Originally posted by mikemike I don't know where you got that I had any complaint in my tone. There is a tax deduction for daycare (I'm not sure how much it is because my wife does our taxes) but that doesn't drive our decision on where to send our daughter. And I am not "passing her off" daycare provides an environment for socialization and education beyond what my wife and I are capable of providing as individual parents and without the background in early childhood development and no prior experience with care giving that her teachers have.
Are you somehow not cognizant of the fact that you're taking *tax deductions* on more money than 'welfare bums' see in a month, never mind driving them to daycare and deducting the mileage?
Quote: Hundreds of millions of americans manage to do this without unions.
And fewer and prouder so every day. Your point about what you're shoveling, rich guy?
That is, if you're done accusing me of being 'bipolar' or 'on drugs,' or the rest you say to try and claim you're poor enough for food stamps or something. If I *were* bipolar, it'd actually take a lot more dopamine than my system is currently capable of producing to have a proper mania, anyway. I take a raft of precursor chemicals and vitamins that cost about thirty bucks a month if I don't short myself on them *before* any prescribed steroids and hormones I can squeeze in. )
Frankly, though, a lot of good people *are* bipolar and/or on drugs. Me, as I always said, 'I don't do drugs, I'm ****ed-up on life!'
Seriously, though, dude, if you wanted to cut the budget, end pot prohibition, it's expensive three times over when it could be a revenue source, and the simple fact is, it works better than what Big Pharma's pushing. Never mind jailing people for it and making meth so much cheaper. I don' t personally enjoy being stoned, but it would apparently work a lot better than pharma poison and pharrma painkillers.
People do hurt, you know. Most of em don't spend their time saying so on camera forums, but it's so. (I wouldn't be talking at you *now* if my hips agreed, actually, ..and I'd be *boned* if good money hadn't gone to the purpose of paying two rents rather than hiring movers or dumpers to take me nowhere. Fact is, I have a lot of miles on the undercarriage and an autoimmune condition and it *hurts.* I don't even get to bellyache about the heartbreak of separation till at least next week.)
And if you didn't miss the point: 'The poor' are human beings. Like me. Even if they are what you accuse like that makes it better to hurt them.
I didn't get out of the underclass, but for the time being I may have a chance to sell something. And I don't mind saying that without some significant emergency help from people who could surely have used that money elsewhere, I'd be turning up in Buffalo lucky to walk with something to remember my life by on my back about now.
Last edited by Ratmagiclady; 08-29-2011 at 02:24 PM.