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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Teresa Heilevang on April 05, 2011, 12:32:08 PM
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For those who think this is "Tea-Party-far right wing garbage" I respectfully remind them that the data for this was supplied NOT by "right-wing-nut conservatives", but by the LA Times, which is certainly NOT conservative politically...in any way.
Just yet another example....
We are sooooo going down the hot horn shitter!!!
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Completely sickening. But not unexpected. Nothing seems to surprise me anymore. And of course, California seems to be the epicenter of stupidity.
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Thank you for posting that.
I am going to send this out to a BUNCH of people.
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Then there was that video of the woman complaining because her heat subsidy from the gummint had been reduced. As she stood there in her living room, flailing around the last 2 bills showing the drop, one could not help but notice the 60" flat screen in the background. >:(
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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Anonymous Email Circular Letter
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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
Anonymous Email Circular Letter
+1
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The gov't doesn't care about "pennies" because it costs them 'dollars" to audit (due to the poor system). So do NOT expect this to change.
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Leeches will suck, regardless of where they are placed. Bill T.
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The tax payers deserve this. They allowed it to get to this point.
Reagan said it 30 years ago,"You can't fix cancer with a band aide" Every one said "Damned right " and then screamed like little girls when THEY were expected to give up something.
I've lived in a tent before and if that's what the future holds for me again so be it. The rest of you will continue to be slaves until you quit being owned by your possessions.
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What kills me is the first place they look to "cut" is S.S. and Medicare. We PAID into that. If they would have kept their little money grubbing hands off of it to begin with, instead of placing it into the General Fund and pissing it away on every expenditure known to man, S.S. would be so fat right now they'd be lowering the retirement age, not raising it!
Just imagine what you could save the taxpayer if either bunch of these a$$holes REALLY wanted to "cut spending".
1.) Abolish 80% of the IRS in favor of a simple flat income tax. The remaining 20% of the agency would be used strictly to chase down tax cheats who legally owe, but won't pay.
2.) Abolish the "Dept. Of Homeland Security". It never should have been started in the first place. That is why we have and pay a military. Besides Napolitano could stand to lose a few..................hundred pounds.
3.) Abolish Welfare. State at 12:00 Midnight 1/1/12 all Welfare checks will STOP! Watch how fast these people get jobs.
4.) Get out of, and stop funding the United Nations IMMEADEATELY! That organization is the most inept, worthless, and corrupt bunch of total idiots on Earth.
5.) Abolish "farm subsidies". If you want to get paid to be a "farmer", then grow something and sell it for a profit.
6.) Hire that guy with all the question marks all over his suit coat, to go through and abolish all of the programs in the book he tries to sell you, with all of these stupid government programs in it that will pay you $35,000.00 to open up a coffee shop, or $1,200.00 to dye your hair green. Make the late William Proxmire's "Golden Fleece Award" a permanent paid government job. It was one of the few worthy of a salary. We don't need to pay the University Of Calcutta $250,000.00 a year to study Polish bisexual frogs, when our bridges and roads are falling apart all over the country.
7.) Abolish "FEMA". The way they handled New Orleans after Katrina, they should pay us money.
8.) Abolish ANY AND ALL "FOREIGN AID"! From this point on our wealth remains here, not to be given to some stink hole nation that hates our guts in the first place.
9.) Abolish the ATF. We didn't "need" it before, we don't now. Frankly, I can think of worse things than legal machine guns in hardware stores. Especially if they "create jobs".
You could easily get rid of over $4 TRILLION without even blinking an eye, and not a soul would miss it except the lazy, stupid asses getting bed sores on their butts, sitting around collecting a government check. This is totally ridiculous. We're $14 TRILLION IN DEBT and these piss pots are bitching about cutting $30 BILLION? Are they nuts? Bill T.
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Did you miss Dept of Energy ? And Health and Human Services ?
Filling that role is why Churches are tax exempt.
While they are at it they can cut all non defense by 50%.
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Did you miss Dept of Energy ? And Health and Human Services ?
Filling that role is why Churches are tax exempt.
While they are at it they can cut all non defense by 50%.
Please feel free to add to my list. There is plenty more room on the chalkboard! ;D Bill T.
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Dept. of Transportation. There is nothing that these clowns do that cannot be done better, faster, and less expensive by private companies.
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Dept. of Transportation.
I've often wondered about them. What do we need the government for to "transport" anything? I, along with most truck drivers and pilots, can travel without getting lost. And even if I did the government is the last place I'd look for directions. Hell, they can't even "transport" a letter without raising the price every fifteen minutes. Bill T.
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I have never agreed with the State Government Debit Card. Too easy to manipulate. But we are saving the trees by no longer making food stamps. Oh gee, plus the added humility of utilizing foodstamps in public? No we cannot have that! B.S.
One of the setbacks of the welfare system is that it was supposed to be a temporary solution. People have found ways to manipulate the program and now the taxpayers are taking care of those who do not want to take care of themselves. B.S. in my opinion.
I think they should perform some community service for receiving our tax money. But no, that would also humiliate the receiver of welfare funds. B.S. Reminds me of the line from a Dire Straits song, "something for nothing".
Sorry folks, I have some strong opinions about this having grown up in two homes. One being on welfare (Mother) and the other one middle class (Father). It gave me the motivation to work hard, make the grade and go serve our Country to pay for my college. I knew I did not want to live off the State and still constantly strive to better myself.
People will continue to sit on their lazy asses and not become productive members of society as long as they are being spoon fed. I have ran into women/girls in my community that get pregnant so they can receive government handouts. Absolutely disgusts me.
The welfare system needs to be over hauled. New rules implemented and a time frame for benefits to be removed or revoked.
Sorry, I will get off my soapbox.
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The welfare system needs to be over hauled.
Or completely ended. Paying people to not work is a bit like trying to make them fat by not eating. Bill T.
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Or completely ended. Paying people to not work is a bit like trying to make them fat by not eating. Bill T.
Gone is the best way.
Let the local charities provide for those in true need, for much less the cost and better long term results. It will do more to encourage those who can start to provide for themselves to do so and those who can but won't will be a self eliminating problem in a month or so.
I believe local folks will support the charities that are doing a good job of helping those who need it and will dump the charities that fail.
No matter how much you feel someone needs help, the right way to get it to them is not to force someone to provide that help against their will.
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IRS, and the Dept. of Edumacation,...
Switch to a fair/flat tax, remove power from congress, and oh, companies like AT+T and GE, will pay taxes. Isn't it ironic, the morons protesting and whining about those evil corporations, have made deals with the BHO admin, to get their exclusive loopholes,...
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I agree that gone may be the best remedy.