Toots? Ha! Even your attempts at insults are dated and stuck in another era. You’re hilarious. Keep 'em coming, maybe you’ll find an insult that sticks since the rest of what you’ve tried can’t hit a mark. People like me? Huh? “Whinging” about this death and that death and blah blah blah. Where do you get this stuff? Are you having a hard time telling people apart or are you just flinging your garbage around in hopes of it making sense. What it’s more like is you being an angry Chatty Cathy doll from your childhood.
:: pulls string :: You kids get off my lawn!
:: pulls string :: I remember when you could get a gallon of gas for a quarter!
:: pulls string :: Damned liberals are ruining this country!
:: pulls string :: Hey toots, bring me my Geritol and a glass of milk!
Also, is your lawn mowing prowess supposed to be impressive? Is that’s what you consider to be a good workout or are you just looking for a job? And yes, since mowing lawns isn’t that hard except for the disabled and the elderly… I can keep up.
Bah, he’s just a 61 year old coot hoping to get into the pants of the old lady’s daughter’s drawers. He wouldn’t be interested in the old lady himself because “she’s old” vs SA who has his viagra paid for by his insurance company is rip roaring to go. Hahahahaha. I knew guys like him in the sixties. Guys who preferred Pat Boone to the Beatles and loathed the Stones. Maybe he’ll find a Delorian to take him Back to the Future. We can only hope.
This is a rather disingenuous equivalence you’ve asserted. Brain drain != economic collapse.
For example, despite large numbers of Indian professionals emigrating to the USA, the Indian economy’s performance over the last decade was one of the greatest in the world, averaging over 7% per annum.
Although taxes do not reach Western European levels, it should be noted that the top bracket income tax rate is 30% and there is also a 12.5% VAT, as well as property taxes : “Although there are many other forms of taxes in India like Income Tax, Sales tax etc yet the property tax is the single largest source of revenue for government.”
There are places in the world worse than many countries with large social programs and high taxes, and lots of people go from those places to those countries. But people already in those countries with high ability are still clamoring to get out. The fact that people from worse places go to those countries doesn’t sound like anything to crow about to me.
My feet will dance the gloating for the passing of the bill
Cramming down a bowling ball, its such a bitter pill!
With any luck at all, we’ll cram one bigger still!
And Starkers can swallow it whole!
Glory, glory for Obama!
Healthcare’s gonna get yer ma-ma!
The joy that we have found, givin’ Rand a reach-around!
And we’ll boogie till we puke!
See, I figure I deserve to go to Heaven not because of how good I am, but that my natural inclination is to be so very much worse…
You live in the northeast US, right SA? I just looked up the temperature records. Troy, New York holds the record high temperature of 108 degrees F on July 22, 1926. That’s nineteen TWENTY SIX.
One hundred ten degrees is nowhere a common summer temperature. It’s a small point, but like your other maunderings, even your memories of temperature are not in accord with reality. You really need to give up the personal anecdote as citation business; it isn’t working for you.
Also, despite the repeated assertions to the contrary of many of our more brain-dead esteemed liberals on the boards, I never said anything about “economic collapse.” I said that high taxes to support large social programs hurt the economy. There’s a huge spread between “fully functioning economy unburdened by high taxes to support social programs” and “economic collapse,” and different countries with large social programs are at different places in that spectrum (obviously).
I’m assuming you’re referring to my post (if not, my apologies).
You were the one who asserted that brain drain would “bring down” a nation’s economy. This simply isn’t the case. This isn’t Liechtenstein we’re talking about here, but one sixth of humanity, ferchrissakes. I’d say that’s a pretty large sample size…
A quick rundown of the music Starvey has close by finds Steely Dan, Nine Inch Nails, Mark Morrison (Return of the Mack, a longtime favorite), The Jazzmasters, R.L. Burnside, George Michael, ZZ Top, Paul Hardcastle, Eric Clapton, the Sneaker Pimps (plus some Kelli Ali solo stuff), Dave Brubeck, Franchesca Gagnon (Alegria), Corrine Bailey Rae, Herbie Hancock, Santana, Elton John, Van Morrison, The Game, Valeska Jacobowicz, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimmie Vaughn, etc. Shall I go on? A lot is older, granted, but you’ll notice there’s not a Pat Boone or Fabian anywhere in the mix.
And Viagra? I’m just glad it’ll be there when I need it.
You dilweeds don’t have a clue what I’m like and you never have. Aren’t knee-jerk stereotypes supposed to be the domain of us evil conservatives?
Is this a “cite”? If so, you’ll see why I have such disregard for them?
No, I don’t live in the northeast, but if you’ll cough up enough dough to make it worthwhile to bring you into my personal life - say, $20,000 or so - I’ll tell you where I live and take you out with me the next time I mow in temps over 100 degrees? (We can make it 110 if you like, but you’ll have a narrower and more immediate window of time to get here.) Sound like a deal?
Did you read any of the cites given to you - in this one:
…overall only about 25,000 Canadian taxpayers leave for the US each year - and only about 1,000 of them have incomes over $100,000.
I wouldn’t exactly call that ‘clamouring to get out’.
Meyer6, you seem to have been struck by the same Canada-centric disease EP has. There are countries other than Canada. Google your own self for cites about European countries.
