National debt time bomb ticks toward crisis

[samoth]

They waste my hard earned tax money on dumb shit, they can give the auto and housing company billions but cut students grant money by millions.

Nothing is worse than today's youth being all entitled and shit. You can take out loans to go to school -- here, WellsFargo has a great deal at a fixed 14.25%! Wells Fargo Rolls out Fixed-Rate Student Loans - ABC News

Damn kids not taking advantage of the opportunities all around them!

 

[PICK3]

Obama forecasts manufacturing comeback - CNN.com

 

[nefertiti]

I never understood what the big deal is with this. Just raise taxes, kill SS and Medicare, and hike gas taxes a few hundred percent to put us in line with the EU.

Oh, and tax exemptions to the immediate families of any boomer who honorkills themself for fucking this country up in the first place, of course.

And perhaps mandatory sterilization of all people below certain IQ/income levels would help, too.

NC had a sterilization program for low income women back in the 50's.....they are getting pwnt for restitution right now

 

[samoth]

NC had a sterilization program for low income women back in the 50's.....they are getting pwnt for restitution right now

Low income WOMEN in the 1950s? Could women even vote in the '50s? It's not like they were gunning for MD positions at GS back then...

And, to be fair, prole sterilization should apply to both men and women.

 

[nefertiti]

Agreed, but the low and middle classes should be taxed at a higher rate than the wealthy -- if proles have a problem with that, then they should try not leading shitty lives and working middling jobs (basically an incentive to work harder).

My sis has a masters, works 60 hours a week with mentally disabled people, and makes 40/year...Low/,iddle class income doesn't always equal not working hard, or not having a somewhat professional vocation.

I am in favor of even taxation, though.

 

[samoth]

Obama forecasts manufacturing comeback - CNN.com

I thought manufacturing left in the first place because american factory workers were lazy, unproductive, and unionized to demand much more than their physical labor "skills" were worth?

 

[samoth]

My sis has a masters, works 60 hours a week with mentally disabled people, and makes 40/year...Low/,iddle class income doesn't always equal not working hard, or not having a somewhat professional vocation.

I am in favor of even taxation, though.

Oh, hush. I'm running schtick here; no need to be, like, rational and stuff.

 

[nefertiti]

Low income WOMEN in the 1950s? Could women even vote in the '50s? It's not like they were gunning for MD positions at GS back then...

And, to be fair, prole sterilization should apply to both men and women.

had to go back and check....I only skimmed it the first time. Looks like it was men and women, but the vast majority were black women. It was enforced for anyone "mentally diseased, feebleminded, or epileptic" with most of them being labeled feebleminded.

Like Riddick, more than 71 percent of the victims were branded as "feebleminded"—a vague descriptor now acknowledged by researchers as a placeholder for other, less genteel labels: “promiscuous,” “truant,” or “lazy.”

 

[samoth]

had to go back and check....I only skimmed it the first time. Looks like it was men and women, but the vast majority were black women. It was enforced for anyone "mentally diseased, feebleminded, or epileptic" with most of them being labeled feebleminded.

All joking aside, we've come a long way in the past century. A lot of stuff that happened not-that-long before I was born is really hard to imagine.

 

[nefertiti]

All joking aside, we've come a long way in the past century. A lot of stuff that happened not-that-long before I was born is really hard to imagine.

Agreed...

I understand the frustration behind people who call for sterilization for people on govt. support...but the idea has always felt a little too uncomfortably close to nazi style eugenics for my liking.