I live with the "well to do conservatives". Can't say I agree with everything they say but its about a thousand times better than "worse than Detroit" lol.
NSFW. Am I the only one who found this commercial kinda disturbing/disgusting?
The only thing I find disturbing is that she has a self-regenerating burger and I don't. The never ending cheeseburger is a dream that has yet to grace our world with its presence. How do I get my hands on this technology?
Isn't strange that some of the poorest States are the most charitable -- Mississippi is the poorest State in our country.....No surprise that virtually all of the top 25 are "Red States"...Which further proves Democrats want to be "Charitable" with your money, but not theirs.
Quote:
State-by-state comparison of charitable giving
The Associated Press
Here are the latest Generosity Index rankings based on 2003 tax data, followed by average adjusted gross income and average itemized charitable contribution, with the previous year's ranking in parenthesis:
1. Mississippi $34,720; $4,770; (1).
Isn't strange that some of the poorest States are the most charitable -- Mississippi is the poorest State in our country.....No surprise that virtually all of the top 25 are "Red States"...Which further proves Democrats want to be "Charitable" with your money, but not theirs.
Question: If Democrats want to tax the wealthy, and blue states tend to be wealthier than red states on average, don't the Democrats want to be generous with their own money?
Isn't strange that some of the poorest States are the most charitable -- Mississippi is the poorest State in our country.....No surprise that virtually all of the top 25 are "Red States"...Which further proves Democrats want to be "Charitable" with your money, but not theirs.
They should use income - cost of living (aka disposable income) rather than just income. It costs a hell of a lot more to live in NJ than it does to live in Mississippi
Question: If Democrats want to tax the wealthy, and blue states tend to be wealthier than red states on average, don't the Democrats want to be generous with their own money?
Kind of strange to use the government as a proxy for generousity don't you think?
My friend was walking across a walking bridge (aka old train bridge that crosses the Saint John River) in Fredericton, New Brunswick and she was able to snap this pic:
My friend was walking across a walking bridge (aka old train bridge that crosses the Saint John River) in Fredericton, New Brunswick and she was able to snap this pic:
I think the whole thing is retarded anyway. Send a 1$ in April to Washington and then spend the whole year fighting to get a .25¢ back...
Does that make sense?
We pay 3 times the amount in federal taxes as we do in State. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Federal taxes look like a classic Ponzi scheme to me.
States don't build aircraft carriers, fund interstate highways and send up spy satellites to plot your rescue when that flight from London gets hijacked. There's your .75
States don't build aircraft carriers, fund interstate highways and send up spy satellites to plot your rescue when that flight from London gets hijacked. There's your .75
There is no question that there is necessary federal spending but 2/3 of the federal budget is under the heading "Health & Human Services". What healthcare or human service is not administered at the State or local level? So from my view, at least 2/3 of the federal government is a ponzi scheme .... a merry-go-round of money. Dollar goes to Washington and gets block granted back to the states minus a commission .....people talk about waste in Washington, the entire system is setup inefficiently. It is a a traveling dollar that ends where it began with parasites nibbling off tiny pieces at a time.
There is no question that there is necessary federal spending but 2/3 of the federal budget is under the heading "Health & Human Services". What healthcare or human service is not administered at the State or local level? So from my view, at least 2/3 of the federal government is a ponzi scheme .... a merry-go-round of money. Dollar goes to Washington and gets block granted back to the states minus a commission .....people talk about waste in Washington, the entire system is setup inefficiently. It is a a traveling dollar that ends where it began with parasites nibbling off tiny pieces at a time.
Not sure where you get your figures.
US receipt and expenditure estimates for fiscal year 2010.
Discretionary spending: $1.378 trillion (+13.8%) $663.7 billion (+12.7%) – Department of Defense (including Overseas Contingency Operations) $78.7 billion (−1.7%) – Department of Health and Human Services
$72.5 billion (+2.8%) – Department of Transportation
$52.5 billion (+10.3%) – Department of Veterans Affairs
$51.7 billion (+40.9%) – Department of State and Other International Programs
$47.5 billion (+18.5%) – Department of Housing and Urban Development
$46.7 billion (+12.8%) – Department of Education
$42.7 billion (+1.2%) – Department of Homeland Security
$26.3 billion (−0.4%) – Department of Energy
$26.0 billion (+8.8%) – Department of Agriculture
$23.9 billion (−6.3%) – Department of Justice
$18.7 billion (+5.1%) – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$13.8 billion (+48.4%) – Department of Commerce
$13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of Labor
$13.3 billion (+4.7%) – Department of the Treasury
$12.0 billion (+6.2%) – Department of the Interior
$10.5 billion (+34.6%) – Environmental Protection Agency
$9.7 billion (+10.2%) – Social Security Administration
$7.0 billion (+1.4%) – National Science Foundation
$5.1 billion (−3.8%) – Corps of Engineers
$5.0 billion (+100%-NA) – National Infrastructure Bank
$1.1 billion (+22.2%) – Corporation for National and Community Service
$0.7 billion (0.0%) – Small Business Administration
$0.6 billion (−14.3%) – General Services Administration
$0 billion (−100%-NA) – Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
$0 billion (−100%-NA) – Financial stabilization efforts
$11 billion (+275%-NA) – Potential disaster costs
$19.8 billion (+3.7%) – Other Agencies
$105 billion – Other
If you want to kill social security and medicare/medicaid... well have fun in that world. I was talking about discretionary spending, not the mandatory budget.
I don't believe I talked about killing any spending ....my issue is who is spending it.
If it takes 100 dollars in Medicare to aid a resident in New Jersey, why am I sending that 100 to Washington? There isn't federal or state hospitals just programs and ways of distributing money.
So in my mind the longer a dollar travels, the more susceptible it is to waste, fraud and corruption.
Section 8 of the constitution is pretty clear what congress role is. Section 9 is pretty clear what the States cannot do.
And with that the 10th Amendment tells me our federal government oversteps its bounds every day.
The 10 amendment.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
