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| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #93276 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
5/29/2010 10:11:40 AM Found this today: TAKING DOWN THE BIRD FEEDER. This is the best analogy yet for the action Arizona was forced to take. Leave it to Maxine to come up with a solution for the mess that America is now in economically. No color or gender of any bird was discriminated against. Here's her story... "I bought a bird feeder. I hung It on my back porch and filled It with seeds. What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it lovingly with seeds. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table .. Everywhere! Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. So, I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like It used to be: quiet, serene... and no one demanding their rights to a free meal. Now let's see. Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an American citizen. Then the illegal's came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child's second grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English. Corn flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'press one ' to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than 'Old Glory' are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties. Just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder". If you agree, pass it on; if not, just continue cleaning up the poop... |
| wantonellis 163 posts msg #93299 - Ignore wantonellis modified |
5/30/2010 11:45:27 AM |
| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #93657 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
6/9/2010 1:36:43 AM We need to stop sending so much money to Washington, DC. |
| Eman93 4,750 posts msg #93658 - Ignore Eman93 |
6/9/2010 2:26:12 AM I agree on many levels....but In the financial crisis of 1930's in Germany a party was swept into power by blaming another ethnic race for all of their problems, when the real problem of all was a corrupt government controlled by a rich few that borrowed too much, bankrupted the country and crashed the currency. Now with that said... who benefits from illegal immigration? Let see..... major corporations for one indirectly... cheap farm labor, cheap construction labor. just cheap manual labor most are exploited with little or no benefits or overtime pay.... they have no recourse to the law because they are illegal. It also makes for a wonderful political football a way to get your vote.. just another problem that everyone exploits and profits from... and will never be solved because of it. sending them back is not the answer.... locking them up cost too much... you see what Germans ended up doing. so how about some viable solutions. cutting off welfare is not a solution IMHO. The welfare state is a huge problem and exacerbates itself with each passing generation... that's a tough one Here is one of my solutions institute a mandatory 2 year service in the armed forces at age 18 for men. No getting kicked out... if you screw up.. you will be sent to a labor camp to make crap for the rest of your term. Hey with all the extra troops they can even patrol the boarder....LOL Everyone will be thought a work ethic and respect, and hopefully a use full skill to bring back to the the market place. If you stay 4 years your collage is paid for. |
| petrolpeter 439 posts msg #93660 - Ignore petrolpeter |
6/9/2010 4:11:58 AM Are 'Build America Bonds' another one of Obama's rackets?Large fund managers were on saying they were selling their stock and/or getting cheap fed moneys and buying 'Build America Bonds' to get around a 6% rate,quipping that this is easier than holding stock.I don't see anything being built!So is it the banks collect interest,Obama squanders the money from the bond,and the debt is once again put toward the national deficit?Po taxpayers aching back! |
| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #93701 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
6/10/2010 11:55:31 PM In my inbox: ---- BEST EXPLANATION YET. This was written by a Mexican who is now a naturalized US Citizen, and I think it's a great explanation of the illegal immigration issue. Here is the quote: "If you had tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland, or for an airline flight, and when you got to your assigned seat you found someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed. You would properly be asked to show your ticket, and you would gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought and paid for that seat. The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, which they would not be able to produce. They would be called "gate crashers" and they would properly be removed. Now in this huge stadium called the USA we have had millions of gate crashers. We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gate crashers. We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back doors. Security has failed us. They are still looking the other way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price! In "section AZ", of "Stadium USA", we have had enough of the failures of Security. We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 "sections", and even many in our own "section" do not want tickets checked, or even to be asked to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he has sworn to do. My own ticket has been bought and paid for, so I am proudly going to show it when asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to show their tickets too. The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with it, such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent with our new legislation. Is that what I am hearing from all of the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon, US Rep. Grijalva, even President Obama? If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would do proudly, then you must be condoning those illegal activities." Written by a US Citizen, Globe, Arizona. This makes perfect sense to me. What do you think? |
| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #93732 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
6/11/2010 2:24:14 PM 4409 -- How to handle a Census Worker http://www.youtube.com/user/RP4409#p/u/14/AE6QGRBHQRo |
| johnpaulca 12,036 posts msg #93812 - Ignore johnpaulca |
6/14/2010 9:09:48 AM 06/11/10 Baltimore, Maryland – In the reign of Emperor Zhao, in 81 BC, 60 Confucian scholars were asked to consider the effect of government meddling in the economy. The Middle Kingdom was in a fix. Mongol raiders were pressing it from the East; the government was going broke. Taking the advice of Sang Hongyang, the feds of that era had put in place various state monopolies and price controls. The result? “People live in houses with badly-made beams and shoddy thatched roofs. They wear clothes of rough fabric and eat out of bowls made of dirt,” the sages explained. “We waste our time on vain efforts…and lack the essentials, food and clothing.” The scholars gave their advice in moral terms: “Above all, emphasize virtue and suppress get-rich-quick speculations.” Too bad they didn’t have The Financial Times or The New York Times to guide them! These journals offer a world without wickedness or moral lessons. Economy in a funk? Forget the real cause. Stimulate it! We can worry about the real problem “after the economy has recovered,” writes Paul Krugman in The New York Times. “Only those who believe the economy is a morality play,” would want to suffer the pain of a correction, adds Martin Wolf at the FT. Readers are urged to focus on the hilarity of the scene rather than on its gravity. It is as if a fat man were bending over. The further over he goes, the more his seams split. First to go was the subprime seam in the back…then the Greek seam on the side. But no one wants to say the obvious thing: that he should stand up straight and lose weight. Instead, the FTand the NYT want the government to buy him a larger pair of pants. You have read a number of unpopular views in our Daily Reckonings… That this was not a typical post-war recession; it is a Great Correction. Over-indebted American and British economies need to de-leverage. …That no recovery is possible, because the preceding model of debt-fueled consumption was unsustainable. …That ‘stimulus’ efforts were not only a waste of time and money, but also harmful; people who made bad bets should take their losses with dignity instead of trying to get others to pay. In the 10 million or so years since our ancestors have walked on two feet, many were the challenges that arose. We learned to hunt and gather…to build shelter…to clothe our bodies and to kill each other. We made tools and were able even to split atoms and remove body tattoos. We evolved into a practical, problem-solving race. But never could we solve the problem of an economic downturn. Why? Because the Confucian scholars were right. A properly functioning market economy gives people neither what they want nor what they expect, but what they deserve. In that sense it is ‘moral’ not mechanical. You can’t pull levers nor turn screws to stop a correction. Like old age, the best you can do is to endure it with good grace; the alternative is worse. Central planners don’t create wealth. They can only move it around, robbing Peter to pay Paul. This only ‘stimulates’ an economy if Paul uses the resources better than Peter. Don’t make us laugh. In most cases, Paul is the same clown who made the bad bets in the first place. In the present instance, instead of robbing Peter to pay Paul, the feds judged it prudent to borrow from Peter. But Peter is no dope. First, he turned his eyes on Greece. Then, he noticed all the other peripheral players in the Eurozone… Then, he put his wallet back in his pocket. It became obvious that the jig was up. As Nouriel Roubini put it, we reached the point where “austerity is not optional.” Stoicism went out of style in the economics profession 100 years ago. Activism paid. Stoicism did not. Since then, busybodies have advised presidents, headed central banks, run multi-national agencies, appeared on covers of TIME magazine, won the Legion d’Honneur and the Enron Prize…and run billion-dollar hedge funds. And now, after 18 months…and approximately $12 trillion worth of stimulus, bailouts and debt guarantees…we see the results of a live test. Have our modern economists done better than Sang Hongyang? The latest evidence came in last week, from the US. The biggest source of employment lately is the US government itself, which has hired hundreds of thousands of census takers. Obviously, if you could make people better off by having them count things, why not hire more of them and have them count the hairs on our heads? Employment in the private sector is still going down. One in ten Americans is officially unemployed…one is six is working at less than capacity. Twice as many people have been out of work for more than 27 weeks this year than the year before. Not surprisingly, real incomes are going down too. Meanwhile, one of every 8 houses is delinquent or in default on its mortgage. Statistically, 7.2 million of them will be foreclosed, most likely leading to another drop in housing prices…and a drop in household wealth. Prices are falling too. M3 fell at a 5% rate in May. Consumer prices, officially, are increasing at the slowest pace since 1966. Unofficially, adjusting for the real cost of housing, the actual cost of living is in outright deflation. In short, the ‘recovery’ is a flop. |
| TheRumpledOne 6,529 posts msg #93947 - Ignore TheRumpledOne |
6/17/2010 9:42:26 AM But look on the bright side... LOL!!! |
| crunkle 54 posts msg #93949 - Ignore crunkle |
6/17/2010 9:51:05 AM Years of Math 1950 - 2010 Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $ 2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register. I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters , but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried. Why do I tell you this? Because of the evolution in teaching math since the 1950s: 1. Teaching Math In 1950s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ? 2. Teaching Math In 1960s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit? 3. Teaching Math In 1970s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit? 4. Teaching Math In 1980s A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assign me nt: Underline the number 20. 5. Teaching Math In 1990s A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20.. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their ho me s? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it's ok. ) 6. Teaching Math In 2009 Un hachero vende una carretada de maderapara $100. El costo de la producciones es $80. Cuanto dinero ha hecho? 7. Teaching Math In 2010 Who cares, just steal the lumber from your rich neighbor's property. He won't have a gun to stop you, and the President says it's OK anyway because its a redistribution of wealth. |
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