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Vjo 06-18-2011 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by qwe (Post 18224739)
there's no such thing as even playing field, you create your own playing field... that's the difference, some people make it happen and some people ask for even field... society as a whole would not be able to function if everyone made same amount of money and was well educated....

This is true. However this is not waht I am saying. I am against the system as well as those who benefitted from it at the expense of the other 99%.

I never said anything about welfare. I said even the playing field between the rich and the poor. Which means one thing.

No more lobbying and lobbyists. It is BS. Lets start there.

Maybe your kids will have a shot then. I am too old too see any real change.

Besides that, it is my god given right as an American to hate big corps (including big banks) if I so choose.

I forgot...

Fuck Big Banks (cubed)

They are the real problem.

TheDoc 06-18-2011 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks (Post 18224744)
Blowing trillions of dollars over half a century on wasteful and fraud riddled government social programs is neither good policy nor a core government function.

It's a social function, right?

Well, then... it sounds like The People should be doing this then? All of us, no questions asked.. but for some reason, we don't. Wait, no we do... with our tax dollars.

I mean, isn't the role of the gov to make sure the people are safe? How safe are a bunch of ill, broke, hungry people by the tens of millions? Oh the Gov keeps us safe from bad guys you say? Well the bad guy would be .... you wouldn't it?

Vjo 06-18-2011 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by 12clicks (Post 18224740)
Post your real name?

Shit, loser, I do not, nor do I have any interest in who you are.

Truth hurts though, eh loser?

"Boo hoo, evil rich people made me fail, boo hoo, evil corporations are holding me down"

Dude, the only thing holding you down is your lack of intelligence and ability, no matter what your mammy told you.

Alright if it isnt personal then I may have went overboard. I apologize for calling you names. I thought you knew me.

Anyhow, if you dont know me then what you say is total bs.

If I am here on the last f'n chat board in adult, I am not here for the company. Yes I pay the bills 100% with what I make in adult. Satisfied. It is not my best year but it is better than the last two.

I have always said I am not a baller. And I only ever counterpunch.

I am a gentlemen otherwise and I am sorry for my outburst. Otoh, I have been waiting for this as I avoided other political discussion as me and 12 clicks are opposed on almost everything.

I can rock and roll and have fun discussing things. But lets keeps our personal lives out of it.

So once again I apologize for getting personal when you did not know me.

(spelling and bs is out the window :) )

qwe 06-18-2011 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 18224748)
This is true. However this is not waht I am saying. I am against the system as well as those who benefitted from it at the expense of the other 99%.

I never said anything about welfare. I said even the playing field between the rich and the poor. Which means one thing.

No more lobbying and lobbyists. It is BS. Lets start there.

Maybe your kids will have a shot then. I am too old too see any real change.

Besides that, it is my god given right as an American to hate big corps (including big banks) if I so choose.

I forgot...

Fuck Big Banks (cubed)

They are the real problem.

yes banks went out of control and im not defending them, but WHO started buying up houses which they could not afford? at least 50% of the blame goes to the same people who are screaming "fuck the banks", banks did not force anyone at a gun point to buy houses, it's the people's greed to buy something they simply could not handle...

dyna mo 06-18-2011 01:49 PM

from reich's blog

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What are anti-tax Republicans to do now?

For one, continue to distort the arguments of those who believe corporations and the rich should pay more taxes.

For example, in the lead op-ed piece in today?s Wall Street Journal, Cato Institute fellow Alan Reynolds claims a higher marginal tax on the super rich will bring in less revenue.

Reynolds uses my tax proposal from last February as his red herring. ?Memo to Robert Reich,? he declares, ?The income tax brought in less revenue when the highest rate was 70 percent to 91 percent [between 1950 and 1980] than it did when the highest rate was 28 percent.?

Reynolds bends the facts to make his case, picking and choosing among years.

In truth, the most important variable explaining the rise and fall of tax revenues as percent of GDP has been the business cycle, not the effective tax rate. In periods when the economy is growing briskly, tax revenues have risen as a percent of GDP, regardless of effective rates; in downturns, revenues have fallen.

Reynolds also distorts my proposal, implying that the bracket on which I call for a 70 percent tax is the same as in today?s tax code. Wrong. My proposed 70 percent rate would apply only to incomes over $15 million.

$15 million, Alan!

Under my proposal, incomes between $5 million and $15 million would be subjected to a 60 percent rate, and incomes between $500,000 and $5 million to a 50 percent rate.

Importantly, my proposal calls for a substantial rate reduction for families with incomes under $100,000. (Conveniently, Reynolds fails to mention this.)

Reynolds entirely ignores my central argument, which is that rather than depress economic growth, higher taxes on the rich correlate with higher growth. During almost three decades spanning 1951 to 1980, when the top rate was between 70 percent and 91 percent, average annual growth in the American economy was 3.7 percent.

Between 1983 and the start of the Great Recession, when the top rate dropped to between 35 percent and 39 percent, average growth was 3 percent.

How to explain this? Easy.

Since the early 1980s, a larger and larger share of total income has gone to the top (the richest 1 percent of Americans got 10 percent of total income in 1980, and get over 20 percent now). That?s left the vast middle class with insufficient purchasing power to boost the economy ? without going deep into debt.

Lower tax rates on the rich ? including lower capital gains rates ? have exacerbated this regressive trend.

Finally, having misread the facts, distorted my proposal, and ignored my argument, Reynolds fails to rebut my conclusion that raising middle class purchasing power by lowering their tax rates while raising the rates at the top will help spur growth, to the benefit of all. Top earners will do better with a smaller share of a more rapidly- growing economy a larger share of a slower-growing one.

If I were a cynic, I?d say the Republican right is showing signs of desperation.

BFT3K 06-18-2011 01:50 PM

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IllTestYourGirls 06-18-2011 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDoc (Post 18224741)
Great video... I think he should add a dot though.

Dot.. a huge amount of people think they are rich, because they've worked hard to gain a lot of dollars. When the reality is they're middle class compared to the actual rich, they have almost no 'real' value compared to the actual rich, and have no actual clue what the real benefits are because they aren't rich, at all, and never have been and all they're doing is repeating the agenda of the super rich, which only benefits the super rich.

Nobody posting on this forum, nobody in our Industry, is at this level, not even our ENTIRE Industry. Do any of you have political influences, with your or your companies money? Exactly....

You pay state taxes or sales taxes, they get tax money to move to that state and pay nothing on sales because that office is a different location. The State buys stocks from them by the tens of millions with your tax dollars, your stocks are sitting on a safe in a binder. The State hands them contracts and tax dollars to complete the projects. That CEO reinvests through campaign contributions.

And you think you're advocating for YOU to a make more money? Hahahaha...

So your solution for stopping the government from taking money from the middle class and giving it to the super rich is..... MORE GOVERNMENT! too funny :helpme:error:1orglaugh

Vjo 06-18-2011 01:58 PM

My money in adult is going UP. Every month. I think that speaks for itself.

So dont try to pigeon hole me as I see you do everyone in these political threads.

Because I have compassion for the poor does not make me a welfare taker or far left.

Altho I am faaaaaar left. :) hehe

You are middle class I am guessing. So why are you pushing the rederick of the far right and super rich? You will never be them and they would never be you (or me)

It is us against them at this point.

TheDoc 06-18-2011 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls (Post 18224778)
So your solution for stopping the government from taking money from the middle class and giving it to the super rich is..... MORE GOVERNMENT! too funny :helpme:error:1orglaugh

Are responses like this part of a brain eating virus that runs through the right wing populous or something?

Taking away social programs, hurts you... and makes the super rich more money, while the cost adjustment is not moved, and you still pay the same amount.

Wake up.. you're brainwashed.

DBS.US 06-18-2011 02:05 PM

Kill the Super Rich:2 cents:

Vjo 06-18-2011 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by qwe (Post 18224768)
yes banks went out of control and im not defending them, but WHO started buying up houses which they could not afford? at least 50% of the blame goes to the same people who are screaming "fuck the banks", banks did not force anyone at a gun point to buy houses, it's the people's greed to buy something they simply could not handle...

YES, I will agree. Everything has two sides. Which is maybe why these threads start. :)

Some people are to blame. They overspent and now are in debt. The real problem in our economy is 1 thing... personal debt.

And not able to file BR due to assets are trapped by 21-29.9% interest payments.

WHY are credit card companies able to charge 29.9% interest? Lobbying.

To bleed you (or if you are fortunate) then your neighbor DRY. To stifle them.

Yes! It is their fault. The borrowers.

But 29.9 or 21.9 is rediculous in a slow economy.

There are answers I have for that too (getting rid of debt) but I prob posted enuff for today. :)

Vjo 06-18-2011 02:15 PM

I will give you a tip on credit card debt consumers:

(Casue I know there are guys out there reading this with tons of cc debt)

Your credit report is not only a crock of shit but also a bunch of shit designed for one reason:

To keep you paying 29.9%

Are you poor?

If so, STOP paying all cards NOW. You do NOT have to pay them shit.

YOU are judgement proof.

YOU are poor.

YOU are still protected.

Fuck the rich becasue YOU are poor.

Drill them a new asshole becasue YOU are poor.

They wanted poor. THEY GOT POOR.

Fuck the BIG BANKS.

Default now. It is all crashing soon anyhow.

FUCK EM!

12clicks 06-18-2011 02:22 PM

The left panders to the non- rich in tough times because they need a boogie man to blame instead of the failed policies of tax, borrow, and over spend

12clicks 06-18-2011 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DBS.US (Post 18224791)
Kill the Super Rich:2 cents:

Or said another way,"kill the super able"

Yeah, that helps society:1orglaugh

Vjo 06-18-2011 02:28 PM

If everyone poor woke up tomorrow, read my prev post, stopped hemmoraging their life's savings and children's savings and paid the CC companies ZERO from now on. It would turn around the economy overnight.

Everyone is suddenly debt free. Legally.

FUCK THE GOD DAMN CREDIT CARD companies. Sue the world assholes.

Fuck the big banks. They ARE in the top 1% for sure.

I will educate the world and change this fucken economy MYSELF.

I will educate America because I simply dont like the credit card theives.

No they did not steal. But they are running a shell game thru the powers of interest that are killing this country.

I am currently debt free. Of course. It isnt about me. It is about my country.

It is about TAKING back my country one post at at time.

qwe 06-18-2011 02:34 PM

why? because some people simply don't know how to use it, get into too much debt and file for bankruptcy, therefore credit card companies taking on a major risk... so they charge higher % to make up for the morons that don't know how to handle expenses... besides, whole point of a credit card is to have a simpler payment option then carrying thousands in cash everywhere... it costs me $0 to use my visa, because I pay i right away, people who miss payments and get stuck with 19% should not have it in a first place... they're trapped because of their own actions, why should credit card company reward those idiots with 3% interest rate?

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Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 18224794)
YES, I will agree. Everything has two sides. Which is maybe why these threads start. :)

Some people are to blame. They overspent and now are in debt. The real problem in our economy is 1 thing... personal debt.

And not able to file BR due to assets are trapped by 21-29.9% interest payments.

WHY are credit card companies able to charge 29.9% interest? Lobbying.

To bleed you (or if you are fortunate) then your neighbor DRY. To stifle them.

Yes! It is their fault. The borrowers.

But 29.9 or 21.9 is rediculous in a slow economy.

There are answers I have for that too (getting rid of debt) but I prob posted enuff for today. :)


Vjo 06-18-2011 02:44 PM

Shall we discuss what is "judgement proof"?

Must be a few in adult who would like to know.

Are you paying on cc's? Over 10K bal? You will never get them paid.

They will bleed you DRY because to them you are SHIT.

While they hug their kid on their vacation. YOU will never have a vacation worth a damn for your kid.

NOT because you did not work hard. Because it isnt in the cards in this society and ecomomy for EVERYONE who works HARD anymore, as the Big Banks, corrupt polticians and all their weasle backers, (who hope to suckle at the tit or who already suckle at the corporate tit) bleed you DRY.

So dont buy this BULLSHIT about you dindt WORK HARD. I know you did.

You fell thru the cracks. Take them with you.

They wanted you bled dry and poor. Now you are poor (or getting poorer).

Default on all CC'S now.

You DO NOT have to pay them shit. Trust me.

They will soon have ALL YOUR money if you are paying them on a large balance. Trust me.

LMK if you want to know what is judgement proof.

arock10 06-18-2011 02:45 PM

if the middle class goes broke, who will buy all the rich people's shit? the economy grinds to a halt.....

Vjo 06-18-2011 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by qwe (Post 18224837)
why? because some people simply don't know how to use it, get into too much debt and file for bankruptcy, therefore credit card companies taking on a major risk... so they charge higher % to make up for the morons that don't know how to handle expenses... besides, whole point of a credit card is to have a simpler payment option then carrying thousands in cash everywhere... it costs me $0 to use my visa, because I pay i right away, people who miss payments and get stuck with 19% should not have it in a first place... they're trapped because of their own actions, why should credit card company reward those idiots with 3% interest rate?

If you use the card at all and carry any balance which is what many people have then they are all at 20% or over now days. Not all but most. 3%? Who is borrowing at 3% unless you dont need the money.

Yes it is dog eat dog. No free lunch. No money for nothing. No mercy on anyone, which is why I say:

If you carry a bal over 10K or really any bal and it is hurting your bottom line, you do NOT need to pay them shit.

And they cant do shit to you. You are poor.

When the BIG DEFAULT comes in this country and all you rich fucks (who work at the cc companies) tumble down to my more modest level I will be all smiles. :)

The rich will never tumble. Hopefully bad karma will kill them. hehe

I can live just fine on 4 cans of beans. :)

I cant wait till the fucking economy really tanks. Seriously.

Cash only society and bartering.

That is step one to revolution.

TheDoc 06-18-2011 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 12clicks (Post 18224816)
The left panders to the non- rich in tough times because they need a boogie man to blame instead of the failed policies of tax, borrow, and over spend

It's not just the left pointing out the rights policies have failed us...

Cherry7 06-18-2011 03:25 PM

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Karl Marx

Vjo 06-18-2011 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ (Post 18224870)
I honestly can't understand why anyone would be a republican or democrat because what's needed are true independents that can see clearly the solution on both sides while not supporting ancillary special interests.

Amen JC.

If I leave the people with anything after sitting here all afternoon it is PLEASE vote third party at the very least.

YES it wont do shit as you cant beat big money but MAYBE just maybe a Ventura or SOMONE can someday rise up (without getting assassinated) and take our country back from the CC corps, Defense corps, Food corps, Agriculture corps and other slimy BIG corps and corrupt politicians (virtually all of them).

Or at least fuck em up a bit. :)

And waaaaaaaaahhh the Dow JOnes is down.

I will be sitting on a sack of "tradeables" saying "stick your stocks and bonds up your ass"

Bring on the crash. It will be a NEW BEGINNING for most of us.

Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh the market is down. Who gives a fuck.

Coup 06-18-2011 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cherry7 (Post 18224891)
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Karl Marx


IllTestYourGirls 06-18-2011 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by arock10 (Post 18224852)
if the middle class goes broke, who will buy all the rich people's shit? the economy grinds to a halt.....

Prices would go down. Nothing grinds to a halt.

IllTestYourGirls 06-18-2011 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDoc (Post 18224783)
Are responses like this part of a brain eating virus that runs through the right wing populous or something?

Taking away social programs, hurts you... and makes the super rich more money, while the cost adjustment is not moved, and you still pay the same amount.

Wake up.. you're brainwashed.

lmao Im the brainwashed one? I never said anything about taking away social programs, your brainwashed brain made you think that.

One thing social programs do is keep the poor enslaved and dependent while funneling the money taken from the middle/upper class to the uber rich. :thumbsup

Yup government is feeding the uber rich money, clearly the only solution is to make the government bigger :1orglaugh

woj 06-18-2011 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 18224871)
If you carry a bal over 10K or really any bal and it is hurting your bottom line, you do NOT need to pay them shit.

What makes you think it's ok to borrow $$$ and not pay it back? It's not really any different than stealing... :2 cents:

Vjo 06-18-2011 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Cherry7 (Post 18224891)
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Karl Marx

Awesome quote. And so true. This is how they make money. Only now the middle class is becoming poor so things arent so rosey anymore.

I will always in my heart feel for the little guy even if I became filthy rich.

anybody remember this guy.. he was our last hope.. he was assassinated in 1963.. with him died any chance at equality..

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/jfk1.jpg

..as the Free Mason run anonymous "club" took power from then on. (Bushes, Kissinger, Q of E, many more, even Aleister Crowley and his demonic, satanic leanings were members)

Study the FREE MASONS. There you will see that this was all planned in the 40s. A power grab that layed out the Bushes (or their offspring) as presidents way back then.. that meant getting rid of three obstacles in the 60s..

our dreams (both black and white) died in the 60s as the path was changed and weighted way more heavily against you

(the corporate pigs or maybe Dion himself is censoring the real version)

but this is very nice


scuba steve 06-18-2011 04:19 PM

dude you're nuts, you aren't going to start a french revolution or anything, especially if gfy is your starting point

Vjo 06-18-2011 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by woj (Post 18224948)
What makes you think it's ok to borrow $$$ and not pay it back? It's not really any different than stealing... :2 cents:

Because I hate the Credit Card companies.

Fuck em the way they fucked us. I did not say not pay anyone back.. only the credit card companies.. only they should get fucked.

Vjo 06-18-2011 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by scuba steve (Post 18224981)
dude you're nuts, you aren't going to start a french revolution or anything, especially if gfy is your starting point

I know Steve, I am just venting. :) A person has to come across as nuts to get your attention. :)

Vjo 06-18-2011 04:29 PM

I already have the attention of GFY. I could prob get the attention of the world if I wanted it. But I dont.

Instead I will go back into my own world and relish the coming economic failure.

Wont hurt me. Will bring many down to my level.

A collapse is needed.

Vjo 06-18-2011 04:57 PM

when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose, you're invisible now



noone can hurt you, noone, you are now in control

they have things to lose, you do not, you are now in control

Vjo 06-18-2011 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ (Post 18225088)
The system or constitution works fine if it's ran the way it was designed. Sadly, I agree a collapse is needed, but our government will never admit to a collapse if this did happen, therein lies the problem. It's like a virus in your computer, no matter how many times you reset or reboot, the virus is not going away.

Anyway, there will be little difference to everyday life now compared if it did collapse. There is not going to be huge bread lines and soup kitchens. Why? - because we already have a modern version now called food stamps. There is not going to be mass protests in the streets because the government will suspend your constitutional rights, like now using the patriot act.

If you decide to arm yourself and form a resistance group, you'll be branded a terrorist and swept up by homeland security. Your only option is try to elect a leading body, but lobbyist/corporations will massively fund a better liar.

"We the people" have been castrated plus segregated due to our political, religious beliefs, or skin collar. We've been conditioned like a person in prison to worry more about other inmates rather then our captors.

In short, America has already collapsed but most haven't a clue they live in a matrix.

Best poster on this board. But then what would we expect out of JC. :)

Yes it was a good system. And yes if you make less than aprrox $1500 you qualify for food stamps so the very poor will get by.

I purposely took a super left stance in my postings today just to see where things stand. And amazingly most seem to agree with me even tho I am talking extremes.

Yes the days of armed revolution are over but at least the little guy can rant, post a Kennedy pic and hope for better days. :)

Very well said JC. I am not an expert at any of this. I f'n hate politics but I am a survivor who knows how to get by and who knows where I really stand as a little guy.

u-Bob 06-18-2011 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by tony286 (Post 18224622)
The funny thing is without gov funding there would be no internet.

Ah, there we go.... the seen vs the unseen... As Bastiat already noted over a 160 years ago: When government intervenes in the economy and takes resources, money, capital, labor,... away from private sectors and uses them for its own projects, we end up seeing the end result of the government's project, but we don't get to see what would otherwise have been accomplished by the people who were affected by the government's plundering...

Yes, government agencies laid the foundations for the internet, but it was the free market (the voluntary exchange of goods, services and ideas) that made the internet into what it is today. No government bureaucrat ever decided that we needed porn sites, entrepreneurs saw an opportunity and made a lot of money by giving the people what they wanted. No government bureaucrat ever decided how many hosting companies we needed, how search engines needed to work, that we needed an IM system or that people needed to video tape themselves while lip syncing....

And even if the government hadn't laid the foundation, I'm sure we would still have "an internet". At 1 point there were over 250000 active BBSs in the US alone. Who knows what would or could have evolved out of that? To be honest, we'll never know.

The internet we have today, we have DESPITE of the government, not thanks to the government.

u-Bob 06-18-2011 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 18224729)
Mind you I am not (and have never taking) welfare.

:thumbsup:thumbsup

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Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 18224729)
But all I ask, and never received, as an educated American is an even playing field.

I do ok. I worked hard and do ok. It isnt about me. It isnt about you. It is about our country as a whole.

My generation (and those that followed) and anyone born after about 1963 (just realized that, coincidence?) are playing in a world economy while our government makes deals to give the wealth of our country to MORE and MORE big corporations.

This is the whole problem with government intervention: it only benefits the big corporations. It doesn't mater what kind of rationale they use to justify their activities, more regulations and government programs only benefit the big corporations that are in bed with the government and the government itself.

The solution isn't to tax this or that group more or less. The solution is to end government intervention.

DatingGold 06-18-2011 05:55 PM

Im beting on the fact that there are just a whole lot more freeloaders than there used to be.

Vjo 06-18-2011 05:58 PM

To me it is becoming us against them.

Us being those barely scrapping by. Who work hard but never get ahead. Them being those who are super rich. Those in powerful corps who are making money hand over fist.

It is a war. An internal war to get by. To survive. To maybe have a little something for your kids.

I have absolutely ZERO love for the rich. It is war. I am not rich. They are. It is Us against Them.

down and out, it cant be helped, if there is a lot of it about



the best you can hope for is to become invisible

and to take the rich "for a ride" at every chance you get

There is NO love for the super rich. You are despised by the working poor and now the middle class. Hide in your ivory towers. That is where you belong. That is where you must stay. You have fucked people over to make your money. You are the shitstains of this country. NOT the heroes like you should be but rather the shitstains of America.

The street is MINE. The street belongs to the poor and middle class. You must hide so noone hurts you. So noone sues you. You have money but you must always watch what you say. I dont have to watch shit because you the rich can not hurt me.

You can only hurt each other which is perfect. One greedy rich bastard suing another greedy rich bastard.

It is very liberating once you know the score.

I wish the kids in Vancouver would have really tore the fucking place up.

If they are poor, you can only lock them up. You can not get monitary rewards and instead must eat the loss you rich pigs. Eat the fucking loss.

God bless the young rebels of today.

Fuck all authority and fuck all the super rich.

Vjo 06-18-2011 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob (Post 18225169)
:thumbsup:thumbsup



This is the whole problem with government intervention: it only benefits the big corporations. It doesn't mater what kind of rationale they use to justify their activities, more regulations and government programs only benefit the big corporations that are in bed with the government and the government itself.

The solution isn't to tax this or that group more or less. The solution is to end government intervention.

Exactly. End lobbying tomorrow is step #1 which will never happen short of revolution or maybe voting in a true radical. Which still wont happen. We need a majority of radicals in the house and senate as well.

The US govt creates laws that benefit corporations (which then kick back and benefit the politician). Simple as that. It is a crappy system. Did Jefferson and Washington forsee lobbying? No.

And it is starting to show a real seperation of wealth in our country as Mr. Reich points out.

u-Bob 06-18-2011 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 18225198)
Exactly. End lobbying tomorrow is step #1 which will never happen short of revolution or maybe voting in a true radical. Which still wont happen. We need a majority of radicals in the house and senate as well.

The US govt creates laws that benefit corporations (which then kick back and benefit the politician). Simple as that. It is a crappy system. Did Jefferson and Washington forsee lobbying? No.

Can't end lobbying... Power corrupts... vote anyone into power and they'll end up doing bad things.

what people need to do is recognize the state for what it really is: an organization that offers certain services (protection, arbitration etc) and that 1 eliminates its competition by force and 2 forces everyone to buy its services (through taxation).

From an ethical point of view these are acts of aggression.
From an economic point of view, this is incredibly inefficient. The state has no incentive to a good job at the services it claims to provide. Unlike in a free market where you can change security providers or insurance companies if you are not happy with the quality of the service they provide or if you are not happy with their pricing structure, the state will force you to buy its services.

One day in the future people will look back at these times and say: wtf were they thinking.

Vjo 06-18-2011 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob (Post 18225215)
Can't end lobbying... Power corrupts... vote anyone into power and they'll end up doing bad things.

what people need to do is recognize the state for what it really is: an organization that offers certain services (protection, arbitration etc) and that 1 eliminates its competition by force and 2 forces everyone to buy its services (through taxation).

From an ethical point of view these are acts of aggression.
From an economic point of view, this is incredibly inefficient. The state has no incentive to a good job at the services it claims to provide. Unlike in a free market where you can change security providers or insurance companies if you are not happy with the quality of the service they provide or if you are not happy with their pricing structure, the state will force you to buy its services.

One day in the future people will look back at these times and say: wtf were they thinking.

Very well said.

The state is basicly your enemy. The farther away and more invisible you are from them the better.

Ever get involved with the state and money. They are a nightmare. A beaurocratic nightmare who all you really want to do is "get rid of them" and "get them out of your life"

Trust me, they are not your buddy. They are just another asshole trying to make money off you.


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