jgoose71

Actually, they are less worried about your safety, and more worried about getting sued after you get a splinter. Big brother needs to be watching at all times... "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Biased? I don't know about you, but when I get ready to fuck somebody, I will make sure I know what hole I'm sticking it in. As to comprehension? Yes, most politicians do think your ass hole is your pleasure center. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Sorry, but questions like that are silly. Do you have a mortgage? Did you read the entire mortgage document? Any loans? Did you read the entire document? Most people in these situations rely on third parties (lawyers, assistants, experts etc) to provide feedback and insight. That's what they have a staff for. Quite frankly I think that him personally reading all regulations would be a waste of valuable time. It is a propaganda question. It is the equivalent of asking a Supreme Court Justice if they have read every law and concluding they must be worthless if they haven't. Seriously? When I signed my mortgage, it was a several hour ordeal, and I went through every piece of paper. While a supreme court judge may not have read every law on the books, they will sit down with their staff and read every rule or ruling that applies as reference to the case they are working on. A more honest answer from those politicians would be "I read that I am exempted, and then I stopped reading after that..." "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Soooo, Britain has already said they don't want him back. I wonder where his next stop will be... I here Mexico has a gun problem. Maybe he can go there and fix it.

As far as I can tell, it's only free if you earn $20,000 or less a year. if you make more than that, you can afford health care (According to the government) What? You want a livable wage AND affordable health care? Next you will be telling me you want your cake AND to eat it to... "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Aren't debtor's prisons the place they through your wife? (Or significant other?) "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

This is gooberment we are talking about, so do you mean two at twice the price? Or two at twice the price each? Were you actually trying to say "Why pay for one when you can have two at 4x the price?" "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

This was a heart warming tale that brought a smile to my face. Almost makes the whole thing worth it... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/01/just-66-percent-epa-employees-are-essential/ Don't get me wrong. I don't want "dirty air and dirty water" like I'm sure some of the loonies here might start claiming, but let's be honest. The EPA is one of the leading agencies in the destruction of America, and if they were to close their doors for ever, I would sleep better at night. What heart warming stories of government shut down has been brought forward for you? Think of this as a "Glass is half full" thread... "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

I did read in the health care bill that Tricare (Humana Military) and VA meet the standard that will be prescribed for everyone. Being on "Tricare for Life" will actually pay off.

Found this link posted in your AR-15 Forum Obamacare contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses. Arranged by their respective sizes according to CBO scores, below is the total list of all $500 billion-plus in tax hikes (over the next ten years) in Obamacare, their effective dates, and where to find them in the bill. http://www.atr.org/full-list-obamacare-tax-hikes-listed-a7010#ixzz1zTXuZUYl "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

I did say cheap compared to Cobra, didn't I? I guess I should make my sarcasm a little more apparent... Side note: Now that all plans must cover pre-existing conditions, why were you expecting them to be cheap? "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

The mandate is "Everyone must have Insurance". Provided that your insurance company is still in buisness because it met the new regulations put in place by the ACA, if you like them, you can keep them. The health care exchange is supposed to help you find insurance if you don't have it, and help you with subsidies if you qualify (Supposedly). When people find out that "Cheap Health Care" is only cheap compared to Cobra ($900 for one person in my state) and the subsidies don't amount to a hill of beans, people will eventually start seeing the truth of Obamacare. The good news is since Obamacare is only expected to get another 12 million people insured, the IRS will have a target rich pool of around 36 million people they can start penalizing for not being insured.... 179 days and counting. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Whoooo, calm down there... We are not the only nation that is on the Fiat system. We are the nation that's capital is traded as the World reserve currency. That world wide demand is what gives our currency special privileges. We can get away with printing a Trillion a year, for now. The question that I wondering is how much longer can our government get away with it? Or do you think they can just keep going for ever? "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

I had to read your post a couple of times. I think you are getting a few thing mixed up. Let me see it I can clear it up: Inflation of the dollar has never stopped as far as I can remember. If you see the price of beer go up, that is inflation. Remember, this thread is primarily on the worth of the dollar. When the market crashed in mid 2005-2006, what we had was "Stagflation." Which was inflation of the dollar at a rate above the GDP of the U.S. This was a clear sign of Deflation of the economy, not the dollar. The dollar was still inflating. Our "Zero-Bound economy" means that the Fed has set interest rates as zero or near zero. The Fed controls the interest rates based on the economy to keep a slow and steady growth. Not the other way around. The wall street does not control the interest rate. The "Saving of the Economy" by the Obama administration happened like this: The Fed reduced the interest rate to zero, so the rich could borrow money cheap to save wall street. This kept the confidence in the dollar strong so the world would not dump the dollar as the world reserve currency and help check inflation. Because the dollar is retaining it's value like no other currency is able to because of it's special status, the Fed can now continue to print money and hand it out to the poor via welfare programs. Eventually, printing money at this rate will saturate the world with the dollar. When the world economies have enough dollars to equal their GDP's, or they stop trading in the dollar, our unique status will be used up. Inflation will take off again and the poor's handouts won't cover their cost of living any more. Any nation that hopes to maintain at least a break even economy must produce at least as much as it consumes. It's really that simple. Not what is happening. Inflation is driven by the money supply, but more specifically the money in circulation. Take a look at the Feds balance sheet and you will start to get a better idea of why we don't see the inflation you are so worried about. the vast majority of the money that has been added to the system has stayed inside the banks. If it never gets outside the central banking system, its very easy to control the inflation problem. The Fed isn't handing it out to poor people, they are buying MBS for the most part, and banks are holding tons in reserve, for which they are paid interest by the Fed. When the amount of cash held on reserve starts to approach 2007 levels again, then we can start to talk about inflation risk. As a side note, inflation is preferable to deflation, and is a by-product of stable growth...and is something the Fed keeps a very close watch on. The dollar will not lose status as the reserve currency in our lifetime. Also, USA does not actively control exchange rates like China does for example. The US central bank (the fed) has decided to focus on domestic interest rates instead. By controlling those rates, they do affect exchange rates, but not directly. China does the opposite. China NEEDS dollars. They need them so they can depreciate their currency and remain globally competitive. China has a fixed exchange rate for a number of reasons, global competitiveness, increased security for foreign investment are a couple big ones, but their domestic interest rates are highly volatile because of this. the way China controls their exchange rate is through FX. The US is more focused on stable domestic interest rates. Here is a couple Fed balance sheets to show you what I mean. Current http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm See the cash in circulation at 1,204,496 M Reserves held at the Fed 2,278,603 M and in 2007 http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20071129/ You see cash in circulation of 821,992 M Reserves held at the fed of 8,887 M So while the money supply has increased, the vast majority of that money has never left the Fed, and as such is extremely easy to control. You see part of it, but you don't see all of it. Yes, the Fed is giving the money to the banks, so the banks can make cheap loans to business to keep them and Wallstreet afloat. This is a bail out of the rich so the world doesn't loose faith in the dollar. Keep in mind, the interest rates are below inflation rates. Banks sitting on money is banks loosing money. Also remember, we are a consumer nation. The cash levels are dropping because we are trading it away to foreign nations for goods. So we just print more and keep giving it away. Last year we printed over a trillion dollars, and then traded it to foreign countries. Any other country would require something to back up there currency, whether it be goods or services. We do not because we are the U.S. of A. and it's my opinion (along with anyone else, it seems, that has dove head long into the market for a while) that it's going to eventually bite us in the ass. We still have some time to change course, but I doubt we will. It's only a matter of time until we are just like Greece. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

No, not nonsense. I got that number from the US department of commerce who started tracking trade around 1985... http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html While the entire debt may not be in treasuries, they have a vast expanse of the U.S.'s former wealth in their banks. Again - utter nonsense. How many people would prefer to live in China than in the US? BTW, why pretend you were seeking other opinions when you created this poll/thread? More fantasy land. In the absence of any enforcement, the average joe is quite the crook. Investing in China remains a crapshoot because of it. And we're ignoring the complete disregard for IP and just talking about financial irregularities. Yes, I wanted to know what people thought was going to happen to the dollar. Trade deficit is one of the factors that effect it. You can either choose to believe what the U.S. department of Census puts out, or you can claim it's a government lie. The choice is yours. And no, I don't want to live in China. Unlike a lot of Liberals, I don't believe chairman Mao is a hero. I do believe that a very harsh and corrupt government though will keep it's people in line. The average person will not step out of line for fear of repercussions. When i was in Iraq, a local I befriended told me "Things were better under Sadam. When he was in power, there was only one crook. Now that he is gone, everyone is a crook." Think about that for a while. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Me personally, I say just go ahead and pass the bill and let Obama care stand. I would even force the employer and individual mandates right now. Why you ask? The sooner we let this piece of shit legislation crash the economy, the sooner we can show people how wrong it is and let the democrats reap the benefits of squandering the remaining wealth of this country. Then the sooner we can get on with rebuilding. As it sits now, we are in a stale mate that will probably go on for quite some time. Face it, for some people the only way they will ever know the bucket is full of shit is to pour it on them... "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

And a sexual assault charge would've been "accidently" grabbed upon the security guy if I was one of the protesters. "Accidental" sexual type touching is a huge pet peeve of mine. Well, if you decided to run around topless in protest, I'm sure the guys here would sit on their hands and let you do it for as long as you needed to get your point across... "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Yes, some churches are businesses, where the preacher will get up and tell you anything for a buck. Some like the West Borough Baptists are just straight up loonies. To bad you never hear about the things most churches do on a day to day basis to help the community. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Nothing to see here, just another atheist that can only see the bad things done in the name of religion. As I have said many times before, belief is not a bad thing. The problem with religion has always been that it has been interpreted and taught by man, who is foulable, and the idiots that follow him blindly and unquestionably. If the evil men of this world didn't have religion to warp to get people to do their bidding, they would target people with something else... But let's be honest, a person's immortal soul is a pretty sweet target. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Well, actually it is. Taxation and regulations are the 2 main factors there are no jobs in the U.S. The U.S. has the highest corporate tax in the world now. We surpassed Japan while under Obama. And when I talk about regulations, I'm not talking solely about EPA. You can take all the talk about "Republicans want dirty air and dirty water" and cram it up your cram hole... The NLRB and several other government entities have made this the most job un-friendly country in the world also... If a company has the capitol to build a new manufacturing plant in either the U.S., or say Brazil, guess where the jobs go? See Exhibit A: Ford Motor Company. WELL, the corporations themselves wanted corporations to be considered to be persons so they'd have constitutional rights and protections, so corporations can hardly complain if they get taxed like persons. Please God, tell me Kallend is not an Economics Professor. And if he is, please God, send his students to China... "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Well, actually it is. Taxation and regulations are the 2 main factors there are no jobs in the U.S. The U.S. has the highest corporate tax in the world now. We surpassed Japan while under Obama. And when I talk about regulations, I'm not talking solely about EPA. You can take all the talk about "Republicans want dirty air and dirty water" and cram it up your cram hole... The NLRB and several other government entities have made this the most job un-friendly country in the world also... If a company has the capitol to build a new manufacturing plant in either the U.S., or say Brazil, guess where the jobs go? See Exhibit A: Ford Motor Company. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

Intel has a number of factories located in Hillsboro, OR; just down the road from me. And they are currently building more. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/jobs/locations/united-states/sites/hillsboro.html They are the largest employer in this state. JerryBaumchen I know, good on them. If you read the full article I linked above you will see that they made that conscious decision. They did that because they can charge more because they provide a product that people associate with quality, compatibility, and being cutting edge. In difference to, say, AMD... Unfortunately this doesn't work all through the market place. If you want a plane white t-shirt, people typically go to the cheap section of the store, where everything is made in china. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

I had to read your post a couple of times. I think you are getting a few thing mixed up. Let me see it I can clear it up: Inflation of the dollar has never stopped as far as I can remember. If you see the price of beer go up, that is inflation. Remember, this thread is primarily on the worth of the dollar. When the market crashed in mid 2005-2006, what we had was "Stagflation." Which was inflation of the dollar at a rate above the GDP of the U.S. This was a clear sign of Deflation of the economy, not the dollar. The dollar was still inflating. Our "Zero-Bound economy" means that the Fed has set interest rates as zero or near zero. The Fed controls the interest rates based on the economy to keep a slow and steady growth. Not the other way around. The wall street does not control the interest rate. The "Saving of the Economy" by the Obama administration happened like this: The Fed reduced the interest rate to zero, so the rich could borrow money cheap to save wall street. This kept the confidence in the dollar strong so the world would not dump the dollar as the world reserve currency and help check inflation. Because the dollar is retaining it's value like no other currency is able to because of it's special status, the Fed can now continue to print money and hand it out to the poor via welfare programs. Eventually, printing money at this rate will saturate the world with the dollar. When the world economies have enough dollars to equal their GDP's, or they stop trading in the dollar, our unique status will be used up. Inflation will take off again and the poor's handouts won't cover their cost of living any more. Any nation that hopes to maintain at least a break even economy must produce at least as much as it consumes. It's really that simple. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

From Intel's CEO: It costs Intel $1 billion more to build a factory in the United States than it does in China -- and it is not because of cheap labor. Ninety percent of the difference comes from the Chinese government providing Intel with capital grants, equipment grants, tax holidays and incentives. "We should offer tax credits in the five- to 10-year range -- or tax holidays -- to companies both domestic and foreign that want to set up or expand a factory in the United States," says the Intel boss. "This will bring more manufacturing back to the U.S. It will employ our workers. It will stimulate the economy -- all at no cost to us. It's time to show the world that America is open for business." Full Article: http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/newss/intel102.html But what do the rich know about making money? Jeffery Imelt as Obama's Jobs adviser manage to cut himself (GE) some special deals so he could open "Green Jobs" in the U.S. If they are good for business, why can't they be offered to the companies, including small businesses? "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything

+2 Also want to add that the only way to take money from the wealthy is to compete with them. Take their business. Right now regulations and the tax code is so stacked that their is hardly any way for the little guy to open a business to compete against the mega-rich. You can't take his money unless you take his customers. And you can only take money for redistribution (AKA: tax) when the guy moves his money (payroll, purchases, profits, interest, etc...) If he feels you are taking to much he will just stop moving as much to make up the difference (fire people, buy less, etc..) ... and if they wanted to fix it they would cut all the special interest crap from the tax codes and level the playing field to give the upstarts a chance. "There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." Life, the Universe, and Everything