No easy answers we're all farked

joew · Joined: 18 Jul 1999 Posts: 156

So much for civil discourse.It 's come to this , now we taunt veterans about the retirement and disability benefits they have earned?

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Do you go to strip clubs expecting to hear sermons? Sad

mac · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:00 pm Post subject:

Techno--still haven't gotten the hang of that reading thing? I said the NSP program--at $1 billion--doesn't amount to a hill of beans. The phone system, of course, is not in the Federal budget.

The best term I've heard for the Tea Party is governing by tantrum.

swchandler · Joined: 08 Nov 1993 Posts: 10588

joew, did you know that isobars entire military service career was at a non-combat desk job here in the states? His military pension aside, working in an office has certainly raised a lot of questions about how he become disabled on the job, particularly since he has bragged on and on about racing about and crashing motorcycles at high speed on the desert for years. It probably wouldn't be such a big deal if he didn't have so many negative things to say about other Americans supposedly "gaming the system" receiving some kind of financial assistance. Such an openly disrespectful attitude regarding the plight of others tends to invite focus and criticism, don't you think?

That said, I have to say that pueno tends to over do it at times. In the end though, maybe pueno would give isobars a break if he backed off and mellowed out a bit.

KGB-NP · Joined: 25 Jul 2001 Posts: 2856

pueno · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807

techno900 · Joined: 28 Mar 2001 Posts: 4161

Mac said:

mrgybe · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 5180

Remember the numerous occasions the President said that he would "scour the budget, line by line" to root out "every cent of waste". I'm sure he will get to the three fold increase in the free phone program shortly. As for this canard that "fees" aren't taxes.....that is a smoke screen. So called middle class tax cuts are being overwhelmed by a multitude of increases elsewhere, including "fees" at a Federal and local level. Virtually everything we pay for now has some "fee" attached to it. We are told that a cell 'phone is so vital to everyday existence that we have to give them away to those who apparently can't afford them. Yet when we grumble about the exploding cost we are told that having a cell 'phone is our choice, if we don't want to pay the "fee" don't use a cellphone. We can do without.

pueno · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807