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Shocking wrote:

War Man wrote:

My parents aren't supportive of me joining the military as a grunt, especially because Obama is the President. Being homeschooled, you essentially need your parents' support. In order to make what would be my home school diploma count as a high school diploma instead of a GED(making it easier for me to make it), I need to take a parental supervised test and a couple other things.

Cuts in defense spending doesn't exactly make it easier to get into the military, one of my reasons for voting for Romney among other reasons is he'll increase defense spending.

hahahahahaha

Land of the free

Last edited by Jaekus (2012-09-12 03:49:17)

Jay wrote:

1) Defense spending has spiked, and maintained higher levels under Obama as a percentage of GDP than under any president since FDR, including Bush and Reagan.

He did have two half-assed wars to try and finish, and apart from interest looking at the graph spending is lower now than when he started, and on a downward trajectory.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2012-09-12 04:26:47)

cl4u53w1t2 wrote:

wait, your home school diploma counts as a high school diploma if you take a test that is supervised by your parents??!! O_o

Test standards don't get much more stringent at top colleges either, from what I've heard. Especially if your parents were known alumni.

Last edited by aynrandroolz (2012-09-12 04:58:04)

Dilbert_X wrote:

Jay wrote:

1) Defense spending has spiked, and maintained higher levels under Obama as a percentage of GDP than under any president since FDR, including Bush and Reagan.

He did have two half-assed wars to try and finish, and apart from interest looking at the graph spending is lower now than when he started, and on a downward trajectory.

No its not, everything to the right of the hashed vertical bar is projected. He hasn't cut shit.

Jay wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Jay wrote:

1) Defense spending has spiked, and maintained higher levels under Obama as a percentage of GDP than under any president since FDR, including Bush and Reagan.

He did have two half-assed wars to try and finish, and apart from interest looking at the graph spending is lower now than when he started, and on a downward trajectory.

No its not, everything to the right of the hashed vertical bar is projected. He hasn't cut shit.

So its out of date, but presumably the projections are based on something?

And why are you complaining about military spending?

more thinkers should have this guy's irreverence and attitude. a mind that revels with glee rather than ums and ahs with pedanticism.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Jay wrote:

Aww, you gonna accuse me of being on welfare again while I was in the military? How cute and predictable.

Are you gonna complain about military spending when you suckled on the teat of socialised welfare that is the enlisted mans life for so long?

"I r pog geinoos wid da lief experunce. Obama r stoopid, he done shoulda cut taxes cuz freedom"
Bravo

Bitch, it was a job. Get over yourself you miserable piece of shit. Do you still live at home with mommy and daddy?

Dilbert_X wrote:

It was a taxpayer funded easy ride to a free education - something you seem so keen to deny everyone else now - and which hardly fits with the 'John Galt neo-libertarian self-reliant superhero' persona you've tried so hard to create for yourself.

Dude, you fuck hookers and live with your parents.

Neither have I.

I'm arguing with a guy whose life I wouldn't wish on my enemies... Why?

Dilbert, it really wouldn't have mattered what the job was when I was 19 years old. If there had been anybody else offering me a full time job and a way to pay for college without assuming a massive debt burden I would've taken it. It just so happened that the military offers both those things. Did I create the job? Did I create the policies which dictated we maintain a massively over-large military? No. Just like I wouldn't have created any job that I worked at that age. It was a job that people dictated needed to be done, like being a cop or a firefighter (whom I don't see you accusing of having workfare jobs). So criticize me all you want for taking a job that paid shitty wages, had long hours, and got me shot at. I earned the money I was paid, there was no handout.

Now seriously, this is the last post I'll ever write in response to anything you write so feel free to criticize me to your hearts content. I'm done defending myself against the two people voted 'Most likely to be a serial killer' by the internet. I know you're fucking miserable in your shitty life, but try not to inflict it on others. Eventually they'll get as tired of you as everyone else in your life and just ignore you. Ta.

aynrandroolz wrote:

Also David Foster Wallace's piece on McCain back in the 2000 race done for Rolling Stone is great reading.

Consider the Lobster was one of my summer books. By personal favorite was Host. Considering how important talk radio is to the right in the U.S. you it could learn a little about how those things are run by reading that.

Last edited by Macbeth (2012-09-12 07:21:38)

Macbeth wrote:

aynrandroolz wrote:

Also David Foster Wallace's piece on McCain back in the 2000 race done for Rolling Stone is great reading.

Consider the Lobster was one of my summer books. By personal favorite was Host. Considering how important talk radio is to the right in the U.S. you it could learn a little about how those things are run by reading that.

i've read every single thing he has ever published - including juvenalia and stuff you have to go to research archives to find - but i'm guessing the 'you' was a second-person plural.

Jay wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

stuff...there was no handout.

Pell Grants are handouts. Explain how you earned those.

Ahh, the other half of the serial killer duo. You, also, are not worthy of my time. Ta.

I like how you made an impassioned argument about earning your military benefits but refuse to even acknowledge the pell grant money. I'm guessing you are deeply embarrassed by it to the point where you managed to convince yourself it never happened.