I honor America i will never dish honor my country

[CarthDawg77]

1 minute ago, ctown81 said:

So right now you revere the flag of the country you fantasize about committing treason against. 

It's like saying you revere your wife while fantasizing the woman you're going to leave her for. 

Yeah that makes total sense. 

Texas would never be allowed to secede from the US, no matter how much people wish it could. The rest of the country would fold like a card table if it did...

[ctown81]

8 minutes ago, CarthDawg77 said:

https://highlandcountypress.com/Content/In-The-News/In-The-News/Article/-No-Social-Security-for-Illegal-Aliens-Act-of-2020-introduced/2/20/54832

Couldn't find where democrats changed social security. 

[ctown81]

3 minutes ago, CarthDawg77 said:

Texas would never be allowed to secede from the US, no matter how much people wish it could. The rest of the country would fold like a card table if it did...

Snowgate proved Tx couldn't properly support it's infranstructure. Ya'll got off easy in Feb because east tx is on the national grid.

[CarthDawg77]

2 minutes ago, ctown81 said:

Couldn't find where democrats changed social security. 

You didn’t spend three minutes looking either; If it wasn’t happening, why would there be a need for the legislation?

[DannyZuco]

5 minutes ago, ctown81 said:

yup

Okay--You asked for it. 

#1. First of all--regulate the amount they can raise their premiums to 3% per year--the cost of living isn't going up that much, so why should they get to increase their profits even more.   If you don't use your insurance during a calendar year--then the company has to pay you back 75% of your money you paid for premiums and they get to keep 25% for administrative costs.   If you are purchasing insurance from a company--you should NEVER have to pay a CO-PAY--that is WHY we are purchasing insurance to protect us from over priced medical costs, which they aren't because we have to pay for all those who don't purchase insurance. 

NOW I have recently come up with another view on the repayment of money for unused premiums. See if you like this one. 

Instead of repaying the individual that 75%, they have to place it in a HSA (Health Savings Account) which can be used to lower your premiums the next year, or saved for those times that you really have a problem. And to even help the companies out a little. They only have to put in 75% of what you did NOT use over the year. 

EX: $500 a month for insurance through my school--$6000 a year into the system--and according to them, the more people in the system, the cheaper the price--Doesn't seem to work that way for teachers, but another story. 

I go to doctor #1-2 times a year--$30 copay and visit paided for--$180 total. I go see a specialist 1 time a year--$70 copay plus visit cost of $150--so that year they spent $580 dollars on me. So you subtract that from the $6000 I paid into the system--leaving $5420--they get 25% of that $1355 and the rest $4065 goes into a HSA. Meaning that I could use it all to pay off next years insurance premiums or save it for a possible real emergancy, if needed. Plus, I believe that HSAs have to pay interest or investment money on accounts over a certain amount of money. Which would add up in the long run for those nearing retirement and needed to have money for later in life for medical. 

 

That's the gist of it. I have thought more indepth about other possibilities that insurance people will throw out soon. But this is actually a way to allow people to have insurance, ensure that they could have it for years, and to allow them to save at the same time, another problem in our society. 

[ctown81]

26 minutes ago, CarthDawg77 said:

You didn’t spend three minutes looking either; If it wasn’t happening, why would there be a need for the legislation?

So u automatically blame democrats? From all that looked at it seem that these business owners need to be blamed for hiring these people. Because a problem came man who are these people paid into Social Security with their paychecks but now they can collect.

[CarthDawg77]

4 minutes ago, ctown81 said:

So u automatically blame democrats? From all that looked at it seem that these business owners need to be blamed for hiring these people. Because a problem came man who are these people paid into Social Security with their paychecks but now they can collect.

Yes, I Do blame Democrats because they are the ones trying to get all of these illegals into the country & giving them things they don’t deserve in order to get them to vote Democrat. Where have you been? “C’mon, Man!”

[SloppyJoe]

4 hours ago, CarthDawg77 said:

While at the same time, others loathe it. Perhaps this should stop as well. Those who hate the Flag; the symbol of our Nation, are free to leave it &  travel elsewhere to a place more suitable to what they truly want... To have everything handed to them. That is not what America stands for, so they should emigrate to that place & seek their own Nirvana.

100% agree! 

[Olduy]

1 hour ago, ctown81 said:

So right now you revere the flag of the country you fantasize about committing treason against. 

It's like saying you revere your wife while fantasizing the woman you're going to leave her for. 

Yeah that makes total sense. 

Not treason at all

 

Remember the phrase “a voluntary Union of States”

[EnjoyLife]

4 minutes ago, Olduy said:

Not treason at all

 

Remember the phrase “a voluntary Union of States”

For better or worse that "voluntary union of states" thing was decided in 1865.

[Youngcoach123]

49 minutes ago, ctown81 said:

So right now you revere the flag of the country you fantasize about committing treason against. 

It's like saying you revere your wife while fantasizing the woman you're going to leave her for. 

Yeah that makes total sense. 

Secession is not treason. The fed gov does not own the states. The states willingly entered into the Union and can leave at any point.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2000/11/thomas-dilorenzo/secession-and-liberty/

In his 1801 First Inaugural Address one of the first things Thomas Jefferson did was to support the right of secession. "If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form," the author of the Declaration of Independence said, "let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

Jefferson and James Madison were the authors of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 which held that "where powers were assumed by the national government which had not been granted by the states, nullification is the rightful remedy," and that every state has a right to "nullify of its own authority all assumptions of power by others. . ." Nullification of unconstitutional federal actions was a means of effectively seceding.

[Youngcoach123]

7 minutes ago, EnjoyLife said:

For better or worse that "voluntary union of states" thing was decided in 1865.

This isn’t Great Britain. One bad case doesn’t stand forever. 

[EnjoyLife]

23 minutes ago, CarthDawg77 said:

Yes, I Do blame Democrats because they are the ones trying to get all of these illegals into the country & giving them things they don’t deserve in order to get them to vote Democrat. Where have you been? “C’mon, Man!”

I agree with everything you said here but dont kid yourself...most of the gop supports illegal immigration also. The dems want to give them things they are not entitled too and to change the nations demographics to be more favorable to the democratic party...and the repubs want them here to be cheap labor but other than that they want them to be invisible. Trump was the first prez in my adult life that actually tried to enforce our immigration laws. Biden has created utter chaos on the border.

[EnjoyLife]

5 minutes ago, Youngcoach123 said:

Secession is not treason. The fed gov does not own the states. The states willingly entered into the Union and can leave at any point.

See April 9, 1865. Fwiw...I agree with you that secession is not treason. I think it would be dumb...but not treasonous

[Youngcoach123]

1 hour ago, EnjoyLife said:

See April 9, 1865. Fwiw...I agree with you that secession is not treason. I think it would be dumb...but not treasonous

In a lot of cases it is dumb. But there is always an outlying case that makes it justified. 

[DaveTV1]

8 hours ago, ctown81 said:

The flag. People seem to worship it. 

It is not an idol, and only symbolizes our Country and represents all of U.S. as citizens.  The flag knows no color, and if people would follow the laws of the Constitution there would be no racism.  Only Democrats have created local laws that created racism in the past.  

[DaveTV1]

8 hours ago, ctown81 said:

I don't see many saying they hate the flag. So define having everything handed to them.

I suppose you haven't paid attention to many of the leftists that love to burn our flag improperly.  

[DaveTV1]

6 hours ago, EnjoyLife said:

No country is perfect but the US is darn sure better than most. If you value material wealth above all things the US is def #1 (no place offers as much opportunity to get rich)...but if you value quality of life the US is probably a little farther down the list. Freedom can also be defined in different ways...people in the countries ctown mentioned would probably consider it to be "freedom" that they can walk their streets at night and have a far lower chance of being the victim of violent crime than they would have here. They would probably consider it "freedom" that they will not be driven into bankruptcy if they have the misfortune of getting sick...and that they can count on a secure retirement unlike millions of Americans that will work their entire life and retire in poverty.

We all die in poverty.  Show me anyone that was able to take their riches with them to heaven.  We arrive and leave this earth in the same state.  

[DaveTV1]

6 hours ago, ctown81 said:

I'm lucky to live in Texas but for those states with state tax, It's not too far off.  Also, I'm curious to see how paying insurance out of pocket vs the percentage it takes up in taxes. Now I have another rabbit hole to go down. Thanks lol

Taxes is not high on my priority list here in the U.S. I tagged you in those videos I posted.

That would be easy to figure out.  All you would have to do is compare the tax bracket that you are currently in, and subtract the difference from what that would be in a foreign country.  Let's say you pay 25% of your income and if you lived in Norway that had the lowest of all the other countries mentioned it would be 13.2% of your income if you made say $100,000 to keep it simple.  Then your insurance would be $13,200 a year.  That is only their income tax in Norway, and they may have other taxes that one has to pay as we do.  Currently we pay 6.2% for Social Security unless you are self employed and then its 12.4% and Medicare is 1.45%.  If you make $200,000 per year then that jumps another .9%.  

[DaveTV1]

5 hours ago, ctown81 said:

So right now you revere the flag of the country you fantasize about committing treason against. 

It's like saying you revere your wife while fantasizing the woman you're going to leave her for. 

Yeah that makes total sense. 

Only if that country commits treason against the Constitution which we know the Democrats desire to dismantle.  Then we no longer live in the country we swore allegiance to.  

[DaveTV1]

5 hours ago, ctown81 said:

Snowgate proved Tx couldn't properly support it's infranstructure. Ya'll got off easy in Feb because east tx is on the national grid.

I don't know why people still act like that was the worst period in Texas in the past 100 years.  100 years ago most Texans lived without electricity.  People are soft today, and overly dependent on electricity for heating and cooling.  I could still go an entire winter and summer without heating or air conditioning, and I'm 52.  I know how to bundle up to stay warm, light a fire OUTSIDE for cooking purposes, and use water to stay cool in the summer.  I have no problem with the 2 1/2 days without power last February.  

[ctown81]

1 minute ago, DaveTV1 said:

I don't know why people still act like that was the worst period in Texas in the past 100 years.  100 years ago most Texans lived without electricity.  People are soft today, and overly dependent on electricity for heating and cooling.  I could still go an entire winter and summer without heating or air conditioning, and I'm 52.  I know how to bundle up to stay warm, light a fire OUTSIDE for cooking purposes, and use water to stay cool in the summer.  I have no problem with the 2 1/2 days without power last February.  

Did you have electricity? 

[RETIREDFAN1]

2 minutes ago, ctown81 said:

Did you have electricity? 

Dave wasn't around 100 years ago....youd have to ask kirt, Hagar, or Larry that one.....

[ctown81]

2 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Dave wasn't around 100 years ago....youd have to ask kirt, Hagar, or Larry that one.....

I was talking about February lol

[RETIREDFAN1]

8 minutes ago, ctown81 said:

I was talking about February lol

Oh....lol....i don't know about Dave but I had electricity AND plenty of firewood.......