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SEAL's aren't the quiet warriors of yesterday anymore. Now the way you find out a guy is a SEAL is when he shows you his book.

An honest enemy is preferable to a false friend.

I really love Julie Borowski's mockingly beautiful takedown of this video. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/24/screw-your-victimization-parody-mocks-video-of-little-girls-dropping-f-bombs-for-feminism/

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ermahgerd

This pretty much sums things up as succinctly as possible.

I'm not torn about it. It isn't the place of the government to be picking winners and losers in the market.

Yes. I do not let that which I cannot control worry me.

THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? W.B. Yeats

Not all of us pretend that. Of course then we get called loony for proposing that the "system" can't be reformed at all because the "system" is the problem.

:lol: you know, I haven't really seen that many in my travels and not all of us hate ourselves that much to partake. That said, yeah, throw that infection vector in the mix too. :lol:

The government needs the Chinese to keep buying its debt more than it needs the pensioners sucking at the tit. Also, the set instruments bought by the Chinese represent and actual contract. No such contract exists between you and the government regarding SS.

Especially when you can't convince the driver of that tanker full of liquid oxygen that he's about to drive into a brick wall just over the next hill.

Nope, the other leaches in the government get their cut first. It couldn't happen any other way.

I don't generally vote anymore, but I'd vote or that.

What's Paul Ryan got to do with fiscal responsibility? :lol: Like I said before, just because someone stole money from you doesn't justify you stealing it from someone else. If you are cool with enjoying the fruits of theft, that's on you buddy.

I'm just trying to see I I can chase the tin foil behatted into their bunkers. :lol: Also:

Mike, it was declared a tax in 1937, just after it's inception. It is the only way that it was able to be declared constitutional. If it hadn't been declared a tax, it wouldn't exist. Does that sound at all familiar to you? P.S. Government voting away a tax? :lol: :lol: :lol:

I would agree with all of this except one very important thing. The original premise regarding SS is faulty. Governments are completely incapable of "growing the economy". Governments can only have negative effects on the economy by retarding growth through taxation. The smaller the government and the less it removes from the economy, the less negative its effects are. Every dollar the government spends was previously removed from legitimate economic activity and carries with it and exponentially large cumulative economic loss due to its absence.

Mike, that's my point, there was never any contract. What SS really is does matter because that is what determined whether a contract was even possible or not, and the answer is "not". SS is two things, a tax and a welfare program. You can't decline consent to the first and have no right to the second. No contract was ever possible. It is all very clear to anyone who bothered to read the fine print.

It's a real bitch to get told that you got taken, isn't it? When you find out that thing you thought was a good deal was really just a scam. Luke, you should be concerned with those SCOTUS cases for the simple reason that they explain the truth of what SS really is, and it isn't what you've think you've bought. When I speak of "no accrued property rights", I am not talking about an account somewhere marked with your name on it that you will draw from. I mean that the government can change the criteria for receiving the welfare portion of SS tomorrow, making you ineligible to get it, and you would have absolutely zero legal grounds to contest it. You would have to accept your lumps and move on without it. Mike, nope. The fund is, and always has been nothing more than an accounting trick. Nothing more than a line item on the ledger that could be (and was!) shifted one place or another as needed.

Go on and on about travel bans all you want. The virus will spread regardless of what governments do. For the tinfoilers fretting about the end of the world from Ebola, I'd like to present to you the "Nairobi Tabletop Scenario". http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141015-ebola-virus-outbreak-pandemic-zoonotic-contagion/ Let me add to it a little. Now imagine that businessman's brother, whom he visits with once he gets home, is a truck driver. He passes along Ebola with an errant cough on him. The trucker brother goes on the road the next day for 3 weeks. He crisscrosses the country from coast to coast leaving it with fuel desk attendants, fast food clerks and waitresses all along the way.

I would look to Tipton or Fayette counties or even farther out. Gonna have to push your drive times to that hour mark or even possibly a bit more to get what you are after.