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Dollar Sinks to New Low Against Euro
Topic Started: Nov 24 2004, 10:18 AM (1,391 Views)
Dr. Noah
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More BS from the Admiral. :rolleyes:

AB, why don't you show us some stats that NOBODY from ANY blue state ever gives to any charity. What (in your words) complete horse$hit. I as many other liberals and people in liberal states give to various charities.

Do some homework before you make more broad generalized statement like that. You make yourself sound like an idiot.
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Minuet
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Why is it that you blue staters never give to charities? Hmmm?


I have to agree with Sisko on this on Admiral - what a load of horse$hit. You are famous for asking for statistical backup - I would love to see you try to back up this statement. :rolleyes:
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ds9074
Nov 24 2004, 10:29 PM
I dont see why not

Even if said war also involved a large expansion to the military that would cost a noticeable percentage of the GNP? I would wager that Britain would be hard pressed to come even under those circumstances unless it turned the majority of its government funded programs over to the private sector.
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Admiralbill_gomec
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Nov 27 2004, 04:14 PM
More BS from the Admiral.  :rolleyes:

AB, why don't you show us some stats that NOBODY from ANY blue state ever gives to any charity.  What (in your words) complete horse$hit.  I as many other liberals and people in liberal states give to various charities. 

Do some homework before you make more broad generalized statement like that.  You make yourself sound like an idiot.

Let me find the survey. Turns out that the bottom ten states for contributions to charity were blue states and the top ten were red states.

To me, that says it all.

Your BS, that no one from blue states gives to charity isn't worth the bandwidth it takes up, and you know it. That makes YOU sound like an idiot.

Blue staters love to use other people's money to salve their guilty consciences.

Tell you what, Sisko... name the charities you have donated to in the past year. I don't care how much, just which ones.
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Hoss
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What were we talking about? .....

Oh yeah, "Dollar Sinks to New Low Against Euro".

This really is getting personal rather than friendly discussion. ABG, I don't think that it is fair to assail other posters on what they donate to whom and try to make some sort of point on that. I personally have very few resources to give away at this point and I am a 'red stater'. If people were to feel obliged to give to charities through force, shame or peer pressure, it would just be another tax.

I also don't like hearing my country divided into 'red' and 'blue' as if we are akin to Eastern Europe or something. There are alot of 'blue' people in Texas and a lot of 'red' people in New York. We are all Americans and will still be Americans when this election is as divisive as the 1976 election is today.

I just spent half of my holiday with my brother and his wife who works for Congressman Lloyd Doggett in DC. Doggett is a seriously liberal Democrat, FYI. We got along quite well.
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38957 - sometimes you are a wise man. :yes:
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Hoss
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Minuet
Nov 29 2004, 10:38 AM
38957 - sometimes you are a wise man. :yes:

Yeah, and a broken clock is right twice a day. ;) :lol:
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38957
Nov 29 2004, 11:08 AM
broken clock is right twice a day. ;) :lol:

It all depends on the manner in which it is broken. A broken clock can be right at all times of the day, or it may be wrong at all times of the day, and it may be at any varing degree in between.
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Admiralbill_gomec
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Just to make Sisko's day:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41409

Charts and links and text, oh my.
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Minuet
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Well Admiral - your true generosity index is in the first paragraph. Those who pay more in taxes are still "giving", just through a different medium.
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Hoss
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Dandandat
Nov 29 2004, 11:25 AM
38957
Nov 29 2004, 11:08 AM
broken clock is right twice a day. ;)  :lol:

It all depends on the manner in which it is broken. A broken clock can be right at all times of the day, or it may be wrong at all times of the day, and it may be at any varing degree in between.

Broken, meaning not working. I was thinking of a face clock with the hands stopped in one particular place, but I suppose a VCR clock perpetually blinking 12:00 could work as well.
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Admiralbill_gomec
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Minuet
Nov 29 2004, 11:11 AM
Well Admiral - your true generosity index is in the first paragraph. Those who pay more in taxes are still "giving", just through a different medium.

There is a difference between DONATING of your own free will and being FORCED to pay taxes, Min.
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If those taxes are being levied by democratically elected government then a majority of people have voted for them. You could make a case than an electorate which votes for higher taxes to pay for social programs is a more generous electorate than one that does not. I think that is what your were trying to say Min?
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Is it generous to vote to give away someone else's money?
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Admiralbill_gomec
Nov 29 2004, 12:57 PM
Minuet
Nov 29 2004, 11:11 AM
Well Admiral - your true generosity index is in the first paragraph. Those who pay more in taxes are still "giving", just through a different medium.

There is a difference between DONATING of your own free will and being FORCED to pay taxes, Min.

I don't think you get the point however.

If those people in the Blue states felt strongly that they did not want to pay thier share through taxes they could always move to a Red state (boy that feels wierd to me - here in Canada the Conservatives are blue and the Liberals are red :D ) For you to make a blanket statement that liberals are less generous then conservatives is an outright lie. They simply give thier money in a different form. And it is worth noting that most Blue states have higher populations. People are not leaving for the Red states in droves.
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