Mortdooley wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2023 at 10:56pm:



Welfare dependency is actually built into the system, because the current mainstream economic orthodoxy insists everyone must compete in the 'market economy', or be relegated to the unemployment scrap heap.

But "help yourself" is unrealistic, when you are unable to compete in the free market. 

A Job Guarantee (at minimum wage), is the solution; all useful work has value regardless of the market. 

thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2023 at 4:55pm:


Aren't we supposed to be self-reliant, rather than being dependent on everyone else

The American way is voluntary charity, give a helping hand to the down and out until they get back on their feet

Socialist intervention means the charity becomes compulsory and it grows from there until it's 50% of the govt's budget

Then blow me down, we still get a multitude of organizations who expect us to voluntarily give some of our cash for the down and out

Greedy Socialist double dipping I'd call that

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Not my BIL, the handicapped mans brother-in-law. Let me try to clarify who my example person is. He is fit and strong, and could make a fair wage at a variety of jobs but has learned how to game the system. If he worked some of that income would go to pay for the benefits currently covered by Us the Tax Payers.

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Fact check: On April 12, 1633

Galileo is accused of heresy. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Common belief among any group of people does not make something true. The Left actually has its own facts which are not generally truth!

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I understand the concept, if you keep the slaves healthy they can stay in the fields and work.

"If an employer is required to pay the entire insurance for the employee its cost will be part of the wage. The cost of employees is much higher than the statement on their pay check. Considering the total cost for an employee may be as much as double what is seen as a wage. Benefits can be very expensive and the employer needs a way to recover the cost!"

There is a "market price" for everything in business including wages. The bottom line for employees isn't how much is in their pay envelope, it is how much including all benefits and expenses those employees cost the employer. Social Security is a system that guarantees a supplemental income but was never created to replace a retirement account. For every dollar an employee pays into the system, the employer pays an equal amount for the employee. If benefits are included, pro-rate the expense to the hourly wage and it may cost 50% more. When the book keeper does their job the employees are an expense just like fuel, materials, interest on a business loan and government permits. That isn't dehumanizing, it is the reality that a worker must be worthy of his hire! It isn't charity!

thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2023 at 4:55pm:



Nyack Middle School in New York apologised for serving an ‘inexcusably insensitive’ lunch of fried chicken and watermelon on the first day of Black History Month.



Wacist fud.

Mortdooley wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2023 at 10:56pm:



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No Trump is the base of the swamp himself - He was never going to harm his swamp.

There were 2 impeachments of Trump the first was related to him running an extortion ring out of the oval office, he also got an award for the most creative uses of the oval office in many millennium or should than be Melania.

The second was for running an insurrection. people died. Really nasty little event that he organised.

Frank wrote on Feb 10^th, 2023 at 10:47pm:



Did they? If no one informed the children to be offended they would have enjoyed their meal! I like watermelon and if it were part of my meal that would be a good thing. The problem might be that there was not enough watermelon.

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The IRS wants all income reported however payment in cash or goods and services leave no paper trail.

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Private sector corruption generally involves government rules and regulations. If it doesn't give the customer what it wants as well as satisfy the greed of government it fails!

Just last Week our current fake president has suggested that when construction of any type happens in a predominately minority area the construction companies be required to employ people of the same background. It can't all be diversity and inclusion, someone needs to have the skills to perform the work.

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Just how much health care does the average person need? At one point medical savings accounts were considered. After a year any unused money set aside for medical needs were returned or credited for future premiums. The idea seems to have faded away.

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Government employment pays much better than the private sector. On average twice as much. People receive a living wage by making themselves more valuable to an employer, no one is entitled to what they think their labor is worth!

Some Basic Questions Democrats Can’t (Or Won’t) Answer
But the answers are obvious.
March 1, 2023 by Derek Hunter

Remember science? Not the way it is now with the absolute obedience to progressive politics over evidence and common sense, but the way it was back when you were a kid and science was the embraced questioning of everything; remember that? Questioning is no longer allowed, unless it’s of your sexuality after being inundated with left-wing propaganda about how being gender non-binary is not only somehow enlightened, but a real thing. It is not. Most, in fact, of what Democrats inflict on the world are not real things, and even though questioning is no longer acceptable, I have some questions I’m going to ask anyway.

On “climate change” I have to ask how it is we’re supposed to take you seriously when nothing you’ve predicted has come to pass? We’re well past 30 years of 10-year predictions of coastal flooding, yet Florida still exists. In fact, all the 10-year predictions of doom and gloom haven’t happened.

If you were the leader of a cult who told their followers the world would come to an end on Sunday, come Monday morning you’re going to have some serious explaining to do. With the climate change cult there is no similar question, all they’ve done is stop making 10-year predictions and now make 100-year predictions. This isn’t because the data they have is somehow more accurate the further away from its collection you go, it’s because everyone who heard the prediction will be dead when it doesn’t happen.

A 10-year prediction isn’t provable, but it will come to pass in most people’s life. A 100-year prediction isn’t provable, but it’s also not disprovable since it will be long forgotten by the time it doesn’t come to pass. It’s brilliant, actually, if your desire is to simply scare the hell out of people to force them to act. If you’re at all interested in the truth…less so.

So, if we haven’t acted on climate change and the “polluting” countries are still pumping out CO2 like it’s a sport, why haven’t your predictions come true? Why didn’t you try to save Barack Obama millions when he bought his mega-estate on Martha’s Vineyard?

On the trans issue, how did all of you lose every bit of life experience and knowledge you’d accumulated over your lifetime inside of about 15 minutes? You don’t really believe the person next to you at a urinal is a woman simply because they peek-a-boo their privates behind thigh fat, do you?

If trans women are every bit as much women and real women, why do they need the prefix “trans”? If trans women are real women why is it that zero straight elected Democrats have ever dated one? Wouldn’t Bill Clinton have gotten what he got from Monica from one by now? Wouldn’t Hunter Biden, who filmed himself having sex with what sure came off as human trafficked, forced prostitutes have filmed himself having sex with a tucked partner, if only by accident? When the chips are down it sure seems like Democrats do, in fact, know what a woman is. Why is that?

I know you think the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ “community” are “marginalized” and, therefore, are in desperate need of coddling (bit of a white savior complex you have going), but the definition of the word “marginalized” is “placed in a position of little or no importance, influence, or power,” according to dictionary.com (at least until some leftist realizes that’s the definition and they order it changed). Why are the people who have all the protections of cancel culture, who are seemingly every third character on television, tenured academia, and a fascistic political party constantly policing speech on their side “marginalized”? Aren’t we normal people, the ones marginalized by being forced to deny reality?

On the border, I’ll make this quick: Why do you call illegal aliens “migrants”? “Migrants” migrate, it’s right there in their name. The millions of people flooding across the southern border at your invitation and urging aren’t planning on going anywhere; if they aren’t deported, they’ll never leave. They, therefore, are illegal aliens.

Words matter, or so you people who call everyone a bigot who refers to a guy in a dress as “he,” so why don’t they matter at the border? Migrants enter the country for specific work, generally the harvesting of crops, then go home after completion with their pay. Illegal aliens stay, avail themselves of our social safety net – clog emergency rooms, slow down the education process of American kids while costing the system an untold fortune, receive welfare benefits, etc. – and will never, short of a mega lottery win, be a net benefit to society, even if they were made legal.

I guess my question for you is how can people, unable to communicate in our language and largely illiterate in their own, ever contribute as much (forget more) than they take from our country? Why is the fact that their country sucks our responsibility? Shouldn’t they try to fix their own country rather than be allowed to be a drain on ours? And why do Democrats actively seek to implement in this country the very economic system they marched thousands of miles to escape? (That last one is a bit of a trick question, I know, because you’re convinced that, even though it never has anywhere it’s ever been tried, YOU will be the people to finally implement socialism/communism successfully. You won’t.)