8trackdisco
13 years ago

Do you think country will implode (job losses) or just another phony fiscal cliff scenario w/bandaid quick fix at the last minute?

bloody spaniard wrote:



Hoping for the worst.

Sooner or later, it will get Syri-ous.
8trackdisco
13 years ago

That's all I need...Those drones and some moonshine that porno and matches...that's all I need.

All I need is some drones and moonshine, a little porn, some matches and that cigar...that's all I need.

DrMaddVibe wrote:



Poor, Jerk.
HockeyDad
13 years ago

Do you think country will implode (job losses) or just another phony fiscal cliff scenario w/bandaid quick fix at the last minute?

bloody spaniard wrote:



Both political parties (which are both controlled by us globalists) are packed completely full of narcissists and egomaniacs. They orchestrate fake crises and then solve them at the last minute by kicking the can and then sit back and wait for their ticker-tape parades when they return home to their peasant constituents.

The fiscal cliff scenarios are phony. The problem is real. There is no quick fix. Feta and kalamata olives for everyone......we are Greece!
HockeyDad
13 years ago

I thought you sold Stinky Cheese for a living ?

:-k

wheelrite wrote:




I sell seashells down by the seashore.
dpnewell
13 years ago
For the past four years, many of us in the private sector have had to suffer and sacrifice. I personally went from $60-$80k a year down to under $25k. Many others I know have had hours reduced and pay cut. Yet, our taxes continue to climb, and teachers in our local district and municipal employees continue to receive pay raises.

All this time, government employees have been insulated from the pain the rest of the country has been going through, as if they where an elite class above the rest of us, while adding to our children's and grandchildren's debt. Now that there is a suggestion that they too may have to suffer, the way many of the rest of us have had to over the past 4 years, all we hear is wailing and doom from Obama and the talking heads.

I'm sick of the talking heads parading government employee after government employee on our TV sets, with "woe is me" stories and crocodile tears. Most of them have had it very easy over the past 4 years. Isn't it about time that we, the ones who pay their salaries, ask them to sacrifice along with us?
ZRX1200
13 years ago
I ate a greek calzone Tuesday.
HockeyDad
13 years ago

I ate a greek calzone Tuesday.

ZRX1200 wrote:




The Turks actually invented the calzone. (That is how wars historically get started in Europe!)
HockeyDad
13 years ago

For the past four years, many of us in the private sector have had to suffer and sacrifice. I personally went from $60-$80k a year down to under $25k. Many others I know have had hours reduced and pay cut. Yet, our taxes continue to climb, and teachers in our local district and municipal employees continue to receive pay raises.

dpnewell wrote:




Since you make less money, even though tax rates went up you are actually paying less taxes now. You're welcome.

Signed: "B" Obama

oh and..... [email protected]
HockeyDad
13 years ago

All this time, government employees have been insulated from the pain the rest of the country has been going through, as if they where an elite class above the rest of us, while adding to our children's and grandchildren's debt. Now that there is a suggestion that they too may have to suffer, the way many of the rest of us have had to over the past 4 years, all we hear is wailing and doom from Obama and the talking heads.

I'm sick of the talking heads parading government employee after government employee on our TV sets, with "woe is me" stories and crocodile tears. Most of them have had it very easy over the past 4 years. Isn't it about time that we, the ones who pay their salaries, ask them to sacrifice along with us?

dpnewell wrote:




I plan to be in Washington DC soon. I expect to smell the acrid scent of diesel and tires burning from the austerity riots.
dstieger
13 years ago

For the past four years, many of us in the private sector have had to suffer and sacrifice. I personally went from $60-$80k a year down to under $25k. Many others I know have had hours reduced and pay cut. Yet, our taxes continue to climb, and teachers in our local district and municipal employees continue to receive pay raises.

All this time, government employees have been insulated from the pain the rest of the country has been going through, as if they where an elite class above the rest of us, while adding to our children's and grandchildren's debt. Now that there is a suggestion that they too may have to suffer, the way many of the rest of us have had to over the past 4 years, all we hear is wailing and doom from Obama and the talking heads.

I'm sick of the talking heads parading government employee after government employee on our TV sets, with "woe is me" stories and crocodile tears. Most of them have had it very easy over the past 4 years. Isn't it about time that we, the ones who pay their salaries, ask them to sacrifice along with us?

dpnewell wrote:




Share the pain; share the wealth. .....to each according to his needs....or something like that!!!!
dstieger
13 years ago

I plan to be in Washington DC soon. I expect to smell the acrid scent of diesel and tires burning from the austerity riots.

HockeyDad wrote:



We should get together, herf a bit over a burning tire mock the ungrateful masses.
HockeyDad
13 years ago
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again.
When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums,
there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes.

Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade, is there a world you long to see?

Then join in the fight that will give you the right to be free.

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again
When the beating of your heart, echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes

Will you give all you can give, so that our banner may advance?
Some will fall and some will live,
will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France.

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again
When the beating of your heart, echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes
HockeyDad
13 years ago

We should get together, herf a bit over a burning tire mock the ungrateful masses.

dstieger wrote:




Sounds good. Memorial Day. We can meet down at the barricades.
alpine951
13 years ago
The sequestration doesn't cut current spending. it's going to decrease the amount of future spending growth. A lot of Obama talk is BS just to stir up hysteria amongst the low or no knowledge folks.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/21/the_pro-growth_sequester__117093.html 
dstieger
13 years ago
^53. Funny, last Memorial Day weekend I actually did smoke a cigar in DC while watching burning tires. Vietnam vet in Rolling Thunder had his bike spontaneously combust while crossing Memorial Bridge. Sad afternoon. Dude was OK, but bike was total loss.
dpnewell
13 years ago

Share the pain; share the wealth. .....to each according to his needs....or something like that!!!!

dstieger wrote:



I talk about government living within it's means, instead of burdening our children with debt, and you twist it into Socialism? Nice deflection.
HockeyDad
13 years ago

I talk about government living within it's means, instead of burdening our children with debt, and you twist it into Socialism? Nice deflection.

dpnewell wrote:




Government has no means to live within....except 100% taxation of all income and wealth. Then government tops out.
dpnewell
13 years ago

Since you make less money, even though tax rates went up you are actually paying less taxes now. You're welcome.

Signed: "B" Obama

oh and..... [email protected]

HockeyDad wrote:



My property taxes went up more then $1000 over the past 4 years, so that those poor, underpaid teachers could get the raises they so desperately needed.
HockeyDad
13 years ago
Those teachers were due their "Cone Of Protection" money.
dstieger
13 years ago

I talk about government living within it's means, instead of burdening our children with debt, and you twist it into Socialism? Nice deflection.

dpnewell wrote:



I don't know, David. I re-read your post and it still appears to me that you're blaming government employees and fairly explicitly saying 'commercial sector folks have had it tough, so government employees should suffer, too'.
No secret that I'm in the former group, so not exactly unbiased. However, this is a pretty ham-fisted approach to a problem that is congress' making. If you agree that we need efficiencies and intelligent reductions, this is not the way to get there.
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