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Ivytalk wrote:
houndawg wrote:
It seems it would be more efficient to let somebody else do the hard work of accumulation and then take their stuff. That's how top predators like lions work. :thumb:
Wrong, poundpud. Lions and lionesses work as a team to kill their prey and stay atop the animal kingdom. The perfect one-percenters! :thumb:

You confuse lions with the perfect Donk predator: the jackal. Scavengers par excellence. :coffee:
Wrong, Ibesoft. Hyenas kill 95% of their food. Lions scavenge more food than they kill. :coffee:

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kalm wrote:Speaking of Nick Hanauer…


It’s a fact that Wal-Mart earned $27 billion in profit last year. They could afford to pay their bottom million workers $10,000 more a year, raise all of those people out of poverty, save tax payers billions of dollars, and still earn $17 billion in profit, right.

It’s simply nuts that we have allowed this to happen.
No, what's TRULY nuts is that he bases his entire premise on a sadly misguided notion that if only Walmart would pay their workers more, somehow taxpayers would be better off. While I'm all for paying Walmart workers more, tying that to some mythical tax reduction is fucking comical. If that TRULY were the case, then we should require EVERYONE to make at least $40,000/year and eliminate welfare and food stamps altogether. Problem is this: Our benevolent government won't actually SAVE that money, they'll just spend it somewhere else.
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Re: Wealth Inequality Continues to Grow

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houndawg wrote:
Ivytalk wrote:
Wrong, poundpud. Lions and lionesses work as a team to kill their prey and stay atop the animal kingdom. The perfect one-percenters! :thumb:

You confuse lions with the perfect Donk predator: the jackal. Scavengers par excellence. :coffee:
Wrong, Ibesoft. Hyenas kill 95% of their food. Lions scavenge more food than they kill. :coffee:

City boys.. :ohno:
Wrong, douche1dog....He said jackals. Jackals <> Hyena.
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AZGrizFan wrote:
kalm wrote:Speaking of Nick Hanauer…


It’s a fact that Wal-Mart earned $27 billion in profit last year. They could afford to pay their bottom million workers $10,000 more a year, raise all of those people out of poverty, save tax payers billions of dollars, and still earn $17 billion in profit, right.

It’s simply nuts that we have allowed this to happen.
No, what's TRULY nuts is that he bases his entire premise on a sadly misguided notion that if only Walmart would pay their workers more, somehow taxpayers would be better off. While I'm all for paying Walmart workers more, tying that to some mythical tax reduction is **** comical. If that TRULY were the case, then we should require EVERYONE to make at least $40,000/year and eliminate welfare and food stamps altogether. Problem is this: Our benevolent government won't actually SAVE that money, they'll just spend it somewhere else.
Now that we have our own oil we can let somebody else protect the middle east from themselves and save ourselves literally hundreds of billions. :thumb:

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houndawg wrote:
AZGrizFan wrote:
No, what's TRULY nuts is that he bases his entire premise on a sadly misguided notion that if only Walmart would pay their workers more, somehow taxpayers would be better off. While I'm all for paying Walmart workers more, tying that to some mythical tax reduction is **** comical. If that TRULY were the case, then we should require EVERYONE to make at least $40,000/year and eliminate welfare and food stamps altogether. Problem is this: Our benevolent government won't actually SAVE that money, they'll just spend it somewhere else.
Now that we have our own oil we can let somebody else protect the middle east from themselves and save ourselves literally hundreds of billions. :thumb:

:coffee:
I've been pitching for a 25% cut to government (INCLUDING Defense spending) for years.
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AZGrizFan wrote:
houndawg wrote:
Now that we have our own oil we can let somebody else protect the middle east from themselves and save ourselves literally hundreds of billions. :thumb:

:coffee:
I've been pitching for a 25% cut to government (INCLUDING Defense spending) for years.
50% for defense 25% for everything else.
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houndawg wrote:
Ivytalk wrote:
Wrong, poundpud. Lions and lionesses work as a team to kill their prey and stay atop the animal kingdom. The perfect one-percenters! :thumb:

You confuse lions with the perfect Donk predator: the jackal. Scavengers par excellence. :coffee:
Wrong, Ibesoft. Hyenas kill 95% of their food. Lions scavenge more food than they kill. :coffee:

City boys.. :ohno:
So much ignorance in this post. :dunce:

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AZGrizFan wrote: I've been pitching for a 25% cut to government (INCLUDING Defense spending) for years.

Yes ^ you have... and good on you
(we have at least one area we both agree) :mrgreen:

But large centralized Governments don't "get smaller"
They don't seek less influence
They don't want less control
They don't surrender back control to the people

:nod:

If we wan't a smaller government and our power back - we MUST take it back - it will not be given
And it will not be voted back

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Chizzang wrote:
AZGrizFan wrote: I've been pitching for a 25% cut to government (INCLUDING Defense spending) for years.

Yes ^ you have... and good on you
(we have at least one area we both agree) :mrgreen:

But large centralized Governments don't "get smaller"
They don't seek less influence
They don't want less control
They don't surrender back control to the people

:nod:

If we wan't a smaller government and our power back - we MUST take it back - it will not be given
And it will not be voted back

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And Jill Stein is the woman to help us take it back! :nod:
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Lions are assholes. They should be rendered extinct. Let's do it. Homo sapiens rules!

They think they're "all that." Let's show them where they really stand. We can eliminate them any time we wish.
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Chizzang wrote:
AZGrizFan wrote: I've been pitching for a 25% cut to government (INCLUDING Defense spending) for years.

Yes ^ you have... and good on you
(we have at least one area we both agree) :mrgreen:

But large centralized Governments don't "get smaller"
They don't seek less influence
They don't want less control
They don't surrender back control to the people

:nod:

If we wan't a smaller government and our power back - we MUST take it back - it will not be given
And it will not be voted back

:ohno:
Agreed on all points. That's why I keep and bear arms. :coffee: :coffee:
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Chizzang wrote:
AZGrizFan wrote: I've been pitching for a 25% cut to government (INCLUDING Defense spending) for years.

Yes ^ you have... and good on you
(we have at least one area we both agree) :mrgreen:

But large centralized Governments don't "get smaller"
They don't seek less influence
They don't want less control
They don't surrender back control to the people

:nod:

If we wan't a smaller government and our power back - we MUST take it back - it will not be given
And it will not be voted back

:ohno:
Well this current President has just opened the gate for at least 25 million votes for more public services than less, so I'd say we are watching the death of the streamlined government movement before it starts.

Central Americans and Mexicans and other third worlders reliably vote for the nanny state to the tune of about 95%.
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JohnStOnge wrote:Lions are assholes. They should be rendered extinct. Let's do it. Homo sapiens rules!

They think they're "all that." Let's show them where they really stand. We can eliminate them any time we wish.
Is that a stab at humor, John? :?

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First dogs, now lions.
Actually, some dogs do have some use. So I am not calling for rendering dogs totally extinct. Just calling for realizing that they are not sentient beings and it's ridiculous to have laws requiring that they be treated as such.

Lions, on the other hand, have no redeeming value at all. They should be consigned to extinction. They're absolutely disgusting animals. They really are. If you really look at their behavior, etc., I don't see how you can come to any other conclusion. The planet would be better off without them.
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JohnStOnge wrote:
First dogs, now lions.
Actually, some dogs do have some use. So I am not calling for rendering dogs totally extinct. Just calling for realizing that they are not sentient beings and it's ridiculous to have laws requiring that they be treated as such.

Lions, on the other hand, have no redeeming value at all. They should be consigned to extinction. They're absolutely disgusting animals. They really are. If you really look at their behavior, etc., I don't see how you can come to any other conclusion. The planet would be better off without them.
Someone needs to feed you to the lions.
You're really a sick motherfucker. :dunce:
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Baldy wrote:
houndawg wrote:
Wrong, Ibesoft. Hyenas kill 95% of their food. Lions scavenge more food than they kill. :coffee:

City boys.. :ohno:
So much ignorance in this post. :dunce:

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Boldlie - supreme dumbfuck and liar.

Jackals are extremely efficient killers, just like hyenas.

Lions survive off the labor and achievement of others, just like scavenger scumbag conks.

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Someone needs to feed you to the lions.
You're really a sick motherfucker.
Have you ever really stopped and contemplated the behavior of lions? They're DISGUSTING. They also have no purpose in today's day and age.

And they're not even pretty like Tigers are. Just ugly, disgusting big cats that are a pain in the ass just like all cats are.
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JohnStOnge wrote:
Someone needs to feed you to the lions.
You're really a sick motherfucker.
Have you ever really stopped and contemplated the behavior of lions? They're DISGUSTING. They also have no purpose in today's day and age.

And they're not even pretty like Tigers are. Just ugly, disgusting big cats that are a pain in the ass just like all cats are.
Ooooohhhh....we should not kill off tigers cause they're pretty!!!???

Please go on... :rofl: :popcorn:
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Ooooohhhh....we should not kill off tigers cause they're pretty!!!???
I didn't say that. I just said they're pretty.

In fact one of the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen is how, in India, they won't just kill Tigers that are killing people. They'll do things like set up dummies that look like people but are wired to deliver shocks so that when tigers attack them they'll get shocked and hopefully learn not to kill people.

Screw that. Just kill them. If they're a threat just eliminate them. The world would be fine without them.
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JohnStOnge wrote:
Ooooohhhh....we should not kill off tigers cause they're pretty!!!???
I didn't say that. I just said they're pretty.

In fact one of the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen is how, in India, they won't just kill Tigers that are killing people. They'll do things like set up dummies that look like people but are wired to deliver shocks so that when tigers attack them they'll get shocked and hopefully learn not to kill people.

Screw that. Just kill them. If they're a threat just eliminate them. The world would be fine without them.
John,
The world would be "fine" without all of us - or any life...
That's a stupid statement

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D1B wrote:
Baldy wrote: So much ignorance in this post. :dunce:

:lol:
Boldlie - supreme dumbfuck and liar.

Jackals are extremely efficient killers, just like hyenas.

Lions survive off the labor and achievement of others, just like scavenger scumbag conks.

Boldlie - idiot of the year.
http://www.outtoafrica.nl/animals/engjackal.html
Jackals are very cunning and resourceful. Although usually considered scavengers-they do pick over kills made by large carnivores and frequent rubbish dumps-they also hunt and kill a variety of prey.
:lol:

Jackals are dumpster diving Donks. :rofl:

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You need to stick to topics in your realm of knowledge...like sex in the Rectory or Mucophagy. :nod:
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Baldy wrote:
JohnStOnge wrote:
Actually, some dogs do have some use. So I am not calling for rendering dogs totally extinct. Just calling for realizing that they are not sentient beings and it's ridiculous to have laws requiring that they be treated as such.

Lions, on the other hand, have no redeeming value at all. They should be consigned to extinction. They're absolutely disgusting animals. They really are. If you really look at their behavior, etc., I don't see how you can come to any other conclusion. The planet would be better off without them.
Someone needs to feed you to the lions.
You're really a sick motherfucker. :dunce:
:nod:
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Baldy wrote:
D1B wrote:
Boldlie - supreme **** and liar.

Jackals are extremely efficient killers, just like hyenas.

Lions survive off the labor and achievement of others, just like scavenger scumbag conks.

Boldlie - idiot of the year.
http://www.outtoafrica.nl/animals/engjackal.html
Jackals are very cunning and resourceful. Although usually considered scavengers-they do pick over kills made by large carnivores and frequent rubbish dumps-they also hunt and kill a variety of prey.
:lol:

Jackals are dumpster diving Donks. :rofl:

Fat, sloppy, and ignorant is no way to go through life, D.
You need to stick to topics in your realm of knowledge...like sex in the Rectory or Mucophagy. :nod:
I don't know, you seem to be getting along OK. :?
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houndawg wrote:
Baldy wrote:
http://www.outtoafrica.nl/animals/engjackal.html



:lol:

Jackals are dumpster diving Donks. :rofl:

Fat, sloppy, and ignorant is no way to go through life, D.
You need to stick to topics in your realm of knowledge...like sex in the Rectory or Mucophagy. :nod:
I don't know, you seem to be getting along OK. :?
:ohno:

Nice effort dawg...low hanging fruit.

I know you're old and tired. Do you even try anymore? :grizo2:
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houndawg wrote:
Baldy wrote:
http://www.outtoafrica.nl/animals/engjackal.html



:lol:

Jackals are dumpster diving Donks. :rofl:

Fat, sloppy, and ignorant is no way to go through life, D.
You need to stick to topics in your realm of knowledge...like sex in the Rectory or Mucophagy. :nod:
I don't know, you seem to be getting along OK. :?
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Boldlie will never learn. :lol:
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