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Hmm... so many to choose from.. I guess I'll start with:
Women are allowed to show their face in public... heh heh heh along with a lot of other things
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There are so many that can't read or won't read. To them, the Constitution says whatever Pat Robertson claims it does.
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quote:Originally posted by urnso77: Here's a change for some of you. This is the place to make positive comments about our great nation. I'll go first...
God Bless the USA.
I guess this is as positive as youre gonna get from this bunch.......OF COMMIE PINKO SLOBS!!!!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Lockman: America where those with nothing, can thru hard work and the spirt of freedom be whatever their dreams allow.
I agree with this I found out that if I want to work overtime (Im young and have ambitions) my government imposes a 66% income tax on those overtime hours (as opposed to 35% income tax on the first 40 hours/week), making it impossible to save up large amounts of money. This means getting the funds together to start my own business will take longer, even though i'm willing to work long hours. I asked my American friends and you guys don't get taxed extra on overtime hours, meaning double incomes are indeed possible. Here little or no work is rewarded (tax %-age depends on income, lower income is lower income taxes, + vice versa), and hard work is punished
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Positiveness is a matter of personal choice and often only momentary.
It is at best artificial to insist on always being positive (whatever you mean by that) and generally, demanding other "be positive" is facetious and egotistical.
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if you demanded to "be negative", is that facetious and egotistical. No one is DEMANDING anything. No one is insisting on ALWAYS being positive.
Here is something positive..........When the fellow man needs help in a disaster, your neighbor will be there for you. (Atleast where I live.)
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Wrong, andrew. urnso77 and Lockman are demanding what they call 'being positive? It isn't positive to others, so they want to dmand that those people leave the country.
"When the fellow man needs help in a disaster, your neighbor will be there for you. (Atleast where I live.)"
And he is there without bothering to consider if you are his color or his religion or voted the way he did.
But that isn't American anymore than loving one's offspring. Germans and Japanese and South Africans, and, yes, even Iranians are that way.
It's human.
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Here's one: there's still time and there's many avenues available for learning Chinese in time before our government hands over the keys to the country...
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A very positive and active approach, Tex. I agree, don't just sit on you azz and watch things go to hell.
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Here's something positive! We can still enjoy our beautiful and cherished national parks, if we act fast...
President Bush's proposed budget for 2007 includes a provision to raise money by selling off what could amount to 800,000 acres of America's treasured public lands, including 300,000 acres of National Forest land in 35 different states.
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quote:Originally posted by Gordon Bennett: How's your healthcare system? Ours is nightmarish.
It's good here I think. I went to the dentist and paid 52€ ($70) and got 50€ back from healthcare ($67). My surgery last year was completely free, no waiting list (had my surgery 6 days after I went to the doctor for $16, of which I get back $14) I only had to pay the daily rent for the room. Meds are cheap too compared to what I hear in the US sometimes, but then of course you end up with crazy taxes like we do lol. I wonder though if this really requires taxes of numbers in the 60's percentage wise... I believe governments are companies like any other, and they'll always ask more than they really need.
Having money opens up possibilities and when the government takes it all from you it really limits your possibilities for the future, so yes we have healthcare but at what cost! Most people I know here (of all ages) can only save up maybe $500 a month after all costs deducted (unless you're self-employed, then you have lots of fiscal advantages and you set your own income), some of them blow their monthly income every month, so when you have dreams of opening your business or in my case pay an airline pilot training of 100k (which is why I want to work overtime, only -apparently- to give it to the government LOL) it can be hard to save up that kind of money. And this reminded me of something to go back ontopic, I absolutely love your aviation world. For starters it's much cheaper, making it more mainstream and less "elite" like over here. For those in the know, a Cessna 150 (one of the smallest planes you can rent) is easily $130-140 an hour, about double of what it is in the US. Also, I met the most passionate most down-to-earth pilots there, of the kind I've never seen here. Here in the flying clubs (IN MY EXPERIENCE!) it's all about status, pilots tend to be snobs who come from rich families, and you're only welcome if you carry a bucket of money in your hand so to speak
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quote:His greatness will become recognized as being equal to, or greater than, that of the Presidency of the late great President Ronald Reagan.
gawrsh...
Munchie, seriously, how's the rent and meds situation going?
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Greetings Tex:
Thank you very much for writing to the Munchkin Man.
The Munchkin Man now has an arrangement in which the Munchkin Man works the front desk during the graveyard shift if the Munchkin Man is late with his rent for over one month.
The Munchkin Man's medications are stable at this time. Nothing has been added. Nothing has been eliminated.
The Munchkin Man's doctor has been giving the Munchkin Man free samples to tide the Munchkin Man over until his next disability check if the Munchkin Man cannot afford them by refill time.
Thanks again for asking about the Munchkin Man.
Good luck to you.
Best Wishes,
Munchkin Man
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