The Majority of United States Citizens are unaware that the government has no money.
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[QUOTE=Coffee;25855058]Does it really matter?[/QUOTE]
Yes
[QUOTE=Wolverunder;25853904]That was just a small example. Mainstream media, people in general, etc. Most people don't know it.[/QUOTE]
'Cause people are stupid.
[QUOTE=Wolverunder;25853842]I've been talking with my friends, observing people's conversations about their political view, etc, and it seems like a lot of people don't get that the United States government isn't a profitable organization. They don't have their "own" money. That's what taxes are for. Now I'm not trying to start some huge flame war, regardless of your stance this is just a blatant fact. It's just people expect things to happen, then get angry when they don't happen, then get angry when the government raises taxes for these things they wanted to happen, to happen.
It's like a big circle jerk of stupid. So really what I'm asking is why is it so many people are unaware of such a simple fact?
[b]NOT A FLAME WAR. I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT IF YOU WANT TO SUCK OBAMA'S COCK OR IF YOU THINK GEORGE BUSH IS THE GREATEST MAN EVER.[/b]
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[b]ALSO SINCE EVERYONE IS BEING A COCKDINGLE, I'M NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE ECONMY, I'M SAYING FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE OF THE ABOVE STATED FACT. THATS HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS, IT NEVER HAS HAD ITS OWN MONEY[/b][/QUOTE]
I don't know anyone who doesn't know that the government uses taxes to pay for things...
[QUOTE=Wolverunder;25855100]
Mods you can have my thread now, it's obvious it isn't going anywhere because Coffee wanted to derail everywhere.[/QUOTE]
It isn't because of Coffee. The thread is going nowhere because you have nothing important/interesting to say.
[QUOTE=Squad;25855334]I don't know anyone who doesn't know that the government uses taxes to pay for things...[/QUOTE]
Also this. Your friends are terrible examples.
[QUOTE=RandomE;25855340]It isn't because of Coffee. The thread is going nowhere because you have nothing important/interesting to say.[/QUOTE]
Sure.
[QUOTE=mr.killa;25854387]Why should the government even be using money? They are the damn government for god sakes they should not have any economical link to citizens.[/QUOTE]
Is that a serious post? Or were you joking?
But...but....Matthew Lesko....free money....
[QUOTE=Fycix;25855144]I agree with you about him being a moron and all, but get it right. Inferiority complex is someone that feels lesser than other people, and you are obviously making him sound that he thinks he's better than everyone, ergo a Superiority Complex.[/QUOTE]
That's the phrase, my mistake.
Right.
Wolverunder has a Superiority Complex.
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What a great view point you have there Wolverunder.[/QUOTE]
You stole that from a different thread
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>:I
[QUOTE=mr apple;25856151]You stole that from a different thread
[editline]4th November 2010[/editline]
>:I[/QUOTE]
No, I stole that from xkcd.
That's we need to cut government spending because 90% of the trillions we've spent has been wasted for the past several years.
We've have like three dollars since 1779, this isn't news.
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;25856443]That's we need to cut government spending because 90% of the trillions we've spent has been wasted for the past several years.[/QUOTE]
cut military spending
[QUOTE=Squad;25855388]Is that a serious post? Or were you joking?[/QUOTE]
Civilians have their own market, the government pays its own workers in credits that can be substituted for money, problem solved.
[QUOTE=Wolverunder;25854108]You knew exactly what I meant. It doesn't sell or manufacture anything to make its own income. The money comes from taxation.[/QUOTE]
Certain parts of the government have in the past relied on other means of acquiring currency.
Example, see: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking[/url]
They probably still do too.
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[QUOTE=mr.killa;25860319]Civilians have their own market, the government pays its own workers in credits that can be substituted for money, problem solved.[/QUOTE]
Do you not understand what currency is or how it works? Thats the same as saying, "Okay, we have 3 rocks, and Billy over there has 3 dollars. What that? Billy doesn't like rocks because they're worthless?" They have no real value, you can't just print off currency for the hell of it.
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[QUOTE=mr.killa;25854387]Why should the government even be using money? They are the damn government for god sakes they should not have any economical link to citizens.[/QUOTE]
That's unbelievably stupid.
You like having an educated population? You like having roads to drive on? You like having the police who keep crime at a reasonable level? You like having clean air, clean water? You like that your rivers aren't burning, there aren't being people thrown into the meat grinding vats? Do you honestly think that those things could happen without funding? Appreciate your government, and grow the fuck up before posting uneducated crap like that again.
The reason most people don't get that is because you word it as if the government runs on unicorn shit and fairy vomit, instead of using tax payer's money.
Then I guess everyone who uses a credit card can just chop it up and throw it away because government provided credits are the exact same thing. Civilians can use normal money printed by the government and the government can use electronic credits so they don't have to use funding.
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Or tax payer money.
[QUOTE=mr.killa;25861185]Then I guess everyone who uses a credit card can just chop it up and throw it away because government provided credits are the exact same thing. Civilians can use normal money printed by the government and the government can use [b]electronic credits so they don't have to use funding.[/b][/QUOTE]
You just keep spouting out nonsense. Money is given in exchange for goods and services. If money has no value, electronic or not then people won't work for it.
[QUOTE=mr.killa;25861185]Then I guess everyone who uses a credit card can just chop it up and throw it away because government provided credits are the exact same thing. Civilians can use normal money printed by the government and the government can use electronic credits so they don't have to use funding.
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Or tax payer money.[/QUOTE]
If civilians use normal money, then what fucking use would electronic credits be to citizens?
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