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15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - After Appearing At "No... · 0 replies · +1 points

Quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long, long time. Wow.

If it weren't for the comment that Crist was an "Eisenhower Republican" right before he called himself a Reagan Republican...I'd agree.

This guy is a loon.

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - "Don't Tread On Me" Li... · 11 replies · -1 points

Using homosexual terms in a derogatory manner?

I've always thought the same thing.

The term is being used in a derogatory manner. And it either means that I am "receiving" that form sexual contact or "giving it". I'm assuming that hannitized means that I'm giving it. Again, which means, he's using it as a slur based on a homosexual act. An act that he defends.

Anyway, just another example of Leftists not having a clue about what they say.

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - Deficit Commission Iss... · 1 reply · +1 points

Former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin notes that the report makes four key points

I think that all 4 are spot on. We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem.

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - Democrat Group Wants T... · 0 replies · +3 points

So are the wealthy going to be exempted from paying in to the SS system or are they just going to have their money stolen?

That, of course, would be the goal; to let everyone opt out. However, for now,, it looks like they are going to recommend several methods to reigning in this SS monster. 1 of which is to limit or eliminate payments to the wealthy retired.

Even if they do THAT, however, nothing I have seen would suggest that any benefits would be touched to people over the age of 55. Those folks have already begin to plan on some of their retirement being SS payments.

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - Democrat Group Wants T... · 0 replies · +3 points

# Among elderly Social Security beneficiaries, 52% of married couples and 72% of unmarried persons receive 50% or more of their income from Social Security.

If I have $1,000,000 in the bank when I retire at 69 and I spend about $50k of that a year but don't have a job, what's my income?

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - Shocker: German Spendi... · 17 replies · +3 points

His goal is making himself feel good through charity.

I agree. The Liberal's goal is "noble" if you ignore the means. Who doesn't wanna make sure kids have enough to eat and warm beds to sleep in. However, I want my kid to get good grades in school, so I don't do their homework for 'em. Cause really, it's not the grades that is the goal, it's the learning and doing.

So, while Liberals are to be commended for trying to give people stuff, they are foolish and shortsighted when they do just that; give it away.

An interesting dynamic, by the way, is the morality of charity:

According to a study, when people feel they have been morally virtuous by saving the planet through their purchases of organic baby food, for example, it leads to the "licensing [of] selfish and morally questionable behaviour", otherwise known as "moral balancing" or "compensatory ethics".

guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/15/green-consumers-more-likely-steal

I often find that after Liberals have succeeded in giving away other people's money, they begin to act in the most rude and uncharitable manner. Ugly.

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - Shocker: German Spendi... · 19 replies · +2 points

want to throw the unemployed overboard
...
provide minimal health care for the poor

If you present those items as goals, there are many ways to get their. However, you don't do that. You present them as something that we have to "give". The only thing remaining is to think of a way to pay for them.

I maintain that if your goal is to provide for the best medical care for the most people, the market is the solution. When you force people to pay for other people's goods by force of sword or gun, you build an inefficient system that is unable to generate the same success as the market.

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - Shocker: German Spendi... · 1 reply · +5 points

But Germany takes care of their unemployed, so you must not support THEIR version of spending cuts, because they did not throw people into the streets.

1st, we "take care" of our unemployed as well. Typically, we provide benefits for 6 months.

Now, the Germans DO provide benefits for 12 months, but it comes with some requirements. Namely that you have been working long enough in concurrent past months to qualify. Further, should you be offered a job identified as "suitable" and decline it, you lose your benefits for 12 weeks. Decline enough of these jobs and you lose your benefit completely.

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - America's New Victim G... · 4 replies · +1 points

Yes.

Oh. Well, if I am underestimating you, perhaps that's because the things you say make it easy to think a person doesn't know what he's talking about.

Not true. Consider oil imported from our enem

Didja see the part with the " * "? There is a whole value proposition involved.

I did consider the iPhone. A net loss

The more I read the things you say, the more I think that you are wrong to assume I underestimate you. I think I've pegged you pretty dead on.

Turn over your iPhone and you'll see that it's "assembled in China." But that doesn’t mean that most of the profits or revenue go there. In fact, only about $6.54 (a little more than than 1%) of the full $600 retail price of an iPhone goes to China and more than 60% goes directly to Apple and other American companies and then indirectly to American workers

mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/07/iphone-designed-by-apple-in-us.html

Allow me to laugh and snicker as service industry jobs pay less the manufacturing jobs.

Certainly we have service industry jobs. We also have lawyers and doctors [for now]. We have marketing executives and salesmen. We have inventors and computer engineers.

But keep on keepin' on...

widen the trade deficit for America.
Not good.

What are you talking about? Trade gap. Bad.

When a foreign company sells something to us, they are, by definition, benefiting us. Or we wouldn't make the trade.

Once again you underestimate my ability to think for my self

Oh, I don't think so. If anything, YOU are OVER estimating your ability to think at all.

15 years ago @ SayAnythingBlog.com - America's New Victim G... · 8 replies · +1 points

You are underestimating me. Not good.

For who? Me?

Any form of US of industry that uses plentiful US raw materials to produce an abundance of finished products is good for us and the US.

Any form of US industry that uses the raw materials purchased at the best value* to produce products is good for us and the US.

For example, consider the iPhone. Made overseas. Most of the cost of the phone was "spent" in the US. Including the profit.

Cheapskates are ruining America by exporting good jobs

As we send commoditized jobs overseas, we create more and more higher end jobs here.

* By "best value" I mean mostly cost. However, there are cases where purchasing the least expensive commodity may not provide the highest value.

For example, if an American company can purchase copper for $1 a pound or for $2 a pound, they should purchase that $1 copper, independent of what country mined it. Labor, like copper, is a commodity best purchased where it is least expensive.

No I don't think it will generate 15,000,000 jobs.

Maybe it was your smart assed response to me that 15,000,000 are working under the table or that there were 15,000,000 jobs just waiting for folks to fill 'em.

Or maybe not.

Show why I should care for the liberal plank.

Liberals care about Liberal things.

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