RANT!!!!!!

[CaseyJones]

Oh, boo-hoo, boo-hoo. SSDD.

It started with a West Coast real estate bubble. Then credit default swaps insuring marginal if not bogus loans. Then of course the whole thing crawled up its own ass just in time fer Obama.

I'm grinnin'. I'm laughin' my ass off. Hey, y'all... this is what opportunity looks like. Three years ago I couldn't afford the price of admission. Now I can. What goes up... must come down. In economics what comes down... must go up. Hopefully. The trick now is to do yer Warren Buffet impersonation even if you're some Sad Sack unemployed slobbo.

The frikkin' Wetbacks caused this wif their drain on The System? Puh-leeze! That's exactly the bullshit "they" would like you to believe. It's not billioniares in suits who stuck it to ya, it's Juan Wetback who came here fer a free ride.

Then how come Juan is headin' back to Sonora? That looks like a Leading Economic Indicator to me...

Plenty o' opportunity here. Just cope wif yer fears, ladies! If you're hidin' under the bed 'cuz you're scared o' change you're gonna miss the bus...

[Voodoo_Man]

The frikkin' Wetbacks caused this wif their drain on The System? Puh-leeze! That's exactly the bullshit "they" would like you to believe. It's not billioniares in suits who stuck it to ya, it's Juan Wetback who came here fer a free ride.
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Casey, no ones saying that. What a lot of people don't know is that it's not just Juan sneaking under the fences. It's also Phi Tung, Abdula, and a whole lot others. If the Terminator would get off his rearend and lobby the Feds to round up illegals and ship 'em back to where they came from, then there would be more welfare & food stamps to give to legal Americans. That I can stomach. But when Juanita, who's illegaL) drops a kid in the US, that kids a citizen entitled to welfare. Now Juanita is entitled to welfare. That's BS. And if the Terminator had the $17,000,000,000 dollars illegal imigration cost him (that was in 2007, so I'm sure it's much higher in 2008) then people who paid taxes, like a lot of illegals don't, would have their tax refunds. Do you get it now?

God Bless,
John

[jspax7]

America has gone from "Bush League" to an "Obamanation".

The govt. is the least efficient, more wasteful, and more corrupt than any organization or corporation. Yet we are being told that they are the solution to the problems that they themselves have created.

The problem with our govt. is that everyone in office (in both parties) is owned by their contributors, and special interest groups, and manipulated by the puppet masters in each party that hold their strings. If you cross party lines to vote, as in the recent CA budget debacle, you are scorned. "Punished" was the word one individual used.

Since Bush#1, we have been headed down this "New World Order" path. Our "Representatives" didn't even read the "stimulus" bill, nor did they read NAFTA. They vote, for the most part, along party lines, and seldom if ever for the good of the Country at large. Obama said "no earmarks". He lied! He's just another straw man. One of them. Part of the system, not part of the solution.

The revolt is to FIRE (vote out) every incumbent and replace them with fiscally responsible people who will operate the govt. as our Founding Fathers intended. Government was never meant to be this big.

And, America needs to become a Producer again. We've become consumers, looking for the cheapest goods. When we don't support American workers by buying American made products, we play right into the hands of the system. Our "Trade Agreements" with nations such as China, are anything but fair.

We need a viable 3rd party, and we need one NOW!

Getting enough people to refuse to pay taxes (payroll, income, property, etc.) would make a statement, but it would have to be EVERYONE, and I have my doubts as to whether an organized effort would be successful.

I'm open to suggestions...

[jspax7]

The frikkin' Wetbacks caused this wif their drain on The System? Puh-leeze! That's exactly the bullshit "they" would like you to believe. It's not billioniares in suits who stuck it to ya, it's Juan Wetback who came here fer a free ride.
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Casey, no ones saying that. What a lot of people don't know is that it's not just Juan sneaking under the fences. It's also Phi Tung, Abdula, and a whole lot others. If the Terminator would get off his rearend and lobby the Feds to round up illegals and ship 'em back to where they came from, then there would be more welfare & food stamps to give to legal Americans. That I can stomach. But when Juanita, who's illegaL) drops a kid in the US, that kids a citizen entitled to welfare. Now Juanita is entitled to welfare. That's BS. And if the Terminator had the $17,000,000 dollars illegal imigration cost him (that was in 2007, so I'm sure it's much higher in 2008) then people who paid taxes, like a lot of illegals don't, would have their tax refunds. Do you get it now?

God Bless,
John

We are Mexico's welfare system. We need to deal strongly with their govt. Their people are their responsibility.

America should set higher standards for our trade agreements, including Human Rights, living wages, etc. Equality of imports to exports too. We buy your products, you buy ours.

[CaseyJones]

The frikkin' Wetbacks caused this wif their drain on The System? Puh-leeze! That's exactly the bullshit "they" would like you to believe. It's not billioniares in suits who stuck it to ya, it's Juan Wetback who came here fer a free ride.
...

Casey, no ones saying that. What a lot of people don't know is that it's not just Juan sneaking under the fences. It's also Phi Tung, Abdula, and a whole lot others. If the Terminator would get off his rearend and lobby the Feds to round up illegals and ship 'em back to where they came from, then there would be more welfare & food stamps to give to legal Americans. That I can stomach. But when Juanita, who's illegaL) drops a kid in the US, that kids a citizen entitled to welfare. Now Juanita is entitled to welfare. That's BS. And if the Terminator had the $17,000,000 dollars illegal imigration cost him (that was in 2007, so I'm sure it's much higher in 2008) then people who paid taxes, like a lot of illegals don't, would have their tax refunds. Do you get it now?

C'mon. The People's Republik of Kalifornica is what, the 7th largest economy in what world? So, even "up Shit Creek wifout a paddle" there's plenty to go around. $17mil is chicken feed by Kalifornica standards. Stick up a toll booth outside o' L.A., charge a buck a pop and you'll make that in a day.

Blamin' in on "The Illegals" is a racist crock o' shit. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,"

"We'll just club 'em to death and throw 'em out on the street, that's what The Statue of Bigotry says..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31n-8ffV ... re=related

Back in the day when America was truly great we welcomed immigrants with open arms. You can just about look up The Statue of Liberty's skirt from Ellis Island. The money Kalifornica spends on "illegals" is a pisshole in the snow compared to what the Feds spend in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Which one is it? Are we an armed camp 'cuz armed camps need fences or is it an open border? Just stop chasin' em. Spend the dough that would otherwise be spent on bogus "enforcement" on sumthin' productive.

Look at the bright side. Your State tax refund is hung up, if you had that money in hand you could have lost 53% if it on the stock market or 100% of it with Bernie Madoff.

Just pretend you're Juan the Gardener. Hang out in front of Home Depot, work per diem, get paid in cash and tell the State to go squat. Tell 'em you sent the money back to Sonora if they ask.

[Structo]

Uh, that's $17,000,000,000 Billion with a B.

We have the same problem up here.
The town I grew up in is now 35% Hispanic.

They don't want to become Americans, they want to make some money and go back.
In the mean time they send billions to their relatives in Mexico every year.
I read one report that stated that the money sent there is second only to Mexico's oil production.

The illegals don't absorb into the system, they take advantage of the system.

You get Pedro who can't read or write in any language driving with or without a license and no insurance buzzing around town in his souped up Honda with 20 inch rims and tires that cost more than the car is worth.

To afford it they will have 3 or 4 families living in a single family dwelling with three cars parked in the front yard and 10 cars parked on the street.

The other day the illegals down our street had a cage in their front yard with a sheep and two goats in it. (we're in the city limits)
The cage was so small that the goats were laying on top of the sheep.....

On and on, if you don't want to become an American, get the hell out of my country.

I've also noticed more and more illegals getting into the union trades.
I know this because there have been several let go from my union after their paper work didn't pencil out in the end.
This is a job that pays $30/hr.
So don't tell me they only do the work "white people" won't do.

Bush saw the Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac heading for trouble over a year and a half ago and sent his secretary 17 times to congressional hearings to find out what the hell was going on.

Barney Frank and others assured the president that everything was fine and to not worry about it.
But in a Democratic controlled congress there isn't a lot a Rep president can do about those things until it blows up.

George probably thought to himself, let them deal with it, it's their mess.

[Voodoo_Man]

C'mon. plenty to go around. $17mil is chicken feed by Kalifornica standards. "We'll just club 'em to death and throw 'em out on the street, that's what The Statue of Bigotry says..."

17,000,000 was a typo, it's actually around 17,000,000,000. That's BILLION DOLLARS. Now is that chicken feed? Does Home Depot sell clubs? Big clubs. I wanna a big one. Here's another analogy. Lets say:The Yankees pay their players salary from revenue collected at the gates. Everyone decides to sneak in. No gate revenue. None of the sneakers have money, so no hotdog, popcorn, or beer sales. Would there be a Yankees Team??? Hell no.

God Bless,
John
Right.

God Bless,
John

[mlp-mx6]

This whole thing has been a house of cards for years, just waiting to tumble.

I agree with this - but only if "years" means more than 8. You go back to the Carter administration timeframe and you might have the beginning of this. Or even back to 1968 when FNMA came to be.

The "American Dream" of "owning" your own home became a political football. So few actually own their home that calling it "home ownership" is a total crock.

At the behest of Congress the lending standards have repeatedly been lowered until they just plain became STUPID. I believe that this is the genesis of the problem. Attempting Social Engineering via GSEs has proven to be a colossally stupid idea. Yet one more government program that shows the folly of government programs.

Was greed a factor? Yes. From the lenders, the borrowers, the fund managers, the banks, across the board. But that was a secondary cause, not a primary cause.

If anyone believes something is necessarily true simply because it was on PBS, you are not thinking.

[Tubetwang]

This whole thing has been a house of cards for years, just waiting to tumble.

I agree with this - but only if "years" means more than 8. You go back to the Carter administration timeframe and you might have the beginning of this. Or even back to 1968 when FNMA came to be.

The "American Dream" of "owning" your own home became a political football. So few actually own their home that calling it "home ownership" is a total crock.

At the behest of Congress the lending standards have repeatedly been lowered until they just plain became STUPID. I believe that this is the genesis of the problem. Attempting Social Engineering via GSEs has proven to be a colossally stupid idea. Yet one more government program that shows the folly of government programs.

Was greed a factor? Yes. From the lenders, the borrowers, the fund managers, the banks, across the board. But that was a secondary cause, not a primary cause.

If anyone believes something is necessarily true simply because it was on PBS, you are not thinking.

The PBS documentary was easy for me to understand cu'ze i allready knew all about it...

Reaganamics was implemented for the rich to get richer so that their wealth would trickle down.

But it didn't work...

Surprised?

I'm not!

I'm a multi-millionaire and i know a lot of rich folks.
We are the worst when it comes to business and money...tight fuckers! Not me cuz i'm an easy dude but...still got some hippie naïve mentality.
They don't spread their wealth around. They get richer and folks get poorer.

Read Purlitzer prize David Cay Johnston "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill).

It might open your eye on how money works.

I went to school with Guy Laliberté. He once told me he'd retire at 1 billion.

He's way past that number and he's still going on.

It's not the money per say...after a certain amount (you may write your own number here) you become hook to the power of money.

Sometime, too much money and power gets too close for confort, as my ex-neighbour Gerald Bull found out. He got popped in Brussels. 5 silenced bullets in the back of the head. The hitman didn't take one penny of the millions in cash he had in a suitcase. Can you say politic? Mossad, CIA, M15, China, Irak, South Africa.

Don't get me started please...now is not the time.

Ever wonder why some crook go to jail and some stay at home?

What's is name, is staying put at his New-York Mansion. He's scammed 50 billions and he's not in jail awaiting his trial?

Repeat after me...Money corrupts.

Money talks...bullshit walks...

[CaseyJones]

C'mon. plenty to go around. $17mil is chicken feed by Kalifornica standards. "We'll just club 'em to death and throw 'em out on the street, that's what The Statue of Bigotry says..."

17,000,000 was a typo, it's actually around 17,000,000,000. That's BILLION DOLLARS. Now is that chicken feed?

Yeah, I figured it wuz a typo. I also figured I'd go wif it. Nuffin' irritates me more than some Website Wonder who insists that I or anyone else should check / cross reference their facts. Say $17 mil, I'll take yer word for it. Betcha South Dakota does a bang-up job of immigration enforcement fer $17 mil.

Rant back on:

$17 billion to chase Mexicans? Screw it, let 'em go. They can all grow dope up in the woods around Mendocino. That's Kalifornica's alternative underground cash economy at work.

They should send the dope smokin' Austrian bodybuilders back to Austria, legal or not...

Does Home Depot sell clubs? Big clubs. I wanna a big one.

Oh, man. If you can't make a bitchin' gnarly Encino Man club outta material from Home Depot you got no business on a DIY site. Hell, I can build zip guns outta stuff from Home Depot.

[Here's another analogy. Lets say: The Yankees pay their players salary from revenue collected at the gates. Everyone decides to sneak in. No gate revenue. None of the sneakers have money, so no hotdog, popcorn, or beer sales. Would there be a Yankees Team??? Hell no.

I think I've made my opinion known about guys in pinstripe suits. While I meant guys in business suits The Yankees could let people in for free for quite a while just on other forms of revenue. They're probably the wealthiest team in baseball.

No Yankees? That might be a good thing. Then we can use that fancy new stadium for something more productive. Like concerts, maybe?

Sometime, too much money and power gets too close for confort, as my ex-neighbour Gerald Bull found out. He got popped in Brussels. 5 silenced bullets in the back of the head. The hitman didn't take one penny of the millions in cash he had in a suitcase. Can you say politic? Mossad, CIA, M15, China, Irak, South Africa.

Gerald frikkin' Bull?! Ya don't say!

The man wasn't in it fer the money, though. He musta had a miniature penis 'cuz he sure liked his big guns.

The man was the Martin Luther King of oversized artillery, he had a dream.

He didn't give a rat's ass about where the money came from, one could argue he was quite naive. He wanted to get it built, get it done and hear it go, "boom". Too bad the "boom" was an assassin puttin' the first one in the back of his head...

What's is name, is staying put at his New-York Mansion.

"Made-Off".

The other day the illegals down our street had a cage in their front yard with a sheep and two goats in it. (we're in the city limits)
The cage was so small that the goats were laying on top of the sheep.....

Oh, damn. I forgot. You got that Mariachi band livin' up th' street.

There goes yer street cred!!!! If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em! Stop down yer local packy and pick up some cheap tequila and cerveza. Bring yer little guitar and yer little amp. Real rock 'n' rollers can party wif anyone.

Come to think of it I'm gonna hire a couple guys to play muted trumpet and violin, I think my life would be more dramatic if I had my own theme music.

[Voodoo_Man]

Rant back on:

Oh, man. If you can't make a bitchin' gnarly Encino Man club outta material from Home Depot you got no business on a DIY site. Hell, I can build zip guns outta stuff from Home Depot.

Thought more about the club thing, and it's just to messy. I'm gonna run over'um with my truck and hope they land in a pothole, It'll kinda be a form of street maintenance.
God Bless,
John

[CaseyJones]

Rant back on:

Oh, man. If you can't make a bitchin' gnarly Encino Man club outta material from Home Depot you got no business on a DIY site. Hell, I can build zip guns outta stuff from Home Depot.

Thought more about the club thing, and it's just to messy. I'm gonna run over'um with my truck and hope they land in a pothole, It'll kinda be a form of street maintenance.

Better buy a bigger truck first. Ya wanna get it done in one whack, do a sloppy job of it and they can probably sue ya.

The ones carryin' trumpets or fiddles ain't fair game.

[Tubetwang]

If my wife and 13 year old go out to the country tomorrow to see mom and dad, i plan to drink some pure malt red beer and play along all my favorite dvd.

I'll start with "A tribute to the king" DVD...

I like that cut with what's is name? ...ho yes David Gilmour...playing... Don't.

He nails it!

I'm going to get wrecked and have a good time in the confort of my home.

I should dvd my prestation and pop it on you tube but i'm a shy guy.

Anyway..don't let the downturn affect your spirit guys...and keep on smiling!

[Deric]

Real rock 'n' rollers can party wif anyone.

I agree .

..don't let the downturn affect your spirit guys...and keep on smiling!

+1

[Voodoo_Man]

[ Better buy a bigger truck first. Ya wanna get it done in one whack, do a sloppy job of it and they can probably sue ya.

My truck is up to the task. The registration is expired and it's unisured......................Just like the trucks they drive.

The ones carryin' trumpets or fiddles ain't fair game.

Casey, I would never think of it. I'm only going after the ones riding $3400, and up, stolen trail bikes and tenspeeds.

God Bless,

John