Posted on 01/26/2003 4:04:27 PM PST by nwrep
I earned about $500.00 last year. TOTAL. I don't have to pay zip and this ticks me off...what the hell are these people smoking??
You do know we are outnumbered don't you? I've been screeching this for so many years...at least 25....with the State, Federal, city, public utility(sewer systems,etc), "education "system", people on welfare, illegal immigrants, IDIOTS, and the rest either working for OR getting from THE SYSTEM we pay taxes into, we're just plain out numbered.
I ran a Credit Bureau and similar finance businesses for 25 years . And you could watch it changing on paper. NONE of these people produce anything...NOTHING. Pure democracy in Oregon is 51 sharks deciding that they are going to have the other 49 fish for dinner. And I still have to pay $1500.00 per year in property taxes, $185.00 to water an acre once in a great while. This is just another little banana republic. God help us if all the other states are in the same boat....and in by my limited hypothesis, they are..or very near on their way.
I heard on the tube today...or rather, read a tickler...that the FED retirement system is in the red 2..thats two...billion dollars.
Get your checkbooks out people. Sorry, I can't help you, they already got all mine. LOL!!
We're outnumbered and what's worse is that they don't care.....51 per cent of Oregon doesn't care whether the rest of us live or die. Nice, huh? We don't seem to be having alot of luck appealing to their "concience" much less their logic.
And no, I don't have an anger problem..I have an idiot problem. Thank the good Lord there are still people like you, dixie, that I can carry on about it without getting that "glazed over" look or outright vile indignation.
the "race is on"...to see which state goes over the cliff first.
kalifornica is trying to be the "first state to tax its way to prosperity..."
VOTE BY MAIL...we're having a three week long election day. I've worked in the electoral system since this mess. All anyone has to do is mark another "oval"...the ballot is void, and these election people handle every ballott. They work 23 hour days. The are mostly retirees or disabled or someone who really needs the money. And if they saw someone doing something wrong, they won't say squat. I did and that's why I don't ever get called to work an election again. They didn't like me, after 20 years of working elections, I guess they got tired of my "questioning" them. It only took one "vote by mail" election to finish me off. It's beyond flawed. And if it's not already corrupt, it's begging to be and we've got 51% of the folks who like it that way! Yippee!
Oh yes, when we did elections the way we were supposed to, no one worked over 15 hours max....and guess what..we got it done..and usually right. It was supposed to be that way for a REASON.
Phoooey on all of 'em...I'm gonna go eat lemon pie!
And nobody much seems to care or even notice. They'll pay $15,000 plus in "fees" and permits to build a house before they'd be bothered to vote or take a stand.
"And no, I don't have an anger problem..I have an idiot problem."
Believe me, I understand.
" Thank the good Lord there are still people like you, dixie, that I can carry on about it without getting that "glazed over" look or outright vile indignation."
I'm glad I could help! I don't know about you, but "glazed over" is not a good look for me.;o)
"...mark another "oval"..."
You've got "ovals"? We still have "chads"...;o(
Please don't tell me you voted for this deceitful piece of socialist tripe??????
The iron curtain fell 14 years ago. Most of the old Soviets have re-emerged in the Williamette Valley.
But the local newspaper eugene red guard has had major headlines each and every day touting this scam.
So, everyone that has their hand out will vote yes.
We will know next Wednesday morning.
If this measure passes, I hope that more people wake up and put a stop to this rapid decline I've seen since I moved here.
I'm not holding my breath, though...
So has the Oregonian. Almost every day, half of the front section, including a huge chunck of the front page, has had these "grandma will be thrown out of her house" and "baby will starve" stories under the topic "this is what will happen if measure 28 doen't pass."
I have yet to see any balance at all on the pages of that rag.
I usually pay the newspaper bill. I told my husband that, if he wants to read the paper, he can pay the bill from now on. I haven't read the paper in almost 2 weeks, and I will not read it again.
Those were popular wars. Making men enlist against their will has never been a good idea -- ie. draft riots during CW, Vietnam. WWI might have produced some domestic unrest if it had dragged on. WWII was so enthusiastically supported, I think the only reason for the draft was FDR and his overreaching Federal bureaucracy. There was no lack of volunteers. The draft helped turn a popular war (Vietnam) into an unpopular war. Finally, the military establishment itself has stated over and over that it doesn't want/need any draft. The draft constitutes involuntary servitude to the gov't and is an institution worthy of sheeple and trained monkeys.
Did I mention Iraq has a draft?
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