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  • floridaorange
    I'm merely a humble butler
    • Dec 2005
    • 29116

    #16
    Re: Occupy Portland




    It was fun while it lasted...

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    • ddr
      DUDERZ get a life!!!
      • Jun 2004
      • 7006

      #17
      Re: Occupy Portland

      i would definitely be down there if i didnt have a full time job... fricken tired at the end of the day man.. no time to camp out
      "pics or stfu" - R.I.P. Steve "Jibgolly" James

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      • Localizer
        Platinum Poster
        • Jul 2004
        • 2021

        #18
        Re: Occupy Portland

        Originally posted by 88Mariner
        that was a comment directed at leaders of foreign countries last i recall....not the american citizenry.

        but your memory and recollection may march to different altair 8800's.
        Except that he used it when he spoke to congress and the nation in mid-september...

        If you really think that quote had no profound effect on the way Americans viewed the WoT and the encouragement of entry into Afghanistan and Iraq, then I'm not sure you live in reality.
        Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
        -Bertrand Russell

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        • floridaorange
          I'm merely a humble butler
          • Dec 2005
          • 29116

          #19
          Re: Occupy Portland

          Originally posted by ddr
          i would definitely be down there if i didnt have a full time job... fricken tired at the end of the day man.. no time to camp out
          THATS! sort of the spirit

          It was fun while it lasted...

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          • floridaorange
            I'm merely a humble butler
            • Dec 2005
            • 29116

            #20
            Re: Occupy Portland


            It was fun while it lasted...

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            • floridaorange
              I'm merely a humble butler
              • Dec 2005
              • 29116

              #21
              Re: Occupy Portland


              It was fun while it lasted...

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              • 88Mariner
                My dick is smaller
                • Nov 2006
                • 7128

                #22
                Re: Occupy Portland

                Originally posted by floridaorange

                you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

                it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

                Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

                ----PEACE-----

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                • res0nat0r
                  Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
                  • May 2006
                  • 14475

                  #23
                  Re: Occupy Portland

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                  • Shpira
                    Angry Boy Child
                    • Oct 2006
                    • 4969

                    #24
                    Re: Occupy Portland

                    THE SEVEN BIGGEST ECONOMIC LIES

                    The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable society – unless more Americans know the truth about the economy.

                    Here’s a short (2 minute 30 second) effort to rebut the seven biggest whoppers now being told by those who want to take America backwards. The major points:

                    1. Tax cuts for the rich trickle down to everyone else. Baloney. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both sliced taxes on the rich and what happened? Most Americans’ wages (measured by the real median wage) began flattening under Reagan and have dropped since George W. Bush. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
                    2. Higher taxes on the rich would hurt the economy and slow job growth. False. From the end of World War II until 1981, the richest Americans faced a top marginal tax rate of 70 percent or above. Under Dwight Eisenhower it was 91 percent. Even after all deductions and credits, the top taxes on the very rich were far higher than they’ve been since. Yet the economy grew faster during those years than it has since. (Don’t believe small businesses would be hurt by a higher marginal tax; fewer than 2 percent of small business owners are in the highest tax bracket.)
                    3. Shrinking government generates more jobs. Wrong again. It means fewer government workers – everyone from teachers, fire fighters, police officers, and social workers at the state and local levels to safety inspectors and military personnel at the federal. And fewer government contractors, who would employ fewer private-sector workers. According to Moody’s economist Mark Zandi (a campaign advisor to John McCain), the $61 billion in spending cuts proposed by the House GOP will cost the economy 700,000 jobs this year and next.
                    4. Cutting the budget deficit now is more important than boosting the economy. Untrue. With so many Americans out of work, budget cuts now will shrink the economy. They’ll increase unemployment and reduce tax revenues. That will worsen the ratio of the debt to the total economy. The first priority must be getting jobs and growth back by boosting the economy. Only then, when jobs and growth are returning vigorously, should we turn to cutting the deficit.
                    5. Medicare and Medicaid are the major drivers of budget deficits. Wrong. Medicare and Medicaid spending is rising quickly, to be sure. But that’s because the nation’s health-care costs are rising so fast. One of the best ways of slowing these costs is to use Medicare and Medicaid’s bargaining power over drug companies and hospitals to reduce costs, and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-healthy outcomes system. And since Medicare has far lower administrative costs than private health insurers, we should make Medicare available to everyone.
                    6. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Don’t believe it. Social Security is solvent for the next 26 years. It could be solvent for the next century if we raised the ceiling on income subject to the Social Security payroll tax. That ceiling is now $106,800.
                    7. It’s unfair that lower-income Americans don’t pay income tax. Wrong. There’s nothing unfair about it. Lower-income Americans pay out a larger share of their paychecks in payroll taxes, sales taxes, user fees, and tolls than everyone else.

                    Demagogues through history have known that big lies, repeated often enough, start being believed — unless they’re rebutted. These seven economic whoppers are just plain wrong. Make sure you know the truth – and spread it on.
                    THE SEVEN BIGGEST ECONOMIC LIES The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress -- and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable...
                    The Idiots ARE Winning.


                    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
                    Mark Twain

                    SOBRIETY MIX

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                    • floridaorange
                      I'm merely a humble butler
                      • Dec 2005
                      • 29116

                      #25
                      Re: Occupy Portland


                      It was fun while it lasted...

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                      • Shpira
                        Angry Boy Child
                        • Oct 2006
                        • 4969

                        #26
                        Re: Occupy Portland

                        http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/uk-wallstreet-protests-origins-idUKTRE79C3WS20111013

                        There has been much speculation over who is financing the disparate protest, which has spread to cities across America and lasted nearly four weeks. One name that keeps coming up is investor George Soros, who in September debuted in the top 10 list of wealthiest Americans. Conservative critics contend the movement is a Trojan horse for a secret Soros agenda.
                        Not naming names but some members will absolutely love this.
                        The Idiots ARE Winning.


                        "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
                        Mark Twain

                        SOBRIETY MIX

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                        • Shpira
                          Angry Boy Child
                          • Oct 2006
                          • 4969

                          #27
                          Re: Occupy Portland

                          Howard Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) director and son of Chairman Warren Buffett, said Wall Street protesters were provoked by abuses from corporations amid a widening disparity between rich and poor.
                          “I think it takes that to make things happen sometimes,” Howard Buffett, 56, said of the demonstrations in an interview yesterday in Des Moines, Iowa. Over the past 15 years, “we saw large corporations really screw people.”
                          The Idiots ARE Winning.


                          "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
                          Mark Twain

                          SOBRIETY MIX

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                          • floridaorange
                            I'm merely a humble butler
                            • Dec 2005
                            • 29116

                            #28
                            Re: Occupy Portland

                            Exactly. If you have the majority of the world having a conversation about certain issues, and that conversation lasts long enough, change eventually takes place.

                            It was fun while it lasted...

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                            • floridaorange
                              I'm merely a humble butler
                              • Dec 2005
                              • 29116

                              #29
                              Re: Occupy Portland



                              shit just got real

                              It was fun while it lasted...

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                              • 88Mariner
                                My dick is smaller
                                • Nov 2006
                                • 7128

                                #30
                                Re: Occupy Portland

                                Originally posted by floridaorange
                                why wasn't anyone trying to occupy Paul "pls forget that i was a top advisor to enron" Krugman?
                                you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

                                it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

                                Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

                                ----PEACE-----

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