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Ok here is my thinking. Social Security, if left untouched and unraided, would be doing ok right now. And for those who just couldn’t get ahead due to injury, bad luck or other it at least provides them with a finite sum of money to feed themselves and not beg on the street. After all would you want to see your grandmother on the street begging for cash or eating cat food? Medicair Medicaid and other basic health care related expenses ensure that we are at least healthy in our later years and try and protect us from the ever escalating cost of health care at a time when our finances may not be able to keep up. Education and other welfare programs the same. They all work for the greater good of the nation. And by greater good not only do I mean a large part of the population but also let's be honest a healthy nation will mean a healthy middle class and as such a stable country. And I'm sure we can all agree that at some point in time well over 51% of our population will in one way or another utilize the social services provided by the federal and state governments. What I can't understand is why the Republicans are throwing down everything and the kitchen sink to protect 5% of the population at the expense of 51% of the population? I'm sure given the choice between extending tax cuts for the top 5% or cutting medical assistance to veterans I sadly have a feeling that the Republicans would rather help out the top 5%. Now I don't understand this. I view society and economy as a holistic system whereby the entire system must be taken care of not just one group or another. So please using basic well understood economic theories and practices why do the Republicans bend over backwards to protect those who make well over $200k a year when the average income is only $45k a year? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Without much screaming as possible. Why will the Republican party bend over backwards to protect the top 5% of income earners? And without getting into the argument of if the top 5% actually create jobs or not, what gives? Also, to be balanced. What is up with Obama. That guy has no vision what so ever! He's a big old pile of mush! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

+1! What I think some of the girls are cute! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Really? Wow you guys are more picky than me! #4 is cute #11 left is very cute #14

A good pick up line is just cock and balls. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Last year, more or less in the early spring i was dating a girl who was a part time model for the some of the East coast Comic-Con / Star Trek conventions. Cute girl, red hair ,ice blue eyes just a real joy to be around. She would tell me of the pick up lines the guys would muster and it was a very good giggle. Nice girl, shame it didn't work out. She was a mom and well there were issues with her little kid and I was just not ready for that level of drama at that point. I like #16 she is very cute. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

1) We are emerging from two wars which no one had any plans for paying for. 2) Recent advances in production have moved the new acceptable unemployment rate to about 7% 3) Things are getting a bit odd. It's as if we are turning to where things were in 1910 where the rich were getting richer by the day and the poor were dying and the middle class was just desperately trying to find some ground to stand on. All I know is the math of the situation which we find ourselves in. We can't rely on the rich to save the nation or create jobs any more than we can rely on the poor. The math of basic economics of a service based economy state that to create jobs one has to "move money" and "consume services" Simple math tells you those that will do this are the middle class. And with out a viable middle class we are going to have some very serious problems. Yet as it stands now as of today, the middle class is not healthy. It's on shock. It's not consuming nor spending money. It's being worked hard and put up wet. The winners are those who get the dividends. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

50 as of last week. $$$ and time issue. And lots of threads about skinny girls. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

We are a service based economy, Like it or not, the facts on the ground are "Trickle on" does not work. It is what it is. And the only way to "wake up" a service based industry is to incentivize those who consume the most services. As such it becomes a numbers game. The day the top 2%-10% of the country consume enough goods and services as say the 60% who are middle class than yes giving them funds will grow the economy. But as it stands common sense indicates that 10% of the population can't consume the same level of goods and services so as to make up for what the 60% isn't. Simple economics of a service based industry. Encourage the largest group to consume the most so as to force funds to circulate and as such to create wealth. Yet we seem to be sending money on either side of the middle. As said, perhaps the system is broken. As for TARP, yeah the banks paid the money back! They did the right thing and invested in developing countries and made their money back which they then paid to the federal government. They did not however utilize the TARP funds to finance growth within the US. And perhaps rightfully so. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/the-edgewalk-at-toronto-s-cn-tower-1311798178-slideshow/ Daredevils in red jumpsuits can teeter around the outside edge of Canada's tallest structure next month as Toronto's CN Tower opens a new attraction for thrill-seekers and those wanting to overcome fear. A reporter leans over the edge of the catwalk during the media preview for the "EdgeWalk" on the CN Tower in Toronto, July 27, 2011. Participants are strapped in to a harness that is attached to a guard rail while walking around the catwalk on the structure 356m (1,168ft) off the ground. http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/IqbT2PLrwHaAhtn5r7vv3Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MDc7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-07-27T165302Z_01_MDB01_RTRIDSP_3_CANADA.jpg "I'm going to pee on you drip drip drip." Man those Canadian girls sure are kinky! Just my type! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

What gets me is this, we know full well trickle on does not work. It's proven it's a known fact and it's well understood that in a service based economy such as ours, trickle on does not work. What does work is a form of capillary action. Inject funds into the middle class and watch the economy grow. And who are middle class? Well hate to tell you but your average government employee/ state employee is middle class. And these people have either had their pay cut, their numbers cut or had their pay frozen. Well how do you expect to grow a service based economy if those that consume the most of the services no longer have the capital to utilize the services? Regardless of their "efficiency" or supposed work ethic, if you really want to see this economy grow and jobs be created and your retirement funds plump up? Take all of the subsidies we give to say.....who's our favorite whipping boy today.....big banks and give it as a direct pay increase to the 2.5 million federal employees. They intern will do either of three things. 1) Pay off their debt....thus they may buy more. 2) Save it....with a 1 to 9 market, that means banks will have more money to lend out. 3) Invest it....no need to talk about this one. 4) SPEND IT! Like good Americans which will grow our economy. If we were an industrial economy than yeah ok...maybe if the owners of industry had an incentive to invest in industry they would. But as it stands today, we are not an industrial economy. We are a service economy with a vast field of service providers. And the only way to get things going...is to encourage those who consume to consume more. But that's my view of our economy via what I have deduced from my graduate classes. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

If you are in the top 2% it has been a very good few years. They haven't seen this kind of "good times" since Regan. Cheap labor, high profits and good returns. It is what it is....big banks with big investors make a mistake TARP saves their buts. A few people buy into the American dream of owning a home in an inflated market and loose $100K+ and well we have to eat it. I don't know man.....the system in the US may be broken for good. But what choice do you really have? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah student navigators and tri. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I'm told if they "rod" your bone the recovery takes time. And well if they take the rod out...you have to recover all over again! The plates are better from what I'm told, but my bones were in three pieces so they had to "rod" me. But yeah, I remember being in the hospital and thinking....is it worth it? And when I got out I actually told my X wife that if she was worried I would stop. Well she's an X now and I still skydive. Will I ever stop? No. I don't think so. It's the only peace I can find now. Am I scared of getting hurt? Yes. Every jump 10ft from the ground feet together and I worry that I may not be able to walk away. Is it all worth it? I don't know. For me? Maybe? From the moment of the divorce to the moment I stepped off that king air at 13k ft I had not so much cracked a smile. I was a raw nerve. I had a few dozen emotional break downs. I was not eating. I was not sleeping. I was just existing one breath at a time. Yet, when my feet were free my bones felt light and half way into my free fall I smiled. My buddy Sim did my check dive and you can see in the video exactly when I start to smile again. Will you recover? Yes. Will that recovery hurt? Yes it may. Will you walk again? Yes. Will you be able to run as if nothing ever happened to you? I don't know. I'm still working on that. But I can walk without a limp and I still rock climb. I haven't tried skiing yet. That's next year. Will the leg hurt every now and again for no reason? Yeah. Will you ever find yourself in the big blue ever again? That for you to decide. You may come back or you may never come back. Either way you did something others only dream about. You flew your body. And you should always be proud of that. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Nah not yet. But it should be good when I do right? I take it back I used it last night, worked well. seriously?! thats awesome! good for you! so what's his name ? What can I say I'm a sexy bitch! One of the ones that has ACTUALLY worked for me not once, not twice but more than three times...no joke.... Walk up to a girl and just say "Slap that ass and call me sexy!" think about that....WTF! Slap your ass and call me sexy? You would be amazed at how many girls either do it, or offer to slap your ass and call themselves sexy at which point let's face it if you can't trun ass slapping into a good time....odds are you are most likely dead. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Nah not yet. But it should be good when I do right? I take it back I used it last night, worked well. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah less thinking more flying...... Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Unfortunately we don't fit your requirements being size 8+ and all. You compromise with me I'll compromise with you. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Nah not yet. But it should be good when I do right? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

P8-P9 That's why I practice Yoga Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

"Why yes, I am the one and only Shah." Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Apparently, I'm in the minority. ditto! what the hell! that must mean a very small portion of females are getting WAY WAY WAY more than their fair share! WEEEELLLLL!!!! I may not be Mr. Right....well maybe I am

I thought they killed that off? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh.....I just stopped saying yes. Nothing worse than being the ONLY single person in a dinner party. But you are in NYC right? I would say open your door and step out. Enjoy one of the best cities in the world. Good luck! It's not fun. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

The second video is amazing! Their office looooook amazing! I wish I could work in such a gorgeous office! And the floating animals is amazing! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!