If you are concerned with people getting off their asses, maybe you should support politicians who will lower the cost of education (does any Republican run on that premise?)...that might actually help people be productive and tax-paying in the future, instead of saddling them with massive amounts of debt.Yup, 100% correct. And that is why Bernie has such a leg up in the race, he was offering free stuff in the last election, he's a proven ally to those that refuse to put effort into their own lives. Want to drop fries in the oil all your life as a career path? Well you deserve $15/hr, free tuition to Fry.T.T. Institute, tax payers will handle your health care and rent, a tax payer provided basic income and food stamps will help supplement the lowly $15/hr, etc. etc.
If people aren't paying their fair share of taxes then that needs to be fixed for sure. What you are saying is..."too late it's all gone to hell anyway, nothing we can do", which shouldn't be the attitude to take or nothing ever gets better.
There are many countries that have free or heavily subsidized university that have a high quality of education. Of course, this cannot happen in isolation. You need to reduce military spending for example or RAISE taxes for things to work without bankrupting the country. This is all assuming the goal is to raise everyone's fortunes.
So those coal jobs are coming back? And how about cheaper and better healthcare for all?I wasn't aware of that.
I wasn't aware of that.
This is just for you.
It'd be great if Trump could beat Bernie in 2020, it'd be in America's best interest.
In my opinion this is a wonderful answer, or response, or comment or whatever.That's a pretty good take on the issue, but I don't think it's correct in my case. I've never asked for, or received, anything that I didn't pay for. The small success I've had has been entirely due to hard work, honesty, and being far to stupid to know when to quit. That attitude and work ethic pervades my entire life. I understand there are people that for any number of valid reasons are in trouble and need help, I don't begrudge that help, but it's perfectly valid for me to ask how many hours of my day will have to be given to that cause.
It also concerns me when these things become rights. As a right, it removes the requirement of action from the recipient, the equation changes from earning these things to demanding them.
Nice distraction. I asked a simple question and stated a few facts that cant be disputed. As for " such word , much meaning ( ESLmuch? Were you just being a dick? ) That shit doesn't fly.
I look at that chart and it seems to me that whatever that fucking peanut farmer did fucked the country forever.
I wasn't aware of that.
Family housing for service members in Wisconsin and South Korea, schools on military bases in Germany, and upgrades to Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Air Force bases in Alaska could be on the chopping block with President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to use billions in military construction money to build a border wall.
After the Beckstrom family's home in Fort Bragg, N.C., flooded with untreated sewer water, toxic substances remained in their house. The family said the company that managed the property, Corvias, refused the family's numerous requests to relocate. Eventually the Beckstroms were able to move, but all three children now suffer from severe medical conditions, which the report maintains may have been caused by environmental hazards.
The Nichols moved into a home in West Point, N.Y., only to discover after family members grew ill that every vent was covered with black mold. Balfour Beatty, which was managing the property, first sent a representative who did not do any mold sampling. The company insisted the mold levels were within normal limits, only agreeing that the family should move months later after test results showed toxic levels. "We nearly lost our children," said Mrs. Nichols.
I found this piece to be rather interesting:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/20/bernie-sanders-left-2020-225190
It is more along the lines of what I often argue, the drift on the left toward grievance identity politics. I believe that there is no other place that we can be at our current level of consciousness and that those filled with grievance are actually motivated by hate and that hate is fear and the source of all evil. It isn't just conservatives who fuck themselves.
one has to ask how much does Trump really care about military personnel and their families
Isn't absurd tuition cost the direct result of massive amounts of money being poured into the system?If you are concerned with people getting off their asses, maybe you should support politicians who will lower the cost of education (does any Republican run on that premise?)...that might actually help people be productive and tax-paying in the future, instead of saddling them with massive amounts of debt.
No. I didn’t say he explained Democrats. I said I found his opinions, based on the fact that I read them in the light of my own sensibilities, interesting. I also frequently find myself favoring my sense of what conservatives are doing far better than I think they can. I guess I am so sure of the value of my opinion that it doesn’t trouble me so much to hear what others have to say. I think a reading of my sig will show I’m an old hand at being considered a suspicious character. You might even say it’s second nature to me.Really? You're going to let Rich Lowry of the National Review explain what's going on with Democrats? You don't understand how that's utterly suspect?
No. I didn’t say he explained Democrats. I said I found his opinions, based on the fact that I read them in the light of my own sensibilities, interesting. I also frequently find myself favoring my sense of what conservatives are doing far better than I think they can. I guess I am so sure of the value of my opinion that it doesn’t trouble me so much to hear what others have to say. I think a reading of my sig will show I’m an old hand at being considered a suspicious character. You might even say it’s second nature to me.
Anything specific you might have liked or disliked?
As a person who discovered he doesn’t know anything, I have the same opinion, bullshit, of anybody who thinks they do. I find some bullshit more interesting than others though.Rich Lowry is an accomplished right wing propagandist. The only reason you entertain his opinion is because he's very good at what he does, which is to bullshit.
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I believe you are a victim of propaganda. I think it is a statistically proven fact that the gap between the rich and the poor in our country has widened and to the extent we are verging on revolution, something I would prefer not to see.
I respectfully disagree.
Hillary lost because she ran a campaign based on fear and lies. She stuck to a playbook that had won countless elections before hers.
What won Trump the election is how he addressed the issues. He addressed balanced trade, he addressed jobs, he addressed immigration... etc.
One example was Hillary saying when she is elected women will make as much as men. Well, logical thinkers already know the wage gap is a lie. Also, there is a federal law on the books to ensure equal pay. Besides all of that, states have laws to ensure women make the same as men. This "women will make as much as men" played to emotional voters.
Another issue was Hillary saying she was going to shut down the coal mines. What are those people supposed to do for jobs? I voted agsinst hillary in part to save the jobs of coal miners and to save their families.
The vast majority of hillarys campaign was "Trump is bad."
The vast majority of Trumps campaign was addressing the issues.
That is why Trump won and Hillary lost.
He supports Castro. He supports Ortega. He spent his honeymoon in the USSR. He flew a Russian flag in his office. This man is a fucking dyed in the wool communist.
Trump won because a ton of people took a gamble on the bullshit, and weren't bothered by the racism too much.
Proof of racism?
You will probably go back to the 1970s, but let's keep it to within the past decade or so, ok?
The idea that there are large numbers of people who do not pay into the system is false. Whenever conservatives say this they always focus on federal income taxes only, ignoring state and local taxes.
They do this because they are liars.
Start with the opening speech calling Mexicans (minus "some") drug dealing rapists, then continue to all the other endless shit he said for two years.
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I feel Amazon getting back over 100 million in tax returns justifies our feelings that certain players are not paying their fair share.
How does companies like amazon, facebook, google, exxon... not paying their fair share make me a liar?