Some interesting stats to ponder!

Exactly.

Cabinet members who were former "Big Business" executives stand to gain financially by advising Presidents to do this or that. They tend to have substantial portfolios in stocks with multiple companies. They tend to have friends in "High places" who also stand to gain financially should the cabinet member advise a President to do this or that.

In other words: It's more likely that "Big Business" people are corrupt, or will corrupt their advice to gain financially, for themselves, their families and friends. Academics, on the other hand, tend to be more truthful about their motives for giving that advice.

 

Every president that has ever had a cabinet has had their share of "clunkers." Using business experience as the only criteria in which one bases their opinion of a president's cabinet is just plain stupid.

 

I'm going to clarify something for a little-one:

I said what costs me $5 may cost someone else $20, especially in a large city.

That doesn't mean I pay $5 and someone in a large city is absolutely going to be paying four times as much, as it's an example, not an absolute.

The point of my stated ratio was to account for differing prices in different areas of the country. It's likely to cost more in the city, and that should be easy to understand (apparently not ), as "city-dwellers" have higher overhead costs; higher rent, higher mortgages, higher utility-rates, etc.

In addition, and something even more relevant, is the fact that it's hard to farm in the cities, giving that it's mostly asphalt and cement. I have an easier time growing food here where I live than "city-dwellers" do, because I have an abundance of soil to plant in. Other people in my area too. As such, locally grown food drives the prices down. In the city, it's rare that locally grown food can be found.

In other words: Learn how to reason like an adult, little-one. Don't just assume you know chit because you're "all growed-up". Things are rarely as simple as you tend to think they are.

 

Yep! When you have appendicitis, you go to your English professor to get it fixed. I am glad that makes sense to you.

Although his actions/results don't exactly show it, Obama's prime objective has supposedly been (his words) to improve the economy. Maybe if he actually had a cabinet member who knew what the economy was really about, he might have had a bit of success.

 

Yeo, like I said, "screening" is the key!
FYI...each time you post, it only serves to further strengthen my point so thank you for that.

 

...and somehow you aren't claiming your food cost is 25% of others? Dummy.

 

Also bear in mind that, if I was on food assistance, I imagine we would also visit food pantries, churches and other places I do not use at my income level to supplement government assistance.

 

Except the liberals on this site would burst into flames if they walked into a church.

 

Not everyone is Stujoe. Some are, most aren't. By that I mean there are elderly people who live alone in a suburb somewhere who receive this assistance and can do what you say, while there are others who can't. Then there's the disabled, again some can, some can't. Some have no children, some have many, some have mothers and fathers to take care of, some don't. The point being republicans tend to not be able to understand these things, and so they want to cut off funding. Well, some people on assistance will survive, others won't. It's that simple.

 

I smell something burning. Oh, it's just someone's flaming hair-do. He must have thought something racy, got all excited and *poof"

 

Meaning what?

 

That you should be religious...find religion, you heathen!
Or Jeebus will wrath the hell out of you!

 

Perhaps from the friction of being surrounded by a large amount of hypocrites.
Churches are full of them it seems.

 

Not Teddy. Not clueless. Not Takiji. They are all devout atheists! Doesn't leave many, does it Clembo?

 

Figure it out, you little devil, you...

 

I'm a devout atheist?

I'm sure it sounds that way, when I don't follow a party/church line, but I make no claim to be an atheist.

My experience in churches has taught me that they are not interested in thoughtful discussion, they want you to believe as a matter of faith.

Con-men do that, and magicians too.

I need more from a religion than "It's a matter of faith", and they don't have anything else but that "Trust us that we speak for Jeebus, or glob" mentality, which I find abhorrent.

Atheist? Maybe to a fool who believes what certain people tell them is gospel, without putting any serious thought into why they do that.

Nah, I make no claim that there is no god. In fact, I'd say there is more than one, at least in the sense of worship. In other words: I include the possibility of gods existing, for the reason that I'm not interested in telling other people what religion to believe...unless their belief causes harm to other people, then I'll slam the hell out of their beliefs.

 

Even the much-vaunted Mother Teresa had her issues in that respect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa

 

In my part of the U.S. of A. we all him Corn Jeebus damn it! We believe that Corn Jeebus is the one true son of God and if you believe differently, you are heathens and heretics and thou shall be smited mightily.

 

That's just it: "Freedom of Religion" isn't about going around and telling people to believe in the faith you yourself believe in, it's about being able to choose to practice whatever religion you want...as long as it's not harmful to others.

There's a tiny old lady I met a couple times in public who would look at me and say "Believe in Jesus!", like all dumb@$$es do. She demanded it, and I never responded to her idiocies, but she can go frock herself for her trouble.

"Spreading the faith" is evil, IMO. You can state your beliefs if you so choose, but some followers simply take it too far. Some religions too, as with the spreading in other countries. They bribe people to convert, or force them to sometimes, under threat, and that makes it wrong...not that "true-believers" can understand such a concept.