[QUOTE=Daddy Rulz]A welfare state for a welfare nation. Those freeloaders give us real liberal progressives a bad name. Good riddance.[/QUOTE]So Daddy, we do have some commonalities!
"Workfare, not welfare!"
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[QUOTE=Daddy Rulz]A welfare state for a welfare nation. Those freeloaders give us real liberal progressives a bad name. Good riddance.[/QUOTE]So Daddy, we do have some commonalities!
"Workfare, not welfare!"
[QUOTE=One Tree Hill]So Daddy, we do have some commonalities!
"Workfare, not welfare!"[/QUOTE]I have always thought that REAL Republicans and REAL Democrats have a lot in common. The people that are ruining this country are the NeoCons, Christian Religious Jihadists (they are not the same, the NeoCons are using the predjudist of the other to stay in power) and the looney fucking Democrats (we are all NOT like that, I for one am very hard working and the only check I ever got that I didn't work for was unemployment which is not payed for by the State but by the company)
I think the differences between Republicans and Democrates help this country stay on an even keel. I'v been tired for years of freeloaders running up my tax bill. The problem now is we have more corporate welfare and less individual welfare not less welfare. I think the corporate kind will cost me more than the other.
I have no problem with, and tremendous respect for moderate conservatives as I would hope a moderate conservative has respect for my moderate liberalism. We need more folks like this having dialogue, it's time to take our country back from the kooks on both sides of the aisle.
Daddy, unemployment is a program administered jointly by the states and the federal government, and is financed by a tax paid only by the employer [b]in most states.[/b] However, the states do indeed receive federal money, mostly notably when the unemployment rate in a particular state rises above a certain threshold. That triggers [b]extended benefits[/b] and these are federally financed. The federal unemployment tax is I believe 6.0% of wages, but that gets reduced by a credit the employer receives for state unemployment tax contributions.
[QUOTE=Dickhead]Daddy, unemployment is a program administered jointly by the states and the federal government, and is financed by a tax paid only by the employer [b]in most states.[/b] However, the states do indeed receive federal money, mostly notably when the unemployment rate in a particular state rises above a certain threshold. That triggers [b]extended benefits[/b] and these are federally financed. The federal unemployment tax is I believe 6.0% of wages, but that gets reduced by a credit the employer receives for state unemployment tax contributions.[/QUOTE]Perhaps it's a justification for me to feel comfortable. However one of the main differences between welfare and unemployment is that you had to have a fucking job you lost to get the second one. Also benifits are limited by time, they can be extended that's true but not until retirement, that is unless your an old fucker like Exon.
(Sorry Exon, just fucking with you a little)
[QUOTE=Daddy Rulz]Perhaps it's a justification for me to feel comfortable. However one of the main differences between welfare and unemployment is that you had to have a fucking job you lost to get the second one. Also benifits are limited by time, they can be extended that's true but not until retirement, that is unless your an old fucker like Exon.
(Sorry Exon, just fucking with you a little)[/QUOTE]There is now a lifetime max of 5 years of drawing welfare (subject to some few exceptions) thanks to BJ Clinton. Meanwhile corporate welfare such as no bid contracts, cost-plus contracts, and favorable capital gains taxation continues unabated.
One night, George W Bush is tossing restlessly in his bed. He awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks, "George, what's the best thing I can do to help the country?"
"Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington advises, then fades away.
The next night, Bush is astir again and sees the ghost of Thomas Jefferson moving through the darkened bedroom. Bush calls out, "Tom, please! What is the best thing I can do to help the country?"
"Respect the Constitution, as I did," Jefferson advises and dims from sight.
The third night sleep is still not in the cards for Bush. He awakens to see the ghost of FDR hovering over his bed. Bush whispers, "Franklin, what is the best thing I can do for the country?"
"Help the less fortunate, just as I did, FDR replies, then fades into the mist.
Bush isn't sleeping well on the fourth night when he sees another figure moving in the shadows. It is the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. Bush pleads, " Abe, what is the best thing I can do right now to help the country?"
Lincoln replies, "Go see a play."
Suerte,
Stowe
With apologies to Charles Dickens
And for those who may over react, this is a joke printed in my local paper this week. It's just a joke!
[QUOTE=Dickhead]There is now a lifetime max of 5 years of drawing welfare (subject to some few exceptions)
I personally know many people who have been on welfare for years. The family across the street from me has four generations on welfare. Perhaps you meant a five generation limit?
Dave
That was a very cruel remark and Unamerican.
Sconjo usa
You are no patriot, you are hoping for the presidents plane to crash. I can't use the words I would like to use because I was told I would be thowrn off the forum. But I am not part of the gang. You can say whatever because you are in with jackson. So goodbye and have a pleasant evening.
Bush is a disaster. If something were to happen to him tomorrow, I would not shed a tear. He is a liar, in bed with the oil companies, and a religious nut. And, above all, he is utterly INCOMPETENT.
Bush is not so much a disaster because he fells obligated to put down Iran (Nucs) and put some assemblence of control - Law and Order - in that region. While at the same time appeaseing the f - in S Audi's. The SAudi;'s need to be dealt with!
Bush had the balls to go to Iraq and take that maniac out of power. And knock off hi 2 sons. And the world will be safer. He was responsible for killing as much as a million people. His ambition was to rule the arab world. The people that should be bashed arethe ones that got us into the Vietnam conflict. It cos the about 60,000 men. And no one knew what the hell we were there for. I wake up every morn. With a plate in my head and a scar from my hip to my knee to remind me of vietnam. Sconjo usa
So, why is it our job / prerogative to go into every country ruled by an asshole and change the regime there? Who gave us that right? No one. L'il Crazy Kim in North Korea is much worse than Saddam, yet nothing is done. Hmm. No oil, perhaps? No no-bid contracts for their numerous cronies?
So what if he wanted to rule the Arab world? Big deal. When he was fighting Iran he was such a good friend of ours. Then all of a sudden not so much.
How is the world safer without him? Turns out he did not have any WMDs. The whole pretext for going to war was a blatant lie. Like pretty much everything this administration says. Perhaps you could try getting your info not only from Fox News and other Bush-approved sources.
This Gov't of the corporations for the corporations that we have should really try to fix the numerous problems in America before meddling in other people's affairs before opening its mouth and lecturing others. Not one president has done so much so fast to hurt and destroy this country as GWB. I absolutely despise him and his bible-thumping hypocritical lies, his stupid smirk, his utter incompetence. Such a pity I do not have the means to move out, and stop supporting these idiots with my taxes.
I say regime change begins at home.
For those of us who friends and even family members stuck in Iraq we appreciate your comments on the failure of the Bush administration. I 'm getting tired of hearing that Bush had "guts"to send someone else off to war.
When George Bush had the chance to fight in war (Vietnam) he got someone to enroll him in pilot school (which he was unqualified for) and never completed it. And, Mr. Cheney got deferments based on his medical condition (anal splint) or ingrown butt hair! I'm not lying either.
When we see (Fox News) or hear (Crackhead Limbaugh or Heil Hannity) all contributors to the right wing echo machine we know it's just self serving talk from chicken hawks.
There was an article today in the NY Post (reprinted in a Bay Area paper) discussing the new vaccine that prevents women from getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus (a sexually transmitted disease). HPV in women is extremely dangerous with a high percentage of the women getting cervical cancer from HPV. Cervical cancer is the most dangerous and fast attacking form of cancer for women.
The vaccine is "virtually 100% effective for the 2 most common cancer-causing HPV strains".
The article went on to explain that many Republicans are against making the vaccine mandatory and giving it to all girls as during their High School years (from pressure from the religious right) because to do so would be giving tacit approval for premarital sex or adultry.
So let me understand this logic from Republicans and Christians, these are people who, if they actually followed their religious teachings would embrace the poor, the downtrodden, to forgive those hurt others, and want to help all people.
Do not give the vaccine to women because it promotes premarital sex and adultry. Rather, do not give them the protection they need, instead, let them get cancer and die.
Instead, they want to continue to preach what they have so far, with resounding success: follow the fantasy belief that humans will abstain from sexual activity except in a marriage situation.
What a loving, Christian position to hold!
I guess if there were an actual cancer that only inflicted corporations, THEN the Republicans would embrace their religious teachings and literally sacrifice themselves and die in their attempts to save the corporations from that cancer.
Suerte,
Stowe