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    The Problem with "Reparations"

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    14 minutes ago, Wabash82 said:

    If the federal government had seized your father's house that you were legally entitled to inherit, and many years later paid you the value of the house that you would have inherited, but for the government unlawfully taking it from your father, would you consider that payment "free stuff"? 

    In an earlier post you mentioned the federal government denying people basic human rights, the right to liberty and self determination, etc. So we are in fact retroactively making today's laws apply to yesteryear. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, etc., regardless of how wrong they were, were in fact the law of the land at the time. Again, as I posted earlier how am I today, in 2019, along with every other tax payer to be held responsible for legal actions that our ancestors may or may not have committed 50-100-150 years ago? You specifically mention in your post the government "unlawfully" taking your father's house. Unlawful by what litmus test? The law at the time of the seizure or the law today?

    What about women who couldn't vote? What about people who were denied alcohol during prohibition? What about all the drafted military who didn't make it home? What about the Native Americans? What about the gays who were denied marriage until four years ago?

    Earlier in this thread I posted this below, no one has addressed any of these points:

    1 How do you determine who gets reparations?

    2 Who is on the hook for the bill? 

    3 What is the price to right this wrong? How is it determined?

    4 How do reparations move this country forward? Does it end racism? Does it put enough money in the economy that entire country becomes prosperous?

    5 I don't understand how a US citizen of 2019 can be fined for the legal actions of their forefathers 150 years ago.

    The Democrat's roster for a Trump - beater in 2020

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    2 hours ago, Muda69 said:

    This One New Poll of Democrats Explains Why Donald Trump Will Be Reelected: https://reason.com/2019/06/20/this-one-new-poll-of-democrats-explains-why-donald-trump-will-be-reelected/

    Agreed.  Unless the stable of Democratic candidates strongly moderate their message they probably won't beat Mr. Trump in 2020.   Why are they listening to the minority radical progressive wing of their base and not the moderate majority?  Perhaps the card carrying members of the Democratic party here at the GID can shed some light on this?

     

    As I've already said, in their race to out liberal the other candidates and set themselves apart from the other 147 candidates, they're just setting Trump up for another four years. Biden is their best shot at winning, and he won't make it to the end. And the mainstream media will once again blindly aid the D's in electing Trump. 

    Memes - Abandon all hope - Ye who enter....

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    21 hours ago, Irishman said:

    Good Lord that has been me. Got a new Traeger pellet grill, and have not had a chance to use it until tonight...and it still rained at the end of the night. 

    A little rain won’t stop your T. Did you get one of the new models with WiFi? I know it sounds stupid, but WiFi is pretty handy on long cooks.

    Just started our outdoor cooking area and expanded deck yesterday. 

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    The Case for Capitalism

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    5 minutes ago, Irishman said:

    Oh I get it, trust me. I am just trying to get people to understand what the predominant mindset is in this day and age. It is a tough argument to sell to someone making less than $40,000 a year though, when we see how many corporations that paid zero dollars in taxes?? As I have stated on previous threads, Walmart is seeing record profits, but a large number of employees are having to get assistance to make ends meet. That is just one example. The typical response has been, don’t like it? Get a better job. But how many industries are we seeing record shortages? Senator Bray told me that 51% of Indiana employers went with unfilled positions last year...and that excluded school districts. There is a problem that we have to wake up to in this country. Socialism is sen as a viable alternative to what we are seeing now. I don’t like it either, but many employers, especially large ones like Amazon, WalMart, and IBM, to name a few, better wake up, or change is a comin, as they say. We all know here, as crazy as she sounds, AOC has a LOT of support. And I have said this since 2015; had Bernie been allowed to win the nomination, he would have defeated Trump. Not a fan, but those are two facts that cannot be ignored, or brushed aside. 

    I understand the argument. However, AOC is now a congressman, Bernie Sanders has been in congress for nearly 30 years, Joe Biden save the last two years has been in the federal level of government for almost 45 years, the whole lot of them that are railing against corporate taxes are the ones who created the system by which these corporations don't pay taxes. It's the system they built. And now they want to bitch because corporations don't pay any taxes. They're all long on soundbites for the folks, but they're short on actions to back it up. Case in point AOC just this week with her concentration camp vid. She's a member of congress, perhaps she could point us to the legislation she's drafted to solve the problem at the border? 

    The bottom line is R and D alike have no interest in solving any problems. Look at the posts on this forum, it's ping pong. More to your point I think we've reached a point in our society where the perception is, I'll vote for you based on the promise of what you'll give me. That's a scary proposition in my opinion. 

     

     

     

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    Oh Deer

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    1 hour ago, TrojanDad said:

    You got me thinking IO...this was a good conversation.  Talked to a couple of hunting buddies of mine that focus more on deer than I do.  This is one of their responses....and its only an opinion.

    Do I think the Insurance Companies are lobbying to have more deer harvested each year?  For sure.  They would be stupid not to.  There are more than 14,000 vehicle-deer collisions in Indiana (source Indiana DNR).  In 2017, one in every 74 drivers hit a deer.  That sucks.  I am not sure how much money that means to the insurance companies, but I bet it’s in the millions.  If each accident averages $1k, that’s $14MM.  And, as you stated, without citing sources, many forums claim that insurance companies lobby millions to have the deer harvest go up.  Thus, they hope their claims will go down. 

    From 1951 – 1981, annually, there were less than 20k deer harvested in Indiana.  This number rose steadily until its peak in 1996 at 120k deer harvested.  The figure has remained steady between 100k – 120k each year since 1996 (source 2017 Indiana DNR Harvest Report).  So, have I seen the quality of large bucks decline in my lifetime?  Sort of.  We never really saw a lot of great bucks anyways until recently (w/i last 5 years).  But yes, since then, they are even rarer still.  But excluding disease, we have to control the overall population somehow.  Thus, I do not mind the extra does we are allowed to kill each year.  I do support Indiana’s one buck per hunter per year rule.

    Was this guy noted below killing bigger bucks 15 years ago?  Yep.  I would agree to that.  But that’s when we could kill 2 or 3 bucks per season, so guys did that – and took out the marginal ones, that given another year or two would have been monsters.  And that is why we switched back to ONE buck per year per hunter.  His observations are solid and the DNR took our concern and changed the rules.  Overall, do we kill too many deer in Indiana?  Not by my observations in Clinton County.  Each doe produces more twins and triplets than single births each year.  So you have to kill at least 2, if not 3 doe just to remain constant with deer herd numbers.  It is my opinion that the Indiana DNR watches the herd numbers closely and they do an excellent job of managing the number we can harvest each year. 

    I will tell you this little gem.  Our deer processor up in Young America has a theory.  He has seen the number of deer coming into his shop decline by 30-40% over the years.  However, it always seems that the total number of deer taken in Indiana remains constant at 120k.  He thinks the DNR fudges the overall figures for the SOLE PURPOSE of keeping the insurance companies happy.  It may be so…

    Perhaps Wolves should be reintroduced to Indiana? 😉

     

    Indiana is behind nearly every other state in corn planting. Billions are on the line.

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    Honestly, the flooding in Jackson County is pretty normal. The river crested yesterday at 18.2', it's been higher this year. The farm ground that's flooded is the farm ground that's flooded every year. We probably dodged a bullet in the fact the river was just above the normal summer pool before this last series of rain began,  it was at 5.8' on Saturday. Normal summer pool is 3.5'-4'.  The record flooding we had in 2013 began with the river already just below flood stage, which is 12'. 

    The news clip talks about water rescues, which seem to be a growing problem. I just don't understand people. If the water is across the road, it's not safe, turn around. There is a road not far from my house that gets under water. There is a dip in the road, where if you were to drive thru, you might go from 6" of water to suddenly being in about 5' of swift moving water. There have been countless water rescues at the bottom of the hill from my house. Again, if you get pushed off the road, you go from maybe a foot of water across the road to suddenly being in about 4's of swift moving river. I've seen semi's swept off the road there. 

    https://www.wave3.com/2019/06/19/flood-covered-roads-lead-dozens-water-rescues-june-jackson-county/

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    The Case for Capitalism

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    1 hour ago, Irishman said:

    Here is the challenge though; convince those people they are ok, or that things are not as bad as they seem.

    To maybe counter the claim though; this is a comparison among Western countries.

    https://www.prb.org/povertyintheunitedstatesandotherwesterncountries/

    Currently the median income in the US is 59K and some change. According to the chart linked 10% of our population is living in deep poverty that is defined as less than 40% of the national median income, 23,6ish. Or roughly an $11 buck an hour job. You can probably survive in rural Indiana on that income but you're going to be in a lot of trouble in a metro area or on the coasts. 

    My salary is above the median income, yet I still spend time doing other stuff to make additional money. I like toys, I spend money on stupid stuff at times. My point being while I don't necessarily have two or three jobs, I do stuff for pay in my spare time to earn more money. I'm responsible, I show up when I'm suppose  to, I do what I'm suppose to, I don't require supervision, I am at times required to handle fairly large sums of money, and it all makes it where it's suppose to. 

    When our kids were younger, my wife and I both worked 2nd jobs to provide for our family. In many cases our kids had, and we went without. This is the problem as I see it in today's world, people aren't willing to take responsibility for themselves and their families. It's easier to blame the system, the government, the man, whatever for your lack of success.  

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    The New Normal, round 2

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    3 hours ago, Muda69 said:

    University of Minnesota Food Service Worker Says 'Hello' in Japanese to Asian-American Student, Who Files a Bias Report: https://www.thecollegefix.com/campus-food-service-worker-hit-with-bias-complaint-after-saying-hello-to-student-in-japanese/

    Ahh, the scourge of "microaggressions", aka "you hurt my widdle feelings, so I'm going to cry to somebody about it."  Honestly college students, grow up.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=OYOzUHnPJvU

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