If you didn't know what government services were why did you bring them up in the first place......obviously SS and Medicare are not and have never been government services.....SS is determined by how much you pay into it......it is not part of general revenue....
that works for me, though we should for the sake of this argument restrict it to services provided by the federal government........now, in what way is SS a service?.....compare it to maintaining an inspection program for nuclear reactors, for example......or screening airplane passengers for explosive devices.......maintaining national parks, or printing currency....
stop and think of this for a moment....do you think there's a reason that the SS trust fund is considered a separate entity from the general revenue fund?.......
SS isn't a service......its the retirement benefits you earn from the deposits you've made during your lifetime.....the benefits depend on the amount of money you deposit.....the government isn't doing it for you, you did it for yourself.....
Education and critical thinking skills are apparently overrated if you are the example!
SS is determined by what you paid into it, they even send you a notification now and again, to let you know what your benefits will be. This is not funded from the General Budget, it never has been. This means it is NOT an entitlement program. You have FAILED, pinhead. This MUST be familiar to you by now! ...You know, like that warm lumpy feeling you sometimes get in the seat of your underwear?
It is a government service and you have provided no coherent definition that excludes it.
Part of the budget had nothing to do with context. You are trying to retroactively redefine the context. You failed, just like first grade.
EVERYTHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES IS A SERVICE, DUMBASS!
It's a RETARDED argument you are trying to claim "victory" for making... what is this, your own Special Olympics of Debate?
Congratulations, you WON IT! Now do your little retarded dance and wiggle your hands in the air laughing uncontrollably, and let's move on to something serious to discuss. Please?
Dixie has admitted he was wrong. This is a historic occurrence.
I think EchoSackett should officially be declared the winner of JPP.
If you didn't know what government services were why did you bring them up in the first place......obviously SS and Medicare are not and have never been government services.....SS is determined by how much you pay into it......it is not part of general revenue....
EVERYTHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES IS A SERVICE, DUMBASS!
It's a RETARDED argument you are trying to claim "victory" for making... what is this, your own Special Olympics of Debate?
Congratulations, you WON IT! Now do your little retarded dance and wiggle your hands in the air laughing uncontrollably, and let's move on to something serious to discuss. Please?
No one admitted any damn thing, goofball.
It amazes me that you people actually make it through life without some fate of your stupidity doing you in.
Winner of the gold in the JPP Special Olympics of Debate, where you took home the silver?
EVERYTHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES IS A SERVICE, DUMBASS!
Conservatives, if you hate America, if you hate your country so much, get the fuck out.
AMERICA HATES YOU TOO!
I was not the one trying to parse the word "service" or split hairs over its meaning. That's your boy pmp.
Great, let's move on. Let's do even better and NOT return to stupid semantic games where we quibble over the meaning of this word or that one. You think the labels are controlling. They are not.
Anyone on Social Security or Medicare benefits from GOVERNMENT SERVICES.
I would not call them DEADBEATS based upon that any more or less than I would call some one in need of Welfare or Unemployment Insurance benefits, DEADBEATS. YOU, your party and your candidates DO call certain classes names.
I know what it is based on. I have seen it first hand. It is based on the same statistical science employed by Jeb Bush and Rick Scott to CLEAN the voting rolls. You target certain demographics in your propaganda concerning economics. You don't care one bit about the actual economics involved and you are oblivious to the damage done by your shell games.
Both sides share some blame, but Republicans are the worst because their base is more homogenous.
I am not going to sit by and watch you do this anymore. Either you will be consistent or I will out you as being the racists, mysoginist, lifestyle and youth bigoted pigs that you are. Your hate threatens to destroy our nation because you are at war with your neighbors and even your own children and grand children. We cannot have an honest discussion on economics because YOU poison the well. DIE ALREADY, DINOSAUR!
Once your stink is gone we can honestly discuss economics. Then the wealthy who have been STEALING from us all and using the culture wars to cover their crimes, will be forced to stop their obstructionist behavior. Economic mobility will return.
Are you serious? Did you not just say in the previous post they were all government services? Amazing.
What was that?
Well, since I never argued services of government are not government services, then that's NOT me admitting I was wrong. Sorry.
No, PMP is trying to have a grown-up debate with retarded children.
No, I think labels are defining and important.
No they don't. They benefit from a fund they contributed to along with others, government provides the service of administering those funds.
But your side has called them deadbeats, you've lumped them in with the moochers and parasites, and tried to claim this is what Republicans said. You're still claiming it here, but you can't find any evidence to support your lie, so you just keep repeating the lie. Saul Alinsky 101!
What it's based on is the fact Obama has a dismal record as president and you can't run on that! Your entire campaign has been to divert and distract, attack and accuse, and hope that people don't notice Obama's dismal record.
Yes, I know, you are going to keep diverting and distracting, blustering and distorting, lying and manipulating, because you have nothing to actually run on except hate and divisiveness. We can't have an honest discussion on economics because you want to be a silly retard and have a two-day debate on "government services" instead of actually discussing details of what type.
I doubt you can "honestly discuss" your own mother, punk. You've forgotten how to "honestly discuss" any damn thing! If it can't be twisted and distorted into one of your ready-made lies or myths, you go on the attack and refuse to be reasonable. You don't want to have a debate or discussion, you want to have your way. If you can't have your way, you'll lay in the floor and have a fit, like spoiled little snot nose you've grown up to be.
You took up PMP's argument and claimed he was completely right. Maybe, in the future you will think for yourself and quit getting Santorum all over your nose.
I think, in context, he is right. I think you've taken him out of context in order to make him 'wrong' by grasping at a semantics argument. If the government takes a shit, it is a 'service' of government. Doesn't mean it's good, bad, essential, non-essential, wasteful, useful, or anything else... you've not discussed that aspect, you're hung up on an out-of-context semantics argument, like a retard.