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Braineack 01-05-2012 10:43 AM


Earlier this week, a Virginia-based organization came under fire for leading 3rd grade students at Woodbrook Elementary in Charlottesville to write a song titled “We Are Part of the 99.”

The song, with its reference to the 1 percent and 99 percent was obviously talking about the Occupy protests that occurred around the country.

According to the school district’s story, the students wrote:
I used to be part of the 1 percent

I worked all the time

Never saw my family

Couldn’t make life rhyme

Then the bubble burst

...

jared8783 01-05-2012 05:34 PM

holy sh!t that is sooo wrong brain

if i go to work, and particularly if i work extra hard in hopes of reaching a goal
then i am part of the "evil" one percent?

thats effed up
i remember in high school i asked my teacher what was the difference between republican and democrat. she or he said that dem's are for the people and repub's are for the government. honestly i can't believe a teacher was allowed to tell a young and impressionable myself such a thing. that was pure opinion and super vague



btw everybody
check this out
pass it around

blaen99 01-05-2012 05:49 PM

So, if I understand this right....

That video is advocating two thirds of the reporters, which are employed by private companies...

They claim that Ron Paul is going to....do what to them? Force the private companies to fire two thirds of the reporters? That video baffles me completely.

jared8783 01-05-2012 07:08 PM


Originally Posted by blaen99 (Post 815542)
They claim that Ron Paul is going to....do what to them? Force the private companies to fire two thirds of the reporters? That video baffles me completely.

way i understand it is
if we are not trying to start a war everywhere we turn
then there will be alot less war propaganda, innocents dead, ect for the reporters to report on

blaen99 01-05-2012 07:08 PM


Originally Posted by jared8783 (Post 815598)
way i understand it is
if we are not trying to start a war everywhere we turn
then there will be alot less war propaganda, innocents dead, ect for the reporters to report on

.....

Why is this bad?

jared8783 01-05-2012 07:11 PM


Originally Posted by blaen99 (Post 815599)
.....

Why is this bad?

it is not bad at all
u know im a RP supporter
it's just interesting to know what the reporters wont say on a broadcasting camera

edit: its as if the reporters know that there will be less pentagon crap to report on if RP is president. and not more crap as many of the main streams would have us to believe

blaen99 01-05-2012 08:14 PM


Originally Posted by jared8783 (Post 815600)
it is not bad at all
u know im a RP supporter
it's just interesting to know what the reporters wont say on a broadcasting camera

edit: its as if the reporters know that there will be less pentagon crap to report on if RP is president. and not more crap as many of the main streams would have us to believe

The more I think on this, the angrier I get about it.

The reporters are seriously bitching about less war. Which means less lives (Both American and non) lost.

They care about their jobs more than American Lives? What the BRAINY?!?

The more I think about it, the angrier I get. This should be a cause of celebration - military action costs lives on all sides. Minimizing or ceasing military action directly translates to lives saved. Have some people fallen so much as to value their jobs more than lives?!? ESPECIALLY American Troops?

rleete 01-05-2012 09:28 PM

Yes. Human life is cheap. If 5000 Indians (or whatever) die, do you even notice unless you see it on the news? 6 billion people could cease to exist, and chances are pretty damn good you'd never heard of any of them. Life is cheap, because it is now so comon as to be taken for granted.

Braineack 01-05-2012 09:40 PM


Originally Posted by blaen99 (Post 815620)
The more I think on this, the angrier I get about it.

The reporters are seriously bitching about less war. Which means less lives (Both American and non) lost.

They care about their jobs more than American Lives? What the BRAINY?!?

The more I think about it, the angrier I get. This should be a cause of celebration - military action costs lives on all sides. Minimizing or ceasing military action directly translates to lives saved. Have some people fallen so much as to value their jobs more than lives?!? ESPECIALLY American Troops?


Yep, everyone calls him weak. but he's the most peaceful moral person in congress and his policies will keep us safer and freer and wealthier.

gearhead_318 01-06-2012 12:31 AM


Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 815674)
Yep, everyone calls him weak. but he's the most peaceful moral person in congress and his policies will keep us safer and freer and wealthier.

He does look weak. I'll bet Hillary Clinton could beat him in arm wrestling.

mgeoffriau 01-06-2012 01:05 AM

That little weakling is still the only Congressman to ever hit a home run in the annual Congressional baseball game.

Braineack 01-06-2012 10:08 AM

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Scrappy Jack 01-06-2012 10:11 AM


Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 815674)
Yep, everyone calls him weak. but he's the most peaceful moral person in congress and his policies will keep us safer and freer and [possibly, eventually, after a depression] wealthier.

Fixed that for ya. ;)

I'm just kidding... mostly. :squint:

Braineack 01-06-2012 10:12 AM

No, I could see it, but the rebound will be exponetial.

mgeoffriau 01-06-2012 11:16 AM

The correction will happen regardless. The only question is how long we try to delay it, and in the delay, make make the inevitable that much worse.

Scrappy Jack 01-06-2012 01:25 PM


Originally Posted by mgeoffriau (Post 815903)
The correction will happen regardless. The only question is how long we try to delay it, and in the delay, make make the inevitable that much worse.

Maybe. I am not convinced there isn't a third option.

Anyway, that reminded me of something I read today about a famous economist:


Originally Posted by Peter Drucker
"He had two basic motivations," Drucker explained in a 1991 interview with Forbes. "One was to destroy the labor unions and the other was to maintain the free market. [He] despised the American Keynesians. His whole idea was to have an impotent government that would do nothing but, through tax and spending policies, maintain the equilibrium of the free market[...]"


mgeoffriau 01-06-2012 01:35 PM


Originally Posted by Scrappy Jack (Post 815975)
Maybe. I am not convinced there isn't a third option.

What kind of third option would exist for a massively overleveraged market?

viperormiata 01-06-2012 02:00 PM

Politicians like this are dangerous.

blaen99 01-06-2012 02:54 PM

I :rofl:'d at "more traditional conservative perspective". Does he mean the perspective that's only existed in the Republican party for a decade or two?

gearhead_318 01-06-2012 03:15 PM

Here is why religious politicians like Santorum are dangerous:

Their number one loyalty is to their god, number two is their country, i.e., your rights, the law, any responsibility they hold. Everything that has to do with YOUR rights and the laws that govern the society we live in are tainted with the views that he/she holds because of his/her number one loyalty, g-o-d.
Therefor if you happen to be gay and want to get married, if we have a "leader" like Santorum then your civil rights mean sh*t, because "god" said when a man lyes with another man it is an abomination. Or maybe your a godless heathen like me and you don't want your kids getting taught bullsh*t like "intelligent design" in schools, too goddamn bad, now your biology book comes with an added section and a warning sticker. That's why we're behind the rest of the world when it comes to science.


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