Good people.

Good examples..

Good words...













but nothing more.

"Rich people are not the CAUSE of a robust economy, they are the RESULT of a robust economy."

Fantastic quote.

were you expecting a sandwich?>> ^Yogi:

Good words...






but nothing more.

Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.

Tax me.

I want to fund the wars.

USA! USA! USA!

Thems some patriots!

Tax me.

I want my money to go to corporate welfare.

>> ^luxury_pie:

Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.


375 point 000? numbers, how do they work?

I just hope you are a millionaire blankfist, because then you can fund a lobbyist to promote peace in D.C. and your taxes won't go to playing war anymore, or do the same for corporate welfare.

>> ^solecist:

>> ^luxury_pie:
Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.

375 point 000? numbers, how do they work?


one point zero zero zero point zero zero zero

In Europe the . is the thousands separator and the , is the decimal separator. That comment was posted by a European.
>> ^ForgedReality:

>> ^solecist:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.

375 point 000? numbers, how do they work?

one point zero zero zero point zero zero zero

>> ^oritteropo:

In Europe the . is the thousands separator and the , is the decimal separator. That comment was posted by a European.
>> ^ForgedReality:
>> ^solecist:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.

375 point 000? numbers, how do they work?

one point zero zero zero point zero zero zero



WTF? Nope.

The decimal point is a decimal point everywhere.

In Europe, the period is the thousands separator, and the comma is the decimal separator. Stop yourself and check it before you compound your public error.>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^oritteropo:
In Europe the . is the thousands separator and the , is the decimal separator. That comment was posted by a European.
>> ^ForgedReality:
>> ^solecist:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.

375 point 000? numbers, how do they work?

one point zero zero zero point zero zero zero


WTF? Nope.
The decimal point is a decimal point everywhere.

No it's not, silly american education.

>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^oritteropo:
In Europe the . is the thousands separator and the , is the decimal separator. That comment was posted by a European.
>> ^ForgedReality:
>> ^solecist:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.

375 point 000? numbers, how do they work?

one point zero zero zero point zero zero zero


WTF? Nope.
The decimal point is a decimal point everywhere.

Federal government wastes half of every tax dollar.

So what's this magic millionaire money going to do that the spending addicts haven't done already?

By all means, patriots, send that extra income in! Don't wait for the official raising of taxes: the wise, brilliant geniuses in government will certainly allocate your money better than you ever could.

Captain Obvious strikes again!
>> ^oritteropo:

In Europe the . is the thousands separator and the , is the decimal separator. That comment was posted by a European.
>> ^ForgedReality:
>> ^solecist:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.

375 point 000? numbers, how do they work?

one point zero zero zero point zero zero zero

>> ^soulmonarch:

"Rich people are not the CAUSE of a robust economy, they are the RESULT of a robust economy."
Fantastic quote.


QFT

This should be on a billboard.

Here is a news bulliten for these dolts...

http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html

There. Right now. Today. Give every penny you have to the Federal Government. That is, unless you're just a bunch of stinking hypocrites, or liars. In which case you can shut your pieholes.

But - of course - even if every person in the US who earns over 200,000 bucks gave every penny of their income to the government it wouldn't come close to solving the nation's debt & deficit problem. The issue is not a TAX issue. It is a SPENDING issue.

The state can't pay people $100,000 a year plus benefits for doing unskilled labor. The state can't pay for everyone's health care, retirement, food, shelter, and education. It just doesn't work.

Regardles - Obama's "plan" is not targeting millionaires. It is targeting the MIDDLE CLASS. Specifically - the upper middle class. Any guy in New York or Cali that happens to earn 200K? He's a target A small business owner whose chapter-S is listed? He's a target. So don't cry me these crocodile tears you hypcritical jerks. If you're so all-fired hot to give taxes then do it now and don't tie your so-called 'patriotism' to a tax hike that targets the wrong people. These aren't 'patriots'. They are just neoliberal jackhole leftists who constantly braise themselves in class-warfare rhetoric.

>> ^blankfist:

Tax me.
I want my money to go to corporate welfare.


it already does... but this way, the rich (like CEO's who get HUGE bonuses even though their company is suffering) end up supplying corporate welfare for their own corporations... sounds logical

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:


The state can't pay people $100,000 a year plus benefits for doing unskilled labor. The state can't pay for everyone's health care, retirement, food, shelter, and education. It just doesn't work.
They are just neoliberal jackhole leftists who constantly braise themselves in class-warfare rhetoric.


1) i'd like to know what unskilled labor jobs the government pays 100k/yr for... seriously, because otherwise, you're kinda just pulling that out of the air

2) the solvency of pensions/health care is quite well documented; if you watch alot of FOX, you might not think so... but it is

infact, just use some logic... why would a "FOR PROFIT" corporation want (WANT so bad they are lobbying for privatization to be the ONLY option) if it wasn't solvent? if they were going to lose money supplying these services... why would they want to get involved in the first place?

i know you've been led to believe that only private business could figure out a way to make it work, but who instituted these services in the first place? people with business/economic experience... or do you honestly think they just literally stopped the first person they bumped into, while walking down the street, and had them draw it up?

3) the education thing just BLOWS my mind... you honestly don't believe the current situation the US is in has ANYTHING to do with decisions/cuts to education made over the past 30yrs... that the lack of government funding, the increase in privatization, and thus the HUGE rise in post secondary education costs... none of that plays a part in the current scenario?

and I love the "shocking" resort to "class warfare" crap you reach for when nothing else works

its CLASS WARFARE when the victim speaks up and demands justice... but the last 30yrs of widening income gap, cuts to social programs/services, cuts to education, bailing out of the rich at the expense of EVERYONE else, and pushing of debt from the current generation to not only our children's generation, but their children... that's not CLASS WARFARE... nope, that doesn't sound like that at all

i at least hope you are one of the 250k/yr +... because then you are just greedy and lacking of character

instead of being foolish ontop of it all

1) i'd like to know what unskilled labor jobs the government pays 100k/yr

I'm happy to expand your mind.

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/overpaid-federal-workers

Keep in mind that the bulk of these jobs are make-work jobs and bureaucrats who serve no function except to warm a chair and internacinely war for budget share of the federal pie. There's tons more. Teacher union administrators, the construction worker supervisor who stands around 90% of the day, and on and on and on. Even a cursory google search will bag you thousands on thousands of federal and state employees that are unskilled, overpaid leeches on the economy.

2) the solvency of pensions/health care is quite well documented

Supply the data proving that. The Postal Service is due to collapse in November because it can't pay its operating costs AND keep up the retirement benefits of its retirees. Social Security isn't solvent. Medicare isn't solvent. Medicaid isn't solvent. The benefit programs of federal employees is banked entirely on debt spending. "Solvency" is when the program is in the black.

i know you've been led to believe that only private business could figure out a way to make it work, but who instituted these services in the first place?

Private companies. Long before 'government' ever came along, private individuals performed these tasks for money or goods. Government apes private companies - not the other way around. And 99 times out of 100, government does a lousy job at them because they don't operate logically. Case in point...

the education thing just BLOWS my mind

Yes - I have no difficulty believing that a person steeped in leftist theory would have a hard time understanding the concept that education can take place quite easily and well without government subsidies. The best colleges are private, and people who go to private shools (or are homeschooled) do just as well (or better) than students in public schools. And our public schools do such a good job, don't they? Regardless, I don't have a problem with government providing a "School". I have a problem with government meddling in cirriculum, and the associated teacher's union. Have the government provide the 'school', and then get out of the way.

its CLASS WARFARE when the victim speaks up and demands justice

First - there's no victim here. Second, it is class warfare when pinheads like Obama and his supporters talk out both sides of their mouths, lie, and deceive on this issue. Buffet didn't pay 'less than his secretary' on his income - he paid MORE - but he and Obama are lying and equating capital gains as income as a means to raise taxes NOT on "millionaires", but on the middle class. THAT is class warfare.

"Bailing out the rich". Pht - what a crock. Obumma is only wanting to bail out government, which has overspent and overpromised and he wants to sock it to the middle class. If he was serious then he's freeze all government spending today to 2011 levels and keep them there until the system was in the black. Then he'd pass a balanced budget ammendment and everyone would praise him as the greatest president ever. But no - he's a leftist idiot and all he wants is to raise taxes in a recession - which even he said was a stupid thing to do. Stupid is as stupid does - and the stupid people that agree with it.

>> ^messenger:

In Europe, the period is the thousands separator, and the comma is the decimal separator. Stop yourself and check it before you compound your public error.>> ^robbersdog49:
>> ^oritteropo:
In Europe the . is the thousands separator and the , is the decimal separator. That comment was posted by a European.
>> ^ForgedReality:
>> ^solecist:
>> ^luxury_pie:
Roughly 150 out of 375.000 of those with income over $1.000.000 have registered...
seems legit.

375 point 000? numbers, how do they work?

one point zero zero zero point zero zero zero


WTF? Nope.
The decimal point is a decimal point everywhere.



Last time I looked the UK is in Europe and I can tell you right now the period isn't the thousands separator. Where the hell are you getting this info from? I've never seen a comma used as a decimal point, not in France, Spain, Germany or Belgium (the other european countries I have actually been to). You are wrong.

I'd love to know how you're 'checking' your facts before compounding an error.

Nope. You're a lazy idiot. You've been told by people who know better, and you can't even be bothered to Google it or check Wikipedia. Or maybe you think facts just obscure things.>> ^robbersdog49:
Last time I looked the UK is in Europe and I can tell you right now the period isn't the thousands separator. Where the hell are you getting this info from? I've never seen a comma used as a decimal point, not in France, Spain, Germany or Belgium (the other european countries I have actually been to). You are wrong.
I'd love to know how you're 'checking' your facts before compounding an error.

>> ^messenger:

Nope. You're a lazy idiot. You've been told by people who know better, and you can't even be bothered to Google it or check Wikipedia. Or maybe you think facts just obscure things.>> ^robbersdog49:
Last time I looked the UK is in Europe and I can tell you right now the period isn't the thousands separator. Where the hell are you getting this info from? I've never seen a comma used as a decimal point, not in France, Spain, Germany or Belgium (the other european countries I have actually been to). You are wrong.
I'd love to know how you're 'checking' your facts before compounding an error.



Huh?

Which bit of this don't you understand? Fact is that numerical notation is the same here in Europe (I'd write one million, two hundred and eighty two thousand three hundred and forty five pounds and sixty eight pence as £1,282,345.68). Show me how you're checking your facts and I'll show you where you're going wrong.

ETA: It seems where you're going wrong is you don't seem to know that the UK is in Europe. Well it is. I'm willing to accept that other european countries may work differently, although I've never noticed it when I've travelled in europe.

If you wanted to know, you'd have found it on Google in less time than it takes to stick your foot in it even further on the Sift. You're too lazy to talk to. I'm done.>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^messenger:
Nope. You're a lazy idiot. You've been told by people who know better, and you can't even be bothered to Google it or check Wikipedia. Or maybe you think facts just obscure things.>> ^robbersdog49:
Last time I looked the UK is in Europe and I can tell you right now the period isn't the thousands separator. Where the hell are you getting this info from? I've never seen a comma used as a decimal point, not in France, Spain, Germany or Belgium (the other european countries I have actually been to). You are wrong.
I'd love to know how you're 'checking' your facts before compounding an error.


Huh?
Which bit of this don't you understand? Fact is that numerical notation is the same here in Europe (I'd write one million, two hundred and eighty two thousand three hundred and forty five pounds and sixty eight pence as £1,282,345.68). Show me how you're checking your facts and I'll show you where you're going wrong.

See my ETA above.