NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Cash for Clunkers, the very successful federal program that has brought car buyers back to showrooms, is about to reach a very rough end of the road.
1. It is good to see giving away other peoples money is such a success. Where did we get the money from? That's right our friends the Saudis and Chinese.
2. These were perfectly good cars what are low income people supposed to drive now that these vehicles are headed for the heap.
3. Some of these cars only need 2 MPH better gas mileage. How is that considered green? When you figure in the amount of energy it took to mine the ore, transport oil for plastic parts etc... how much do you really think was saved?
4. What are about the muffler shops that put mufflers on these "clunkers"? Is it ok that we maybe putting them out of business?
5. Since these cars are being scrapped without stripping the parts, how is that green? Wouldn't it be better on mother earth if these parts had been recycled?
I guess that it is better to prop up one segment of the auto industry to detriment of the rest of industry including used car lots.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
WTF?
“If there’s a problem and it turns out that there’s been a fraud … that someone has changed sex, then obviously it would be much easier to strip results,” Davies added. “However, if it’s a natural thing and the athlete has always thought she’s a woman or been a woman, it’s not exactly cheating.”
I'm with you on point that is she's always been a woman cool. If she thought she's a woman? Huh? Maybe some 75th ranked male golfer should come and say he believes he has always been a woman and dominate the LPGA. The only way I agree with the thought she is a woman situation is if the person was a hermaphrodite.
I'm with you on point that is she's always been a woman cool. If she thought she's a woman? Huh? Maybe some 75th ranked male golfer should come and say he believes he has always been a woman and dominate the LPGA. The only way I agree with the thought she is a woman situation is if the person was a hermaphrodite.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Howard how could you say this with a straight face?
"Dean urged the Obama administration to stand by statements made early on in the debate in which it steadfastly insisted that such a public option was indispensable to genuine change, saying that Medicare and the Veterans Administration are "two very good programs that have been around for a long time.""
Apparently he has never been treated by the VA I think they kill more people than the war in Iraq. A friend of the family they neglected to tell him to wear compression socks after surgery... oops sorry dead.
Apparently he has never been treated by the VA I think they kill more people than the war in Iraq. A friend of the family they neglected to tell him to wear compression socks after surgery... oops sorry dead.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
I want government telling me how to raise my summer kids
Some maybe here some maybe there. If I had kids. I quit. I am not going to have a dollar left to my name eventually. Thank you Chuck Norris.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/08/11/dirty_secret_no_1_in_obamacare?page=full
http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/08/11/dirty_secret_no_1_in_obamacare?page=full
Isn't paid volunteer a oxymoron
Man these a-holes will do anything to push this piece of crap through.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-healthcare-reform.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-healthcare-reform.html
Friday, July 17, 2009
Why?
Why is this piece of shit getting a jail sentence? I wish they would put him in the general population and let the system take care of him. He deserves to be shot.
http://www.startribune.com/local/51024037.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUl
http://www.startribune.com/local/51024037.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUl
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
New Insurance Plans
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul
I would urge those of us in the middle class that have employer provided insurance to contact their legislator and tell them no to this bill. What we will end up having in this country is a two-tiered system. The really rich(including the politicians) will be able to afford a insurance rider and the rest of us will be stuck letting the government decide how much treatment we are able to receive. You think HMO's are bad wait for this crap.
I would urge those of us in the middle class that have employer provided insurance to contact their legislator and tell them no to this bill. What we will end up having in this country is a two-tiered system. The really rich(including the politicians) will be able to afford a insurance rider and the rest of us will be stuck letting the government decide how much treatment we are able to receive. You think HMO's are bad wait for this crap.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Income tax hike by a different name
Climate bill to pay hundreds of dollars in rebates
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_re_us/us_climate_bill_cost
is still a income tax increase. Nice thing is they will provide credits to people who are not currently paying into the system. You get what you vote for.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_re_us/us_climate_bill_cost
is still a income tax increase. Nice thing is they will provide credits to people who are not currently paying into the system. You get what you vote for.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
More government giveaways
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203897.html?g=0
FEMA typically provides disaster aid for 18 months. It extended assistance for 45 months since Katrina hit in August 2005.
About 1,150 families in FEMA housing live in units the agency classifies as mobile homes and park models, which will be offered for sale at $5 and $1, respectively. FEMA expects to free up an additional 600 to 700 units from its inventory to donate through state and local governments and nonprofit groups, the administration official said. Individuals who previously bought units will be offered refunds.
A. Sounds like a good way to buy more votes.
B. You've had four fricken years to get off your asses and do for yourself. Teach a man to fish... fuck it just give them the God damned fish.
FEMA typically provides disaster aid for 18 months. It extended assistance for 45 months since Katrina hit in August 2005.
About 1,150 families in FEMA housing live in units the agency classifies as mobile homes and park models, which will be offered for sale at $5 and $1, respectively. FEMA expects to free up an additional 600 to 700 units from its inventory to donate through state and local governments and nonprofit groups, the administration official said. Individuals who previously bought units will be offered refunds.
A. Sounds like a good way to buy more votes.
B. You've had four fricken years to get off your asses and do for yourself. Teach a man to fish... fuck it just give them the God damned fish.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
I've tried this product and you need to be high to drink it.
FRANKFURT -- Energy-drink maker Red Bull GmbH's push into cola sales is facing its first major setback in Germany, where local lawmakers began pulling Red Bull Simply Cola off shelves after a study found the drink contains trace elements of cocaine.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
I prefer to work until I'm dead
to support irresponsible (to say the least) people. I think I've found Octomom's soul mate.
http://wcco.com/video/?id=103746@kcbs.dayport.com
http://wcco.com/video/?id=103746@kcbs.dayport.com
Thursday, May 21, 2009
The High Cost of Poverty: Why Poor Pay More
Full Article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051702053.html?g=0
"The poor pay more for a gallon of milk; they pay more on a capital basis for inferior housing," says Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).
That is assuming they pay for their housing in first place?
"The poor and 100 million who are struggling for the middle class actually end up paying more for transportation, for housing, for health care, for mortgages. They get steered to subprime lending. . . . The poor pay more for things middle-class America takes for granted."
Wow! How about that is what their sorry asses qualified for. Last time I checked home ownership wasn't a right.
You don't have three hours to take the bus. So you buy groceries at the corner store, where a gallon of milk costs an extra dollar.
Food stamps? - once again they aren't paying a extra dollar, the taxpayers are.
"When you are poor, you don't have the luxury of throwing a load into the washing machine and then taking your morning jog while it cycles. You wait until Monday afternoon, when the laundromat is most likely to be empty, and you put all of that laundry from four kids into four heaps, bundle it in sheets, load a cart and drag it to the corner. "
If you are so poor, why are they having a kid let alone four? No self responsibility.
"If I had my choice, I would have a washer and a dryer," says Nya Oti, 37, a food-service worker who lives in Brightwood.
Again, what choices in your life led you to a career in food-service? If the work is temporary(such as layoff) I feel sorry for her, if not it is a choice she made.
She(Oti) buys bags of oranges or apples, but not the organic kind. "Organic is too much," she says.
I don't buy organic either, the crap is overpriced and the way I see it we are all going to die of something. I get a bad feeling that soon organic food will also be "right" in this country.
Randy Albelda, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. "You have to work a lot of hours and still not make a lot of money. You get squeezed, and your money is squeezed."
There is a reason people are working a lot of hours for low pay. I think I touched on it in reference to the job skills required to work food service.
The poor pay more in hassle: the calls from the bill collectors, the landlord, the utility company. So they spend money to avoid the hassle. The poor pay for caller identification because it gives them peace of mind to weed out calls from bill collectors.
Newsflash if you actually paid you bills you probably wouldn't be getting collection calls. I bet they can still afford their cigarettes though.
The rich have direct deposit for their paychecks. The poor have check-cashing and payday loan joints, which cost time and money. Payday advance companies say they are providing an essential service to people who most need them. Their critics say they are preying on people who are the most "economically vulnerable." In simple terms, the company is charging a $15.50 fee for every $100 that you borrow. On your $300 payday loan -- borrowed for a term of seven days -- the effective annual percentage rate is 806 percent.
I don't get it. Is someone putting a gun to their heads and making them cash the checks or get a loan at these places?
"As you've seen with the financial services industry, if people can cut a profit, they do it," Blumenauer says. "The poor pay more for financial services. A lot of people who are 'unbanked' pay $3 for a money order to pay their electric bill. They pay a 2 percent check-cashing fee because they don't have bank services. The reasons? Part of it is lack of education.
Whose is at fault for their lack of education? In my book you've got no one to look at but yourself.
All these costs can lead the poor to a collective depression.
Kind of sounds like an excuse to me.
"The cheaper housing is in more-dangerous areas," says Reed,
So is the cheaper housing causing the area to be dangerous, or is it the residents of said area what is making it dangerous?
"People working who don't make a lot of money go to the system for help, and they deny them," Nicholas says. "They say I make too much. It almost helps if you don't work."
Maybe our country should put a limit on the time people allowed to be on system so we don't give them a incentive to not work.
What could you accomplish with the lost 20 minutes standing there in the rain? Waiting. That's another cost of poverty. You wait in lines. You wait at bus stops. You wait on the bus as it makes it way up Georgia Avenue, hitting every stop. No sense in trying to hurry when you are poor
Again maybe people need to be made aware about the choices they make in life and how it affects them.
"The poor pay more for a gallon of milk; they pay more on a capital basis for inferior housing," says Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).
That is assuming they pay for their housing in first place?
"The poor and 100 million who are struggling for the middle class actually end up paying more for transportation, for housing, for health care, for mortgages. They get steered to subprime lending. . . . The poor pay more for things middle-class America takes for granted."
Wow! How about that is what their sorry asses qualified for. Last time I checked home ownership wasn't a right.
You don't have three hours to take the bus. So you buy groceries at the corner store, where a gallon of milk costs an extra dollar.
Food stamps? - once again they aren't paying a extra dollar, the taxpayers are.
"When you are poor, you don't have the luxury of throwing a load into the washing machine and then taking your morning jog while it cycles. You wait until Monday afternoon, when the laundromat is most likely to be empty, and you put all of that laundry from four kids into four heaps, bundle it in sheets, load a cart and drag it to the corner. "
If you are so poor, why are they having a kid let alone four? No self responsibility.
"If I had my choice, I would have a washer and a dryer," says Nya Oti, 37, a food-service worker who lives in Brightwood.
Again, what choices in your life led you to a career in food-service? If the work is temporary(such as layoff) I feel sorry for her, if not it is a choice she made.
She(Oti) buys bags of oranges or apples, but not the organic kind. "Organic is too much," she says.
I don't buy organic either, the crap is overpriced and the way I see it we are all going to die of something. I get a bad feeling that soon organic food will also be "right" in this country.
Randy Albelda, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. "You have to work a lot of hours and still not make a lot of money. You get squeezed, and your money is squeezed."
There is a reason people are working a lot of hours for low pay. I think I touched on it in reference to the job skills required to work food service.
The poor pay more in hassle: the calls from the bill collectors, the landlord, the utility company. So they spend money to avoid the hassle. The poor pay for caller identification because it gives them peace of mind to weed out calls from bill collectors.
Newsflash if you actually paid you bills you probably wouldn't be getting collection calls. I bet they can still afford their cigarettes though.
The rich have direct deposit for their paychecks. The poor have check-cashing and payday loan joints, which cost time and money. Payday advance companies say they are providing an essential service to people who most need them. Their critics say they are preying on people who are the most "economically vulnerable." In simple terms, the company is charging a $15.50 fee for every $100 that you borrow. On your $300 payday loan -- borrowed for a term of seven days -- the effective annual percentage rate is 806 percent.
I don't get it. Is someone putting a gun to their heads and making them cash the checks or get a loan at these places?
"As you've seen with the financial services industry, if people can cut a profit, they do it," Blumenauer says. "The poor pay more for financial services. A lot of people who are 'unbanked' pay $3 for a money order to pay their electric bill. They pay a 2 percent check-cashing fee because they don't have bank services. The reasons? Part of it is lack of education.
Whose is at fault for their lack of education? In my book you've got no one to look at but yourself.
All these costs can lead the poor to a collective depression.
Kind of sounds like an excuse to me.
"The cheaper housing is in more-dangerous areas," says Reed,
So is the cheaper housing causing the area to be dangerous, or is it the residents of said area what is making it dangerous?
"People working who don't make a lot of money go to the system for help, and they deny them," Nicholas says. "They say I make too much. It almost helps if you don't work."
Maybe our country should put a limit on the time people allowed to be on system so we don't give them a incentive to not work.
What could you accomplish with the lost 20 minutes standing there in the rain? Waiting. That's another cost of poverty. You wait in lines. You wait at bus stops. You wait on the bus as it makes it way up Georgia Avenue, hitting every stop. No sense in trying to hurry when you are poor
Again maybe people need to be made aware about the choices they make in life and how it affects them.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Deserving of a slow painful death
Blind 4-year-old tells police: 'Daddy ate my eyes'
http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_12403346
I don't know what you do to this asshole. I say get him good and high, so he doesn't know where he is going then take him to death valley, tie him to some rocks, place steaks all over his body, and let the fucking buzzards eat him. This is one of the saddest things I've ever read.
http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_12403346
I don't know what you do to this asshole. I say get him good and high, so he doesn't know where he is going then take him to death valley, tie him to some rocks, place steaks all over his body, and let the fucking buzzards eat him. This is one of the saddest things I've ever read.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
We can't afford the shit we currently fund so lets start another
http://www.startribune.com/nation/44847797.html?elr=KArksUUUU
The report, issued Tuesday by the trustees who monitor the government's two main forms for help for the elderly, shows that Medicare has become more fragile as well and is at greater risk than Social Security of imminent fiscal collapse.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_overhaul
Obama's plan to provide coverage to some 50 million uninsured Americans is the cornerstone of his promise to enact a larger overhaul of the health care system. Independent experts put the costs at about $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
Seriously how are we going to pay for this shit? Let's just tax the rich, those fuckers can afford it. Wait even if we tax them 100% we aren't going to be able to pay for all of this. No tax raises on people earning less than $250,000 my ass.
The report, issued Tuesday by the trustees who monitor the government's two main forms for help for the elderly, shows that Medicare has become more fragile as well and is at greater risk than Social Security of imminent fiscal collapse.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_overhaul
Obama's plan to provide coverage to some 50 million uninsured Americans is the cornerstone of his promise to enact a larger overhaul of the health care system. Independent experts put the costs at about $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
Seriously how are we going to pay for this shit? Let's just tax the rich, those fuckers can afford it. Wait even if we tax them 100% we aren't going to be able to pay for all of this. No tax raises on people earning less than $250,000 my ass.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Government Waste
I ordered a item from a store in Minesota to be delivered to me in Minnesota. Here is the USPS tracking for my package thus far.
Associated Label/Receipt: Detailed Results:
Processed, May 07, 2009, 4:42 pm, WEST SACRAMENTO, CA 95799
Processed, May 05, 2009, 5:42 pm, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401
Electronic Shipping Info Received, May 05, 2009
Maybe they ought to next route it through the US geological base station on Antartica. WTF?
Associated Label/Receipt: Detailed Results:
Processed, May 07, 2009, 4:42 pm, WEST SACRAMENTO, CA 95799
Processed, May 05, 2009, 5:42 pm, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401
Electronic Shipping Info Received, May 05, 2009
Maybe they ought to next route it through the US geological base station on Antartica. WTF?
Natural selection at its best
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/44568447.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl
So when the Vitamin C and Ginseng doesn't work, please don't even think about coming back to chemo and radiation. He's a medicine man maybe he can smoke some peyote and run with the coyote. I am all for the parents choosing the course they want for their son. Once it is made by golly they need to have the courage to stick with their convictions.
So when the Vitamin C and Ginseng doesn't work, please don't even think about coming back to chemo and radiation. He's a medicine man maybe he can smoke some peyote and run with the coyote. I am all for the parents choosing the course they want for their son. Once it is made by golly they need to have the courage to stick with their convictions.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
A thought on Gay Marriage
You know what I don't think government should be endorsing marriage. I think they should enforce contracts between to people and let the churches do the marrying. It could be my philosophy in life, do whatever the hell you want just don't expect me to pay when the shit hits the fan.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
How exactly are we going to pay for this?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090505/us_nm/us_energy_autos
I can't wait until our credit runs out in this country. Is it a freaking open checkbook.
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