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(NewsMax)   Treasury Secretary tells high schoolers "Don't spend more than you earn." Be nice if he told the government the same thing   (newsmax.com) divider line
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rokstar66
2006-10-20 6:36:21 PM  
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 20 Oct 2006 at 10:33:22 PM GMT is:

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N. S. Radieaux
2006-10-20 7:48:50 PM  
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junkevil
2006-10-20 7:48:55 PM  
nice headline, subby.
 
Farkeologist
2006-10-20 7:50:17 PM  
Reminds me of that movie, "Dave"
 
LosinMySenses
2006-10-20 7:50:20 PM  
I'm a little rusty with big dollars, what's after trillion? There's such a debt that high?
 
DrForrester
2006-10-20 7:51:25 PM  
Yes, News Max readers, like Fox News viewers, are so farking dumb that this will be news to them.

Next week: Regular oil changes may increase the longevity of your automobile.

Week after that: What "longevity" means.
 
WayneKerr
2006-10-20 7:53:12 PM  
He should also tell the boys to refrain from raping Government officials.
 
Courtney Cox-Zucker
2006-10-20 7:54:52 PM  
Do As I Say (Not As I Do)?

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strifeknot
2006-10-20 7:55:56 PM  
It'd also be nice if everyone got paid a living wage.
 
LosinMySenses
2006-10-20 7:58:56 PM  
strifeknot:
It'd also be nice if everyone got paid a living wage.

Oh that'd be nice, to be paid just to be ALIVE
 
meowza
2006-10-20 7:59:22 PM  
damn you government.
/SHOCK VALUES
 
moops
2006-10-20 7:59:59 PM  
This ad proves that the majority of conservatives are social retards.


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moops
2006-10-20 8:01:03 PM  
LosinMySenses: Oh that'd be nice, to be paid just to be ALIVE

So that means you have to be worth a certain amount to be considered worthy of living?
 
vegetable raygun
2006-10-20 8:02:17 PM  
Where's the floor humpin' guy?
 
RudeBoyJoe
2006-10-20 8:02:50 PM  
where's the ironic tag?
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2006-10-20 8:05:02 PM  
LosinMySenses: It'd also be nice if everyone got paid a living wage.

Oh that'd be nice, to be paid just to be ALIVE

This word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
 
LosinMySenses
2006-10-20 8:05:08 PM  
moops:
So that means you have to be worth a certain amount to be considered worthy of living?

No, meaning, one will still recive Social Security checks (hence retired people) untilt hey die.

But to get such a check from the day you are born, won't happen.
 
Whoopti Dew
2006-10-20 8:05:24 PM  
DNRTFA The headline sums it all up!
Good job submitter!
 
Can't_Think_Of_A_Name
2006-10-20 8:05:32 PM  
LosinMySenses: I'm a little rusty with big dollars, what's after trillion? There's such a debt that high?


Quadrillion. We don't have to start making up new names for numbers for a long time.

/What if we owed a googol of dollars?
 
moops
2006-10-20 8:07:57 PM  
LosinMySenses: But to get such a check from the day you are born, won't happen.

Nobody's talking about that. That's called a negative income tax, which is supported by noone other than idiots of the Green Party. So basically, you're against paying someone a wage which allows them to survive? You would rather they starve to death and die?
 
junkevil
2006-10-20 8:09:41 PM  
Can't_Think_Of_A_Name: /What if we owed a googol of dollars?

what about a googolplex?
 
felixstrange
2006-10-20 8:09:53 PM  
Because of course the governments of super-power states should adhere to the same rules as a family of four.
 
LosinMySenses
2006-10-20 8:10:57 PM  
Can't_Think_Of_A_Name:
Quadrillion. We don't have to start making up new names for numbers for a long time.

Hmm, that may change, if you think of global debt, sooner or later we'll need a number hgher than quaddrillion.
 
meowza
2006-10-20 8:11:19 PM  
moops So basically, you're against paying someone a wage which allows them to survive? You would rather they starve to death and die?

who's footin' the bill?
which brings us back to,
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asmodeus224
2006-10-20 8:14:16 PM  
Of all the things I learn from NewMax, the biggest thing is that its viewer base:
1) is afraid of getting beat up (lots of self defense ads)

and

2) faces lots of rejection by women (what the libruhl media doesn't want you to know about picking up girls! style ads)

NewsMax - the website for wimps!
 
bingo the psych-o
2006-10-20 8:15:03 PM  
Don't spend more than I earn? Thats UN-AMERICAN! Un-Republican at the very least.

/Clinton was our worst President
//until Bush that is
 
skinink [OhFark]
2006-10-20 8:15:35 PM  
Don't spend more than you earn.
Lord loves a workin' man.
Don't trust whitey.
See a doctor and get rid of it.


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Korovyov
2006-10-20 8:16:31 PM  
It's actually not that simple a lesson if you don't have much earning power because you've seriously screwed yourself -- ex. high school dropout with two kids and no real job skills would be in a fairly deep hole, esp. if family support is weak.


That said, it's probably more common for high school students to view luxuries like iPods, large TVs, cable, game consoles, piles of DVDs, cell phone plans with some ludicrous number of allowed monthly minutes and SMS messages, and "fashionable" clothing as necessities.
 
junkevil
2006-10-20 8:16:48 PM  
asmodeus224: Of all the things I learn from NewMax, the biggest thing is that its viewer base:

with filterset g there are no ads on that page at all, the same with many other pages.
 
LosinMySenses
2006-10-20 8:18:53 PM  
LosinMySenses: But to get such a check from the day you are born, won't happen.
moops:
Nobody's talking about that. That's called a negative income tax, which is supported by noone other than idiots of the Green Party. So basically, you're against paying someone a wage which allows them to survive? You would rather they starve to death and die?

I think you are not seeing the picture here. To be paid from the moment you are born would be for those who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. I'm not saying we cannot live without an income. But I'm saying the current government will not foot your bill from the moment you are born for no cost to them.

Those who are getting social securitty checks EARNED that right to get those checks because they worked for it.

But not every senior citizen had a cushy job and a cushy retirement plan which is why we still have Social Security checks going out.
 
onomatopoetic
2006-10-20 8:21:36 PM  
The government doesn't earn anything. It takes. If it didn't spend more than it earned we'd have no government.

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feepness
2006-10-20 8:22:56 PM  
rokstar66: U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 20 Oct 2006 at 10:33:22 PM GMT is:

If only we keep voting for one of the same two parties that ran this debt up over the last century we'll be fine.
 
junkevil
2006-10-20 8:23:55 PM  
LosinMySenses: Those who are getting social securitty checks EARNED that right to get those checks because they worked for it.

actually, i used to know this crazy guy who did a bunch of blow, went insane, and is on social security. needless to say, the dude was a douchenozzle, and something is wrong with the social security system.
 
feepness
2006-10-20 8:24:25 PM  
moops: So that means you have to be worth a certain amount to be considered worthy of living?

Do you think food is free?
 
Major Thomb
2006-10-20 8:26:06 PM  
For the clueless: Government financials are not the same in any way to personal financials. See: Economics 101 text book.
 
feepness
2006-10-20 8:26:11 PM  
bingo the psych-o: /Clinton was our worst President
//until Bush that is

I agree.

And they say Bush hasn't accomplished anything! liking him less than Clinton? That's QUITE an accomplishment.
 
sweatmasterB
2006-10-20 8:26:13 PM  
why would the liberals care if women like me?
for that mater why would consertives care?

why would consertives care if a brain dead women is..... never mind!
 
Korovyov
2006-10-20 8:26:13 PM  
onomatopoetic --
Theoretically, a government should provide sufficient useful and competent services that it does earn much of what it takes. A government which merely takes and provides little for it -- ex. a "Big Man" kleptocracy -- is going to at least need to please the segment of the population with the firepower to remain very long.
 
God-is-a-Taco
2006-10-20 8:26:47 PM  
Sorry I'm late.

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onomatopoetic
2006-10-20 8:27:16 PM  
moops: That's called a negative income tax, which is supported by noone other than idiots of the Green Party.

And some libertarians and some economists. Though they are in favor of an NIT in lieu of social welfare. The idea being that individuals can make better use of the money than a one size fits all government program.
 
kiwichan
2006-10-20 8:28:33 PM  
LosinMySenses

Hmm, that may change, if you think of global debt, sooner or later we'll need a number hgher than quaddrillion.

You're clearly missing the point. The way numbers are named is well defined upward. Billion, trillion, quadrillion, bi- tri- quad-, naturally next is quin- hex- hept- and so on and so forth, so it's a long time before we run out of numbers. Of course, scientifically numbers stop at million and are measured in way such as a thousand million million.
 
feepness
2006-10-20 8:29:01 PM  
Korovyov: ex. high school dropout with two kids and no real job skills would be in a fairly deep hole, esp. if family support is weak.

The time to solve this problem is before dropping out of high-school, before having the first kid, and before having the second kid.

I have a degree and a good job and I still think carefully about the repurcussions of having my next kid. I'm thinking about the cost of good schools here, not whether they can eat without using credit cards.
 
LosinMySenses
2006-10-20 8:29:10 PM  
junkevil:
actually, i used to know this crazy guy who did a bunch of blow, went insane, and is on social security. needless to say, the dude was a douchenozzle, and something is wrong with the social security system.

Well, it's a government run system, and the same system that is result of our growing debt, so what more explanation do you want?

Besides, there are people who get Social Security Disability (SSD) because they can't work because their disability doesn't make it simple either.
And just so you know, you lose your SS benefits if you get a job that makes a certain amount that will get SS check cutoff. Otherwise you'd be guilty of defrauding the gov't
 
sweatmasterB
2006-10-20 8:30:28 PM  
what was so bad about Clinton?
1. the economy was good
2. budget sulplus
 
feepness
2006-10-20 8:30:39 PM  
LosinMySenses: Those who are getting social securitty checks EARNED that right to get those checks because they worked for it.

Not everyone who gets social security paid into it.

Just a factual observation.
 
JOEKC
2006-10-20 8:31:27 PM  
bu...bu...but Clinton . . .

Was our last President to balance the budget. It may have been smoke and mirrors, but at least he had the brains to do magic.

/God I miss true conservatives
 
Major Thomb
2006-10-20 8:31:47 PM  
onomatopoetic: The government doesn't earn anything. It takes. If it didn't spend more than it earned we'd have no government.


The economy is based on cash and cash flow. The government creates both. The problem is when the "take from A and give to B" is done in an anti-competetive and anti-growth way.
 
Major Thomb
2006-10-20 8:33:24 PM  
JOEKC: Was our last President to balance the budget. It may have been smoke and mirrors, but at least he had the brains to do magic.


Bzzzz...It's VERY easy to check the facts and see that was a side effect of the stock market bubble. If you want to credit Clinton for fraud and poor investments, go ahead.
 
NicoFinn
2006-10-20 8:35:06 PM  
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice headline.
 
TheOther
2006-10-20 8:35:40 PM  
feepness: Not everyone who paid into social security gets it.

Just a factual observation.
 
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