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Fury of the Republicans; Shit has hit the fan...again
Topic Started: Feb 24 2011, 06:14 AM (2,397 Views)
-Arem-
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Yet. We haven't seen the last of this; not by a long shot.
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Blacklightning
Nov 14 2011, 02:48 AM
I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
game + gun = -gay
game + gun + Arem = ???


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I didn't want to say yet because I'm hoping things get resolved in something at least resembling a civil manner. I'd just like to know how this whole "democrats vs republicans" business got so out of hand.
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Dunno... Anyway I was browsing deviantart, and someone posted this in their image description.

http://www.deviantart.com/?loggedin=1#/d3bevne

It raises a few good points I think. I really don't know what to support here, but like I said before it's good to have contrast in here.

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THIS IMAGE WILL BE CENSORED WITHIN 48 HOURS. AFTERWARDS, THE FULL IMAGE WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE ON MY BLOG  AND PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT.

Before anyone accuses me of being a corporate shill who doesn’t give two craps about the working man: I believe that unions have every right to exist and negotiate with their employers for fairer wages, benefits, and working conditions. They also have the right to “peacefully assemble” and voice their grievances (though I doubt moonbats would extend the same courtesy to the Tea Party). I just find their protests, or rather their reason for protesting, to be ridiculous.

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past month, union members have been flooding the Wisconsin state capitol to protest Governor Scott Walker’s budget repair bill, which was proposed to correct the state’s $137 million shortfall (a shortfall that moonbats Rachel Maddow and Michael Moore deny exists). Protestors have described the bill as “union-busting”, “class warfare”, and an “attack on the middle class”.

So what’s about the bill has unions so riled up? Three things:

1) It requires public sector union members to contribute a small percent of their salary to their pensions and healthcare premiums, which only seems fair considering they already contribute jack squat to their pensions and only half to their premiums. If you want something, you should have to pay for it.

2) It would prevent collective bargaining for wages higher than the rate of inflation. Granted, I’m not an expert in economics (so correct me if I’m wrong), but it seems rather foolish to demand wages higher than the prices customers (or in this case, taxpayers) pay for your service, unless you plan to raise prices (or in this case, taxes).

3) It would eliminate automatic due checkoff, which automatically deducts dues from a unions member’s paycheck. From what I hear, this somehow limits a union’s political power. Then again, considering that teacher unions (which are at the forefront of these protests) lobby against offering students life-saving medicine, converting failing public schools into more efficient charter schools, and instituting educational reform in general, this might be a good thing.

So forgive me if I don’t understand why rationally-thinking people would vehemently oppose these measures, considering that the alternative—1,500 public employee layoffs (10,000 to 12,000 layoffs over the next two years)—is far worse. Then again, that’s assuming moonbats are rationally-thinking people.
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Okay, well if that's true, it...just makes things even more confusing. The main thing that's boggling me is how these people could be against

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offering students life-saving medicine, converting failing public schools into more efficient charter schools, and instituting educational reform in general


Seriously, where is the logic?
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I've never heard of the first one, and the other is because charter shools are not exactly public schools - they need to follow less restrictions than basic public schools, but generally have lower enrollment abillities.

Also, the pensions and benifits were payed for through negotiation - they took a paycut for it. It's the same way that football players do it.
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Psycho Werekitsune
Mar 11 2011, 15:09 PM
I didn't want to say yet because I'm hoping things get resolved in something at least resembling a civil manner. I'd just like to know how this whole "democrats vs republicans" business got so out of hand.

I'd like to say it's always been that way, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about the finer points of politics to be sure of that. Thus, I'll just stick to my old reasoning of "Old people will bicker".
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But you'd never have heard anything like this back in the 90's. I dunno, maybe it's because I was younger, but this tension has only become so blatant within the past 10 years or so, in my opinion.
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Minnesota GOP wants to make it illegal for anyone to carry more then 20 bucks cash in their wallets at any time.

What the fuck is this shit?
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Nov 14 2011, 02:48 AM
I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit.

game - gun = gay
game + gun = -gay
game + gun + Arem = ???


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So now they're trying to be your moms? XD
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Yup, this isn't the United States of America, 'land of the free' anymore. We're hurtling headfirst into Communist territory.
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Some states are just fucked up.
I remember one time I almost had $1,000 in my wallet, lol.
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Some states are just fucked up.
I remember one time I almost had $1,000 in my wallet, lol.

I also remember back when it was normal for everyone to have that much in their pockets. Good times.
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Some states are just fucked up.
I remember one time I almost had $1,000 in my wallet, lol.

I also remember back when it was normal for everyone to have that much in their pockets. Good times.

What? When I was young for some reason I hoarded every dollar in a special spot I from a summer job, so that I could buy something big... That's all I got for 3 months of work. Forget I even said that, lol.

Tried looking at the other side of this.... still doesn't seem like a good enough reason to do this to people...

I doubt many people on either political end would think this is a good idea... Doesn't this deserve it's own topic or something?

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Politically they want to re-enforce the myth that people on welfare are living better than working class America, it started with the "welfare queen" myth where welfare families were driving new Cadillacs while "real Americans" or "working Americans" struggled to meet ends meat. In this case they want to imply, that welfare recipients either don't save any money or collect it fraudulently because they're drug deals or work of the books. Basically they want one half of the poor to turn on the other half so they don't notice what the rich are doing.


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Onyango, the half sister of Obama's late father, still lives in public housing and collects $700 monthly disability. She doesn't work.
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So one of the states is looking to remove child labor laws. Can't really hyperlink on me pos, but Shuki's got them in the SoaH clone of this topic.
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It was Missouri. We used to have states with child labor laws in the 1910's, until the late 30's.

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Cunningham wants to  revoke the parts of current state labor law that say kids under age 14 can't work and kids age 14 and 15 can’t work more than three hours a day on school days, more than eight hours on non-school days or before 7 a.m. or after 9 p.m. She thinks teens should be able to work late-night jobs at resorts, restaurants and motels. And she's sponsored a bill, S.B. 222, referred to the state senate’s general laws committee on Feb. 10, that would enact the changes.


Like I was just saying, I used to work when I was a kid... "under the table" money. Given the hours, days, and age limits in this quote, I don't understand how this is all that big of a deal. It's not like they would work during school hours. And it teaches kids some work ethic, plus they get some moo-la to spend on random kid crap, or important needs. Plus it's all optional anyway, totally up to the kids with a parent's permission.
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