Oh, so there's a big fat wallet they can draw from at anytime?
Posted By: Mrs. Bridger on 2009-03-12
In Reply to: Them using their own money??????? - madmt
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welcome here anytime AG
AG, you are welcome on the liberal board any time, IMHO. I read your posts and though I dont agree with most of them, a few I do agree with..I would love for all of us to be able to debate on the same board..Sure it would get heated but I think we can handle that. Glad you posted here..When it comes down to it, we are all Americans, ya know?
Anytime.
Now could you use just one adjective to demonstrate your point? - or I'll have to use the other thousand to define it for you.
Okay...call it a draw....
but those women were able to decide whether or not to put themselves in harm's way. A baby has no such choice. It is a completely helpless, defenseless child torn from a place of safety, cut to ribbons or have brain sucked out, thrown into a metal pan and burned. That is hideous beyond belief, and I cannot equate the two. One knows going in what could happen and chooses to do it anyway. The other is murdered in a Josef Mengele fashion, horrifically, with its right of life taken away by another. Sorry, I cannot equate the two, not in any way, shape, form or fashion.
We will agree to disagree.
not specific enough to draw
an inference from your post. Vague.
He makes me physically ill anytime, anywhere!
LIke the Brits said the day after 2004 election, how can 55 and so million be so STUPID!!! 
Me either. I do my own research and draw my own conclusions.sm
Self-education is so important. It has caused a total shift in paradigm for me. As an example, I was led to believe something very different about JFK by my very Republican family and friends. They continue to assassinate his character to this day. If Kennedy lived, America would be totally different now. He tried to dismantle the Federal Reserve, get the troops out of South Vietnam, and truly govern the people.
Cop-out! Claiming racism anytime someone says
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Most beneficiaries draw out FAR more than they ever paid in.
I don't have time to hunt down the information, but I've heard for many years, from many different sources, that the average beneficiary collects every cent they ever paid into the system within something like 5 years, and every penny paid after that is a freebie from you and me, the folks currently paying into the system. Frankly, it's one great big inter-generational pyramid scheme.
In fact, when the retirement age was originally set at 65, way back when, the average life expectancy was UNDER that by a few years, so the system was designed for people NOT to collect from it.
My mother retired at 65, and she's going to be 88 next week. So that's something like 18 years the rest of us have supported her. She might also be getting some sort of widow's benefits; not sure about that, but if my dad were still alive, he'd be 96 (he died 15 years ago), and anything he paid into the system would have been paid out LONG before he died.
So, do I want to take away people's benefits, even if they're getting a freebie? No, of course not. They were promised this, and they're getting it, albeit at our expense. What I would like is for the rest of us to be given a choice to opt out, either entirely or for at least a percentage, because at this rate, my money would do better for me stuffed under the mattress than entrusted to the greedy hands of the politicians in Washington.
(And no, I don't stash cash in my mattress, so don't be coming over here to hunt for it! I'll sicc my psychotic killer gecko on you!)
Do you draw social security or do you know
someone who does?
Hope he doesn't slow down anytime soon...
As far as the way he debates, I like to think that he kind of stammers and stutters sometimes to buy himself time to really think about what he is going to say, as obviously saying one wrong thing can damage an entire campaign. I personally wish he would spit things out a bit faster, but in the end I can always see what he is trying to get at. Of course, he is my favorite candidate and I know where he stands on most issues anyway (I go to his website a lot), so that probably makes me more accepting of his style, I guess.
I hope he does not slow down, and I have a very good feeling that he won't. I think he is bringing out record numbers of young people out to vote, and I think that has been and will continue to be a huge part of his success. He does inspire people in general, and he obviously inspires them to vote! I've seen so many people comment on his MySpace page that they have never voted before but went and registered just so they could vote for him.
Obama has integrity, and I think many of us get the sense that he cannot be bought and will not work for big business but rather for the American people, and that is one of the things I like most about him. I guess I trust that he doesn't want the job for the paycheck but that he really wants to improve this country and the world in general. I'm sooooo sick of politicians voting according to what drug company is paying them the most money, or oil company, insurance company, etc. It is beyond outrageous at this point!
Anytime he's on-camera and turns forward
very often)... and anyone can see it. His left jaw/cheek or whatever sticks out like a chipmunk with an acorn in his cheek. I was just wondering if that's where his cancer was.
Read the article and draw your own conclusions.
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You and Michele Bachmann are free to draw and quarter me
No need indeed.
Warren Buffett is paying less tax, personally and corporately, than anytime time in his life.
He was interviewed by Charlie Rose last night - excellent interview - but by the time the show was over, my stomach was in knots. I find this very stressful.
I do think that the tax cuts to the rich and corp. America should be reversed. John McCain agreed with this as well early in the summer but I guess his base swayed him to change his stand.
In Buffetts's office, the cleaning lady pays more taxes than he does, he stated.
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