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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: burgerbrain]
#22527939 - 11/15/15 03:11 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Doobie Dude said: your failure to understand the difference from sexual fantasy to real world actions are astounding. You are also wording the fantasy wrong he said a women wants to be fucked by multiple men at once not raped though.

Why are there no smart liberals on this forum?
You're saying that "smart" liberals are the ones that wouldn't "understand the difference from sexual fantasy to real world actions" or the difference between "wanting to be fucked" and getting "raped"? Similar to you not being able to understand?
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
#22528046 - 11/15/15 03:40 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Doobie Dude said: your failure to understand the difference from sexual fantasy to real world actions are astounding. You are also wording the fantasy wrong he said a women wants to be fucked by multiple men at once not raped though.

Why are there no smart liberals on this forum?
You're saying that "smart" liberals are the ones that wouldn't "understand the difference from sexual fantasy to real world actions" or the difference between "wanting to be fucked" and getting "raped"? Similar to you not being able to understand?

Who said that? Here's my quote in context:
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burgerbrain said: Why are there no smart liberals on this forum?
PS. Nice picture of yourself, do you have any more?
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: burgerbrain]
#22528089 - 11/15/15 03:56 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: burgerbrain]
#22528145 - 11/15/15 04:15 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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burgerbrain said: Here's my quote in context:
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burgerbrain said: Why are there no smart liberals on this forum?
Actually, that's your quote without the context.
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: ballsalsa]
#22528155 - 11/15/15 04:20 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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"I know you are, but what am I?" 
He really seems to enjoy that kindeegarten tactic, doesn't he?
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
#22528222 - 11/15/15 04:41 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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burgerbrain said: Why are there no smart liberals on this forum?
Actually, that's your quote without the context.
Nah, it's called context. Learn it. Go back to school, liberal. You really need it.
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: burgerbrain]
#22532494 - 11/16/15 12:28 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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You are actually a dumb, tea party activist. I am willing to bet that comes from the south.
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: The Doobie Dude]
#22532710 - 11/16/15 01:12 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Doobie Dude said: Those numbers actually work out to fund public college.
The numbers work, but only with sizable tax increases that would choke the economy.
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: The Doobie Dude]
#22532914 - 11/16/15 02:17 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Doobie Dude said: You are actually a dumb, tea party activist. I am willing to bet that comes from the south.
Tea Party stands for responsible spending and taxation by govt... You oppose that?
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: hostileuniverse]
#22534086 - 11/16/15 06:33 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Doobie Dude said: You are actually a dumb, tea party activist. I am willing to bet that comes from the south.
Tea Party stands for responsible spending and taxation by govt... You oppose that?
Of course he does, how else would he get his welfare checks?
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: burgerbrain]
#22539364 - 11/17/15 08:55 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sanders Supporters Explain Socialism (Hilariously)
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: burgerbrain]
#22540872 - 11/18/15 08:38 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Uh, like equality, and uh, fairness and just a uh, like a really good idea" - typical BS supporter
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: hostileuniverse]
#22543833 - 11/18/15 08:12 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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hostileuniverse said: "Uh, like equality, and uh, fairness and just a uh, like a really good idea" - typical BS supporter
Those kids act like Beavis and Butthead.. Let me find another good one
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: hostileuniverse]
#22553002 - 11/20/15 08:10 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Tea Party stands for responsible spending and taxation by govt... You oppose that?
hahahaha sure it does mr. uses the mods when i thought tea people wanted less regulartion LOL
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: The Doobie Dude]
#22553450 - 11/20/15 10:38 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Doobie Dude said: You are actually a dumb, tea party activist. I am willing to bet that comes from the south.
Tea Party stands for responsible spending and taxation by govt... You oppose that?
hahahaha sure it does mr. uses the mods when i thought tea people wanted less regulartion LOL
Are you trying to change the subject, Snoop Sanders?
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: burgerbrain]
#22562694 - 11/23/15 10:04 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Don't let the little socialist bastards get ya down!
Suicide rankings compared:
Finland: 5th in the world Denmark: 11th in the world Sweden: 12th in the world Norway: 13th in the world Iceland: 15th in the world United States: 18th
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: hostileuniverse]
#22562764 - 11/23/15 10:23 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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hostileuniverse said: Don't let the little socialist bastards get ya down!
Suicide rankings compared:
Finland: 5th in the world Denmark: 11th in the world Sweden: 12th in the world Norway: 13th in the world Iceland: 15th in the world United States: 18th
source please? the World Health Organization gives these numbers, though with the following caveat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
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The WHO statistics are based on the official reports from each respective country, and therefore, no more accurate than the record-keeping in the specific country.
Incidence of suicide tends to be under-reported due to both religious and social pressures, and possibly completely unreported in some areas. Since the data might be skewed, comparing suicide rates between nations is statistically unsound.
Finland:33rd Denmark:82nd Sweden:58th Norway:81rst Iceland:35th United States:50th
now, just for shits and giggles:
Swaziland:105th Afghanistan:113th Iran:120th Haiti:153rd Venezuala:155th Lebanon:168th
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: ballsalsa]
#22562792 - 11/23/15 10:32 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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When liberals point to the per-capita GDP of Norway, they forget to mention that much of this is a result of big oil interests. Norway is the largest oil producer and exporter in all of Western Europe. Norway produces roughly 200 barrels of oil per person per year. That puts it at number 5 in the world for per capita oil production.
The conclusion we can draw from this is that a significant portion of Norway’s per capita GDP is based on oil revenues. In other words, Norway is successful despite its government, not because of its government.
Incidentally, I find it funny that those same liberals who vehemently vilify big oil are happy to ignore that little fact when pointing to the success of Norway.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: hostileuniverse]
#22562850 - 11/23/15 10:52 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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hostileuniverse said: When liberals point to the per-capita GDP of Norway, they forget to mention that much of this is a result of big oil interests. Norway is the largest oil producer and exporter in all of Western Europe. Norway produces roughly 200 barrels of oil per person per year. That puts it at number 5 in the world for per capita oil production.
The conclusion we can draw from this is that a significant portion of Norway’s per capita GDP is based on oil revenues. In other words, Norway is successful despite its government, not because of its government.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html
Your conclusion is faulty. Norway's government is partner in the extraction, refinement, and distribution of that oil. As a result, the people of norway reap many benefits from their country's mineral wealth. By contrast, in the U.S. we lease land to private interests at very cheap rates, and let the oil companies keep all the money. Norway also uses those petroleum profits to invest in their pension fund, which has been hugely successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway
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The Government Pension Fund (Norwegian: Statens pensjonsfond Utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income is deposited. The fund changed name in January 2006 from its previous name, The Petroleum Fund of Norway. The fund is commonly referred to as The Oil Fund (Norwegian: Oljefondet).
As of the valuation in June 2011, it was the largest pension fund in the world, although it is not a pension fund in the conventional sense as it derives its financial backing from oil profits and not pension contributions. As of 30 September 2014 its total value is NOK 5.534 trillion[1] ($857.1 billion), holding one percent of global equity markets.[2] With 1.78 percent of European stocks,[2] it is said to be the largest stock owner in Europe.[3]
The purpose of the petroleum fund is to invest parts of the large surplus generated by the Norwegian petroleum sector, generated mainly from taxes of companies, but also payment for license to explore as well as the State's Direct Financial Interest and dividends from partly state-owned Statoil. Current revenue from the petroleum sector is estimated to be at its peak period and to decline over the next decades. The Petroleum Fund was established in 1990 after a decision by the country's legislature to counter the effects of the forthcoming decline in income and to smooth out the disruptive effects of highly fluctuating oil prices.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/11/oil-fund-norway-millionaires_n_4576887.html
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That’s right. Norway, the “socialist paradise,” is effectively running a surplus of nearly a trillion dollars, thanks to oil revenue.
About the same time this happened, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation released calculations showing that the taxpayers of Alberta are on the hook for $7.7 billion in debt, or about $1,925 per person. It expects the debt to spike to $17 billion by the end of the 2015-2016 fiscal year. The CTF is so alarmed by the province’s descent into deficits that it has launched a debt clock specifically for Alberta.
What's wrong with this picture? Norway, with an economy and population somewhat larger but on the same scale as Alberta's, has managed to guarantee its citizens' prosperity for decades to come. Norway's oil production is declining, down to one-half what it was in 2001. Alberta, where oil production keeps growing and growing, is writing IOUs.
Norway isn’t the only one, though its fund is the largest. The United Arab Emirates’ funds are valued in excess of US$800 billion, Kuwait has about US$400 billion, and Russia and Kazakhstan have accumulated about US$180 billion each.
These facts should renew the long-running debate about whether the federal government or the provincial governments of oil-rich provinces should set up the sort of sovereign wealth fund that has made Norway stupendously, incomprehensibly rich.
But are Albertans, or other Canadians, ready for the sort of reforms that would turn Alberta into the new Norway?
In socialist-leaning Norway, oil profits — including from state-run Statoil — are taxed up to a whopping 78 per cent, and that’s where the seed money for the fund comes from.
Alberta, meanwhile, never even had a provincial sales tax. Albertans pay far, far lower taxes than Norwegians, and if conventional economic theory is right, this should give Alberta the advantage.
But does it?
The average total income in Alberta is around $53,000, well below the province's (stunning) economic output of $80,000 per person. Norway's economic output is actually much lower than Alberta's, at $65,000 per person, but its average income is about the same, at $58,000. Norwegians take home a much larger chunk of the economy's wealth than Albertans do.
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Re: Remember when Bernie said the USA should be more like Norway? [Re: ballsalsa]
#22562887 - 11/23/15 11:05 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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