Do yourself a favor, take that money for your retirement and buy yourself a sense of humor. The last thing this world needs is another sour senior citizen for us younger people to have to deal with on the streets. For a man your age you sure do react like a sensitive teenager who doesn't know the difference between a joke and and insult. I guess you are living proof wisdom is not always guaranteed with age. Jeesh.

Secondly your comments do not exist in a vacuum. They accumulate with other comments you've made in other threads to make a consistent whole. You can take your "joke" and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

Unlike you, I don't guess, I know you are living proof that youth is wasted on the young. Better start working on acquiring that taste for cat food, you're going to need it.

That's the thing that I've never understood. I can understand how those that have it made can embrace the "greed is good" and "blame the victim" mantras. I don't agree with or approve of their position however I can at least understand how someone that has it made can not really give a fuck about anyone but themselves. What I can't understand is how someone that is obviously as much of a peasant as you are can support policies that are detrimental to yourself and those like you while benefiting only people that could literally not care less about you.

You're probably not old enough to remember the Li'l Abner comic strip by Al Capp. Anyway there was a creature in Li'l Abner called the shmoo that "are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten. If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself itself, either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a broiling pan, after which they taste like steak. When roasted they taste like pork, and when baked they taste like catfish. (Raw, they taste like oysters on the half-shell.)"

You and those like you would make perfect shmoos.

As an aside my pittance of a savings hardly makes me uber rich. What it does is simply allow me to be comfortable in my old age and was achieved by a lifetime of hard work and consistently living beneath my means. I too have a 27" non flat screen TV which if I recall correctly I bought in 1985 which if I calculate correctly was before you were born.

And yes I have managed to achieve what I have by "following those precious left wing dream policies you wish upon the rest of the country." After all the only real left wing dream policy I have is that I do not begrudge the fact that some portion of my taxes goes to help people that are in need.

On the other hand the right doesn't begrudge the portion of their taxes that are spent on senseless wars that accomplish nothing other than to throw our troops under the bus (but of course that's not a big a deal since because of the nature of our volunteer army and the economy it's pretty much only the poor that go into the services) or line the pockets of military industrial complex companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Halliburton and the like.

So it all boils down to a choice. I choose to be for "regular" people from the vanishingly small middle class whereas you prefer to support mega-corporations to the detriment of those same folks and to rationalize your total disdain of both yourself and those like you, you blame the victim while rewarding the perpetrator.

May you get the future that you deserve.

Mumble, Chuck, both of you, knock it OFF. This thread has nothing to do with financial policy, nor do I want it to. I would have expected somebody like you to know better than to drag political flamebait into this, but it seems I was mistaken... ahh well, I don't particularly care if the thread gets locked, but I still feel compelled to warn you two that that will in all likelihood be the outcome of your little spat.

Sigh..... I remember a time when Mumble's threads fostered an actual civil debate.... and didn't spawn on completely unrelated topics.

Chuck started it with his unnecessary quotation and comment of a reply I made almost a month ago and 12 replies prior to his response. It was Chuck that went out of his way to engage me but then I'm supposed to be the mature one to let it slide? Well I'm sorry, due to previous history with Chuck, I don't care to let it slide and my comments have simply been in response to his replies which were in fact specifically directed at me.

I don't recall either Chuck or I referencing you so I'm a bit at a loss as to why you feel "compelled" to join the fray. If your desire was to defuse the situation and let this thread go back to its innocuous topic then the best thing you could have done  was to ignore it, all your comment here does is to pour more gas on the fire.

In any case this is not *your* thread to be concerned about nor is it *my* thread that for some reason you feel is required to "foster actual civil debate", it's merely a thread in which I made an on topic reply only to have Chuck come by a month later and a half a page further down the thread to poke me with a stick. As I said I did not go out of my way to engage Chuck, Chuck went out of his way to engage me and I'm sorry if your impression of me is shattered by my simply being unwilling to lie down and be someones doormat.

*sigh*

again...

I am ....

OVER 9000!!!!

i am very young by all means.