tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post5590688915875944947..comments2024-01-05T03:42:51.603-05:00Comments on Chud's World: ScooterDrunken Chudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04669157739028122437noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-87455413403329065652008-11-24T18:23:00.000-05:002008-11-24T18:23:00.000-05:00I am in a job where I do financial profiles on peo...I am in a job where I do financial profiles on people and then give them advice--and I cannot BELIEVE some of the situations that some homeowners are in.<BR/><BR/>Example:<BR/><BR/>"Well, I get $1200 gross (BEFORE the taxes) per month for disability. My mortgage payment is $750 per month."<BR/><BR/>I want to say, "What the hell do you do for FOOD??" <BR/><BR/>There are MANY people in this type of situation, and if one little thing goes wrong they are totally screwed. These people should be in cheap-assed, Section 32 apartments. <BR/><BR/>"Universal health care" is another loaded term. I believe in UNIVERSAL <I>BASIC</I>: I.e., even if you are an illegal alien, you go to a hospital when you are in a car wreck, we remove the windshield glass from your face, we put your arm in a cast, etc.<BR/><BR/>But if you want to fly to India and get some new experimental surgery, you have to be a rich guy or bust your ass to afford one of these "Cadillac" plans. Or just pay for your own shit.<BR/><BR/>Not one candidate talked about simply expanding Medicare/Medicaid, either, which I thought was interesting: We ALREADY HAVE the system in place, with people drawing salaries and taking up offices and computers, etc. Why come up with some brand new invention and not just expand what we already have? <BR/><BR/>I guess that would not be, "Hope & Change" enough so we have to fuck everything up so we can say we were "original."Zen Wizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10932736559039078183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-59377719687576207362008-11-22T17:07:00.000-05:002008-11-22T17:07:00.000-05:00Zen, i agree that universal is a dangerous word. b...Zen, i agree that universal is a dangerous word. but that's the crux of the Dems. they want the shiny happy universal scenario without thinking about the consequences and how to actually impliment it (hint, you can't). i'm not sure where this entitlement mentality came from but it's sickening. not everybody DESERVES a house. hell, not everybody deserves a roof over their heads. this is America, you work for what you have and have what you earned. if you choose like i do, to blow all of your money on women and booze and don't have anything left over to pay the bills that's your/my own fault. nobody owes me a house/healthcare/a car/etc i have to earn it. but too many people want other people to cover for their vices and insecurities. nobody has personal responsibility anymore. why do i drink like a thirsty elephant? cuz i enjoy it. any health risks that arise i am culpable for. no one else. my choice, my life. i am on such a big tangent right now, i'm just gonna stop typing. <BR/><BR/>heff, thank you. thank you very much.Drunken Chudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04669157739028122437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-10152909405777658562008-11-19T11:40:00.000-05:002008-11-19T11:40:00.000-05:00Very impressed with this post Chud, and your polit...Very impressed with this post Chud, and your politics.Heffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13396114362826135207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-34416208340548246822008-11-18T17:53:00.000-05:002008-11-18T17:53:00.000-05:00A junior undergrad majoring in Finance at even a m...A junior undergrad majoring in Finance at even a marginal C-tier school like Georgia State could probably tell you that "Everyone" is a bad risk for a loan.<BR/><BR/>I am too lazy to look for it but I think on YOuTube there is a Clinton speech where he says something very close to, "Universal home ownership is the goal."<BR/><BR/>This of course was at the height of the Dot-com boom.<BR/><BR/>"Universal" is a dangerous word.<BR/><BR/>Even at the height of the Roman Empire circa Julius Caesar, there were slumlords. "Everyone" did not own his home--not even every citizen.<BR/><BR/>At the same time as that Clinton speech, I can remember people looking at me like I was a 'tard because I rented an apartment.<BR/><BR/>"Why don't you own a house?" they said. "YOU CAN'T LOSE MONEY IN REAL ESTATE [SIC]. Plus, you get a nice tax writeoff."<BR/><BR/>I don't understand tax writeoff's: Would you hand a guy $100 so that he would give you $33 back on April 15th? No. But that is basically what a tax writeoff is. <BR/><BR/>Also, people don't think of it, but with "Universal Home Ownership," we are subjecting people who are not used to it to a NEW KIND OF TAX: Property tax. <BR/><BR/>Schools are having a hard time now across the nation because every county (almost) projected and leveraged that there were all these new classes of people that they would be able to extort money from, forever.<BR/><BR/>Now they are not there anymore and all the counties have is a house that they thrashed before they got kicked out.<BR/><BR/>I think we have to face the fact on a going forward basis that "everyone" should not necessarily be in a dwelling that they own. Maybe some people SHOULD BE renters.Zen Wizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10932736559039078183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-74901102163079307782008-11-16T15:18:00.000-05:002008-11-16T15:18:00.000-05:00apparently you scored subpar on your reading compr...apparently you scored subpar on your reading comprehension.Drunken Chudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04669157739028122437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-53453555941028392862008-11-16T08:34:00.000-05:002008-11-16T08:34:00.000-05:00... So you are basically admitting that attacking ...... So you are basically admitting that attacking Iraq without any real ability to effect stability in the region was a woefully inadequate military strategy. Afghanistan should have been taken care of first.<BR/><BR/>We have lost seven years.I'm Scooter, but I might be a troll.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15236323080277874167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-27828622853126638092008-11-15T18:02:00.000-05:002008-11-15T18:02:00.000-05:00poor poor myopic scooter. your lack of understandi...poor poor myopic scooter. your lack of understanding of global politics coupled with your inability to remember that far back is what is hamstringing you from being able to make a single argument stick. <BR/><BR/>in the year leading up to the war which is the time i'm talking about we weren't at war with iraq yet. in fact the UN was still working with us. so how do you propose to go into two sovereign countries and stop smuggling between the two? on top of that, how do you not stall out israeli peace talks by invading syria. on top of that, by declaring war with syria how do you fight a war in iraq, syria, and israel? and while we're overextended keep iran at bay? sometimes it's best to think before you speak.Drunken Chudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04669157739028122437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-49318584168746387072008-11-15T11:29:00.000-05:002008-11-15T11:29:00.000-05:00Allowing weapons of mass destruction to pass betwe...Allowing weapons of mass destruction to pass between two hostile states isn't an example of a woefully inadequate military strategy?I'm Scooter, but I might be a troll.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15236323080277874167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-83202092324953424272008-11-13T16:12:00.000-05:002008-11-13T16:12:00.000-05:00scooter, i still don't believe that the reason was...scooter, i still don't believe that the reason was incorrect. i think saddam was a lot more savvy in politics than we gave him credit for. the CIA knew he had WMDs and they know that they are now in Syria. i mean shit, we gave the man a year to hide everything. he wouldn't comply with UN investigators, and every time we went back he let us into areas he previously hadn't. which tells me he was playing a shell game. the general populace doesn't have the memory to think back to those events leading up to the war. they just know that it's popular to hate bush and the war. we had an exit strategy: build an iraqi govwernment and then peace out. how were we supposed to know that the iraqis would be not only incompetent but also unwilling to run their own country. <BR/><BR/>i am still partly responsible for the us women's beach volleyball team team winning gold.Drunken Chudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04669157739028122437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-76962436872352829352008-11-13T08:01:00.000-05:002008-11-13T08:01:00.000-05:00Yes, chud, the media has a lot to do with this. Ho...Yes, chud, the media has a lot to do with this. However, we had a lot of support and obvious reasons to go to war in Afghanistan. Iraq... was mostly a war of choice. We are looking through the prism of hindsight, but Saddam was not as big a threat as he was made out to be, and the strategy put forward was woefully inadequate.<BR/><BR/>When a man sends troops to die for a reason proven to be incorrect, people get upset.<BR/><BR/>George Bush is partly responsible for this, and it certainly is a bigger part than that of watching it happen.I'm Scooter, but I might be a troll.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15236323080277874167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-12824421602419840452008-11-13T02:30:00.000-05:002008-11-13T02:30:00.000-05:00scooter, the reason for unpopularity is based larg...scooter, the reason for unpopularity is based largely on the media. if you look at afghanistan we've been there since '01/'02. not a peep in the media. but since we've lost almost 5,000 american lives in 5 years there is an outcry over iraq. nevermind the fact we're still in Bosnia-Herzkovania and everywhwere else clinton put us. btw, at the death rate we're going at it would take us over 55 years to reach to vietnam numbers. 430 years to reach wwii numbers and 675 years to reach civil war numbers. i don't get the outcry. i wanted to be a soldier. i was told i couldn't. curt wanted to be a soldier, his asthma prevented him from doing so. this media spin is bullshit. <BR/><BR/>phoenix, the american people have the attention span of a goldfish. seriously. you know the saying, "those who cannot remember the past are forever condemned to repeat it". we are the condemned. <BR/><BR/>scooter, i was partly responsible for the US women's beach volleyball team winning the gold. cuz i watched. <BR/><BR/>anon. the bench most days. but i am curious as to who you are. and what is urgent. if you have my number call me. otherwise, send me an e-mail.Drunken Chudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04669157739028122437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-79045825285771381132008-11-12T21:02:00.000-05:002008-11-12T21:02:00.000-05:00what bar do u gotonow? ihave to talk to u its urge...what bar do u gotonow? ihave to talk to u its urgent....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-4081904474865335662008-11-12T07:34:00.000-05:002008-11-12T07:34:00.000-05:00You do realize that I am using the word "partly", ...You do realize that I am using the word "partly", right?I'm Scooter, but I might be a troll.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15236323080277874167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-92079526193756586402008-11-11T19:16:00.000-05:002008-11-11T19:16:00.000-05:00George Bush is a Mayor in a city with a City Manag...George Bush is a Mayor in a city with a City Manager. He has no real power. Yet everyone blames him for everything. All of the problems we started having, started 2 years ago. Go Figure, thats when the Democrats became in control of Congress. <BR/>Also, everyones throwing a fit over this Wall Street Bail Out. Is that Bush's fault? Did he, as one man put that bill together, and pass out the billions of dollars? Nope. Did Bush single handedly put soldiers on a plane to Iraq? Nope. <BR/>Thats another thing, everyone is pissed over the amount of money we spent on the War in Iraq. Does anyone remember after 9/11. Half of the Fucking United States was ready to jump on a Plane and blow some Terrorist Heads off themselves. We were outraged! WE wanted this war. But because now WE seem to have forgotten the impact that 9/11 had on us, WE are pissed off that we even got involved. And I guarantee if we were attacked again, those feelings would come right back and WE would be ready to blow some heads off again. <BR/>People seem to forget the way they felt after 9/11. They forget that we were terrified, grieving and extremely pissed off. We were DEMANDING retaliation! When you are violated, you want the violaters to be brought to justice. That is why we started this war. You can't blame George W. Bush for that. Blame the American people as a whole.Mommy Phoenixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522373247365121294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-9099514230310841852008-11-11T04:57:00.000-05:002008-11-11T04:57:00.000-05:00That unpopular war sucked all of the oxygen out of...That unpopular war sucked all of the oxygen out of the room. It cost Hillary Clinton the candidacy, and the Republicans the 2006 elections.<BR/><BR/>George Bush is partly responsible for this.I'm Scooter, but I might be a troll.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15236323080277874167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-7061909120377520242008-11-10T15:56:00.000-05:002008-11-10T15:56:00.000-05:00actually in 2002, 2003 and 2005 they tried to enac...actually in 2002, 2003 and 2005 they tried to enact legislation to seriously undercut the CRA, they got stopped every time. on top of that the republicans, including john mccain have been going on record since 1998 trying to get more oversight and a restructuring of Fanny/Freddie. <BR/><BR/>the problem doesn't lie with bush per se, it more lies with the media and the inability of the RNC to get this information to the masses. to quote 'men in black' "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." they see the failure under a republican and simply blame him. <BR/><BR/>the RNC is broken and they need to restructure back to true conservatism. reagan conservatism. i'm not talking about social policy on abortion and shit, i'm talking fiscal conservatism. not this middle of the road, half liberal fiscal middle ground they seem to be reaching for right now. McCain was off message for most of the campaign, and the RNC wasn't much help. hopefully this is the kick in the nuts they needed to restructure the RNC and get themselves back on message. <BR/><BR/>moreover i blame the media the most. our supposedly unbiased media has never once covered a "positive" bush story, or "McCain/Palin" story. and so help us if Bush, McCain, Palin or any republican had friends like Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, Jeremiah Wright, or ACORN. we'd be wiped off the map. the media would stomp us into the ground. yet, "the one" gets a pass. great. nice bias. but that's been the case since the 70's we know that. we expect that.<BR/><BR/>aside from the war, W's economic policies have been sound. and now that all looks to be undone. you have to remember, he inherited a downward swing in the economy when he was coming into office. then some planes hit some buildings and the economy stopped for 6 months. after that he managed to get unemployment to an all time national low and keep it there (even while michigan was losing jobs at a record rate) while allowing the DOW, Nasdaq, and NYSE to continually post record numbers not seen since reagan. <BR/><BR/>so... aside from an unpopular war...Drunken Chudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04669157739028122437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16483959.post-38592050404333605042008-11-10T08:53:00.000-05:002008-11-10T08:53:00.000-05:00Ok, fine. Bill Clinton started the ball rolling. G...Ok, fine. Bill Clinton started the ball rolling. George Bush had six years to stop it.<BR/><BR/>He didn't. Moreover, he let it reach critical mass under his administration, and allowed it to cost his party the election.<BR/><BR/>Now, the Democrats are going to get credit for cleaning up the mess.<BR/><BR/>George Bush is partly responsible for this.I'm Scooter, but I might be a troll.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15236323080277874167noreply@blogger.com