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When did you stop beating your significant other?
They're pissing away so much on illegal immigrants anyway.
I just live here for the jobs. When I retire, I'll be long gone. I can hardly stand to look at the blight of a city on a completely view-less landscape any longer. It's Ugly as Hell.
Promises that are too good to be true are the politician's bread and butter.
So you have no rational answer. Didn't think that you would. Thanks.
A loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question that contains a controversial or unjustified assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).[1]
Aside from being an informal fallacy depending on usage, such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda.[2] The traditional example is the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" Whether the respondent answers yes or no, they will admit to having a wife and having beaten her at some time in the past. Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed.[2] The fallacy relies upon context for its effect: the fact that a question presupposes something does not in itself make the question fallacious. Only when some of these presuppositions are not necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious.[2] Hence the same question may be loaded in one context, but not in the other. For example, the previous question would not be loaded if it was asked during a trial in which the defendant has already admitted to beating his wife.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
I had better things to do than answer your loaded question.
It wasn't a loaded question. That you're so fearful of answering it just further exposes your utter lack of rational argument.
Why try and reference logic when you know nothing about it? You just end up looking silly.
Yes, we do. Now. He didn't start this mess, in fact, the GOP wasn't the cause of this mess, but people will try to blame them.
The Pubs have had over 2 DECADES to correct the problem...
They were VERY quick to make the 'tough' choices in the social safety net, education, public services and the like.
one interesting tidbit- a REPUBLICAN was mayor of Dallas during this period... :shock:
Not just any politician, he has a BA, served in Congress (and on the banking committee where he helped with the enhanced secondary mortgage market 'reforms', FHA 'reforms', and tying gubmint insured mortgages to market place rates) BEFORE being the mayor of Dallas. He is given great credit for the money spent on many massive Capital Improvement Programs (5 BILLION)
After politics he became CEO of a financial services corporation (Financial Services Roundtable- 2mil a year salary) and was on Fannie Mae National advisory board.
Soooo while some on the rabid right cast about for ANY angle to blame current problems on ANY Democrat, they should look a bit closer to who actually was the local politician who ran the city under dis-CUSS-ion during the passage of whatever burr is under a Rabid Right ranter's saddle...eace
Hehe. I'm heartened to see these states getting what they deserve. And with Trump in the White House, you better believe there won't be any bailouts.
You act as if reversal of pensions and government promised goodies is easily achieved, doubly so when talking about first responders. Quite dishonest you are all being with that tactic.
allow me to recap your observation
the republicans holding dominant political positions failed to address the nation's problems because they were difficult to tackle
You act as if reversal of pensions and government promised goodies is easily achieved, doubly so when talking about first responders. Quite dishonest you are all being with that tactic.
You act as if the Dems are responsible for the pensions and CITY promised goodies. Quite dishonest of you (a REPUBLICAN is)
You act as if the STATE sets CITY LEO pension rates. Quite dishonest of you.
And you are being quite dishonest to claim pensions are not routinely 'adjusted' for government workers... from the amount the CITY will match, the RATE of return and the maturity date.
(They do it to teachers all the time)
Again the politicians were quite quick to cut OTHER government funding- but the rabid right uses 'law and order' to red meat their voters- it IS difficult for the right wing to then be fiscally responsible and adjust the pension system...eace
They are. In fact responsible.
Yes, we do. Now. He didn't start this mess, in fact, the GOP wasn't the cause of this mess, but people will try to blame them.
“It’s a ridiculous request,” Mr. Rawlings, a Democrat, said in testimony this month to the Texas Pension Review Board, whose seven members are appointed by Texas governors, all Republicans for the last 20 years.
Buck Consultants, the plan’s actuarial firm, warned that those assumptions were shaky, and that the changes did not comply with the rules of the state Pension Review Board.
“The Legislature clearly ignored that,” Mr. Kleinman said. The plan’s current actuary, Segal Consulting, reported in July that 23 years of unmet goals had left Dallas with a hidden pension debt of almost $7 billion.
Oh, look, graft and corruption by those Republican pension officials that adds to the problem.The projects called for frequent on-site inspections by the trustees and their plan administrator, Richard Tettamant. The Dallas Morning News reported that officials were spending millions on global investment tours, with stop-offs in places like Zurich and Pisa, Italy. Pension officials argued that their travel was appropriate and their investments were successes.
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