Please tell me how we let this go on

badbrad108
Edited Date/Time 1/22/2012 7:58pm
No one has been able to explain to me why young men

and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years,

risking their lives protecting freedom, and only

get 50% of their pay. While politicians hold their

political positions in the safe confines of the

capital, protected by these same men and women,

and receive full pay retirement after serving one

term. It just does not make any

sense.

Monday on Fox news they learned that

the staffers of Congress family members are exempt

from having to pay back student loans . This will

get national attention if other news networks will

broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just

where will all of it stop?


35 States

file lawsuit against the Federal

Government

Governors of 35 states have

filed suit against the Federal Government for

imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes

38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional

Convention .

This will take less than

thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass

it on.

This is an idea that we should

address.

For too long we have been too

complacent about the workings of Congress.

Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress

could retire with the same pay after only one

term, that they specifically exempted themselves

from many of the laws they have passed (such as

being exempt from any fear of prosecution for

sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must

live under those laws. The latest is to exempt

themselves from the Healthcare Reform ... in all

of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical.

We do not have an elite that is above the

law. I truly don't care if they are

Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The

self-serving must stop.

If each person that

receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in

three

days,

most people in The United States of America will

have the message..
This is one proposal that

really should be passed around.
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This wouldn't be an email forward, would it?

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Now, if it was true, you could all do what a real patriot does, pay more taxes to your socialized military and to other things that need to be socialized. Oh wait, people spreading that email probably scream for lower taxes and more money to soldiers, ouch.
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By the way, do you think "BadBrad" posted this same chain email back when Bush was in office?
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flarider wrote:
By the way, do you think "BadBrad" posted this same chain email back when Bush was in office?
Don't know....but it would have been equally stupid and incorrect in 2003 as it is in 2011....
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flarider wrote:
By the way, do you think "BadBrad" posted this same chain email back when Bush was in office?
Titan1 wrote:
Don't know....but it would have been equally stupid and incorrect in 2003 as it is in 2011....
True, but for the sake of equal treatment and fairness, I am curious.

I don't want to think "BadBrad" is a hypocrite or anything like that
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I saw on the news today about Delta Airline, charging our guys coming back from the middle east for their extra bags. They were the ones singled out, other airlines did it too. That is fucked up. Nice corporate move.
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J.F.S wrote:
Now, if it was true, you could all do what a real patriot does, pay more taxes to your socialized military and to other things that...
Now, if it was true, you could all do what a real patriot does, pay more taxes to your socialized military and to other things that need to be socialized. Oh wait, people spreading that email probably scream for lower taxes and more money to soldiers, ouch.
It's more patriotic to fund the miltary borrowing from the Chinese. While we can.
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fcr wrote:
I saw on the news today about Delta Airline, charging our guys coming back from the middle east for their extra bags. They were the ones...
I saw on the news today about Delta Airline, charging our guys coming back from the middle east for their extra bags. They were the ones singled out, other airlines did it too. That is fucked up. Nice corporate move.
They changed policy and apologized.
Every other airline also changed their policies
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It's easy. Because capable managers should earn a lot more than the grunts. I was in the 35th Wild Weasels as a military grunt, and most of the dumbasses around me could barely figure out how to hold a shovel. The people that run our government should be capable, intelligent, strategic thinkers. Unfortunately, the people who are in the government are selected upon the intelligence of the average voter...and that's where the issue is. Morons like Bonepony and Oldfart are allowed a vote equivalent to the thinking man, and that's why the politicians in office are such dumbasses...because they're a reflection of the prokaryotes that logged their vote.

Yep...America's gonna die because it deserves it.
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1. Stop rewarding failure with public money. Those would be most of the social programs.

2. Replace failed goverment programs with revenue-generating industries, such as the drug wars. Legalize drugs and tax the crap out of them. I'm tired of paying money to help the moron who can't figure out that drugs stifle productivity.

3. Revise foreign policy that allows indigenous citizens decide their own fate. Yes, they need to earn it, instead of being spoon-fed.

4. Tax the churches. Pretty damn simple. You might even get it.

5. Dump the Fed. That one you probably wouldn't get even if it took me 10 thread pages to explain it to you.

6. Reward the successes and punish the failures. Yep...I realize that harsh reality is way too efficient.

7. Kill the lobbies. Go figure it out for yourself.
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flarider wrote:
By the way, do you think "BadBrad" posted this same chain email back when Bush was in office?
Why would it matter if he didn't post it when Bush was in office?

Who's to say he even got this e-mail when Bush was in office?
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Sherwood wrote:
Why would it matter if he didn't post it when Bush was in office? Who's to say he even got this e-mail when Bush was in...
Why would it matter if he didn't post it when Bush was in office?

Who's to say he even got this e-mail when Bush was in office?
He wouldn't have because it wouldn't have existed then.
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kcadrenalin 6/10/2011 7:42am
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jtomasik wrote:
1. Stop rewarding failure with public money. Those would be most of the social programs. 2. Replace failed goverment programs with revenue-generating industries, such as the...
1. Stop rewarding failure with public money. Those would be most of the social programs.

2. Replace failed goverment programs with revenue-generating industries, such as the drug wars. Legalize drugs and tax the crap out of them. I'm tired of paying money to help the moron who can't figure out that drugs stifle productivity.

3. Revise foreign policy that allows indigenous citizens decide their own fate. Yes, they need to earn it, instead of being spoon-fed.

4. Tax the churches. Pretty damn simple. You might even get it.

5. Dump the Fed. That one you probably wouldn't get even if it took me 10 thread pages to explain it to you.

6. Reward the successes and punish the failures. Yep...I realize that harsh reality is way too efficient.

7. Kill the lobbies. Go figure it out for yourself.
Damn Dude....... I agree with almost all of that. Weird.
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Titan1 6/10/2011 9:27am
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Sherwood wrote:
Why would it matter if he didn't post it when Bush was in office? Who's to say he even got this e-mail when Bush was in...
Why would it matter if he didn't post it when Bush was in office?

Who's to say he even got this e-mail when Bush was in office?
Grendel wrote:
He wouldn't have because it wouldn't have existed then.
According to snopes, it originated in 2000-2002....so it was around then. Doesn't mean "badbrad" recieved it back then, but it was around then.
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flarider 6/10/2011 10:57am
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I wonder not why they exist, but why the recipients make no effort to verify or educate themselves on the issue at hand. They just take everything as gospel.

It's no wonder people get sucked into email scams and send money to that Nigerian Prince guy

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