tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post6707986634128235706..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: elites minimum wageJames M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-57786857784219899862017-03-28T12:08:56.515-07:002017-03-28T12:08:56.515-07:00I don't see how you living by higher principle...I don't see how you living by higher principles invalidates how everyone else acts. If 99% of people act evil, evil is the defacto setting. Anon is correct about how everyone spits on the free market. I admire your conviction but you are probably getting screwed by others because of it. Is that wise, to place philosophy over practicality during a civilization collapse? Put another way, why do you owe others tribal loyalty while they are screwing you like a stranger? Forgive any indelicacy on my part bringing this up, I'm sure it is a sore spot.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-38162230356607459522017-03-28T12:02:56.416-07:002017-03-28T12:02:56.416-07:00If I ever am offered SS, I'll first grab the c...If I ever am offered SS, I'll first grab the check viciously, then run home and post an article rubbing it into everyone's faces. Sadly, I don't foresee the day. Self-employed, I don't see even having to file tax returns the amounts will be so low. Not sure how they feel about me not volunteering 15% of that for SS.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-22172629897874459952017-03-28T09:12:47.126-07:002017-03-28T09:12:47.126-07:00About 15 years ago I pulled into the drive tru at ...About 15 years ago I pulled into the drive tru at Burger King and gave my order and the taker was a pregnant pimply faced white teen. The amount due was $4.13 and I gave her a 5 dollar bill and 13 cents. She stood there and looked at the money, then the cash register then back at the money, stymied. Then she walked all the way over to the office and got a pocket calculator and came back and figured it out. Then she gave me $3 and some change back. I $hit you not. No doubt she dropped that low hangin fruit from her loins and several others since then and the oldest one may be doing the same thing right now. Wonderful world we live in, no? ghostsniperhttp://www.deadcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-49019371052387225872017-03-28T09:07:02.693-07:002017-03-28T09:07:02.693-07:00I received my first SS payment last week and will ...I received my first SS payment last week and will accept all of them I'm given. As a self employed person since 1986 I had to pay in TWICE as much as the average employee whose employer paid the other half. I hope I live to be 150 years old so I can collect more than I paid in, as restitution for it being stolen against my will in the first place. Payback is a hor.ghostsniperhttp://www.deadcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-62781705877631566702017-03-28T09:03:32.730-07:002017-03-28T09:03:32.730-07:00Anon above is full of you know what and there is o...Anon above is full of you know what and there is only one thing I hold in higher contempt than religion and it's this rotten a$$ed gov't. I've been talking it and walkin it for more than 30 years and practice a free market wherever I go. Everything else is criminal.ghostsniperhttp://www.deadcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-51512315970538523452017-03-28T06:18:25.034-07:002017-03-28T06:18:25.034-07:00Yes, it SHOULD be an ideal to reach. But it is ju...Yes, it SHOULD be an ideal to reach. But it is just a simple tool of oppression in practice. And just like religion it gets the irrational all heated up. You Jesus Freaks burned us at the stake and soon will be warring against us again, but for now we can call you on your BS fantasy power trip. State Religion and big govt. were born together at the Agricultural Age and it has been downhill ever since because of the two. Your god and your worship should be a private affair but most choose to force it on others, by the tip of the sword. Yes, I understand cultural harmony can't happen otherwise out of the tribal structure, but its practitioners still leave a foul taste in my mouth.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-80115362131820117072017-03-28T06:12:05.053-07:002017-03-28T06:12:05.053-07:00God, so politically incorrect and SOOO damn funny!...God, so politically incorrect and SOOO damn funny! Hint to diners, if your eating establishments has idiots banging on pictures, they are not themselves run by very smart individuals. Beware the food they are serving. Fun filled fact. Yesterday in the paper our local gas station got a 100% health dept. rating and McDonald's was in the 80's. I know, those inspectors are jag off political hacks out for revenue enhancement and have axes to grind. Still, pretty funny.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-35728903105526194702017-03-28T06:07:23.008-07:002017-03-28T06:07:23.008-07:00I suppose if you used the courts decision that SS ...I suppose if you used the courts decision that SS is welfare, then folks would just argue the court is flawed, then use an argument they don't like such as abortion as justification for not agreeing that SS is welfare. In other words, act like lawyers. Hey, if I applied for Food Stamps, and I was genuinely hungry, it is STILL welfare. So are tax breaks for corporations, farm subsidies, etc. Reminds me of Populists, they want shrunken pre-Revolution levels of govt., no taxes, but support a huge military. You can't have it both ways. People want free money, but they also want to justify theirs and not any that goes to the poor. Both hypocrites and class snobs.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-6876025919448371262017-03-27T20:54:51.125-07:002017-03-27T20:54:51.125-07:00'Anon's colorful descriptive adjectives re...'Anon's colorful descriptive adjectives referring to our esteemed blogger are, almost.. Dakinistic. <br /><br />Be that as it may, SCOTUS has ruled SS to be NOT a real retirement program, but something closer to generally-recognized welfare. Your monthly benefit is determined by your contributions, yes, but your lifetime bene is not. You cannot bequeath any surplus upon death to your heirs, because it's NOT yours! You gave it to the gov't, and, BTW, they pissed it away to themselves, cronies, heirs and assigns. Would that it were not so..(like a lot of things)<br /><br />Neilneilmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14890476666474973533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-24122323614717638972017-03-27T20:27:13.347-07:002017-03-27T20:27:13.347-07:00There is something basically wrong with some ignor...There is something basically wrong with some ignorant ghetto dweller who has to have pictures of hamburgers, fries and drinks on the keys of the cash register getting 15 god damn dollars an hour. You couldn't get them to pick cotton without beating the hell out of them, I don't think bribes will work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-41490441593490498592017-03-27T16:25:08.183-07:002017-03-27T16:25:08.183-07:00Free markets are an abstract concept that has neve...Free markets are an abstract concept that has never actually existed. I declare my competitive advantage legal and your competitive advantage is not. I practice free market principles and you don't. It is about power. People sell the free market the same way they do religion, but it just justifies the power structure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-35181340305478274622017-03-27T15:18:52.748-07:002017-03-27T15:18:52.748-07:00You misunderstand- I have a bone in my ass over th...You misunderstand- I have a bone in my ass over the rich using the illusion of a free market to screw me. When it is being used as propaganda I dislike the term. The concept is acceptable.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-46946896141106453772017-03-27T15:16:38.058-07:002017-03-27T15:16:38.058-07:00Easy, Francis. If you get more in than you paid, ...Easy, Francis. If you get more in than you paid, it is welfare. SS is spend as quick as it is collected. They don't invest it to earn interest. Always been that way. Relax, take a deep breath.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-65383700275633466102017-03-27T13:20:45.056-07:002017-03-27T13:20:45.056-07:00"Social Security is welfare..." My ass ..."Social Security is welfare..." My ass it's welfare you dingus pus abscess! I paid many a dollar, as did my employers, all my working life to collect the meager check that I receive each month. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-20692185914206676442017-03-27T12:40:25.727-07:002017-03-27T12:40:25.727-07:00OK, I read that whole thing, twice, and still don&...OK, I read that whole thing, twice, and still don't know what you're saying. <br /><br />Also, you seem to have a bone in your ass over the free market even though you've never experienced it. All you've known your whole life in that regard are large scale criminals, public and private, scaling the whole thing to their own advantage and the rest of us must fend for ourselves. The fancy economists, if you hold their thumbs in the door jamb, will call it "quasi-free market" but that's just a polite term for outright theft. <br /><br />In a truly free marketplace where the politicians weren't public hors rented out to the highest bidder but rather created common sense laws and enforced them properly EVERYONE would be better off and this county's economy would soar like never before in human history. Prices would be low and quality would be high. Instead of the trashy free for all we have now where everybody is scamming everybody else.ghostsniperhttp://www.deadcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-51833936095204592292017-03-27T09:58:48.190-07:002017-03-27T09:58:48.190-07:00I suppose the taxpayers give to Medicaid or they s...I suppose the taxpayers give to Medicaid or they supplement the ER free services with higher medical costs. I'd imaging that after a short time, with far fewer paying patients due to exponential raising medical costs, the push for the taxpayer to foot the bill will see-saw back.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-47463223441110902472017-03-27T08:00:02.135-07:002017-03-27T08:00:02.135-07:00Yes, the big push to raise the minamum wage is to ...Yes, the big push to raise the minamum wage is to get the under 30 hours a week crowd to make enough money so not to qualify for medicaid. The cost of government required medical insurance would be far more than the raise in wages.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com