Get ready for the Price increase

[McCarthy]

And what does the "ultimate Power grab" involve?

Exactly what Sanwizard said. On top of that, higher taxes, more regulations, lower income for those who work hard, wealth redistribution, government controlled healthcare (not a good idea - look at social security that will run dry in 13 years).

Basically a massive move towards socialism with a hint of communism. None of these systems work (well) in the long run. Nothing will be about you as individuum anymore, everything will be about the collective. I have seen it first hand, lived in it for for over 3 decades.

I used to pay $10 per gallon for gas, 51% income tax, 19% sales tax. I paid 74% direct and indirect taxes on my income. Worked my ass off and only could afford a small apartment and a 15 year old used car.

I hate seeing America going into the same direction. Voters need to wake up before its too late.

 

[Sanwizard]

Exactly what Sanwizard said. On top of that, higher taxes, more regulations, lower income for those who work hard, wealth redistribution, government controlled healthcare (not a good idea - look at social security that will run dry in 13 years).

Basically a massive move towards socialism with a hint of communism. None of these systems work (well) in the long run. Nothing will be about you as individuum anymore, everything will be about the collective. I have seen it first hand, lived in it for for over 3 decades.

You have the right last name to get this fixed. Joseph McCarthy was way ahead of his time, and he was right over the target. We need another communist purge, or we will end up in another civil war, or worse, just taken over.
It's getting biblical. Perhaps this is all pre-ordained?
In any event, I will have solar power to get through! I love all the intelligent discourse on this forum.

 

[HOU_Castle]

Exactly what Sanwizard said. On top of that, higher taxes, more regulations, lower income for those who work hard, wealth redistribution, government controlled healthcare (not a good idea - look at social security that will run dry in 13 years).

Basically a massive move towards socialism with a hint of communism. None of these systems work (well) in the long run. Nothing will be about you as individuum anymore, everything will be about the collective. I have seen it first hand, lived in it for for over 3 decades.

I used to pay $10 per gallon for gas, 51% income tax, 19% sales tax. I paid 74% direct and indirect taxes on my income. Worked my ass off and only could afford a small apartment and a 15 year old used car.

I hate seeing America going into the same direction. Voters need to wake up before its too late.

Unfortunately, lazy folks are the majority and love wealth redistribution.

 

[HOU_Castle]

Exactly what Sanwizard said. On top of that, higher taxes, more regulations, lower income for those who work hard, wealth redistribution, government controlled healthcare (not a good idea - look at social security that will run dry in 13 years).

Basically a massive move towards socialism with a hint of communism. None of these systems work (well) in the long run. Nothing will be about you as individuum anymore, everything will be about the collective. I have seen it first hand, lived in it for for over 3 decades.

I used to pay $10 per gallon for gas, 51% income tax, 19% sales tax. I paid 74% direct and indirect taxes on my income. Worked my ass off and only could afford a small apartment and a 15 year old used car.

I hate seeing America going into the same direction. Voters need to wake up before its too late.

"............. everything will be about the collective." meaning whatever we do here will be confiscated for collective purposes

 

[McCarthy]

I love all the intelligent discourse on this forum.

Until somebody jumps in who defends the current path based on engrained idealism (I was always a liberal / Dem), brainwashed hate (CNN said that orange man is bad) or indoctrinated morals from our corrupted educational systems.

 

[iamrich]

Unfortunately, lazy folks are the majority and love wealth redistribution.

I don't believe this. The majority of people are slugging it out day to day to survive. There are plenty of lazy people but they are not the majority...

 

[McCarthy]

I don't believe this. The majority of people are slugging it out day to day to survive. There are plenty of lazy people but they are not the majority...

They are not the majority, yet, but the numbers are increasing, and they tipped the needle to the left last year.

Just look at the younger generations. Many are living their lives online, in computer games, YouTube videos, on smart phones, and in social media. Many don't even want to own a car anymore, let alone know how to change the oil. Covid created even more people wanting to stay at home. It comes at no surprised when you get unemployment money and stimulus money for a while.

Those who don't want to work, vote for their enablers.

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

They are not the majority, yet, but the numbers are increasing, and they tipped the needle to the left last year.

Just look at the younger generations. Many are living their lives online, in computer games, YouTube videos, on smart phones, and in social media. Many don't even want to own a car anymore, let alone know how to change the oil. Covid created even more people wanting to stay at home. It comes at no surprised when you get unemployment money and stimulus money for a while.

Those who don't want to work, vote for their enablers.

exactly.

 

[robby]

One party control. Fewer freedoms

I think people in NY would say the same thing about Texas. I guess it all depends on what you define as less freedom, if it revolves around carrying Guns then, Yes NY.

less privacy. Kinda like living in NY.

I seem to remember all of the invasive wire tapping and gathering of peoples data started after 9/11 when Bush enacted the Patriot Act, created Home Land Security and enacted FISA which basically gave big companies legal protection for collecting and sharing peoples private data with the government.

 

[robby]

Joseph McCarthy was way ahead of his time, and he was right over the target. We need another communist purge, or we will end up in another civil war, or worse, just taken over.

The same McCarthy who believed that everyone who disagreed with him was a communist? The guy who loved to quote passages from "Mein Kampf" and said Hitlers had the right idea? The same McCarthy who made it very clear that he hated Jewish people and also tried to save convicted German SS soldiers from being executed?

 

[Sanwizard]

Yeah, the nice Irish guy who didn't like commies.

 

[McCarthy]

The same McCarthy who believed that everyone who disagreed with him was a communist? The guy who loved to quote passages from "Mein Kampf" and said Hitlers had the right idea? The same McCarthy who made it very clear that he hated Jewish people and also tried to save convicted German SS soldiers from being executed?

When you dig for dirt to fit your narrative, you will always find some. And if it doesn't stick, you just keep throwing more at the wall.

CNN 2015 - 2021

 

[robby]

When you dig for dirt to fit your narrative, you will always find some. And if it doesn't stick, you just keep throwing more at the wall.

CNN 2015 - 2021

More like digging up inconvenient facts!

I do agree with you on the Younger generation. Most of them are very smart, a heck of a lot smarter than I was at their age. Unfortunately their parents have coddled them to the point where they have zero motivation to be independent.

 

[A.Justice]

They are not the majority, yet, but the numbers are increasing, and they tipped the needle to the left last year.

Just look at the younger generations. Many are living their lives online, in computer games, YouTube videos, on smart phones, and in social media. Many don't even want to own a car anymore, let alone know how to change the oil. Covid created even more people wanting to stay at home. It comes at no surprised when you get unemployment money and stimulus money for a while.

Those who don't want to work, vote for their enablers.

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

We are living in the time of weak, spineless, men.

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

Yeah, the nice Irish guy who didn't like commies.

yes we have some fuckups in our gene pool.... how many slithern wizards came from your school?

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

More like digging up inconvenient facts!

I do agree with you on the Younger generation. Most of them are very smart, a heck of a lot smarter than I was at their age. Unfortunately their parents have coddled them to the point where they have zero motivation to be independent.

I do not agree with the intelligence part of your statement... Why? we all grew up and learned in our environments... how many of them learned to do trigonometry simply to see how high their testes rockets flew? Monkey see monkey do... anybody can learn how to deal with the computer shit... ask my buddy who is 85 and runs circles around me...he will tell you its because he is bored cannot get out and found an outlet. weather that be a power outlet, and internet plugin or a bottle of jergens is something you need to ask him.

 

[McCarthy]

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

We are living in the time of weak, spineless, men.

When I use that saying, I replace it with words that start with D and R.

 

[McCarthy]

More like digging up inconvenient facts!

I do agree with you on the Younger generation. Most of them are very smart, a heck of a lot smarter than I was at their age. Unfortunately their parents have coddled them to the point where they have zero motivation to be independent.

How old are you? Just would like to see if there is any bias.

IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds

IQ scores have been falling for decades, new study finds: report

A new study finds IQ scores have been steadily falling for the past few decades and environmental factors, rather than genes are to blame, CNN reports.

www.nola.com

Flynn effect and its reversal are both environmentally caused

Using administrative register data with information on family relationships and cognitive ability for three decades of Norwegian male birth cohorts, we show that the increase, turning point, and decline of the Flynn effect can be recovered from within-family variation in intelligence scores...

www.pnas.org

I run a day trading chat room. Many guys are in their 20s. Many of them have the attention span of a TikTok video and expect to make profits within a few weeks, when in reality it takes at least 3 years, and only 1.4% get to that point. When I suggest related books on trading psychology, NOBODY is willing to read them.

 

[Sanwizard]

The psychological effect of selfies, instant communication and gratification, trophies for all, Godlessness, online gaming, and limited personal interaction.
Father's not there, Mother's dropping the kids off at daycare to go shopping or kickboxing, or an affair.
No meals together, no repercussions for bad behavior even by the police, as it's the police who are the bad guys for not letting you steal that TV, or doing that drug transaction for a few bucks. SJW education by Marxist teachers. The culture you make results in the environment you live in.

 

[iamrich]

"after people stopped trying to fix problems and just tried to outlive them" - Wade Watts

Fictional character in a fictional world, but damn if that isn't an accurate quote...