You ARE Going to Die - An Ode to Viagra

 *Insert uproariously funny dick joke here*

Since this is an election year, the really stupid people are trying to get out in front of the rout that Barry Obama and his Slavery Party rightly deserve.  The only thing that Barry has actually done since he was elected is destroy any chance of us ever having a decent medical services apparatus.  Oh, and make our country a laughing stock around the world.  Most people know this, but keep in mind, stupid people are stupid.  They cannot comprehend what has happened with our medical delivery system since ObamaCare was passed.

Oh, try to ignore the fact that in 2010, Barry Obama led the Democrat Party to the worst electoral defeat in history.

So, morons are coming out of the woodwork to try to convince their imbecilic brethren that Barry Obama has done something good.  Check it.

If you are a true masochist, click the image to see the stupidity full size.  You see, there is only one freaking thing worse than someone thinking that they can live forever, it is someone that tries to promote the idea that another can live forever.

What this woman actually accomplished was for another person to DIE, because she took resources from someone else.  Remember the "Progressive" ideology, for someone to get anything, another person has to get nothing or maybe it's everyone gets everything, shit I cannot remember what the Hell they believe this week.  You see, "Progressivism" teaches us that everything is mutually exclusive, yet NOTHING is mutually exclusive.  Yeah, I know, that seems contradictory because IT IS.  "Progressivism" is a contradiction in every way.  That is why only stupid people are "Progressive."

Now, in a normal person's mind, it goes something like this, "You know, since 1973, Democrats have made it increasingly more difficult to afford to go to the doctor, so I better set aside a bunch of money to accomplish that.  Let me put off taking out more student loans to go back to college to get a Ph.D. in advanced puppetry." 

In the mind of an idiot, like Barry Obama, it goes like this, "You know only poor people and people without a brain in their head will vote for me, so I better take a bunch of money away from normal people to help dumbasses live longer to go back to college to get their degree in advanced puppetry."

Oh, and since only normal people can understand the stupidity of trying to deplete the gene pool by allowing stupid people to live longer, therefore totally negating Darwinism and the Theory of Natural Selection, the powers that be continue to take money from the successful to give to the lowest dregs of humanity in existence.  Yes, there will always be more dumb people than smart people and that divide grows greater every second that "Progressives" are allowed to run our school system. 

No, I do not want this woman to die, but no matter what she does, she is going to die.  So,in order to stem the stupidity tide coming from "Progressives," we need to start asking the intelligent questions, "At what age do you want everyone to die?"  Obviously, they are too stupid to understand life EXPECTANCY and averages, but we already knew that.  Funny, you would think that since "Progressives" want stupid and poor people to live forever, they would go to the mat protecting the life of babies, because face it, babies are the dumbest people on Earth.  Hell, babies cannot even make a sammich!  AND!  They do not have any money at all.  Moron and broke-ass poor is by definition, "Progressive."

Here is what "Progressives" think about medical services, "Everyone, but people that work for every, little thing they have, who we call the 'RICH', should be able to afford to go to the doctor at any time for anything.  This includes getting free tattoos, genital piercings, ear plates, breast bags, liposuction, plus hair and nail extensions whenever we want them!  Except babies, they need to die all the time because we hate babies."

Now, let me see if I can summarize all of the "Progressive" ideology on a few topics.

Wages/Income: Raise the dollar amount of the paycheck of the lowest wage earner (least capable employee) to reduce the value of the person who makes more than minimum wage.  Hell, let's pay the least capable the very same amount as the smartest person at the company!

Education: Reduce the emphasis on mathematics, science, language, history, and philosophy so we can promote only skin color and sexual deviancy as the merits needed for advancement in school.  (President Barry Obama!)  Then, since the education received at the grade school levels is so poor that everyone has to go to college just to be able to read, let's start giving free money to people that want to be prison guards and need a four year degree to carry a baton to control prisoners or others that just want to rant and rave about "inequality."  Let's call that "Criminal Justice" and "Sociology," respectively.

Medical Services: Let's force employers to cover bushy eyebrows and yellow fingernails in the attempt to make everyone pretty and so everyone can have the "self-esteem" necessary to expect everything to be handed to them.  At the same time, let's give a bunch of free food to everyone and never expect them to accomplish anything to receive that free food.  OH!  While we're at it, let's give them free satellite tee-vee so they can sit around and watch stupid "Progressive" shows all day long while they are sitting on their ever-expanding fat asses.  Then, let's cough up our skulls about the "epidemic" of OBESITY!!!

Military: Who needs one?

Summary: It appears that in order to adhere to the tenets of "Progressivism," one has to revert to the culture, society, and intelligence of the Middle Ages or prior historical eras.  Not only that, everyone must die at the very same time.

Now, I said all of the above to say this, you are going to die no matter how much of my paycheck you commandeer to pay for lessers to live longer than my bank account.  Quit taking my money to waste on stupid stuff, dipshit.  And what does this have to do with Viagra?  Well, Viagra is one of the best selling drugs of all time and received no government money to be developed.  Success or the very opposite of "Progressivism?"  You betcha and you got WOOD.

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Why Taxing ANY Business is Stupid

If you are under the impression that any business pays taxes, you simply must be a Democrat. There can be no other explanation for believing something so ridiculously stupid.

Take a moment to listen to FACTS and REASON. This shall be hard for you to do, Mr. "Progressive," but, please engage your gray matter for a minute. Read these words and attempt to understand them.

BUSINESSES DO NOT PAY TAXES. The person that buys the product or services from the "taxed" business pays those taxes because it is figured into the price of those products or services. It is called OVERHEAD. Simply put. OVERHEAD is the cost of doing business. A building, furniture, telephone service, a website, or taxes and fees are all costs of doing business.

To increase taxes on ANY business is to raise the price of the product or service. That is the ONLY thing that it does. In other words, when government levies any tax or fee on a business, the cost of the product or service supplied by that business must be increased to maintain PROFIT MARGIN.

PROFIT IS GOOD. If a business fails to make a profit, that business will not exist very long because the ONLY reason for that business to exist is to MAKE A PROFIT. Businesses are not created for the purpose of providing jobs, insurance, wages, or stability to any area that the "Progressives" determine this minute. They are formed to create a profit for their creator. PERIOD. There is no other reason.

YOU DO NOT PAY ALL OF YOUR FICA AND MEDICARE. Dumb people get all upset because Social Security and Medicare are taken from every one of their checks. Your company ALSO pays half of that. You are not paying all of it. So, understand, every time that minimum wage is increased, the cost of products and services go up even MORE than the minimum wage increase, because the EMPLOYER has to pay more in FICA and Medicare.

Bottom line in this idiotic debate is that if you are a proponent for increasing taxes on any business or increasing minimum wage, then you are asking to be POORER. It is really that simple.

Please, "Progressives," grow up and attempt to learn something.

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Explaining Simple Concepts for the Left

(I have tried to start this post four times in the last two days. Distractions and awesome people, just anticipating that I need more data, get in the way and help out without even knowing it. This post is a thinking-out-loud process for a guest post I am doing at an obvious crazy person's blog. A little critique, please?)

I have made the comment on this blog many times that an elementary way to jump start the economy is to abolish minimum wage. I was asked in an e-mail to expound on that concept even more than I already have. As always, I do what is asked of me.

Please understand that everything that I think stems from the FACT that I desire to succeed or fail ON. MY. OWN. I am a staunch advocate for the individualism that made this country great, but my ideology is a little more harsh than that of the Founding Fathers. They still begrudgingly allowed slavery. I would have sooner let the country not ever be born than have institutionalized that abhorrent act. I actually think that I would have had to fight the slave owners even before fighting England.

I said that in the prior paragraph to segue into the fact that I am ideologically opposed to government getting involved in any contract between two men. If the contract goes bad, yes, I hope that the government can HELP settle the dispute to avoid bloodshed, but to DEMAND for anyone depend on government to dictate any part of their contract is unimaginable for me.

Not only that, the math destroys any argument anyone can make FOR a minimum wage.

A FAILbook friend commented today on a minimum wage article that I had posted and offered a point that I had not contemplated. The fact that I had not even thought about his point made me realize that sometimes I trap my ideology into only applying to my circumstances and do not even offer regard to people that are MORE affected by circumstances. That is to my detriment, because his point is monumental and it helps illustrate even better why the minimum wage is actually a cruel and inhumane idea.

In business, wages are a huge portion of the total cost of any product or service. When something used in production costs money, that cost has to be charged to the purchaser of that product or service, just as raw materials do. I keep trying to think of the most basic commodity to use as an example, but I seriously cannot come up with any product that is just overly simple to make. Milton Friedman used a pencil to illustrate this argument and I never considered the vast resources necessary to produce a single pencil until I heard him talk about the different parts. Watch, it is amazing to the almost overwhelming point.



"To foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world."

In order to make the best hamburger in town, the same exploded view is applicable. Farmers use labor and equipment to produce all of the ingredients necessary to make that burger, and labor is involved to make all the equipment, to ship, to process, and to build the burger. And that labor is a big ol' chunk of the cost of what you wind up eating. The higher the labor cost, the higher the cost of the item. That part is simple.

Now, when you dictate the very least amount that you can pay someone to feed those cows, then you artificially elevate the cost to produce the meat and raise the cost of that burger.

Ignore the fact that Steve wants to work on a cattle ranch. he really doesn't care what he is paid, he just loves him some cows. The federal government has stepped into Steve's business and told him that he cannot work for less than seven dollars and twenty-five cents an hour. The fed dictated what Steve was worth. The farmer or rancher can choose to pay Steve that money or not hire him. If this happened when the minimum wage was first started, Steve would make one quarter an hour. That means that the cost of your least knowledgeable labor has increased by TWENTY-NINE TIMES from 1938 to July of 2009.

Let me reiterate. In seventy-one years, the DUMBEST person in your factory has received a 2900% raise. The very same job that Steve did in 1938 now costs Farmer Roy Earl TWENTY-NINE TIMES more. The work did not change but the cost did. Labor costs for Farmer Roy Earl doubled every two and a half years, but the work never changed.

Now, suppose for a minute that Farmer Jimmy Pete figured out a way to perform the same tasks with less people. He keeps his costs down, yet still doubles his labor costs every two and half years, too. The efficiency keeps Jimmy Pete's prices from going up at the same rate as Roy Earl's. In order to keep competitive, Roy Earl has to get his labor costs down to match Jimmy Pete's or go out of business. So, he hires ILLEGAL Mexicans to handle those jobs and since they are already criminals, Roy Earl doesn't have to pay them the federal government FORCED wage.

Of course, with those criminal Mexicans comes the idiotic stupidity that if they have kids in the United States, those kids are automatically citizens so they get free schooling, medical services, food, clothing, and shelter.

Do you see that a federally mandated minimum wage increases CRIME? Not only that, it reduces the number of employed LEGAL citizens, too. We knew that when the Democrats passed the three year increases and George W. Bush signed that into law.

On July 24, 2007, July 24, 2008, and July 24, 2009, the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $5.85 then to $6.55 then to $7.25. For three years, the minimum wage was increased seventy cents per year. That is 13%, 10%, and finally 9% respectively, but in actuality, the REAL money stayed the same.

The people that made minimum wage did not realize a single increase in their WEALTH because EVERYTHING went up in cost to cover the additional expenses of their labor. At best, they experienced a zero sum gain.

Now, also everyone that was making more than minimum wage actually realized a drop in their WEALTH because they did not get that increase. The folks that REALLY caught it in the shorts were the ones that were making seven bucks, or thereabouts, an hour in early 2007. Within three years, they realized a decrease in their net worth that eclipsed the increase of the minimum wage earners.

While every person that makes more than minimum wage took a huge hit in their salary's worth since 2007, some folks are harder hit than others. My FAILbook friend pointed out the retired folks on Social Security and he is damned right. Increasing the minimum wage KILLS your grandmother. Do you remember back in the mid-1990s when Hickbilly Clinton was making such a stink about Gammy eating cat food? The minimum wage made her have to do it.

It is even worse right now, too. With Obamanomics manipulating the market and throwing worthless money into the economy, they have China-ized inflation. And since they kept inflation down through this time, there were no COLA increases for retirees, while REAL costs were skyrocketing. Even though I am vehemently opposed to the very thought of Social Security, there are millions of folks in their golden years that are depending on that money, that they paid in to the alleged "lockbox" system, for their very living.

Now, this argument might seem that I am saying that all wealth or earnings are relative and there is a finite amount of it, but nothing could be further from the truth. Not only does the federal government mandate the wages paid, but they also manage the money supply, dictate the farm yields, restrict the delivery system by charging exorbitant taxes, but they also stifle innovations and growth in all sectors because of the "Progressive" interpretation of interstate commerce.

But, if President Obama is genuinely concerned with jump-starting the economy, a really fast, simple, and effective way to do that would be to abolish the minimum wage. Will it ever happen? Probably not, because Democrats NEED the dumbest and least skilled segment of our society, the minimum wage earner, to vote for Democrats.

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Minimum Wage Laws are RAAAAACIST!!!

**The links are important, click them when they show up in the text.**

Daily I listen to the national media talk about how wonderfully our federal government is performing their tasks. Oh, that poor, poor, poor Harry Reid is just killing himself over this "healthcare" bill. Ignore the fact that the legislation they are working on is going to minimally increase your medical services by thirteen percent**, the bill is just flat out stupid.

If you actually are a person that is naturally inquisitive, you have tried to figure out exactly how you are able to hoard less cash recently. This should be very obvious when you go to the store and everything you buy is more expensive in relationship to your income.

Short answer? Democrats have been running our federal government since January 2007.

Yes, despite what you hear on the national news, during George W. Bush's eight year presidency, he had a Republican Senate for only four years of his eight and a Republican House for only six years of his eight. I do hope you know that the Senate is the "august" body that actually runs things in DC. So, for only half of Bush's presidency could he get anything passed that he wanted.

Did he screw up? Certainly he did, he signed legislation passed by the Party of the Morons. BUT! In case you do not remember exactly how well the economy was clicking when Bush was president, look at ANY economic indicator before January 2007. It is LITERALLY double what it is now. (On April 7. 2006, unemployment was 4.7%, today it is TEN PERCENT!!!)

TARP? Puh-leeeze.****

What the Hell happened?

In my opinion, minimum wage laws drive the economy. My first post on this was penned in March of 2005. (Read it, it is the short form of why minimum wage kills the economy.) I wrote an even more descriptive post in April 2005 because I was asked for more information on that concept. The ideology of minimum wage is really easy to understand. Poor people need more money. But, there is another really simple thing to understand, there is no way to knock one man down to build another man up.

Again, why are we in this current financial shit storm? Democrats. Yes, George W. Bush signed their idiotic minimum wage increases, but it was a purely political move. He knew that if he did not sign the MW increase bill, that Democrats would hound Republicans into submission over that VETO. Such is the nature of politics, no honesty, just bullshit.

The fun part of this scenario is that eventually, if all things remain the same, the economy recovers from the stupidity of raising minimum wage. This happens because the people who received that huge WAGE CUT, those of us that make more than minimum wage, tighten our purse strings, because we are not stupid, hoard money, and eventually accumulate still more savings. All this happens while those that only make minimum wage, unskilled and stupid people, continue the exact same spending habits because their salary maintained a status quo. And because they are stupid. Why do you think they make minimum wage?

Also, when that minimum wage is increased, it takes a minute for the market to slow down and realize how stupid that is. I pointed that out in the post in February of this year about how the market reacted to the Democrats minimum wage increase. You can easily see in the market graphs on that page that your 401k was kicking ASS during the Republicans' control of Congress. You do not even have to be a genius to see it, either.

One more thing about how well the market is doing right now. In case you forgot, Obama forced a bunch of businesses out of business and the DJIA removed those companies from the index and replaced them with profit-making companies. This move artificially inflated the DJIA. This move happened right after the market was bottomed out. Get it? (When I say "bottomed-out," I mean bottomed out.)

Anyhoo, the Democrats crushing of the economy has fallen every year for the past three years on July 24. This year was the last wage hike in their three year ridiculousness. Again, I pointed out that unemployment will go through the roof every year right about the first of August. Guess what? I was right as usual.

Here's what I got as far as helping us out in respect to government. We all know that people that belong to the Democrat Party are idiots. We cannot all be smart, you know? Who would pick up our garbage? But, we simply must remain engaged with our government because the second we let our guard down, the morons take over again and we lose everything that we worked so hard to gain.

Yes, we all know that our current president is an imbecile. And NO! It has nothing to do with his skin color. In case you are unaware, Barry Obama is more white than he is black. Oh, and he is NOT young either.

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**the individual cost of medical services in France ROSE by 13% when they instituted FREE medical services. The percentage of their income that they spent on medical services went from 5% of annual income to over 17% of annual income, too. Good idea? Hardly.

**** TARP was passed by the Democrat Congress. Do you think that Bush went over to the Democrat run Congress and got a single thing passed by them that BUSH wanted? If you believe that, call me, I have some land, WORTH MILLIONS!, that I will sell you for virtually nothing.

Redux: Economics, The Two Dogs Way

While my posts on a weekend seem to be for the most part unread, I still like to do it. I guess that I can just hash out some of my opinions without debate with anyone other than myself, so here I go....

It seems that there are still some people that think that a minimum wage is a good idea, and no matter what you tell them, they continue to hold this concept dear to their heart. While I don't think that these people are evil as a rule, I do believe that they are so completely misinformed as to lean toward becoming evil. Ah Hell, they're evil.

I cited this particular case as a basis for my argument (and yes it's me): A seventeen year old male enters the workforce upon high school graduation. Not knowing exactly what this male wants to do for the rest of his life, he decides to get a job in construction because of an interest in building. Watching things go together (the ol' in-out, in-out) has always been interesting to our hero so he applies for a job as a laborer for Gianormous Construction Company Inc. Let's call him 'Adonis' for ease of story-telling.

Anyhoo, Adonis starts his meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the business world raking in a whopping five dollars per hour. That was a weekly net pay of $181.50. (For those economically challeged people, there are taxes that are taken from your check that make the "net pay" less than if it was straight math of hours times rate) Minimum wage at this particular point in time hovered right around $3.35/hour (which would have been $134.00 in just staight compensation). Adonis spent the majority of his day pushing a broom around a construction site and quickly became bored with his tasks. He approached Mr. Big-time Construction Dude and asked for more compelling tasks that were better suited for his talents. He moved up to a post of carrying around heavy things for a welder. Mr. Welder-Man quickly realized that Adonis had good skills and a desire to work hard.

Needless to say, Adonis was again charged with harder tasks and was "awarded" greater compensation. Within two years, Adonis was making $11.00/hour. Wow! That is over two times the beginning wage!

Now for the fun stuff. In the same time frame, minimum wage stayed about the same, so therefore Adonis' salary was worth the rate he was paid, $11.00/hour. If in fact the minimum wage had been increased from 3.35/hour to say 10.00/hour in the same time frame, Adonis salary had in fact been decreasing in regards to the minimum wage which actually dictates to price of everything from a Big-Mac to dental dams. (I bring up dental dams because our hero was ADONIS and had no shortage of fawning women and he never failed to please. Hey, look up at me!)

Every single thinking person can understand this concept, but it seems that there are close to 49% of Americans that do not think, so I will explain this s-l-o-w-l-y. It is very easy to understand that if an employer is FORCED to pay basically unskilled workers a certain amount of money per hour, he must adjust his end cost to cover that wage. If he does not, he will go out of business. You see, business is not a zero sum game, Mr. Business Owner has to reach a place in earnings where he receives what is known as "PROFIT". Granted, 49% of Americans think that profit is evil, but they fail to understand that is why a business is there. Oh, it would be GREAT if it was just to serve the community, but face it, Gomer, there is NO OTHER REASON THAN TO MAKE A PROFIT. He has to do this in order to afford to send his wealthy little girl, Buffy, to Vassar and to move up in the wine and cheese circles, because his wife, Trixi, has to have a better dress than that trollop, Betty Sue Ann, down the street.

Now the ugly stuff: If Mr. Business Owner fails to achieve this plateau of nirvana known as "SUCCESS", he will not have the damn jobs to award to the minimum wage guy in the first place.

The Two Dogs conclusions: Profit=Good. Minimum wage=stupid, bad, evil lunacy.

Oh, and for Tom and Travis, I know this is an overly simplistic view of things, so don't just make me look too bad. But, y'all probably don't know how to talk to children anyway. Trust me this had to be done.

UPDATE: What happened to Adonis, you ask? He moved up in the construction field until he got to a point that either he had to start his own construction company or either go back to college to receive a degree in architecture. Did Adonis finish his degree? Yep, he received his BA in 2002 (twenty years after high school graduation) and is now employed with Major Architecture Firm Incorporated. At some point in the very near future, he will approach the salary that he was making at Gianormous Construction Company Inc. and far exceed that in subsequent years. While he enjoys being paid ridiculous sums of money modeling for "Sexiest Man Alive Magazine", it is still just a hobby. Oh and he runs a "humor" blog on the side and patiently awaits his death by wild boar.

UPDATE 2: I am throwing my support behind the dark horse candidate, Travis Benning, for any damn thing he decides is worth his talents. Carrying the one...patience, just a little patience....Benning for President/2020!

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The Fascism of Minimum Wage

Well again I have been jumping around the blog world, reading Rightwingsparkle, and got sucked into a debate on the minimum wage. This post is basically Finance 101 the Two Dogs way. Pull up a chair. Oh and read RWS's blog. She's from my adopted hometown and just seems as sweet as watermelon wine.

Here we go. The minimum wage is just flat out stupid. This is an idea that might have made sense if the wage was determined by the guys who pay the damn wage. Wait, no it wouldn't. I say that capitalism is not unlike survival of the fittest. If my company can make a hamburger that is not only better than yours but also make it at a lower price, I am going to drive you out of business. It's up to you to learn how to make a better burger and make it cheaper. Adapt human or be assimilated.

Now, is there anyone out there that doesn't understand that if I raise the minimum wage on my lowest paid employees; I must charge MORE for my product? The only people this helps are....wait for it.....NO ONE IS HELPED AT ALL!!!!!

You see, product and profit are tied together from the onset. In order for me to make a profit, people have to be willing to buy my product at the price I have to set to stay in business. And the cycle continues.....

Now, on the wage receiving end, it's like this. If minimum wage is raised, every single product in the country gets more expensive. Duh. That means that the people that were making minimum wage wind up with a net gain of zero. Think about it. This presents a major problem. The people that were making more than minimum wage are left with a negative net gain. THEIR SALARY IS WORTH LESS! Get it?

Minimum wage earners for the most part are younger workers that are NOT supporting a family of four people. You know this. All you have to do is THINK. I know that you really believe that raising the minimum wage helps people, but dammit, it doesn't.

Oh, and while I'm screaming about money, Social Security is stupid, too. Let me out of the program, I promise you can keep the contributions that have been stolen from me. Like I have a choice.