What do you call it when..............?

[nailer]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Read them both at seventeen when I was still a liberal. Even so I figured it was all BS. They even made a movie out of The Fountain head if memory serves, what a waste of good 35mm filmstock.

Staring Gary Cooper.

Why on earth didn't you stop at one?

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by nailer

Staring Gary Cooper.

Why on earth didn't you stop at one?

I had a one hour commute by train morning and night. I left work two blocks from the station at 4:30 the train did not leave until 5:20, had to pass the time. Then again although I was a fast reader I confess that I did not read all of AS as that would have spoiled my dinner. I had already exhausted the family library before I even left school. Austen, Shakespeare, Dickens, Eliot – well Mary Anne Evans in truth, it seemed then that the only way a woman could get published was to pretend to be a man. For example the Brontë Sisters, who published as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, and Jane Austen who after many refusals was finally published under her own name. It sort of left me with an almost Victorian writing style.

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

.............you reform society so that the safety net is weakened, or even eliminated as I've heard some of my countrymen suggest, so that; "Those who do not work, shall not eat."?

If you hold wages down crippling the ability of millions of Americans to save for their own financial security and/or retirement, then eliminate the social safety net so that few people have any choice but to continue working, no matter what life issues or working conditions one may encounter.......

What do you call that?

Mull it over for a while.

Dave

Short sighted, selfish, stingy, self centered, simple minded running out of words beginning with s to describe them but will end with Scrooged.








Barney

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

What do you call forced payment into a retirement fund that spends the money?

Pete

Something to do with Peter and Paul.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

....

What do you call that?

Mull it over for a while.

Dave

Short answer, a f**king with no lube. SOP plank in the Republican platform.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

What do you call forced payment into a retirement fund that spends the money?

Pete

I call it regressive income tax.

A shifty trick when FDR started it. A crime against the nation when Reagan cut the income taxes, esp at the top, but raised the FICA and Medicare payroll taxes. That move was a naked case of robbing from the poor and giving to the rich.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I call it regressive income tax.

A shifty trick when FDR started it. A crime against the nation when Reagan cut the income taxes, esp at the top, but raised the FICA and Medicare payroll taxes. That move was a naked case of robbing from the poor and giving to the rich.

And, it spoiled them, like little kids who were allowed to empty the cookie jar. Now, they demand more tax cuts, deregulation and even more docile labor. Even if they get it, they probably won't create any more worthwhile jobs anyhow. The offshore accounts will just continue to grow ever fatter.

So, why bother giving them anything?

Dave

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

And, it spoiled them, like little kids who were allowed to empty the cookie jar. Now, they demand more tax cuts, deregulation and even more docile labor. Even if they get it, they probably won't create any more worthwhile jobs anyhow. The offshore accounts will just continue to grow ever fatter.

So, why bother giving them anything?

Dave

Who else would fund our ridiculous political campaigns?

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Who else would fund our ridiculous political campaigns?

I think you may be on to something.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

What do you call forced payment into a retirement fund that spends the money?

Pete

They all spend the money. Public or private makes little difference. The bank spends your 401k money and shows you a bunch of numbers on a web page. If the bank should go under and the government doesn't bail them out, it's YOU that watches his retirement savings disappear. Where do you suppose it went?

Don't hand me your simplistic nonsense. I'm smarter than that.

Dave