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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 09:32 AM) Who is "The Market" that is making this decision? Is it those who stand to gain more profit personally by depressing your wages as low as possible? and those very same folks the GOP is refusing to cut taxes for, giving them more and more money and more and more power to depress your wages? (this is why hardworking middle class americans shouldn't be Republicans. you've just proved it by example)

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 01:27 AM) I'm not rich or anything, I'm just not poor. And yea I'm underpaid at all three of my jobs, I just dont b**** about it because I dont expect anyone to come riding in a chariot of righteousness and adjust all my wages. I either pick up more hours, find another job or just leave one to find another which is better. I have control over that. So then... if you're underpaid (like pettie), why aren't you following your own advice and getting better jobs? Because you want to play martyr?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 6, 2013 -> 01:24 AM) I never brought rich into the discussion. What I'm saying is if you cut this net out from under them that enables them to do basically nothing and get by they'll be forced to find some way of making money. Some will get jobs, some will find some scheme, some will resort to crime (in an ideal world however the 2A deters that path). Either way, no matter what happens, the people who actually earn their living wont have to shoulder this burden of handing them free s***. This same basic idea applies to business and the epic welfare packages they receive in the form of corrupt contracts and straight up handouts. You had a net too, but somehow you still wanted to better yourself, make more money, and get out of poverty. Are you really so arrogant to think you're the exception?

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 05:37 PM) What the he... First and foremost I'm not a liberal. Second, how did you come to the conclusion that I worked for the government when I threw around words like management gets bonuses? I know I'm well underpaid but the reason why these assholes can get away with it because of the recession. Noone would dare b**** about their salary because there is some sap ready to take your place. I'm just holding the line until the next best opportunity comes. That's why people don't stick around their jobs anymore, you're just a damn number to them and they are just a stepping stone for me. Duke your biggest problem is that you are the epitome of egocentric. You believe that just because you did something that everyone else can. That's the biggest amount of malarky I've ever heard. Not everyone is "you". That's why you get berated from your over the top hyperbolic posts. You can get your points across without being so damned snarky. Try it sometime and people might just start taking your posts at face value. ugh stop giving him credit. you're making it sound like he accomplished something difficult. you're just feeding the egomania. i'll just sit back and laugh as he toils his way towards a retirement that never actually happens because the government has cut social security and medicare.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 02:41 PM) A little late to this party, but I went to go see Life of Pi this weekend. I enjoyed it. Couldn't stop thinking about how it was the lovechild of Big Fish, Forrest Gump, and Castaway throughout the show, but that's not such a bad thing. Hah. Absolutely. And no, not such a bad thing. Truly a great film.

Probably on day 1 since you're already working the tris with the dips, and day 2 seems to be leg day. But like Y2HH said it doesnt really matter.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 02:14 PM) People will figure it out. I was well below the poverty line for 18 months of my life and after realizing how much I hated that existence I decided I would stop being poor. Suffering makes people stronger, being poor makes you want to be rich... pretty simple stuff. Toughen em up a little, make them sweat it out for a year or so and they'll get awfully creative in finding new ways of making money. Wait! But you said poor prople on welfare DON'T want to be rich! Which is it? You're John Kerrying all over the place.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 02:17 PM) Well do you work for the government pettie? If so, get a real job. If you work in the real world the market has dictated your value. If you dont like it that's fine, but it doesn't change the reality. Maybe someone else will value your labor more? You're free to look around. Its not super complicated, liberals just like making it that way so they can confuse and trick people into paying more taxes. Seriously? I thought you wanted us to go into a recession... wouldnt that limit some options in terms of seaking other employment?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 01:36 PM) At this point the system is so broken that fixing it is going to put us through some nasty times. We could've just gotten it over with in 2008 and the structural fixes would finally be helping out, but we've elected to just live permanently in mediocrity as opposed to a few years of legit suffering for what would be a better overall lifetime. We cannot just hide behind the copout that something might cause a recession. What's your plan when you lose your jobs?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 01:17 PM) Using the graphs already posted, federal spending is at the same level it was in 1950. It actually does need to outgrow GDP over the next 20 years though, because of the baby boom retirement. It's going to have to happen. Shhhhhh, that's logical. No place for that here.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 12:58 PM) As an increasing number of Americans get more and more lazy the majorities' share of the wealth gets smaller and smaller. Show me your proof. With statistics please.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 01:07 PM) Do you guys go to a grocery store that you drive to, or do you live in a place where your only source of groceries is the corner convenience store and it's an hour+ bus ride each way to get to the nearest grocery store (and you're limited to what you can carry home, and you've just finished up your 2nd 29 hour a week job when you head there?) So you're agreeing that no one actually spends $37 a day on vegetables because the people you're talking about don't have access to groceries anyway! Goalposts, consider yourselves moved. What's your ACTUAL point balta? Because if it's lack of access I agree. If it's cost, I disagree.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 11:32 AM) Yet Bush stayed generally around 18%, as Clinton did in his second term (after decreasing spending during his first term) while Obama has been around and above 20%. I'm pretty sure that 18% isn't taking the Bush stimulus into account.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 10:35 AM) Who gives a crap how we got to this point, let's fix the problem. I recall Hillary saying something eerily similar re: Benghazi... huh...

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 11:24 AM) Greatest percentage of spending in non World War years. That wasn't hard. Or is that 2008? I can't tell, it's hard to see. It was a recessionary period and the US Govt didn't stop spending, thus you're going to see an increased percentage. I just spun it and flipped it by myself. Which was significantly shorter than our current war(s)

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 11:07 AM) Ask yourself why you wouldn't look at % GDP and not absolute dollars Because you can't spin it to make Obama look bad.

Go ahead and ignore the absolute skyrocket under Bush... lol

QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 5, 2013 -> 08:16 AM) It said specifically that all the foods were of low calorie density. If you're buying organic, whole food products with very low calorie density...things could add up but it wouldn't be very fun to eat either. Nor would it be very nutritious. If you eat nothing but veggies you miss an awful lot of nutrients. The problem is that the $4/day is legitimately something people do. No one eats JUST vegetables if they're trying to hit 2,000 cal. It's a terrible comparison and it's manipulative and misleading.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 06:34 PM) I knew I'd seen this, it just took me half a day of random googling to find it. This is the problem with requiring that people on food stamps. Keep in mind for scale, most food stamp programs are reported to come out at about $4 a day. This is called bad math, bad science, and straight up manipulation. I spend $50 a week and eat 2500 to 3000 cal a day. All healthy foods.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 4, 2013 -> 05:47 AM) If the judge says they can be. You ignore the part where I say people on welfare cannot have children without prior permission. And the world is black and white, there are no shades of grey for you and your limp-wristed liberal ideology to fall back on. The contrast is stark, live as a free American without welfare or be a public slave on welfare. Which you choose is entirely up to you, but there needs to be consequences for not being able to support yourself. I wouldn't mind some sort of mandated sign that a person must display that show they are on welfare at all times. Stigmatize them, force them into oppression, make every day they spend on welfare a living hell... I want them to feel like the whole world would rather they just go away. Guys im gonna get suspended again pretty quickly. Isnt limp-wristed a euphamism for gay? What is your DEAL dude? Be a friggin human being and learn some goddamned empathy. More so, learn how to treat people. Otherwise these attitudes are gonna come back to bite you some day when you piss off the wrong person. Wish I could see it. Karma is, as they say, a b****.

what the hell is a smelt?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 10:32 AM) Not at all. If you want public money you are essentially owned by the public. Its a choice, nobody is forced onto welfare. You seem to see the world in black and white and ignore the shades of gray. You need to explore some inner city slums and tell me that children born there CHOOSE to be on welfare and CHOOSE to not get a better education.

Is this the longest minor leaguer I'd never heard of for minor leaguer I'd never heard of trade thread ever?

If/When PK leaves, you'll see Viciedo at 1B, especially with our glut of young outfielders.

QUOTE (southside_hitman @ Mar 2, 2013 -> 06:32 AM) Try to accept differing opinions graciously rather than flipping into attack/troll mode. As I have said, I do not acknowledge people who do that and I will not continue to go back and forth to try to get the last word in or to engage people in a worthless, time-consuming, circular argument. In the future, if you want someone to go back and forth with, pick on someone else. methinks someone may not last too long here... that said - call me crazy, but I have more faith in our scouting department and Rick Hahn than I do in you armchair GMs.