OP ED-"Little Timmy Wants to Know Why Nobody Likes Airplanes Anymore?

[flyboy0681]

FOX fell right in step. I keep telling you I rarely watch them or any media ... I can only stand very small doses, but I try to stay informed ......

 

I know you aren't an avid viewer, but an awful lot of your brethren are.

[John Pleisse]

I'm confused - so 'regulated' means 'socialist'?

 

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

 

"If it moves....tax it. If it moves again.....regulate it. And if it stops moving.......subsidize it".

 

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance"?

 

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat".

 

 

-Ronald Reagan

[flyboy0681]

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

 

"If it moves....tax it. If it moves again.....regulate it. And if it stops moving.......subsidize it".

 

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance"?

 

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat".

 

 

-Ronald Reagan

 

 

"Stupid is as stupid does".

 

-Forest Gump

[flyboy0681]

Bush Obama Republican Democrat - all to blame. I don't like any of them ... neither does TIMMY!

 

The man from Georgia speaks the truth.

[AndyFromCB]

You thought you were free? As a corporation? As an individual? (Andy is right on this one!) nope, the Washington spending machine is at full speed grabbing for money ... err ... I mean "government revenue," anywhere and everywhere ... Hold on to your wallet!

 

Not just money, Dave, not just money. More people in prison per capita than any other nation in the world. Handing out 25 year prison sentences like hot cakes. If for 3 seconds I really though Rand Paul would do what he says, he'd have my vote.

[John Pleisse]

"Stupid is as stupid does".

 

-Forest Gump

 

From you, apropo.

[AndyFromCB]

Where is personal responsibility? Our obesity rate is approaching 40%. This accounts for a larger part of our health expense than anything you have enumerated. Is it really our government's job to monitor this? It is the difference in cost per patient here and abroad. My kid's public middle school....fat kids everywhere. PE, 3 days a week. Their previous Catholic school, one hour of PE everyday, 1/2 hour recess and nobody has a choice, you must play on an athletic team after school. 

 

How about applying same logic to narcotics...Personal responsibility...Why the hell are you sending them to public schools, anyway. I'm serious.

 

And the government bears major responsibly for fat americans. The entire system is setup to subsidize corporate agriculture and mono culture farms. What used to be a treat, like roast chicken on Sunday night, now we can afford to east 3 times a day. This crazy liberal spent 6 hours last night making soups and dinners for this week from scratch last night...No fast food or going out more than once a week in this household...Cows used to take 48 months to mature, now they do in 18...One chicken from a little farm, where I actually know the farmer, made 3 kinds of soup, a total of 18 portions...

[John Pleisse]

How about applying same logic to narcotics...Personal responsibility...Why the hell are you sending them to public schools, anyway. I'm serious.

 

Portugal is a different animal. All three will be in Catholic schools next year. My eldest will start St. John Prep. A little pit stop for a confidence booster, austerity preparations and reunite with their neighborhood friends.

[AndyFromCB]

Portugal is a different animal. All three will be in Catholic schools next year. My eldest will start St. John Prep. A little pit stop for a confidence booster, austerity preparations and reunite with their neighborhood friends.

 

You see and this is why we are where we are and always will be. You can either have all the freedom or none at all. I am either 100% liberal or 100% liberitarian so until GOP swings to personal liberty as much as they are for economic liberty, I cannot support it...

[John Pleisse]

How about applying same logic to narcotics...Personal responsibility...Why the hell are you sending them to public schools, anyway. I'm serious.

 

And the government bears major responsibly for fat americans. The entire system is setup to subsidize corporate agriculture and mono culture farms. What used to be a treat, like roast chicken on Sunday night, now we can afford to east 3 times a day. This crazy liberal spent 6 hours last night making soups and dinners for this week from scratch last night...No fast food or going out more than once a week in this household...Cows used to take 48 months to mature, now they do in 18...One chicken from a little farm, where I actually know the farmer, made 3 kinds of soup, a total of 18 portions...

 

Agree totally, but where we differ is how to solve it. Look at Safeway's employee health program. This is what everyone should be doing. I said, should be doing, not forced to do. When companies realize sick people can't work, they'll get it. But did the companies make them fat and sick??

[AndyFromCB]

Agree totally, but where we differ is how to solve it. Look at Safeway's employee health program. This is what everyone should be doing. I said, should be doing, not forced to do. When companies realize sick people can't work, they'll get it. But did the companies make them fat and sick??

 

Not exactly, it's a combination of government policies and companies conspiring together for a quick buck vs long term outlook under misguided concept of food security. This is an area I know better than the back of my hand. I breathe this shit everyday. I try not to live it. Proud USDA contractor here ;-)

 

I highly doubt we differ much on how to solve it but if you're going to have a free market, then you really need to have a free market, including environment cost in everything. No more polluting without funding the cleanup instead of sticking it to taxpayers. It costs more to raise a chicken without polluting a river. At least it does on corporate scale. It's actually cheaper on a proper multi-culture farm. If environmental costs were included, a little farmer would actually stand a chance. As it is today, he cannot compete with Tyson. BTW, did you know that Tyson owns everything, chicken, chicken feed, drugs, etc, everything but chicken shit...The local contractor gets stuck with that...

[John Pleisse]

I am OK with what the FDA does....they have to. Otherwise we'd all be smoking Chesterfields and eating fat-back. Other than political manipulation of drugs, I am OK with what they do and should. And to me they are not something I give progressive credit to, but instead view politically androgynous, as executive authority should be. Now EPA? Sorry.... Department of Ed? Sorry......they love "trees" and "equality-fairness" more than they do themselves and the American public.

[flyboy0681]

 Now EPA? Sorry.... Department of Ed? Sorry......they love "trees" and "equality" more than they do themselves and the American public.

 

Agreed 

[AndyFromCB]

Stronger EPA would make it DA not FDA. And the D could easily be handled by lawyers and insurance companies. If clean water rules applied to farms, large and small equally, corporate confinement operations, primary source of e coli bacteria, could not exist. Equally and fairly applied environmental cost compliance is exactly a part of country's infrastructure. If you pollute, you pay, big, medium or small. It would actually favor small business not corporate behemoths. 640 acres of pure corn is considerably less efficient from both a dollar point of view and environmental damage than 640 acres, growing 160 acres of silage corn, 160 acres of pasture, 160 acres of woods, and chickens, cows and pigs in constant rotation cleaning up after one another. But because we do not charge for fertilizer run off and instead stick the tax payer and other business down the line with the cost, it is cheaper to produce 640 acres of corn and then stick 3000 cows into an 10 acre lot and shove them full of antibiotics. 

 

If you're really interested John, read up on Joe Saladin and Polyface Farms and his constant battle with USDA and FDA. He is a crazy farmer, Christian and liberitarian that actually only supports one government organization, the EPA. 

[flyboy0681]

Some good news for a change:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/liberia-ebola_n_6547610.html

[flyboy0681]

With a single stroke of his executive pen, your man Barack has made sure that there will be no merger and move to Canada. Those BK FATBURGERS and FRIES will remain safely headquartered right here in the good ole' U S of A ... where we can keep our big government tax revenue needle right in that big vein!

 

 

I'm actually surprised you aren't in support of keeping these tax dodgers right here. And don't you mean Barack HUSSEIN?

[John Pleisse]

Stronger EPA would make it DA not FDA. And the D could easily be handled by lawyers and insurance companies. If clean water rules applied to farms, large and small equally, corporate confinement operations, primary source of e coli bacteria, could not exist. Equally and fairly applied environmental cost compliance is exactly a part of country's infrastructure. If you pollute, you pay, big, medium or small. It would actually favor small business not corporate behemoths. 640 acres of pure corn is considerably less efficient from both a dollar point of view and environmental damage than 640 acres, growing 160 acres of silage corn, 160 acres of pasture, 160 acres of woods, and chickens, cows and pigs in constant rotation cleaning up after one another. But because we do not charge for fertilizer run off and instead stick the tax payer and other business down the line with the cost, it is cheaper to produce 640 acres of corn and then stick 3000 cows into an 10 acre lot and shove them full of antibiotics. 

 

If you're really interested John, read up on Joe Saladin and Polyface Farms and his constant battle with USDA and FDA. He is a crazy farmer, Christian and liberitarian that actually only supports one government organization, the EPA. 

 

Subsidies are a labyrinth of our own doing and the pitfall of the American farmer. Also, they are a throw back to cold war activities. Divided crops are great. But taking a 14 acre parcel from an otherwise good, small land owner because the PH in the pond is not in compliance is tragic. Look at auto mobiles, the Prius. A well intentioned joke, hailed and concluded under high level negotiations by EPA and the Japanese. What did we get? A car people love to plug into their home electric (more coal emissions), still using gas and large batteries that are a environmental disaster to dispose of.

 

Diesel was the answer all along. 45% penetration in Europe. Twice the power and twice the torque, allowing larger cars to still operate. Diesel and Bio diesel are not volatile, require half the refinement process, safer to transport and mid sized cars go TWICE as far. The Passat...38 mpg, the Jetta? 46 mpg, Full sized Dodge Ram...29mpg!!!! These cars don't cost the premium hybrids do.

 

But the EPA has zero emissions up their crack, so deep, they can't hear them self think. As a nation, diesel and natural gas cars are our answer, not jokes like the Prius. Funny, liberals have really backed off their use of the term "green" in the last few years. Kind of like that slick little marketing switch from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change". Like my wife, the EPA lives in an alternate reality and figures things out 5-10 years later.

 

Think of how much taxation head room for environmental pursuits the democrats would have had if we were diesel. Fuel would have been at $1.85 all along and they could have taxed a buck a gallon for the Federal Highway fund.

[AndyFromCB]

 Also, they are a throw back to cold war activities. 

 

So is the the middle class. Only allowed to exist for as long as commies were a threat...

[John Pleisse]

Well, since you are so progressive and yet, are obsessed with the past. WW2 did wonders for the depression.

[AndyFromCB]

Subsidies are a labyrinth of our own doing and the pitfall of the American farmer. Also, they are a throw back to cold war activities. Divided crops are great. But taking a 14 acre parcel from an otherwise good, small land owner because the PH in the pond is not in compliance is tragic. Look at auto mobiles, the Prius. A well intentioned joke, hailed and concluded under high level negotiations by EPA and the Japanese. What did we get? A car people love to plug into their home electric (more coal emissions), still using gas and large batteries that are a environmental disaster to dispose of.

 

Diesel was the answer all along. 45% penetration in Europe. Twice the power and twice the torque, allowing larger cars to still operate. Diesel and Bio diesel are not volatile, require half the refinement process, safer to transport and mid sized cars go TWICE as far. The Passat...38 mpg, the Jetta? 46 mpg, Full sized Dodge Ram...29mpg!!!! These cars don't cost the premium hybrids do.

 

But the EPA has zero emissions up their crack, so deep, they can't hear them self think. As a nation, dielsel and natural gas cars are our answer, not jokes like the Prius. Funny, liberals have really backed off their use of the term "green" in the last few years. Kind of like that slick little marketing switch from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change". Like my wife, the EPA lives in an alternate reality and figures things out 5-10 years later.

 

Think of how much taxation head room for environmental pursuits the democrats would have had if we were diesel. Fuel would have been at $1.85 all along and they could have taxed a buck a gallon for the Federal Highway fund.

 

My 328xi does 38mpg without being a fucking diesel...I loathe diesel engines in cars...Love them in trucks though....

[AndyFromCB]

Well, since you are so progressive and yet, are obsessed with the past. WW2 did wonders for the depression.

 

I'm sure so will WWIII if Bibi decides to bomb Iran without first asking for permission...Obama is that friend on that school bus of yours and Iran is his boy...

[John Pleisse]

My 328xi does 38mpg without being a fucking diesel...I loathe diesel engines in cars...Love them in trucks though....

 

Well then, you'll love my tags and bumper sticker on my F250 Platinum Powerstroke.

[AndyFromCB]

Well then, you'll love my tags and bumper sticker on my F250 Platinum Powerstroke.

 

What kind of boat do you pull with it?

[BorealOne]

With a single stroke of his executive pen, your man Barack has made sure that there will be no merger and move to Canada. Those BK FATBURGERS and FRIES will remain safely headquartered right here in the good ole' U S of A ... where we can keep our big government tax revenue needle right in that big vein!

 

Dave - you must not have been paying attention when BK was purchased by the Brazilians, or when they called Obama's bluff and proceeded with the merger. They expect to save some $275M through their "tax inversion" strategy. 

 

From last weeks Financial Post:

 

http://business.financialpost.com/2015/01/23/tim-hortons-inc-planning-significant-layoffs-at-head-offices-next-week-sources/

 

But the upside is that you might get to enjoy a double-double and a maple cream down your way.

[flyboy0681]

Well then, you'll love my tags and bumper sticker on my F250 Platinum Powerstroke.

 

 

A bit hard to see, but here is a readout of the mileage from my Ford Fusion Plugin. Notice the MPG. This came after driving a month around town using the battery only.