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  • Dec 19, 2011, 06:20 PM
    cdad
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  • Dec 20, 2011, 11:44 AM
    tomder55
    Another Nanny state update aka Occupy the school cafeteria aka students revolt against Michelle Obama's draconian diet.

    L.A. schools' healthful school lunches panned by LAUSD students - Los Angeles Times
    Quote:

    Many of the meals are being rejected en masse. Participation in the school lunch program has dropped by thousands of students. Principals report massive waste, with unopened milk cartons and uneaten entrées being thrown away. Students are ditching lunch, and some say they're suffering from headaches, stomach pains and even anemia. At many campuses, an underground market for chips, candy, fast-food burgers and other taboo fare is thriving.
  • Dec 20, 2011, 11:50 AM
    speechlesstx
    LOL, like who couldn't have seen that coming? I mean besides Michelle. Doesn't' she know there are kids starving all over the world and thanks to her we have "massive" food waste at home now?
  • Dec 20, 2011, 12:08 PM
    tomder55
    They threw the black bean burgers away . The spark of Samuel Adams, the Sons of Liberty... the original Tea partiers
  • Dec 20, 2011, 03:44 PM
    talaniman
    Kids don't run nothing. In my house you ate what you had in front of you, or you didn't eat.

    Just wait until the parents get involved, as they should be. When did we start letting kids do as they please??
  • Dec 20, 2011, 05:07 PM
    tomder55
    Yeah I wasn't given such option. My mom packed a sandwich for me to eat. Sounds like that is a better deal than the gruel the schools are trying to pass off as a palatable alternative. When I did get lunch money, mom wasn't around when I traded the money in for ice cream instead of the barfaroni the school tried to serve me.
  • Dec 20, 2011, 05:20 PM
    paraclete
    You don't know when you are well off, we have manged to survive without school canteens, I wonder how we did it, and yet wherever these are established there is controversy about the standard of nutrition, etc. Yet you think that providing nutritous food as distinct from fast food crapolla is an expression of the nany state. Why not just contract McDonalds and KFC to runn the school canteens
  • Dec 20, 2011, 05:33 PM
    tomder55
    Great idea. Although I would opt for something like pizza hut . As you know ;a pizza has all the food groups and is a complete nutritious meal .
  • Dec 20, 2011, 05:37 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    great idea. although I would opt for something like pizza hut . As you know ;a pizza has all the food groups and is a complete nutritious meal .

    Yes this is why we observe pizza joints going out of business more rapidly than banks in Europe, the public don't want to eat healthy.
  • Feb 22, 2012, 03:17 PM
    speechlesstx
    Nanny state update, the new, illegally appointed consumer protection czar wants to examine overdraft fees because apparently, the feds think Americans are too stupid to know how to avoid them.

    Quote:

    "Overdraft practices have the capacity to inflict serious economic harm on the people who can least afford it," CFPB Director Richard Cordray said in a statement. "We want to learn how consumers are affected, and how well they are able to anticipate and avoid paying penalty fees."
    I can anticipate paying penalty fees no problem, I don't spend more money than I have in the bank. Seems a no-brainer to me but then we have a president and Treasury Secretary (who couldn't do his taxes) that think our federal debt rising to 900 percent of the GDP is a good thing.

    Don't spend more than you have in the bank and voilà, no overdraft fees.
  • Feb 22, 2012, 04:38 PM
    paraclete
    You don't spend more money than you have in the bank? But observe, your nation does just that, can you expect the population to do otherwise?

    It is a little known axiom that what goes with leadership comes down on the population, so a spendthrift government begets a spendthrift nation
  • Feb 22, 2012, 05:35 PM
    talaniman
    Illegal Bank Fees - Reports

    Bank Overdraft Fees Attorney | Deceptive Bank Practices

    As we see the banks have already been found guilty of illegal overdraft fees, yet they still do it. Why because they can target the poor and uneducated, and make big money. Nice try Speech, but to make this a simplistic criticism of others especially youngsters with NO experience takes away from the culpibility of the big banks who make their money illegally through these sophisticated practices. That's why they are looking into it.

    All they big banks have been sued, and lost, and forced to pay, and still they do it. Go figure.

    But of course its easier too blame the victims and not the crooks.
  • Feb 22, 2012, 06:45 PM
    paraclete
    Yes Tal the problem of bank gouging their customers is everywhere but in a victory for the customer our banks were prevented from charging a break fee when a mortgage is discharged early ~- a tick for the nanny state
  • Feb 22, 2012, 09:59 PM
    talaniman
    For what reason would anyone not want someone not working in their behalf against those very corporations that have ripped the consumer of so easily in the past?
  • Feb 22, 2012, 10:43 PM
    paraclete
    Well Tal I think it is because they have a religious affiliation with capitalism, that is they worship money.

    Capitalism is not a religious concept, in fact, it is antithesis of what most religions teach. The idea that you should grab all you can is man's idea not God's. Your nation suggest it trusts in God but in fact this isn't true, just a nice sounding platitude
  • Feb 23, 2012, 07:26 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    you don't spend more money than you have in the bank? But observe, your nation does just that, can you expect the population to do otherwise?

    Um, yes I commented on that, "we have a president and Treasury Secretary (who couldn't do his taxes) that think our federal debt rising to 900 percent of the GDP is a good thing."

    Quote:

    It is a little known axiom that what goes with leadership comes down on the population, so a spendthrift government begets a spendthrift nation
    How about this instead, a government that tells its people it's someone else's fault they're irresponsible begets an irresponsible nation.
  • Feb 23, 2012, 07:34 AM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    well tal I think it is because they have a religious affiliation with capitalism, that is they worship money.

    Capitalism is not a religious concept, in fact, it is antithesis of what most religions teach. The idea that you should grab all you can is man's idea not god's. Your nation suggest it trusts in god but in fact this isn't true, just a nice sounding platitude

    Totally in agreement!!

    Quote:

    QUOTE by speechlesstx;
    Um, yes I commented on that, "we have a president and Treasury Secretary (who couldn't do his taxes) that think our federal debt rising to 900 percent of the GDP is a good thing."
    He never said it was a good thing, no one did, but they do say it was necessary thing to do, in light of the robbery perpetrated by the banking sector on the GLOBAL economy.

    Quote:

    How about this instead, a government that tells its people it's someone else's fault they're irresponsible begets an irresponsible nation.
    So the people are responsible for the actions of Wall Street, regulators, and Banks, REALLY??
  • Feb 23, 2012, 07:42 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    well Tal I think it is because they have a religious affiliation with capitalism, that is they worship money.

    Capitalism is not a religious concept, in fact, it is antithesis of what most religions teach. The idea that you should grab all you can is man's idea not God's. Your nation suggest it trusts in God but in fact this isn't true, just a nice sounding platitude

    Wrong, we are no more greedy than anyone else. In fact and you know this, we are the most generous nation on the planet. The amount we give privately and publicly dwarfs everyone else no matter how you spin it.

    What we value is freedom.
  • Feb 23, 2012, 07:57 AM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    What we value is freedom.

    Hello again,

    I'm AMAZED by how quickly you wingers ZOOM between your absolute hatred of the nanny state here, and the thread where you support a government official being posted in every doctors office in the nation...

    And, you do it without blinking an eye...

    excon
  • Feb 23, 2012, 08:06 AM
    talaniman
    Forget it EX, righties DO NOT compromise on their right to tell you how wrong you are about everything.
  • Feb 23, 2012, 08:08 AM
    speechlesstx
    Nothing to be amazed by, I hate the nanny state but love babies. They should have rights, too.

    Quote:

    QUOTE by speechlesstx;
    Um, yes I commented on that, "we have a president and Treasury Secretary (who couldn't do his taxes) that think our federal debt rising to 900 percent of the GDP is a good thing."

    QUOTE by talaniman;
    He never said it was a good thing, no one did, but they do say it was necessary thing to do, in light of the robbery perpetrated by the banking sector on the GLOBAL economy.
    NO, what he said was "what our budget does is get our deficit down to a sustainable path". Debt at 900 percent of GDP is not a "sustainable path".
  • Feb 23, 2012, 08:27 AM
    talaniman
    Geez dude even Ryan, and Romney show no deficit reduction for two to ten years in their plans. Why, because of the recession. If that's not a priority, grow the economy, then deficit reduction won't work either. Everyone knows that. I like babies to.
  • Feb 23, 2012, 09:21 AM
    tomder55
    The path to a balanced budget is budget cutting . The government collects plenty of revenue . The red ink is on the spending side of the ledger .
  • Feb 23, 2012, 01:13 PM
    talaniman
    The path to a balanced budget is fair taxation, balanced spending, and a growing economy, AND TIME.

    Even Laffer couldn't balance a budget without adding revenue streams. Cutting spending during a recession is counter productive to growth. And cutting those who have little or nothing is discrimination.
  • Feb 23, 2012, 01:58 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    And cutting those who have little or nothing is discrimination.

    No one has any plan to cut the safety net for those who NEED it. Just as no one had any plan to ban birth control. You guys are making up boogeymen and I have news for you, these boogeymen don't exist.
  • Feb 23, 2012, 02:24 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    The path to a balanced budget is budget cutting . The government collects plenty of revenue . The red ink is on the spending side of the ledger .

    Tom are you certain you know what you are advocating, The shortfall of revenue covering expenditure is massive, to do what you suggest you would need to dismantle the military, social welfare, obamacare as well as much of the administration. The economic impacts would deepen the recession and lead to civil unrest. You are talking about cutting the budget by about 40%. One of the big budget items is paying for the massive debt and you can't wipe that out with a stroke of the pen, you need to turn the whole revenue-expenditure equation on its head and that takes increasing taxation
  • Feb 23, 2012, 02:33 PM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Even Laffer couldn't balance a budget without adding revenue streams.
    The revenue came with tax cutting stimulating the economy... not spending .It reached record levels in both the 1980s and later in the last decade . What Laffer couldn't do ;and neither could Reagan ;is cap the spending that came out of the O'Neill Congress . Only in the 1990s ,with Newt's budgets and Clintoon triangulating and , a mini dot-com boom (those evil corporations ) did the budget balance.

    We have serious problems with both the levels of spending and the unfunded "entitlements "(made worse because of that beer money coming to you in the payroll tax cut that directly funds SS and Medicare .) You see Greece ? I really don't want that here. But "progressive " policies enacted over the last 50 years have brought us there one step behind the democratic socialist states of Europe.
  • Feb 23, 2012, 06:14 PM
    paraclete
    So Tom you are saying you need Newt back again?
  • Feb 23, 2012, 10:57 PM
    talaniman
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post
    No one has any plan to cut the safety net for those who NEED it. Just as no one had any plan to ban birth control. You guys are making up boogeymen and I have news for you, these boogeymen don't exist.

    So I guess the Ryan plan to privatise medicare and give everyone a voucher is a figment of leftwings imagination huh? And in his plan we grandfather in the ones who are 55, but after that the ones paying into the social security, and medicare plans get reduced benefits managed by a for profit corporation. And that's how we get a balanced budget in 15 years.

    REALLY??
  • Feb 23, 2012, 11:34 PM
    talaniman
    The budget was balanced by closing military bases, and shrinking the military. And a tax that promoted expanding the tax base. The government didn't have to spend because there were enough revenues from an expanded base (23 million jobs), to run surpluses killed by GHB, and his congress. That's when the massive extraction began, right after workers took health benefits instead of wages, as companies downsized and went over seas. First to Mexico, then all over the globe.

    Nobody listened to the cries of OUTSOURCING, and slave labor by foreign countries. Or even the notion that cheap labor could be found in backward places and we couldn't compete with the slaves they found overseas. Naw blame it on progressives for living the American Dream, fueled by debt and deception of the corporate class, and the right wingers who cheered them on after getting robbed blind and scared to death. Poor people were okay until you became one, then you were cursed for life as a lazy bum.

    I was there. And I'm watching it happen all over again. Righties love it, when the government is small and weak and lets the corporations do as they please, and the churches bring us back to the morality only they have, and you don't. Righties seek to destroy from within, and that's their whole agenda, and always have been. All this in the name of freedom to be part of the haves and taking from the have nothings.

    So the economy struggles on at the perfect pace for the right wing agenda so their leftist immoral enemies are so busy hustling beans to notice this is the same script we saw during the 30's. Again the solution will be a long hard war with some foreign country, bent on ruling the freakin' world.

    Or, maybe not, VOTE DEMOCRATIC, and pay no attention to those clowns on the right. They are great at throwing pies in each other face, but its foolish to take them seriously.

    Or we could end up like the GREEKS, in the streets throwing rocks.
  • Feb 24, 2012, 03:30 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    The British government introduced a higher tax rate on the rich in 2010, promising that it would bring in added revenue. But, as any sensible person could have guessed, just the opposite has happened.

    Gordon Brown's Labour Party government launched the 50% rate in income taxes allegedly as a means to bring in more revenue.

    The London Telegraph reported earlier this year that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs estimated the British version of the Buffett Tax would "show a 'surge' in revenues totaling hundreds of millions of pounds from the first year."

    The "surge" wasn't even a trickle. In fact, there was actually a reversal. Collections fell by $800 million compared to income tax payments a year earlier.

    As Francesca Lagerberg, head of tax at the accounting firm Grant Thornton, told the Telegraph this week, the apparently unexpected outcome "highlights the fact that high tax rates don't always deliver high tax revenues."

    But shouldn't they? Yes, if nothing else changes. But things change. They always do.

    As government sources explained to the Telegraph, the lower revenue is the result of "well-off Britons" changing their behavior so they could "avoid the new higher rate."
    Despite the inverted results and the obvious problems they will cause, the British left is insisting that the rate remain in place. Why? Because, the Telegraph reports, the left believes that "it is important to demonstrate that the rich are paying their fair share."

    The jealous urge to punish the rich and to enforce a subjective fairness that blinds lawmakers in Britain is the same disorder afflicting politics in this country.
    Britain Learns That A Tax On The Rich Doesn't Increase Government Revenue - Investors.com

    So even though there is a demonstrated inverse result from these targeted tax increases ,the left insists on them . Why ? Because of their distorted image of fairness and not sound fiscal policy.
  • Feb 24, 2012, 04:50 AM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    Britain Learns That A Tax On The Rich Doesn't Increase Government Revenue - Investors.com

    So even though there is a demonstrated inverse result from these targetted tax increases ,the left insists on them . Why ? Because of their distorted image of fairness and not sound fiscal policy.

    Raising taxes in a recession may not mean an immediate increase in overall tax revenue because the tax base is much broader than the rich and millions were earning less including the rich the value of whose investments had crashed. I remember when the highest tax rate was 90% can't imagine how few there were who actually paid it but your theorum is that if tax rates were zero the economy would boom. Let me tell you a story about a nation who had many tax evaders, they introduced a broad based consumption tax and presto, collections increased dramatically and oddly enough the economy boomed. A tax led recovery perhaps
  • Feb 24, 2012, 05:07 AM
    talaniman
    Companies must stop hoarding cash and start investing instead | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

    Nice try Tom, but they have the same problems that we do, the job creators ain't doing their jobs and are actively keeping the money from circulating. The solution is the same as ours, government spending, and higher taxes and incentives to actually invest in their country. If the right would embrace the idea of instead of cutting poor people and there safety net, and let the rich guys PAY for REAL jobs creation like a ten years infrastructure program, partnering with schools, and colleges to get some workers they could use, instead of importing them, we wouldn't be wasting time on just waiting for job creators to do their job.

    A tax increase just to have one is useless in the broader picture, but add to it some really stimulative projects, and you have some actual jobs being created, and the burdens the government is now carrying would be lessened and you can start to think of some deficit reduction.

    Drastically cutting government spending creates NO jobs, NONE! It will stifle economic growth though, and have even more people out of work on that dole you decry so ferociously from the right. Depending on banks and corporations, has created no jobs, NONE! That's the role of government buddy, and not a weak one. To incentives through tax policy reinvestments in this country. I mean they haven't done squat to bail out the ones who bailed them out. Typical greedy b@stards they are. They just went back to business as usual playing amongst themselves. Tax them high, and if they want to help, give 'em a break.

    Go ahead, kiss some more rich booty and see where that gets you.

    Just curious, if Keystone is such a hot idea, why do taxpayers have to pay for that too? The oil companies make the profits from it so why am I building it for their benefit??

    I smell more legal robbery coming to the already strapped taxpayer,

    You righties got life and BS all confused.
  • Feb 24, 2012, 05:52 AM
    tomder55
    And you lefties still cling to 1930s models that were a complete failure . You have already extended the negative effects from the 2008 recession for 4 years with no end in sight. You tout very modest increases in growth and very modest and distorted unemployment figures as proof that what you are doing is working ? Then you accuse us of being confused ? Your idiot in chief yesterday told us we can convert soilent green into biofuels to solve the energy crisis... that's all we need to know about his plans . It's all otherworldly cr@polla
  • Feb 24, 2012, 07:21 AM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    It's all otherworldly cr@polla

    Hello again, tom:

    You, along with your party are drifting rightward into unknown territory... Come back... Come back...

    I COULD argue that the 30's lefty policies produced the largest sustained increase in wealth and upward mobility the world has ever seen. You'd like to take us back to the 19th Century. That's why I asked about a right wing WISH LIST. You didn't step up then, but it looks like you just did.

    Surly, if we elect a Santorum, and you manage to get a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, you WILL, (a) repeal Obama care, (b) end Medicare and Social Security as we know it, (c) repeal Roe, (d) OUTLAW contraceptives, (e) drug test all the liberals, and (f) (fill in the blank from a panoply of repressive choices.)

    Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me that isn't what you'd do IF YOU COULD.

    excon
  • Feb 24, 2012, 09:05 AM
    talaniman
    If Mitt would have let the car company go bankrupt, then he will let YOU go bankrupt too. And homeless. He said so.
  • Feb 27, 2012, 03:40 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by talaniman View Post
    If Mitt would have let the car company go bankrupt, then he will let YOU go bankrupt too. And homeless. He said so.

    He'd also drop everything and go rescue your family on the lake or shut down the business to go find a missing girl.

    Obama on the other hand will hold a beer summit after accusing you of racism or use other people's money to buy you some condoms.
  • Feb 28, 2012, 12:41 AM
    talaniman
    It was racism, and its his job to delegate the spending of public money, not other peoples, on the common good. Please tell me where the free condoms are.
  • Feb 28, 2012, 07:22 AM
    speechlesstx
    No, it was not racism and it's the House' job to spend our money and they suck at it, too. What, you didn't know a condom was a contraceptive and Obama plans on making those free? We've been discussing it.
  • Feb 28, 2012, 05:18 PM
    talaniman
    We have been discussing woman's contraceptives. Show me where the president wants to make condoms free, please. I must have missed that one.

    30 days until baseball, are we ready? Wheres Ex when you need him.

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