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Post by 1dave on Apr 15, 2014 9:56:01 GMT -5
73 and I'm Tired Excellent short read - pass it on ! By Robert A.Hall I'm 73 Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired. I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it. I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers;" of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery;" of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari’a law tells them to. I'm tired of being told that, out of "tolerance for other cultures," we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America and Canada , while no merican nor Canadian group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.. I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor. I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems. Yes, I'm damn tired . But I'm also glad to be 73.. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughters and grandson. Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on! This is your chance to make a difference.
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 15, 2014 10:49:14 GMT -5
From a 72 year old Vietnam veteran, I'm also tired of having to pay for women's contraceptives. If they don't want to get pregnant, teach them to keep their panties on or buy their own damned contraceptives.
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Post by halitedigger on Apr 15, 2014 13:56:01 GMT -5
What a load of #&^(. Tired of paying for women's contraceptives? Women are tired of being treated like second class citizens, having to pay for men's viagra, earning lower salaries because they are women and on and on. You insult my mother, you insult my wife, and you insult my daughters. Your viewpoint isn't very for form those Islamists you claim to despise. Taxes are lower than they have been in years. The affluent don't pay anywhere near 39% because their income is in the form of Capital Gains. Many top corporations don't pay any taxes! How American of them. The reason so many people don't pay taxes is because their jobs are so shitty they can't make enough to pay! Why do the jobs suck? Because of trade deals like NAFTA, CAFTA and soon to be TPP have shipped all those good manufacturing jobs overseas. Because the unions have been crushed. The unions built the middle class with good wages, 40hour work weeks, paid holidays, etc. All those "lazy" people use to have decent, good paying jobs that could pay a living wage. What jobs are left have not kept up with inflation. Why is it the rich are getting obscenely rich while the middle class continues to deteriorate? It's not because of the poor. The rich have stolen our jobs, our retirement accounts, our homes, etc. so I say tax away on the affluent for taking all the gains while constantly shafting the real producers and job creators, the workers and small business people. We, my generation, are going to have to deal with the stinking pile of crap your generation left behind in the form of climate change. We are already seeing the droughts, massive storms, fires, and the melting of permafrost. The latter releases a much more harmful gas, methhane, 10x more potent than carbon dioxide. THERE IS NO DEBATE. Aside from the 97% of Scientist who say, ya it's happening and we are screwed, NASA and the Pentagon also acknowledge it's happening. Pull your head out and watch the Showtime series "Years of Living Dangerously" yearsoflivingdangerously.com/ Do it for your kids and grand kids cause ya, you won't be around, but they will, hopefully. I have no qualms with his take on religion, but I'd throw the rest of them in there too. I'm tired of people who helped cause these problems burying their head in the sand and blame it all on the less fortunate. How Christ like of them. We're sick and tired of the America your generation created because you enabled the affluent to decimate it and we're not going to take it anymore.
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 15, 2014 14:21:30 GMT -5
Actually Halite, I object to paying taxes for any form of contraceptive or sexual aid, be it for female or male.
As for global warming, study the geological record. Warming and cooling periods have happened for as long as this rock we call home has existed. I suspect your link yearsoflivingdangerously.com/ was paid for by Al Gore and the others who are getting filthy rich off of his global warming scare tactics.
For as many who say we are going into "extreme global warming", there are just as many who can show proof that we are in the beginning stages of the "Next Ice Age".
If the young folks are so worried about "Global Warming", make them get off of their lazy asses, move out of mom & dads basement, get jobs instead of expecting the working class to support them, and find solutions that will work.
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Post by parfive on Apr 15, 2014 16:31:08 GMT -5
Yeah, bro!!! I can remember when all the teabags went nuts over that Viagra coverage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2014 16:55:07 GMT -5
Yeah bro-heimer; why is the government in the business of buying anything for anyone?
They need or want it? Let them earn the money and buy it.
cr@ptastic.
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 15, 2014 17:30:11 GMT -5
Hey Scott, did ya notice that Rich didn't touch the global warming thing ?
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Post by 1dave on Apr 15, 2014 18:48:48 GMT -5
I noticed how Democrats/Liberals/Progressives love lying and being lied to. The bigger the lie, the more they swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
Pitiful!
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Post by Rockoonz on Apr 15, 2014 20:04:30 GMT -5
I would like to see documentation of where the supposed 97% of scientists came from, perhaps 97% of climate scientists who depend on public funding that is only paid to scientists who follow the party line?
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Post by halitedigger on Apr 15, 2014 20:14:39 GMT -5
Really? You're gonna call NASA & The Pentagon liars? The latter maybe, but not the former. Your gonna call the majority of the world's climate scientists liars just so it can fit into your warped worldview spoon fed to you by talk radio personalities who make millions feeding you this garbage? Every scientist or documentary does talk about the geological record, the ice cores, the warming and cooling periods and they all point to how we have entered new territory. Show us where I am lying or being lied to. " A new NASA study shows Earth's climate likely will continue to warm during this century on track with previous estimates, despite the recent slowdown in the rate of global warming. This research hinges on a new and more detailed calculation of the sensitivity of Earth's climate to the factors that cause it to change, such as greenhouse gas emissions. Drew Shindell, a climatologist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, found Earth is likely to experience roughly 20 percent more warming than estimates that were largely based on surface temperature observations during the past 150 years. Shindell's paper on this research was published March 9 in the journal Nature Climate Change. " www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20140311/washingtonexaminer.com/pentagon-warns-of-climate-change-threat-multipliers/article/2545075"The effects of climate change are "threat multipliers" that will force the Pentagon to rethink how it engages in training, missions and humanitarian aid around the world, the Defense Department said Tuesday in its Quadrennial Defense Review. The review, released every four years, steps up calls made to address climate change in the last version. It noted climate change would "aggravate stressors" such as "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions — conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence." As for insurance, A. The government is not involved, it's all private insurance unless you are receiving medicare, medical, etc. The reason it's covered is because it costs a hell of a lot more to have a baby, than to pay for a pill each month. If the gov. was involved we'd have the public option, but no way in hell would insurance companies let that happen. Answer my question, why are the rich getting obscenely rich while the middle class gets shafted?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2014 20:43:23 GMT -5
GREED! CORRUPTION! The rich are running things. Corporations own the gubment. etc. etc Jim
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 15, 2014 20:59:40 GMT -5
I myself am always ever so impressed with how open minded and tolerant of other peoples opinions those on the left are. I'm also ever so impressed with how lefties think they always know what's best for "other folks", including how to best spend the money "other folks" work to earn....Mel
PS: Anyone who's been in the sciences knows science is replete with whores. Whores who fudge data and follow the most "Hip, politically popular, and financially rewarding" science trends in order to rake in book deals, prize jobs in colleges, appearances on the Daily Show and Hollyweird actor narrated documentaries, and big fat government grants. IMHO anyone who does not understand this is just plan naive and more than a little stupid.
Interesting too, how under liberal rule and the Obama administration, the rich ( including Obama and all his buds by the way) have gotten richer and the middle class poorer, while blacks, the young voters and Latinos that the libs court, have suffered more than any with high unemployment and a future ruined my massive federal debt they will have to suffer under the rest of their lives.
Just my humble opinions of course *LOL*.
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 15, 2014 21:14:00 GMT -5
Quote Halite -- "Answer my question, why are the rich getting obscenely rich while the middle class gets shafted"?
You are speaking of Al Gore and the likes of him, aren't you ?
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Post by grayfingers on Apr 15, 2014 21:19:32 GMT -5
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 15, 2014 22:43:21 GMT -5
It's sad that the ones who need to read that completely through, probably won't.
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Post by parfive on Apr 15, 2014 23:08:40 GMT -5
Yeah, you scared me off it, Jake. You, and the Viscount of Brenchley.
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Post by lparker on Apr 16, 2014 8:35:07 GMT -5
I myself am always ever so impressed with how open minded and tolerant of other peoples opinions those on the left are. I'm also ever so impressed with how lefties think they always know what's best for "other folks", including how to best spend the money "other folks" work to earn....Mel PS: Anyone who's been in the sciences knows science is replete with whores. Whores who fudge data and follow the most "Hip, politically popular, and financially rewarding" science trends in order to rake in book deals, prize jobs in colleges, appearances on the Daily Show and Hollyweird actor narrated documentaries, and big fat government grants. IMHO anyone who does not understand this is just plan naive and more than a little stupid. Interesting too, how under liberal rule and the Obama administration, the rich ( including Obama and all his buds by the way) have gotten richer and the middle class poorer, while blacks, the young voters and Latinos that the libs court, have suffered more than any with high unemployment and a future ruined my massive federal debt they will have to suffer under the rest of their lives. Just my humble opinions of course *LOL*. I could completely re-write this and it would still be true - substitute right for left, politics for science, any rule and administration. Just my humble opinions of course - no LOL because it's sick no matter how you look at it. Lee #1
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Post by parfive on Apr 16, 2014 10:10:54 GMT -5
Seein’ the future ain’t easy, Jake, and it’s tough makin’ predictions. I woulda bet Bundy’s ranch the birther morons could keep it up for all two terms. Who knew they were gonna STFU after just five years?
Or is that just a pause till TheLibrary opens?
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 16, 2014 11:13:42 GMT -5
I've seen the future Rich. You pay taxes, get old, and then you die. Ain't no escaping it.
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Post by parfive on Apr 16, 2014 11:33:37 GMT -5
That's if you're lucky. : )
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