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When did they switch to a track meet? Oops that was a AZ running play. And fathom, always understating your opinion

This is my first chance to see the Bears, is the defense really that bad? f*** this, and the special teams coach better review what is a live ball and when to run away.

lol mr editor

Just restarted the que.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 12:22 PM) Please explain what happened to letters F through M... I dunno. f*** 'em SS forgot when we have 60,000 posts we can invent our own alphabet too.

Generally, Chicago would seem to be in the top 5 or 6 markets for free agents based on intangibles.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 10:03 AM) It is a great example of what the left wing is trying to do at the federal level. The government can't be all things to all people. Trying to do that is going to lead to a collapse. In Cali all they are doing is blaming the last in a long line of people who have made this mess. This didn't just start. I agree with you. But the other side is as bad with the government is terrible and can do nothing for you. Wish we had a new crop of leaders that understood the truth was somewhere in the middle.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 11:46 AM) Then you didn't read it. Who pays the additional revenue? I'll even give you a hint, it's the good looking guy we both see in the mirror each morning.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 11:09 AM) I have said this before, but you really need to study the multiplier effect. And we went through and we never found where that $1 became anything more than $1. Bottom line, someone pays the higher revenues. At best it shifts the tax from someone to someone else. After the cut, who pays more and who pays less? Someone is making those higher payments. Who?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 11:02 AM) Economic growth - the private sector, individuals and corporations. So we took a cut, then paid it back later? Meanwhile the deficit forced money to be borrowed, so we paid the cut back with interest.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 11:01 AM) Come on, you're not this naive. True, and you are not naive to think Reagan wasn't equally to blame. Reagan wanted higher and higher spending on his pet projects (mostly military). To get that, he allowed spending on everyone's pet projects. (or at least almost everyone's). We were feeling good and invincible and wracked up huge debts. Reagan also sold the public on the "Peace Dividend", once the Soviet Union was neutered, we could reduce spending to levels well below the era prior to the build up. Of course we never could reduce the spending, there was no peace dividend. The GOP became the spend and cut tax party and the DEMs became the spend and don't tax party.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 10:40 AM) Cutting taxes actually raised revenue over time, but they spent more. That's the problem. Who paid the higher revenue?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 10:24 AM) Because Congress shot him down every time he actually tried to cut the budget. Really, I thought he destroyed the Soviet Union when they could not keep up with our defense spending.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 10:20 AM) Who determins if they can afford it or not? And like all things government, even if they only subsidize a 'portion' right now, how long until some Democrat realizes if he increases that portion, he can perhaps win a few more votes in the next election? or until the people just below the cutoff for the subsidizing start to rally complaining that the demarcation line was set too high, and that they shoudl be included too? it will never end. That would be bad and not nearly as effective as Republicans just giving you cash in the form of a tax cut to buy your vote.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 10:01 AM) The funny part is that this is being sold as cost savings, and of course people are lapping it up. Kind of like claiming if we cut taxes on indiciduals, more taxes will come into the treasury? Because "someone else" will start paying not only the cut amount, but even more. Sadly we can never seem to find who or where are those people are that will be paying all those taxes. So either someone did start paying more taxes, which I guess doesn't make it a cut for them, or after the cut we later paid more in taxes, which again, doesn't sound like a tax cut, or business wound up paying more taxes. For all the great that Reagan did, the everyone gets what they want spending was the negative.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 7, 2009 -> 08:48 AM) Um, not for nothing, but your govenor saved the world on multiple occasions. I've seen the documentaries: Terminator 2, Last Action Hero...I can keep going, they've made a lot of documentaries on him, you should watch them.

I had to do a double take. That's a bit of trivia I did not know. Great read, thanks for sharing.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 09:19 AM) Too bad that pool is going to be buying bad governement run care that takes it's time paying it's bills (see Medicare), or simply doesn't pay them at all...and then Hospitals will begin balking at accepting said insurance knowing they'll never get paid. They're taken a successful step at reforming health insurance...but they've done nothing to reform health care, which was the bigger problem. People will begin to see that unless then Senate knocks this back over the next few years. Part 1 - All that and it is still better than what we have today. Part 2 - Great point. Health care claims a big part of the problem is all the uninsured they must treat. We'll see how this helps.

Happy Birthday!! (belated I guess)

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 09:11 AM) Again, it's not the place of the government to dictate how small businesses spend money. Government now controls our bodies (after the senate passes this boondoggle). It was NEVER, EVER intended to control all that it controls. The power to tax says other wise. The authority to write laws which protect workers cause all business to spend money. And yes the government controls out bodies. They draft us to fight wars, they tell us we can visit this wilderness, but not that one. We can ride cars here, but not there.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 09:03 AM) You are the one that used to scream about government spending, and now all of a sudden, it's ok. I scream about deficits and cutting taxes while spending more. Like fighting a war and cutting taxes to pay for it. I believe this will offer long term benefits to US small business. I see small business as the long term solution to our economic issues. The mega multinationals tend to move jobs out of here while small business picks up. The problem with every small business I worked at was health care. Attracting talent while offering benefit packages that were dwarfed by larger companies was nearly impossible. With family coverages costing $600 and more, that added $4 and $5 per hour to wages. The insurance companies always claimed it was the size of the pool. Well, we just started to create one hell of a pool.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 08:59 AM) Look at your 1-10 year old kids, think about them having kids, and apologize now, because these kids (and their kids) will never, ever see the opportunities we have had up until now. Ever. They will be working for the state to sustain this boondoggle we call government. Do you man the opportunity to work for American based small business that can offer health benefits that rival larger companies? The same small businesses that are least likely to outsource overseas? The opportunity to not be a lost job and major illness away from financial ruin? We spend hundreds of billions on a military to protect our health, and the health of millions of foreigners, it's about time that the working poor in this country have a shot at the same health benefits that John Wayne Gacy* received in his lifetime. Well at least to that last procedure he underwent. *thought I would add a touch of kaperbole™

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 8, 2009 -> 08:57 AM) Way to take something not just out of context, but like in a different f***ing galaxy of out of context. There will be no death camps. There will be no "lines", nor government dictated health care in what you can and cannot have done. I don't forsee any of that coming from this. What I see is further deficit, further spending, and further debt. That was the shark tank I'm speaking of jumping. We were already on our way to jumping it, but something this expensive...and trust me it will be WAY more expensive than they've estimated, well...that puts us over the top. The usual reaction when we need more revenue is to cut taxes. An across the board tax cut should cover all this nicely. Seriously, There will be lines until the the industry ramps up, which will not take too long. Someone will die and still others will blame the government and Obama. There will probably be displays counting the people that Obamacare kills.

Each player has multiple millions of reasons to pick a team. Chicago has a decent lifestyle for players. That counts for something.

On the bright side we still have a few billion to build a Berlin Border Wall and a few hundred billion to fight terrorism in Iraq.