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I guess you would because you make it the governments position to provide charity. Me - I give significantly to charity and would continue to do so for worthwhile issues such as childhood nutrition, even if it were not tax deductible. Meanwhile I'll continue to point out the irresponsibility of people who expect others to provide for their own children. If I did despise anyone it would be those who do not provide for their families.

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If the 'Teamsters' managed to negotiate the bankruptcy of the private industries they used to serve - I would expect no different now that they've moved into the public sector for membership. The point remains, in the public sector the unions are bankrupting the government at every level.

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In private industry unions have a valuable place. They must cooperate with management or, as in the case of GM, the union workers are out of work. In the public sector they leach off the public trust and become a sanctimonious voting block supporting any candidate that will raise their benefits and pay structure. They have no 'boss' and no accountability.

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"Whining and pages" - projecting yourself again are you? Why would I whine? I'm extremely happy, content, and thriving. Most of my recommendations for addressing all these issues would have a more detrimental impact on me. However, if pointing them out is troubling to you, if you are a failure, or consider your situation bad; that is a YOU problem.

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I LOVE that people are lazy, incompetent, and want to rely on the government. Using those fundamental facts generates most of my personal success. Being a pragmatist, I know people like you don't realize you are being used, and actually desire to be used more. People like you make strategically investing in the ultimate corporate beneficiaries an easy task.

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As many as I can afford. Why not? More people like you, stupid enough to support politicians and political movements counter productive to personal achievements, are being indoctrinated every day by the current educational system.

As I said, most of my positions would be detrimental to my personal finances. However as long as you, and your ilk are out there on the front lines holding the positions my portfolio will continue to be very healthy - thank you!

Knowing it pisses you off to the point of generating emotions to "despise me" - encourages me to continue, expound, and expand! I'm a sadist you know!

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As an investor and owner of a few "small businesses"; we can't afford to hire, especially now, based on race or gender. We hire based upon results. I go further since when I was in the big corporate world, woman and minorities I hired and promoted suffered from the mistaken belief that their race and/or gender was a factor in my decision. I tell them outright and specifically, that it wasn't. I've never, big or little business, seen or even heard about race/gender based hiring. Nobody can afford that mentality except one - the government. When results aren't important you can prejudice your decision by attempting social engineering. It doesn't serve the individual or society, and ignorance is the basis for its support.

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Oh, I see. Its not actually RACISM but since you're desperately in need of a diversion from the real issue you'll CALL it racism, and then do your best to smear the entire movement with that same slander. One guest speaker at one event mentions immigrants and that justifies your alleging that they all hate blacks...

Thank you for clearing that up.

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When the only ignorance that one recognizes is that of the poor immigrants and people of color, then I call that racism. If Tancredo would have acknowledged that many of the white, heartland of America, Palin supportin, Bible thumpin, gun totin, govt protestin, salt of the earth participants of the Tea Party were also in need of a little education before being allowed to vote, then I would have agreed with him 100% in all regards.

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it would have been you among those who could not have provided for your family. Interesting take you have, considering you are so arrogant in your ability to not be affected by the capitalistic world.

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how you wish things (in this thread) would go back to the pre-60's.

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Private and public are bankrupting the government

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Nor do i have to move to another country out of fear that this one will take everything i have managed to swindle out of the poor and unfortunate, as you have so readily admitted. You are a user. And i thank you for admitting it.

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And this shows you to be a hypocrite. You whine about these companies, then blast anyone who defends the pubhlic interest and good in the application of such laws, Then turn around and make money on the very thing you are whining about. Come on, Merc.. whine some more. Show us what a true idiot you can be!

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That pot induced haze must have clouded your listening abilities in the past. Gender and racial based hiring was very much the forefront of practice among businesses, especially small businesses. Then again, when all you see is a dollar sign, you wont acknowledge much more than that. Congrats Merc.

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"Bush did it", "Bush caused it", are given as valid cause/effect of the deficit, the wars in Afghanistan/Iraq, GITMO, the economy, unemployment, stagnant private industry growth, poverty, devalued dollar, China trade deficit, Iranian nuclear capability, global warming, and my dog having fleas.

I have to run now, but actually, Reagan did it. His own economic people later admitted it was a failure, but people like the sound of Reagan's voice, and politicians noticed.

Bush/Cheney recreated Reagan/Nixon policies, knowing they could get away with them.

Does it serve your agenda to point something out like this? It indicates that the Democrats either as a majority party in Congress, or as President either followed the same path, as Obama did with Bush Stimulus II, were complicit, or impotent. Which one is your preference choice?

Or has the revisionist history being taught gotten to the point that there was never a Democratic President or majority in either house of Congress since Reagan?

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“Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1801 Inaugural speech

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

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Wrong fundamentally - I've had zero income and zero money and still managed to take care of my family without any government assistance - even unemployment. I am affected by the capitalistic world however I WORK within it, and don't whine, complain, or blame it for my personal situation like you do.

Right however - I AM arrogant.

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how you wish things (in this thread) would go back to the pre-60's. You go beyond misrepresentation and now just out and out lie!

I NEVER want or even long for the past - I LOVE the present and all aspects of it!

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Basically they want 1948-1965 back.

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You go on, post after post, about laziness, incompetence, how you wish things (in this thread) would go back to the pre-60's. Seeing as how i recall you saying you were not of a white heritage, exactly where do you think you would be now if we were back in those glorious, fond, happy days of those yester-years?

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How can you see me both whining and being arrogant at the same time? Taking advantage of your support of government complicity points to who is a "true idiot'. Me - I made enough the week after this health care debacle passed through the purchase of stock to fully fund my next sojourn to Italy in May. I benefited more than most who see the Law as a panacea for their poor life choices and health concerns. If that represents "true idiocy" I hope to be as much of an "idiot" when the next debacle of social engineering is attempted. You are a key to that success. I hope you and those having a similar naive thought process keep being as 'smart' as you are! Please!

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"WAS"! When will you be off your meds and be able to speak to the present?

Meanwhile, without any substantiation your position is as stupid as it is irrelevant. Your opinion is based upon what - entry level restaurant and bedpan cleaning work? (Feel it necessary to get in the mud when trying to discuss any issue with pigs.)

Thanks Taz as long as I don't use the mind altering drugs you use - I'll be fine!

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Several reasons for this, from systems working differently than individual input would indicate to simply rosy but unsupported assumptions.

People like to hear it---simple, just cut taxes. The rest will all work out via the invisible hand. Bush I and Bob Dole ridiculed it in the 80 primary--"voodoo economic," "Reaganomics." It gets votes, though, so we've been following it ever since.

Trouble is, it doesn't work, and is a recipe for ever increasing deficits.

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Why don't you list for us some of the racist things Tancredo said in that speech, because there wasn't anything racist reported in the CBS article that was linked to up above. If you are you trying to suggest that his reference to the "Liberal Cult Of Multiculturalism" had anything to do with a racist remark then you don't know what he was really discussing.

When the only ignorance that one recognizes is that of the poor immigrants and people of color, then I call that racism. If Tancredo would have acknowledged that many of the white, heartland of America, Palin supportin, Bible thumpin, gun totin, govt protestin, salt of the earth participants of the Tea Party were also in need of a little education before being allowed to vote, then I would have agreed with him 100% in all regards.

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You are merely a man who got lucky,

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I have yet to see you disagree with this statement

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Its quite easy to see whiners as being arrogant. The arrogance is born out of fear. I hope you make billions on me. I really do. So you can quickly move, and start your life in Italy. I really do! I hear taxes are up there!

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And you honestly see that as having changed?

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So while you are making your monbey,

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and stressing out over your whines and bullshit complaints on message boards... that heart attack thing will hit.

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~FR

March 19 - 22 Bloomberg Poll

OK...I'll handle this:

Thanks for the timely and pertinent poll, tee.

De Nada

What does this poll say to you?

It's interesting to me because I think it underscores what may be underneath all of the underlying bad feelings.

What it says to me is maybe we're all a bunch of babies who want someone else to take necessary pain.

What do you think other people think of this poll, tee?

Let's ask them! What do you other people think of this poll?

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Brainiac, which immigrants are you talking about?
I don't know anyone who's against immigrants.

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Again, I'll point to CA as a benchmark reference for my position.

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Is is your opinion that this is not representative national economics, having similar issues with one exception, the ability to print money, spend, and increase the deficit for as long as there is a buyer for its Bonds necessary to fund it?

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Bottom line as far as I'm concerned..if you sit around longing for the good old days of pre-1965 America you are either an avowed racist or in the closet over it.No thinking person can long for those days without acknowledging what was the major issue of the times....this was certainly not America's golden age,we were or should have been embarrassed by the sight of water hoses and German shepherds being turned loose on a particular segment of our society.
While nominally fighting a war for freedom and democracy in South East Asia ,black Americans were treated as second class citizens at home and simultaneously being drafted into that sham war.Dying for a country which thought them "less than"
If this is what you long for....than all other issues are just so much smoke and mirrors,mere window dressing...what you really want is your own water fountain....you just don't have the balls to ask for it!

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subteebaby... I find what works better than that is to show some boobs and gash..

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Let me help you here - if you want to mix it up in these threads, you have to be a little provocative. Say something like:

If that prick Obama wasn't so black, we wouldn't be spending so much of white peoples' money to create even more entitlements for his people.

Or, if you are politically inclined to lean the other way, you could say something like:

If white people weren't making so much money, black people wouldn't be so poor. Since Obama is half white, maybe he will finally correct these inequalities.

You see? Now come back and try it again...

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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub

Let me help you here - if you want to mix it up in these threads, you have to be a little provocative. Say something like:

If that prick Obama wasn't so black, we wouldn't be spending so much of white peoples' money to create even more entitlements for his people.

Or, if you are politically inclined to lean the other way, you could say something like:

If white people weren't making so much money, black people wouldn't be so poor. Since Obama is half white, maybe he will finally correct these inequalities.

You see? Now come back and try it again...

Ok, lemme see

Kenya believe dis lite-beer-drinkin, grey-poupon-smackin, lei-ing around half-a-crackah? (not entirely sure of the hyphenation here)

Or

Pair-a Palin’s brain is as empty as her twat after squirting out Bark, Ebil, Bipper, Grit and Tramper.