Swiss Bank Accounts? Why would that be a big deal to people?

Far more than any job romney has ever held. He's as removed from the average private citizen as one can get.

 

Aw, pumpkin, why so upset that I don't want to fund a lavish lifestyle for you and your bureaucratic buddies? Please point to a post where I said I didn't want ANY of my money to go to the government. Go ahead. Find it. After you fail, apologize. Just because you have a schtick on this board where you say whatever you can to get attention, doesn't mean you get to lie about the positions of others.

 

How childish of you to nitpik over the difference between nothing and miniscule. The combined message you bring with all your posts is you believe in minimalistic funding of a skeleton government, along the lines of what it was 230 years ago, despite the obvious differences between the two worlds.

You take a Darwinian approach to the problems of the less gifted, the less fortunate, the ill, disabled, abused or exploited. You're against laws and regulations (and certainly the enforcement of such) that protect American citizens from death and dismemberment. Maybe it's your schtick, but to me you appear to have no heart, no soul, no compassion for your fellow man. You might express sympathy for others, but not if it costs you anything.

As for "my bureaucratic buddies", I have none. Nor am I myself a bureaucrat. You, your buddies, and most definitely Mitt Romney fit that bill much better. A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size. It does not refer strictly to government, but to the private sector and the non-profit/religious sector equally as well.

Being self-employed, it does not refer to me at all by any stretch of the imagination.

 

You write interesting fiction. You obviously have no idea about my views of a correctly-sized government, so you should really stop guessing. You're exceptionally bad at it.

As for your background, I know you're now a struggling Realtor, but you used to be a government employee. Once a bureaucrat, always a bureaucrat. It's a mindset.

 

its ok, he had his money in a blind trust, so he didnt know anything about it right?

[video=youtube;Q9DVKWhPibw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9DVKWhPibw[/video]

 

Jesus Fucking Christ, if the Irony Meter still existed after all of the blowhard bullshit spewed in this thread by you, it just got blown into Subatomic Quarks by that statement.

 

Say what you will, unless you are going to back-edit your 17,000+ posts, anyone who doesn't remember ad nauseam them can easily verify my summation of them.

Yes I have worked in federal agencies, mostly as a photographer. And I have worked twice as much in private sector companies from tiny mom and pops to multinational mega-corps. And I have been a business owner with employees and am now self-employed and doing quite well thank you.

Meanwhile you are, and always will be, a bureaucrat slaving for a bureaucracy. So you'd do well to find a more appropriate insult to fling, 'cause that one will always boomerang on you.

 

Hi, honey. What's go you so blue?

Your fictional character cracks me up. In all my now over 18,000 posts you can't point to a single one where I posted I wanted no government. Do I want a smaller government that does fewer things better? You bet. Do I want anarchy? Absolutely not. I won't waste my time answering your post in depth, point-by-point because your conclusions are so silly. I will just say that your post reveals a massive ignorance as to how I've spent my working life. Vaya con Dios.

 

I hate to say it Maris, but Maxi is right. Your posts have been both out and out lies (and you know it), but also incendiary. I think you should draw back for a while and get yourself put back together.

 

Ah, yes, the old "jealously" argument. That one shouldn't complain about the wealthy because we wish we were wealthy, too. As if that makes the selfish, vain, vile cheating bullshit that they do somewhat okay, because, hey, if we had money, we'd be selfish, vain, vile, cheating too. Arguments like that make me weep for Western Civilization.

 

No one should pay any more taxes than they have to. Tax evasion should be prosecuted, but there's nothing wrong with tax avoidance. If you're playing by the rules, why would I want to pay any more in taxes than I have to? Just because someone has the means to avoid paying taxes, doesn't make him/her evil or unAmerican.

 

theres nothing wrong with playing by the rules

republicans should take note of this next time they are smearing poor people for accepting food stamps

 

Interesting when the rich write and rewrite the rules to benefit themselves. So at what point do we (the non-1%) say "enough"?

 

Why do people, rich or poor, need to be taxed on their income, then on their property and investments which were purchased by the same income that's already been taxed? The government is already double dipping on taxes and that's still not enough to cover what they're spending. At what point do the people paying the majority of the taxes say "enough"? How about this, the government actually figures out what it costs to run this country efficiently and effectively and then ask for whatever amount of taxes is needed to cover that. Right now it's working in reverse. They're spending however much they want on whatever they want without much account for the realities of finances and when they want to do more spending they say we need more money and claim the rich aren't paying enough. It's like me wanting to run a charity but running out of more to fund the charity and then expecting a bank to just give me more money because I'm doing something good. Doesn't work that way. The government needs to tighten the belt and figure out what's really necessary to function before I think another dime should be given to them for any other purpose no matter how altruistic they claim the cause to be.

 

I've never lied to anyone on this board or anywhere else, nor have I ever committed arson.

 

True. In this case, "they" refers to people in favor of increasing taxes, be they government representatives or lay people.