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grassman 
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Posted on: Feb. 18 2014,4:19 pm |
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SB, I sure hope you plan on getting cremated. According to you, you need nobody. Can't carry yourself to the grave now can you. 
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git er done!
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irisheyes
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Posted on: Feb. 19 2014,2:42 pm |
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(Self-Banished @ Feb. 18 2014,9:08 am)
QUOTE By the way, though I have retirement resources put away but I will take my SS, I paid in, I want as much back as I can get.
Then why do you guys always complain about entitlements? Geez, government spending and entitlements are bad, until it goes to a Republican. 
QUOTE Reich loves to bash Reagan and I would have to make the same observation, you really are dense... Fend for yourself, work not only hard but smart. We live in different times now, we participate in a world economy.
Reagan opened a new era of massive government spending while claiming it doesn't have to be paid for. That's not good for any of us.
We don't live in different times now, international trading is not as new as you think. The only thing that changed is we've become anti-tariffs and weakened trade laws to the detriment of nearly everyone on this side of the Pacific.
QUOTE If by Chomski you referr to anarchism, as I skimmed through a "stateless society"? A decentralization of power? Isn't this what libertarians and conservatives strive for? To defang our federal gov. And return power to the states?
Noam Chomsky could be called a Libertarian, but he's the opposite of a conservative. He's a Libertarian Socialist, as far as I know.
Chomsky gets it right in the area of U.S. tax policy, which he calls regressive. We've turned what once was a progressive tax code of the early to mid-20th Century into a regressive one that taxes the middle class at a far higher rate than the richest.
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grassman
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Posted on: Feb. 19 2014,4:18 pm |
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It just slays me how some people still believe Reagan was the great one.  He started the downfall of this once great nation. All in the name of greed.
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Self-Banished
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Posted on: Feb. 19 2014,4:26 pm |
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(irisheyes @ Feb. 19 2014,2:42 pm)
QUOTE
(Self-Banished @ Feb. 18 2014,9:08 am)
QUOTE By the way, though I have retirement resources put away but I will take my SS, I paid in, I want as much back as I can get. Then why do you guys always complain about entitlements? Geez, government spending and entitlements are bad, until it goes to a Republican. QUOTE Reich loves to bash Reagan and I would have to make the same observation, you really are dense... Fend for yourself, work not only hard but smart. We live in different times now, we participate in a world economy. Reagan opened a new era of massive government spending while claiming it doesn't have to be paid for. That's not good for any of us. We don't live in different times now, international trading is not as new as you think. The only thing that changed is we've become anti-tariffs and weakened trade laws to the detriment of nearly everyone on this side of the Pacific. QUOTE If by Chomski you referr to anarchism, as I skimmed through a "stateless society"? A decentralization of power? Isn't this what libertarians and conservatives strive for? To defang our federal gov. And return power to the states? Noam Chomsky could be called a Libertarian, but he's the opposite of a conservative. He's a Libertarian Socialist, as far as I know. Chomsky gets it right in the area of U.S. tax policy, which he calls regressive. We've turned what once was a progressive tax code of the early to mid-20th Century into a regressive one that taxes the middle class at a far higher rate than the richest.
Interesting, I'll probably read more tonight,
One thing, pull your head out of your butt and realize I'm not a republican.
Then we'll be good 
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Common Citizen
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Posted on: Feb. 23 2014,8:07 am |
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I disagree that Social Security is an entitlement program when I am paying for it. That dog don't hunt.
Since I am required by the government to fund it now, I will require the government to fund me later. Ya dig?
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Botto 82
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Posted on: Feb. 23 2014,9:11 am |
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The secret to getting filthy rich is to figure out how to get other people to pay your bills. THAT's the entitlement program that needs to go. Do you honestly think Monsanto paid to clean up the myriad Superfund sites that the company is responsible for? Food stamps and Medicare pale in comparison.
It seems that one of the biggest entitlement programs involves being a government contractor. Is Lockheed Martin going to pick up the tab on the cost overruns on the F-35 project? Doubtful.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Self-Banished
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Posted on: Feb. 23 2014,3:29 pm |
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(Expatriate @ Feb. 23 2014,2:06 pm)
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(Self-Banished @ Feb. 19 2014,4:26 pm)
QUOTE One thing, pull your head out of your butt and realize I'm not a republican. QUOTE Let's see, 2 years of Ford, 4 years of Carter, Reagan was the second coming of Christ compared to those boobs.
Working hard today?
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