NATION

PASSWORD

With a Wing and A Prayer...Yer Fired. Blame Obama & Voters

For discussion and debate about anything. (Not a roleplay related forum; out-of-character commentary only.)

Advertisement

Remove ads

User avatar
Tagmatium
Post Marshal
 
Posts: 16600
Founded: Dec 17, 2004
Authoritarian Democracy

Postby Tagmatium » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:00 am

Khadgar wrote:
Ravenvalles wrote:No, I mean liberals who believe government funded jobs expand the economy, and are not just another form of being on the dole.

So clearly you believe the military is equivalent to welfare then? It's a government funded job.

Nah, they kill brown people, so it's OK.
The above post may or may not be serious.
"For too long, we have been a passive, tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone."
North Calaveras wrote:Tagmatium, it was never about pie...

User avatar
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 9191
Founded: Jan 21, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:03 am

Khadgar wrote:
Ravenvalles wrote:
No, I mean liberals who believe government funded jobs expand the economy, and are not just another form of being on the dole.


So clearly you believe the military is equivalent to welfare then? It's a government funded job.


Or the Post Office, FBI, CIA, DARPA, CDC, all those Dept of Agriculture field workers etc etc

All who spend their earned money...all which is a part of the economy. It cracks me up that people say stupid shit like gov funded jobs do nothing for the economy blah blah brain wank blah blah blah this and expect to be taken seriously.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME TG's. MODERATORS READ YOUR TG's WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers Call me Rubi for short or Vonners

User avatar
Khadgar
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 11006
Founded: Antiquity
Ex-Nation

Postby Khadgar » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:07 am

Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f wrote:
Khadgar wrote:
So clearly you believe the military is equivalent to welfare then? It's a government funded job.


Or the Post Office, FBI, CIA, DARPA, CDC, all those Dept of Agriculture field workers etc etc

All who spend their earned money...all which is a part of the economy. It cracks me up that people say stupid shit like gov funded jobs do nothing for the economy blah blah brain wank blah blah blah this and expect to be taken seriously.


I truly look forward to his rebuttal.

User avatar
Ravenvalles
Diplomat
 
Posts: 651
Founded: Aug 07, 2009
Ex-Nation

Postby Ravenvalles » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:09 am

Risottia wrote:If I were a Christian I'd consider mr.Murray to be a blasphemer of the worst kind.


As a christian, I don't consider it to be blaspheme, I do consider it to be in bad taste. Typically, public prayers are suspect, and more about personal agendas than true prayers. If one truly believes in an omniscient, and omnipotent god then this prayer has no value, all unfolds as per God's plan. It only works as a personal prayer between a man of faith and his god.
"For surely it is folly to preach to children who will be riding rockets to the moon a morality and cosmology based on concepts of Good Society and of man's place in nature that were coined before the harnessing of the horse." - Joseph Campbell

“The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.” - Paul Heyne

"the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved, and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?'" - George S. Clason

User avatar
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 9191
Founded: Jan 21, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:12 am

Khadgar wrote:
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f wrote:
Or the Post Office, FBI, CIA, DARPA, CDC, all those Dept of Agriculture field workers etc etc

All who spend their earned money...all which is a part of the economy. It cracks me up that people say stupid shit like gov funded jobs do nothing for the economy blah blah brain wank blah blah blah this and expect to be taken seriously.


I truly look forward to his rebuttal.


I'm not holding my breath...
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME TG's. MODERATORS READ YOUR TG's WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers Call me Rubi for short or Vonners

User avatar
Ravenvalles
Diplomat
 
Posts: 651
Founded: Aug 07, 2009
Ex-Nation

Postby Ravenvalles » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:31 am

Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f wrote:
Khadgar wrote:
So clearly you believe the military is equivalent to welfare then? It's a government funded job.


Or the Post Office, FBI, CIA, DARPA, CDC, all those Dept of Agriculture field workers etc etc

All who spend their earned money...all which is a part of the economy. It cracks me up that people say stupid shit like gov funded jobs do nothing for the economy blah blah brain wank blah blah blah this and expect to be taken seriously.


Some things are best handled on the national level. But, like it or not, the military, FBI etc. only, (I hate to say only, because they are vitally important) contribute to the stability of the economic environment. They do not directly create products, or service those products. All monies that flow through the government, have a negative multiplier effect. This includes everything they do for us. whether it is protecting the borders, or building a highway. Consider that in the 1990's in the state of Washington, there were four administrators or social workers for every person receiving assistance. That is not a public assistance program, it is a jobs program. Those administrators, and social workers would have been better employed in the private sector where the wealth of the community is created.

Just an opinion, and I did not have to use one "blah". :p
"For surely it is folly to preach to children who will be riding rockets to the moon a morality and cosmology based on concepts of Good Society and of man's place in nature that were coined before the harnessing of the horse." - Joseph Campbell

“The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.” - Paul Heyne

"the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved, and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?'" - George S. Clason

User avatar
Ifreann
Post Overlord
 
Posts: 163846
Founded: Aug 07, 2005
Iron Fist Socialists

Postby Ifreann » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:34 am

Ravenvalles wrote:
The Land Fomerly Known as Ligerplace wrote:Don't you mean the conservatives who want a better economy, but then directly increase the unemployment rate?


No, I mean liberals who believe government funded jobs expand the economy, and are not just another form of being on the dole.

I must have some very strange ideas about what being on the dole involves. Or working for the government.
He/Him

beating the devil
we never run from the devil
we never summon the devil
we never hide from from the devil
we never

User avatar
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 9191
Founded: Jan 21, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:36 am

Ravenvalles wrote:
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f wrote:
Or the Post Office, FBI, CIA, DARPA, CDC, all those Dept of Agriculture field workers etc etc

All who spend their earned money...all which is a part of the economy. It cracks me up that people say stupid shit like gov funded jobs do nothing for the economy blah blah brain wank blah blah blah this and expect to be taken seriously.


Some things are best handled on the national level. But, like it or not, the military, FBI etc. only, (I hate to say only, because they are vitally important) contribute to the stability of the economic environment. They do not directly create products, or service those products. All monies that flow through the government, have a negative multiplier effect. This includes everything they do for us. whether it is protecting the borders, or building a highway. Consider that in the 1990's in the state of Washington, there were four administrators or social workers for every person receiving assistance. That is not a public assistance program, it is a jobs program. Those administrators, and social workers would have been better employed in the private sector where the wealth of the community is created.

Just an opinion, and I did not have to use one "blah". :p


Wow. So doctors and nurses, for example, are not a part of the value chain because they do not create products.

You're understanding of a complex subject is less than elementary. As it is with most of your ilk.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME TG's. MODERATORS READ YOUR TG's WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers Call me Rubi for short or Vonners

User avatar
Charles Montgomery Burns
Civil Servant
 
Posts: 10
Founded: Nov 09, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Charles Montgomery Burns » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:45 am

It is nice to see this thread is filled with adolescents who have no true understanding of how the economy works, or how Obama's policies are destroying the energy industry in America.
Last edited by Charles Montgomery Burns on Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:47 am, edited 1 time in total.
Conservative Libertarian, Support of the Anglo-American Alliance, Advocator for the unification of the Anglosphere and fiercely Eurosceptic.

User avatar
Fintanland
Ambassador
 
Posts: 1767
Founded: Aug 28, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Fintanland » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:46 am

Charles Montgomery Burns wrote:It is nice to see this thread is filled with adolescent teenagers who have no understanding of how the economy works, or how Obama's policies are destroying the energy industry in America.

Then enlighten us, oh great one. This oughta be good...
Pro: Communists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, football supporters, namby- pamby probation officers, foreign surgeons - headshrinkers, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue- sniffers, Play For Today, squatters, Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants

Anti: Thugs, bully-boys, psychopaths, sacked policemen, security guards, sacked security guards, racialists, Pakistani-bashers, queer-bashers, Chinese-bashers, anybody-bashers, Rear Admirals, Vice-Admirals, fascists, neo-fascists, crypto-fascists, loyalists, neo- loyalists, crypto-loyalists.

(With apologies to "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin")

User avatar
Khadgar
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 11006
Founded: Antiquity
Ex-Nation

Postby Khadgar » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:48 am

Charles Montgomery Burns wrote:It is nice to see this thread is filled with adolescent teenagers who have no understanding of how the economy works, or how Obama's policies are destroying the energy industry in America.


Oh do tell. Because last I checked the reason the coal industry is having problems, is because natural gas is a fuckton cheaper, easier to extract, safer, burns cleaner. Clearly this is all Obama's doing, I mean he's the one who opened the way to fracking right? No, wait that was W wasn't it? Why didn't we hear how anti-coal he was?

User avatar
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 9191
Founded: Jan 21, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:50 am

Charles Montgomery Burns wrote:It is nice to see this thread is filled with adolescents who have no true understanding of how the economy works, or how Obama's policies are destroying the energy industry in America.


Yeah...no not really. The only adolescent with no true understanding of how the economy works is one of yours...of course I'm not including you in that. Yet.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME TG's. MODERATORS READ YOUR TG's WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers Call me Rubi for short or Vonners

User avatar
Ravenvalles
Diplomat
 
Posts: 651
Founded: Aug 07, 2009
Ex-Nation

Postby Ravenvalles » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:52 am

Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f wrote:
Ravenvalles wrote:
Some things are best handled on the national level. But, like it or not, the military, FBI etc. only, (I hate to say only, because they are vitally important) contribute to the stability of the economic environment. They do not directly create products, or service those products. All monies that flow through the government, have a negative multiplier effect. This includes everything they do for us. whether it is protecting the borders, or building a highway. Consider that in the 1990's in the state of Washington, there were four administrators or social workers for every person receiving assistance. That is not a public assistance program, it is a jobs program. Those administrators, and social workers would have been better employed in the private sector where the wealth of the community is created.

Just an opinion, and I did not have to use one "blah". :p


Wow. So doctors and nurses, for example, are not a part of the value chain because they do not create products.

You're understanding of a complex subject is less than elementary. As it is with most of your ilk.


Don't you think health care is a product or service? You have attacked me (ad hominem), and not seriously addressed the topic, just picked at it.

I am heading off to take a tour of the local Mormon temple this morning. They open them up to the general public before their dedication. I wholly recommend the tour to anybody interested in understanding the LDS or their architecture. So, signing off for now.
"For surely it is folly to preach to children who will be riding rockets to the moon a morality and cosmology based on concepts of Good Society and of man's place in nature that were coined before the harnessing of the horse." - Joseph Campbell

“The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.” - Paul Heyne

"the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved, and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?'" - George S. Clason

User avatar
Fintanland
Ambassador
 
Posts: 1767
Founded: Aug 28, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Fintanland » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:54 am

Ravenvalles wrote:Don't you think health care is a product or service? You have attacked me (ad hominem), and not seriously addressed the topic, just picked at it.

I am heading off to take a tour of the local Mormon temple this morning. They open them up to the general public before their dedication. I wholly recommend the tour to anybody interested in understanding the LDS or their architecture. So, signing off for now.

So, highways, border protection and so on are not products or services? I disagree.
Pro: Communists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, football supporters, namby- pamby probation officers, foreign surgeons - headshrinkers, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue- sniffers, Play For Today, squatters, Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants

Anti: Thugs, bully-boys, psychopaths, sacked policemen, security guards, sacked security guards, racialists, Pakistani-bashers, queer-bashers, Chinese-bashers, anybody-bashers, Rear Admirals, Vice-Admirals, fascists, neo-fascists, crypto-fascists, loyalists, neo- loyalists, crypto-loyalists.

(With apologies to "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin")

User avatar
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 9191
Founded: Jan 21, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:56 am

Ravenvalles wrote:
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f wrote:
Wow. So doctors and nurses, for example, are not a part of the value chain because they do not create products.

You're understanding of a complex subject is less than elementary. As it is with most of your ilk.


Don't you think health care is a product or service? You have attacked me (ad hominem), and not seriously addressed the topic, just picked at it.

I am heading off to take a tour of the local Mormon temple this morning. They open them up to the general public before their dedication. I wholly recommend the tour to anybody interested in understanding the LDS or their architecture. So, signing off for now.


No...I attacked your level of knowledge. Boo fucking hoo.

Also I love the way you've redefined your position. I believe that's called moving the goalposts...oh well.

The reason I did not address your point seriously is due to the fact that your point was less than sophomoric.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME TG's. MODERATORS READ YOUR TG's WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers Call me Rubi for short or Vonners

User avatar
Abatael
Negotiator
 
Posts: 6608
Founded: Mar 03, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Abatael » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:58 am

He's a hard-nosed businessman.
IMPERIVM·NOVVM·VENOLIÆ.
PAX·PER·BELLVM.
ROMVLVS·AVRELIVS·SECVNDVS.
DEVS·VENOLIAM·BENEDICAT.

Second Best Factbook (UNDERGOING MAJOR REVISIONS)| Factbook Rankings | Embassy Program

User avatar
Arkinesia
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 13210
Founded: Aug 22, 2008
Ex-Nation

Postby Arkinesia » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:10 am

Ravenvalles wrote:I think that it is just economic reality. You can't have "dirty" coal jobs and eliminate the "dirty " coal business.

It is good to see that we can continue to count on the liberals to want their cake and eat it too.

The coal business is being eliminated because it's antiquated.

So yeah, it really is the free market at work. People have determined that there are better sources of energy so coal falls to the wayside.
Bisexual, atheist, Southerner. Not much older but made much wiser.

Disappointment Panda wrote:Don't hope for a life without problems. There's no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.

User avatar
Genivaria
Khan of Spam
 
Posts: 69943
Founded: Mar 29, 2011
Ex-Nation

Postby Genivaria » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:10 am

Khadgar wrote:
Ravenvalles wrote:
No, I mean liberals who believe government funded jobs expand the economy, and are not just another form of being on the dole.


Swhyko clearly you believe the military is equivalent to welfare then? It's a government funded job.

Yes, yes I do. Why else would I be joining it? :D

User avatar
The UK in Exile
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 12023
Founded: Jul 27, 2006
Ex-Nation

Postby The UK in Exile » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:12 am

Abatael wrote:He's a hard-nosed businessman.


it has to be hard or he'd struggle to fit it up his own arse.
"We fought for the public good and would have enfranchised the people and secured the welfare of the whole groaning creation, if the nation had not more delighted in servitude than in freedom"

"My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relish’d of a base descent.I came unto your court for honour’s cause, And not to be a rebel to her state; And he that otherwise accounts of me, This sword shall prove he’s honour’s enemy."

"Wählte Ungnade, wo Gehorsam nicht Ehre brachte."
DEFCON 0 - not at war
DEFCON 1 - at war "go to red alert!" "are you absolutely sure sir? it does mean changing the lightbulb."

User avatar
Genivaria
Khan of Spam
 
Posts: 69943
Founded: Mar 29, 2011
Ex-Nation

Postby Genivaria » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:17 am

The UK in Exile wrote:
Abatael wrote:He's a hard-nosed businessman.


it has to be hard or he'd struggle to fit it up his own arse.

Damn that guy must be flexible.

User avatar
The TransPecos
Envoy
 
Posts: 295
Founded: May 14, 2006
Iron Fist Consumerists

Postby The TransPecos » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:19 am

Whatever you may think of Murray, he isn't the only one or the only company doing this. I understand that several companies have announced closures or moves to China because of rising regulatory issues and mandated costs. Locally most (and eventually all?) restaurants are putting everyone on part time so they can avoid health care and other benefits costs.

User avatar
Selsada
Envoy
 
Posts: 241
Founded: Sep 01, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Selsada » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:34 am

I find it ridiculous and outraging to see the CEOs and politicians talking about how Obama restricted individual freedoms, when the big industrials and the CEO up there are always the first to gut the Congress to pass laws that increase "war on terrorism", so much that now drones are flying by some major american city to lead a war not only against "terrorists", but against the people.

User avatar
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f
Powerbroker
 
Posts: 9191
Founded: Jan 21, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:35 am

PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME TG's. MODERATORS READ YOUR TG's WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers Call me Rubi for short or Vonners

User avatar
Selsada
Envoy
 
Posts: 241
Founded: Sep 01, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby Selsada » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:40 am

God, If I was a citizens in the U.S, what would I have to suffer...
They talk about freedom, but deny the right other people have to not agree with them.
Sounds like Democracy always work when you agree with it..., huh "libertarians" ?
Last edited by Selsada on Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:40 am, edited 1 time in total.

User avatar
The Black Forrest
Khan of Spam
 
Posts: 59104
Founded: Antiquity
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby The Black Forrest » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:45 am

Khadgar wrote:
Ravenvalles wrote:
No, I mean liberals who believe government funded jobs expand the economy, and are not just another form of being on the dole.


So clearly you believe the military is equivalent to welfare then? It's a government funded job.


Like Carlen said. They want live babies so they can make dead soldiers.
*I am a master proofreader after I click Submit.
* There is actually a War on Christmas. But Christmas started it, with it's unparalleled aggression against the Thanksgiving Holiday, and now Christmas has seized much Lebensraum in November, and are pushing into October. The rest of us seek to repel these invaders, and push them back to the status quo ante bellum Black Friday border. -Trotskylvania
* Silence Is Golden But Duct Tape Is Silver.
* I felt like Ayn Rand cornered me at a party, and three minutes in I found my first objection to what she was saying, but she kept talking without interruption for ten more days. - Max Barry talking about Atlas Shrugged

PreviousNext

Advertisement

Remove ads

Return to General

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Austria-Bohemia-Hungary, Barinive, Emotional Support Crocodile, Ifreann, Singaporen Empire, Varsemia

Advertisement

Remove ads