Fail Quotes

[AnCap Dave]

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JBL, you were an awesome pro wrestler, but god damn I wouldn't take economic advice from you.

[Ibrahim90]

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JBL, you were an awesome pro wrestler, but god damn I wouldn't take economic advice from you.

would you seriously take any economic advice from any wrestler? 

[evensgrey]

would you seriously take any economic advice from any wrestler? 

I'm still trying to work out what's actually wrong with what he's saying.  (Maybe it's how tired I am, the ceiling of my bedroom was taken down yesterday, including the sound proofing materials, to let the structure finish drying out after the roof above sort of caved in a while back, and the upstairs neighbors are kind of noisy.)  He's definitely right about not being able to get there by spending cuts that don't touch entitlements, and he's right about not being able to get there by tax increases (he doesn't say why, although I think all of us know that the total tax take in the US has never gone much above the percentage of GDP it is now, and that raising taxes too much, to levels like in the 1950's and 1960's for instance, actually makes tax revenue decrease).  He's right that entitlements have got to be reformed in some manner.  Does he have something else somewhere that has some completely addle-brained scheme to reform entitlements that won't work at all?

[Lord T Hawkeye]

It is true that you can't balance the budget.  Seriously, put a sheet of government spending in front of someone, tell them they need to cut 2 trillion to stop the decline and another trillion to start paying off the debt.  Ask them what they're going to cut.

And the sad truth comes out, you can't.  You could fire the whole military and still wouldn't even come close...and if you did fire the military, they'd all get unemployment insurance, gobbling up what savings you did make.

[AnCap Dave]

Does he have something else somewhere that has some completely addle-brained scheme to reform entitlements that won't work at all?

In the past, he has stated that he believes one way to quickly fix the budget is to enforce a national sales tax. While technically there isn't much wrong with what he is saying at face value, it clashes with things he has said in the past.

[MrBogosity]

And now MGK is exposing his own evil in these comments.

He's actually saying that the money in the Medicare Trust Fund doesn't belong to Medicare beneficiaries!

"You are not listening, you moron! ITS A FUCKING TRUST FUND! It can't go unsolvent! because the money ain't theirs to begin with!!"

Yes, let's just ignore the fact that seniors paid their whole lives into a Medicare system--that they weren't even given a choice about--and when it ran a surplus the politicians just took the money and squandered it and left this "trust fund" (i.e., promise to pay for it with future taxes) behind. It absolutely was theirs to begin with, because their money was taken in Medicare taxes to fund it and the politicians took the money and spent it on their pet boondoggles.

"Secondly even if the the trust fund were to be gone tomorow, it doesn't mean shit for medicaire, the funds were allways expected to be replenished by taxes!"

This is NOT what the Trustees say. The Medicare tax IS NOT ENOUGH TO PAY BENEFICIARIES. When the trust fund runs out, Medicare will have NO WAY to cover them all.

MGK long ago showed that he doesn't really care about people's health care, just his precious government cult. And here he goes and proves it once again. He is the very embodiment of the evil inherent in dogmatic statism.

[AnCap Dave]

snowy800123 provides fail in the comments of this video for the following statement:

guys he broke a law... as bad as it sounds he's getting what he deserves.

[Altimadark]

The comments made by NormanArches in these comments are particularly failworthy.  Here's a quick snippet:

The point remains that our rights are an inherent part of our being, and they're not given to us by other men, i.e. government.

Read your world history. No one ever told the rich and powerful this.

...that's precisely what documents such as and including the Declaration and Magna Carta did...

The interests of the modern rich align themselves not with those of the modern poor, which is what declarations of rights are supposed to be about in their desire for egalitarianism and true meritocracy...

And he goes on like this. Gog...

[Gumba Masta]

Gog? Are you invoking Troll Jesus next?

[Altimadark]

No, but I might warn you about stairs.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

"People buy cheap slave produce from Wal-Mart & benefit from evil all the time. They do this in IGNORANCE not innocence. Many of the people forced to make the products are 'prisoners of conscience' arrested merely for their political opinions or religious beliefs. 10's of 1000's of such innocent people go missing every year as they're murdered by the state & their organs are harvested. Half the world slaves & starves in dire poverty while the other half feeds off of them." - Galv140577 in the comments of this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLODu02R_gA&lc=imu399MBLWugm8sxyGLGsMhQbeflhGO1CpZsKKz4mvM&feature=inbox


As I replied to him: Baseless scaremongering is not an argument and I'd appreciate it if you didn't insult my intelligence by resorting to emotional blackmailing like I were some kind of approval starved twit.


Update: Oh cripes, he goes after GMO's too.  That I cannot stand for.

Him:     "Monsanto is using the FDA to criminalise organic farming & force everybody to buy their GMOs which are not fit for long term human consumption as they cause sterility, cancer & all kinds of problems. We're not even allowed to label their GM population-culling exterminant poison that looks & tastes like ordinary food & is being sold in stores right now. They're systematicly murdering people & releasing transgenic polution. Monsanto MUST be taken down before we are literally WIPED OUT as a species"

Me: "I have no love for the FDA but anyone who mewls about the evils of GMO's has NO idea what they're talking about.
    Go look up Norman Borlaug. The man is credited with saving 1 BILLION people from starvation with GMO's. You cannot argue against that. Don't even try."

[Gumba Masta]

No, but I might warn you about stairs.

It keeps happening!

[MrBogosity]

And hawanja's back with more fail:

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[evensgrey]

And here's Dusty with some fail of his own.

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[Ibrahim90]

'm open minded. How else can you keep money out of government without the government passing laws to prevent it?

the sheer stupid just....I would say burns, but it's more than that.

the guy is basically telling me that a fox can be made to stop eating your hens by another fox. how the fuck is that supposed to work?

here's a simple idea: how about you don't give them money?