... We DO have a majority of people invested in having the government take care of them....
Seriously...we arent 500 years out...its a lot closer than we think!
Another thread discusses whether unemployed people should have the 'right' to vote. Well...Im not suggesting they shouldnt...but there WAS a time when we looked not to what our country can do for us but we can do for our country. that time has passed. We DO have a majority of people invested in having the government take care of them. What passes for culture and entertainment is as infantile as "Ow My balls". So really...how far off are we?
would you care to attempt to qualify that or are you happy spewing empty, inflammatory rhetoric?
geo.
I think that quote is out of whack, it should say "What you can do for yourself."
I have no intentions of serving the state.
Frankly I had never heard of The Flynn Effect prior to your posting it. However in the link you provided it also states...The move completely ignores the Flynn Effect which shows that we've been getting smarter over time. The movie was an alright flick but the premise is ultimately flawed in that the empirical evidence has been showing that the opposite is occurring.
Of course I AM happy spewing rhetoric,
a preposterous number - even such bilous anti-obamistas as WND won't go further than MAYBE 22%. Best approximation is perhaps 18% (CNBC et al.)We currently have somewhere around 25% unemployment
and? no income means no income taxes. the more taxes you spend entitles you to greater public services? or.... public services are allocated without respect to income status? because if it is the former, i hope you are the CEO of a MAJOR, MAJOR international financial corporation or forget calling the fire dept - they will not answer the phone.Add to that 2.9 to 4% of Americans homeless. Statistics in 2009 showed that 43.4% paid NO taxes or worse less than zero which means they got some of that free love (Earned Income Credit).
citation?Recent stats released by the Mayo institute show somewhere around 84 million folk are getting government aid.
translation: "poor people are disgusting""Add to that number the general slugs in society...
translation: "if i were not just making all this crap up".yeah...Id think if we wanted to do some real research "
And Im just guessing...considering your response Im wondering if i didnt strike a nerve! maybe a little too close to home? Are ya 'batin'?
heheh....
a preposterous number - even such bilous anti-obamistas as WND won't go further than MAYBE 22%. Best approximation is perhaps 18% (CNBC et al.)
It doesn't really matter, though, and it does little to bolster your premise to cite such obviously partisan inspired propaganda as 'facts'.
only those of the unemployed as per the designation, the 'official' 9.5% (Employment Situation Summary) are of any actual relevance when discussing monies gotten from the government. and these are not depending on others, they are depending on the monies THEY, their fellow workers and employers contributed to that express purpose. the gummint only moves the paperwork.
and? no income means no income taxes. the more taxes you spend entitles you to greater public services? or.... public services are allocated without respect to income status? because if it is the former, i hope you are the CEO of a MAJOR, MAJOR international financial corporation or forget calling the fire dept - they will not answer the phone.
get hip, homey, YOU receive in a month far more in benefit from the monies collected in taxes than you could generate in taxes over your lifetime. so, you are living on someone else's dime too.
citation?
translation: "poor people are disgusting"
translation: "if i were not just making all this crap up".
enough... this is beyond silly. your assertion is baseless.
wassat mean? jerkin off? no, not at the present... perhaps later.
geo.
I thought that movie was both disturbing and hilarious.
Hilarious... well that's obvious.
Disturbing... we really have been moving towards a lowest-common-denominator, vulgarized and dimwitted pop culture for some time. However, I take comfort in the fact that stupidity is not entirely hereditary... sometimes dimwits give birth to geniuses, and vice-versa.
clever! do not even bother to deny that you are deliberately spreading propagandist bull****.
of course i battle on. i was brought up to believe that i was responsible for one thing and one thing only - to be a good person. and.... i am no punk. i will continue to battle. because true things have value and all that is needed for evil (ignorance, bigotry, falseness, slander, poverty, oppression.... ) to succeed is for good men to remain silent.
black beans and rice for dinner... yum!
geo.
Thats the truly funny part...in a conversation about the dumbing down and dependency of society I expect MORE of people and believe it is possible and you plug your ears and pretend la la la la la its not happening...
you expect.... MORE... of others? but... not much of yourself, it appears. if i am 'fixated on a mythical' anything, it is YOUR myth (nice sidestep... most would just call it a 'lie') You are worried about the dumbing down' of our friends and neighbors, so ... you propagate untruths, furthering the dumbing down? You believe it is possible, but not as long as others expect you to state facts and tell the truth.
well... you know what they say about proophets in their own countries.
geo.
Its funny when people cling to Darwin and evolution as the educational foundation for the human species and yet we ENCOURAGE the opposite of "survival of the fittest" by facilitating the pathetic crippled and dependent pets to not just survive but thrive.
you have a very poor (i am being generous) understanding of the writings of m. Darwin - as proponent of 'social darwinism' it would seem. A pseudo-social philosophy which has absolutely nothing to do with "actual" Darwinism.
Simply put, "survival of the fittest" as the good doctor used it, does not mean the biggest baddest most predatory will survive over the weakest... it is a reference NOT to individuals within a population but to populations within their environment... that is, those most able to adapt to changes of environment or changes within an environment ('the fittest') will best survive those changes and produce reproducable offspring.
ignorance may be bliss, but is is terribly unattractive and makes for crappy social policy.
geo.
I dont CARE enough about an internet blog to dig up the conveeenient research to support +50%,
I know that people REJECT what doesnt fit their personal paradigm
I know that it wouldnt matter if God came down and wrote it on your forehead with a Sharpie.
The move completely ignores the Flynn Effect which shows that we've been getting smarter over time.
It never ceases to amaze me when people base their views of society on a rather un-funny movie.
Could we at least have chosen an entertaining one?
apparently.but.... well, you needn't do all that much research... you can spare yerself a lil trouble by just counting heads and dollars. according to the National Debt Awareness Center, HHS and SSA the two agencies that comprise the bulk of monies paid to individuals, together accounted for $150m. (I assume that, good patriotic american that you must surely be, you would omit such folks as Vererans form the list of folks receiving federal monies and allowing other to provide for them?)
now, as of the last census, half the population (your putative "50%") of the U.S. (officially, that is, illegal immigrants, homeless crackheads and other uncounted ne'er do wells omitted) would be roughtly 153b souls. Kinda nice how those number correlate, innit? serendipitous is the adjective that leaps to mind... I can leave the Casio in my backpack. by my reckoning, each of those folks received, em.... 10 cents for FY 2010. not much of a living, if you ask me, even were the assertion true which, of course, it is, as we have already ascertained, not.
ah! yes, indeed. here is a statement that stands up all by itself (though... do you really mean "paradigm"... a popular word these days, i know)... THIS needs no comment. don't tell me you have been irony in the entire discourse?
you sly boots.
nope, you are sadly right... if God were to come down here, sharpie in hand and proceed to dispense patent untruths as you do... i would would be doomed.
geo.
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