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- DrBombay0
Whenever people bring up getting rid of Social Security and replacing it with private investment I automatically envision that they live in a rural area. Every city in this nation is teeming with broke ass people that are living check to check. If you didn't take Social Security out of their checks there would be no money being put aside at all.
- You don't care that at it's current rate SS will eat up some 40% of the entire fed budget in some 20 years time?mathinc
- You're right, just keep heading for that ice berg we can't make any changes here.. full steam capt.mathinc
- pay more taxes. Sometimes a modern nation needs to deal with their problems.DrBombay
- I pay the same tax rate you do, I imagine. Probably more because of the state I live in.DrBombay
- Yeah that's the answer. Pay 40% of the budget to fix what problem? How about we start raising a culture of people whomathinc
- are taught to save and not borrow? Or this one might appeal to you, how about we pay into our own accounts andmathinc
- gov doesn't get to play banker with the money we put in. Like it or not this is a crippling system and 'more taxes' means moremathinc
- poverty and more access to the money we earn by faceless unaccountable people. I live in California and I'm going to assumemathinc
- assume that I pay more in taxes. Plus, January was an extremely good month. I'm still tired from January.mathinc
- How do you propose we teach the citizens to save more, when double digit percentages are on food stamps?DrBombay
- Double digits are on food stamps OR are they getting unemployment checks. I think you're being dramatic.mathinc
- I think you are being impractical. Poor people exist.DrBombay
- I understand this fact. How about this, if you're so keen on paying 40 - 50 taxes why don't you go ahead and chip off an extramathinc
- 20 - 30 percent of your paycheck and go give it to a shelter every month? Get a head start.mathinc
- You'd actually be doing more good by cutting out the gov middle man. Put your money where your mouth is, literally.mathinc
- Or do you just like telling others how willing they should be to give their own money away? In a word, idealism.mathinc
- You have no idea what I donate to charity in a year, don't be so smug.DrBombay
- You have a one track mind. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEYDrBombay
- But do you live off of 50% of your salary? I'm not being smug I just think that if you're proposing something then I really hopemathinc
- you're ready to live what you preach. Good for you if you do give that much. Hats off to you.mathinc
- Even though you like to paint that picture of me Rick, it's not true. I think you'd like me if you got to know me. Just because Imathinc
- don't trust gov to handle fiscal responsibilities doesn't mean that all I care about is money. I'd be perfectly fine if the money Imathinc
- paid in taxes was actually used in a positive manner. But in the end I'd rather have control of where my money goes. I don'tmathinc
- There is no other option than taxes. Our country is 9 trillion in the hole as it is. Taxes must rise.DrBombay
- trust government in the slightest. I'm not hiding that. I'd rather my money stayed local, helped those who REALLY need it. I'm fine with paying taxesmathinc
- There is no solution besides Social security. Unless everyone is OK with tons of homeless people.DrBombay
- fine with paying taxes.. I just don't like who I'm giving it to or what's done with it.mathinc
- Rick, solving deficits doesn't always mean raising taxes.. it means spending less. Giving businesses the tools to increase profitsmathinc
- profits and in turn pay more into the system. Instead it's becoming increasingly stifling to actually run a successful business.mathinc
- You think a cow can keep producing milk when they're given less and less grass to produce that milk?mathinc
- Your answer is more, mine is less so we can create more. Yours is unsustainable mine isn't.mathinc
- What should businesses be "given"? Isn't that socialism?DrBombay
- If you don't think there is a threshold in which too much taxation impedes growth then you might not be thinking clearly.mathinc
- I said 'given tools'.. nice strawman there Wizard of Oz.mathinc
- Since Reagan, who cut almost all regulation, the deficit has ballooned.DrBombay
- You think spending is going to decrease and live in a fantasy world. Sorry but who are these politicians who support cutting spending?DrBombay
- spending?DrBombay
- I know the word 'profits' is an evil word to you.. but profits create jobs, they create opportunity for everyone, theymathinc
- Obama proposes PAYGO, all the cons cheer then oppose it the next week. Makes no sense.DrBombay
- promote growth. I always get the feeling that you think we should all simply break even and give the rest away.mathinc
- Profits is an evil word to me? You don't know me at all Tommy. You just called Goldman Sachs the devil but somehow I think profits are evil. You are a dipshit.DrBombay
- somehow I think profits are evil. You are a dipshit.DrBombay
- This conversation has nothing to do with current politics, it's an ideological conversation we're having here. Reducing regulationsmathinc
- You are the whore that travels between the two villages. Have cake/eat it too. I'm done with notes in the 40'sDrBombay
- regulations has little to do with the deficit. Decreasing gov spending does.mathinc
- Great now I'm a cake eating whore because I disagree with you? Honestly you can't handle it when someone doesn't believe what you do.mathinc
- what you do. You turn to name calling and childish bullshit. There is room for different opinions Rick. It's natural.mathinc
- DON'T FUCK WITH NATURE!mathinc
- :Dmathinc
- It's Ricks way or you're a fucking moron who should die of AID's you redneck mother fucking greedy simpleton!!!!mathinc
- And the Troll Defender has spoken.DrBombay
- You live in a hypothetical world.DrBombay
- Who are these spending cutters I should be voting for? Honestly, besides loony Ron Paul.DrBombay
- BOOM! GOTCHA!!!mathinc
- Still clicking?mathinc
- *headbuttmathinc
- Bet you didn't see that headbutt coming! How's your nose??mathinc
- ukit0
Ironic that we talking about how important experience running a business is, and yet our free market economy is tanking while China, a country run by Communist bureaucrats, is growing at a rate of 10%/ year.
- China is communist in name only. Capitalist dictatorship may fit it better.DrBombay
- more technocracy than bureaucracy ;)lowimpakt
- "technocracy" haha , I like that.762mm
- Technocracy = country ruled by raversukit
- Just say heck no to techno... cracyDrBombay
- Are you fucking stupid? how many jobs has congress outsourced? You uneducated coward.********
- ismith0
"When you initially applied for Social Security benefits, either Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or for retirement, disability, or survivors (RSDI, also known as Title II) benefits, SSA told you about certain changes that could affect your ability to continue to get payments.For SSI benefits, the law states that you cannot live in a public institution (for example, a jail, prison, penal facility, etc.) for a full calendar month or more, and continue to get your SSI benefits. For Title II benefits, the law states that if you commit a crime and a court convicts you, and you serve more than 30 continuous days in jail following the conviction, you cannot get your Title II benefits. It is important that you tell SSA of any of these changes as soon as possible to avoid getting money that you are not due."
LOL. From the SSA site.
- utopian0
After the U.S. taxpayers are done paying for the two "unwinnable wars in the Middle East" do you really think that there will be anything left of the Social Security benefits or anything else in this country worth dieing for?
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
- George W. Bush
- He's quoting the Who. Good on him! LOLismith
- I think you need more dashes and some sort of typographic solution that portrays bewilderment right before themathinc
- last part of that quote.mathinc
- Can't let go up the past?
Wow
<---Loser******** - < The past is our present
and our future, you Faux-Fox
News Douchebag.utopian - Uncle Freddie, for some reason
I think that the Crusaders are
still fighting their losing war in
both Iraq and Afghanistan, right?utopian
- ********0
One year in and you guys are bailing on your boy!!! Hope and change and stuff, right out the window...what happen???
Must be George bush's fault!!! No it's the right wing conspiracy!!!
It's not like for a whole year you had a majority vote or anything...oh Nooooo, that's right dems had a whole year with a super, that's super majority, and you still f-ed it all up!! And now you bail on your guy!??? WTF??? Is it Sara palin's fault???CNN poll: 52% say Obama doesn't deserve reelection in 2012
- Actually that you mentioned
it... The economy, deficit, and
2 ongoing wars are Bush's
fault! - you moron.utopian - Yeah ok buddy!!! If the war in Iraq is a huge fail, why is Biden out there saying Iraq is going to be the greatest achievment of the Obama admin. Hmmmm??? Fuckng liberal fool! Hope and change...what a joke!********
- Go away troll.DrBombay
- Naaahhhh i think i'll hang around and bother you some more! its to easy!********
- Actually that would be "too easy". Read a book.DrBombay
- Why read a book, when I have you to school me on how to be a smart liberal puss bag!********
- http://i.imgur.com/b…utopian
- Actually that you mentioned
- luckyorphan0
Interesting interview with two prominent Chinese economists:
China: Boom or Bust?
- fooler20
- That graph looks like Abe Lincons beard.mathinc
- it looks like a bikini bottomPonyBoy
- Pervertmathinc
- Actually I like your idea better Kev. Fap fap fap!mathinc
- I wonder if there are sexual deviants who wank it to graphs?mathinc
- Fitting it comes from barackobama.com, LOL!********
- I'm sure the TeaParty.com will just flip it over and call it factfooler2
- ********0
- ********0
Obama’s New OIC Envoy Defended Activist Who Aided Terrorist Group
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/…The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) cited Hussain as making the remarks in connection with Sami al-Arian, a university professor and activist sentenced in 2006 to more than four years in prison (including time already spent in custody) after he had pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
The U.S. government designated the PIJ as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997, and in 2003, then Attorney-General John Ashcroft described it as “one of the most violent terrorist organizations in the world.”
- ukit0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/busine…
The European parliament has urged EU authorities to investigate the role of Goldman Sachs and other investment banks in contracts that helped inflate Greece's public debt.
Over the past few years, Goldman Sachs and other banks lent money to Greece through currency contracts that allowed the government to raise millions but that didn't count as debt. The transactions led to hefty fees for the investment banks.
"It appears that Goldman Sachs have colluded with past Greek governments to reduce the appearance of Greece's debt for short-term gain, while in reality making it worse than ever," said Arlene McCarthy, vice-president of the European parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finan…
Greece loses EU voting power in blow to sovereignty
The council of EU finance ministers said Athens must comply with austerity demands by March 16 or lose control over its own tax and spend policies altogether. It if fails to do so, the EU will itself impose cuts under the draconian Article 126.9 of the Lisbon Treaty in what would amount to economic suzerainty.
While the symbolic move to suspend Greece of its voting rights at one meeting makes no practical difference, it marks a constitutional watershed and represents a crushing loss of sovereignty.
- lowimpakt0
"Bomb explodes outside JP Morgan Athens, none hurt"
http://in.reuters.com/article/wo…
in greece, if the banks screw you over, they blow your ass up.
- DrBombay0
Another Taliban Leader Captured In Pakistan, Conservative QBN'ers are silent about it.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/d…- So after 4 months of debating whether to send more troops, at the request of the guy he put in charge, he puts the troops in...uses the surge technique that worked so well in Iraq...and guess what....drum roll... It works, the novice did something right! Took 4 months to debate what everyone knew would work, but yeahhhhhh for Barry!!!********
- The previous president let it languish for 7 years, and 4 months bothers you. Do the troll dance!DrBombay
- So after 4 months of debating whether to send more troops, at the request of the guy he put in charge, he puts the troops in...uses the surge technique that worked so well in Iraq...and guess what....drum roll... It works, the novice did something right! Took 4 months to debate what everyone knew would work, but yeahhhhhh for Barry!!!
- utopian0
What is wrong with this picture?
AMERICANS: SUPREM COURT GOT IT WRONG!
A new poll shows there's one issue that unites nearly 80% of voters on both the right and left.
- utopian0
TEABAGGERS UNITE!
- ********0
Emperor, your sword won’t help you out
Sceptre and crown are worthless here
I’ve taken you by the hand
For you must come to my dance
- ********0
Stimulus funds going to slashed programs
http://www.usatoday.com/news/was…
- fooler20
Almost every single Republican in Congress voted no on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but despite that opposition, most Republicans have sought recovery funds for their district and bragged about the recovery funds they have brought home.
- surely, if they're going to be available, they're going to grab them, wouldn't you?********
- How would that be ethical given their stance about the money in the first place?Mimio
- Republicans are not ethical. They are feces-eating homos********
- what happened to the people that said they'd refuse it if it was passed?fooler2
- no one says that they'd refuse money and mean it!zarkonite
- surely, if they're going to be available, they're going to grab them, wouldn't you?
- lowimpakt0
so, has there been much discussed about Mossad (allegedly) assassinating someone in Dubai and the killers using passports of innocent British and Irish people?
- No, I think everyone is still trying to decide which political party is the best. Other topics will be discussed after the parade.mathinc
