[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', 'R')egardless, this doesn't FUNDAMENTALLY address Cog's point

[AgentR11]

As someone well acquainted with the redneck / bloodlust crowd, I hate to say it, but you look like a well to do English farmer along with the expected eccentricities. Classy shotgun, rubber boots, and trying to make a silly point with the tinfoil hat give it away.

Rural not necessarily equal redneck, but rural plus redneck is a whole nuther level of crazy.

edit: in response to davep's photo

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'A')s someone well acquainted with the redneck / bloodlust crowd, I hate to say it, but you look like a well to do English farmer along with the expected eccentricities. Classy shotgun, rubber boots, and trying to make a silly point with the tinfoil hat give it away.

Rural not necessarily equal redneck, but rural plus redneck is a whole nuther level of crazy.

edit: in response to davep's photo

[davep]

Oh, and I come from Liverpool. I hit my teens in Thatcher's reign. All my friends had criminal records because there were literally no jobs. Heroin was the only respite at the time. I got out as soon as I could thankfully.

So stop bigging up your rednecks. People react to their circumstances. Mine were pretty grim in my youth and I am the only one amongst my friends who managed to escape our environment. Some good friends ended up dead. It's pretty pathetic to start a pissing contest about how hard your boys are frankly.

[AgentR11]

You need to purchase a sense of humor somewhere.
Seriously.

[Lumpy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')Do you lack love?

The path to Love

Worry for others

Pray for everyone

Listen to those who YOU have cast away

Forgive your transgressors

Work towards a brighter future

vm

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'Y')ou need to purchase a sense of humor somewhere.
Seriously.

[Lumpy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '
')I ended up taking a job 500km away in a different country because I never wanted to put my family through the same thing again. I've since been travelling over 1000km every weekend by car for over three years between home and work just to get the work done on the place to make it habitable.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')but your assumptions pissed me off

[Crusty]

In Australia Globalization was described as Boats in a Harbor of all different sizes. They all go up with the tide. As PO is now starting to bite the tide is going out so all boat need to go down. As long as everyone is suffering I believe civil conflict will be as minimal as possible... but... as my Nan used to say, "You can't turn Shit into Ice-cream Michael."

Think that describes the PO situation nicely!!

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Crusty', 'I')n Australia Globalization was described as Boats in a Harbor of all different sizes. They all go up with the tide.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lumpy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')Do you lack love?

The path to Love

Worry for others

Pray for everyone

Listen to those who YOU have cast away

Forgive your transgressors

Work towards a brighter future

vm

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ')

Now every American is brainwashed to think free trade is good even though the numbers clearly say something else.

[Livewire713]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'T')ime for some austerity. We can't afford to extend the government teat to the mooch class anymore.

The Mooch class:

Government workers at all levels
Anyone collecting food stamps
Anyone collecting social security and/or medicare
Anyone I don't particular care for
Criminals
Anyone in the military
Military contractors

The way I see it, after we cut out the entitlements for the above people, we will have plenty of dough to keep in our own pockets.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Livewire713', 'I') bet your a shitty tipper too. Like the rest of the conservaturds on this site.

[Nefarious]

Do political views really matter? Isn't it just arguing over how the deck chairs should be arranged on a sinking ship?
Does either point of view of conservative or liberal change the outcome of a system that is at it's core is destined to fail from the begining (fiat currency).
Whether you cut entitlements or the military,whether you raise taxes or cut spending you still have to increase the debt no matter what or the system starts to crash. The debt always has to increase in order to service the past debt. When we start paying off the debt we are destroying money causing deflation.The debt can never be repaid there isn't enough money in exsistence to pay off the debt.Now the debt is so big we have to print money just so we can have money to keep the system going.
So we either have no money to buy goods or we have lots of money that won't buy goods, either way it's an end game.

I'm more worried about getting off the ship personally and really no longer care about the deck chairs (ie politics).
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.

[SeaGypsy]

There's a good reason to keep the government. Someone has to keep authorising the printing presses.

[Lumpy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '[')quote="Lumpy]Great stuff, VM. Thanks. Lumpy[/quote]

Lol - Lumpy, these are NOT my OWN thoughts, but messages from the spirit World. Yes, these have come to me from up there. Whenever a connection is made, I ask for more information. [/quote]

[joewp]

I didn't read the whole thread, but somehow I get the feeling that the biggest mooch class is being overlooked here. I mean that class that has managed to corrupt the government so completely that they get the privilege of "loaning" money they don't have at interest, effectively creating it from thin air and expecting the other classes to labor long hours to pay back their fake money PLUS interest. They're the biggest leaches on society, sucking at the teats of government, business and labor and contributing nothing of value. They have managed to institute their ponzi scheme world-wide, and suck the life out of every known enterprise.

Of course, I mean the bankers. Those thieves who started by lending gold they didn't have at interest and now lend money they don't have and expect the people to slave to pay it back with interest. They've even made it so the currency is based on their debt scheme, and if a government ever manages to pay off all it's loans, the money supply would nearly disappear, sending the economy into depression.

This is first class mooching extraordinaire. Welfare queens have nothing on these suckers.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nefarious', 'D')o political views really matter?