Eh, I guess I'll join in

I think we should totally have the lovers in this game, don't you agree, Mas? *whistles*

Ace Rimmer wrote:What's that?

Turkey day!

Surely we've got Thanksgiving to deal with first?

Gah, I hate it when countries think they can solve an "underage" problem, by raising the age limit further, it just does not make any god damn sense.

Hey, I'm only backing 8 projects and I've only spent around $800 on them altogether, oh god. . . .

Yup, that sounds like a grand idea and definitely support it.

Congrats! Now, go get a job, cut your hair, get offa xander's lawn, and pay some taxes. :P Well, I'm actually working part time for my mother right now before I go to South America for awhile then hunt for a full-time graduate job, I actually do need to cut my hair, planning to do that at the end o...

Can you prove that? If programs are being cut because of a 0.38% wastage from the entire Budget, or 0.87% of the combined spending for Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, then that's insane! If we're talking about America specifically then you can easily make up any loss by moving not even one pe...

No, no, you're right, I can see now how it's an acceptable loss. What's a million families compared to 300+ million people? Just a pittance. :P :P :mrgreen: As an aside, you keep throwing that argument at me, at least indirectly, about scrapping programs due to waste. I have never said that. In fac...

Heh, as I said it *is* a problem, but people are responding to the problem by saying that they should just get rid of the welfare programs altogether because of the "rampant" abuse, so none of the families will get anything if the Republicans had their way. :P And anyway, the people who ar...

9-13.5 billion dollars appears to be 0.38% (not even 1%) of the US government's budget for 2011, so it really isn't that much of a problem. :P The usual way that governments stop welfare cheats is through rigorous means-testing, or simply offering welfare for fewer things, both of which often result...

So, out of a population of 122,109 people there are 17,095 below the poverty line, and 25 people altogether have been charged with benefit fraud in the last ten months? Oh no, the amount of fraud is clearly spiralling out of control in that county! The root cause of low wages is a low minimum wage b...

I don't agree on the first point, where is the proof for that? Minimum wage isn't really a whole different can of worms because low wages are the root cause behind many people needing food stamps (and other forms of welfare) in the first place. Number 2 we can agree on the first half, but I'd again ...

Because people on food stamps are lazy? The problem in the states is the lack of a minimum wage that is at the level required for to be considered a "living wage." This means that people working even multiple jobs often have difficulty providing enough food for their families to survive, a...