Current Events, News, Politics Keep the politics here.

The Current Events, News, and Politics Thread

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 01-05-2012, 10:43 AM
  #821  
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
 
Braineack's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,493
Total Cats: 4,080
Default

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
...
Braineack is offline  
Old 01-05-2012, 05:34 PM
  #822  
Senior Member
iTrader: (2)
 
jared8783's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 397
Total Cats: 4
Default

holy **** 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
jared8783 is offline  
Old 01-05-2012, 05:49 PM
  #823  
Elite Member
iTrader: (6)
 
blaen99's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 3,611
Total Cats: 25
Default

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.
blaen99 is offline  
Old 01-05-2012, 07:08 PM
  #824  
Senior Member
iTrader: (2)
 
jared8783's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 397
Total Cats: 4
Default

Originally Posted by blaen99
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
jared8783 is offline  
Old 01-05-2012, 07:08 PM
  #825  
Elite Member
iTrader: (6)
 
blaen99's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 3,611
Total Cats: 25
Default

Originally Posted by jared8783
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?
blaen99 is offline  
Old 01-05-2012, 07:11 PM
  #826  
Senior Member
iTrader: (2)
 
jared8783's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 397
Total Cats: 4
Default

Originally Posted by blaen99
.....

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
jared8783 is offline  
Old 01-05-2012, 08:14 PM
  #827  
Elite Member
iTrader: (6)
 
blaen99's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 3,611
Total Cats: 25
Default

Originally Posted by jared8783
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?
blaen99 is offline  
Old 01-05-2012, 09:28 PM
  #828  
Elite Member
iTrader: (21)
 
rleete's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 6,593
Total Cats: 1,259
Default

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.
rleete is offline  
Old 01-05-2012, 09:40 PM
  #829  
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
 
Braineack's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,493
Total Cats: 4,080
Default

Originally Posted by blaen99
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.
Braineack is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 12:31 AM
  #830  
Elite Member
iTrader: (1)
 
gearhead_318's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: SoCal
Posts: 3,966
Total Cats: 21
Default

Originally Posted by Braineack
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.
gearhead_318 is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 01:05 AM
  #831  
Elite Member
iTrader: (7)
 
mgeoffriau's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Jackson, MS
Posts: 7,388
Total Cats: 474
Default

That little weakling is still the only Congressman to ever hit a home run in the annual Congressional baseball game.
mgeoffriau is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 10:08 AM
  #832  
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
 
Braineack's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,493
Total Cats: 4,080
Default

Braineack is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 10:11 AM
  #833  
Elite Member
iTrader: (2)
 
Scrappy Jack's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 2,799
Total Cats: 179
Default

Originally Posted by Braineack
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.
Scrappy Jack is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 10:12 AM
  #834  
Boost Czar
Thread Starter
iTrader: (62)
 
Braineack's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,493
Total Cats: 4,080
Default

No, I could see it, but the rebound will be exponetial.
Braineack is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 11:16 AM
  #835  
Elite Member
iTrader: (7)
 
mgeoffriau's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Jackson, MS
Posts: 7,388
Total Cats: 474
Default

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.
mgeoffriau is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 01:25 PM
  #836  
Elite Member
iTrader: (2)
 
Scrappy Jack's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 2,799
Total Cats: 179
Default

Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
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[...]"
Scrappy Jack is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 01:35 PM
  #837  
Elite Member
iTrader: (7)
 
mgeoffriau's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Jackson, MS
Posts: 7,388
Total Cats: 474
Default

Originally Posted by Scrappy Jack
Maybe. I am not convinced there isn't a third option.
What kind of third option would exist for a massively overleveraged market?
mgeoffriau is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 02:00 PM
  #838  
Elite Member
iTrader: (24)
 
viperormiata's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Key West
Posts: 6,110
Total Cats: 283
Default

Politicians like this are dangerous.
viperormiata is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 02:54 PM
  #839  
Elite Member
iTrader: (6)
 
blaen99's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 3,611
Total Cats: 25
Default

I 'd at "more traditional conservative perspective". Does he mean the perspective that's only existed in the Republican party for a decade or two?
blaen99 is offline  
Old 01-06-2012, 03:15 PM
  #840  
Elite Member
iTrader: (1)
 
gearhead_318's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: SoCal
Posts: 3,966
Total Cats: 21
Default

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.
gearhead_318 is offline  


Quick Reply: The Current Events, News, and Politics Thread



All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:12 PM.