[Gibble]

Originally Posted by Paquadez

Not at all, Gib. In a structural sense, the machine is an antique!

No microprocessors, no LCD screens, but it works really well and hey! less to go wrong.

Another bit of furniture here:

Paq

where?

[iltos]

Originally Posted by Paquadez

Not at all, Gib. In a structural sense, the machine is an antique!

No microprocessors, no LCD screens, but it works really well and hey! less to go wrong.

Another bit of furniture here:

Paq

unlike everything else, that piece is really small

[LANMaster]

Nice looking place, Paquadez.

[f1_champ]

US third on the list of the countries with most economic disparity...........



Soon there will be a day when the world would be run by companies instead of governments.

[GoneForNow]

Originally Posted by f1_champ

US third on the list of the countries with most economic disparity...........

Soon there will be a day when the world would be run by companies instead of governments.

Its easy being a socialist when you don't work and have to support anything.

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by f1_champ

US third on the list of the countries with most economic disparity...........



Soon there will be a day when the world would be run by companies instead of governments.

What difference does it make the economic disparity? It is irrelevant. You will see a lot of poor nations much lower on that index. What good does it do for there to be less disparity if most are poor? And conversely, if most Americans have a better standard of living than anyone else in the world (which is true by the way), then again, what difference does it make if there is a large gap? If Bill Gates makes a billion a year, and he pays me $150,000 a year what do I care that the gap is so big as long as I have a decent living?

What you Moore-Ons don't understand is that what drives great economies is the incentive that exists to make a lot of money. The reason you are sitting their typing away on your computer on this Internet is directly related to the American economic structure. Its the fact that people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and Cisco and MS and a host of other companies had an incentive that they developed the technology that now makes your life better. The irony is that the very thing you despise and think is evil is directly responsible for the wonderful technoligy and the fantastic life you have that people could only dream of 100 years ago.

Get off your lazy arse, get an education--study hard, work hard and maybe you can make other people's lives better some day. All you do right now is drain your parents, drain this forum and probably drain your friends with negativity. There's a helluva lot more drains in the world than fountains. Choose to be a fountain!

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by Mulder

What difference does it make the economic disparity?

need one say more?

[Knotbored]

If the poorest 20% of USA (that 5.2%) moved to Brazil the average wages in both countries would improve. Dumb statistic.
Statistics to try to show USA economy has been hurt by allowing accumulation of wealth are patently false, and dumb, and give fuel to jackasses that want massive havoc so their narrow view of freedom allows everyone to starve equally.

[GoneForNow]

Originally Posted by Knotbored

If the poorest 20% of USA (that 5.2%) moved to Brazil the average wages in both countries would improve. Dumb statistic.
Statistics to try to show USA economy has been hurt by allowing accumulation of wealth are patently false, and dumb, and give fuel to jackasses that want massive havoc so their narrow view of freedom allows everyone to starve equally.

Originally Posted by bassetman

need one say more?

Nope.

[Paquadez]

Thanks, Lan.

Paq

[Gibble]

Originally Posted by Knotbored

If the poorest 20% of USA (that 5.2%) moved to Brazil the average wages in both countries would improve. Dumb statistic.
Statistics to try to show USA economy has been hurt by allowing accumulation of wealth are patently false, and dumb, and give fuel to jackasses that want massive havoc so their narrow view of freedom allows everyone to starve equally.

good post.

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by gbrumb

Nope.

LOL! Its hopeless for poor bassetman, isn't it? He can't understand even the most basic logic! At least champ's got an excuse--he's like 15!

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by bassetman

need one say more?

Basset--choose for me the more preferable economic conditions:

No. 1

Top 5% make a million and bottom 5% make 10,000--the other 90% make an average of $50,000

No. 2

Top 5% make $100,000, bottom 5% make $5,000 and the other 90% make an average of $10,000?

If you have half a brain, obviously you would select No. 1 yet the economic disparty between richest and poorest is much greater in No. 1 than No. 2.

Get out your grade school math book, take a few hours and crunch the numbers on a caculator and just maybe you'll understand why the economic disparity between richest and poorest is completely irrelevant.

basset--I believe you once said you have some sort of advanced degree. What is it in and where did you get it? Did you take any math, economics, or statistics classes at all?

[jonasdatum]

Originally Posted by Mulder

Basset--choose for me the more preferable economic conditions:

No. 1

Top 5% make a million and bottom 5% make 10,000--the other 90% make an average of $50,000

No. 2

Top 5% make $100,000, bottom 5% make $5,000 and the other 90% make an average of $10,000?

If you have half a brain, obviously you would select No. 1 yet the economic disparty between richest and poorest is much greater in No. 1 than No. 2.

Get out your grade school math book, take a few hours and crunch the numbers on a caculator and just maybe you'll understand why the economic disparity between richest and poorest is completely irrelevant.

basset--I believe you once said you have some sort of advanced degree. What is it in and where did you get it? Did you take any math, economics, or statistics classes at all?

Some people can spend their entire lives poor. I don't plan on it. Middle class, middle lower class maybe, but poor; No way I have had enough of that. As a child I was what you might consider lower middle class. I've gone further since being on my own. At times people must have the will to increase their financial capablities! Granted sometimes its out of your hands, but to some extent you must take action. Don't spend money on crap you do need.

[Mulderator]

Problem is liberals don't now how to think rationally about the issues. For example, there are few very good looking people--far more are average or ugly. The liberals answer to that issue is to scar up the good looking severely and to a lesser extent the average so that everyone is equally ugly.

This is a perfect example--you've got a couple of socialists (champ/bassetman) who point to the disparity between the rich and poor as some meaningful statistics when it means absolutely nothing. The liberal has been beating the drum of the gap between rich and poor, yet the poor have improved significantly in the past 40 years. So there really isn't a problem, yet these Moore-Ons are going to create a problem because they think that you can even that out by taxing the rich heavily when all that does is kill the economy and make it worse for everyone.

This is really a pretty easy economic principle to understand proven over and over again, yet the Moore-Ons ignore it--all they seem capable of focusing on is the fact that there are rich and poor. They think you can change the laws of economics and the laws of mathematics with by having the gubment tax people more!

Point is differences in indviduals have existed since the dawn of time and will always exist. Everyone wants to live in the nice house on the beach, but everyone can't. How in the hell would socialism correct that problem? A lottery to see who gets more? That would be engender more envy than the current system.

But what you see these people do is simply point to problems with no solutions and than blame capitalism and those that support it.