Advice Column?

[R. Richard]

The following was e-mailed to me. Is it for real?

Dear Abby,

My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge
credit card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them
off, he shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the
minimum and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can
hardly keep up with the interest.

Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that
most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch
to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our
bills even more. Also, he has gotten religious. One week he hangs
out with Catholics and the next with people who say the Pope is the
Anti-Christ, and the next he's on his knees five times a day with
Muslims.

Finally, the last straw. He's demanding that before anyone can be in
the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath. It's just so
horribly creepy!

Can you help?

Signed, Lost

__________________________________________

Dear Lost,

Suck it up and stop whining, Michelle. You're getting to live in the
White House for free, travel the world, and have others pay for
everything for you. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The
rest of us are stuck with the idiot for 3 more years.

Signed,
Abby

 

[sr71plt]

I take it that you just made it up to slip a reactionary political partisan jab in here. Thought the board had outgrown that nonsense. Apparently you haven't.

 

[R. Richard]

I take it that you just made it up to slip a reactionary political partisan jab in here. Thought the board had outgrown that nonsense. Apparently you haven't.

No, I didn't make it up. It was, as I said, sent to me in a e-mail. I don't read advice columns and I just wondered.

 

[JKendallDane]

Of course it isn't real.

But it's probably a safe bet that it will be a lead story on Faux Noise by the end of the weekend.

 

[lovecraft68]

No, its not true

And no, Richard did not make it up as a "reactionary Partisan Jab"

Its called a joke and its been going around.

 

[R. Richard]

No, its not true

And no, Richard did not make it up as a "reactionary Partisan Jab"

Its called a joke and its been going around.

Thank you.

 

[Weird Harold]

Its called a joke and its been going around.

Aren't "jokes" supposed to be funny?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Sadly, the right-wing mind can't comprehend anything that takes the form of dry fact.
For the rest of us;
http://crooksandliars.com/files/images/13/10/fed_deficits_gdp_obama.jpg

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/deficits-are-rapidly-shrinking-spending-flat-under-obama

Warning; there are more than ten words in that link.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Sadly, the right-wing mind can't comprehend anything that takes the form of dry fact.
For the rest of us;
http://crooksandliars.com/files/images/13/10/fed_deficits_gdp_obama.jpg

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/deficits-are-rapidly-shrinking-spending-flat-under-obama

Warning; there are more than ten words in that link.

So tell me something...if the annual deficit is going down, why then does the debt ceiling keep needing to be raised?

And I understand the facts...he's still spending money he doesn't have.

 

[TxRad]

So tell me something...if the annual deficit is going down, why then does the debt ceiling keep needing to be raised?

And I understand the facts...he's still spending money he doesn't have.

Does it need to be raised?

Any president will be spending money he doesn't have. That's the way things work these days.

 

[lovecraft68]

Aren't "jokes" supposed to be funny?

Funny is subjective.

And I may as well just go ahead and say it. I consider it accurate.

 

[Swilly]

Sadly, the right-wing mind can't comprehend anything that takes the form of dry fact.
For the rest of us;
http://crooksandliars.com/files/images/13/10/fed_deficits_gdp_obama.jpg

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/deficits-are-rapidly-shrinking-spending-flat-under-obama

Warning; there are more than ten words in that link.

I hope this thread is still alive in 2018 so we can compare the "forecast" to what actually happened. The real action happens in the "forecast" part of the chart. You know. The part that hasn't happened yet. The part that someone, you know, made up. Here's a dirty little secret about forecasting by both companies and government entities. You might as well use them as toilet paper, because they are made of shit.

That chart is like a promise not to cum in a woman's mouth, and it get's quoted as fact. Maybe the left wing mind is just as fucked up as the right wing mind.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that
most of them no longer speak to us.

Somebody's been getting their news of the outside world through the Fox Filter.

Here's a Pew poll on actual attitudes towards Obama and the USA from overseas. As it notes, Obama's popularity overseas has slipped since his election (and probably a bit more since that poll was run, due to the NSA disclosures) but W set the bar very low.

 

[DeeZire]

The following was e-mailed to me. Is it for real?...

Gullible much?

 

[DeeZire]

So tell me something...if the annual deficit is going down, why then does the debt ceiling keep needing to be raised?

And I understand the facts...he's still spending money he doesn't have.

Because if the budget was balanced today, it would require a 40% cut in spending on everything in the budget. If that happened, the economy would collapse, the military would be in shambles, and millions of retirees would be homeless. You may recall that Clinton balanced the budget and started running up a surplus. Then GWB stumbled onto the scene, cut taxes, hamstrung his Wall Street regulators, and the economy tanked. Obama is spending money he doesn't have because the Bush tax cuts and the Bush economy have reduced tax revenue and raised demand for social services. It's a revenue problem caused by conservative ideology in action. (BTW. you can't call it Obama's economy if Congress blocks everything Obama proposes to improve the economy.) Understand now?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Because if the budget was balanced today, it would require a 40% cut in spending on everything in the budget. If that happened, the economy would collapse, the military would be in shambles, and millions of retirees would be homeless. You may recall that Clinton balanced the budget and started running up a surplus. Then GWB stumbled onto the scene, cut taxes, hamstrung his Wall Street regulators, and the economy tanked. Obama is spending money he doesn't have because the Bush tax cuts and the Bush economy have reduced tax revenue and raised demand for social services. It's a revenue problem caused by conservative ideology in action. (BTW. you can't call it Obama's economy if Congress blocks everything Obama proposes to improve the economy.) Understand now?

If you still owe someone, you don't have a surplus.

My debt is $1000.
My earning are $2000.
My annual out lay is $1999.
Thus making my debt $999.

Therefore I have no surplus.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Does it need to be raised?

Any president will be spending money he doesn't have. That's the way things work these days.

Every year for the past five years.