Do you like Fox News?

[Darth Executor]

OK, but I'll try to summarize. Bottom line is she could get her old job that pays around 2-3 times her husband's death benefit, but she didn't pursue it because she calculated that making $x with 0 hours is better than $2*x or $3*x with 40 hours per week. Her family, friends, etc. can help her all they want with THEIR money, but the government shouldn't force ME to pay her. Charity should be personal and never forced.

As for my opinion on politics and tax, I learn from:
- philosophically: constitution and founding fathers writing, which mostly emphasis small/limited government, or a weak federation.
- statistically: socialsecurity.gov (on the unsustainability of current entitlement program fiscal trajectory), treasurydirect.gov (on govt debt that dispel any notion of surplus, even during so-called Clinton surplus), irs.gov (on the impossibility of 'raising tax on the rich' to cover the debt, even at 100% tax rate).
- personally: 10 yrs employee, 7 yrs business owner. Knows many friends that suffer from moral hazard due to big government policies. Create a successful e-com biz in FL (more conducive employment and tax law), instead of CA; showing that increasing tax <> more revenue.

I also agree a lot with the opinion of these people:
http://www.johntreed.com/headline-articles.html
Fox News: John Stossel, Neil Cavuto

These spam bots are getting pretty elaborate.

[semar_mendem]

These spam bots are getting pretty elaborate.

Huh, what?

Is your namecalling following the footsteps of our VP?

[Darth Executor]

Huh, what?

Is your namecalling following the footsteps of our VP?

No but your brain is.

Your post looked like a billboard. A bizarro world JimL.

[semar_mendem]

No but your brain is.

Your post looked like a billboard. A bizarro world JimL.

Oh? And how, pray tell, does normal world works? Are you one of those lefties that purports to know how to run trillion dollars economy yet never operates even a single lemonade stand?

[theblueprint_Ni]

Oh? And how, pray tell, does normal world works? Are you one of those lefties that purports to know how to run trillion dollars economy yet never operates even a single lemonade stand?

No offense intended, but are you ESL? I ask because I can understand how Darth Executor thought you were a bot because it did look like a generated post.

[Darth Executor]

Are you one of those lefties

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[Hamster]

Darth Executor please stop PMing me with links to Mao Tse-tung's 'Combat Liberalism,' I told you I'm not communist

[semar_mendem]

No offense intended, but are you ESL? I ask because I can understand how Darth Executor thought you were a bot because it did look like a generated post.

Yes, actually, English is not my first language. I'm trying to answer 15 points question in a short way, how is that construed as a billboard?

[theblueprint_Ni]

Yes, actually, English is not my first language. I'm trying to answer 15 points question in a short way, how is that construed as a billboard?

Your English is slightly disjointed, which is what bots look like when they generate posts. Although, I'm not sure if Darth was actually serious either . Plus, you're on a board with a bunch of goons like us waiting to pounce on an opportunity to outwit somebody, and an ESL speaker is perfect for that. Tread carefully

[Darth Executor]

Yes, actually, English is not my first language. I'm trying to answer 15 points question in a short way, how is that construed as a billboard?

English is not my first language either, though I'm not sure what that has to do with anything since I never took issue with your language. Your post looks like a billboard because its contents read like an unoriginal conservative talking points list. Plus, you didn't actually answer the overwhelming majority of the questions. Canned lines + ignoring most of a post makes it read like a billboard. The comment was, btw, sarcastic. I didn't actually think you were a bot.

[theblueprint_Ni]

Lol, I must admit that I didn't read beyond the first two sentences before I scanned down and saw a link. My judgment was based entirely on that observation and on past experiences in another forum of seeing a spam bot post something very similar in style. Then Darth Executor said something about a bot and it all just clicked! So one thing led to another and...shame on me..shame...shame....

[CodewordConduit]

OK, but I'll try to summarize. Bottom line is she could get her old job that pays around 2-3 times her husband's death benefit, but she didn't pursue it because she calculated that making $x with 0 hours is better than $2*x or $3*x with 40 hours per week. Her family, friends, etc. can help her all they want with THEIR money, but the government shouldn't force ME to pay her. Charity should be personal and never forced.

Thanks for taking the time to reply; I didn't realize that English wasn't your first language, which might make communication somewhat difficult in this case - I only speak English as well, so I can't even offer the courtesy of attempting to speak in your first language. Apologies in advance if it becomes too hard for me to keep up.

Anyway, I'm aware of the "charity should not be forced" idea; and that's an occasionally interesting discussion in and of itself, but it doesn't really answer the questions that I asked - questions that I feel I should have the answers to before I can really assess their situation with any real clarity. If you don't know some of the answers then that's okay, I just can't really go around accepting people's "educated guesses" alone about welfare recipients, and then agree to the use of their hypothetical person in a shared political discussion. That's why I asked for the relevant information, as is provides a clearer picture of what might be going on.

As for my opinion on politics and tax, I learn from:
- philosophically: constitution and founding fathers writing, which mostly emphasis small/limited government, or a weak federation.
- statistically: socialsecurity.gov (on the unsustainability of current entitlement program fiscal trajectory), treasurydirect.gov (on govt debt that dispel any notion of surplus, even during so-called Clinton surplus), irs.gov (on the impossibility of 'raising tax on the rich' to cover the debt, even at 100% tax rate).
- personally: 10 yrs employee, 7 yrs business owner. Knows many friends that suffer from moral hazard due to big government policies. Create a successful e-com biz in FL (more conducive employment and tax law), instead of CA; showing that increasing tax <> more revenue.

I also agree a lot with the opinion of these people:
http://www.johntreed.com/headline-articles.html
Fox News: John Stossel, Neil Cavuto

I'm afraid this paragraph lost me entirely; though again, if you don't want to answer the questions I asked, that's totally fine. Thanks again

[semar_mendem]

My apologies, I think my prejudice clouded my thinking.

I should stop responding before this thread veer further from the fox news :)

[Der Kanzler]

I don't particularly like it, but it's nice having a news source that panders to my interests.

[rogue06]

I don't particularly like it, but it's nice having a news source that panders to my interests.

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