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Reply to The single biggest difference between rich and middle class people in Politics JoeUser Forums

How we define wealth is irrelevant. Whatever you want to call it, the way we live has changed dramatically since the days we lived in caves. The resaon we don't live in caves still is because people did things that resulted in us not living in caves. Assuming we don't like living in caves, we should look at why we don't live in caves.

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]I came, I read, I see someone being pounded for expressing HIS OPINION! in the final analysis that is all Sodaiho did express a his opinion about the gaming industry, Agree or disagree {personally I disagree with Sodaiho on this issue} Brad is entitled to do what he wants to do here on his site that he created for us to play with free of charge. Brad could just simply say fuck this and tomorrow there could be NO JOEUSER at all if he chose to do so. I hope he never does that. For so man

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

I see Sodaiho returned with an alias and also wrote this: https://forums.joeuser.com/post.aspx?postid=334414 Let's be clear on a few things: 1. My post is not a complaint about taxes. The point was to illustrate the actual effect it has on job creation. People are certainly free to dismiss what I write. But then again, one might argue that an intelligent person might see it as an opportun

Reply to Exiled in Blogging Stardock Forums

Also, people can look for themselves to see the order of things: https://forums.joeuser.com/post.aspx?postid=334166 His personal attack on me came well before I pointed out why LW is poor (and they can see what LW had said that generated my response).

Reply to Exiled in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I noticed that everyone on the thread in question has equated you with being a pretty poor excuse for a human being. Roy pointed out, I'm an atheist. I should probably have mentioned that I also ahve the ability to IP ban you.

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

(Sodaiho has been exiled, blog removed). (Don't crap on the people who provide your free blog) Incidentally, most of our revenue does not come from games. I just notice that losers like to fixate on game development as a way to belittle the source of our economic success. One thing that history shows is that small minded people will always assume that they hold a monopoly on wisdom and that the average person is too stupid to know what's best for them and thus they and others li

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]We can define success in many ways: making something useful that people need v making something useful that people don't need; making something people want that has value v making something people don't want that has value; making something useless that people want v making something uselss that people don't want. Unfortunately, many things fall into the category of "making useless things that people want" thereby wasting valuable resoucres for nothing useful at all. I

Reply to The single biggest difference between rich and middle class people in Politics Stardock Forums

[qjuote]You know, I admit I don't know much about economics, but there is only a limited number of hours in the day and it's somewhere in the middle of interests for me. It'd be nice if a day was longer. But from what I can gather, it seems various factors are used to support a non-zero sum game view of wealth..[/quote] Unless you're living in a cave -- literally, you should probably not be arguing that wealth is zero sum.

Reply to The government's "money" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]I refuse to feel sorry for any more millionaires/billionairs/ or those who make so much money that they have everything they could possibly need in life and still indulge in 'conspicuous consumption.[/quote] This is a reaosn why you're poor, LW. You don't understand what money is used for. High taxes don't affect me personally in the slighest. It affects you and people like you. The first thing tht gets cut isn't my salary. It's hiring new worker

Reply to Federal Budget for FY 2007 in Politics Stardock Forums

If you count "health" in which most people get a lot more out than they ever pay in and same for social security we end up with over 50%.

Federal Budget for FY 2007 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Healthcare includes Medicaid, Medicare, and other stuff. Pensions includes Social Security and

Merry Christmas in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Merry Christmas everyone!

Reply to The single biggest difference between rich and middle class people in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Now here is the question- that dollar of profit that you just made... did you create it? No, you didn't. It was transferred to you by someone who bought your product. And that's the whole point of our economy. No one actually creates money out of thin air, except for of course the government with a nice big printing press and the exercise of monetary policy.[/quote] Wow. Well, Art, thanks for demonstrating why so few people are truly wealthy. </

Reply to The single biggest difference between rich and middle class people in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]What kind of society do you get with minimal taxation? 1 % of the population live like gods, 20% live decently as the managers and protectors of that 1 % Another 20-30 % scrape by in the real economy as the labor (not managers) providing essential goods and services 50% of the population becomes human surplus living in a barrio.[/quote] Wow. Can you point to one of these societies? In the real world, the situatio

Reply to Newsweek sees its circulation dwindle in Politics Stardock Forums

The problem with Newsweek is that if I want to read hysterical left-wing rants, I can just go to the DailyKos or Huffington Post and they're free. I firmly believe there is still a significant market for hard news, but Newsweek has increasingly become just another left-wing shilling post.

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics Stardock Forums

First, no, relatively few of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were armed. Moreover, they were holding a specific position, not a country. No one is arguing that an armed civilizan force can hold a particular position against a regular army. Also, the example you give in Iraq is one of a mostly unarmed civilian population. I don't think you realize how well armed Americans are relative to other countries. There are many Americans who have more firepower than the l

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics JoeUser Forums

...getting back to topic... The odds of the civilian population rebelling against the government are nil. Fire arms are the great equalizer against criminals. The difference between a victim and a citizen can often be a firearm.

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]2016: The Texas Revolution You have the USA. They have a sattelite network, the most advanced intelligence network of the planet. They have Air Superiority Fighters, Fighter-Bombers, Tactical Bombers. The Federal Governement knows where Texas's military installations are, but the opposite is not true. The Federal Governement also has the Fleet at its disposal, aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. They have APCs, tanks, mortar, artillery, air and naval superiority.

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]2. The invading army is evil and hates freedom. In that case the gun nut revolt would trigger a genocide and give the occupier an excuse to kill everyone they want to.[/quote] Can you name a single instant in history in which an armed civilian population was wiped out like you describe? Being unarmed sure worked out for the Jews in Nazi Europe. I wonder how things might have gone if most of those Jews had been armed. I suspect quite differently.

Reply to Wage Controls in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Now that it's a foregone conclusion the domestic autoworkers will be subject to wage controls will their management also be struck with rollbacks as well? Also a foregone conclusion is that most JoeUsers' unionbashers will applaud the ostensibly competitive rollback and future controls and thus ironic that in a sense it is redistribution of wealth which so many ironically argue against even though much of the "wealth is from the much renounced legacy.[/quote] I live in

Reply to The single biggest difference between rich and middle class people in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Hrmm...I get the point about the exchange rate of money (as in the input and output amounts)...but since tehre is a fairly static amount of "wealth" in the world, doesn't that require there to be suckers out there that turn $1 to $0.50 (that is spend beyond their means) so that other people can turn $1 to $2? (Just so I don't sound like a whiney poor sucker bastard, I don't spend beyond my means [my means are still low anyway since I'm still in school] and my parents are li

The single biggest difference between rich and middle class people in Politics JoeUser Forums

There is an excellent book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! I highly recommend it to people. In many discussions on-line, it becomes really apparent that most people don't really understand money. They know wha

The government's "money" in Politics JoeUser Forums

So my tax bill for April is starting to come together and it's looking pretty bad. I've been paying estimated taxes all year but we had a particularly good year this

Reply to Some thoughts on "gun control" in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Really mature, Brad ("are you high?"). Don't you know that the first rule of debating is to never launch the personal attacks? Canada also has a "mixed background" category which accounts for 26% – that includes asian/white, black/white, black/asian, and all sorts of other wonderful combinations. I did actually miss the black count on the US page (my bad), but excluding that 26% from Canada was your bad. Any way you cut it, that's a lot that you missed.[/quote] Okay, you'

Reply to Time Person of Year in The Media Stardock Forums

LOL. Yea, he did so much...he um, ran for President and won. Wow.