Originally Posted by
DrDirt
Yeah, Teamsters Union. There's a nice group. Good role models there. I wish I knew where Jimmy was so I could shake his hand. Yeah, I know not all union members make $80/hr for screwing a radio into a dashboard but you get the point...or should.
Injuns? Yeah, you're right there. I'm a card carrying member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. I've never see a bigger group of whiny, I've been fucked over, worthless bastiges as Native American Activists and great wannabe warriors and hunters. Well, yes I have but they shall remain nameless. Everybody seems to think the world owes them something just because they exist. Nobody owes you anything. Nobody owes jchauncy insurance or rent money just because his girlfriend is pregnant. Just because some dipshit like Obama says I should pay for all this crap doesn't mean that it's so. It just means that you and a lot of others like you are willing to sell your vote for cheap.
Don't get your panties in a wad because nobody owes DrDirt anything either...but then, I'm not asking for anything either. Every single person in this country needs to grow the fuck up and take responsibility for themselves.
Didn't mean to pick on jchauncey there but, the last paragraph of his post up there sums it up better than anything anybody else has written yet. Dude, you're driving around in an '02 GT, and jawjacking on the internet complaining about how you don't have enough to pay your bills and now your girlfriend is pregnant. Come on, really. You're looking for sympathy because you're being mistreated in this world and the government (read the taxpayers) needs to fix things for you? Why is that?
Some of you guys need to do a search on here for "Barstool Economics". That was the greatest piece of wisdom I have seen posted on this board or anywhere else for that matter. That's the way things really work. And no, I'm not the top guy on that ladder. I'm several rungs down. As a matter of fact, I don't get any of those drinks. I just sit around and commiserate with the group and give my beer to somebody else.
Whoah whoah whoah. Thats not the point I was making. I work my ass off. My GF and I both work 40+ hours a week and we barely make ends meet. I dont collect welfare and never will, I was stating that the way the tax system works under Obama I have to pay less of them than say someone that makes more money than I do. I think thats pretty fair. As far as the rest of what I stated I was more or less pointing out that Obama doesnt make laws. He passes them, or veto's them. In which congress and the senate and over rule the veto by voting in which case the process starts over.
The healthcare issue however, I dont agree with the system that works here at all. I pay for health insurance and then when I get sick I pay more to go to the doctor. The movie "Sicko," even if it is a Michael Moore movie is pretty eye-opening. Pharmaceutical companies and the healthcare industry as a whole is pretty much a scam. People in other countries have free healthcare and the doctors that provide in them are still compensated. The only difference is that the medical professionals are paid by taxes instead of insurance or out of my pocket. Yes I know it comes out of my paycheck in the form of taxes but the way it works here now is exactly the same for police or firemen.
The whole problem with that situation is the pharmaceutical companies have their fat cocks up these politicians asses in the form of lobbyists and donating generous sums of money to election campaigns.
Fuck it all, I know the whole system is just fucked beyond repair or FUBAR'd if you will. What can I do, nothing. I can take it up the ass because no fucking body can agree on a damn thing to do about it. What happened to compromise?