It is, countries living beyond their means.
LOL Ireland.
LOL Ireland.
Fuck Israel
which is to be expected if you promise;
free, or near free healthcare
free, or near free education
national security spending
infrastructure spending
the dole
elderly care
help to developing countries
and so on... they really need to implement some rules to the whole system. Most of the people that end up on the operating table are 50+ and obese, why can't they take care of themselves first?
free, or near free healthcare
free, or near free education
national security spending
infrastructure spending
the dole
elderly care
help to developing countries
and so on... they really need to implement some rules to the whole system. Most of the people that end up on the operating table are 50+ and obese, why can't they take care of themselves first?
inane little opines
Social spending is not necessarily the root of all evil.
Irresponsible borrowing and irresponsible spending - whether its borrowing from China to pay for dole for slackers or workfare in camo for people with monobrows - thats the problem.
Irresponsible borrowing and irresponsible spending - whether its borrowing from China to pay for dole for slackers or workfare in camo for people with monobrows - thats the problem.
Fuck Israel
It's not the root of all evil no, I'm not stating otherwise either. It's just that there are no rules bound to any of those expenditures - previously the case was that you could study indefinitely with gov. funding (okay - after X amount of years, 6 or so, the gov. would stop sending you money - but it still funds the study itself with you paying a minimal amount).
Now they're going to fine people who study 2 years 'too long' (as in, say, you're supposed to get your master's in 4 years and you end up doing it in 6-7 years you're gonna get fined). Which is fair I'd think.
The healthcare system is still a giant mess though. Vast majority of the patients do not take care of their own bodies, and I really don't want to end up paying for that. If your choice is to be morbidly obese you sure as hell should pay for your own knee surgery.
Now they're going to fine people who study 2 years 'too long' (as in, say, you're supposed to get your master's in 4 years and you end up doing it in 6-7 years you're gonna get fined). Which is fair I'd think.
The healthcare system is still a giant mess though. Vast majority of the patients do not take care of their own bodies, and I really don't want to end up paying for that. If your choice is to be morbidly obese you sure as hell should pay for your own knee surgery.
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inane little opines
Bored at work today Mr. Troll?Dilbert_X wrote:
Social spending is not necessarily the root of all evil.
Irresponsible borrowing and irresponsible spending - whether its borrowing from China to pay for dole for slackers or workfare in camo for people with monobrows - thats the problem.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Not at all, it was 'dress casual day', which is always fun with the wobbly admin girls.
I've decided I like the freckly one. I'm hoping she needs some IKEA furniture assembled because frankly its my only leverage.
I've decided I like the freckly one. I'm hoping she needs some IKEA furniture assembled because frankly its my only leverage.
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Fuck Israel
You could show her your Lady Gaga shrine but that might be a bit creepy.Dilbert_X wrote:
Not at all, it was 'dress casual day', which is always fun with the wobbly admin girls.
I've decided I like the freckly one. I'm hoping she needs some IKEA furniture assembled because frankly its my only leverage.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
The suffering period didn't really drop dramatically until the late 70s. By the 80s, the Chinese government was considerably less oppressive barring a few notable incidents like Tiananmen Square and the stuff they've done to the Falun Gong.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
compare China 50 years ago to China now.Macbeth wrote:
While we're on the subject of death counts- did anyone else notice the entire history of China is just one long episode of human suffering?
I wouldn't exactly call that human suffering so to speak.
Airbus is generally worse about that though.Macbeth wrote:
There has been conflict between the E.U. and U.S. for years regarding both groups using money to pump up Airbus and Boeing. The fact that both companies rely on tremendous amounts of government money to operate is an economic fact.
how many did they kill?Vilham wrote:
Well that's flat out nonsense, he started murdering protesters in the street. Then they rebelled. That was the entire reason there was an uprising in Bengazi.Dilbert_X wrote:
He didn't start slaughtering until they started rebelling.11 Bravo wrote:
so people are tossing around the word 'genocide' and 'slaughtering his own people' and all that other crap is just unproven BS. sad really.
Maybe they should think about the big picture and not rebel?
Well, I suppose the same could have been said regarding the French resistance vs. Hitler.Dilbert_X wrote:
He didn't start slaughtering until they started rebelling.11 Bravo wrote:
so people are tossing around the word 'genocide' and 'slaughtering his own people' and all that other crap is just unproven BS. sad really.
Maybe they should think about the big picture and not rebel?
You know, they do have Viagra for that problem... j/kDilbert_X wrote:
Not at all, it was 'dress casual day', which is always fun with the wobbly admin girls.
I've decided I like the freckly one. I'm hoping she needs some IKEA furniture assembled because frankly its my only leverage.
dilberrrt eh, mr. workmanTurquoise wrote:
You know, they do have Viagra for that problem... j/kDilbert_X wrote:
Not at all, it was 'dress casual day', which is always fun with the wobbly admin girls.
I've decided I like the freckly one. I'm hoping she needs some IKEA furniture assembled because frankly its my only leverage.
I won't argue that the US spends far too much on the military. Part of it is our foreign agreements demand it--it's expected of us. Which is utter bullshit, and is why other countries get by with spending such a low percentage of their GDP on defense: they're either our allies and we're required to help them, so why do it; or they don't have those demands upon them by others, so they don't have to spend nearly as much (though as a percentage of GDP, Russia isn't too far behind).
The "big three" in our government have to be radically addressed to get a handle on our budgetary problems, but none of our politicians have the backbone to do it.
And none of this has anything to do with why we're involved in Libya.
Back to the topic, please.
The "big three" in our government have to be radically addressed to get a handle on our budgetary problems, but none of our politicians have the backbone to do it.
And none of this has anything to do with why we're involved in Libya.
Back to the topic, please.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular