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How Lucky Can You Get?
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How is it a scam? (Unless it is set up as I describe above)
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We will export the "pup soup" to china!
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Outsourcing
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I said that I want the freedom for all. Not only for myself, or those born into freedom. For all. Freedom of choice. No taxes, no welfare. Live and let live. Ah you want anarchy... Thanks but no thanks. Not so fast. You deduct that because you have misconceptions about taxes. Feel free to make your opinion, of course, but just in case, I am not an anarchist. I understand the need for the government, as founders provided. |
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Outsourcing
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The opening of our borders would flood our cities with desparate people, who accept little or nothing in return for work,.. Why not? It is good for those flooding in, no? ..as competition against the citizens who have paid in to preserve their way of life.... whatever that may be within the laws! Paid in to preserve their way of life? What? Those incoming of course would not be a threat to those with an education.... because the newcomers are without one. See what I mean yet? Not necessarily. The best of the best will be flooding in, if I tell them "what you can make is your's to keep". I think many of our scientists will be looking for some simpler jobs. |
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First, who screwed the board? Was it you, willing2?
When the number of potential buyers of bonds drops, the interest rate has to go up to entice more buyers. National debt interest payments are about to explode. No county has ever survived who outspent its treasury. US has been doing just that for almost a century. While I agree with you in theory, it would be nice to know the limits of tolerance. |
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How Lucky Can You Get?
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I don't trust the lottery in US. Think about it, your choice is in the system, that is networked to the headquarters.
Do you really think it is random? They know your numbers before they make the draw. The only thing that would stop them at this point from setting up winning numbers in a way that either nobody wins or the smallest number of people win, would be their honesty. You're trusting honesty of a bureaucrat. |
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Couldn't they at least engineer them to do something useful? We could clone sh!tload of them, and make them a major food staple! |
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Pigs would fly
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.....Swine Flu ...
A change we can believe in! |
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Communist pigs! How dare they!
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Your money is losing world value on a daily basis (as they print money like there was no tomorrow) and consequently our dollar debt to other countries is increasing correspondingly. What is your explanation on how that is happening? I mean our printing increases dollar debt to other countries? |
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Outsourcing
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Truth is man-made... Your suggestion sounds like one from a Roman emperor who wants the hardest working average 'Joe' citizens possible, without respect to their person, to fight it all out amongst themselves for the right/privelege to obtain a position of laborer in your camp which pays less than a prosperous wage, so that you may have much more than you could ever use in this lifetime alone, while the workers remain workers... Is that close enough? No, it is not. A laborer in my camp? Are you drunk? This is what you read from my post? I said that I want the freedom for all. Not only for myself, or those born into freedom. For all. Freedom of choice. No taxes, no welfare. Live and let live. The camp is all what you want. You call it the freedom camp. You were born inside, what an achievement,and now you want a fence. |
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Outsourcing
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Both approaches are wrong. I say let us correct the system You have me up to this point Not sure I'd agree with the rest though I'd be willing to give anything a try over what we have. Problem is for now at least it won't happen. The average American wants everything done for them including their thinking. They don't want to take the time to actually learn about the candidates, the measures, the bills, amendments and all the other things we vote on. They just want someone to do it, and fix it... NOW. Hence the position we are in now. David Actually, it is you, who has me on, for now... I totally agree. The strict capitalist system fixes all these things that are wrong now. It fixes it by attaching a personal responsibility for every smallest decision. It's best weapon? Private property, as it was understood before 1904. This and an absolute choice in private matters, unless it harms someone else, where it is then taken to court. These things, that you notice, are normal to humans. By our nature, we only care about things that are immediately attached to our own matters, or result in immediate consequences depending on our choices. This is why none of the socialist bullsh!t will ever work. The goal may be as noble as possible, and yet, in practice, I will only care for myself, period. |
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Outsourcing
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Something is rotten in Denmark... How difficult was your personal competition in life Nogames? Public schools? Social Services? It is obvious - because you have expressed it - that your climb up the ladder of success has had very few rungs. So, do you speak from experience? Do you know what it is like to start from nothing??? Do you hold a position which can offer any sound advice on such a thing? Don't go for it. It's a very poor bet, unless you are one of the very very few, who were extremely disadvantaged. Anything less than that, and you will lose with a sheer margin. Besides, what does it even matter? Do I necessarily need to bring up my qualifications and all the adversity I have faced, to be able to speak the truth? |
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Outsourcing
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I lived under communism and socialism. What do you mean, Atlantis? |
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Outsourcing
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Does the opening of borders not pit those who are desperate against those who are not. Should the uneducated Americans be forced into competition for the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness with desperate people who have never known what it is like to be as free as we are? In other words, such opening of the borders will insure that those poor and hungry, can get ahead of anyone born to freedom, if only they want to work harder. That is fairness to me. Give me your poor and hungry, and you can take my fat and lazy. Why would you want to exclude anyone from freedom? Will it punish the uneducated? Not necessarily. Bill Gates didn't do too bad for a dropout. As it should be. Everyone makes a choice, and should bear the consequences of it. |
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..since all the wars, hate and misery is coming because of financial reasons and money is what gets people food and roof over their head, yes. Unless there is a system, not based on money , as long as I can eat and sleep somewhere and find happiness, I'm all for it. I just don't like the system, where financial ground is slipping out and no one is offering either a better route, nor an alternative, that's basically like running in a mousewheel and being surprised of not getting anywhere. Obama has not offered anything alternative whatsoever, that's my concern. He wants to raise the dead, like a necromancer, but just in reality, that won't work. The bones will collapse back, there is no blood in the vein, to speak metaphorically. Boy, do I agree with that! Yes, creative, it should all be based on money. But you're free to be a human being, and after you have made your money, you can go ahead and donate it all or in part to those you think should have it. I am all for your right to do so. Socialist and communist ideas are all bad, no exceptions. I have studied them, and this is my conclusion. I could not find 1 (one) good idea amongst all of the socialist library. |
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Then you would be in direct disagreement with nearly ever economist foreign and domestic. You got that right. I am. You sound like you take your economic views from TV. |
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Outsourcing
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Abolish IRS. That will destroy FED, and bring whole bunch of good changes just because of this one simple action. Like an avalanche, it will make the landscape unrecognizable. Gold money.
Next? Universal Suffrage. Something needs to be done about it. Either we have it, but can not vote on other people's property, or we remove it and only allow those to vote who have their own money at the stake based on the outcome of the vote. Open borders. Allow anyone to enter, after all proper medical examinations. Caveat: they can not receive anything from the state, but their freedom. Let us make lazy ones wish they emigrate to France, and let us make it easy for achievers to become American. After a short while, America will be where every productive person of the world lives. Make supreme court judges to lose their job if another lawyer can prove opposite on their decision, based on the constitution. That lawyer gets the job. And so on. I could bring this country back to #1 in no time, unless I get shot. (Very likely). |
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You're speaking Physical disaster, the discussion is about a fiscal disaster. And yes monetarily the entire globe is interdependent. We may be in bad shape but we are still the worlds largest economy by far. If the rest of the world were in good shape it might weather our downfall, but it's not if we go down the rest of the worlds economy will follow. How do we know if we are the world's largest economy? Secondly, why should the rest follow the largest? Our largest banks failed. Does this mean the smallest now are bankrupt too, by definition? I would argue that there is no interdependency of world economies in monetary plane. Everyone is simply using the USD, because we have a 5th fleet ready to find Osama's friends anywhere USD isn't the first choice. But that is all there is. Nations have their goods, that they are ready to swap for other countries goods, and they can find some medium of exchange to get this done. There is a lot of money parked in US right now, but this money is slowly but surely leaving. We will be notified when all capital is gone, by Obama announcing "temporary" capital controls. He can't do it now, precisely because not all rich have moved out their capital yet. |
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Have you looked at most major downtowns lately and compared them to third world contries??? The question is not when but for how long it's been. True! Take a look at this picture: Kenya. This is a typical picture of abject poverty. Now, let us look at this picture: This, on the other hand, is the golden state of california, Los Angeles , - a city in the country where everyone can be whatever he wants to be (as long as it is approved by the government). Why the similarity? The answer is that the people on both pictures are either denied, or ignoring or are simply to dumb to be aware of a private property. It doesn't make any sense to clean the public property. Instead, it makes all sense to dirty it, since that is the lowest cost solution. As more and more people accept the socialist ways, America will increasingly look like either of this two pictures. |
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