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Comment: Re:It's like watching a train wreck. (Score 1) 462

by MacroMegaMan (#36494450) Attached to: Re: the U.S. 2012 election campaign, I am:

Reality check time. The country is broke. The days of get a job for the government because it is a job for life are over, one way or another. We in the Tea Party want to do the cutting while we still have choices, you apparently want to keep your gravy train rolling until it goes over the cliff.

To close the budget gap we have now means everything gets cut some, some gets cut all the way out. Raising taxes is simply madness in this environment, especially since the problem is too much spending, not too low taxes. Taxes as percentage of GDP are plenty high already, it is spending as percentage of GDP that is way beyond WWII levels. It is very doubtful that any tax increase in this environment would actually increase net revenue to the government. So cutting spending is the only game in town since under Obama economic growth is improbable.

I respect your beliefs, but I wish to understand something. Most of the people I talk to in the Tea Party movement seem to be against all taxes and regulation. I've only come across a few who were moderate in this stance, and when I try to talk with them regarding the full outcome of eliminating all taxes and regulation, they give me very rude treatment.

What do you say to your fellow party members who've gone off the bend? They are the majority of what is off-putting for me about the Tea Party. I agree we need some fiscal discipline, but radical responses are not the answer, and I can't get past that in most of who I've talked to.

Comment: HR Gone Wild (Score 1) 434

by MacroMegaMan (#35255522) Attached to: Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants
Who are the HR people and Lawyers that think these things up? This is a state agency right? Shouldn't we be able to, as taxpayers, demand the identity of whoever thinks up these foolish decisions that cost the state in litigation costs? I'd like to know so I can either vote them out of office, or not vote for then if they decide to run for office.

Comment: Re:This is why I don't use facebook (Score 1) 434

by MacroMegaMan (#35255452) Attached to: Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants

I use Facebook to determine the intelligence level of the person I'm dealing with.

If you have a Facebook account, you've already failed my job interview. You can't be trusted to make intelligent decisions with data, so you don't need to work at this organization.

So I ask for a Facebook login, but I never look, the only correct answer is 'i don't have one'

I take it you hire no Jonathan Smiths....

Comment: Re:Wow (Score 1) 832

by MacroMegaMan (#35116604) Attached to: Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children

"Just because you haven't found it yet doesn't mean it doesn't exist!"

QED

Ah, yes I remember this: What the Tortoise Said to Achilles. Or, more generally, the descent into logical madness...

Unfortunately the only way out of that sort of tangled mess is Nature's Solution: Pain. Just because you refuse to believe that walking off a cliff will cause you pain does not mean that the laws of physics agree.

Short people get rained on last.

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