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August 27, 2012 07:07 PM UTC
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Government doesn’t create jobs. Government workers are not real workers. The money they pay doesn’t go back into the economy, it goes into a black hole with the 1.5 trillion Obama cut for Medicare.
(Covering ArapaGOP in advance)
But told from people with a straight face. Unbelievable. I was working an Unexploded Ordnance job last year in California. The Safety Guy was a Former Seal Team 6 Operator, and like all the vets I worked with out there, conservative to a fault. They decried that the government can’t create jobs at all. First of all, who trained you to disarm bombs, second of all, who is paying to clean this up? These men had worked for the government for their entire lives and could tell me, with full honest conviction, that the government doesn’t create jobs. Honestly, having to deal with fascists is the number 2 reason I got out of that business.
My letter carrier was in the military and now she tells me that she isn’t a government employee, the USPS is separate from the government.
A high school friend who has only worked for the government, is his union rep for the letter carriers, asks me to not send anything political, he’s a conservative.
Forty years of Fox, Ailles, and Murdock have done the seemingly impossible: Taught people that up is down.
Just a guess here, but I’ll bet any of you that over 51% of Ameicans, if polled, believe that unlike the government it is not fiscally sustainable to spend $4 while earning $3 and borrowing $1.
Hey the USA is only one budget bill from turning the corner to the Greek way, yet also only one budget bill from getting on the right track to fiscal sanity.
Why won’t the democrats standup for Obamas budget bill, they nearly all voted against it. Do they consider his budget to be unamerican?
or failing to make a point there? Or am I wasting my time in trying to understand?
that last one is definitely a, “Yes”.
Too much time has already been wasted by too many minds, much better that mine, trying to answer that first one, however. The conversation has now almost entirely moved on to pathology . .
if you want to create jobs you have to stash your millions in some foreign tax haven — the Caymans or Switzerland — it’s what all America’s selfless patriots are doing these days.
This one made the top 19 in the nation list:
The good news is, at least it is being addressed now:
I wish Max Tyler success in getting even more projects kickstarted, and not just in Jeffco.
Stop irresponsibly expanding entitlements and we can fix all of the roads.
Fuck the roads. We need tax cuts.
those roads with tax cuts . . . “We did it ourselves!”
Us old farts just aren’t dying off fast enough, so yeah, Social Security spending inexorably goes up.
And we insist on the most inefficient, expensive health delivery service in the developed world.
But at least we account for 50% of world-wide military spending.
It’s all about priorities. Some might say they are misplaced. Depending on the political party, it’s only a matter of deciding which is which.
We’re talking about Medicaid, not Social Security. Democrats have irresponsibly expended Medicaid and then threaten Colorado voters with bad roads. But the truth is, we could pay for road repair if we could just stop expanding entitlements.
This post is about road repair.
You want to discuss throwing children and the poor off of Medicaid — that’s your choice.
I’m talking about infrastructure — whether local regional or national. It needs to be a priority — which you and I both agree.
Where we’d carve the needed monies from, well, yes, we disagree. Happy to discuss.
I understand that SS is funded by a so-called Ponzi scheme. It needs tweaking, such as removing the earnings cap for contributions. But it is a sound system. I also understand that I will get many more $$$ in benefits than I ever paid in, interest included.
In the summer of 2007 I moved from Colorado to Florida to help take care of my parents. Mostly because Dad was given some six months to live. Well, he hung on for two and half years, and on the day he died, literally, my mother started requiring lots of care. That’s been going on for almost three years.
In the meantime, I could not get a job for two reasons: Needs of my family, and NO jobs in SW Florida due to the Second Republican Great Depression.
After my father died, I filed for SS because we needed that income to replace Dad’s. I was 63. So much for my plans to work until I was 70.
What I would like you to recognize, and I don’t see how you can’t, is that I put those famous Republican family values before my own preferences and income.
One day I stepped on a nail and needed a tetanus shot. I found help at low cost at a local indigent care clinic. So, while Medicare spent almost $300K on Dad’s treatments, his primary caregiver had to use a non-profit, low quality provider to get a fucking tetanus shot. Thank you, pre-Obamacare American medical “system.”
A little over a year ago I went on Medicare. Through lots of research I found out that the state of Florida will pay for my Part B and Part D premiums. So, yes, I’m on Medicaid. Just like many old people dying in nursing homes. It’s not just the young poor.
If my sister hadn’t been able to retire from her Republican damned government job – law enforcement – three years ago, I don’t know what we would do. She is an indefagitable caregiver of our very frail 95 year old mother. We can’t afford a nursing home, if we put her in one on Medicaid, they would take all her income and her house would go into foreclosure in a few months. It’s the house I live in, and represents perhaps a few tens of thousands of dollars in inheritance if I’m luckyl
I’m off track, sorry. Point being that w/o these “entitlements”, the Verizzo family would be thrown to the wolves. Those wolves have Republican fangs. I am so grateful that these programs are in place.
So do you have NO family members that were or are supported by SS and Medicaid? Family that you didn’t have to support, or you supported less? I’d be real surprised if not.
Did you know that 55-65% of the discretionary budget goes to pay for wars past, present, and future? That’s were we need to cut.
And I thank you for your contributions via your taxes. I was always so happy to pay mine because I believe we are all in this together. You know, like your faith (has tried) teaches you. Matthew 25, blind man.
heroism isn’t just a valiant death in battle;
it’s also every day getting up and laying down your life for someone else.
God bless you.
I agree completely, and it’s nice to see a vet say what I’ve held for a long time.
But I’m no hero compared to the many who have it much worse than I do. Think parents with shitty jobs raising their delinquent or perhaps disabled kids, day after day. At least I know my caregiving will end relatively soon.
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“Registrations of new cars and trucks in Colorado rose 36.2 percent in July from the same month of 2011 and were up 20.5 percent for the first seven months of 2012, the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association reported Monday.”