On 09/27/08 08:41 am wrote:

Of course the wage paid to a specific individual in Australia does not
depend on the size of that employee's family. But the minimum wage that
anyone could be paid for 40 hours work in a week was such that he would
be able to support a family of four -- not four children, but himself, a
wife, and two children.

Bottom line: If you can't afford a family of four, don't HAVE a family of
four.

See the preceding paragraph. It takes somewhere around two children per
family to maintain the population.

Well then why did they have 4 children, instead of 2? And why is
it the automatic right of couples to have children if they can't
afford them? And since everyone around the world has their shorts
up in a knot about environmental issues, eg global warming, why have
policies that encourage MORE children, instead of less?

I thought I had already made it clear that by "a family of four" I meant
four people total: the wage-earner, his wife, and two children. NOT four
children.

Perce

"Morbidly obese goverment sucking the life out the economy? Yes."
"...food-stamp backed mortgage crisis"

Go google "starve the beast", all ignoramuses that chant this stuff.
Yes, gov't has been bloated. But realize that the neocons' goal is
stated to be to bankcrupt us in order to destroy gov't, even by means
of making it incompetent so that the electorate will be sympathetic.
Witness FEMA, DOJ corruption, EPA, etc. What we have is a bloating
disease countered by a traitorous destroy-gov't disease, and you who
fail to see this play into the neocon-type agenda: self-destruction
in order to create an autocracy. My suggestion is: go get a job
competing with the illegal aliens or H-1B/L-1 or any mfg job being
outsourced, then amaze yourself at your transformation. It's BOTH
parties and mainstream 'left' and 'right', you morons. Your
frittering and manic spewing and panic is just playing into the hands
of those that control the capital. Distracted by your own lies and
illusions. YOU all voted for the same pieces of crap over and over or
didn't vote at all; YOU will reap what you sow. Period. Handle it.

What simpleton doesn't understand that the quality of the gov't
reflects the people?


On Sep 25, 2:14*pm, mike wrote:
On Sep 25, 12:35*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:



We Republicans also believe tax cuts can cure cancer and alleviate
bee-bites.-

Bee bites? No. *Morbidly obese goverment sucking the life out the
economy? Yes.

They're the ones that brought this food-stamp backed mortgage crisis.
If these bad mortgages packages can turn a profit, put _your_ money
where your mouth is and snatch them up. *The houses behind them are
being reclaimed by nature as we speak.