What has improved since 2008?

Six of one. If TennCare stopped paying your employer, would they still pay you?

How ever you slice it, you're getting a Gubmint check. Someone else may have held onto it for a while before passing it on to you, but Medicaid is the source.

Let's see. What's improved since 2008?
I got my degree (big fat lot of good it's done for my employment prospects, though -- and it's not a shit degree either ).
My love life. There.

No, I'm not. My employer gets a gubmint check. I get a capitalist check.

Even I will be the first to admit that it can't last forever.

Doesn't this just perpetuate the bad systems?

I've been getting bad reviews at work, but overall I'm doing well. lol

Rationalizations R Us.

Then again, if you practiced what you preach, you'd go work for someone who wasn't being paid with Gubmint checks.

No doubt it needs to be fixed, but I'll be damned if I'll agree to the gubmint declaring me SOL after paying into it all these years.

In health care?

Well, OK, maybe I can get a job working for a plastic surgeon who specializes in titty jobs.

I was at Lisdoonvarna last October fot he Matchmaker.. might not be better then 2008 .. but so the fuck what .. it was Lisdoonvarna

And there's the crux of the problem. It's great to demand "smaller government" in theory, but from a pragmatic POV, everybody wants to cut somebody else's program, not theirs.

I think you miss the point, garamet.

If it was Richmond, VA handing out the gubmint checks for the health care payroll, I think Maud would be fine with it, or have less issues, than the fact that it's Washington.

Yeah, I wonder...if the CSA had won the war, would he be as doctrinaire about Gubmint Interference as he is now?

You also have to wonder what NASA would look like in that alternate universe.

I work with special needs kids in a private home. Years ago, these children would have been institutionalized. I thoroughly expect that the day will come when we'll go back to that and I can't say it's a bad thing.

That must be one hell of a priority, considering what it's costing us.

Good question. I can't say for sure. My situation was untenable. I'd been unemployed for too long and paying far too much in rent. I was running out of money. I also couldn't get a loan. The plan was to get the Obamabucks to refresh my capital while really cutting down my housing costs. (Ideally I'd have gotten a loan instead of having to cash out the retirement.) Since I couldn't get a loan, I could still cut down my living expenses. And sink the cash into renovations.

Of course the IRS wound up taking over 9 months to get me the money, so I don't know what that ways.

I didn't know you were a Black Eyed Peas fan.

Well gas prices are lower, oh wait!!

Um, unemployment is lower, oh scratch that.

MMMMM, the number of Washington parties has increased, yeah there we go!!!

We need to get Forbin to do some Confederate Space Force models.

I got a job that I love, made some great friends, and made a ton of progress toward learning another language.



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KIRK hasn't told us what's improved in his world since 2008.

I'm told at least 34% more Americans are on food stamps than were in 2008.

And I'm sure you can back that up.

Or is this one of those "Somebody told me you can get AIDS from a toilet seat" stories?

http://www.google.com/

I know a lot of the elderly have problems with computers, but I'm confident if you really want to, you can figure it out.

Ah, the JohnM Defense. "I say thing. You accept thing or I call you stoopid and type Google." Your downspiral into drooldom proceeds apace.

You're not that old. Although given the steady devolution of your posts, you might want to have yourself screened for early-onset Alzheimer's.

The thing about calling someone's bluff, garamet, is that, for it to work they have to be bluffing:

Heck, even the Socialists are carrying this story:

Of course their spin on it is that The Obama isn't doing enough to get people hooked on food stamps, but what do you expect?

But I digress. My point is, I'm a credible source here. If I don't have a link handy, I don't feel obligated to provide it. Especially when it would've took you five minutes with Google to check my assertation yourself.

But because I've been here awhile, I understand how the game is played, and I felt like using what I knew you'd do as a set up to slap you down.

Irregardless, my point still stands--now backed up by multiple sources. Don't worry, though, we have some lovely parting gifts. I've hidden two fairly obvious grammatical errors in this post. That way you don't have to admit you were wrong, you can instead point them out in an attempt to shift attention.

The food stamp thing has been all over the news. I'm surprised Margaret hasn't picked up on it. Either she is spending way in the fuck too much time here, or is living under a rock.

So, pray tell, how is one allowed to be for cutting a government program? It seems to me, under the rules you've constructed, that it's simply not possible; if you benefit from what you want to cut, you're a hypocrite, and if you don't, you only want to cut other people's programs.

A word of advice: give up on the first half; it strikes me as more impressive when someone whose full or partial livelihood comes from a government program wants that program cut at a detriment to their own finances.

See? I bet you could have found that the first time I asked.