Biden Presidential address to congress

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Pickleballers?

Conservatives I’m not sure what pickle ball is?

 

[Cervus elaphus]

You really, really and really need to watch the vid on post 91. If you can watch that and stand by your defense of Biden you are just gone. Seriously if the Aussies can see this why cant all Americans?

Probably because we don't have our heads up our arses.
Sounds a bit harsh but If you want to hear it as it is, go to Aussie Sky News

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Our CPP and OAS are a different entity to a 401k.
A 401k would be comparable to an employer matched RRSP. Superannuation sounds about the same.

You have to remember, not a lot of money goes into the CPP plan, and every year there are less people paying into it, and more and more drawing. Who knows how sustainable it will be in ten years time.

@Aaron N
Sound like Australia has the best system. Our employers have to pay the superannuation regardless. The employee only adds extremely if they want to. It is COMPULSORY for employers to pay super or they can get into deep shit. This doesn't affect our employment rates. Our pay rates seem a lot higher than yours as a 20 year old salesperson at a big hardware store like Bunnings is $29 per hour.
When I was working up until 3 years ago I wouldn't leave the house for less than 42 dollars per hour. My last job as a disability worker was paying that wage and weekend work put it up to 69 dollars an hour.
Bob

 

[Cervus elaphus]

@Red Leg
Excuse my ignorance but what is a 401.
In Australia we have superannuation to help pay for or retirement. This is money put away by the employer at 9% of your wage. This will climb to 12% over the next couple of years.
Not long ago a person could retire comfortably on a million dollars. When interstate rates were 6.6% that would give them an income of $66,000 pa. When the arse fell out of the rates to 1.5 to 2% their income fell to 15 to 20,000 dollars. They now have to rely on gov't support to top up their income. They have gone from reasonably comfortable to below the poverty line.
In Australia our grandkids will be paying for all the hand outs our gov't gave BUT our economy is now getting better unemployment is falling and we are doing pretty well.
Just last weekend we had the largest crowd at a sporting event in the world in a covid free country
86,000 people at a footy game in Victoria.
Bob

I think we're doing pretty good here in Oz, covid-wise and economy-wise. Small businesses are suffering though, and the tourist industry but that's not unique to Australia. Support local is the way to go. If you can't go on that African safari just yet, there is good big bore hunting up in the Northern Territory.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Conservatives I’m not sure what pickle ball is?

@ Skinnersblade
It might be what jackalopes eat mate I know sabre tooth field mice don't eat them.
I wonder if @CoElkHunter knows what a picoze is.
Bob

 

[sestoppelman]

Probably because we don't have our heads up our arses.
Sounds a bit harsh but If you want to hear it as it is, go to Aussie Sky News

Half of this country has its head up its collective arse! The other half knows how it is, but also knows it wont be shown on network TV or print news. They will continue to cover for Ol Creepy Joe, the Hair sniffer.

 

[Woodcarver]

That or it caps off the life of Biden as one of the most decorated (in a non-military sense) Presidents in US history with nearly 40 years in the Senate, 8 years as VP, and up to 8 years as President. He probably isn't going to be taught in schools 300 years from now, but he could be the focal point in the 21st century

I concede it will probably be one or the other and not so much in the middle. Likely it will depend on what the virus does and his own personal health. However, George W Bush didn't know what he was waking up to on Sept 11th 2001.

Pretty much confirms which of the 2 groups you're in.....and it isn't the trolls

@Red Leg I greatly appreciate your taking the time to pen your responses. While this guy is a lost cause, there are others that might be reading through and will benefit from your well written rebuttals to the nonsense this administration is attempting to foist on the American people. Thank you sir.

Unfortunately, unless we can regain control of the education system in this country, every generation is getting more and more indoctrinated by the left's version of utopia. It is invasive even in the story problems in the math books. Coupled with revisionist history and a total lack of real world economics or civics, our children are not getting a proper start educationally. As most of us know, at least those of us that paid attention to real history, an uneducated, ignorant population is much easier to control. Best current example is China. Hmmm, Biden's buddies with China; no connection there though, right?
I am still optimistic that intelligence can win at the ballot box. We are in for a rough couple years here, but if Biden continues to push what he is, I believe the quiet, used to be silent, majority will wake up and put some coffee on; and hopefully change the control of both houses.
Want to take any wagers on who will be the Dems candidate in 2024? Hint-it's a girl. Oh, wait, can't say that anymore. It'll be someone who identifies as a woman of color

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I think we're doing pretty good here in Oz, covid-wise and economy-wise. Small businesses are suffering though, and the tourist industry but that's not unique to Australia. Support local is the way to go. If you can't go on that African safari just yet, there is good big bore hunting up in the Northern Territory.

@Cervus elaphas
There's good big bore hunting every where in OZ. Hell I'll even shoot rabbits with the Whelen.
I support local mate only way to fly. Yes our tourist economy is suffering but so is every countries.
Bob

 

[CoElkHunter]

@ Skinnersblade
It might be what jackalopes eat mate I know sabre tooth field mice don't eat them.
I wonder if @CoElkHunter knows what a picoze is.
Bob

A type of salsa? No Bob, I don't know. BTW, what's length of time is a fortnight?

 

[Aaron N]

@Aaron N
Sound like Australia has the best system. Our employers have to pay the superannuation regardless. The employee only adds extremely if they want to. It is COMPULSORY for employers to pay super or they can get into deep shit. This doesn't affect our employment rates. Our pay rates seem a lot higher than yours as a 20 year old salesperson at a big hardware store like Bunnings is $29 per hour.
When I was working up until 3 years ago I wouldn't leave the house for less than 42 dollars per hour. My last job as a disability worker was paying that wage and weekend work put it up to 69 dollars an hour.
Bob

I regret not spending time in Australia while I was young enough to qualify for a no questions asked work visa as an electrician!

Does the superannuation work like a pension where you receive a defined monthly sum upon retirement, or does the money go into an investment account, and upon retirement you get a lump sum to withdraw from?

 

[Aaron N]

Is there any form of old age help in the US?

 

[Tgood1]

 

[sestoppelman]

Is there any form of old age help in the US?

You have not heard of Social Security?

 

[jeanes]

100 days and now the return to normalcy the Biden voters told me about. Can't wait.

 

[Red Leg]

The lovely Mrs. Redleg and I were nodding and grinning with Tucker this evening about something we were laughing out loud about last night. Those of you who suffered through the President's speech no doubt heard him intoning somberly that "no right is absolute." Of course, he was justifying his proposed limitations to the second amendment when he read those lines. We howled. For instance, I wonder which parts of the 13th Amendment should be limited - I won't say to what that amendment refers, because I want @curtism1234 to do his homework and look it up (Hint - I am pretty sure BLM will be upset if we limit the amendment's effect). Maybe the 19th went too far as well? Perhaps we should limit Pelosi's right to vote? I am for it but it might not pass judicial scrutiny. Exactly whom among the gentler sex in Biden's limited rights world should lose their right to vote? Maybe we need to address the 26th as well. Surely not all those 18 yr and older citizens need to vote in every election.

The MSM would have been all over Trump - justifiably - had he said anything remotely so ridiculous and uninformed in a State of the Union address.

Of course, I find it hard to blame Biden. He is doing his best simply to read a teleprompter. I do blame the uneducated buffoons writing his speeches. The only thing worse are the equally ignorant viewers who don't even notice.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

@Cervus elaphas
There's good big bore hunting every where in OZ. Hell I'll even shoot rabbits with the Whelen.
I support local mate only way to fly. Yes our tourist economy is suffering but so is every countries.
Bob

You use a 35 Whelen on buns? hell's bells. The only other big beast I'd use a big bore on is a Sambar stag - nasty buggers.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

The lovely Mrs. Redleg and I were nodding and grinning with Tucker this evening about something we were laughing out loud about last night. Those of you who suffered through the President's speech no doubt heard him intoning somberly that "no right is absolute." Of course, he was justifying his proposed limitations to the second amendment when he read those lines. We howled. For instance, I wonder which parts of the 13th Amendment should be limited - I won't say to what that amendment refers, because I want @curtism1234 to do his homework and look it up (Hint - I am pretty sure BLM will be upset if we limit the amendment's effect). Maybe the 19th went too far as well? Perhaps we should limit Pelosi's right to vote? I am far it but it might not pass judicial scrutiny. Exactly whom of the gentler sex in Biden's limited rights world should lose their right to vote. Maybe we need to address the 26th as well. Surely not all those 18 yr and older citizens need to vote in every election.

The MSM would have been all over Trump - justifiably - had he said anything remotely so ridiculous and uninformed in a State of the Union address.

Of course, I find it hard to blame Biden. He is doing his best to read a teleprompter. I do blame the uneducated buffoons writing his speeches. The only thing worse are the equally ignorant viewers who don't even notice.

The Dementia-in-Chief is well past any recognizable cognizance. I would call it senior abuse. But there is relief on the horizon, Kamala the psychopath. Make a guess on when Nasty Nancy invokes the 25th.

 

[Aaron N]

You have not heard of Social Security?

I just really enjoy asking questions that I already know the answer to.

 

[Cervus elaphus]

I cant watch it, makes me nearly sick. He can talk all he wants, getting it done is another thing.

I suspect that individual states will have a say in that.

 

[sestoppelman]

I just really enjoy asking questions that I already know the answer to.

Guess I took your question literally.