Random Politics & Religion #00

And he was only stupid, not batshit crazy.

you're calculator is broken!

If it takes you 57 years to save up 50 thousand dollars...
$877 a year / 3 x forty hour a week jobs!?

No wonder you are so behind on your bills! you are only making fourteen cents and hour!

But Nik...

Having even 1 job makes you a slave to the proletariat!

Having 2 jobs, makes you a slave to the US government to double tax your income!

You'll have to highlight what you're talking about, because I can't find a single thing in there that applies to Dubya.

yeah, I fixed that with sarcasm tags.

We get so many mixed messages about debt that it's hardly surprising no one knows what the hell to make of it, though.

Debt on a governmental level is basically a good thing, gloom-and-doom predictions about Chinese retaliation ignored, yet individual debt is problematic. The whole system needs, if not debt, at least constant flow of money (nothing says you can't save, but our system has developed to the point of needing extravagant spending to support that idiot free trade, wholly organic, vegan, soy hippie coffee house when a bucket of Folger's used to suit people fine). It's hardly a wonder many people looked askance on George W. Bush when he said that sitting at home and not spending money would be letting the terrorists win, even though he was more or less correct.

Indeed, never actually accruing a debt leaves one with a worse credit rating than not, though I guess credit rating only really enters into things when asking for a loan, so it gets a little chicken-and-egg there.

If we want to go after the biggest offenders when it comes to accruing but not spending money, though, the people who are really putting the brakes on the US economy, we shouldn't be looking at people confined to wage slavery or living just barely above that level, but rather to the people banking half a billion dollars a year and parking 90% of it to sit in a Swiss account doing nothing. If we accept that money is a fiction, and it is since it's just meant to be a shortcut around the usual barter of goods and services, then it's ridiculous to consider all those man-hours being locked in a small room.

Rav, that's the joke.

I DON'T JOKE.













PUDDING.

I said he went to his school of delusional grandeur lol.

Yes, it's fun to play with math.

Nonetheless, my point stands: I agree with you on everything except buying a house. You can argue all you like about austerity, but plenty of us already live in needlessly austere conditions already. I love those articles about families that pay down a $20,000 debt in a year by making X, Y, and Z cutbacks because the article never points out that mom and dad were pulling down $100,000 between them, meaning they still had $80,000 in expenses to feed, clothe, and house themselves, the three kids, and Rover.

WHAT!? That lazy sea louse! He should have upgraded it to a community college!



DID HE NOT HAVE ENOUGH INVESTORS?!


NIK! WHY DIDN'T YOU INVEST IN THIS!?

where in the constitution of the united states of america does it say you have to go to collage?
( which i am, i don't have to but i am because there nothing wrong with it)

where in the constitution does it say you have to be a millionaire or billionaire ?

where in the constitution does it say you have to have owned a company?

To run for any high office in the United States of America ?

I want to let you and everyone else in on a secret. I have every right because i am natural born citizen who loves his country and wishes to make it better.


rp&r page 213 Let Freedom Reign
rp&r page 216 The Law That Never Was the 16th amendment.
rp&r page 223 The Constitutional Republic known as the USA.
rp&r page 239 Taxation without representation.
rp&r page 248 Keeping Government Honest with Handcuffs ( made in the US of course.)

I learned something from this thread that was useful - Ravael is serious about his pudding.

lol will killed him so fast nobody even remembered to interview him...

so tell us...why did you do it Tim?....Tim?......Tim!?....Mister McVeigh?...

uh oh...

Tonight's News CATS! Are they history's most evil creature?

I wouldn't say evil, but they are very sneaky, and they like to lie.

I frequently catch one of my two cats acting as lookout while the other is up to no good. When they realize I'm watching, they protest their innocence.

I'd wager Lordgrim is serious about his also.

(because crazy people looooooove pudding)

It doesn't, but it sure helps to be able to spell it correctly.

Collage

Also, selectively choosing a small portion of my argument to harp on does not make the rest of my argument invalid. Good luck becoming President without votes.

We still wonder.

By the way, what college are you going to?

Who said that was a requirement?

Who said that was a requirement? Besides, Obama never owned a company. He failed at being a lawyer, even got disbarred.

You have yet to prove otherwise.

Also, when are you going to respond to this post?

Bears are. Ask Drac.

Well, if you ask me, natural born citizens should be protected until they turn 18, and then should have to pass the same citizenship requirements as any immigrant would through naturalization. The idea that 1 in 3 US citizens can't pass the naturalization test is abhorrent to me when their votes carry the same weight as the people who have earned their citizenship through hard work and DOHC/USCIS extortion.

I was going to back read but...yea that would just waste valuable seconds !

For once not reading has paid off.

While I do agree that our electorate ought to be far better educated in terms of civics (and I'm laying a lot of this on personal sloth since the basics of civics are material for 10-year-olds), I sort of read this another way: if we allow citizens as dumb as this to remain voting citizens, we ought to loosen our immigration policies. That was a part of the reason the founders let people born in our borders be citizens, I think, just to bulk out the numbers.

Pudding: Political entity, or religious deity?

DISCUSS!

Jello pudding is sorta like jazz no wait it is more like Kodak film !

Political Deity.

Choose your next witticism carefully Mr. Bond, it may be your last.

I could go for some chocolate pudding now...

The civics test is a joke and if you've lived here your whole life and can't answer that basic ***you should be prisoner swapped for Mexican nationals.

I mean seriously, who are the Patriots? Easy. Laleluleilo.