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No, it fucking is not.  It is the department of the treasury's money, until such time as it is allocated, once you strip the rhetoric off of it.  If you want it to be YOUR money, as in The Peoples' money, then I suggest you demand a representative that does more than a self-serving, cynical dog and pony show.

And yes, the Ron Paul crowd is more than pleased with the status quo. 

Unless they'd like to lose highway maintenance.  Or the military that protects us from the people we've raped for the last 200 years.  Or sanitation, emergency services, yada yada yada.

What they AREN'T happy with, is having to PAY for these things.  Well, too damn bad...reality is what is still there when you're done bitching, and the fact is, the bills DO have to be paid.  If the Libertarians don't like it, they can fuck off to Somalia, where there are no horrible "laws" and "taxes".  Or "roads" and "food" (the two ARE connected).

I would agree with you were it not for the fact that he votes against the bills.  I don't see how you can call it a show if he's not voting for them.

As far as your examples of the RP crowd being pleased with the status quo, I would say that in large part they do want federal funding out of them...  many/most of them to a greater degree than I do...

'if you don't like it, you can move to some other place...'  huh. Where have I heard that rhetoric before?

1.  Because he knows they'll pass anyway.  It's like him voting against congressional pay raises, then taking the raise (by contrast, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin still accepts the same pay he received as a freshman, donating the difference to charities in his state after voting against the raises.  There's other reasons to hate Feingold, though.).

2.  So people in New York deserve good roads, but people in the Appalachias don't?  And states should pay for constitutionally-mandated federal highways (article I, section 8, postal roads)?

3.  Sure.  But it's easier, and more fair, than dismantling a system others are using, because you don't want to pay the bills.  If there's an existing system that is more to your liking already in place, why not use it?  Sure, you'll die of cholera, but at least you won't have to pay for the CDC, or take it away from people who DO want it.

Gonna be big.  And pricey.

This stunner thing is very simple by comparison, and is still costing an arm and a leg, and more time than I thought.

about 3 years ago, but thanks. Everyone knows what ECHGF means but ECHF could be confusing so I just stick with the former until such time as she's properly Mrs. ECH.

3 years?

Well, don't lets rush into things.   

Dok,
Is not someone you should take advice from, of course, given his record.

I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.

Life sucks. Get a helmet.

I AM COMPLAINING ABOUT PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT FLUFF IN "APPLE TALK", WHICH EXISTS SOLELY FOR FLUFF.

Also, Filthy Assistant is napping over lunch, and snores like a goddamn asthmatic hippo.

It's not a dog and pony show because he does the two things that should be expected of him in order to stand for what he says.  he speaks up against the fiscal irresponsibility every chance he gets, and he votes against it every chance he gets. 

And he takes the money.

In the end, it's about results.  Or it should be.

What the Ron Paul crowd wants is talk.

is it not his constituents money to begin with?
they want talk?  you mean to say that the RP crowd is actually pleased with the current status quo?

No, it fucking is not.  It is the department of the treasury's money, until such time as it is allocated, once you strip the rhetoric off of it.  If you want it to be YOUR money, as in The Peoples' money, then I suggest you demand a representative that does more than a self-serving, cynical dog and pony show.

And yes, the Ron Paul crowd is more than pleased with the status quo. 

Unless they'd like to lose highway maintenance.  Or the military that protects us from the people we've raped for the last 200 years.  Or sanitation, emergency services, yada yada yada.

What they AREN'T happy with, is having to PAY for these things.  Well, too damn bad...reality is what is still there when you're done bitching, and the fact is, the bills DO have to be paid.  If the Libertarians don't like it, they can fuck off to Somalia, where there are no horrible "laws" and "taxes".  Or "roads" and "food" (the two ARE connected).

You need to booby trap that filthy assistant, Rog, just saying.

Roger:  Hey, Mike, you know that information you wanted from Larry?

Mike:  Yeah?

Roger:  DENIED.

Mike:  What?  Why?

Roger:  Because you have confused "need to know" with "want to know".  Our department does not exist to satisfy your bloated ego.

Mike:  *string of hollered obscenities*

Roger:  *hangs up phone*

There.  I feel better.

Now I have to complain that I've run out of things to complain about.

I am hungry. 

If I have to look at another batch of steamed veggies, I'm gonna puke.

This is not food.  This is what you feed to food.

I'm a bit upset, now I realize you don't mean actual pork.

No, it's an American phrase meaning "filthy lucre".

They can't get me in my studio.

Especially if you booby trap the door.

I am complaining about Mike the engineer, who is constantly distracting filthy assistant with requests for budgetary information that he has no need to see, and that FA has no time to provide for him (and that I am unwilling to give him, simply because he is a nosy bastard).

If you could show me some of his worst offenses, it might help me out a bit....

Not even sure if I consider his pork "offensive".  I'm just saying you should look with an unbiased eye.

It's not a dog and pony show because he does the two things that should be expected of him in order to stand for what he says.  he speaks up against the fiscal irresponsibility every chance he gets, and he votes against it every chance he gets. 

And he takes the money.

In the end, it's about results.  Or it should be.

What the Ron Paul crowd wants is talk.

Question:

My fiance thinks it would be irresponsible of me to use my tax return to buy a motorcycle rather than use it to get my Explorer fixed up. Should I slip her some laxatives to teach her a lesson?

When did she go from ECHGF to ECHF?

Congratulations.

Replace "right values" with "special tax status", or "Shares a nationality we're at war with", and compare to modern politics.   

I don't have to replace it to mirror modern political thought.

Go to a conservative board, and see what they say should happen to "progressives" and "liberals".  Seriously, do it.  You'll laugh until your spleen shoots out of your ass.

SEND ZEM EEEEEEEEEEEAST!

I do remember my mom and dad talking about the younger generations wanting their houses before they earned the $ to pay for them, and the cell phones and cars before they were paid off...but guess who bought their kids their 1st cars and gave my brothers cell phones before they were 16?

Uh huh.

Cell phones, I can see.  They actually serve a purpose.  The cable will be cut before my kids' phones are, as it DOESN'T serve a need.

Nah, they didn't need them--my mom didn't work, she was available a large part of the time if they needed her.   It was laziness on my parents' part, and it was a way of checking out of their own responsibility in keeping up my brothers'.

The kids have the phones because I need them to have phones, due to:

1.  Everything here is too far to walk (4-9 miles in 117F temperatures is too far), and they don't have licenses yet.  So I can either revolve my life around their social schedule, or I can go get them when they call.

2.  I work weird hours.  I need to be able to contact them.  I don't, often, but the capability is a must for me.

whut?

Jimmy Buffet is (or was) a kiddie fiddler. A dude who owns a bar in the BVI (who was good friends with my dad) once caught Jimmy Buffet molesting his daughter and, as the story goes, Jimmy Buffet was able to swim to his boat and get out of the harbor before Foxy could find his rifle and get a shot off.

Annnnnnnnd another hero takes a dive.

Goodbye, Margaritaville.