Texsox

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.

America finally moves toward health and happiness for all

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 7, 2009 -> 10:38 PM) Tex, I is next to O on the keyboard, and my arthritic fingers don't always hit the right keys. And sometimes when they DO, my dyslexic part takes over and transposes a few, usually making 'ing' into 'ign' or something like that. 'Fiorst' instead of 'first' is also a common one my crooked fingers make. Same here, foist ois one of my usua;l that I have to edit out.

Another days useless energy spent

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Nov 7, 2009 -> 01:52 PM) I would rather they spend all this time and energy into fixing the economy that healthcare. Especially because i fear their 'fix' for healthcare will f*** up the economy even more. or fix medicare first, show me you have some ideas that can work before asking me to trust you with a huge percentage of the nations economy. Too much waste inthe programs youhave, too much room for errors, too many opportunities for crooks. Fox something first. How exactly do you envision 400+ members of congress and 100 senators all work on one thing at one time? And I love the Fox something first I believe your Freudian Slip was showing

I'm a little surprised there wasn't more cheers for the cash, I know how many fans of cash there are on the board

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Nov 7, 2009 -> 02:42 PM) "Generally and historically teams do not want their best players at 2nd base.' You mean like the 2008 AL MVP Pedroia?! Get a clue. Make about 10,000 good posts before cranking up the snark. Personal insults are frowned on around here.

X again slows this down.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 7, 2009 -> 06:17 AM) Everclear and Jager are possibly the two worst human innovations in the history of respectable drinking. yeah.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 7, 2009 -> 09:02 AM) Ehh, not even close to as turbulent as the bears. For 7 years it was ventura, then carousel, then for quite a few years it was Crede. And each one a future hall of famer which was more to my point. Edit: I should have said consistency of quality in my earlier post. Sorry.

One thing, switching him to 2nd will allow the Sox long tradition of 3rd baseman to continue. There has been much consistency with 3rd on the Sox and QB for the Bears.

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Nov 7, 2009 -> 03:41 AM) My manager keeps telling me he wants me to punch out whenever I go to the bathroom because he thinks I take too long. What he doesn't know is that while I'm on the toilet at work, I'm using my cell phone and visiting sites like Soxtalk. wait, did you post this while on the can? Thematically that could be post of the year worthy