>> ^quantumushroom:

Spain is in serious trouble because it spends too much money, money it does not have. The Spaniards are rioting over ginormous tax HIKES, which is what American taxocrats continue to demand at every turn.
Obama has already brought market chaos and uncertainty. However you want to polish his crown jewel, the turd known as Obamacare, the results are/will be huge tax hikes, reduction in services, continuing skyrocketing medical costs, and STILL, by their own admission, 30 million without health insurance.
Even if reelected, Obama is a fool and will be forgotten as a symptom of a larger malaise that began a century ago.
At this point, no president is capable of stopping out-of-control government spending. President Romney will only buy us a little more time before imminent revolution; it won't be an MTV version of revolution either, with underwear models with little smudges of black on their multiculural cheeks beating back government stormtroopers with the force of love. It's going to be blood up and over your knees, cities leveled, hell on earth.
Hey, sometimes it's necessary.

>> ^volumptuous:
QM, Pennypacker et al... They will respond to this in one of two ways:
1- "That's what these Spanish OWS losers get! go get a job!"
2- "This is what Obama is going to bring to America!"
Both are equally repulsive, and fictions of their imagination.



If the Market didn't like Obama, why does it support him soo much monetarily? You need to do your homework man, it's the Rich against guys like us, join the proper side.

Spain is in serious trouble because it spends too much money, money it does not have. The Spaniards are rioting over ginormous tax HIKES, which is what American taxocrats continue to demand at every turn.

Obama has already brought market chaos and uncertainty. However you want to polish his crown jewel, the turd known as Obamacare, the results are/will be huge tax hikes, reduction in services, continuing skyrocketing medical costs, and STILL, by their own admission, 30 million without health insurance.

Even if reelected, Obama is a fool and will be forgotten as a symptom of a larger malaise that began a century ago.

At this point, no president is capable of stopping out-of-control government spending. President Romney will only buy us a little more time before imminent revolution; it won't be an MTV version of revolution either, with underwear models with little smudges of black on their multiculural cheeks beating back government stormtroopers with the force of love. It's going to be blood up and over your knees, cities leveled, hell on earth.

Hey, sometimes it's necessary.


>> ^volumptuous:

QM, Pennypacker et al... They will respond to this in one of two ways:

1- "That's what these Spanish OWS losers get! go get a job!"
2- "This is what Obama is going to bring to America!"
Both are equally repulsive, and fictions of their imagination.

Going back a week or so... Congrats to these fabulous folks who helped others Achieve Greatness.

Level 1, the first badge is always the sweetest: @Lawdeedaw @Shepppard @jan

Level 2 -- @Skeeve

Level 5 -- @kulpims

Level 6 -- fearless and much put-upon Leader @dag

And the crown jewels of the last week:

LEVEL 14 -- It's @Hybrid and @gwiz665!

Level 14. Wow.

Congrats!

Congratulations on the Crown...now what to do with the crown jewels....

Congratulations!

The Crown Jewel Intro from Babe Elliott Baker on Vimeo.

*promote one of my all time fav's. I consider this to be the crown jewel of the * wheels channel.

The ending is really the crowning jewel of this one

imstellar, I think you've made a good case for how kids with a lemonade stand are creating wealth, but I'm not sure I concur with your view of what government does with taxes.

In my mind, you're forgetting the sidewalk the kids built their stand next to, that makes their enterprise possible. That's part of what that tax money is for.

I think you're making an argument about government subsidies. Sure, it's a fair argument to say that subsidies in themselves don't create wealth in an economic sense, but the chief arguments made for them aren't economic in nature. That said, I'll concede the point, subsidies don't create wealth.

But that's not the only thing government can or does do.

There's definitely something to the idea that people will be more fully invested in their work if they feel a sense of ownership, but that's more a function of effective management, and doesn't require actual ownership. By the same token, I don't think people will always be unwise with money they receive as a gift/subsidy/tax cut, just as they have quite clearly proven that they will not always be wise with how they spend what they earn.

Can you deny that the Interstate Highway program created wealth? Incentives for a transcontinental railroad spurred growth? Trust busting of the oil and rail companies in the early 20th century restored competition? The invention of the internet? The space race, NASA, and all the discoveries they've brought about? Even the much maligned public education system seems to me a crown jewel of achievement in terms of empowering individuals and enhancing wealth. In other countries, national healthcare systems seem to play a similar role in optimizing their human resources.

Sure, government doesn't seek to turn a profit, but it does seek to catalyze economic growth (to borrow a phrase from Obama's speech tonight).

To deny that government can create wealth seems to be turning a blind eye on what government has already accomplished, and to refuse to see the role it plays in creating and preserving the private economy.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
I kid, I kid. My future ex-fiancee knows that. Besides, now the Brits are laughing at America's headaches of empire. (They're quietly laughing to themselves, mind you, because they're so bloody polite.)
You're one of the best things to happen to this place in a long time, baby. No kidding. There's a lot of love at this place, and you're a big part of that. You deserve the crown jewel you just received. Wear it with pride, and keep it away from blankfist's gravy

Whose dick ya gotta suck around here to get your own channel?

Now we know.

Good work AC.

[Cue jingoistic, anachronistic music]

Rule Britannia!
(All 1¼ main islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, and the Falklands)
Britannia rule the waves
(If the American, Chinese, Russian, and French fleets were all to sink right now, then yours might have a shot at ruling them again.)
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
(Only watched A LOT.)

I kid, I kid. My future ex-fiancee knows that. Besides, now the Brits are laughing at America's headaches of empire. (They're quietly laughing to themselves, mind you, because they're so bloody polite.)

You're one of the best things to happen to this place in a long time, baby. No kidding. There's a lot of love at this place, and you're a big part of that. You deserve the crown jewel you just received. Wear it with pride, and keep it away from blankfist's gravy.

And since rasch187 beat me to posting this, I know you'll now be proposing to him while simultaneously kicking me to the curb. It's okay. I always knew it would end this way. Just like King George and the Colonies, you had to let me go. It's time to move on.

I already have.

*sniff*

*runs away crying*

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Love it - I would like to come stay in his basement. The 20th Anniversary Mac would have to be the crown jewel of the collection.