Paul Ryan!!

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CMatt25 said:
DeSanto, just because they’re not accepting your point doesn’t mean you’re not making it successfully.
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If you read mine and other responses to DeSanto, you will see that we did not dodge the issue but responded to it. While you may think it is a successful point, it simply is not for the reasons we provided.

God bless.

-Paul
 
CMatt25 said:
DeSanto, just because they’re not accepting your point doesn’t mean you’re not making it successfully.
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Right, CMatt. We get it. You want your entitlements now, paid for by someone else’s kids and grand kids.
 
CMatt25 said:
rLg, not being Catholic I haven’t paid any attention to what the Vatican is investigating. If it is they are investigating nuns such as Sr Simone and those who were on the bus and out among the poor and who oppose Paul Ryan’s budget ideas, since the topic is Paul Ryan I could see where it could be somewhere near the the topic.
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Nope. It has nothing to do with the investigation; therefore, it is nowhere near on-topic.
 
mary_bobo said:
I was around when Kennedy ran for president and the things that were said about him and about the Pope and the Church were nothing short of silly. It is easy to use one’s religion as a reason not to vote for them, particularly when one probably wouldn’t vote for him in any case.
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👍
 
Ridgerunner said:
ROE is always just a “snapshot” at a point in time. Your business in which you invest $100,000 might not have the same ROE the very next week even if earnings stayed the same.

I suggest that ROE is not a good yardstick in determining profitability, taken by itself. A nearly moribund company that’s thinly capitalized or has a lot of debt can have a high ROE, while a very promising company that’s extremely well capitalized might have a low one.
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Any measure is a snapshot at a particular point in time. And I agree that taking one measure by itself is problematic. But, if we want to compare companies, ROE is our best measure at comparing profitability across industries. For example, Walmart has a tiny net profit ratio of about 3.5%. That doesn’t sound too interesting until you realize that they turn their inventory over frequently and their ROE is around 20%, a very respectable number. Obviously ROE only measures what has happened in the past, and that is a problem with all financial ratios.
 
Seeker1961 said:
It does at that…

Ryan will help Romney with conservatives who were wary of him, but he’ll likely send moderates running the other way. A brief look at the political sites this morning showed me that Democrats are very happy about this pick. That’s not really what you go for-a pick that makes the people you’re running against happy.

And wasn’t his budget the one the Bishop’s spoke about as being against Catholic teaching?
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If you actually were following things:
  1. What was leaked was a private letter between 2 Bishops.
  2. The only issue that the bishop writing the letter in #1 was with two line items: (a) the amount of increase proposed for food stamps (b) some sort of tax credit for illegal immagrants.
  3. Not all Bishops are against the budget.
Knowing the facts and context would be key here.
 
PJD1987 said:
If you read mine and other responses to DeSanto, you will see that we did not dodge the issue but responded to it. While you may think it is a successful point, it simply is not for the reasons we provided.

God bless.

-Paul
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I’m sure it will comfort DeSanto to know he has Obama supporters on her side. 😉
 
rlg94086 said:
I’m sure it will comfort DeSanto to know he has Obama supporters on his side. 😉
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It’s just mind-boggling how many of them there are. Very sad, especially from Catholics who should know better.

God bless.

-Paul
 
ComputerGeek25 said:
If money is an issue, maybe you should forgo some of the luxuries in life, like cable tv, until you are on more stable footing.

Working people are not making sacrifices so that you can have your cable TV.
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Wow, we are working people honey, we pay taxes. What are you talking about? My husband works his fingers to the bone everyday. Hard labor, please don’t insult me. Uh, we do forgo luxuries all kinds. Do I really have to tell you all the luxuries me and my children must forgo. Wow, where is your compassion? I don’t complain about the things we don’t have. I am thankful for what we do have. I don’t worry when work is slow, I know the Lord provides everything we need, everytime, without fail. There is nothing that I have that was not provided to me by the Lord. Without Him I would truely be poor. And if they have to take away food stamps, fine but guess what, it would feel a little more fair if they would quit giving trillions of dollars in tax breaks for people that have more money than they know what to do with.
 
This is an extremely long thread so it may have already been touched upon. But I’ve heard Paul Ryan when his father died had the benefit of Social Security survivors benefits which helped him pay for college or what have you. With my father dying when I was a young child and my mother suddenly left with 2 minor children, I do know firsthand the importance of those benefits. So while I’ve never received any other government benefits or “entitlements” as people call them, I would certainly never propose such a budget as Mr Ryan knowing full well the help government can provide.
 
DeSanto said:
Wow, we are working people honey. What are you talking about? My husband works his fingers to the bone everyday. Hard labor, please don’t insult me. Uh, we do forgo luxuries all kinds. Do I really have to tell you all the luxuries me and my children must forgo. Wow, where is your compassion? I don’t complain about the things we don’t have. I am thankful for what we do have. I don’t worry when work is slow, I know the Lord provides everything we need, everytime, without fail. There is nothing that I have that was not provided to me by the Lord. Without Him I would truely be poor. And if they have to take away food stamps, fine but guess what, it would feel a little more fair if they would quit giving trillions of dollars in tax breaks for people that have more money than they know what to do with.
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I’m not the one saying that you have to give up your cable. I am merely stating that if your are in such dire straights that this is an issue, cable TV is not a must have and is a prudential thing to give it up. I say that with all compassion.
 
ComputerGeek25 said:
If money is an issue, maybe you should forgo some of the luxuries in life, like cable tv, until you are on more stable footing.

Working people are not making sacrifices so that you can have your cable TV.
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That’s what we did. After a couple of promotions, I’m up to 3/4 of what I made per-Obama. We could afford to get cable/dish again, but we don’t see a reason to.

I’ve seen the priorities in action among my salesmen. One of them is always “broke,” and his non-working girlfriend, not because she can’t find work, is on food stamps. They always seem to have enough for their cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol, online video game accounts, smartphone plans and cable. For her birthday, he bought her a purebred Huskey, because that’s what she’s always wanted…
 
CMatt25 said:
This is an extremely long thread so it may have already been touched upon. But I’ve heard Paul Ryan when his father died had the benefit of Social Security survivors benefits which helped him pay for college or what have you. With my father dying when I was a young child and my mother suddenly left with 2 minor children, I do know firsthand the importance of those benefits. So while I’ve never received any other government benefits or “entitlements” as people call them, I would certainly never propose such a budget as Mr Ryan knowing full well the help government can provide.
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Ryan is not proposing any cuts to Social Security, so your point is?
 
ComputerGeek25 said:
I’m not the one saying that you have to give up your cable. I am merely stating that if your are in such dire straights that this is an issue, cable TV is not a must have and is a prudential thing to give it up. I say that with all compassion.
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No, I believe you said that you work to pay my cable bill and that I shouldn’t even be afforded that luxury. WOW, is all I can say.
 
DeSanto said:
Wow, we are working people honey, we pay taxes. What are you talking about? My husband works his fingers to the bone everyday. Hard labor, please don’t insult me. Uh, we do forgo luxuries all kinds. Do I really have to tell you all the luxuries me and my children must forgo. Wow, where is your compassion? I don’t complain about the things we don’t have. I am thankful for what we do have. I don’t worry when work is slow, I know the Lord provides everything we need, everytime, without fail. There is nothing that I have that was not provided to me by the Lord. Without Him I would truely be poor. And if they have to take away food stamps, fine but guess what, it would feel a little more fair if they would quit giving trillions of dollars in tax breaks for people that have more money than they know what to do with.
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It would actually be a lot fairer but :amen:.
 
CMatt25 said:
This is an extremely long thread so it may have already been touched upon. But I’ve heard Paul Ryan when his father died had the benefit of Social Security survivors benefits which helped him pay for college or what have you. With my father dying when I was a young child and my mother suddenly left with 2 minor children, I do know firsthand the importance of those benefits. So while I’ve never received any other government benefits or “entitlements” as people call them, I would certainly never propose such a budget as Mr Ryan knowing full well the help government can provide.
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CMatt25…

With all due respect I do not think you know what you are talking about and have bit the lies of the DNC hook, line and sinker.

People have said for the last 30 years that the GOP would take away your benefits, and this hasn’t happened yet, and we’ve had many years of either GOP contolled Congress or Presidency.

Secondly, many of the items in the proposed budget are designed to try to save Medicare and Social Security. As it stands now, many people in my generation cannot count on these programs being there when we retire. Simply continuing the status quo will not work.
 
mary_bobo said:
What views of Romney’s do you find immoral?
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I wish to suggest that we have quite a contrast in candidates for the el supremo chair in Washington.

On the one hand a cultish rich guy who kills former employees spouses, is a tax cheat because he doesn’t pay taxes, shipped jobs to china putting everybody out of work and has a veep nominee who wants to through grandma off the cliff.

The other is a guy who is self-identified as Christian who has his Muslim ethics, campaigns in all 57 states running a 1 trillion dollar deficit year in and year out, has cut 700 billion dollars from Medicare but he cares about old folks, while personally hand picking todays fresh drone kills from his stack of terrorist playing cards, put more Americans on Social Security disabled list then seen new jobs created because he was to busy arming Mexican drug lords, did I mention he is also the food stamp president . His veep is so smart he says republicans will put blacks back in chains.

Oh well if it was a movie it couldn’t be funnier.
 
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