Chomsky is a great linguistics guy, but linguistics and being a socialist doesn't make him an econ guy.
Polemics aren't facts.
Social Security's BIGGEST problem, funny enough, is that it doesn't have Al Gore's 'lock box'. Your SS tax pays for bombs to be dropped on Iraq currently. So the U.S. Gov is borrowing from S.S. to pay for current expenses, and then will have to borrow AGAIN to pay it back, you'll be taxed twice for your Social Security. That is a fact. Chomsky is a nice guy, but point that out to him, and see what he has to say. I'd like to know.
Social Security might not be in as much trouble as Bush says, but it isn't in as little trouble as Chomsky seems to think. Chomsky as a socialist wouldn't mind if the overall tax rate was 60%.
"borrow AGAIN" from whom? How will it be "taxed twice"?
Please explain that. I don't understand.
As for attacking Chomsky, he's one of the brightest guys in the entire world. Just because he doesn't hold a formal degree in economics doesn't mean he can't get the facts and assess them. I trust his opinion. I am not saying he does not have an agenda as well, but it seems that his agenda is more geared toward helping out mankind in general. I trust him more than I trust the president, but I wouldn't take either of them at face value.
As for the bloated embellishment that he "wouldn't mind if taxes were 60%" simply because he is a socialist? I don't even know what to say to something like that except... Polemics aren't facts.
a good portion of our spending every year is borrowed. When social security starts paying out more than it takes in, its a safe bet that the money will be borrowed, that is deficit spending. Which is paid for by loans (bonds/securities), and the interest on those loans are paid by tax dollars, as is the repayment of the bonds/securities... therefore you'll be taxed AGAIN for your social security. Because we aren't setting aside the money we currently take in
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I was quite pleased when I saw Spanglish, I thought it was put together well. But then again, I probably would have been just as pleased if it was just Paz Vega doing nothing but sitting in a chair. Mmm.
Jenny and I went to see Star Wars last night - it was awesome. I enjoyed myself the whole way though. I thought it definately made up for Attack of the Clones and maybe part of Phantom Menace. Jenny's so cute - she thought that Han Solo was a Jedi and that Harrison Ford played Luke. Silly Jenny.
Silly Jenny indeed, you must educate her sheepy-won-kenobi.
I liked Spanglish a lot as well, and I could take the white person's obsession with money, except in the VERY beginning, when she handed the friend 20 bucks for the bloody nose and said she wasn't mad, that seemed a little bit much.
I didn't really take it as the white person's obsession with money, but more the mom's obsession with success and being pretty out of touch with people on the whole. I don't remember Adam Sandler's character craving it or wanting it that much. His kids certainly didn't.
I thought the underlying message was there... not that all white people are bad, but that the mom wanted to shield her daughter from the greedy ways of the whites in general.
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I have been been doing some research and there is nothing wrong with Social Security. It's all a lie.
Peep this.
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Polemics aren't facts.
Social Security's BIGGEST problem, funny enough, is that it doesn't have Al Gore's 'lock box'. Your SS tax pays for bombs to be dropped on Iraq currently. So the U.S. Gov is borrowing from S.S. to pay for current expenses, and then will have to borrow AGAIN to pay it back, you'll be taxed twice for your Social Security. That is a fact. Chomsky is a nice guy, but point that out to him, and see what he has to say. I'd like to know.
Social Security might not be in as much trouble as Bush says, but it isn't in as little trouble as Chomsky seems to think. Chomsky as a socialist wouldn't mind if the overall tax rate was 60%.
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Please explain that. I don't understand.
As for attacking Chomsky, he's one of the brightest guys in the entire world. Just because he doesn't hold a formal degree in economics doesn't mean he can't get the facts and assess them. I trust his opinion. I am not saying he does not have an agenda as well, but it seems that his agenda is more geared toward helping out mankind in general. I trust him more than I trust the president, but I wouldn't take either of them at face value.
As for the bloated embellishment that he "wouldn't mind if taxes were 60%" simply because he is a socialist? I don't even know what to say to something like that except... Polemics aren't facts.
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Jenny and I went to see Star Wars last night - it was awesome. I enjoyed myself the whole way though. I thought it definately made up for Attack of the Clones and maybe part of Phantom Menace. Jenny's so cute - she thought that Han Solo was a Jedi and that Harrison Ford played Luke. Silly Jenny.
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I liked Spanglish a lot as well, and I could take the white person's obsession with money, except in the VERY beginning, when she handed the friend 20 bucks for the bloody nose and said she wasn't mad, that seemed a little bit much.
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damn I got trashed once there, it wasn't pretty.
I really want to see Spanglish, but I'm scared it's gonna make me fly into a racial rant tizzy.
I saw we should just send BushykinZzZ to fight over there, since he likes using the outfits so...
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Our soldiers are exposed to enough trauma, do you really want HIM over there too?
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touché
HOWEVER I'd sure that they'd be glad to see that their commander in chief out there in the field, since it's a cause he believes in so damn much...
and the stank twins can help too. Cunts.
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thanks for the invite to the game, sorry I was so short....I was setting up laptop/projector and such!
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