Only a fool borrows money and gives it to someone else.

Natebo on December 10, 2012 at 12:59 PM

Oh, I don’t know about that. Isn’t it much better to give away someone else’s money than your own – especially if you’re “borrowing” the money in such a way that someone else has to pay it back?
This is pretty well in line with “how to make mo money without using yo money…”

Only a fool borrows money and gives it to someone else.

Natebo on December 10, 2012 at 12:59 PM

I love finding these golden nuggets by the HA commenters. Well said.

tom on December 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM

A++

There’s plenty of defense related spending that can be cut. It is still government spending, and as such a theft, (although Constitutionally mandated), from the private sector where it is utilized much more efficiently.

Still doesn’t change the fact entitlements, welfare, and insane health spending are the real drivers of debt. Grown men are making a career of being permanently disabled due to “back pain” and depression.

In my town 2000 Somalis turned out for 200 rent-controlled apartments and had to be maced into submission. They parked at the apartment and church lot next door, all over the streets, and in people’s driveways. This cannot continue forever.

antisense on December 10, 2012 at 1:12 PM

Our problem is not in the inefficient level of spending by the government on things that government should be spending on. Our problem is the government spending money on things that they should not be involved in.

National defense is something the government should be spending on, as are intelligence agencies, and federal law enforcement. Whether those budgets could be trimmed significantly is almost completely beside the point.

Our problem is entitlement spending that we are committed to every single year. Pork to unions, hyper-inflated spending on schools, huge sums to the EPA and special interests.

If we did nothing but pare back goverment spending to things that are proper functions of government, this whole fiscal crisis would be over.

Peter Schiff: Majority Doesn’t “Have A Right To Steal My Money Just Because They Voted For It”

Galt2009 on December 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM

Steal? My heavens, no! They just want you to pay your fair share. Didn’t you get the memo?

What, did you think you get to decide what your fair share is? Only the president can decide what is fair!

Can you identify something round about that last line that has higher support even than tax hikes on the rich but not a daggone person is talking about?

The cynical among us might wonder if that’s the reason they put it at the very bottom — so no one sees it.

Mot me, of course. I have complete faith and hope in the New York Times…..

You owe me for the carpet cleaning (it’s white, too)!
Resist We Much on December 10, 2012 at 2:32 PM

I’ll trade you carpet cleaning bills. (3 dogs and 2 cats)

American politicians are corrupt imbeciles, ased revenue.

SWalker on December 10, 2012 at 12:13 PM

Exactly. But what is truly sad, and very unfortunate for us citizens, is that they don’t see themselves as corrupt nowadays, as times have changed.

That is, in the olden days, an individual or group seeking favors or special treatment from their state or federal representative, quietly passed them a sack full of money.

Nowadays, that’s no longer done, as it’s too easy to get caught. So the kickbacks are provided in much more subtle, but very real, ways. For an example, just google the name of 0bama’s Chicago buddy who bought them their Hyde Park home, Tony Rezko.

So the politician has never accepted a sack of cash as a direct bribe, so they see themselves as legit. Yet they most certainly are not.

T-E-R-M L-I-M-I-T-S

Resist We Much on December 10, 2012 at 2:32 PM

Mission Accomplished

dentarthurdent on December 10, 2012 at 2:27 PM

You owe me for the carpet cleaning (it’s white, too)!

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Freaky-deaky! Evidently, Ramirez and I both kinda/sorta have the antennae on our tinfoil hats adjusted to the same frequency today!

Thanks. I’m not a big tool girl. :-)
Resist We Much on December 10, 2012 at 2:22 PM

So size really doesn’t matter…..
The tomahawk is a pretty big tool….

Sorry – couldn’t resist it much…

Just a minor nit from a defense guy – but it’s tomahawk – as in the old American Indian hatchet.

dentarthurdent on December 10, 2012 at 2:07 PM

Thanks. I’m not a big tool girl. :-)

Galt2009 on December 10, 2012 at 2:17 PM

As they say in Maine – ayuh.

Galt2009 on December 10, 2012 at 1:54 PM

Exactly what has happened everywhere else the government has tried to jack up tax rates to fund their over-spending habits – England, Illinois, New York…….

dentarthurdent on December 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM

And each and every time the oppressives claim that it won’t happen this time…

And yet the same old rules of basic physiology kick in and voila!

Followed by another Marxist a few years later with the fantastic idea:

Let’s tax the tar out of one segment of the population and disburse the proceeds to everyone else.

……………….. and the Low information voters buy into it like a trout on a fishing fly.

It was a snark post. Remember when Bidumb went to Michigan and said that more wimmenesses would be raped if Republicans didn’t immediately pass Obama’s jobs bill?

They always resort to Henny-Pennyism. It’s so typical of The TEAT Party.

Resist We Much on December 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM

Ya – I got that.
Just wanted to throw in a 2nd Amendment slant.

TOMMYHAWKS
Resist We Much on December 10, 2012 at 2:04 PM

Just a minor nit from a defense guy – but it’s tomahawk – as in the old American Indian hatchet.

Depends. Will those women be allowed to buy their own guns to provide their own defense?

dentarthurdent on December 10, 2012 at 1:41 PM

It was a snark post. Remember when Bidumb went to Michigan and said that more wimmenesses would be raped if Republicans didn’t immediately pass Obama’s jobs bill?

They always resort to Henny-Pennyism. It’s so typical of The TEAT Party.

I imagine that people in past societies entering into these era’s thought the same thing. We however don’t have the excuse of not knowing how this will turn out in the end.

Galt2009 on December 10, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Some learn by reading about others, some learn by watching others, and some just have to pee on that electric fence for themselves to see what happens….