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Title: Atman gets desperate
Post by: franksolich on September 27, 2012, 12:25:47 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021201874

Oh my.

I dunno how this was missed a month ago, but it was.

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Atman (24,695 posts)   Sat Aug 25, 2012, 09:08 PM

Desperate stretches as cave dwellers try to deny "we built that."

(After pictures of U.S. war planes). Yes, all of those were built by groups of individuals and they are marvels of technology, but they were funded by the US government. America built those things, so the government can take credit partially, as well as those who built and operate them.

No, not really.

One of the constitutionally described jobs of the US government is to provide for the common defence.

They could not do that without taxpayers. The government funds nothing, taxpayers fund the government which then divies out those funds.

There are some astonishingly stupid people over there.

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SickOfTheOnePct (1,246 posts)   Sat Aug 25, 2012, 09:14 PM

1. I don't know what a cave dweller is

But taxpayers do fund the government.

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Atman (24,695 posts)   Sat Aug 25, 2012, 09:19 PM

2. You're lucky.

But actually, you know them. They're the bottom feeders of the GOP.

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nadinbrzezinski (109,213 posts)   Sat Aug 25, 2012, 09:24 PM

3. I s'pose at this point that our spelonking friends do their spelunking without proper safety gear. It explains the leaps.

No, I do not need a link to the thread... unlike them, I really do not need it. We know exactly who they are.

I surrender to the curiosity rarely. Something about giving them hits and traffic.

^^the above's the whole campfire.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: Chris_ on September 27, 2012, 12:28:54 PM
If that's the most egregious thing he can find over here, he's got nothing and he knows it.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: Undies on September 27, 2012, 12:29:58 PM

^^the above's the whole campfire.

I'm underwhelmed.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: franksolich on September 27, 2012, 12:31:35 PM
If that's the most egregious thing he can find over here, he's got nothing and he knows it.

Ah, my evil twin doesn't know shit about what we're talking about anyway.

And the oblate spheroid is over here all the time.

The campfire's a month old, and burned out, but I pulled it over because we're mentioned.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: USA4ME on September 27, 2012, 12:43:04 PM
Pedro, I owned and operated a very successful mortgage lending business for over 20 years, and in the past few years have converted it into a very successful multi-level investment company.  I built it.  Me.  Not John next door, not Sally down the street, not Bill across town, and certainly not Rob at Mission Control.  It was me; all me.

Now if you required the help of others for you to draw cartoon bubbles, that's your problem.  It has nothing to do with what I did by myself.

Poor Pedro.

.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: jukin on September 27, 2012, 01:29:42 PM
Pedro really thinks he is smart.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: delilahmused on September 27, 2012, 01:34:51 PM
What the hell do military airplanes, an expenditure actually part of our Constitutional responsibility, have to do with anything?

He can't possibly be so obtuse can he? To not understand what it means to build a small business?

Cindie
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: DefiantSix on September 27, 2012, 01:35:32 PM
Pedro really thinks he is smart.

Pedro should stop attempting things which he is ill-equipped to accomplish.  Thinking really isn't his strong suit.  :mental:
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: franksolich on September 27, 2012, 01:37:23 PM
He can't possibly be so obtuse can he? To not understand what it means to build a small business?

Back when Atman was making big bucks during the lousy Bush economy, he had an art "studio."

I dunno if he still has it; perhaps the wife got it in the divorce settlement.

I'll bet he thinks he built that.

Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: Undies on September 27, 2012, 01:42:46 PM
What the hell do military airplanes, an expenditure actually part of our Constitutional responsibility, have to do with anything?

He can't possibly be so obtuse can he? To not understand what it means to build a small business?

Cindie

The idea is to illustrate how nothing can be accomplished without government.  Military airplanes was the best example his little limited mind could come up with.  Nevermind the fact "government" does nothing in that process except extract money from the pockets of productive people in order to pay Boeing for those planes.  

The tiny brain cannot wrap around the reality that private businesses build everything even though "government" attempts to take the credit.
 
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: txradioguy on September 27, 2012, 02:16:51 PM
Texas Toast...the government didn't build the facilities that constructed those planes...nor did they hire the engineers who designed and built them.  The biggest thing they did ws submit proposals for the kind of plane they were looking for to several different companies and offer to pay the company that submitted the winning bid large amounts of taxpayer dollars to purchase X amount of planes and spare parts.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: franksolich on September 27, 2012, 02:18:18 PM
Texas Toast...the government didn't build the facilities that constructed those planes...nor did they hire the engineers who designed and built them.  The biggest thing they did ws submit proposals for the kind of plane they were looking for to several different companies and offer to pay the company that submitted the winning bid large amounts of taxpayer dollars to purchase X amount of planes and spare parts.

That's too deep, too cerebral, too complicated, for Atman to understand.

You'll have to put it more simply.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: txradioguy on September 27, 2012, 02:22:42 PM
That's too deep, too cerebral, too complicated, for Atman to understand.

You'll have to put it more simply.

Damn...I thought I had it laid out pretty simple.

*reaches for the crayons*
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: franksolich on September 27, 2012, 02:25:02 PM
Damn...I thought I had it laid out pretty simple.

*reaches for the crayons*

Remember, Atman and franksolich were separated at birth.

Atman got all the money, and franksolich got all the brains.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: Airwolf on September 27, 2012, 02:33:40 PM
Atman seems to have forgotten that like a lot of businesses even military conratctors started small. Lockeed Martin. Boeing, LTV. General Dynamics and many more all started out as a small company someplace and some ofthem are now merged with their competitors that also started smal and became huge contrators. Those companies helped keep people emplyed for years after the original company ceased to be. and its not just planes ,GM and Crysler and Ford also has or is still building equipment for the military.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: wasp69 on September 27, 2012, 02:45:53 PM
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Atman (24,695 posts)   Sat Aug 25, 2012, 09:08 PM

Desperate stretches as cave dwellers try to deny "we built that."

(After pictures of U.S. war planes). Yes, all of those were built by groups of individuals and they are marvels of technology, but they were funded by the US government. America built those things, so the government can take credit partially, as well as those who built and operate them.

No, not really.

One of the constitutionally described jobs of the US government is to provide for the common defence.

They could not do that without taxpayers. The government funds nothing, taxpayers fund the government which then divies out those funds.

There are some astonishingly stupid people over there.

(http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/4731i5439B8282A42795D/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1)
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: Ogre on September 27, 2012, 02:58:28 PM
Damn...I thought I had it laid out pretty simple.

*reaches for the crayons*

I think even crayons may be a bit too much for him, think more "cave art", you know stick figures, something primitive. :-)
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: Karin on September 27, 2012, 03:15:34 PM
He thinks that government workers built planes?   :mental:  I really can't understand why they don't "get it."
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: GOBUCKS on September 27, 2012, 03:46:12 PM
I have no idea what point the unemployed (and unemployable) Pedro Picasso McGrath is trying to make.
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: franksolich on September 27, 2012, 03:48:18 PM
I have no idea what point the unemployed (and unemployable) Pedro Picasso McGrath is trying to make.

Neither do I; whatever it is, it's too dumbed down for people with average and above intelligence to understand.

I just brought this pointless campfire over because conservativecave was mentioned in it.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on September 27, 2012, 03:51:28 PM
Pedro, I owned and operated a very successful mortgage lending business for over 20 years, and in the past few years have converted it into a very successful multi-level investment company.  I built it.  Me.  Not John next door, not Sally down the street, not Bill across town, and certainly not Rob at Mission Control.  It was me; all me.

Now if you required the help of others for you to draw cartoon bubbles, that's your problem.  It has nothing to do with what I did by myself.

Poor Pedro.

.

:clap:

Excellent post!
Title: Re: Atman gets desperate
Post by: Randy on September 27, 2012, 05:12:06 PM
16 TRILLION and counting. More than likely the Chinese paid for those planes and our defense. All the tax income goes to paying you DUmmies to sit around and whine, and give freebies to democrat voters.