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ralphfurley
Participant[quote=cooprider]
What would I do?- Cut the $4 Billion stem cell reaserch program in La Jolla. Let Obama fund that.
- Reverse to $20 billion high-speed rail from LA to SF.
- Open up drilling on CA’s coast – that would yield $10 billion today! And don’t give me the oil spill environment BS. If you’ve ever been the beach in Santa Barbara the stuff washes up on shore.
- Layoff 10% of the state employees not directly providing services to taxpayers.
- Give the remaining state workers who make over the CA median income a 10% paycut.
- Ditch their pensions and make them pay state taxes.
- Cut personal spending budgets, staff, perks, benefits like company cars and private jets.
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Trying to cut all or any of those things takes time and a lot of haggling. I was under the impression, if they didn’t balance the budget, they wouldn’t get any of the stimulus money. I could be dreaming that up though. Thought I heard it somewhere.So they did what they had to do, what they had the power to do before the clock ran out.
And come on man… we can’t drill our way out of this. Isn’t it about time we stopped beating that drum and looked toward new energy sources?
Participant[quote=cooprider]
What would I do?- Cut the $4 Billion stem cell reaserch program in La Jolla. Let Obama fund that.
- Reverse to $20 billion high-speed rail from LA to SF.
- Open up drilling on CA’s coast – that would yield $10 billion today! And don’t give me the oil spill environment BS. If you’ve ever been the beach in Santa Barbara the stuff washes up on shore.
- Layoff 10% of the state employees not directly providing services to taxpayers.
- Give the remaining state workers who make over the CA median income a 10% paycut.
- Ditch their pensions and make them pay state taxes.
- Cut personal spending budgets, staff, perks, benefits like company cars and private jets.
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Trying to cut all or any of those things takes time and a lot of haggling. I was under the impression, if they didn’t balance the budget, they wouldn’t get any of the stimulus money. I could be dreaming that up though. Thought I heard it somewhere.So they did what they had to do, what they had the power to do before the clock ran out.
And come on man… we can’t drill our way out of this. Isn’t it about time we stopped beating that drum and looked toward new energy sources?
Participant[quote=cooprider]
What would I do?- Cut the $4 Billion stem cell reaserch program in La Jolla. Let Obama fund that.
- Reverse to $20 billion high-speed rail from LA to SF.
- Open up drilling on CA’s coast – that would yield $10 billion today! And don’t give me the oil spill environment BS. If you’ve ever been the beach in Santa Barbara the stuff washes up on shore.
- Layoff 10% of the state employees not directly providing services to taxpayers.
- Give the remaining state workers who make over the CA median income a 10% paycut.
- Ditch their pensions and make them pay state taxes.
- Cut personal spending budgets, staff, perks, benefits like company cars and private jets.
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Trying to cut all or any of those things takes time and a lot of haggling. I was under the impression, if they didn’t balance the budget, they wouldn’t get any of the stimulus money. I could be dreaming that up though. Thought I heard it somewhere.So they did what they had to do, what they had the power to do before the clock ran out.
And come on man… we can’t drill our way out of this. Isn’t it about time we stopped beating that drum and looked toward new energy sources?
Participant[quote=cooprider]
What would I do?- Cut the $4 Billion stem cell reaserch program in La Jolla. Let Obama fund that.
- Reverse to $20 billion high-speed rail from LA to SF.
- Open up drilling on CA’s coast – that would yield $10 billion today! And don’t give me the oil spill environment BS. If you’ve ever been the beach in Santa Barbara the stuff washes up on shore.
- Layoff 10% of the state employees not directly providing services to taxpayers.
- Give the remaining state workers who make over the CA median income a 10% paycut.
- Ditch their pensions and make them pay state taxes.
- Cut personal spending budgets, staff, perks, benefits like company cars and private jets.
[/quote]
Trying to cut all or any of those things takes time and a lot of haggling. I was under the impression, if they didn’t balance the budget, they wouldn’t get any of the stimulus money. I could be dreaming that up though. Thought I heard it somewhere.So they did what they had to do, what they had the power to do before the clock ran out.
And come on man… we can’t drill our way out of this. Isn’t it about time we stopped beating that drum and looked toward new energy sources?
Participant[quote=Aecetia]Rats and bugs are edible. Consider them emergency rations in case the economy completely tanks as well as the government and you run out of canned food.[/quote]
This made my day. Thank you. 😀Participant[quote=Aecetia]Rats and bugs are edible. Consider them emergency rations in case the economy completely tanks as well as the government and you run out of canned food.[/quote]
This made my day. Thank you. 😀Participant[quote=Aecetia]Rats and bugs are edible. Consider them emergency rations in case the economy completely tanks as well as the government and you run out of canned food.[/quote]
This made my day. Thank you. 😀Participant[quote=Aecetia]Rats and bugs are edible. Consider them emergency rations in case the economy completely tanks as well as the government and you run out of canned food.[/quote]
This made my day. Thank you. 😀Participant[quote=Aecetia]Rats and bugs are edible. Consider them emergency rations in case the economy completely tanks as well as the government and you run out of canned food.[/quote]
This made my day. Thank you. 😀Participant[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.
Didn’t anyone else notice??????
Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.
If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.
[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]
My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.
Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).
Participant[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.
Didn’t anyone else notice??????
Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.
If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.
[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]
My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.
Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).
Participant[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.
Didn’t anyone else notice??????
Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.
If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.
[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]
My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.
Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).
Participant[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.
Didn’t anyone else notice??????
Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.
If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.
[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]
My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.
Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).
Participant[quote=Scarlet]The thing that really struck me about this show (and no one has mentioned it yet) is the houses these people we were expected to feel sorry for are living in.
Didn’t anyone else notice??????
Lower income people living in very large, very new, very fancy 3 car garage stucco palaces.
If I lived in Normalville USA I’d be so super pissed that there is even any consideration to “saving” these people’s mini-mansions.
[/quote]I was wondering that myself. How one thinks going from a shitbox in Compton to an ok house in Yorba Linda is on the up-and-up. I thought it was pricey to rent there, much less own.
Then the fella who bought a house in San Clemente with stated income four times of what he actually made. He was going to pull equity out of his house to start a business once the value went up.
Why the hell would anyone feel sorry for these people? I think I put more time and research into buying my 40 dollar computer speakers, than these people did into what type of loan they were getting.
[quote=Scarlet]Hey middle America you get to fund our fancy lifestyles and you get to be taxed to death to pay for my stucco-palace Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Thanks Obama![/quote]
My understanding is that a third of this stimulus bill is tax cuts. I don’t see where Obama is taxing us to death.
Another third is for aiding those who are in desperate shape. So my neighbor doesn’t break in and stab me to death for a box of Cheerios. And the other third is spending (infrastructure, a few jobs here and there). I don’t think it will go very far or do much, but I don’t see the immediate increase in taxes. Unless you are talking down the road. Which neither party has the balls to address (except for Ron Paul).
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