1,826

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

stuck in reductionism = mired in quipsville

shit fails

bankers go out of work

govt sets up new banks

banks decide not to suck

aahhhhh you're right! scream like a biiiiiitch! pay whatever it cossstttsssss!


aaaaaaaaahhh! do it agaaaainnn!!!


aaaaaahhhh! do it agaaaaaaiinn!!

let's figure it another way

68 million people worked BEFORE the recession

average wage, $26,000 / yr

interest on bank accounts : 1.0%

I doubt if even 0.01% had as much as $25,000 in a bank account -- or CD.   That kind of cash goes into IRAs which ARE NOT GUARANTEED.  Or municipal bonds.

1,829

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

And you're mired in Quipsville.

I would have preferred FDIC receivership and professional control rather than double secret buyouts and bailouts, the printing press, and the promise we'll do it as often as the Board runs the bank into the ground, because, they're just more equal than other business.

1,831

(131 replies, posted in Politics)

No, the industrial revolution did not see DAILY commutes more than a few miles.

hell. yeah.

> Undeath wrote:

> Haven't the past few years established that in this climate tax cuts aren't creating an increase in spending great enough to create the revenue needed?<<


Nope.  For one thing, taking people's profits in a recession will deepen the recession.  For another, federal spending is way way way way way way way way up.  Clearly federal spending isn't helping the economy recover, that's what I'm seeing.

economic growth leads to higher revenues regardless of rates
the question is whether lower rates can spur economic growth
Reagan showed it could, there was no loss of revenue

the notion of "cost" of a tax rate cut comes from the silly presumption that you can KNOW what degree of profit would be occurring without a tax cut, and then, assign the govt its share.  You can't.
In the 1980s Senator John Kyl asked the Congressional Budget Office to project the 10 year revenue from a proposed 100% tax rate.   I forget what their answer was - but it didn't matter; they showed revenue coming in every year for 10 years.  Kyl did that to show the CBO can't estimate the effect of tax rates on growth.  Nobody can.  Look at Clinton's 10 year budget figures from 2000 and compare with 2010's economy...

1,835

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

@ Undeath

they already banned peanut butter from schools

and you don't see free peanuts on airlines

1,836

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

people who smoke pot should be put in concentration camp

with pot

you'll have people fighting to climb the wall

1,837

(35 replies, posted in General)

pompiedompiedom

srsly

http://picardfacepalm.com/updown.gif

let's get rich taxing math

1,839

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

michael phelps is a loser, he got an entry-level job with no career track and no pension

and Richard Branson would rather whine about being sneered at by Brits instead of becoming the richest man in Belize, so, there you go

"The significant point to Einstein's crusade against it is that the unusual effects discussed in this thread are very rare and the result of preexisting psychological conditions. They're not horrible ailments inflicted by marijuana; they're interactions of the psychoactive substance with the psychology/dysfunction of an individual. And they're quite temporary."

uh huh, and what screening do you recommend? If people are not able to toke without going gonzo, do they get a tattoo on their face or something?

1,840

(44 replies, posted in Politics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azf320JDdqU

1,841

(131 replies, posted in Politics)

yeah I don't like most fast food breakfast cheeses.  Burger Kings is worse though.

I don't know about scones though, only scones I've had are from Starbucks and its a tougher dough than a fluffy buttermilk biscuit.

1,842

(131 replies, posted in Politics)

i will not eat your spotted dick thank you very much

I beg pardon, that's a sponge pudding...hmm I think instead of yorkshire pudding we just use taco shells

1,843

(131 replies, posted in Politics)

New from Hardee

the image of Surak read your thoughts in your rant, Spock

1,845

(14 replies, posted in Politics)

what if you had the North European Economic Union and didn't tell the south? they don't export anyhow, that's the problem with them

try voting in EU Parliament to ban them from seceding without permission from 2/3 the members, that'll prod them into rioting to quit immediately

1,846

(10 replies, posted in Politics)

THIS should be the obamument
http://imperialconflict.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=173315

1,847

(10 replies, posted in Politics)

"The project will involve several hundred miners and engineers and will utilize state of the art machinery and environmentally-friendly(?) solvents to re-create Obama's bust in the area adjacent to the George Washington visage. The three-year completion time is admittedly optimistic given the fact that the original monument took a total of fourteen years to construct.  Unlike the original effort, however, which relied on workers affixed to the top of the monument via rope harnesses, hydraulic lifts are expected to be placed with telescoping platforms, employing much of the same engineering technology currently in use to reconstruct the World Trade Center. "

Oh, so it won't be finished 11 years later.

when I speak plainly you ban me for bad language sad

My point is that if Japan AND Germany AND Hong Kong AND Korea AND France AND Italy AND Germany AND Russia AND Britain AND China AND Greece AND Norway AND Holland are smoking brickyards at the same time, small wonder the US made money, whatever our rates were

When the G-8 is NOT bombed out, we may want to think about being more competitive, in terms of making paying taxes on US earnings cheaper, than moving to Uganda and opening a robotic factory guarded by child soldiers

Paul Krugman had another column in the NYTimes that "gee those Republicans want to go back to Eisenhower but when Ike was president we had boom economy AND 91% top rate"

I agree with him

let's have 91% rate

and bomb Europe and Japan into rubble