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Post by Nethyr on Mar 14, 2008 9:32:32 GMT -4
Thanks for coordinating this Marty! Don't forget guys, most people here don't know much about college basketball, and those who do never seem to win (except Columnus, grumble)  ... Join in the fun! Bracket Link:: tinyurl.com/yqow7tleague # 60580 league name: Nethyr p  word: Nethyr $20 a bracket: I will collect or we can paypal to a winner |
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Post by Jeff on Mar 14, 2008 9:53:42 GMT -4
Thanks Marty,
Cammy's mom had a stroke and i'm going nuts trying to put a ground floor bedroom in our house. She is going to be living with us and i'm busy as hell.
Thanks
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Post by funkpuppy on Mar 14, 2008 12:07:36 GMT -4
unemployed right now .... if you need a hand let me know
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Post by Hex on Mar 14, 2008 12:11:07 GMT -4
get a job, hippie.
i hope your at least trying to scam the system by getting welfare or food stamps (i tried once..you can't get both unemployment and food stamps sadly.)
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Post by pantera on Mar 14, 2008 13:03:16 GMT -4
Tom if your name was Juan or Lamont and you drove a brand new Lexus with gold spinner rims they would give you unemployment and food stamps
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Post by Hex on Mar 15, 2008 8:31:21 GMT -4
unemployment was awesome.
I really figured I'd be able to get food stamps tho.
james, that's racist!.
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Post by funkpuppy on Mar 15, 2008 10:31:05 GMT -4
8 ppl in..... but we need more get the word out
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Post by pantera on Mar 15, 2008 14:38:55 GMT -4
Tom it wasn't racist I was just saying what everyone else was thinking. You know awhile back I went to pathmark and I could barely afford a box of macaroni and cheese and I had a good paying job, and there was this little spic infront of me who didn't speak a word of fuckin english buying lobster, skrimps and all kinds of other great things with food stamps, I followed him out and he gets into a fuckin lexus with gold rims, and I was driving a Ford P.O.S. The system is racist..against WHITE people. Back in the day people came to this country looking for a better life and worked their off to get it, now people come here and don't have to do a damn thing but stand on a line and wait for the government go give them a handout, while hard working people like us (not you Marty) pay for them to live the good life off our tax dollars. AMERICA IS FULL!!! If your not gonna be a productive member of this country GO THE  HOME. Disclaimer : "The views expressed by James in no way reflect the views of Nethyr or any of it's affiliates" |
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Post by brethyr on Mar 15, 2008 18:27:42 GMT -4
The Lexus story sounds like the stories that Reagan used to make up to over poor people while white collar crime was a far more serious problem in terms of dollars lost. Reagan often told the story of a so-called “welfare queen” in Chicago who drove a Cadillac and had ripped off $150,000 from the government using 80 aliases, 30 addresses, a dozen social security cards and four fictional dead husbands. Unfortunately, it wasn't really true. The media searched for this welfare cheat in the hopes of interviewing her, and discovered that she didn't even exist.
As a bit of cl warfare, however, it was brilliant. It diverted public attention from insider traders in their limousines to Welfare Queens in their Cadillacs, even though the former were stealing thousands of times more from the American people than the latter. Just one example of the cost of white collar crime would become apparent a few years later, when President Bush bailed out the Savings & Loans industry with $500 billion of the taxpayer's money -- enough to fund 20 years of federal AFDC*.
*AFDC: Aid to Families with Dependent Children was the name of a federal istance program in effect from 1935 to 1997
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Post by pantera on Mar 15, 2008 18:38:51 GMT -4
I have no desire to debate this issue, this was long after the Reagan era. I was just telling a story (a true one)
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Post by funkpuppy on Mar 16, 2008 9:39:44 GMT -4
Selection Sunday is here!!!!!
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Post by brethyr on Mar 16, 2008 23:10:33 GMT -4
I have no desire to debate this issue, this was long after the Reagan era. I was just telling a story (a true one) Me neither. I hate white collar crime. EAT THE RICH! |
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Post by brethyr on Mar 18, 2008 9:48:15 GMT -4
I have no desire to debate this issue, this was long after the Reagan era. I was just telling a story (a true one) Me neither. I hate white collar crime. EAT THE RICH! Yesterday for example the fed gave a 30 billion dollar loan to JP Morgan Chase to cover the risk on the riskiest part of Bear Stearns. This is a really bad bet, really a $30 billion gift, but it was either do that, watch the economy collapse -- or have placed sensible restrictions on the cheesy mortgage loans that banks have been allowed to make, and you KNOW the guys in suits wouldn't want restrictions. 30 billion would have covered the entire country's food stamp program for a year. I worry about people getting handouts too, but not the families with children making $650/month getting $50/week for food. |
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Post by funkpuppy on Mar 18, 2008 9:55:12 GMT -4
Let's get more people in..... gotta be in it to win it people..... invite friends, family, random strangers with $20 bucks and a dream
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Post by brethyr on Mar 19, 2008 11:48:04 GMT -4
Bracket Link:: tinyurl.com/yqow7tleague # 60580 league name: Nethyr p word: Nethyr $20 a bracket: I will collect or we can paypal to a winner Less than 24 hrs left to make your picks... |
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