Had Thai yesterday. Normally The Dude and I head out to get Thai or something spicy on a Thursday just to get out of the office. Yesterday we drug ID10T-Killer to a place we don’t hit very often. Waitress took our orders and The Dude and I both ordered Drunken Noodles, extra extra hot (three H’s on the waitress’ pad – she walked away shaking her head).
It was… challenging. I am almost never challenged anymore. It was fantastic. ID10T-Killer said “I’ve never seen you sweat before.”
So McGoo and Daver in tandem put me onto this picture.
Inadvertent truth in advertising. In multiple nuances.
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You concerned? I’m concerned that shortly I will be taxed so hard that I won’t be able to save enough for my OWN retirement – all because I’m expected to take care of other’s poor planning. If you have been around these last 20-30 years and saving for retirement and have not stashed away more money than you actually thought you needed in a large diverse number of places, it’s hard to argue that it is society’s burden and not yours.
Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover rising federal commitments made just in the past year for retirement benefits… [snip]The 12% rise [snip] stems from an explosion of federal borrowing during the recession, plus an aging population driving up the costs of Medicare and Social Security.
That’s the biggest leap in the long-term burden on taxpayers since a Medicare prescription drug benefit was added in 2003.
The latest increase raises federal obligations to a record $546,668 per household in 2008, according to the USA TODAY analysis. That’s quadruple what the average U.S. household owes for all mortgages, car loans, credit cards and other debt combined.
“We have a huge implicit mortgage on every household in America — except, unlike a real mortgage, it’s not backed up by a house,” says David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general, the government’s top auditor.
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Bottom line: The government took on $6.8 trillion in new obligations in 2008, pushing the total owed to a record $63.8 trillion.
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Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., says exploding debt has focused attention on the government’s financial challenges. “More and more, people are worried about our fiscal future,” he says.
Yeah, people are worried, but not congress their most important job is to stay in congress until they are vested.
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This sort of lawlessness must be punished. Don’t just tax them, throw them in jail! Beat them! Castigate them mercilessly!
Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.
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From The Patriot Post:
“This woman is brilliant! She is qualified! I want her confirmed! I want her walking up those marble steps and starting to provide some justice!” –Barack Obama [regarding his nomination of S. Sotomayer for the position of JOTUSSC]
In angry street talk, the community organizer in the White House admits that he thinks justice hasn’t been done in the Supreme Court. But now a Latina woman will make the “right” decisions.
I’m not worried about the debt. All we have to do is just open our boarders to anyone who can walk, run, hop or crawl here and make them pay for it all! See? Easy peasy. Plus I’m changing my party affiliation to Democrat. They don’t worry about any of this. It’s only you nasty, racist, old rethuglicans who seem to have a problem with things. If only you were a wise latina instead of a stupid white guy this would be obvious to you.
rethuglicans… I love it!
Oh and boarders = borders to all you evil grammar nazis who don’t appreciate spelling diversity.
RACISTS!!
I didn’t want to crush your fledgling grammatical freedom however false and ephemeral.
Not a matter of tolerance, just pity masquerading as condescension. Or is it condescension masquerading as pity?
Superb Brad Dourif goof in the header.
As for the huge per household debt, fuck it. How are they planning on making us pay? They can’t hike taxes anywhere near enough to make it up. As soon as they try–while simultaneously telling us they need to take over medical care–the outrage will boil over. There will be fires and worse–but then it’s long overdue.
Well, the debt is one of those things that will be another argument for going to something way far different than the US is supposed to be – like a Marxist state. Best scenario, we turn into a European Union clone.
Sadly, the very people who keep spending the money (regardless of who we send to DC, it seems) will be long out of office by the time it comes due and there’s no accountability. What’s the worst thing that can happen to a politician who breaks no laws while spending in a criminal fashion? They get voted out. While that may be painful to their power-lust it has no real teeth to it otherwise.