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So the US government starts shutting down tomorrow... (pg. 9)
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| DJRYAN™ |
| Greenspan was/is a genius |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
Greenspan was/is a genius |
Shame his intelligence had to have been balanced out with yours to keep the universe level. |
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| stren |
| DJ RYAN FOR PRESIDENT! |
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
DJ RYAN FOR PRESIDENT! |
Only if Palin is vice. |
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| tubularbills |
I'm still a big fan of my "fat tax" idea. Put a 1% tax on all fast food. think of how much money would be raked in!
It's minimal to the average customer. You're $5 big mac meal would now cost you $5.05. no big deal. But you add up all those pennies on the dollar per millions of pounds of hamburgers from all those fast food places. man, that's a lotta dough. |
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| jester |
| I am still waiting for the White House to be on the chopping block.... I'll hopefully be able to buy it for $1. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
hahaha I think I know a little bit about politics... |
Yes, you know a little bit about politics, like most children have a comparative grasp for the existing differences between a triangle and a circle. If you stick them in a room, with a one-way glass mirror, that had a large box of cut-out shapes and blocks to stick into them, they'd be able to put all of the blocks where they belong in a relatively short amount of time.
Start making the task more complex, however, say, by making the cutout shapes consist of two or more specific blocks, and the men in white coats from behind the mirror have to terminate the experiment to scoop a little DJRYAN™ off of the floor, where he is crying furiously and trying to eat the blocks that don't fit into the cutouts that multiple blocks would have fit into were some of them not lodged in his esophagus.
In short, you have political awareness, much like most retarded people are basically aware of physical forces like gravity, that a saw cuts wood, and that wood grows on trees, but when it comes to the nitty gritty, your idiocy finds you resting your dumb-ass on the piece of wood you mean to cut from the tree with little realization as to your pending calamity.
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
yeah. it's the republicans fault again. classic Obama: do nothing, offer no plan while sitting back criticizing everyone else's, and wait till the last second and swoop in pretending to be above the fray scolding both sides for "playing politics", and claim armageddon will happen if we don't all do exactly what he wants. where was he 3 months ago on this? 6 months ago? 1 year ago? |
WTF are you talking about? Obama spent all that money on "bailouts" and more importantly his sweepting health-care reform. To say that the Republicans caused this is bull. For one, its "US" Republicans that are trying to keep us from writing checks we can no longer cash. And Obama and his brilliant ideas is the one that's egging this on. Learn something! |
Case and ing point is your failure to recognize that you are taking issue with someone who you'd otherwise be in agreement with. Kevin (The17sss) has been around here for quite a while, taken heaps of abuse for his political views, and was being ironic with his post. In that regard, you've metaphorically failed in something that most three-to-four-year-olds have a grasp for in gender distinction.
The researcher, alarmed that you've taken to chewing the blocks that don't fit into the box with the cut-out composite shapes, is wearing a white coat, which is confused with the robe that your mother wears in her precarious state induced by Valium and Vodka. Mistaking the researcher's concern that your digestive tract is being shredded for your mother's capriciously whimsical notions about sending you off to Zanny (Xanax) the Nanny's (the warm, loving glow of a television) you begin shouting, "No! Mommy, NO!! I'll kill you! You NO TAKE AWAY MY TOYS!!!"
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
Well I'm immensly dissapointed in our governments attempts to withdraw monies from students trying to obtain further education. The system in its current form includes encumbrences that prevent students from satisfying their educational requirements by the current and outdated "credit" and "default" system. Institutions need to look at a way for older students to obtain additional financing to either enter trade schools or regular universities. The work environment that currently exists no longer allows for moderatley educated individuals. We also need to promote additional reform in primary and secondary education systems. State and Federal monies need to be more prominent in our nations school systems. Cutting funds is not going to help the next few generations.
Additionally, and as I proposed earlier, we need to stop handing out paychecks to people that are qualified to work, but who choose not to. That single "intitlement" is bankrupting our country. Its not right for someone to sit at home and watch their soaps, get high, use food stamps to go buy filet mignon and not have to do a single thing for it. So, as I suggested, we should mandatory drugtest, at the reciepents expense, in order to receive intitlements. Anyone's test results that turn up positive would be suspended from whatever programs they're participating in.
Also, and probably the most important. We need to go back through our idealogy of blank check spending. Most departments operating within our state and federal governments spend enormeous amounts of money on simple things that ordinary consumers get at more reasonable cost. I think its been told before of a $1k toilet seat- really?
We also need to eliminate (even at the cost of job loss) outdated or unsustainable departments. These departments or organizations that don't pay for themselves should be eliminated. Corporations cutback all the time. The government opperates in reverse, and just creates more money. With the advent of such significant technologies, these individuals, to whom are perceived as qualified, could most likely obtain jobs in the private sector, thus making comparable monies, and spurring economic growth w/ their additional taxes and work place contributions, e.g.: non subsidized healthcare versus subsidized and other contributions.
When we couple these ideas into actions, most likely the result will be a slight double dip in our current recession but a more stable and sustainable long term nation.
Otherwise, I really don't think we're too far off from a civil war from extreme left wingers and conservative right wingers trying to protect the viability of our nation. Right now we're screwed. |
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/an...e-sense-on.html
Pros: Obama has made it easier to get more student loan money.
Cons: With a GPA lower than 2.5, there's no way in ing hell you'll ever be "intitled" (SIC) for anything other than an on-line, for-profit college.
The fact is that he's done this by eliminating unnecessary middle-men from the student loan process and freed up more money for students to be able to go to school with. Of course, you're ing retarded and you complain about student loans without knowing what's already been done on your behalf so that you stand a remedial chance of correcting the fundamental ignorance manifesting your beliefs about the pending class warfare where right-wingers will protect you from having to learn how to ing spell, you stupid ing hay-seed.
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
I'm sorry... Additional regulation is not what's needed. In fact, that's what's hurting small businesses. They can no longer be competitive in a global market because of all the regulation. If the government were to lessen regulation than small businesses could hire more people. Its government oversight that has shifted business to lower levels.
Allow me to share with you that the governement now oversees, telecommunications, transportation, utilities, food and drugs, housing, health care, small and big business.
That's not what our founding fathers wanted. But what's happened is that when there's been trouble in certain industries there was nowhere else to turn so the government intervened.
We're supposed to be a governement by the people for the people.
That's not what's happening.
Viva Le Revolution!! |
It has been six long hours of waiting for your mother to answer her phone, consisting of one blood transfusion and fifteen grams of morphine but she finally answered. Her reply to the repeated queries eventually aimed an penetrating her narcotic haze was, "What? ... Blocks? ... Swallowed Cocks? ...fine... pick up some more Grey Goose on your way home." Fortunately, that satisfied the hospital's requirement to authorize the thoracotomy required to remove the splinters embedded in your esophageal tract.
The doctors come into your room to explain the procedure. They are surprised to find you a deceptively well-spoken young man, completely unaware you'd be misspelling most of the words you'd utter at effort to escape going under the knife. "Keep big government out of my medicine cabinet." You protest with a vehemence mistaken for irony. "An intervention in my body's function is counter-productive and will result in my amygdala being over-regulated." Now the doctors are concerned. Is there an infection that has spread to your brain? Afterall, everyone needs a well-regulated amygdala in order to function properly. When you blurt out, "It's my right under the second appendix!" they ask for a psychiatric consult which verifies what the researchers have already disclosed: You're a mentally ill, quasi-functional idiot.
And when I say you're painfully unaware of history, your claim about industries being over-regulated being utter bull is exactly what I'm talking about. I worked for AT&T in their public relations department during the zenith of the push for deregulation that has occurred, already. The very deregulation I was furiously clipping news articles regarding is now responsible for AT&T having been able to acquire Verizon, which rendered my girlfriend's Droid functionally useless not three months after she purchased it.
You maintain that the market is still over-regulated while you remain unaware that the very reason we're even having this discussion is because of deregulation in its current form. Had it not been for deregulation, the Obama stimulus package would not have been called for, in the first place. There'd be no catch phrases like "Too Big to Fail" or "Underwater Homes". This would be a moot ing point.
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
Greenspan was/is a genius |
I'll stop short of saying he was an idiot, in large part because I think he's actually very smart. So smart, in fact, he convinced himself of the certitude of his convictions based almost entirely on poorly written prose. But even he had to admit, when everything was done and the system he'd deregulated, like a sea-slug (one of the world's dumbest animals), had devoured itself beginning with its own tail, he was quite wrong.
As for you, as much as you espouse his cause and world view; that which is largely based on a fantasy land concocted in the mind of a deluded, narcissistic author who lead a largely psychologically parasitic existence cultivating sycophantic acolytes such as Alan Greenspan and Ron Paul, I'm hard pressed to believe you actually know who John Galt really is. |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| eddiezilker has just pwned this entire thread :toothless |
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
Yes, you know a little bit about politics, like most children have a comparative grasp for the existing differences between a triangle and a circle. If you stick them in a room, with a one-way glass mirror, that had a large box of cut-out shapes and blocks to stick into them, they'd be able to put all of the blocks where they belong in a relatively short amount of time.
Start making the task more complex, however, say, by making the cutout shapes consist of two or more specific blocks, and the men in white coats from behind the mirror have to terminate the experiment to scoop a little DJRYAN™ off of the floor, where he is crying furiously and trying to eat the blocks that don't fit into the cutouts that multiple blocks would have fit into were some of them not lodged in his esophagus. |
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| srussell0018 |
| And your retort, Ryan? |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spam
Only if Palin is vice. |
Palin is so 2008, Bachman FTW |
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| titu90 |
| I think I've been away too long. I can't believe we haven't figured this out yet! |
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