Government a Ponzi Scheme

yeah, sorry man but nancy drew and encyclopedia cheapskatia don't count as particularly impressive.

once again, the bar is still waiting for your belly.

oh, lonely bar.
 
I used to have "the cat in the hat", and "dick and jane".
I think my favorite though was "curious george".
:trippy:
 
i think bill gunston was my favorite author as a youth. that is, until my vision became so-so and i knew i'd never be able to fly anything particularly cool.
 
I wanted to be Evel Knievel in the 1st and 2nd grades,
then in the 3rd grade I busted out my front teeth on my bikes handlebars,
and had to wear braces for about 8 months.
Then we moved to the 'country', (when I got into 9th grade)
and I got in the FFA, and turned toward ag.
(mostly got into welding, rural electric wiring, and Christmas tree farming)
 
you must be about the same age i am, considering the kneival stuff. maybe a little older. i remember some kid having the toy motorcycle and action figure when i was maybe 4 or 5.

i also recall a friend of mine saying he wanted to be a truck driver when we were around 12. i told him that was a stupid idea and a waste of his talent. his mom sided with me, at least. i believe he's a chemical engineer/scientist at this point.
 
2minkey said:
i also recall a friend of mine saying he wanted to be a truck driver when we were around 12. i told him that was a stupid idea and a waste of his talent. his mom sided with me, at least. i believe he's a chemical engineer/scientist at this point.
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I reckon the most notable thing to me that I did was that
I made the first newly designed set of teflon O-rings for the space shuttle, after the Challenger disaster,
for the Ford co. that had the contract.
 
my friend wrote her dissertation on the organizational culture of the space shuttle team, the maintenance folks in particular. there was a notable delay in her progress when the shuttle blew up. apparently those folks were going on ebay to try to find really old electronic components for the shuttles.

i do see traces of my influence in some products, their advertising, and how they are marketed in stores. but nothing connected to anything really cool like a stinking space shuttle.
 
lol, looking back it was kind of a funny situation.
I was manager of a 10 man machine shop, and the owner brought me these
drawing blue prints.
I looked at um briefly, and set them to the side because the material had to be ordered.
They didn't really look to complicated, so, no biggy.
We were doing a lot of plastic (uhmw) work, and I figure it was another regular plastic job.
About a week later he brought in the 4" think slabs of teflon that were 1200 bucks each,
and said here's your material, DON'T SCREW UM UP.:eek13:
I got one of those hot flashes. :D
I do ok under pressure though, and they came out well.
I eagerly watched the next liftoff, and they didn't blow up, so I figure we did good.:p
 
It's kinda funny how many white collar schlubs have taken up the truck driver thing. Less politics & office drama.

Stephen King to Stephen Hawking, Federalist Papers to Communist Manifesto, Plato to Keith Richards. Ayn Rand to Frederick Douglas. I'm just finishing Booker T Washingtons Up From Slavery. After Douglas, I've been laughing my ass off at Booker T.
 
yeah you said it. if i worked in a 'regular' office i would have fled years ago. every time i see a client in cubicle land it terrifies me. today i was telling one the phone that when i travel to the east coast, i usually don't schedule anything before noon, and most often i get away with it. my office is stocked with beer and wine. i don't really have a boss. we sit around and talk about cool, wacky, theoretical shit often. sometimes i work a lot. most weeks i barely hit 40 hours. i'm underpaid relative to my experience/education, but, fuck it, i don't want to go work at schlubco, have to bust my ass for assholes, and become a drone.

i hardly own any fiction. perhaps i should lighten up.

i do own, among other things... all the classic works on american culture (de toqueville, etc.), the uncle karl library and everything that followed it, lots of books by french guys, a lot of stuff on technology/innovation, tons of history, a bunch of design-related books, lots of MBA-type crap for laughs, and a shitload about various ethnic groups, many in the middle east. lately i've been more into cookbooks though. probably 5-600 books all in all.
 
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I had the 8-track "Demons and Wizards" with that song.
Man that vid looks like they are lip-sinking. :(
 
make no mistake....it's coming with or without Obama now. Because of Obama. (and Nancy and Harry)
 
Charlie Reese said:
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. only The President can propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?


Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
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Awaiting answers from they guy who went to the diploma mill...
 
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