njlauren
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Wrong and wrong.
I might have the tendency to use my left hand and it might be hard wired but I can chose to use my right hand. Tie your right hand behind your back see if you use your left hand. As stated many natural lefties were conditioned as children to change hands and it held through adulthood. So saying it's not possible to change because one hand is false. Would it feel unnatural, would it take awhile to develop the habit? Of course. Would a person be as agile? Doubtful. Would it he healthy? Depends on the person and if it was their idea to want to change it.
Goes with anything. If people desire change and are motivated for change then the success rate increases. If they are opposed success rate declines.
Oh yes and that would include sexual preferences.
Another fact is some people on welfare and food stamps are on them because they are lazy!!! Career welfare families some for generations. Same with disability, people who screw up the system who can work but they put more effort into scamming to get out of work. No honor no integrity and no work ethic. That is not what the system was developed for. It is no mystery people will breed again who have no business having kids to increase their welfare check. The working people have to pay for that and hell the welfare a users have better insurance then the working people. What kind of bs is that?
The system was developed to help people get on their feet not live on it forever. They are the ones sucking the country dry.
So for anyone who doesn't like what I said and are butt hurt, go file disability, you will probably get it.
If you aren't already on it from a back injury 10 years ago that is healed and you wait for your check while talking on here.
That is my substantiated opinion.
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No tip toeing through the tulips here.
Plain and simple, lady or confused person, you have the nerve to disrespect Elmer the farmer, you call them, who not only feed our country but other countries? Your elephant mouth surpasses your canary ass. *snort snort snort*
So you think country people are dumb? They are not full of nonsense like you. They tend to get straight to the point. And they work hard. They don't spend their life trying to learn big words or have a need to think they look smart by googling.
As far as being gay a select few may have a natural tendency to be attracted to the same sex but it is also a choice.
I am left handed, only 10 to 15% of the population is, the majority are men. The percentage of women even smaller. It's my choice to stay left handed but if I choose to be right handed I could be. Btw 4 out of seven presidents have been left handed. It's a fact I could change hands if I wanted.
And southern people are stupid too? Wow, you truly need to wear the dumb cap of the day as someone thumps you on the head with a bible. And fix you some tea during.
Have fun with that opinion.
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When the Republican party gets out of our bedrooms and back to running a lean government (like they were before Reagan) they will once again be the GRAND old party.
Until then, they'll just be a bunch of Bible thumping dumbasses.
Do you think that'll ever happen, HW?
To me, it's always seemed that the New Right *needs* its ultra-authoritarian, moral side. Without it, its neoliberal side couldn't work, because the neoliberal idea of ultra-freedom has no clear boundaries otherwise. Republican neoliberals love the notion of freedom in the economy - but that's where it must stop. They don't love the idea of freedom for people to - well, use violence to steal from a tycoon who's gained his vast wealth from the free market system - to give an example. And they don't love the idea of freedom for those who'd like to opt out of the free market system altogether.
The trouble is that the good old morals that kept people in check, and made them just *know* that the only real and true freedom was the freedom of the market, started to crumble a long time ago. During the Great War, if not before. Vietnam, it seemed, was the last straw (in your country, at least). Hippy ideas, anarchism, long hair, drop-outs - oh, no, no, no. That is *not* the freedom that should be encouraged. But the old-style conservative line - 'traditional values are always best' - no longer worked. It had been too clearly demonstrated to have been trashed. Nixon was the symbol of it.
So in order to revive that one, narrow idea of freedom as 'the only *real* idea of freedom' - the free market - you'd need a muscular dose of reaction on the social front. Dredge up some 19th century ideas of religion. Hell, dredge up some mediaeval ideas of morals. Whatever it takes to stop people thinking that freedom means anything other than the free market and the large bulk of the people cropping their hair, donning their crisp neat suits and ties and going in to work to keep the bloated billionaires in the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed.
All right, rant over. I just wish that whenever some flatulent old twat in government or big in the media utters the word 'freedom', everyone who's watching has developed the tits or testicles to interrogate the meaning of it, that's all. ;-)
It actually is, David Brooks had a piece in the times about it, that conservatives are fighting the tea party stupidity, or worse, the whole ayn Rand cult of the rich that the GOP promotes as reality (ie that the rich create jobs, that there is this incredibly large group of 'parasites' living off the government, the infamous 47% and so forth), and actually coming up with ideas instead of the fruit loop, bible thumping and tea bagger bullshit the party has been running on. Basically, the John Birch society took over the GOP, and the rational conservatives are fighting back. Among other things, they aren't stupid, and they realize that the incredible disparity of wealth going to the very rich, that between the huge tax cuts and the crazy stockholder management we see driving the economy, that the middle class is going to rebel, and I am not talking the morons in the farm belt and down south with their Patriot movement crap, I am talking a middle class that can topple governments and kingdoms, they know that all the arguments about the top .5% being job creators and the like is bullshit, that greed has run rampant, and that the government is not the big problem, that greed is, and that markets don't operate rationally when they let greed drive them.
The GOP is going to need to change, because they have created a monster that is going to fail them. The older white men who make up so much of their base is dying off, and appealing to the farm belt and southerners with a mix of pseudo populism and coded racism isn't going to work. Put it this way, between the tea party and the bible thumpers the GOP has turned of a large majority of young people, and has turned independents against them. Sure, they have their base, but their base has the demographics that Oldsmobile had, and we know where that ended up. They have been riding wedge issues, they have been riding the whole tea party nonsense, they have been riding the education=elitism crap of Sarah Palin, and it is going to fail them, pure and simple. Every tea bagger that gets elected is going to hurt them nationally, and that is where it counts. They may have the south, they may have the farm belt, but guess what, they aren't the country, and by appealing to elmer the farmer (who of course gets nothing from the government *snort*(, or to the unreconstructed George Wallace former supporters, they have turned off young people big time. Put it this way, if young people today start voting, the GOP might be able to take mississippi, but that and a few places like it will be it. People don't like Obama, but his ratings are sky high compared to the GOP's approval ratings.
I don't disprespect elmer the farmer, what I disrespect is the farm state types who get huge benefits from the government, spouting the tea party nonsense how they pay for everyone else...take a look at the size of farm subsidies, then come back and tell me about how they get nothing. The farm states and the red states down south depend on the federal government for their economic health, most states down there get back several dollars for every dollar they send in. A lot of those states depend on federal dollars to fund their schools, they get a lot more money for roads and such then they pay into taxes, and the goes on, medicaid disbursements, medicare, social security, spending on defense, go disproportionately to these areas, and that is a fact. When as part of the budget negotiations to cut federal spending cuts in farm subsidies were put forth, the farm state people, who were all for cutting food stamps for poor people, wanted 10's of billions of dollars of subsidies returned to federal spending. And this, mind you, at a time when commodities prices are at record levels.....
As far as you being left handed, you cannot change what hand is your dominant hand. As much as you try, you won't be able to use your other hand as effectively as you use your dominant one, it is hard wired. Using you non dominant hand to do certain things would be a like a gay guy having sex with a woman, it wouldn't be enjoyable or particularly useful.
It isn't substantiated, the cost of welfare programs and such are a tiny fraction of the real costs to the government. Read the federal budget, I mean actually read it, and take a look. The biggest single costs in the federal budget are outlays for medicare and social security, and they are growing as a percentage of the federal budget at a rapid rate. The next biggie is defense, the US is spending more than the rest of the world combined on defense, around 600 billion a year, and about half of that is not related to true defense needs, but rather that defense spending is a huge subsidy to many parts of this country. The pentagon calls for 10 transport planed, Eric Cantor makes them take 20, because the plane is based in his district. We are building the F35 fighter, at a cost of a billion dolllars a piece, for a threat that doesn't exist, no one has anywhere near what we have today with our current fleet, yet were are building theser to a threat that doesn't exist....do some research on where defense plants are located, won't take a genius to figure out that in some ways, it is a government jobs program for things we don't need. They myth that welfare spending, disability spending, is killing the budget is a myth that anyone who can read a pie chart can see.
The real factor in the budget debacle is that tax revenue has been cut to the very well off since the 1980's but the claimed growth didn't happen that would balance this. Worse, US tax policy favors investment income, which has grown at a rate of 9-10% a year, but didn't bother to pick out the kind of investments that generate jobs and economy growth. While the GDP has floundered, which is directly tied to incomes of those who depend on salaries, investment income has soared, in large part because that is where the returns are, but more importantly, where taxes are lowest. Hedge fund managers, thanks to the tax code, pay 15% tax (nominal) on incomes of millions of dollars a year; CEO's now get paid in stock grants, median CEO pay is now 15 million a year, and thanks to the tax code, much of that is taxed as capital gains. A lot of the money that is made in derivatives trading, in speculative investing, is treated as if it creates capital and job formation, when it doesn't,but it has been given favored status. Put it this way, while the wealth of the meg rich has soared over the past 30+ years, incomes of wage earners has declined, the top1% have seen increases of 9% a year, whereas among everyone else, real wages continue to decline almost every year of that 30+ year period...and that is why we have the problems we do.....
Taxing the rich won't solve all the problems, but creating a tax system that doesn't favor investment over income the way the present mess does would help, as would giving tax incentives to capital formation that creates jobs, not Romney's Bain Consulting that comes into a firm and loses income to the country by having the company send its workforce overseas.
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