If anyone could help me translate this to English i would really appreciate this. Thank you|||Lao pong, your (lao pao) returned/come back home now, have to tell our son and daughter, I will forever love (ta me de)
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Why are Liberals desperate to bankrupt America with entitlements?
Even the GAO admits that the US is spending more than what it can possibility collect in taxes.
When will Liberals realize that we do not have an endless supply of money?|||Is that like the $1 Trillion "off budget" Bush Medicare D program?
Or, the $1+ Trillion "off budget" Wars in Iraq %26amp; Afghanistan?
Or, just the other $3+ Trillion in new Debt added during the Bush/GOP years that added $5+ trillion to our Debt during the Bush/GOP years?
This gets so confusing to keep up with which side is the worst.|||For all their talk of the "rich" being greedy, at least those with money are spending money they actually have.
The real greed is when you not only spend all of someone else's money, but spend money you don't have and leave it to future generations to suffer the consequences.
This is why Socialism *never* works:
You inevitably spend more than what you can generate in income.
Even European governments are coming to terms with the fact their Socialism is not working.|||Unless you can think of something more effective, there are only 3 possibilities when a society develops a poor, underclass of citizens with little or no mobility:
1. Entitlements
2. An unstable, stratified society with a permanent underclass living in poverty
3. A stable, stratified society with stability maintained by a police state and numerous prisons.|||Entitlement spending is less than 1/3 of the fiscal budget. Roughtly equal to the combined amount of discretionary and interest relief money spent. This doesn't even begin to approach all the off budget spending.
You are born owing tens of thousands of dollars to the government, entitlement spending is only a small part of the problem.
Entitlement spending is just a drop in a very large bucket. The government hemorrhages money for all sorts of stupid crap like having ratheon develop torture rays.
To be honest, I would rather see a family eat than have a prototype of a cybernetic suit our military will never use.|||History shows that Republicans spend way more that Democrats. The only time the GOP worries about spending is when they are not in power. So what are you talking about?|||They're so dense, they MIGHT start to listen once the US dollar's value collapses. But they're pretty good at making up excuses so they may never understand this simple concept. That's what happens when you don't even know basic economics!|||Obviously they aren't trying to bankrupt the country. How about cons? when will they realize we can't afford a global military empire?|||The progressive agenda is to collapse the system and then replace it with a system of their liking, communism.|||No one is arguing that spending should continue at the present rate forever.|||I know, we can cut taxes, that will fix everything, ROFL.|||Get them hooked on entitlement and you have voters for life - they will always vote for the person who promises them more free money - housing - food etc..
look at the mess Greece is in with entitlements.
When will Liberals realize that we do not have an endless supply of money?|||Is that like the $1 Trillion "off budget" Bush Medicare D program?
Or, the $1+ Trillion "off budget" Wars in Iraq %26amp; Afghanistan?
Or, just the other $3+ Trillion in new Debt added during the Bush/GOP years that added $5+ trillion to our Debt during the Bush/GOP years?
This gets so confusing to keep up with which side is the worst.|||For all their talk of the "rich" being greedy, at least those with money are spending money they actually have.
The real greed is when you not only spend all of someone else's money, but spend money you don't have and leave it to future generations to suffer the consequences.
This is why Socialism *never* works:
You inevitably spend more than what you can generate in income.
Even European governments are coming to terms with the fact their Socialism is not working.|||Unless you can think of something more effective, there are only 3 possibilities when a society develops a poor, underclass of citizens with little or no mobility:
1. Entitlements
2. An unstable, stratified society with a permanent underclass living in poverty
3. A stable, stratified society with stability maintained by a police state and numerous prisons.|||Entitlement spending is less than 1/3 of the fiscal budget. Roughtly equal to the combined amount of discretionary and interest relief money spent. This doesn't even begin to approach all the off budget spending.
You are born owing tens of thousands of dollars to the government, entitlement spending is only a small part of the problem.
Entitlement spending is just a drop in a very large bucket. The government hemorrhages money for all sorts of stupid crap like having ratheon develop torture rays.
To be honest, I would rather see a family eat than have a prototype of a cybernetic suit our military will never use.|||History shows that Republicans spend way more that Democrats. The only time the GOP worries about spending is when they are not in power. So what are you talking about?|||They're so dense, they MIGHT start to listen once the US dollar's value collapses. But they're pretty good at making up excuses so they may never understand this simple concept. That's what happens when you don't even know basic economics!|||Obviously they aren't trying to bankrupt the country. How about cons? when will they realize we can't afford a global military empire?|||The progressive agenda is to collapse the system and then replace it with a system of their liking, communism.|||No one is arguing that spending should continue at the present rate forever.|||I know, we can cut taxes, that will fix everything, ROFL.|||Get them hooked on entitlement and you have voters for life - they will always vote for the person who promises them more free money - housing - food etc..
look at the mess Greece is in with entitlements.
Why the Chinese Football Association wants to change the coach?
Gao Hongbo is doing well with the material he has available (almost players played in China, and Chinese clubs are less competitive than South Korean and Japanese). I don't think a european coach will improve the situation significantly.
Always change the coach is likely to confuse the players.
Do you agree with me?|||Don't forget the match scandal controversy in the domestic league, which damaged the stocking of the roster for the national team. Like with Team USA, the federation is banking on a jolt to the coaching staff to spark play on the pitch; this can be a huge roll of the dice.
Always change the coach is likely to confuse the players.
Do you agree with me?|||Don't forget the match scandal controversy in the domestic league, which damaged the stocking of the roster for the national team. Like with Team USA, the federation is banking on a jolt to the coaching staff to spark play on the pitch; this can be a huge roll of the dice.
What does this mean in english? (its chinese) " ni men hao ren shi ni men hen gao xing"?
since im chinese i might as well answer that
it means hi guys, people is us very happy?
it doesnt quite make sense, because i dont have the correct ponctuation to verify it|||你(nǐ) 们(men) 好(hǎo) , 认(rèn) 识(shí) 你(nǐ) 们(men) 很(hěn) 高(gāo) 兴(xìng)
the whole sentence is translated as "hello, nice to meet you guys"
moonlight allison, i think you misunderstood some of the words. at this time, "ren" doesnt mean "人"(tone2), it should be written as "认"(tone4)
shi doesnt mean "是", it should mean "识"|||Baby girl, I think Moonlight's translation is a little off. "ni men" would mean "you (plural)," not "us." "Us" would be something like "wah men."
it means hi guys, people is us very happy?
it doesnt quite make sense, because i dont have the correct ponctuation to verify it|||你(nǐ) 们(men) 好(hǎo) , 认(rèn) 识(shí) 你(nǐ) 们(men) 很(hěn) 高(gāo) 兴(xìng)
the whole sentence is translated as "hello, nice to meet you guys"
moonlight allison, i think you misunderstood some of the words. at this time, "ren" doesnt mean "人"(tone2), it should be written as "认"(tone4)
shi doesnt mean "是", it should mean "识"|||Baby girl, I think Moonlight's translation is a little off. "ni men" would mean "you (plural)," not "us." "Us" would be something like "wah men."
The GAO ( government accounting office) has no real enforcement powers, its head is a civil servent, appointed
by the same government it audits. Should the Head of the GAO be elected like many states who have state auditors are? SHould they also be given enforcement powers so that they can prosecute abusers of the taxpayers money?|||The DoJ, I believe, prosecutes government employees who embezzle. With all of the issues of sovereign immunity, I don't know what an independent auditor at the federal level could "prosecute" when policy choices are made on how federal government money is spent. Further, how would anyone run a national election for federal auditor? It would be exceedingly expensive.
But it's an interesting concept considering how much pork and waste have become issues recently.
But it's an interesting concept considering how much pork and waste have become issues recently.
How long before the Government Accountability Office blows the whistle and calls BS on the pork package?
As wasteful as government is, the people in the GAO actually seem to have some stones and frequently call BS on lots and lots of government pork. How long before they call the pork package a loser? I say within six months of the beginning of porking out, oops I mean stimulating. Perhaps the bigger question is whether anyone at the GAO is putting his/her life in danger for speaking out on the pork package on behalf of the productive people who are getting ripped off.|||This is the bell ringing on the Titanic. The rules have changed. (The End Is Nigh). There is now a licence to pork. It doesn't really matter where the money goes, (and with the sort of sums involved it would be futile to try and sort it out), they are just trying to increase the amount of money circulating before the system sets solid. And so far it still isn't working. The real cost of capital is still going up. US Treasury 10 year bond yields have risen another percentage point. Kill yourself now, it will probably be less painful in the long run. Smart rich people are buying food and guns.|||2 weeks|||Castrations will be happening at the GAO fairly soon...|||It is over. They have allready reported. Result= totally ignored. The messiah's steamroller rushes on unchecked.|||4 years minimum...maybe 8.|||None of this creates jobs:
40-Year Wish List
You won't believe what's in that stimulus bill.
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."
So said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November, and Democrats in Congress are certainly taking his advice to heart. The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic "stimulus," but now that Democrats have finally released the details we understand Rahm's point much better. This is a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years.
AP
We've looked it over, and even we can't quite believe it. There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There's even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.
In selling the plan, President Obama has said this bill will make "dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy." Well, you be the judge. Some $30 billion, or less than 5% of the spending in the bill, is for fixing bridges or other highway projects. There's another $40 billion for broadband and electric grid development, airports and clean water projects that are arguably worthwhile priorities.
Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus. And even many of these projects aren't likely to help the economy immediately. As Peter Orszag, the President's new budget director, told Congress a year ago, "even those [public works] that are 'on the shelf' generally cannot be undertaken quickly enough to provide timely stimulus to the economy."
Most of the rest of this project spending will go to such things as renewable energy funding ($8 billion) or mass transit ($6 billion) that have a low or negative return on investment. Most urban transit systems are so badly managed that their fares cover less than half of their costs. However, the people who operate these systems belong to public-employee unions that are campaign contributors to . . . guess which party?
Here's another lu-lu: Congress wants to spend $600 million more for the federal government to buy new cars. Uncle Sam already spends $3 billion a year on its fleet of 600,000 vehicles. Congress also wants to spend $7 billion for modernizing federal buildings and facilities. The Smithsonian is targeted to receive $150 million; we love the Smithsonian, too, but this is a job creator?
Another "stimulus" secret is that some $252 billion is for income-transfer payments -- that is, not investments that arguably help everyone, but cash or benefits to individuals for doing nothing at all. There's $81 billion for Medicaid, $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits, $20 billion for food stamps, and $83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don't pay income tax. While some of that may be justified to help poorer Americans ride out the recession, they aren't job creators.
As for the promise of accountability, some $54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as "ineffective" or unable to pass basic financial audits. These include the Economic Development Administration, the Small Business Adminis|||there is no pork|||OMB has already detailed that the "Stimulus" will "cost" the economy due to the end costs of all these programs and result in fewer long term jobs.
The Politicos are going against their own watchdogs!
We are a banana Republic.|||How hard is it for you to understand that 99% of the pork in there creates jobs?
40-Year Wish List
You won't believe what's in that stimulus bill.
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."
So said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November, and Democrats in Congress are certainly taking his advice to heart. The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic "stimulus," but now that Democrats have finally released the details we understand Rahm's point much better. This is a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years.
AP
We've looked it over, and even we can't quite believe it. There's $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn't turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There's even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.
In selling the plan, President Obama has said this bill will make "dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy." Well, you be the judge. Some $30 billion, or less than 5% of the spending in the bill, is for fixing bridges or other highway projects. There's another $40 billion for broadband and electric grid development, airports and clean water projects that are arguably worthwhile priorities.
Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus. And even many of these projects aren't likely to help the economy immediately. As Peter Orszag, the President's new budget director, told Congress a year ago, "even those [public works] that are 'on the shelf' generally cannot be undertaken quickly enough to provide timely stimulus to the economy."
Most of the rest of this project spending will go to such things as renewable energy funding ($8 billion) or mass transit ($6 billion) that have a low or negative return on investment. Most urban transit systems are so badly managed that their fares cover less than half of their costs. However, the people who operate these systems belong to public-employee unions that are campaign contributors to . . . guess which party?
Here's another lu-lu: Congress wants to spend $600 million more for the federal government to buy new cars. Uncle Sam already spends $3 billion a year on its fleet of 600,000 vehicles. Congress also wants to spend $7 billion for modernizing federal buildings and facilities. The Smithsonian is targeted to receive $150 million; we love the Smithsonian, too, but this is a job creator?
Another "stimulus" secret is that some $252 billion is for income-transfer payments -- that is, not investments that arguably help everyone, but cash or benefits to individuals for doing nothing at all. There's $81 billion for Medicaid, $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits, $20 billion for food stamps, and $83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don't pay income tax. While some of that may be justified to help poorer Americans ride out the recession, they aren't job creators.
As for the promise of accountability, some $54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as "ineffective" or unable to pass basic financial audits. These include the Economic Development Administration, the Small Business Adminis|||there is no pork|||OMB has already detailed that the "Stimulus" will "cost" the economy due to the end costs of all these programs and result in fewer long term jobs.
The Politicos are going against their own watchdogs!
We are a banana Republic.|||How hard is it for you to understand that 99% of the pork in there creates jobs?
Would you pay an extra13 cents/ticket to have your aircraft seat fitted with an inflatable lap seat belt?
Source GAO General Accounting Office study.
2002 prices.
No need to learn bracing position with this simple equipment?
Cheaper than lap sash seatbelt?|||Sure.|||Will you PLEASE give up on the senseless rant? Get a job, get a hobby, get a life....just get off the computer with the ridiculous "questions"|||No... This would actually kill you in the event of an accident|||No. I wouldn't pay for a "ticket", period. Fly private.
2002 prices.
No need to learn bracing position with this simple equipment?
Cheaper than lap sash seatbelt?|||Sure.|||Will you PLEASE give up on the senseless rant? Get a job, get a hobby, get a life....just get off the computer with the ridiculous "questions"|||No... This would actually kill you in the event of an accident|||No. I wouldn't pay for a "ticket", period. Fly private.
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