If you are happy with your imaginary job, then I am happy for you. Being full of shit is in the eye of the beholder. Well, that was my goal, to fool some people. Then they buy my Tigerblood(TM), and I reap huge profits. barfo
barfo is a product of the government/unions. Lazy, thinks he knows it all, and patronizing. That's Obama in a nutshell.
I hope he lives long enough to see what happens. I just hope he feels sorry for people that work until they are 90 years old or drop dead first just to buy food.
I gotta go to bed, but if you watch that video I posted you will see something about the lattice method of doing multiplication. If some kid showed me that first, I would think he was pulling my leg. I am starting to understand why people are becoming so stupid. I thought that movie Idiocracy was absolutely ridiculous. Now, not so much.
The fact that this thread exists shows the idiocy of the people who rely on public dollars for their retirement. They just don't get it, and instead of being curious, they instead start stupid threads on the internet.
That doesn't seem bad to me. It is trying to teach the kids to think instead of memorize. I would argue that thinking is a more useful life skill than memorization. Yeah, sure. But if we got in the Delorean and went back in time to (any other year) people would be saying the same exact thing. People do stupid shit, it is the nature of people. So you are arguing for crying wolf now, because eventually a wolf may come? That seems at odds with the moral of the story, somehow. barfo
Nice try, but you don't pay a penny for my retirement. In fact, I bet I'll end up paying for your retirement, since you'll be indigent, "consultant". barfo
Eh, whatever. Since you admitted tonight that you are just a troll, it doesn't make much difference, but for the record, I don't and will not ever get a dime from public dollars for retirement. barfo
From a friend of mine on facebook: Man, I know it's a little tough right now, but jesus. It's not like we're facing utter annihilation like in the Cold War, or tens of thousands of us are being shipped off to die in Vietnam, or half the country is fighting the other half of the country in the Civil War, or we're facing a cold-blooded asshat who basically wanted to wipe off the face of the earth all minorities like Hitler. At worse we'll face another Great Depression, and there weren't millions dead on the streets over that--the whole thing was pretty much over in a little over a decade. And it built the character of what we all recognize as the Greatest Generation, so it wasn't all bad. And that's assuming it gets that bad, which I (and most economists) really doubt. It's a shit ton of debt. It sucks. Both parties are finally putting proposals on the table to deal with it, and eventually we will because, as Churchill once said, Americans always do the right thing after we exhaust all other options. But it's not terminal cancer. There are several generations of Americans who would've loved to have had a big damned debt being the worst problem on the horizon. People need to get a grip. It's not the end of days. That's what the media is feeding you because that's what sells.
My POV changed the day I found out my wife was pregnant. It stopped being about the present and started to be about the future for us. I want to leave my son and any future children we have the best possible world, where they'll have the same opportunities I did. I come from poor white trash and--through hard work and some luck--am now in a little bit better garbage can. The fear I have about our debt is not that people will die, but that future generations will become enslaved to it because of our poor decisions. There isn't a sacrifice I wouldn't make today to ensure a better world and a better life for my progeny in the future. Our government policies are doing the opposite.
A large part of my job is surveying the economic landscape to ensure our funds are making optimal investment decisions. The long term economic data I see are profoundly negative across the board. I am an optimist by nature, but the past five years have been a real body blow to my confidence in the American people. We've stopped being a nation of makers and have become a nation of takers.
things are always average to a sociopath. and when things are always average, you can pretend that average is good. and then things are always good. or great even, depending on the most recent victim.
This article is the kind which makes me pessimistic: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42586453/ How many times do we see the word "unexpectedly" when it comes to bad economic news? The reason it continues to happen is that the prescriptions aren't working. We need to try something different; something that worked before.
