vote.********
- mccain gets
- robotron3k0
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
"Kremlin... it means tow truck"locustsloth - wow, awesome script.sofakingbanned
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Democrats party of rich, study finds; Conventional wisdom at odds with tax data on constituents.
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/…Democrats like to define themselves as the party of poor and middle-income Americans, but a new study says they now represent the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional districts.
- it's because of their platform not their wallet.monkeyshine
- excuse me? the numbers are there.********
- So? rich and common good are not opposed principles.********
- Amazing. You worked lies, damned lies AND statistics all into your little sentence there.TheBlueOne
- but never that let's put Country Club First********
- The article was done by the Washington Post. I grabbed his exact content. Lies?********
- you like rich people, what are you arguing against?DrBombay
- washington TIMES, owned by Rev Moon is where you got it********
- ********0
- http://www.catalogue… here is the spreadsheet********
- HAHA from michelle malkin's website...no wait..let me go find some facts from Michael Moore to refute it..TheBlueOne
- Dude, your world is dying. But go ahead a flail about. It's fun to watch.TheBlueOne
- Byu the way your racist Sammy Davis pic a page back told me all I need to know about your general assholery...TheBlueOne
- Tithe churches then we'll see some reality.********
- http://www.catalogue… that's not Malkin, but of course she would show it********
- http://www.catalogue… here is the spreadsheet
- DrBombay0
Jazx, I think you are possibly the densest person ever.
- Dense, for having polar opposite viewpoints as you? Rich.********
- no you defend something with a fact that opposes another view of yours.DrBombay
- You should just stick to believing in what yer daddy believes. and shut your coors hole.DrBombay
- First and foremost my father is still a Democrat, nothing I said was contradictory. You act like Dems are all poor.********
- And those stats prove that they aren't. Your taking things out of context. from previous posts.********
- just because I hate republicans doesnt mean I agree with every democrat, shitstain.DrBombay
- Good for you. Leave me to beliefs and I'll leave you to yours. Now, who's the more mature one?********
- Just 95.8% of them though yeah?tommyo
- no, I couldnt care less about guns or about 1 million other things.DrBombay
- Dense, for having polar opposite viewpoints as you? Rich.
- ukit0
Let's talk about issues that affect our industry.
Obama supports net neutrality, McCain does not.
- also, the telcoms are let off scott free for invasion of privacy. Thanks !********
- also, the telcoms are let off scott free for invasion of privacy. Thanks !
- tommyo0
JazX,
You're right. Even looking at the most current majorly democrat supported bill, the bailout. Both sides eventually did the damage. They say they're doing it to help the people. When in fact, either through ignorance or actually yeah probably through pure ignorance they're supporting the rich. We're looking at massive inflation which almost solely affects the poor. The only problem is that banks and fat cats will get the money and loan it before inflation effects that money. Once it gets down to lower levels that money will be worth less and less and prices for living will go up and up. Essentially the rich will get money that's worth WAY more than it's worth when it gets to the poor, if they even get any at all. The poor will become the beneficiaries of the damage that the rich brought to bear, and government supported.
- Both sides? But of course they'll never admit to that. It's fingerpointing.********
- Both sides? But of course they'll never admit to that. It's fingerpointing.
