thank you jim bunning republican kentucky...

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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Damn conservitives....only if the world was 100% blindly liberal...we would be in a better place.

    um...what...? :?
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Damn conservitives....only if the world was 100% blindly liberal...we would be in a better place.

    and I'd retain about 10% of my paycheck.
  • breath123
    breath123 Posts: 397
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Damn conservitives....only if the world was 100% blindly liberal...we would be in a better place.

    I'm sure this made sense when you typed it.

    so, asking our representitives not to allow us to be butt fucked by corporations is asking for a 100% blindly liberal state of affairs?

    theres no compromise where there could be an agenda of basic fairness?

    If you were being sarcastic I apologize btw.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    What is "basic fairness".

    Anyone who has the slightest notion that our human lives here on earth have ever been, are now, or will ever be anything even remotely resembling fair is delusional.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Absolutely correct, but with that said, it doesn't give people, governments or business's the right to screw over everyone and thing in sight either.
    know1 wrote:
    What is "basic fairness".

    Anyone who has the slightest notion that our human lives here on earth have ever been, are now, or will ever be anything even remotely resembling fair is delusional.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • breath123
    breath123 Posts: 397
    edited March 2010
    know1 wrote:
    What is "basic fairness".

    Anyone who has the slightest notion that our human lives here on earth have ever been, are now, or will ever be anything even remotely resembling fair is delusional.

    wow, a new low for you. who knew you had any farther to fall.

    So I suppose you think companies should pay 75 cents an hour and work workers to death, right? I mean, life is not fair right, I mean they weren't born rich right? so...fuck em!

    I also assume you support getting rid of child labor laws because they are just interfering with commerce. hey, if you weren't born rich...go FUCK yourself. life's not fair right

    you see the way it used to work is we elect people to represent us, they make laws to PROTECT us from the corporations. Ohhh, but that's socialism! Respect for the value of workers, the contribution to a company. That's fairness

    I got more, but I don't want to get banned by the likes of you.
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  • breath123
    breath123 Posts: 397
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Absolutely correct, but with that said, it doesn't give people, governments or business's the right to screw over everyone and thing in sight either.
    know1 wrote:
    What is "basic fairness".

    Anyone who has the slightest notion that our human lives here on earth have ever been, are now, or will ever be anything even remotely resembling fair is delusional.

    I can't believe we are lumping in "I starved to death in the wilderness" with " I starved to death in the richest country in the world because billionaires took all the jobs to a foreign country".

    it's truly game over.
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Who said this? I think it is "game over" when you so easily defend corruption and greed in the name of helping, development and improvement.
    breath123 wrote:
    I can't believe we are lumping in "I starved to death in the wilderness" with " I starved to death in the richest country in the world because billionaires took all the jobs to a foreign country".

    it's truly game over.
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • breath123
    breath123 Posts: 397
    edited March 2010
    Question:
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Who said this? I think it is "game over" when you so easily defend corruption and greed in the name of helping, development and improvement.

    Answer:
    know1 wrote:
    What is "basic fairness".

    Anyone who has the slightest notion that our human lives here on earth have ever been, are now, or will ever be anything even remotely resembling fair is delusional.

    I took knows answer to be

    unfair: died of undetectable cancer at the age of 18

    also unfair: died of cancer because i could not afford what every other civilized country provides because a company didn't want to lose profits.

    shit does indeed happen (especially when someone intentionally makes it happen)
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  • markin ball
    markin ball Posts: 1,076
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Damn conservitives....only if the world was 100% blindly liberal...we would be in a better place.

    This is a good start to a better discussion. The almost complete majority of us would not want to live in either a 100% socialist country or a 100% laissez faire capitalist society (no roads, military, public lands parks, etc.). We need the best of both systems and we need the best of people in the government.
    "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win ."

    "With our thoughts we make the world"
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    breath123 wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    What is "basic fairness".

    Anyone who has the slightest notion that our human lives here on earth have ever been, are now, or will ever be anything even remotely resembling fair is delusional.

    wow, a new low for you. who knew you had any farther to fall.

    So I suppose you think companies should pay 75 cents an hour and work workers to death, right? I mean, life is not fair right, I mean they weren't born rich right? so...fuck em!

    I also assume you support getting rid of child labor laws because they are just interfering with commerce. hey, if you weren't born rich...go FUCK yourself. life's not fair right

    you see the way it used to work is we elect people to represent us, they make laws to PROTECT us from the corporations. Ohhh, but that's socialism! Respect for the value of workers, the contribution to a company. That's fairness

    I got more, but I don't want to get banned by the likes of you.

    Wow - where did you get all that from my two sentences about fairness?

    I was pretty clear in what I said, but I didn't make mention of anything you're citing above.

    Anytime I hear anyone mention something about fairness, I know that the rest of what they are saying is likely to be horribly misguided.

    If life was even meant to be fair, then we'd all be the same height, weight, have the same parents, live in the same place, etc., etc., etc.

    That is all I was saying and nothing else.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    I posted this once or twice earlier on the....GASP...original topic:

    How long do we keep extending benefits for jobs that are not coming back?
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,440
    know1 wrote:
    I posted this once or twice earlier on the....GASP...original topic:

    How long do we keep extending benefits for jobs that are not coming back?
    in my opinion as long as it takes for these people to find work or be trained to find work in a different field. what is your suggestion?
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    I think as long as the government is stealing from its citizens through corporate bailouts, the military industrial complex and similar, I do not care how long we have people on unemployment.
    know1 wrote:
    I posted this once or twice earlier on the....GASP...original topic:

    How long do we keep extending benefits for jobs that are not coming back?
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    know1 wrote:
    I posted this once or twice earlier on the....GASP...original topic:

    How long do we keep extending benefits for jobs that are not coming back?

    good question...I have no idea...what's your answer...?
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    There has to be an end, there always has. Otherwise you are simply on another form of welfare.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    unsung wrote:
    There has to be an end, there always has. Otherwise you are simply on another form of welfare.

    fine...

    when...?
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Isn't a neverending payment cycle to people not working also a version of stealing from the tax paying citizens. I was and am opposed to any of the bailouts and the wars and financial support of the military.
    FiveB247x wrote:
    I think as long as the government is stealing from its citizens through corporate bailouts, the military industrial complex and similar, I do not care how long we have people on unemployment.
    know1 wrote:
    I posted this once or twice earlier on the....GASP...original topic:

    How long do we keep extending benefits for jobs that are not coming back?
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    inmytree wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    I posted this once or twice earlier on the....GASP...original topic:

    How long do we keep extending benefits for jobs that are not coming back?

    good question...I have no idea...what's your answer...?

    My answer is that we need to stop extending them at the same timeframe they always have ended them. Just because more people are unemployed is a reason to keep extending the benefits?

    What the government should be doing is creating jobs, not paying people not to work.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,440
    know1 wrote:
    inmytree wrote:
    know1 wrote:
    I posted this once or twice earlier on the....GASP...original topic:

    How long do we keep extending benefits for jobs that are not coming back?

    good question...I have no idea...what's your answer...?

    My answer is that we need to stop extending them at the same timeframe they always have ended them. Just because more people are unemployed is a reason to keep extending the benefits?

    What the government should be doing is creating jobs, not paying people not to work.
    the government is trying to create jobs...solar and wind power, infrastructure jobs, guess who opposes this because its too expensive? i'll give ya one guess...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."

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