Comments by ElGoodo
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Posted on November 26 at 10:39 a.m.
"However, all who are concerned with health care matters within our community are encouraged to come and be informed by representatives of the State Department of Health on what you, and members of your family can do to prevent the spread of STDs and HIV/ AIDS."
Not to sound callous but after a 25 year media blitz and literally hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars people still don't know?
If you are straight and do not use intravenous drugs, you have a better chance of hitting the LA lotto than getting AIDS. I'm sure if you hit the Health Department they will give you the canned PC line that everyone is at risk but that is just nonsense.
The fact is, people have learned. AIDS is now back to almost an exclusively homosexual and needle-user's disease. Truth is, it never was much more than that once blood screenings began to be used.
There is no demographic group in America that gets more funding per capita than homosexuals, largely disguised as AIDS funding. AIDS funding has hosted many a hook-up party and many a parade that you would not take your children to. These are to raise "awareness", supposedly, and are often at least in part funded by tax dollars.
People should educate themselves about AIDS. Not just the disease but where the money our government spends on "awareness" goes and who actually has the disease and how they got it.
Posted on November 25 at 11:06 a.m.
For those who don't take themselves too seriously:
Posted on November 25 at 10:19 a.m.
USMBOY:
"What about the people who work for these companies and their families. Thats a million people without jobs. A million people who don't have money to buy from a million different small businesses. Everybody will take a hard loss. If the government doesn't bail them out, it will make the economy even worse."
Forcing them into bankruptcy protection/re-organization will not shut them down. Propping up their failed business model though taxpayer money will ensure they do. They will be required by law to make small expensive "green" cars that people don't want to buy. The "imports" will not have these restraints and will continue to trounce the big 3 in the market place, even by larger margins.
With a bailout of the big 3, you can be guaranteed their financial situation will not improve any time soon. Chrysler got a bailout in '79. Yay, that brought us the K-car. The government bought scads of these things and essentially paid back their own loan to themselves by buying so many Chrysler cars. We always hear that Chrysler paid that loan back in a few years. Well, they paid it back largely with taxpayer money through government contracts.
Posted on November 25 at 8:53 a.m.
Naturegirl, the Amish and Mennonites do their charity by free will. That's why it's called charity. Being forced by government to fork over money to pay for another's shortcomings isn't charitable or kind. It is the government punishing success and subsidizing failure.
This is a free country. Anybody here can give a farmer as much money as he or she wants to. That is charity and that is honorable. Volunteering other people's money through the channels of government is not.
Posted on November 23 at 10:37 a.m.
I had Mrs. Williams as a senior. Sorry about all those times I sneaked over to Kroger for an afternoon snack. Great teacher.
Posted on November 20 at 8:16 a.m.
Sound advice, in my opinion.
As for concern about having the funds, I hear you. I'd be buying local anyway because I can't afford the gas to Jackson. :)
Posted on November 19 at 9:19 a.m.
"The US has a relatively low tax burden. Lower than other countries like us."
There are no countries like us. You want to live in Europe, take off, pal. Do yourself and all of us who enjoy civil discussion without childish name calling, please, for the love of God, just go.
"If you don't want to pay the tax - don't smoke - it's not rocket science."
Don't smoke and there will be no tax revenues. It's not rocket science. So what happens to these revenues when people quit smoking? More and more people are every year. I hope you don't have any extraneous activities the government might target to replace that lost revenue. Shame you don't return the common courtesy. You non-smokers can feel all smug that somebody else's taxes are supporting your stipends but your time is coming.
It is really a sad state of affairs in this country when that is the prevailing attitude. "Take their money and give it to me". Shameful.
Posted on November 18 at 4:56 p.m.
Given the results from here and the smoking ban threads, many in Natchez have no problem in telling other people what they can and cannot do with their private property.
Posted on November 18 at 3:13 p.m.
Sentas, Fanny and Freddy are GSEs. That's GOVERNMENT Sponsored entities. They backed loans that no completely private company would in order to do government mandated social experiments like raising the home-ownership rates of minorities. Not a month before Fannie and Freddie went belly-up, Barney Frank was on the house floor defending them from further regulation, even though members of Congress were long before beginning to smell something bad, and stated that they were in good shape. That is a good example of what happens when the government gets in the loan business.
I could write 10 pages here about all the regulation on auto manufacturers that help prevent them from being profitable. Restrictive emissions standards, CAFE standards, etc., etc. The US automakers make throw-way little cars they know they will lose money on in order to off-set the CAFE standards on vehicles people DO buy.
Yes, it is the role of government to regulate commerce but we went too far a long time ago. Regulation as a form of social experimentation is wrong and that's what our government does now. They use regulation to alter YOUR behavior, not the behavior of companies. The companies are just the vessel by which they regulate you and what you are allowed to buy and what you are allowed to do with what you buy.
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Posted on December 1 at 8:54 a.m.
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." - Abraham Lincoln
On Annual humane society fundraiser set for this weekend