Scarlett will be rooting for Sweden on the World Cup imho. Her dad came from Demmark but the name "Johansson" is actually a Swedish name, so it's obvious that she has Swedish ancestry rather than Danish, no big difference though.
My goddess doesn't give a about Brazil or how broke that country is
There is a good thing to it.
I normally rely on websites with some journalistic standards, and sometimes forget that there are people out there who don't really have any standards or requirements for accuracy, or even intellectual honesty.
It is a bit like looking under a rock to see what creepy crawly things are under there, and to be mindful of the dangers of staying in a bubble.
Oh stop it RG. You and I have argued a few times over the years and it always boils down to the fact that I argue with you just based on your arrogance with statements like that one. As though you are the enlightened one that always acknowledges others opinions and no one else could possibly research using google the way you do.
You're still a good though....and your posts are always well thought out, just stop pretending you're the only one with an original thought.
I forgot about yoni. I went with ducks though due to the lack of structure.
The Clinton administration had a budget surplus. Gen X represent. Then boomers got their free prescriptions and we all got Bush ting all over fiscal policy.
The first baby boomer to reach their majority was ~1965. Sure they paid down the national debt but that was before they controlled the electorate and the fiscal policies of Truman and Ike were still in place. That would be the WW2 generations work. The early boomers ed about their parents policies.
Fast forward to 1985, when the last of the baby boomers reached their majority. Reagan is president, the national debt had been a few years into the toilet and the boomers are firmly entrenched as the dominating force in the electorate.
you dumb s always miss the big picture. it ain't old vs young, left vs right, white vs non-white. It's 1% vs 99%, Class Warfare over wealth.
off boomer
You gonna start a VBC thread?
VBC?
You gonna start a VBC thread?
Vast Boomer Conspiracy! ™ ala' croutons.
if boomers "stole" so many $Ts, then why are so many boomers in poverty, unemployed, underemployed, lost their homes to the 1%?
you ers ain't got no facts.
that's rich coming from you
What age demographic do you think the vast majority of the very wealthy are, boomer?
um, thanks?
I guess I can be a bit arrogant. Guilty as charged, although I try not to be, generally.
I can also be:
Partisan
insulting
angry
For that... I blame Republicans. They have made me the I am today.
HA!
Seriously though, I try not to be any of those things. You would be amazed at the amount of things I backspace over and go back and edit out. But I am only human.
and a .
Nah. It's all independent self interest. I prefer boutox myself.
Is boutons really a trust fund babbeh?
If so then lol
lol boutons.
What age demographic do you think the vast majority of the very wealthy are, boomer?
The one thing I don't get about the boomer hate (that I mostly agree with) is why generation X gets a pass. They're the ones who lionize Ronald Reagan the most and take living beyond their means to a whole new level with HELOCs and credit card debt. The fact we have an entire generation of people in this country who hate government and believe in Reaganomics is just as big a problem as anything the baby boomers have done.
Boomers, and I'm one of 'em, pretty much codified self-interest into law. I don't like it. I don't agree with it. I also don't deny it.
I'll put this on the list of things I don't like, don't agree with, and don't deny happens.
I don't deny that, but I don't think generation X is any better. They also choose politicians based off instant gratification and are 10x worse than baby boomers in terms of saving and planning for the long term. The bags in their 30s loved the idea of deregulating credit cards and banks because it enabled them to buy that vacation home and big screen TV they wanted. It ended up ing them over since some of them lost both houses, but financial industry deregulation happened largely because of how much generation Xers seek instant gratification.
It remains to be seen if generation Y will be any different, I'm hoping so after the ty hand the boomers and generation X dealt us.
St Ronnie and his team, how many were boomers?, started the ball rolling, from tax-and-spend converted (cutting taxes) borrow-and-spend, busting the unions to suppress salaries, household income essentially flat for 35 years, deregulating finance (yielding eg S&L crimes and disaster), cutting capital gains so executive compensation switched from salary to stock, which motivated the mgmt to push the stock price up at any cost, like pilfering/underfunding pension funds and firing 100Ks of employees.
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It was a compliment...just sort of a backhanded one.
Nixon got the ball rolling when he ended Bretton Woods.
The oldest Xer would have been ~15 in 1979, Reagan's first election. Not sure where you are getting that notion from. The president where we had a majority of the total Xer's would have been in 1992 or 1996.
Then there is obviously Bush but it's pretty obvious he knew where his bread was buttered from the legislation he pushed. Gen X were the one's that got sent off to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Funny how the Boomer's fought to have the war they were being sent off to ended and then sent their children off to fight another as soon as they were too old to go.
The credit card was first used in its current format in the 1960's and gained popularity over the ensuing decades.
As for debt you might as well throw Y in there too. They are accruing debt at record pace. This type of disparity is a product of an environment where you have a centralized concentration of wealth within a certain group.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/...get-tradeoffs/
That is a summation of pew polls on the generational take on government. Gen Y hates government more. That should be obvious from the groundswell of support around college campuses for Ron Paul. Looking at the above polls it should be obvious that the younger you are the less inclined you are to be paying for the Boomer's .
I know you have a hard on for Reagan but there is all manner of government. Politicians typically pander to the people that vote for them and/or those that give them money.
Reagan was one guy. His administration was perhaps 1000. The Boomers are the 75m that got him elected. Mondale did himself in when he told them we needed to pay for our by way of taxation. That is a big boomer no-no. Something for nothing otoh.....
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