What a strange bunch of invaders.

(07-09-2023 07:35 AM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(07-08-2023 01:50 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Yikes, it appears the sunbelt has some wacko's...

Yeah imagine drinking some beers with your neighbors and shooting off fireworks and having a good time.

Sounds nuts.

You guys are completely off the reservation.

Imagine living in a small town in South Texas and being overwhelmed with illegals stealing everything you have worked your whole life for. And having a clown come on here and say they are welcome. They are about as welcome to him as they were in NYC until the buses started arriving.

It’s easy to virtue signal when someone else is footing the bill.

Like I said anyone who believes it is ok for mass illegal immigration should be taxed extra to cover the expenses of those here illegally. Most likely over 10 million and counting.

Muh, uh, duh we have low birth rates so the hoards of illegals bringing in drugs diseases and thugs should just come on in without even being tested for Covid. Yet someone legally trying to enter must be tested and vaxxed.

We are not nuts but informed. Something your friend is not.

Btw, anyone coming here legally regardless where they are from is welcome in my book. See how it supposed to work.

(07-08-2023 04:23 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(07-08-2023 01:31 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  With our low reproductive rates I welcome 3rd world citizens looking to contribute to society and continue to make this country a place of immigrants. We've done a phenomenal job so far with a variety of people. Bette than the homogeneous places in the rest of the world.

Explain to us some of the ways we might have arrived at a point in our history that such a condition exists.

I’m a 30 something with 2 kids. This country has been ruined by boomers and gen X is absent. It remains to be seen if millennials can reclaim America but there’s a huge hill to climb.

1. Boomers have created an economy that requires 2 incomes or a primary income that’s minimum $200k to have a semblance of a middle class lifestyle in a place that’s worth living in. My wife made the difficult decision to pause her career in order to raise our kids, but most people can’t afford to do that.

2. We just went through 4 years where a freaking reality tv star turned cult leader was president. Even though he’s actually a groomer thanks to his beauty pageants and was willing to sell top secret documents to the highest bidder (you know, like a traitor) his cult followers are willing to shill for him as long as he keeps sending mean tweets about immigrants and gay people.

3. Our healthcare system sucks for most people. We’re so afraid of socialism for the masses (but not afraid of socialism for the elite and big business) that we allow our idiotic system of insurance to perpetuate even though there are other less costly systems we could use, but that would require a few elites to make a little less in profit each year.

4. Speaking of capitalism, I wish we had capitalism. We don’t. We have some hybrid of selective socialism and crony capitalism. We privatize the profits and subsidize the losses. Almost every major sector is only kept afloat by government subsidies. Then we have armies of lobbyists who have bought every single politician so that legislation and tax code favor them. We have companies making billions paying zero taxes, we have companies losing billions but getting bailed out by the government with the CEOs getting golden parachutes while the frontline workers get golden showers.

So if you’re a twenty or thirty something, you are thinking about kids- do you bring a kid on the world where you have to drop them off to a stranger at daycare so you go to your job just to make ends meet? Unless you have wonderful health insurance you pay thousands or tens of thousands to even bring them into this world? They are expected to consume and work for a pittance by our corporate overlords and die once their usefulness has ended. Doesn’t really sound like a conducive environment to bring kids into

Boomers didn't do chit. Our government did.

(07-09-2023 08:15 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Boomers didn't do chit. Our government did.

Government run by…?

(07-09-2023 08:08 AM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(07-08-2023 04:23 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(07-08-2023 01:31 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  With our low reproductive rates I welcome 3rd world citizens looking to contribute to society and continue to make this country a place of immigrants. We've done a phenomenal job so far with a variety of people. Bette than the homogeneous places in the rest of the world.

Explain to us some of the ways we might have arrived at a point in our history that such a condition exists.

I’m a 30 something with 2 kids. This country has been ruined by boomers and gen X is absent. It remains to be seen if millennials can reclaim America but there’s a huge hill to climb.

1. Boomers have created an economy that requires 2 incomes or a primary income that’s minimum $200k to have a semblance of a middle class lifestyle in a place that’s worth living in. My wife made the difficult decision to pause her career in order to raise our kids, but most people can’t afford to do that.

2. We just went through 4 years where a freaking reality tv star turned cult leader was president. Even though he’s actually a groomer thanks to his beauty pageants and was willing to sell top secret documents to the highest bidder (you know, like a traitor) his cult followers are willing to shill for him as long as he keeps sending mean tweets about immigrants and gay people.

3. Our healthcare system sucks for most people. We’re so afraid of socialism for the masses (but not afraid of socialism for the elite and big business) that we allow our idiotic system of insurance to perpetuate even though there are other less costly systems we could use, but that would require a few elites to make a little less in profit each year.

4. Speaking of capitalism, I wish we had capitalism. We don’t. We have some hybrid of selective socialism and crony capitalism. We privatize the profits and subsidize the losses. Almost every major sector is only kept afloat by government subsidies. Then we have armies of lobbyists who have bought every single politician so that legislation and tax code favor them. We have companies making billions paying zero taxes, we have companies losing billions but getting bailed out by the government with the CEOs getting golden parachutes while the frontline workers get golden showers.

So if you’re a twenty or thirty something, you are thinking about kids- do you bring a kid on the world where you have to drop them off to a stranger at daycare so you go to your job just to make ends meet? Unless you have wonderful health insurance you pay thousands or tens of thousands to even bring them into this world? They are expected to consume and work for a pittance by our corporate overlords and die once their usefulness has ended. Doesn’t really sound like a conducive environment to bring kids into

Bwahahaha.

Another whiny baby blaming everyone else.

Dont worry. Keep voting for filth, they will take care of you

I don't think I've ever heard a 30 something that didn't blame boomers for their miserable lives.

I worked my ass off for everything I have starting at age 14. I've never blamed anyone else for my failures nor credited anyone else for my successes. They were both mine and mine alone.

30 somethings are the new teenagers these days. Wah wah wah.

(07-09-2023 09:01 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  I don't think I've ever heard a 30 something that didn't blame boomers for their miserable lives.

I worked my ass off for everything I have starting at age 14. I've never blamed anyone else for my failures nor credited anyone else for my successes. They were both mine and mine alone.

30 somethings are the new teenagers these days. Wah wah wah.

Yep and theyve made up s fairytale to support it all.

I laugh my arse of at thirty somethingd that think theynhsve it all figured out. Ive watched one get bitche slapped by life and is now starting to figure out how full of shite he has been.

This cat is gonna be bitter.



Boomers
Capitalists
trump

Reeeeeeeeee

Look in the damn mirror and you will find 99% of you problems

Two lessons that have not yet been learned by these whiners.

- Life is not fair. There will be hills/mountains you will need to climb

- You want something (like a middle class life) you will need to work for it
and not blame others for how things turn out for you

What is funny is watching them believing that they are the only generation that has had to face challenges.

(07-09-2023 09:07 AM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Two lessons that have not yet been learned by these whiners.

- Life is not fair. There will be hills/mountains you will need to climb

- You want something (like a middle class life) you will need to work for it
and not blame others for how things turn out for you

No participation trophys and it aint fair.

Every one of them should be forced to recite this daily

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

I clicked on this thread thinking it was about the Native Americans.

(07-09-2023 09:13 AM)Todor Wrote:  I clicked on this thread thinking it was about the Native Americans.

Thats the casino thread

Saw this the other day and laughed.

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I'm blaming you

(07-09-2023 09:15 AM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Saw this the other day and laughed.

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I'm blaming you

I'm writing that one down for future use.

I don't know where this crybaby lives but my wife and I made out pretty well with half of that amount he claimed just to be "middle class". Maybe he wants to be "upper middle class" because someone earning that much in EP would certainly be that.

What a whiner, dipSchiff.

(07-09-2023 07:35 AM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(07-08-2023 01:50 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Yikes, it appears the sunbelt has some wacko's...

Yeah imagine drinking some beers with your neighbors and shooting off fireworks and having a good time.

Sounds nuts.

You guys are completely off the reservation.

Yeah, uh no. That's not what this is about. And if you need it be explained to you then you won't get it anyway.

(07-09-2023 08:08 AM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(07-08-2023 04:23 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  [quote='Yosef Himself' pid='19010040' dateline='1688841092']
With our low reproductive rates I welcome 3rd world citizens looking to contribute to society and continue to make this country a place of immigrants. We've done a phenomenal job so far with a variety of people. Bette than the homogeneous places in the rest of the world.

Explain to us some of the ways we might have arrived at a point in our history that such a condition exists.

"I’m a 30 something with 2 kids. This country has been ruined by boomers...".



Yeah, no. Don't feel bad, though, every living person on the planet has had or will have the same sentiment about preceding generations. It's as certain as death and taxes.

Maybe you would have preferred that our generation hadn't created a world in which you live extravagantly compared to just about the entire rest of the world.

Come back when your testicles have descended.

(07-09-2023 09:01 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  I don't think I've ever heard a 30 something that didn't blame boomers for their miserable lives.

I worked my ass off for everything I have starting at age 14. I've never blamed anyone else for my failures nor credited anyone else for my successes. They were both mine and mine alone.

30 somethings are the new teenagers these days. Wah wah wah.

What do you expect when they can stay on mom and dad's insurance until they're 27 and in their basements until they grow a pair and GTFO.

(07-09-2023 09:09 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(07-09-2023 09:07 AM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Two lessons that have not yet been learned by these whiners.

- Life is not fair. There will be hills/mountains you will need to climb

- You want something (like a middle class life) you will need to work for it
and not blame others for how things turn out for you

No participation trophys and it aint fair.

Every one of them should be forced to recite this daily

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

(07-09-2023 09:14 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(07-09-2023 09:13 AM)Todor Wrote:  I clicked on this thread thinking it was about the Native Americans.

Thats the casino thread