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Title: You had 65+ years to build a nest egg.
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URL Source: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011 ... -against-cavities-tooth-decay/
Published: Nov 20, 2011
Author: TH3M0N5T3R
Post Date: 2011-11-20 19:22:02 by A K A Stone
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Views: 18455
Comments: 49
You had 65+ years to build a nest egg. Why didn’t you? You spent, and borrowed, and spent, and borrowed, and now you want the rest of us to pay for your generations’ binge. Cry me a river. You want all sorts of “senior discounts” and “senior benefits” and “senior protections”. The way I see it, you’ve got more experience, so you shouldn’t be scammed so easily. You’ve had more time to save and learn to budget, but you didn’t. The working generation is already paying too much for your folly. baseballguy2001 TH3 is right on the money. Who says it’s up to us younger folks to finance the older folks who didn’t save and invest for their “Golden Years”. The younger crowd sick of it and we intend change things. November 20, 2011 at 3:32 pm albert8184 And you know, you young people are right. I was saying this to my generation 30 years ago, and they laughed like hyenas at the thought that their stupidity would ever come back to haunt them. And I told them that the next big social fracture to come would be the young against the old, and they laughed at me. Thirty years ago I said this, I swear to God, and now it is starting to happen. November 20, 2011 at 3:41 pm
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#9. To: lucysmom (#5)
Sorry to hear about your ex.
My Army Vietnam BIL died a few years back after he developed diabetes only to find out he had full blown pancreatic cancer.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
Now tell us how Viet Nam gaveus freer access to rubber. You seem to brag about some "jobs" then rip them as "damned". Why do you think we were over there? To merely fight the commie horde or to keep the rubber plantations producing and exporting?
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
The VA says his illness is due to his exposure to agent orange.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
Sorry to hear about your loss too.
Ask him where he did basic and was stationed out of. Many bases conducted secret experiments with other substances on soldiers during Vietnam and later. AND the VA is fully aware and is doing the follow ups, as part of some their long range research projects.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
I've honestly never heard the rubber angle. I think we were there because some of our leaders feared a communist domino effect. You might even add in rightly or wrongly. They may have even staged that Gulf of Tonkin incident. Didn't we have an embargo against doing business with the Viet commies after the war? Didn't we "normalize" our relations with them during the first Bush or Clinton?
Still? Today? Obama must be one bad dude.
No, they are want to workers. Their elders were instrumental in setting up an atmosphere where our traditional jobs have been sent overseas. Read the article I posted this morning for an alternate view. When you were say 20 years old did you have all that stuff working against you? When I was 20 there was a national debt, Social Security was taken from my paycheck, and jobs for woman and jobs for men were listed separately in in the Want Ads. People said stuff like "that's good pay for a woman" and figured women just worked for "pin money". Things were darned good for white men though, lots of opportunity.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
So if you want to work. You sit on your ass for two months, and whine about people who are working and succeeding? That doesn't seem like the way to get a job to me. I've never got a job that way.
I don't see anything inherently wrong with that. Say you are hiring for a highway road crew. Why are the women always standing there with a little sign and the men are the ones doing the work? I know men hold the signs sometimes too. Men and women are different. Some jobs a man is qualified for and a woman is not. Probably vice versa too but nothing comes to mind.
That "war" was such a waste of human life.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
I don't think you can compare the debt then to now. It isn't even close. The debt now threatens to turn all taxpayers into debt slaves for the elites and the welfare class.
Things were darned good for white men though, lots of opportunity. Give me a decade so I can be more precise. It is good when things are good for the white man. Do you want things to be hard for the white man?
There aren't words strong enough...
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
You need to stop believing everything right wing radicals tell you.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
Neither was GDP.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
Didn't we "normalize" our relations with them during the first Bush or Clinton? Because we didn't get the desired result in Vietnam doesn't mean it wasn't one of the primary goals.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
Are you saying they haven't been there for 2 months? You don't think they could have found a job in that 2 months? Even at McDonalds or WalMart to start? Ok you may not call it whining. But if tthey are protesting isn't that complaining about something. Which some people would call whining. I'm happy to let you know I don't see anything inaccurate about that statement.
Not when it comes at the expense of women and non-white men.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
Neither was GDP. Does the population have a inkling to do with that? The debt per taxpayer has continued to explode to nothing comparable in the history of the planet earth.
Ok. At least you admit that there were goal(s) and not a goal. Do you think that maybe some of the people who got us in VietNam actually thought they were a threat to us and that other nations were going to fall to godless communism (even if they were wrong)?
We lost.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
I have this theory. When only men mainly were the bread winners. A man could take care of his family if he worked hard. Now that women are in the workplace (No I don't care if women are in the workforce) it takes 2 peoples income and it is rougher. I honestly think there is a bit of correlation between the two events.
Do you think that maybe some of the people who got us in VietNam actually thought they were a threat to us and that other nations were going to fall to godless communism (even if they were wrong)? You act like I was working at the Pentagon for one of the Chiefs.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
What did we lose?
What makes you think they're all unemployed and have been there for two months straight.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
When only men mainly were the bread winners. A man could take care of his family if he worked hard. Now that women are in the workplace (No I don't care if women are in the workforce) it takes 2 peoples income and it is rougher. I honestly think there is a bit of correlation between the two events. I have another theory. Corps saw what they considered to be a pool of wasted cheap man power and decided to instigate a financial squeeze on citizens so women would seek employment. Eternal wars and becoming the world's policeman became part of that.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
And that means exactly what?
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
I'm generalizing. The hardcores have been there all that time. That is to who I am referring. I'm sure there are decent people who have showed up there to protest and then went home.
The war and tens of thousands of American lives.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
Aah. We are not to far apart.
See mings post 36. That is a strain of what I was saying.
Fair enough.
I remember my dad being outraged, not that women were getting jobs as carpenters, but that they were being hired for less money than men.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
I worked for a cabinet shop back in the 90's. We had this one chick there who was pretty damned good at what she did. Then there was another that the boss hired from the go go bar. She was black and her name was CoCoa. I liked her too but she wasn't so smart.
A retired engineer friend "shows up to protest" because he says the opportunities he had as a young man that made it possible for him to have a good job and comfortable life don't exist anymore.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
He is right. I think a lot of people just go there to protest because they know something is wrong. Not necessarily because they buy the horse shit coming from that anti American radicals.
So the article is correct. The Young people are not whiners as was described above by ming or yourself.
STONE: I've honestly never heard the rubber angle. I think we were there because some of our leaders feared a communist domino effect. You might even add in rightly or wrongly. The rubber angle is too simplistic, bordering on the absurd. Stone's closer, but you have to go back to the 1950's and the escalation of the Cold War. John Foster Dulles really set the underlying philosophies that were followed by people like McNamara and Kissinger. It's also partially a result of the Military Industrial Complex which Eisenhower referred to in his final speech as POTUS. The MIC and crony-capitalist system now in place relegate our country to suffer the debts of continuous wars, until we haven't two nickels to rub together. It could easily be argued that the USA hasn't been involved in a "just war" since WWII. It could even be argued that we've not been involved in a just war since 1861... and the "good" guys lost. Your friends and family who have suffered from the wars they've been involved in, suffered not because of a just war... but because weapons manufacturers wanted to make a profit. It's a bitter fact, but it's the truth. As to expiremental programs by the military, I was involved in several, as a test subject (guinea pig). I was young and naive, and never imagined the government would actively endanger their own servicemen's lives... I am exhibiting some symptoms that are common with others who were in the same expiremental programs as myself, namely degenerative arthritis, which was diagnosed while still in the military at age 24.
DUMMY DwarF: ...I'm eating a meatball... "Whenver the dwarf sees something negative about a Democrat, he tries to change the topic of the thread to something else. Usually a personal attack, followed by mutterings about correct 'grammar' 'spelling' whatever. Anything he can think of to avoid a discussion about a Democrat screwing up or looking bad. It's a decade long pattern." --Badeye observation-- From Wikipedia: Ben Cui is a rubber plantation that is part of the Michelin Rubber Plantation near Dau Tieng, Republic of Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, Ben Cui and other sections of the Michelin rubber plantation were the scene of intense fighting between United States forces and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong forces. Staff Sergeant Marvin "Rex" Young, Company C, 1st Battalion (Mechanized),, 5th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division posthumously received the Medal of Honor, in recognition of the repeated efforts he made to save the lives of his comrades near Ben Cui on August 21, 1968. The 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, earned the Presidential Unit Citation for the actions from August 18 to September 20, 1968.[1] The fighting in the Ben Cui rubber plantation is sometimes referred to as the Third Offensive, in reference to the third wave of massed North Vietnamese troops after the Tet Offensive. The Tet and subsequent offensives marked a major shift from the small hit-and-run sniper and ambush that dominated during the Vietnam War to a more massive display of force and higher numbers of casualties. Some of the veterans of the combat in the Ben Cui and other segments of the Michelin rubber plantation believe that heavier U.S. casualties were sustained because the U.S. Army had an informal agreement with the French Government to not use artillery or air strikes in the rubber plantations, to avoid costly damage to the rubber trees. However, the Combat After Action Reports from the Ben Cui engagement of 21 August 1968 indicate that both artillery and air support were used.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
My ex-husband has diabetes and cancer as a result of his year in Vietnam. Recently he had his foot amputated.
#10. To: lucysmom (#5)
My ex-husband has diabetes and cancer as a result of his year in Vietnam. Recently he had his foot amputated.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#8)
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My father is doing well.
#12. To: mininggold (#6)
#13. To: mininggold (#10)
My Army Vietnam BIL died a few years back after he developed diabetes only to find out he had full blown pancreatic cancer.
#14. To: lucysmom (#12)
The VA says his illness is due to his exposure to agent orange.
#15. To: mininggold (#11)
Why do you think we were over there? To merely fight the commie horde or to keep the rubber plantations producing and exporting?
#16. To: mininggold (#14)
AND the VA is fully aware and is doing the follow ups, as part of some their long range research projects.
#17. To: A K A Stone (#7)
It doesn't sound that way to me. Are OWS groups whiners and takers?
#18. To: lucysmom (#17)
No, they are want to workers.
#19. To: lucysmom (#17)
When I was 20 there was a national debt, Social Security was taken from my paycheck, and jobs for woman and jobs for men were listed separately in in the Want Ads.
#20. To: mininggold (#10)
#21. To: lucysmom (#17)
When I was 20 there was a national debt, Social Security was taken from my paycheck
#22. To: lucysmom (#17)
People said stuff like "that's good pay for a woman" and figured women just worked for "pin money".
#23. To: mininggold (#14)
Many bases conducted secret experiments...
#24. To: A K A Stone (#18)
So if you want to work. You sit on your ass for two months, and whine about people who are working and succeeding?
#25. To: A K A Stone (#21)
I don't think you can compare the debt then to now. It isn't even close.
#26. To: A K A Stone (#15)
Didn't we have an embargo against doing business with the Viet commies after the war?
#27. To: lucysmom (#24)
You need to stop believing everything right wing radicals tell you.
#28. To: A K A Stone (#22)
It is good when things are good for the white man.
#29. To: lucysmom (#25)
I don't think you can compare the debt then to now. It isn't even close.
#30. To: mininggold (#26)
Because we didn't get the desired result in Vietnam doesn't mean it wasn't one of the primary goals.
#31. To: mininggold (#26)
Because we didn't get the desired result in Vietnam...
#32. To: lucysmom (#28)
Not when it comes at the expense of women and non-white men.
#33. To: A K A Stone (#30)
Ok. At least you admit that there were goal(s) and not a goal.
#34. To: lucysmom (#31)
We lost.
#35. To: A K A Stone (#27)
(Edited)
Are you saying they haven't been there for 2 months? You don't think they could have found a job in that 2 months? Even at McDonalds or WalMart to start?
#36. To: A K A Stone (#32)
(Edited)
I have this theory.
#37. To: A K A Stone (#32)
When only men mainly were the bread winners. A man could take care of his family if he worked hard.
#38. To: lucysmom (#35)
What makes you think their all unemployed and have been there for two months straight.
#39. To: A K A Stone (#34)
#40. To: mininggold (#36)
Corps saw what they considered to be a pool of wasted cheap man power and decided to instigate a financial squeeze on citizens so women would seek employment.
#41. To: lucysmom (#37)
And that means exactly what?
#42. To: lucysmom (#39)
The war and tens of thousands of American lives.
#43. To: mininggold (#36)
I have another theory. Corps saw what they considered to be a pool of wasted cheap man power and decided to instigate a financial squeeze on citizens so women would seek employment. Eternal wars and becoming the world's policeman became part of that.
#44. To: lucysmom (#43)
not that women were getting jobs as carpenters
#45. To: A K A Stone (#38)
I'm sure there are decent people who have showed up there to protest and then went home.
#46. To: lucysmom (#45)
A retired engineer friend "shows up to protest" because he says the opportunities he had as a young man that made it possible for him to have a good job and comfortable life don't exist anymore.
#47. To: lucysmom (#45)
A retired engineer friend "shows up to protest" because he says the opportunities he had as a young man that made it possible for him to have a good job and comfortable life don't exist anymore.
#48. To: A K A Stone, mininggold, lucysmom (#15)
mininggold: Why do you think we were over there? To merely fight the commie horde or to keep the rubber plantations producing and exporting?
Capitalist Eric: Foreplay before the president's staff? 
#49. To: A K A Stone (#15)
I've honestly never heard the rubber angle.
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