copperhead

$1700 right?

Worked great actually. Is it cool if we run as the pirate party?

I hope to Raptor Jesus I will make it

Sure, just keep in mind I'm about as good behind the mic as good ol Joey Biden

I guess you've not heard of the cap and trade that the dem's have been wanting for a while now. What's the point in trying to enact a tax on energy use when they could just stop subsidizing? Why wouldn't K-12 education be a high priority? We are lagging behind other countries, we are producing people incapable of reading and simple math, yet this shouldn't be a large focus of ours? As for outsourcing jobs - this is simple economics that goes along with what I've been saying. The U.S. population is so addicted to cheap goods that it's not possible to make things here when the minimum wage rate is climbing as high as it is and still make any attempt at competing with the Asian companies. It doesn't help that China has been manipulating the currency trade values for years in order to drive up their exports. The New American Dream has changed from being able to bust your ass out there to buy a house and support a family into how you somehow deserve to have a desk job in a huge office building making a ton of money doing nothing so you can buy a mcmansion. THIS is what is destroying the middle class - everything thinks they are worth more than they are and aren't willing to settle for more blue collar jobs at average pay. The companies that are employing these people are the ones realizing they don't need nearly as many as these kinds of people and cutting the unnecessary jobs. These white collar workers who are now unemployed think that jobs like you are suggesting, such as public works jobs are below them and therefore would rather stay unemployed that go get burned by the bright sun that they aren't use to seeing while doing work requiring muscles that they never bothered to develop. Oh, and these jobs aren't .gov jobs, they always outsource to private construction companies, and once the work dries up the workers go on unemployment anyway so its still not a great gig. Our taxes are paying for this every step of the way. I'd also like to point out I've seen a couple roads get repaved this year that had been done less than 3 years ago and were already in perfect shape. What a waste of money. Nope, sorry, these tax cuts affect EVERYONE that pays taxes. Period. Small example - the bottom tax bracket, 10% tax, goes away and everyone there moves up to 15%. That, and the child tax credit gets slashed in half. http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/22/expiring-bush-cuts-affect-personal-finance-taxes.html Now then, Obama and his blue Congress has every chance in the world to extend these farther down the road. By not making any attempt to do so, they are willingly increasing the taxes on everyone in this country. Including for those poor people that he sooooo cares about (but not so much that he doesn't mind taking away their food stamps LOL). The retirees would be paid for by their pensions or retirement plans. Just like they would be anyway. The ones that didn't bother with that would get SS like they would anyway. And yes, force was a bit of a strong term, encourage would be better. Lower the retirement age and convince the holders of pensions or retirement plans to allow early retirement with no penalty. This will open up many jobs for younger people who will work for a lower wage which in turn allows companies to open more jobs than they had before. This wouldn't affect taxes in any way. And with people being able to work cheaper, there is no reason why businesses would leave the country. There is plenty of workforce available here right now. This also would CREATE many more jobs in the service industry, since new retirees like taking vacations and rewarding themselves for all the years they put in to finally make it to retirement. Oh, and as for all this talk of .gov funded clean energy - why not let the private sector tackle that one? Use incentives of tax breaks on companies willing to dive into the project, rather than taxing more the ones that don't. Also, focus on the states whose income comes from dirty power. The state of West Virginia employs a huge percentage of its population in the coal industry. As bad of shape the state is in now - imagine it tripling its unemployment rate over night if coal were to be banned for use. Ag reform would be a painful process that no side would want to be responsible for. To be fixed it needs deregulated and subsidies for sitting around not working all year needs to go away. This in turn would allow the market to correct itself, although the first couple years would mean HUGE overproduction and crashing prices. Many farmers would be ruined and sell off their farms to megafarms, who in turn would be able to produce what is needed to keep a certain market price, while remaining competitive with the other megafarms. This situation would hurt a lot of workers yet it would mean ending dependence on the .gov to fix market prices, reduce .gov spending (OUR TAX MONEY), and ultimately bring down prices that have been on the rise lately due to companies being able to truly be competitive, while still having strict quality control since the USDA will still be watching.

Renewable energy is expensive. Until this economy gets fixed we need cheap energy, then when we can afford it we can work on renewable. Lower education is always a high priority. Higher education is out of control. Too many people are blowing thousands of dollars they don't have to get an education that isn't getting them past working at the local burger joint. When everyone has a degree in underwater basket weaving, it really does turn into just a scrap of meaningless paper. Which leads me into your next point... To bring manufacturing back into the country we need more blue collar workers. Everyone in the U.S. these days sees themselves as a high paid cubicle jockey. These two things don't really add up so well. My point during the "stimulus" was that they are trying to throw money at infrastructure, and I don't really see too many out of work bankers going to work building roads. And lastly, letting tax cuts expire raises taxes, there's no way around that. It may be indirect but it's still happening. I'm sure this well help out all the people that are barely scraping by on their mortgage, or all of the underemployed people out there. Honestly, the only thing that can truly fix this economy is to force the baby boomers into retirement, then deny social security to anyone that has a pension or private retirement fund. Once the younger workforce is fully employed and the pork gets cut, things will start to right themselves.

probably the 28th but need to double check the work schedule

That's just inside of 270 on the west side brah

All the places on that page are wholesalers, not open to the public. They can't help me.

would it be considered a reach around if he did himself in the butt?

I've yet to see RIA in their flyers. I haven't been to the store lately but I've never seen that stuff there. I remember Greg mentioning Blackwing occasionally having the 1911's but it didn't sound like a regular item.

So for you looking at this thread is probably like 2 pages of V8 Beast or whatever his current screenname is, and not much else

Like the title says, looking for a local store that carries Rock Island Armory. I just noticed they make shotguns now and want to see what they are selling for.

Yeah, what Austin said

I MIGHT be able to go the weekend of the 28th. Otherwise, I can do some weekdays if anyone else would be free for it.

Doing what's needed to keep this place from getting raided by the popo = powertripping? Really?

I like. Would you happen to have a write up on the '65? My stepfather bought one a while back in decent shape but kinda forgot about it so I might try to wrangle it from him.

wow, I heard the exact same thing

Its WAY more funny when I do it that way for me at least

Once upon a time there was a poll. The question was "Is Marc gay?" 84% voted yes he promptly got his own gremlin for it :marc2:

HAHAHA, that just proves its been too long since I've banned him. I hope he liked trying to log on only to see that the reason for being banned was LICK MY BALLS

I am not familiar with that site, but to be clear there is a huge difference between people BS'ing on a huge national forum versus a tight knit local one. We actually have to worry about cops banging on our door to question us about what someone set up on the other side of town. Fuck that, my involvement here isn't worth dealing with that shit, and it HAS happened to others here, trust me.

I meant building 370

hmmmm I wonder what this ban user button does

I think I've seen your car before. You work at 370?