The CL has repeatedly asked posters to call McCain by his name, not McSame, etc., so I think it is only fair that you refrain from using BO and type out Obama.
i was unaware.
i will try to remember to take the extra couple of seconds to type his full name.
>>maybe because he doesn't make a big income....he (I'm adding: referring to Warren Buffet) may have wealth, but if he doesn't liquidate it, he isn't taxed...there aren't federal taxes on property (wealth)...just income.<<
Perhaps you don't know who Warren Buffet is then? When he made the statement I was referring to, he was referring to income tax, not property or other taxes.
i really never thought of his initials being offensive..and i (out of habit) abreviate both names to initials....
now i know it bothers you and maybe others, and i will try to stop..but please forgive me if i slip once or twice.....i have no intention of suggesting anything negative by abreviating.
(and i am slow in catching up...i am jsut getting to this post now)
Kristen - it sounds like your family experience was/is similar to mine in that my mother stressed the value of an education and how it is my job to make a life for myself - no one else's. I am doing that and I think the majority of middle class Americans are doing that.
I wish that everyone was like us. Unfortunately, I can point to my DH as an example of someone who just never considered college as an option. He grew up extremely poor, homeless and with violent/abusive stepfathers and an absentee father who showed up with a new extremely young girlfriend every few years. His goal growing up? Graduate high school, get a good job and get the hell out of dodge.
He emancipated himself at 16, graduated high school at 17 and went to work in a steel mill in eastern TN. A year later he was laid off and digging ditches to afford rent. Since then, he has worked really hard to have the good job he's currently in - but he is not qualified for any other position and we cannot afford to send him to college. His company has laid off 3500 workers in the past
everyone has the same opportunities....if " the classes below them" want to have the same advantages, they can...they just have to work to earn such privileges
Wishes, hoping, and make believing something is a certain way doesn't make it so, sorry.
we are all entitled to the persuit of happiness...
Yes we are and it's not thanks to the CEO's with their seven figure salaries.
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-Kristen
The CL has repeatedly asked posters to call McCain by his name, not McSame, etc., so I think it is only fair that you refrain from using BO and type out Obama.
i was unaware.
i will try to remember to take the extra couple of seconds to type his full name.
Thanks Court! for the sig!
-Kristen
>>maybe because he doesn't make a big income....he (I'm adding: referring to Warren Buffet) may have wealth, but if he doesn't liquidate it, he isn't taxed...there aren't federal taxes on property (wealth)...just income.<<
Perhaps you don't know who Warren Buffet is then? When he made the statement I was referring to, he was referring to income tax, not property or other taxes.
So
-Kristen
i really never thought of his initials being offensive..and i (out of habit) abreviate both names to initials....
now i know it bothers you and maybe others, and i will try to stop..but please forgive me if i slip once or twice.....i have no intention of suggesting anything negative by abreviating.
(and i am slow in catching up...i am jsut getting to this post now)
sorry.
Thanks Court! for the sig!
-Kristen
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Kristen - it sounds like your family experience was/is similar to mine in that my mother stressed the value of an education and how it is my job to make a life for myself - no one else's. I am doing that and I think the majority of middle class Americans are doing that.
I wish that everyone was like us. Unfortunately, I can point to my DH as an example of someone who just never considered college as an option. He grew up extremely poor, homeless and with violent/abusive stepfathers and an absentee father who showed up with a new extremely young girlfriend every few years. His goal growing up? Graduate high school, get a good job and get the hell out of dodge.
He emancipated himself at 16, graduated high school at 17 and went to work in a steel mill in eastern TN. A year later he was laid off and digging ditches to afford rent. Since then, he has worked really hard to have the good job he's currently in - but he is not qualified for any other position and we cannot afford to send him to college. His company has laid off 3500 workers in the past
everyone has the same opportunities....if " the classes below them" want to have the same advantages, they can...they just have to work to earn such privileges
Wishes, hoping, and make believing something is a certain way doesn't make it so, sorry.
we are all entitled to the persuit of happiness...
Yes we are and it's not thanks to the CEO's with their seven figure salaries.
Pages