Fiery_penguin_of_doom Posts

I always laugh whenever I hear people say that the American workforce is the best in the world. What a fucking joke. There's no work ethic. It's all just about money.

Of course, all people have the potential to not be lazy. The fact that a lot of Americans are lazy says that the American government and economy is doing something wrong.

They were all cosplaying that day.

Chun Li, Cammy, and gender bender Raiden(MGS4).

neck down the costume was meh, but neck up, damn!

The government, I believe, did a direct transfusion of capital into the banks, saving the ones worth saving, thereby increasing the DOW market points. Whether or not it'll work, we'll see.

but you can't deny that it was necessary. I agree that there probably was a better way to handle the problem, but as a short term solution it worked quite well.
I think a good next step is working to improve the countries infrastructure, stuff like reducing the national debt, improving taxes(notice i said IMPROVING, not raising or lowering) and working on improving foreign relations. get the US back to being an undisputed superpower

now, I can only speak for myself when it comes to this but... don't most guys have a bit of a warning before they come, I know when I'm gonna come, this guy couldn't tell?

he has 40 accounts. Over 5k $ every month

well a lot of that was caused by the government bailout, the key is to ensure that people keep using the stock market and we don't have another massive bailout

you mean the vagina, right?

A CHALLENGER HAS APPEAR ( @ Hibia :P )

well on the plus side the DOW seems to be on its way back up, so that's some good news.

The amount of money a person makes compared to their education and other factors can be debated to eternity, but it is proving the point that the capitalist system is broken. Instead of saying teachers complain about only getting paid 50K a year, the question that needs asking is why are they complaining about only getting 50K a year. 100 years ago 50K a year would make a person rich beyond dreams, whereas today it is around middle of the pack depending on locale. Market prices have gone up and up constantly whereas incomes have not followed suit. Example: Why is gas over $3 a galleon in the States, whereas in South America it is around 30c a galleon? In theory we should be getting the same stock market reports, and all the worldly crap should be affecting both areas. So why the difference? It could logically be summed up as simple as price to wage ration. In South America the majority of people are dirt poor, and therefore they cannot afford high prices for everything. So what does a good capitalist do??? Put the price at a rate where people can afford it, so they can make money.

The disconnect is in North America big business believes, and rightly so, that they can get away with anything and everything. OBVIOUSLY we have been gouged on gas for the past 5+ years, but they do not fear the people doing anything about it. Now I am not saying that South America is any better off, or the businesses have more morality towards the common man, but the only logical explaination is the difference in the wage structure. Discussing supply and demand does not work anymore because it is not followed anymore by big business. It all revolves around the wage structure. In Alberta they produce tons of barrels of oil for gas everyday, but yet I do not hear many Albertans making fun of the rest of Canada because they get 30c a galleon gas prices, while the rest of us are at around $1 a litre. But yet those prices can be achieved in countries like Eucador and Venazuala. The reason? In those two countries $15 a day might be the going rate for a job, if a person even has a job, while in Alberta the going rate is around $20. Gas companies can afford to gouge us more here because we get paid more. If we were radically getting paid 1940s wages I can guarentee that gas would not be as high as it is now in North America.

The same reasoning can be applied to any type of product in which you need to exchange money for the goods or services. I only picked gas because everyone likes to complain about it now.

Capitalism will eventually implode on itself because the sole purpose of capitalism will force itself to stop fuctioning. Capitalism, by its very nature, wants to buy low and sell high. In order to do so it wants to save every penny possible at every juncture. Lower wages means more profits. But eventually people will stop bying item X because they do not have enough money to buy it, thus forcing changes to be made. GM is the prime example of this deterministic theory-based approach. It wanted to cut costs, and thus make more profits, by shipping good paying American jobs to Mexico, where people were paid at a fraction of the price. As GM was cutting those American jobs, it was finding out that business was suddenly not as good. The reason??? Less people were buying GM because they did not have the money to buy a 20K car, when they are only getting paid $5 an hour. So to raise profits again they close down more American plants and send them to Mexico. This then forces more people to stop buying new GM cars, and thus the cycle repeats itself until GM goes bust. As said by a news report last week GM is now either going to merge with Chrysler, or be bought outright by Chrysler. Capitalism at its finest and worst.

It does not take a genius to figure out that in the future capitalism will eventually turn into some form of quasi-communism/socialism, since the inherient nature of capitalism is to destory itself. It might not happen in 10 years, or 100 years, but it will happen.

The US that the founding fathers visioned died when they did.

I told my mom that we should keep her around and let her think she has power - that way we have something to laugh at while in a depression.

Yeah I know right? Argh. *scratch scratch*

Edit: I recently shaved.

]Well, regarding the topic "teachers", I am currently studying German and English and I can tell that there are alot of differentials between countries when it comes to that topic. Now I won't judge on the teachers in the states, because I honestly don't have any personal first hand experience with it, but I do think that there are several factors that decide how good a teacher can be.
Of course everyone wants to be payed decently for his work, but the problem about it is, that everyone is always quick to blame the teachers for the educational state. Many things are influenced by the parents, friends and community, others are influenced by the amount of money the school has accessible and last but not least by the limits that are set by the government about taboo topics.
Regarding the workload, it can differ very much depending on the school system, the subjects, having special obligations e.g. being organizational head of the class projects, which grades you have, the amount of exams you need to prepare for and many other things.

now, i'm starting to wonder why people recognize Haruhi as god??...well..those Haruhi Fan-Lunatic sure worshipped her so much...but...



of course, It's no offense so u dont need the defense...