Religion and Politics

THIS IS MY OPINION AND I'M SAYING IT IN THE MOST POLITE WAY POSSIBLE:

I believe there was a man called Jesus or something along those lines and he preached about a one God and blah blah blah and he got some followers that completely believed him and it just stuck through out the ages. Its like if I said to you right now "I am a God and I can grant you eternal life", and everyone believed me 100% and 1000's of years after I died people would still say there was a God called Edward that existed and he could grant eternal life.

My point is that all the resurrection, turning water into wine, feeding 1000 people with 1 loaf of bread is all a great STORY but its nothing more. The bible is great book for learning life lessons and I believe that's why it was created and the best thing about religion is that it gives people faith and alot of people the will to live and be the best they can be but as for GOD being real well I think that's all BS.

people that are religious good for them I don't blame them for having faith in something even if it is a made up story but I truly believe that not of it is true but hey it doesn't matter what I think at all like I said I respect people who are religious so no skin of my teeth.

btw I got an A* in R.E at school in my GCSE's :)

Originally posted by ax412 What do you guys think of the notion of Europe becoming a predominately Islamic continent in the next few decades.

Lolwut?

The known recovery fund recipients maybe? What about the unknown recipients?

A Youtube education is the way to go.. skip all the college drama and save 300,000 :)

Putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good idea. Even when it comes to listening and believing a certain party or an individual. Agenda's and elections tend to be put over all else with politicians from either party.

Originally posted by HanFei Originally posted by uc SYZYGY uc Bush was almost as bad as Obama when it comes to spending.Thats not accurate.. Cutting taxes is a tax cut! The budget is the total that will be spent each year! A surplus or deficit is the result of spending! There's plenty of tax money! There's just too much spending! How many democrats also voted for the wars? Our economy grew last quarter? < Thats BULLSH1T!!! :) Mild inflation discourages hoarding? sounds like something the left would believe. lol After the 09 depression, we've experienced positive growth, despite the rhetoric of pundants and candidates. http://www.bea.gov/national/xls/gdplev.xls Deflation encourages hoarding because hoarding cash will increase value in time. With slight inflation, there is incentive to convert cash into assists with growth instead of loss. Kahn Accademy for lectures. http://www.khanacademy.org/

rhetoric? lmfao The far *LEFT PROGRESSIVES* = rhetoric, plot'n, sceaming, lie'n, corrupting, attacking. Their a bunch of anti American pissants that wish they were 800 pound gorilla's :) Khan Accademy must be huge Jimmy Carter fans. Jimmy Carter was *The King of Inflation*.

@TX Dam the Ghost Busters had it right all along

Pie Charts are very simple to use, but there worthless if the info on them is inaccurate! Funny thing is that no one can even give an exact amount on how much the bailout out cost us? how much the stimulous cost us? Where all the money went?

What exactly is the Obama administration's plan on decreasing spending, balancing the budget, improving the economy, lowering the debt? He has already made a lot of money disapear so maybe he'd make a better magician then president?

Originally posted by uc SYZYGY uc Bush was almost as bad as Obama when it comes to spending.Thats not accurate.. Cutting taxes is a tax cut! The budget is the total that will be spent each year! A surplus or deficit is the result of spending! There's plenty of tax money! There's just too much spending! How many democrats also voted for the wars? Our economy grew last quarter? < Thats BULLSH1T!!! :) Mild inflation discourages hoarding? sounds like something the left would believe. lol

After the 09 depression, we've experienced positive growth, despite the rhetoric of pundants and candidates.
http://www.bea.gov/national/xls/gdplev.xls

Deflation encourages hoarding because hoarding cash will increase value in time. With slight inflation, there is incentive to convert cash into assists with growth instead of loss. Kahn Accademy for lectures. http://www.khanacademy.org/

Originally posted by uc SYZYGY uc 12/2008? old chart? Do you know who the Intergovernment is? China is our biggest foreign lender by far. Returning the tax rate to pre bush tax cuts would be raising taxes! Your view would be like me saying Bush didn't cut taxes he just returned them to an earlier rate. Bush cut/lowered taxes. When taxes go up its raising taxes.. When taxes go down its cutting/lowering taxes. Obama is a radically far left puppet! Our government is way too big! Our economy is screwed up! Our currency is becoming worthless! Inflation is about to hit hard! We are in 3 wars that we can't afford! Banks aren't loaning money! Health care costs are very high! Energy prices are climbing! I could go on, but i'm sure you get the picture. :)

Here is a projection for 2011 with practically identical percentages. Again, Japan's share is quite comparable to that of China's. China is not the lead holder by far.


Cutting taxes at the time of a small budget surplus caused a budget deficit. Because of deficit funding, a tax cut at the time of a budget deficit is a deferment of taxes. To truely reduce taxes, we must reduce spending and taxes at the same time, to not do so is to play accounting games and rhetoric.

Let us remember which party started these wars. Our economy grew last quarter. Constant, mild inflation discourages hoarding, unlike no inflation or deflation. South Korea uses 1,000 Won notes; yet their % GDP grow was larger than ours. This is all that matters. Energy is still widely avaliable, even as we consume ~25% of the worlds energy....

Originally posted by uc SYZYGY uc 2 questions 1 How much do we really owe China? 2 What is the interest on that debt? No country has ever been 14 to 16 trillion dollars in debt! Its new territory. Thats a huge amount of money. The democrats still want to keep raising the debt ceiling? We're so fk'd :)

Both parties deficit finance. The Tax cuts in 01, at a time of brief budget surplus are still lingering throughout these years of deficits. Unfortunately, any attempt to let these taxes expire and return Taxes to their previous level is seen as a tax increase by the public, which has a short memory.

Let us also frame Debt as a % of GDP for a more accurate representation of our debt:earnings. Currently we take in 57 cents for every dollar spent.

2 questions

1 How much do we really owe China? 2 What is the interest on that debt?

No country has ever been 14 to 16 trillion dollars in debt! Its new territory. Thats a huge amount of money.

The democrats still want to keep raising the debt ceiling? We're so fk'd :)

Hmmm! Norway do borrow money... But that is a political agenda. Not because we need to!

Not every country. And even if, would that make it any better ?

This country is on borrowed money therefore its on borrowed time!

Tim Pawlenty for President.

Originally posted by HanFei Originally posted by uc SYZYGY uc Low wages in China is a big plus for the Country overall.. As wages grow so will their economy.. While wages are low building and improving their infrastructure will be very affordable.. business will thrive due to low wages.. Low wages is the reason their growth will last for so long.. It will take a long time for their wages to reach ours, if they ever do? Which means they will continue a steady growth and not max out as quick as we did. Its the worth of the currency thats important Tuna. Our dollar is worth 4 cents compared to its worth in 1920. Let us remember that real growth equals growth minus inflation. Real growth is all that matters not inflation. ~1000 Korean Won = 1 USD. This past year they saw ~11 percent growth on par with India and China.

Inflation always matters! Inflation and debt can destroy a country in a very short period of time! devaluing currency is a form of inflation.. weather they print more money or add imaginary money digitally it devalues the dollar just the same.

Watch and see if they don't try to get the reserve transferred to China's central bank in the near future.