Comments on: Life Not Worth As Much, Says Gov't Agency

EPA Says Americans Worth $900,000 Less Than They Were 5 Years Ago

[tootall10142]

I FEEL LIKE A NUMBER! A STRANGER IN THIS LAND , I FEEL LIKE A NUMBER! SO ILL ROLL ONRE AND WATER SOME MORE SINCE IM WORTH LESS THIS YEAR THEY WONT ME NOT VOTING FOR THIER SORRY ASSESS.----- HEY PARENTS COPY AND GIVE THIS LETTER TO YOUR CHILDREN TO SHOW THE RECRUITER WHEN THEY COME AROUND HUSTLING FOR NEW BULLET STOPPERS.

[angel_eyes75]

Its not only in America that the government puts a price tag on life, its just that we''re the only country that has the highest price tag, other countries just dont care. I think all Americans need to go to another country and see just how good we have it. It can always be better, but its not up to our government, its up to us.

[impeach__w]

In theory, If someone (not me) were to gun down ALL the pols who make these life and death decisions based on cost and the dollar value of the lives lost. Would the value of my life go up or down? I''d be alive and they''d be dead though Correct? Still sounds like a better plan....

If one''s life or loved one''s life was destroyed by some penny pinching plan of government, is revenge ever justified? Would that be up to a jury?

[scottyusa]

Some people''s lives are not even worth 2 cents.

[gocubs58]

What a rediculous article. It must be a slow news day.

[brianbwb-2009]

to Dowjones20k

"For example:

# $48,000 in a cash award and retention bonus went to an associate commissioner whose plan to overhaul FDA field labs was rejected by Congress as poorly thought-out.

# $41,000 went to the director of the office of criminal investigations, pushing his total income to enforce one statute to $208,000 - more than the director of the FBI makes.

"The kicker of course is the person who was hired to reform the bonus system received the biggest bonus," Stupak said. "$58,000."

On average, those 28 top executives received, on average, an extra $37,000 in 2007. CBS News asked the head of the FDA why."

You call this hard earned money?

[brianbwb-2009]

"We have become a blame society that seems to want to blame anyone or anything except the parties that actually are at fault..." Posted by dowjones20k

You sure have.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by dowjones20k

The goal is not to take your family''s hard earned money, it is to prevent the theft of unearned money, such as overpaid CEOs who get millions even when the companies they run go belly up, I wouldn''t call that hard earned money at all. Or the companies who take subsidies even though they don''t need it, or corporate bailouts from public monies, or collusionary practices by predatory cartels in oil, Pharmaceuticals, or insurance, or exponential mark-up practices by government suppliers and the military, or groups who collect copyright royalties, like the RIAA, who have collected almost half a billion dollars suing people for "illegal" downloads, but have yet to pay a single cent of it to the artists they claim to defend.

If you are any of these, then you deserve to have your wealth "redistributed", as you did not earn it.

[piercetheval]

...dowjones20k, YOU Should Be Concerned...
...How much for the women? The little girl, how much?
...We want to buy your women!
[with apologies to John Belushi]

[dowjones20k]

One has to be seriously cocerned when Americans are advocating wealth redistribution because other cant seem to get along in life and figure out the game ...

yes we all know that some kooky members in congress also have this idea ...

To take my families hard earned money and give it to some pitiful family that keeps popping out kids because they cant seem to keep thier legs closed and the men who are inseminating these women refuse to accept financial responsibility for thier indiscretions is ludicrous and just wrong.

Its not my fault they cant be responsible and live within thier means ... nor is it anyone elses fault ...

We have become a blame society that seems to want to blame anyone or anything except the parties that actually are at fault ...

Sad Sad ..

[piercetheval]

...AND NEXT YEAR...LIFE WON''T BE WORTH ANYTHING...
and you''ll have to pay to Gov''t to stay alive...
er...ahhh...wait, it allready works like that.

[brianbwb-2009]

DemWatcher

And from the pen of the "father" of modern fascism,

"In 1932 Mussolini wrote (with the help of Giovanni Gentile) and entry for the Italian Encyclopedia on the definition of fascism.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death..."

Hmm, butter knife, ok ... POW!

[brianbwb-2009]

To DemWatcher

Want some more? Here''s some more.

Since Mussolini, there have been many conflicting definitions of the term fascism. Former Columbia University Professor Robert O. Paxton has written that:

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."

Paxton further defines fascism''s essence as:

...a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of traditional solutions; 2. belief one%u2019s group is the victim, justifying any action without legal or moral limits; 3. need for authority by a natural leader above the law, relying on the superiority of his instincts; 4. right of the chosen people to dominate others without legal or moral restraint; 5. fear of foreign `contamination."

You are in over your head, son, next time, don''t bring butter knives to a gunfight.

[brianbwb-2009]

"Sorry about the rant, folks, but I think it''''s about time...." Posted by Demongirl60

I think 10 mil is more like it, then you simply can bank it, and live very well off the interest for the rest of your life. No need to take the gamble of investing with the criminals on Wall Street.

[piercetheval]

...A WEALTH CAP!!!???...
I LIKE IT!!!!
...YOU GO DEMONGIRL!

[brianbwb-2009]

1. "IF The Bush Administration HAD committed war crimes, do you think the Dems controlling Congress would have sat on their fat arses since Jan 2007 and NOT brought him to trial? ..." Posted by DemWatcher

Yes, because many of them are complicit. There were no WMDs, Bush knew it even while he was lying about it. No "clear and present danger" + 4,100 US dead = treason. Torture = violation of the Geneva convention. War crimes. Funneling money to war profiteers without proper accounting = corruption.

"2. Fascists? Look up the term and see whom it REALLY applies to." Posted by DemWatcher

fas7cism (fshzm)
n.
1. often Fascism
a. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

b. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.

Case closed, another ignorant neocon-derthal''s post reduced to the methane generator it came from..

[floydzepp2]

America is dead. The RINOs killed her. Very sad.

[oneworldusa]

Stop ALL immigration including mail-order brides and foreign wedding arrangements NOW!!!

[oneworldusa]

Sounds like the citizens "Human Life Value" is being negatively affected by the 12 million illegals in the US who need to be shipped home at their own country''s expense. They are sucking up citizens tax dollars in welfare, healthcare and incarceration.

In court, one officer had about 8 Spanish speaking men (requiring an interpreter) up for charges of driving without a license. This is one county in the US, one day. While the issue was not brought up, as it was traffic court, why do you think all these people don''t have licenses? Because they are illegally here, I am quite sure.

No amnesty for them, none. They are ruining the lives of legal citizens by stealing jobs and taxes from us.

[eddom949]

"And they said, ''It is the price of blood.'' " - Bible

I''m not too sure about this inflation thing. Currency be damned, I''ll barter corn if I have to. This is just indication of indicators.

Commercial: Read Adam Smith.