Which is why I always repave the roads I drive on myself.

Translation: “I can’t counter any of the points you’ve made, so I’m just going to pretend they never happened.”

You have to judge professionals as they come. I’ve had bad experiences and some very good experiences when it came to dealing with local or federal government, just as I have with private businesses. I would say that my experiences with teachers, firemen, and police officers have generally been positive. Dealing with huge corporations? Not so much.

“Civil service laws make it quite difficult to prune out deadwood and it accumulates quite thickly.”

Because private businesses never, ever hire incompetent people to work for them.

“You’re a bit of a drama queen Jaim.”

You’re a complete and absolute shit-head, AO.

“Wonderful program, very well planned.”

Bush had a Republican Congress and could have killed Social Security, yet he didn’t. I wonder why?

But please, continue to try and besmirch one of America’s greatest presidents, one who was admired by St. Reagan himself. Tell old people they shouldn’t get Social Security or Medicare. Tell cops and firefighters and teachers that they’re leeches on the system. And enjoy your political party collapsing into a pile of rubble as your lies and scare-tactics blow up in your face.

Palin/Jindal 2012!

isms, Are you serious?

“General Revenues would be a good place. Pay your fair share and help our country through these hard times. People are suffering, losing homes and jobs and you run the other way, hiding in your bunker”

You want me, a middle aged conservative blue collar guy to donate my nest egg that I have accummulated by working over my lifetime? To donate it to the general revenues to be distributed through the federal govt.. Most people are not that charitable, neither am I nor do I suspect are you.

Jaim,
Are you defending the work ethic and productivity of the public sector? That’s a tough row to hoe, just want to clarify that. The evidence is all around you. For every public employee that actually works in an efficient manner there are many, many, others who do not. Civil service laws make it quite difficult to prune out deadwood and it accumulates quite thickly.

” elderly didn’t starve to death on American streets.”

You’re a bit of a drama queen Jaim. FDR’s program has increased it’s rate of taxation 750% and the amount of income taxed almost 5000% and is still slated to go bust way before your retirement. Wonderful program, very well planned.

Zython,

Your contribution is pointless.

That would be demand side economics, Einstein.

selfnamed reality based community.

Correction: The term “reality based community” is coined from a term used by an unnamed Bush aide. It is not “selfnamed”, like Teabagger is.

The biggest price we pay for the welfare state you are so enamoured with is the loss of liberty and freedom that the state micromanagement of our lives causes.

Yeah! We could lose the right to…uh…hmmm…Ah! Wait, running over homeless people isn’t a right, never mind.

You’re gonna have to give us an exact percentage on that. You can’t claim someone isn’t paying their “fair share” if you don’t explicitly label exactly what that “share” is.

But I’ll bet you bent over and supported the billions of dollars wasted on the occupation of Iraq. You wing-nuts are curious beasts.

General Revenues would be a good place. Pay your fair share and help our country through these hard times. People are suffering, losing homes and jobs and you run the other way, hiding in your bunker, head in the sand, smirking in condescension.

Of course you’re not worried and of course you’re convinced.

I have an aversion to paying for public services because it is a poor value for the money spent. Public sector employees are notoriously ineffiencent and public sector management is even more inept. Even so, as Will Rogers put it so many years ago, “It’s a good thing we don’t get the government we pay for.”
The biggest price we pay for the welfare state you are so enamoured with is the loss of liberty and freedom that the state micromanagement of our lives causes.

You on the other hand appear to have an aversion to the idea of supply side economics. I wasn’t referring to Wanninski’s whole body of thought only his advice about gold since you mentioned it. I’ve been averaging a return of greater than 40% a year on gold. I’d like to nail down some of those profits but I don’t know where to put the dough. These are good times to being going Gault and now is the time to pay taxes but a bad bad time to be holding cash.

What do you want me to tell you, Amused? That I’m not that concerned? I’m not. I’m fairly well convinced that things would be a whole lot worse right now if the stimulus plan hadn’t passed.

I believe that if we had taken any kind of “supply side” approach, as your Wanniski reference suggests, we would be a lot worse off now. A lot. If the choice was between a double dip recession or moderately higher inflation and a second Great Depression, it’s no choice at all.

I also don’t have the massive aversion to taxes to pay for public services that you seem to have.

But Amused, please feel free to tell me how naive I am not have a pile of gold tucked away in my seed bunker in preparation for the coming race war.

Ever hear of a guy named Jude Wanninski? I found him quite interesting and followed some of his advice. What safe harbor would you suggest for the funds that have accumulated from following his observations? I want to take some profits as nothing goes up forever yet balancing taxes against inflation makes decisions hard to make.

Amused, are you trying to sell me gold?

fafaroo,
LOL, I don’t whine about how you guys are picking on me. I couldn’t care less about my popularity here in Ollieland. Pointing out your hypocrisies and huge holes in your collective logic is a guilty pleasure. Nothing says more about your collective positions than the way you attack the messenger. Liberals live in a fantasyland where the laws of cause and affect don’t apply. If there was just one old fairytale I wish liberals would take to heart, it is the one about the golden goose. Where do you guys think prosperity actually comes from?

There are a few folks here that actually can think and of those few most are wasting their time trying to deny the obvious because it is not politically correct. Your attempted humor about logical thinking and death camps is so typical. You either can’t or won’t follow a course of action to it’s logical conclusion.

For example, What are the long term consequences of the unprecedented levels of debt Obama desires. Before you go off on a what about Bush etc. etc. etc. consider 2 things, that wasn’t good either and the amounts Bush overspent as large and worrisome as they are are trifling compared to the Obama level of debt.