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So Snake, your position is it is better to be on unemployment / welfare / food stamps than take an entry level / minimum wage job if a person does not fall into one of your "its OK" catagories?
What makes you think anyone is "entitled" to better than entry level / mimimum wage jobs if they fit into your niches?
[QUOTE=El Alamo;424329]The government did not contribute to anybodies success. Whatever the government has done, build roads etc was done by the private sector with the taxes the private sector paid. The government has no, none as in 0 income except for what the government extorts from the private sector.[/QUOTE]And the long, long list of things that governments do for society, for their constituents, none of that would have happened if governments did not exist.
I am beginning to appreciate the deep patience Jane Goodall must have had.
Who said this in 2002 ?
[QUOTE]You Olympians, however, know you didn't get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them. We’ve already cheered the Olympians, let’s also cheer the parents, coaches, and communities. [/QUOTE]
Esten.
Whatever the government does is paid for by the private sector. The government is great at wasting/spending other peoples money. And, as Margaret Thatcher said, sooner or later the government runs out of other peoples money to waste/spend.
I think it is about time the private sector told the government thanks but no thanks. Don't call us, when we need help from the government, we will call you.
[QUOTE=Esten;424367]Who said this in 2002 ?[/QUOTE]I don't know who said that, but whoever said it was obviously a lot more intelligent than Obama (who isn't more intelligent than Obama) because the person who said it clearly recognized that the government had nothing to do with their success.
Ok, I give up, what brillant mind said this? Probably someone you admire. Maybe even your role model.
I Hope You Are Watching the Series The Newsroom.
It is kind of Honoring the Real American Newscasters of the Past. Edward R. Murrow, etc.
The show is reviewing the latest events of Our History.
[url]http://www.hbo.com/the-newsroom/index.html[/url]
[url]http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/edward-r-murrow/this-reporter/513/[/url]
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/mitt-romney-foreign-income_n_1695806.html?fb_action_ids=4199259300586[/url]%2C10150980882717946%2C10100640920616854%2C4194565143235&fb_action_types=news. Reads&fb_ref=type%3Aread%2Cuser%3AYAF3o71x4_xiVaJp_VWtk4KXHjQ%2Cfb_opengraph&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%224199259300586%22%3A10151954611735174%2C%2210150980882717946%22%3A10150869645163638%2C%2210100640920616854%22%3A10150991696548773%2C%224194565143235%22%3A10150955423996229%7D.
Worth a read even though it's from that "liberal rag" the Huffington Post.
Remember this.
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/11/glass-steagall-act-the-se_n_201557.html[/url]
WT69 who can argue with such sound research as the Huffington Post and a make believe HBO series?
Yes, it is a make believe program, but the news they report really happened. And may or may not have been reported on FOX.
[QUOTE=Doppelganger;424380]WT69 who can argue with such sound research as the Huffington Post and a make believe HBO series?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=WorldTravel69; 424378]Remember this.
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/11/glass-steagall-act-the-se_n_201557.html[/url][/QUOTE]I would have clicked the "thanks" button for your post if it didn't have a link to a clip of Red Rachel Maddow. A better solution than Glass Steagall would have been to go ahead and let different types of financial companies merge, but take away FDIC insurance from those that do. And let the investment banks fail. If customers know there's real risk of failure, that they may lose their funds and won't be able to count on insolvent financial institutions as counterparties, then you won't have institutions that are too big to fail.
[QUOTE=Tiny12;424388]I would have clicked the "thanks" button for your post if it didn't have a link to a clip of Red Rachel Maddow. A better solution than Glass Steagall would have been to go ahead and let different types of financial companies merge, but take away FDIC insurance from those that do. And let the investment banks fail. If customers know there's real risk of failure, that they may lose their funds and won't be able to count on insolvent financial institutions as counterparties, then you won't have institutions that are too big to fail.[/QUOTE]For being nominated as Finance Czar. And can you tell why my credit card rates range from 12-17% and I can't get even 1% for my saving account. Legal loan-sharking? You know, like those legal ticket brokers / agencies as compared to the scalpers outside the stadium. Anyway, the motivation is the same, but one wears a $1500 suit and graduates from Georgetown, and the other wears a football jersey and comes from Compton. Supply & Demand, I really have no problems with that. But people get caught up with all that glamour, yachts, cigars, Cannes, you know what I mean.
My apologies to Compton, the hometown of tennis greats, the Williams sisters who are a class act, especially Vanessa. But most guys seem to swoon about Sharapova, I never understood why.
[QUOTE=Black Shirt; 424397]For being nominated as Finance Czar. And can you tell why my credit card rates range from 12-17% and I can't get even 1% for my saving account. Legal loan-sharking? You know, like those legal ticket brokers / agencies as compared to the scalpers outside the stadium. Anyway, the motivation is the same, but one wears a $1500 suit and graduates from Georgetown, and the other wears a football jersey and comes from Compton. Supply & Demand, I really have no problems with that. But people get caught up with all that glamour, yachts, cigars, Cannes, you know what I mean.
My apologies to Compton, the hometown of tennis greats, the Williams sisters who are a class act, especially Vanessa. But most guys seem to swoon about Sharapova, I never understood why.[/QUOTE]Duke is my all time favorite ballplayer.
[QUOTE=Esten;424367]Who said this in 2002 ?[/QUOTE]Esten.
I would like to know the author of that quote. Obviously someone you admire a lot. I have gone through all the likely suspects who may have been your role models in the past. Barney Franks, Barabara Streisand, Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Anthony Weiner and even Barrack Obama but none of these likely suspects has the intelligence to pen such an eloquent statement. Plus, all the role models you have frequently quoted in the past have been more or less shiftless morons.
Well, at the very least, congratulations. You may have turned the corner and finally gotten out of the gutter by alligning yourself with a solid person with sound values. Whoever this person you quoted may be.
His / her name. Please.
My real guess is Ronald Reagan but I am not sure Ronald Reagan was at the 2002 Olympics.
[QUOTE=Big Boss Man;424399]Duke is my all time favorite ballplayer.[/QUOTE]And I am no spring chicken. I started with Don Drysdale, Maury Wills, Willie Davis, etc.