S&P isn't the problem, Term Limits is the problem.

Random.Capital · Aug 10, 2011

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You "don't care" yet you argue against them.

Your reading comprehension is atrocious.

I have said repeatedly I don't care about them either way. Put them in, leave them out, it's all the same to me.

What I argue against is wasting time fighting over them.

bond_trad3r · Aug 10, 2011

Term limits ARE the problem. NOT IS. ARE!!!

Lucrum · Aug 10, 2011

Quote from Random.BLATHERl:

Your reading comprehension is atrocious.

I have said repeatedly I don't care about them either way...

Sorry but you're an idiot.

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Since the only possible upside is impossible, that leaves only negative outcomes as possible.

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The founding fathers considered, and rejected term limits. That's good enough for me.
If you want to make such drastic changes to the constitution, the burden is on you to show the benefits.
Of which there are exactly none.

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Do you really believe that people motivated and smart enough to "rule the world" are going to have the slightest problem getting around term limits?

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That's a fantasy, term limits or not. It will never happen, humans simply don't operate that way. Never have, never will.

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Term limits are already there - six years on the Senate, two years on the House.
If voters can't be bothered to to use them, a formal limit will not accomplish anything.
There is no solution until voters decide they want something other than big deficits.

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That's the point, BSAM.
If putting the power in the hands of the voters ends up in "corruption in politics", so will any implementation of term limits. In such an environment, putting a two-term limit on Senators will accomplish exactly zero.
If voters can't do it, when they hold the ultimate stick, then an amendment won't get it done, either.

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Doesn't matter. Somebody/something else will be corrupted. Where there are giant pots of gold, a way will be found to ride the rainbow.
As long as voters continue to insist on massive deficit spending - which they have been doing since the first Reagan election - there is nothing to be done. This starts and ends with voters making better choices.
And there is just no excuse in the US, of all places. The entire House is up for re-election every 2 years. This country has the ability to turn on the proverbial dime.

zdreg · Aug 10, 2011

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Sorry but you're an idiot.

It's always to good to find family.

Lucrum · Aug 10, 2011

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It's always to good to find family.

How is it you can respond to me but if I respond to you, you run to Baron like a little girl crying about stalking?

zdreg · Aug 10, 2011

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How is it you can respond to me but if I respond to you, you run to Baron like a little girl crying about stalking?

your responses are in poor taste and lacking in substance to put it mildly.

Lucrum · Aug 10, 2011

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your responses are in poor taste and lacking in substance to put it mildly.

What's your worthless opinion on that got to do with you responding to me but if I respond to you, you run to Baron like a little girl crying about stalking?

Random.Capital · Aug 10, 2011

Time to remove this channel.

Cheers, mate.

Lucrum · Aug 10, 2011

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Time to remove this channel.

Cheers, mate.

ignore

I don't know what breed of Stupidity Bug crawled up your ass, but I don't have time to waste on the behavioral consequences.

You're on ignore - if you have something of genuine import to say to me, use PM.

Cheers.

Apparently I struck a nerve or he knows he's been eviscerated.
In any case looks like this genius isn't aware that if I'm on his ignore list I can't send him a PM.

murray t turtle · Aug 10, 2011

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This should help:eek: NOT! Jesus, this country is a mess.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.1 billion in its third quarter and warned again it would default on payments to the federal government if Congress did not step in.

Total mail volume for the quarter that ended June 30 fell to 39.8 billion pieces, a 2.6 percent drop from the same period a year earlier, as consumers turn to email and pay bills online.

The mail carrier, which does not get taxpayer funds, has struggled to overhaul its business as mail volumes fall. It has said personnel costs weigh heavily and is facing a massive retiree health benefit prepayment next month.

"We are experiencing a severe cash crisis and are unable to continue to maintain the aggressive prepayment schedule," Joseph Corbett, the agency's chief financial officer, said in a statement.

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a] Well that other trader thinks junk mail is priced too low.LOL. It maybe .
AA]Actually the USPS does have a closing list of many Post Offices;
who knows, they may do much of it.

Z]Wonder what they have in thier pension plan?? I like them for some things, they do much more frequent delivery/pickup than UPS.