Nope. People choose to stay in the country. They are not forced. Part of staying in a civilized country is paying taxes, which goes to a variety of things. You cannot opt out. You CAN move to Somalia if you'd like. Enjoy!
Thats a agreement entered into freely involving only him and his parents. Again, to equate that to welfare is one hell of a stretch. You see, in a welfare agreement the government and a lazy person freely enter into an agreement for the lazy person to get some third parties money for free. The third party has no say in that whatsoever and in fact has their money taken through threat of force, very much similar to outright theft.
Yes, focus on welfare for the poor, but not corporate welfare. Logical, especially for someone that still lives with their parents and is the very definition of ON WELFARE.
So one form of welfare is alright but the other isn't. It's still welfare you liberal idiot. It's taking money from one group to give to another. Gotta love the hypocrisy of the left.
So one form of welfare is alright but the other isn't. It's still welfare you liberal idiot. It's taking money from one group to give to another. Gotta love the hypocrisy of the left.
i need to call my oldest brother's friend and see if he has a min wage job for me... i've been meaning to do that for two or three months now but i still havent gotten around to it and im not really sure why.
You should do it, seriously. The routine of a job, the feeling of earning your way, a bit of income giving you freedom to get out and have a bit of a social life, the chance to meet some new people... even a shit job can seriously improve mental well being, when compared to unemployment.
They are not equal. One is to corporations that are making money hand over fist. The other(the same one that the OP is abusing) helps FEED people so they survive.
You idiot. They don't have a right to other peoples money. It's nice to see you support theft.
In other words he is just a regular member of these forums.....heheheeeI know why... it is because you are lazy, angry, and mentally disturbed person.
This country is founded on taxation. Perhaps you simply don't love this country!
Perhaps you have a hatred of what the US stands for. My problem is with welfare and using it to make people dependent and grow the size of government.
If you listed what didn't make you angry, we'd have a very short post from you.you know what makes me angry?
it would be more accurate to say that incorruptible doesnt love the State. the Declaration of Independence proclaimed 13 secessions... nations/peoples (jews, gentiles) are naturally occuring. the Framers of the Constitution merely created a State and most people at the time opposed it... the Constitution is more popular today than it was when it first came into effect.This country is founded on taxation. Perhaps you simply don't love this country!
Just to make sure that I understand your position, youre saying that if my Grandmother puts her retirement money in US bonds, because they are safe and yield a sure return on her investment, you want the government to say nope were not going to give you any return, or your money back, youre out of luck?
The US government bonds yield very little compared to the market, on average, but many people put their investments there because they are seen as very safe. These may be grandmothers, they may be big corporations, they may be Americans, and they may be Chinese. From a trust stand point I do not think it matters who these investors are. Who is going to invest in these bonds if they are no longer seen as safe investments? It seems to me that the result of what you are suggesting is that either the government will not be able to run because a lack of cash or the government will have to start paying our significantly larger amounts of interest, because of a loss of trust on the part of investors.
How is the US defaulting on its debt going to help our government, or us as citizens?
I lost $25k on an investment back in 2008 that was what I consider to be a safe investment. No investment is without risk. Anyone investing in US govt bonds cannot honestly say they haven't heard of our large, growing, financial debt. Or the problems that are never solved with regards to how social security etc will be funded.
Bagholders is the term. When you're sold a story about a stock and stuck holding worthless shares after it collapses, that's exactly what our govt bonds are going to be eventually IMO.
Real estate was the exact same "can't go down, sure way to make money" investment, but that went bust in 08/09.
What I don't like is taxpayers bailing out people when their "sure bets" go south. Nobody bailed me out when I lost $25k. Meanwhile at the same time I was hearing about TARP and the folks at AIG getting bailed out so they can go on a $400,000 weekend spa trip with taxpayer money, because they are "too big to fail"
The US govt is a fraudulent, corrupt, thieving service for the poor and ultra rich, and I just hope I don't stuck with the bill when everyone starts to realize this truth and runs from this as an investment. Maybe they have been, and that's why the fed needs to pump the interest rate up by having govt buy its own bonds (wtf is that logic???)
no one would be screwed forever, and no one can predict every outcome of what would happen whether there were more regulations or if the u.s. govt just collapsed right now.Ignoring that a very large percentage of the US debt is held by US corporations and citizens, I want to point out that the trust in the US as a safe economic haven would be destroyed, and this would screw us all, if we just "wrote off the US debt".
actually, the bailout of the banks was only meant to be good for the banks, because underwater homeowners could've been bailed out for less than 1/4 of the cost it was to bail out the banks (as long as the former was done reasonably) while those who had saved would've been able to save or create jobs as their assets would've been worth more.I agree whole heartedly about the moral hazard of having the tax payer left holding the bag for banks and corporations. I have a strong streak of anarco-capitalism in me, and it an worries me when I see the trend to "socialize the risk and capitalize the profit" that came up with the financial collapse before. I realize why we bailed out the banks, but I think that any of these institutions that are "too big to fail" need to be heavily regulated so that they do not take risks with their money.
I agree whole heartedly about the moral hazard of having the tax payer left holding the bag for banks and corporations. I have a strong streak of anarco-capitalism in me, and it an worries me when I see the trend to "socialize the risk and capitalize the profit" that came up with the financial collapse before. I realize why we bailed out the banks, but I think that any of these institutions that are "too big to fail" need to be heavily regulated so that they do not take risks with their money.
I have also been stuck with underperforming stocks after the .com bust in the early 2000's. But from a practical point of view it seems to me to be a very different situation between a stock holder in a private firm and someone who holds US government bonds. Our government needs a steady stream of cash, and the bonds are currently that stream. It may sound like an easy thing to do to just write off the US government debt, but in doing so we are destroying the stream of income that the government needs to function on a day to day basis.
I heard a lot of people seriously float around the idea of the US writing off its debt. They seem to have the idea that this will just screw rich Chinese investors who they would like to screw anyways.
Ignoring that a very large percentage of the US debt is held by US corporations and citizens, I want to point out that the trust in the US as a safe economic haven would be destroyed, and this would screw us all, if we just "wrote off the US debt".
The US government is going in the wrong direction. I agree that it seems to be very bent on helping large institutions at the cost of the middle class lately. The frustrating thing is that both parties seem be just as bad, the only difference is which special interest groups they support. I wish people would vote for third parties and break up the power that the Republicrats seem to hold.
At the same time I do not want to see us go through the economic melt down that would occur if we did just default on our debt. That feels like defaulting on your house payments because you are tired of paying property taxes.
Nope. People choose to stay in the country. They are not forced. Part of staying in a civilized country is paying taxes, which goes to a variety of things. You cannot opt out. You CAN move to Somalia if you'd like. Enjoy!
i need to call my oldest brother's friend and see if he has a min wage job for me... i've been meaning to do that for two or three months now but i still havent gotten around to it and im not really sure why.