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WHO HERE IS WILLIN TO GIVE MONEY TO KATRINA VICTIMZ? POLL
Javier:
Some local representatives are taking the money that was going to be used for their own district for personal projects and use it for the reconstruction of New Orleans.
Javier:
For a while it did seem that these people were alone and look how bad it got, they needed the government help. FEMA was formed to minimize damage the inevitble damage and to maximze the help it should be doing
ecrazy:
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on September 23, 2005, 12:11:42 AM ---
I'm still studying the economic principles of taxation, the government's role, trade, etc... but maybe the government could fund the necessary things (to protect) and necessities that private individuals would have no benefit in providing (roads, etc).. with the money from trade..? I'm just kinda making a guess here.. it may be a little far-fetched....
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Even the roads are made from outside contractors....almost everything has its ties to private organizations, and most are owned by theses politicians, or people who give money to theses politicians, every damn politician takes special interest money
UAK:
New Orleans set themselves up by diverting levee funds, they can kiss ass and fuck the American Red Cross 350k salaries.
Trauma-san:
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on September 23, 2005, 12:11:42 AM ---^ I'm assuming you consider yourself a libertarian/classical liberal....?
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I would be a true/ classic conservative. You know, the ones who voted FOR the civil rights bill but then had their party labeled as racist since they don't believe in huge federal entitlement programs.
I'm not crazy enough to say the government isn't going to help people. All this shit started in the depression when people truly did need help, and there are still people today who truly need help. If Rosevelt wouldnt' have started some of these programs, who knows what shape the country would be in today. All I'm saying is, the government is way oversized and bloated, and In my opinion, that's not going to change. It's just going to get worse and worse. Everything they're pushing, I don't want.
Look @ how America lives. I know some people are broke and need government assistance, that's fine; however I also know many, many, perhaps 50 or 60 percent of the people who receive government assistance aren't trying to do anything about it. They just figure out how to live on whatever money the government gives them, and have kid after kid, bringing them into a bad situation. Then they sit around and bitch that they're all in gangs and shit out on the street. Well look how the fuck you raised them! I was never tempted to do any of that shit because my dad worked his ass off to make enough money to move us out of bad neighborhoods, and if I ever acted up I got my ass beat. He actually gave a shit.
Who do you know, poor, that saves any money? NOBODY! They all just try and hit that magic 65 mark so they can start getting their social security checks. Social Security was originally intended to be a retirement supplement, not a retirement savings account. When it was started by Roosevelt, people had a life expectancy of 2 years past the limit of when you could start receiving benefits. Think about that. Now it's not uncommon for people to live to be 85, by the time we're older people will routinely be hitting 95. Nobody saves, though, like our grandparents and great grandparents did... they just wait on the government's little bullshit check to save them. FOLKS, IT'S NOT GONNA BE ENOUGH BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T DO SHIT RIGHT!
I saw this guy run some math on a talk show a while back. If you get a job, making 6 bucks an hour (that may be under minimum wage now, I dunno). Anyways, 6 bucks an hour when you're 18, and work until you retire at 65. Every week, you take the 6.5 or whatever percent you pay to social security, and invest it in a mutual fund. The stock market has averaged 12 percent or more since inception, and it's not hard at all to find a mutual fund that will average that... if you invested your money at 12 percent, when you retired at 65 you'd have 1.3 million dollars in the bank, and would be earning 100 grand a year just in interest. You could live off the interest the rest of your life to the tune of 7 or 8 grand a month, plus never touch the million dollar principle you have in the bank. This is all for a loser making 240 bucks a week who never got a raise his entire fucking life... and people wanna bitch about being poor???? Look at what the government is doing with your money. They take the same amount, from the same guy, and when he retires at 65.... they send him a check for about 500 bucks a month. Where's his 7 or 8 grand? Where's his 1.3 million in the bank? They think the government is doing him a favor? Are you kidding me? They're raping him! THE MAFIA TREATS PEOPLE BETTER THAN THE GOVERNMENT DOES. If I gave Tony Soprano 7 points a week I'd be taken care of better than these people are.
On top of that, the whole materialistic side of society is sickening. People carry bank notes on expensive cars, and then bitch when they can't pay the bills. The absolute worst thing you can do with your money is take a loan out on a car. If you can't pay cash, it's tooooo muuuucccchhh carrrrrr. Everybody's starving, but look at what they're driving. Like it even fucking matters what kind of car you have, EVERYBODY HAS THAT. Ultimately, you don't even own it. Not only does the bank own it, but you owe them more than the car is worth! You're PAYING THEM TO DRIVE THEIR CAR.
I dunno, I just get bent out of shape thinking how people don't see this. I don't necessarily see myself as all that super intelligent, I just wonder why I'm the only one who notices the bullshit people are doing to themselves. That's the basis for my posts defending the current administration, people blame them for problems that are ultimately their own fault.
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