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[Stocking]

It still eludes me why people will choose money over something they truly enjoy.

What if you truly enjoy money?

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[Bisjac]

its hard to not require money for happiness, when every person in your life requires it for THEIR happiness.

like i would need to live on an island of hippies to escape this horrible trend lol.

[Pandan]

I enjoy money, but not enough to make my life revolve around it.

When I was graduating highschool 3 years ago, I didnt want to be a


you see where im going lol

[Stocking]

you see where im going lol

idk but something about having a title that demands respect as well as a well paying, secure job in this economy is pretty sweet

also it makes me better than other people which is great too.

[Bisjac]

like i could be happy if all i could do was just get by.
tiiny bit of money to pay the most basic bills. all my time is spent on my meager hobbies of entertainment.

but the average american cant do that, they are still striving for that fallacy from the 50s "the american dream"
thinking they need a bigger house, 2 better cars, 2 kids; both college bound, 5k vacations every year, a cabin in the woods.

to many people arent realistic. they claim to want things that in reality they cant admit they dont really care for lol. like lowering expectations is something to be ashamed of.
so just build up the debt and require 80k income households

[Pandan]

like i could be happy if all i could do was just get by.
tiiny bit of money to pay the most basic bills. all my time is spent on my meager hobbies of entertainment.

Not to richard ride, but that is exactly how I feel.

[Dexxtter]

I don't understand. Whats a government shutdown and wheres the source of this?

[Bisjac]

its when the gov cant make a budget in time, and many fed employees wont be paid. and some services shut down.

its happened few times in last 100 years. though each time its happened, we didnt have a rediculous debt to come back to. like the shutdowns then, just saved money till the budget was balanced, and everything was back up.

a gov shutdown now is a little different, it would take 150 years of paying debt before the budget can be balanced again.

im sure they will have yet another temp fix that buys time till the next budget is due. or just print some more cash and scam it all again.

interesting note; the budget hasnt been balanced and shown to us since clinton's first year.
it use to be american tradition to view the budget in the papers for a good 200 years. but that has ended and we just been in the red and getting worse without anything being forced to budget it.

bush wasnt even the worst at it as people tend to believe.
obama has doubled the size of the gov and more then tripled its spending since bush.
he started in the red, and took us deeper. im not sure why congress keeps voting yes on all this stuffty new gov growth. usually the definition of using a budget means, you make decisions based on being able to afford it.
its like they literally know we are going to crash, and they are running up credit cards not giving a forget, seeing how much they can do till it all ends.

[Wispfire]

its when the gov cant make a budget in time, and many fed employees wont be paid. and some services shut down.

its happened few times in last 100 years. though each time its happened, we didnt have a rediculous debt to come back to. like the shutdowns then, just saved money till the budget was balanced, and everything was back up.

a gov shutdown now is a little different, it would take 150 years of paying debt before the budget can be balanced again.

im sure they will have yet another temp fix that buys time till the next budget is due. or just print some more cash and scam it all again.

interesting note; the budget hasnt been balanced and shown to us since clinton's first year.
it use to be american tradition to view the budget in the papers for a good 200 years. but that has ended and we just been in the red and getting worse without anything being forced to budget it.

bush wasnt even the worst at it as people tend to believe.
obama has doubled the size of the gov and more then tripled its spending since bush.
he started in the red, and took us deeper. im not sure why congress keeps voting yes on all this stuffty new gov growth. usually the definition of using a budget means, you make decisions based on being able to afford it.
its like they literally know we are going to crash, and they are running up credit cards not giving a forget, seeing how much they can do till it all ends.

TL:DR

Government is full of idiotic old men who don't know jack about technology or the modern age. They're still stuck in the 1960's.

[Tokerovin]

BLAME CANADA

[$trinick]

What do you mean all the time lol.

There have been 17 in the past 40 years, so that's a little less frequently than every two years..

[Ipquarx]

>Lives in Canada

[$trinick]

Wow, no. You're an idiot.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/politics/government-shutdown-daily-life/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Aside from you proving my point, the article you linked is handicapped. Let me go down the list, one by one, and tell you why I don't care.

10. I've never been to a national park, nor do I plan to go to one in the beginning weeks of October. In fact, I'm willing to bet this doesn't even effect 0.001% of America. How many people do you seriously think are going to visit a national park during the first week of October? That 0.001% would be over 30,000 people.

9. Government employees will be paid after the shutdown. Sorry if you have to stretch your budget an extra week, put some stuff on credit card and pay it next week. Maybe consider moving to the private sector, there's too many government employees as it is.

8. This is the same as above except for soldiers. Wait a week, sorry that your budget got stretched a week. You've got 51 more in a year to fix that.

7. This one actually starts with the words "You may be thinking, 'No functioning government, no need to pay taxes.'" If you think this, you aren't even worth my time. That doesn't even make loving sense.

6. This one is saying that postal service will still run. Is this a bad thing? I don't get it.

5. So, CNN is saying obamacare will still be active. Along with #6, is this a bad thing? CNN argues on the daily that obamacare is a good thing, why are they putting this on a list of bad effects? This isn't even an effect, it's no change. Thanks for wasting my time.

4. You'll have to wait a week to get your gun. Sorry. Last I checked, CNN was arguing that guns should be outlawed all together though, so this really feels like grasping for straws.

3. You'll have to wait for a federal loan. Alright, go apply for a private loan from a bank or credit agency. I think this will affect even less people than #10 would.

2. If you live in DC (0.02% of America) you won't have trash pickup. If it gets too bad, load up your car and drive to the dump. It's just trash, sorry guys.

1. This one's saying we should be ashamed that a decision took longer than it should have to be made. No, forget you CNN. I'm not ashamed of my government because they aren't quick to make decisions that directly affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people. I'm ashamed of my government for a slew of other reasons, but not because they aren't hasty to decide our economical fate.

[Bisjac]

this is just the fed shutdown due to not setting a budget.

the real shutdown would be on the 17th, about the debt ceiling issues.

[DrenDran]

like i could be happy if all i could do was just get by.
tiiny bit of money to pay the most basic bills. all my time is spent on my meager hobbies of entertainment.

but the average american cant do that, they are still striving for that fallacy from the 50s "the american dream"
thinking they need a bigger house, 2 better cars, 2 kids; both college bound, 5k vacations every year, a cabin in the woods.

to many people arent realistic. they claim to want things that in reality they cant admit they dont really care for lol. like lowering expectations is something to be ashamed of.
so just build up the debt and require 80k income households

They could afford it if it weren't for the... corporations.
Evil, evil, corporations.