The Fiscal Cliff

[byu71]

that's because it's a stupid question

LOL, give me a little information on your credentials so I know whether I should be hurt or LMAO.

[Goatnapper'96]

I agree. How do you determine deserve? Maybe the marketplace, maybe luck, in rarer cases than most people people, by screwing other people by various means, maybe just plain work harder. We could go on and on.

My own view is in most cases it came by what I would call positive efforts, not the negative ones and thus why I use the term deserve.

The other thing it would be nice for this society to get away from is money envy. It might be well to get into, has a great family envy, spiritual envy, pleasing personality envy, charitable acts envy, even penis envy.

You can pass an ammendment right here and right now that I don't envy your penis.

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[frank ryan]

Who are you classifying as young people?

If you are including college students, sorry I can't support you. Most of them don't know shit from shinola yet, but they were a big factor in electing Obama.

Have you ever heard them interviewed about financial matters?

I think plenty of my tax dollars go into colleges to keep Sandra Fluk active in school to age 31 or however old she is.

What a joke, permanent student activist. I sure hope she doesn't get government assistance in any way shape or form. If she got a real job, maybe $19 for birth control pills wouldn't seem like such a bad thing.

This is a little bit vitriolic. Leave grad students alone.

[byu71]

You can pass an ammendment right here and right now that I don't envy your penis.

Old Balls! - YouTube

You would probably change your tune if I showed you some pics of who it has met and where it has been.

[Goatnapper'96]

The Democrats' Coming Civil War: The party is poised for a showdown over Social Security and Medicare. Obama vs. the liberals.

Obama vs liberals? Is Obama more concerned about his legacy than his idealism?

If he goes in that direction that will be weird and indicate that much of the basic assumptions about politics is being turned upside down. Obama got elected and spent the first 4 years firing up his base so he could be re-elected and then become a centrist? Didn't it used to be that you won elections by appealing to the centrists? Are topsider shoes still fashionable?

[Goatnapper'96]

This is a little bit vitriolic. Leave grad students alone.

I think if they vote to take his money, his mind you not mine, then he has a right to grouse about them.

I do admit that he doesn't do well with the "empathy" vote, but I am beginning to think that might be on purpose.

[frank ryan]

You would probably change your tune if I showed you some pics of who it has met and where it has been.

I didn't know napper was a John Amechi fan

[byu71]

This is a little bit vitriolic. Leave grad students alone.

Probably a little more cranky than normal today. I can't find anyone who can give me "numbers" when it comes to the itemized deduction "cap".

My best source for this stuff is on vacation. Don't blame her. She probably got a ton of calls today.

[frank ryan]

I think if they vote to take his money, his mind you not mine, then he has a right to grouse about them.

I do admit that he doesn't do well with the "empathy" vote, but I am beginning to think that might be on purpose.

What does grouse mean?

[U-Ute]

I have a question about entitlements.

There is a lot of talk about "cutting entitlements". I don't know that I've heard any specifics on what "entitlements" deserve to be cut, and how much it would save us. I have done some investigation and come up with some ideas, but I'm not sure I'm looking at the right data.

Can anyone enlighten me?

[U-Ute]

What does grouse mean?

grouse.

[old_gregg]

LOL, give me a little information on your credentials so I know whether I should be hurt or LMAO.

if i were valedictorian of the harvard law class of 2013 it would not make the question any more or less dumb. its dumbness is static.

[byu71]

if i were valedictorian of the harvard law class of 2013 it would not make the question any more or less dumb. its dumbness is static.

Good point. Same would be true if instead of the valedictorian you were just a plain ole dumbass.

I personally am betting on dumbass.

[Goatnapper'96]

What does grouse mean?

Any of various plump, chickenlike game birds of the family Tetraonidae...or to complain.

You live in the intermountain west and you don't know grouse? You are an Irish commie! Ask a question like that in any other Utah County than Utah, Salt Lake, Davis or Weber and you are likely to get your buns taped together.

[Goatnapper'96]

Good point. Same would be true if instead of the valedictorian you were just a plain ole dumbass.

I personally am betting on dumbass.

I'll bet there are a lot of valedictorians of Harvard Law that you would think are dumbasses. The two are not likely to be mutually exclusive.