POLITICAL THREAD
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I think it is you that is confused. I paid for my daughters undergraduate degree at UK. My choice as a single father raising his only child. You spent time serving your country and that is something I respect. You got help for your service from the government. I have no problem with that. I have several nephews who have done the same. So let me impart some knowledge to you that you may not think too much about.
Remember when I posted my daughter went out west for three years as a wildfire fighter? Do you have any idea what that entails? That sir is actual service to this country as well with less pay than you received. You may not recognize it as such but just the same, it is. Those young men and women are protecting America as well, not unlike the Coast Guard. But she did not get the same type of government help you got. And yes a degree from a Tier 1 University in the North East is very expensive as well as hard won. And full ride scholarships aren't handed out like tootsie rolls. You got help for your service to the country from the government, she did not. Her help came only after her hard work and effort won her a scholarship she had to be talked into applying for. Help she received not for her service, but for her hard work and intelligence. She has not sniveled about her debt, she simply paid it. She does not cry about how she isn't being treated fairly. That would be you. Her cousins, high ranking officers in the Navy and Air Force respect her and her efforts a great deal as they know what her resume, experience, and life choices say about her and her achievements. To be so "American" you sure are quick to belittle some of the best of us. Understand?
Why does the opinion of several politicians matter? There have been lots of politicians who want to, and did, expand the power of the federal government. Just because they were elected means they were right? I guess if you follow the logic you are trying really hard to get people to buy into, Trump would be right because he was elected. Personally, I have little respect for the opinions you posted. Why should I put stock in what they say. FDR, for example, was a a firm believer in expanding the power of the federal government and his policies helped create and extend the great depression. Being a pastI have posted the thoughts of Teddy Roosevelt in the past 24 hours to illustrate what an honest to God Republican thought about the roles of business and government. I hope some here would read for themselves what the men they say they admire, actual greatness and a stall-worth of the GOP and his rugged principles. Now here is another President from another era with his words. People should be aware of their history I believe.
President doesn't automatically make your opinion on economics, etc., worth the paper it's written on.
He/she/it does not understand (with a tool belt)
For the record That is almost exactly how I earned my degree but I did finish my graduate degree. (I paid as I went out of pocket.) I only did four years in the Army but opened my business and then sold it....with no debt. That is my retirement. Working on another one....
Are you telling me there were no less expensive options for that degree? If there wasn't, assuming you aren't completely economically illiterate, the rewards of having the degree must have been worth the debt she took on. If it's not, why didn't she do something different?
WOW You really do have a problem if you cannot concede some Presidents have stood the test of time and are considered to be worth your time. I mean heck Lincoln, Washington, Taft, Hoover, Roosevelt ---they're all the same aren't they? This is a remarkably vacuous take on American history.
I'm pretty sure from reading your recent post there is little reward in engaging you on anything other than what you assume to be realty.
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Booty booty booty....big words do not a smart person make...![[eyeroll]](http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/rolleye/rolleye0011.r191677.gif "Eye roll [eyeroll]")
You of all people should know that if you 're smart...oh, I forget....
Booty booty booty....big words do not a smart person make...
You of all people should know that if you 're smart...oh, I forget....I didn't say some Presidents shouldn't be considered, you did. I said I don't respect the opinions you posted. That's a completely different meaning than the one you assumed. I respect, for example, what Lincoln accomplished, but he did a lot of things to accomplish his goal of keeping the union together that was not considered Constitutional. Why should I respect his opinions on those matters just because he was President? I can think for myself. I don't have to blindly follow every thought a past politician had like you do.
What was not reality in what I posted? If she got value for her degree, then what are you complaining about? The debt she took on was worth what she received. If she didn't get sufficient value for the debt she took on, then she made a poor economic decision. That is reality.
Levi, YOU belittle anyone who responds and calls your bluff, not me. You throw the shit out there. WTF you expect?
Ummm, so your daughter earned less than $422/mo fighting fires out west while I roasted my ass in the desert on a GD peacekeeping mission? Got it.
Again, I took out $15K in credit card debt for my BA. No one helped me - period. I finally applied for and received GI Bill assistance during grad school and continued working.
No do over in Nashville for voting today because of the tornado. If you haven’t voted and can’t get to an alternative voting site, you are out of luck.
Good for you. Right before retirement from active duty, my wife and I also operated a business - PC/server hardware, here in Austin.
Grad degree: I transferred universities, and nearly all transfer credits were accepted.
Levi has a personality disorder.
everybody’s wrong, and he’s the only person that knows.
god-like thought about himself. Needs help
everybody’s wrong, and he’s the only person that knows.
god-like thought about himself. Needs help
It’s really rich for anyone to belittle Biden for saying dumb things and at the same time support Trump who can barely speak a coherent sentence. You seem to forget how low of a bar Trump has set.
Ha! Biden couldn’t find his foot if it was in ass. He’d say it’s in his mouth.
Dementia Joe is his new name
Dementia Joe is his new name
This 99.9% true. The final decision makers at the top are mainly concerned about the politics of their decisions and how to cover their a$$es.
Levi made his bed in the Joker era. Defended him to the bitter end on the Football Board. Lost all credibility (if he ever had any) at that time.
Levi we don’t really care about your daughters student loans or other debt. We actually don’t care about you at all. We will promise to forgive your debt and raise taxes to do that. We just want your vote and the votes of other simpletons like you in order to gain control. Then you will really see what we have planned.
Signed,
The “Democratic” SOCIALIST Party
Did you watch the SOTU address? If not, go back and watch it and then come back with your head up your ass as you seek solitude.
Chris Matthews used to be a decent talking head. After Obama got elected he changed into a hard-line liberal turd.
Biden is a next level liar. He is like Clinton; his default mechanism is to lie. Most people default to truth telling unless they really have a situation where the need to lie arises; then they make a conscious decision to lie. This old video shows that he was like this forever. I mean the stream of lies, one after another, about his academic record, not even close to the truth....and no reason for it. He wasn't even being pressed; he was just voluntarily offering up a stream of fantastical lies that he knew were lies in real time as he was uttering them.
This is the definition of an inveterate , narcissistic, pathological liar.
Joe Biden makes Donald Trump look and sound like GD Winston Churchill.
This is indisputable.
You sure like to complain about "big words". If you're insecure about your vocabulary just endeavor to improve yourself, don't denigrate others. Makes you look weak..
Booty booty booty....big words do not a smart person make...
So the taxpayers paid for your school but shouldn't pay for anyone else's. Do as I say, not as I do, right? Hypocrite.
Control your own fate... or someone else will- Jack Welch (RIP)
This may be the dumbest goddam thing I’ve ever read on this website.
“The taxpayers pay the wages and benefits of government employees, so they should pay for everyone who aren’t government employees.”
Umm, I contributed monthly to the GI Bill, thank you. Moreover, I was unable to fully use the GI Bill because of the former 10-year limit.
I also took out small student loans back then before going on active duty. Guess who garnished my pay for 18 months during the mid-80s?
I want my money, socialist.
Join the military and you too could get the GI Bill, and college credits while SERVING the Nation.
I paid $100 a month my first year in the Navy, I was bringing home $810 dollars after taxes a month that first year.
Firefighters are government employees. Often do work much more dangerous than pushing papers on a base somewhere. Do they get their college paid for because of their service? Nah just the military is "entitled" to that...
