See Wade, I call BS on the Republican definition of redistribution of wealth. Taxing the wealthy to put an influx of money in the national budget as a solution to the debt is logical.
Redistribution of wealth is keeping the war machine alive so that middle class Americans are forced to use their tax dollars to line the pockets of the wealthy stockholders of defense arms companies.
Now stay with me, cause I have the solution to the whole debt thing - we tax the shit out of the people that have benefitted from the actual redistribution of wealth and cut the the military by 40% this year. We might just take our military capabilities back to a first strike capability instead of a total annihilation capability.
Now take an aspirin Wade, and go to bed and get back to me in the morning. The professor was just schooled by the master. I know, I'm an asshole. [rockon] [happy] [ass]
I don't care about presidents, they're all fucked in the head.
Originally Posted by: DakotaT
Then how come you parrot the silly numeracy-challenged rhetoric of our current one so often. I've challenged you before and I'll do it again. Show me the numbers for the bolded bit.
Please. Really. I'd love to agree with you on such a simple solution.
I really would.
P.s., I never claimed to be a master. If there is virtue in being a college professor, and I daily wonder if there is, it comes because and when we realize the profound limitations of our ability to solve and predict and explain. Alas, most of us professor types most of the time are too convinced of our educational superiority, too prideful, to realize that all that extra education means is we might know a fraction of a thousandth of a percent more than the rest of you. That while you may be ignorant of 99.99 % of the universe, we are merely ignorant of 99.9895%.
Big economic problems are a lot simpler to get into than they are to crawl out of. It takes very little effort to borrow a lot of money and spend it on your good ideas. That I *am* an expert on, unfortunately. But once you've borrowed all that money and you're trying to figure out how to dig yourself out, there are no easy answers. There are no simple answers. There's just saying, gee, Wade, you've been a fuckhead yet again. And you don't get to blame American Express and Visa and Paypal and ask them to forgive you like your Mom in her pre-dementia days used to.. Get to work and stop being such a personal fuckhead.
Stop looking for other people to push your own responsibilities off on. Instead, concentrate for a change on doing what your friends Troy and Foster and Wayne and Kevin and Formo and Porforis all do. Work and be responsible yourself. God'll eventually take care of the real bastards.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)