Another 'nother one bites the dust
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2minkey
bootlicker
if you wanna get into the generational thing, dude, i'm going to be paying for your sorry ass long after you are dead. you and peel. and gonz. hmmm... yeah something tells me you guys ain't the future economic powerhouse of this country... i'll end up having to learn hindi or mandarin just cause some of you all were too lazy to finish fucking high school...
Winky
Well-Known Member
Look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own.
I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there
. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something
there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have
that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business
you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.
Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there
. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something
there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have
that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business
you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.
Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
I hope you can get your money back from whatever history/government classes you took. They failed you.
Here, lemme 'splain it to ya...
The government can tax you. Don't pay it, go to jail (that whole "at the point of a barrel" thing you have trouble with)
Then, the government can take the money they've forced to to give up & they can apply it to security (armies/navies)
or to printing stamps (although, they've actually turned that over too, since it was losing so much money) or they can
build roads (which, ironically, have their own specific tax, which is seldomly used for roads). They pay federal employees
with the taxes & use some of it to go overseas (or up/down the road) and have diplomatic missions.
On the other hand, private businesses have ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL OVER MY MONEY, if I chose not to
do business with them.
So, yes, the government stole our money & handed it over to a private firm (see socialism)
One half of crony capitalism is....c'mon, you can do it, I know you can
(hint, without that half, it couldn't exist)
Professur
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I have only one real question ... why hasn't the US gov't bought up every US made solar panel and planted it on top of a US gov't building already? They'd have their loans paid back by now, and be generating enough energy that there wouldn't be a gov't building as a net consumer anywhere. THAT would be a useful green stimulus that worked, wouldn't cost the tax payer a cent in the long run, and would help the overall energy deficit. Why doesn't every gov't building have a living roof? That's a proven technology. Keeps the buildings cool, consumes CO2, cleans effluent. Instead of applying carbon taxes on citizens ... why haven't they stepped up to the plate?