I am finished with mixes thread! I will not come back to read any comments about political issues again!
Let's talk about dj'ing stuff.
Let's talk about dj'ing stuff.
Did you see what's new with this presidential election?
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Which DJ'ing stuff would you like to discuss??[emoji1] How Bose makes the best PA speakers?... Why brides are too cheap to pay for a real DJ?... What is the best battery powered portable PA speaker?... Why the DJ's will be replaced by robots?... Why Alto Speakers are cheap crap.[emoji1]... DMX light problems???[emoji1] Yeah... we haven't talked those topics to death, yet.[emoji1]
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You said we can be thankful for the vapid biddy won't be president. Speak for yourself! It does look like this country will be ion the hands of that clown Trump! I said it before in the other thread. We need to pray more then ever with that clown taking office. Sorry for those who disagree. You have your opinion and I have mine. I just hope my prediction is wrong about world war 3 coming with him being president of this country. It was already reported that the Russian president was talking about having a nuclear missile being fired at Nato. Stevie Wonder said it best. Heaven help us lord.
Let's revisit this next year once he's had a chance to actually do something .. rather than guessing what he might do.
You know NATO is a treaty; right? I have no idea what news organization would report such a ridiculous story, but trust me... a nuclear missile fired at a treaty would be a little bit crazy; even for Putin.[emoji1]
I don't know where the actual (physical) NATO treaty is, but would it really take a nuclear missile to blow it up?[emoji1]
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One simple question. I won't debate the other things you said. What does the president have to do with people deciding to attack or kill law enforcement? When I grew up people respected the police. That was a long time ago. Nowadays things have changed. People are openly selling drugs on street corners. You need a good education today to make a decent wage to take care of a family. If we're talking a family of 4, that usually will mean you need to have 2 people working to be able to survive or live comfortably. Many years ago you had a thing where the father worked and the mother stayed home taking care of the kids and the house. Today that is a distant memory. Unless one person has a job of at least 100k and they don't live above their means. What gets us in trouble is not our needs but our wants.
Again what does a president have to do with a person deciding to just kill a cop without any bad feelings? That's what they choose to do. I will mention one more thing. What's more important to you? Owning a a brand new vehicle or having a place to live? It's about being practical and not putting yourself behind the 8 ball and not knowing how to get out from under.
I saw this on a news station. One of the major ones. This whole world has gone crazy. What is destroying this world is our greed. When do we have enough? There was a time when you could win the lottery for 1 million dollars and that was good enough. Now the government takes so much for taxes that you hardly get much of anything for yourself.
I can't answer your question because I can't know what is in the heads and hearts of people who attack and kill cops. But I can't understand why anybody would ever think it's OK to kill anyone else or steal from anyone else for that matter. Why do people think it's OK to burn cars or loot a business in the midst of a protest?
President Obama said in a live appearance on TV that "the shooting death of a black teen by a white police officer last month in Ferguson, Missouri, exposed the racial divide in the American justice system that “stains the heart of black children.” He said this LONG before there was an investigation by the Justice Department, which cleared the officer and proved that "hands up don't shoot" was a scam!
When cops are killed; crickets. When the cops were killed in Baton Rouge, did we see Obama on TV?... No; we got a statement released by the White House that was barely reported.
This sends a message to some people that COPS lives don't matter, and they are not to be respected as much as the people who attack them. The president is NO big fan law enforcement, which he made clear almost from the start (July 2009) with the statement that a Cambridge Cop "acted stupidly", before even knowing the facts.
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Greed isn't new. Hard to say if it is any worse now than it was 20 years, 100 years, or 2000 years ago. They could conduct a poll, but the greedy are probably not likely to respond honestly.[emoji1]
That said, it seems that a lot of what we saw in companies and banks that caused the 2008 recession was A LOT of greedy and dishonest executives. So Obama bailed them out... that taught 'em a lesson, huh?[emoji1]
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Congress bailed them out. Not the president. If the decision wasn't agreed upon with congress then they wouldn't have been bailed out.
It was a Democrat congress and Obama pulled the strings.
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Good idea, considering your wacky leftist positions.[emoji1] Just kidding.[emoji1] though I don't agree much with your opinions, you have EVERY right to participate in all of these discussions, and I hope you will. I belong to another forum where I was called pretty much everything you could be called for expressing my Christian and Libertarian perspectives, and I would hope we would NEVER let that kind of disrespectful behavior happen here. Besides, Mix and Jeff Romard need a little support occasionally.[emoji1]
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No the bailout was by the Treasury Department .. and they report up to the president. The bailout actually started with Bush .. he allowed the initial $700B to go out .. problem is Obama has let it climb to $4.7 Trillion (under cover as details were not originally released) .. and we have a total commitment of close to $17 Trillion .. and Banks were not prosecuted enough for their involvement ..
You can read about it in Forbes ... The Big Bank Bailout
Mix is right to a point... Congress had to approve the funds, and they did.[emoji1]
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It's a 2 edge sword. What do you do? Bail those companies out and save a lot of jobs so the unemployment rate doesn't rise even more or don't bail them out leaving thousands of people without a job.? Leaving those companies to take their companies to go over seas where they can find much cheaper employees to work for them and then sell the stuff over here for a ridiculously jacked up price. Do you know that those sneakers that they sell here costing $80-150 are made over seas for a little bit of nothing? Something like $20-25.
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Yes .. they are to blame as well .. just wanted to make sure Mix knew that Obama was also culpable.
The answer to your question is another question... Are we a free market country; or not? If you look deeper into the bailouts, there's a lot of corruption and cronyism involved. They were NOT trying to save middle class jobs... nothing even close to something so noble.[emoji4]
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You miss my point. Either way he it went it would look bad for him. So you actually can't win in this case at all. The only way you get to at least try to control things is by having a salary cap like they do with sports teams and players. Then you got to worry about all the loop holes that these business people know about to get around or out of things.
The role of our leaders is NOT to look good .. it's to do what's right by all the people. None of them did that completely.
I am sure a bailout was needed .. I'm sure it needed to be continued .. but nothing was really done to stop that whole corrupt process and Obama had that opportunity and didn't do it. We'll see if Trump has the balls to do it or if he is also going to genuflect.