compromise?

flaja wrote:

engineer wrote:

I've discovered that my local Wal Mart is a profiteering outfit. They sell Giants and Patriots stuff in the same store. Side by side! Clearly they are willing to make money selling merchandise that advocates football teams that the people running it either care nothing about or do not personally support. Makes me sick!

You equate something as important as politics with something as mundane as football? What kind of idiot are you?

Ooh, and flaja's defensive line can't seem to stop engineer, as he scores another touchdown using logic, knowledge and common sense! Yay, six points on the board for engineer!

engineer wrote:

I've discovered that my local Wal Mart is a profiteering outfit. They sell Giants and Patriots stuff in the same store. Side by side! Clearly they are willing to make money selling merchandise that advocates football teams that the people running it either care nothing about or do not personally support. Makes me sick!

You equate something as important as politics with something as mundane as football? What kind of idiot are you?

engineer wrote:

I've discovered that my local Wal Mart is a profiteering outfit. They sell Giants and Patriots stuff in the same store. Side by side! Clearly they are willing to make money selling merchandise that advocates football teams that the people running it either care nothing about or do not personally support. Makes me sick!

Wouldn't that make them opportunistic rather than profiteerin?

Huh? Equating politics with football shows how shallow and utterly lacking in intellect you are. If you can equate the two as easily as you seem to be able, then your priorities are sorely disordered. People like you are the prime reason why the American political system is in such a mess.

kickycan wrote:

flaja wrote:

engineer wrote:

I've discovered that my local Wal Mart is a profiteering outfit. They sell Giants and Patriots stuff in the same store. Side by side! Clearly they are willing to make money selling merchandise that advocates football teams that the people running it either care nothing about or do not personally support. Makes me sick!

You equate something as important as politics with something as mundane as football? What kind of idiot are you?

Ooh, and flaja's defensive line can't seem to stop engineer, as he scores another touchdown using logic, knowledge and common sense! Yay, six points on the board for engineer!

Huh? Equating politics with football shows how shallow and utterly lacking in intellect you are. If you can equate the two as easily as you seem to be able, then your priorities are sorely disordered. People like you are the prime reason why the American political system is in such a mess.

flaja wrote:

Huh? Equating politics with football shows how shallow and utterly lacking in intellect you are. If you can equate the two as easily as you seem to be able, then your priorities are sorely disordered. People like you are the prime reason why the American political system is in such a mess.

Nope the problem is that we are lucky if more than 50% of the electorate even bothers to vote. That is how we are stuck with the same idiots year after year.

flaja wrote:

kickycan wrote:

flaja wrote:

engineer wrote:

I've discovered that my local Wal Mart is a profiteering outfit. They sell Giants and Patriots stuff in the same store. Side by side! Clearly they are willing to make money selling merchandise that advocates football teams that the people running it either care nothing about or do not personally support. Makes me sick!

You equate something as important as politics with something as mundane as football? What kind of idiot are you?

Ooh, and flaja's defensive line can't seem to stop engineer, as he scores another touchdown using logic, knowledge and common sense! Yay, six points on the board for engineer!

Huh? Equating politics with football shows how shallow and utterly lacking in intellect you are. If you can equate the two as easily as you seem to be able, then your priorities are sorely disordered. People like you are the prime reason why the American political system is in such a mess.

This post is exactly like a slant pass across the middle that is foiled by a quick-thinking blitzing linebacker (me) who innately knows exactly which way the offensive line (you) is going to go before it (you) even makes a play. Sack! Second down, fifteen yards to go!

Man, you suck at football! And when I say football, I'm using it as a metaphor for...well, I'm sure you get it, since you're smart about analogies and connotations 'n' stuff.

real life wrote:

And the conservatives who took over Congress in 1994 while Clinton was president did pass a balanced budget and forced him to sign it.

Pity they lost all interest in the issue once a Republican was President. They sure never tried to force President Bush to sign a balanced budget.

nimh wrote:

real life wrote:

And the conservatives who took over Congress in 1994 while Clinton was president did pass a balanced budget and forced him to sign it.

Pity they lost all interest in the issue once a Republican was President. They sure never tried to force President Bush to sign a balanced budget.

Much more difficult to balance a budget when your country is suddenly attacked and you must go to war, only to find that the military is in terrible disrepair due to the incompetence of your predecessor.

real life wrote:

nimh wrote:

real life wrote:

And the conservatives who took over Congress in 1994 while Clinton was president did pass a balanced budget and forced him to sign it.

Pity they lost all interest in the issue once a Republican was President. They sure never tried to force President Bush to sign a balanced budget.

Much more difficult to balance a budget when your country is suddenly attacked and you must go to war, only to find that the military is in terrible disrepair due to the incompetence of your predecessor.

Yeah, so that's why they passed the massive tax cuts - to make up for the big outlays in the military?

Pull the other one. They didn't even try to balance the budget. They never intended to.

Cycloptichorn

If Republicans never intended to balance the budget, why did they force Clinton to sign a budget he didn't want?

He didnt get it... :wink:

nimh wrote:

real life wrote:

And the conservatives who took over Congress in 1994 while Clinton was president did pass a balanced budget and forced him to sign it.

Pity they lost all interest in the issue once a Republican was President. They sure never tried to force President Bush to sign a balanced budget.

Much more difficult to balance a budget when your country is suddenly attacked and you must go to war, only to find that the military is in terrible disrepair due to the incompetence of your predecessor.

nimh wrote:

He didnt get it... :wink:

You don't understand. I make no effort to understand football, just as you apparently make no effort to understand politics.

There's no evidence that tax cuts actually stimulate the economy in any way.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

There's no evidence that tax cuts actually stimulate the economy in any way.

What would you accept as evidence?