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Gyges posted:Remember Mitt and Anne Romney knew what it was like to be poor, having sold off bits of Mitt's birthday stock to finance their college living arrangements. Hell Neil Cavuto famously bitched about how back in his day 16 year olds got $2 an hour and were happy, which when adjusted for inflation is greater than the current minimum wage. "I was lucky to make 100 dollars a week working full time." "Wow, you could pay for a semester of college with one week's pay? That's amazing, you guys really had it easy."
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You wouldn't put a safety on your penis.
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May 3, 2014 23:16
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Says you. SedanChair posted:Don't try to be a pro at things you lack the training for.
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May 3, 2014 23:32
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No, because if it's white, it's aight.
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May 4, 2014 18:55
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When I go shopping, I save money by buying the smallest package available. It's called buying in slim, and is very efficient.
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May 6, 2014 01:50
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On the third party voting front: I always get to vote third party because the Democrats don't even run in my district. We had a Democrat try for US representative once, and he was so small fry that he personally stopped by my house. For senate, I got to choose between Republican and Libertarian. So before you go all realpolitik about voting third party, maybe you should consider the majority of the country that does not live in a swing state and doesn't get to cast a vote that matters anyway.
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May 6, 2014 02:01
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The greens are actually pretty cool, especially compared to the party of expanded civil liberties for land-owning whites.
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May 6, 2014 02:04
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computer parts posted:Well unless you believe in vaccinations. I'm not gung-ho on the greens, but the fantasy of an elected green caucusing with the Democrats is less frightening the reality of Libertarians who caucus with the Republicans.
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May 6, 2014 02:13
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We're talking about a country that voluntarily lowered their credit rating because paying bills is not a popular policy position, twice. I usually just vote to entertain myself, because US politics is an unsolvable poo poo-show.
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May 6, 2014 02:23
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Stein sold me with her "sick of this bullshit" advertisement. All a candidate needs to do to win my vote is make me laugh with them, not at them.
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May 6, 2014 02:26
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Couldn't we put the plants in the rear end-end of nowhere though? I mean the US is barely populated. Then again, as long as the myth of clean coal persists, people will view it as the best option.
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May 6, 2014 02:51
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StandardVC10 posted:What is with Australia and refugees? Are there really that many people seeking asylum there?
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May 6, 2014 02:59
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Efficient government is another one of those seemingly agreeable ideas that have been turned into loaded nonsense by politics. If you're looking at how well it treats the problem it was founded to solve with the funds it receives, it makes drat near any other public initiative look impotent. The SNAP program provided 47.6 million Americans with food assistance in 2013. If the Healthcare exchange had that many enrollees, the Republican party would have disbanded. The drug war cost about the same as the SNAP program did before the recession, yet the budget hawks never target such an obviously failed government program. Most of the time 'smaller government' simply means harming people you don't like to divert public funds to those you do.
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May 6, 2014 12:14
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Amergin posted:This is part of the reason why I would try and adjust things to make firing employees easier and encourage a more "meritocratic" system. Would it be truly meritocratic? Of course not. But if you can reward federal employees for effort and curb the number of employees down to those who are most effective, possibly boost their pay, I would hope things would quicken. You start out in 1954 by saying, “friend of the family, friend of the family, friend of the family.” By 1968 you can't say “friend of the family” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “friend of the family, friend of the family.” - Lee Atwater, republican strategist. Amergin posted:But honestly I don't think it's the government's role to "protect you from homelessness." At the very least I would raise the retirement age and attempt at making the disability benefits more strict. But I don't think the government should be in the business of helping people save money, rather it should focus more on educating folks on how to save money and let them have at it. HootTheOwl posted:This is really interesting, can you source it so I can refer back to it later?
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Efficiency works like security: there is no reasonable argument for less of it. So what you do is convince the public that your policy goals increase efficiency.
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May 6, 2014 22:07
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Kalman posted:Is technically M&Ms.
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Fried Chicken posted:Mad Dog 20/20 is 18% AbV to Night Train's 17.5% Only red grape mad dog is 18%. Wild Irish rose is 18% too and comes in the 50oz jug, so might be good for Christmas when the money is tight.
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