Foxmeister

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A few years ago, while I was stationed at Ft. Gordon, a co-worker and I went to eat lunch off base. As we were walking to the entrance of the restaurant, a man in his 50s asked us if we could give him some gas money. He said he had a doctor's appointment in Atlanta and didn't have the gas to get there. Our senses told us it was a scam and we kept walking. A couple of days later, we went to the Huddle House on base for breakfast and the guy was standing outside. As we approached told us the same thing he did before. I told him to leave or I would call the MPs. He drove across the stre

We're having ham for Christmas. There will be lots leftover for bean soup and many other meals.

Here's how the law says the money must be generated by the lottery. Half goes to prizes, a third to education, and the remainder for marketing and operating the lottery. Since the implementation of the HOPE scholarship, we have seen more and more high school graduates use the program to further their education. The number of HOPE participants increases each year. I believe at one time participation was based upon financial need and the scholarship also provided financial help with books. Then it was changed where anyone regardless of income would be eligible for HOPE if they had a B av

First of all you make a false allegation $3.3B disappeared. Perhaps what you were really trying to make an accusation the state or some people within the state government were stealing the money. That's like you. Next, you pointed out how much the state pays per pupil in a topic about the lottery. This gives the impression you believe lottery money should be used to increase what the state pays per pupil in education. Perhaps you should put a little more thought in what you're going to say before you say it to ensure what you want to convey comes across as what you really mean.

From my understanding, the voters of this state voted in favor of establishing the lottery for HOPE and Pre-K only. To use the money for anything else in education would be in violation of what the voters approved and against the law. You seem now seem stuck on how much money the state spends on each student for public education. You seem to think throwing money at the problem is the solution rather than looking for what the real problem is and fixing that.

You're math is skewed. First of all, you're multiplying what was generated for schools in 2012 by the total number of years the lottery has been in effect. There's a chart on the page I provided that shows what the return to education was for each year since 1994. The chart shows that more than $14B have been returned for education for HOPE and Pre-K.

Caster sugar is a super fine sugar, but not powdered sugar. It's the same as C&H Baking Sugar.

Here's some data on where the money generated from the state lottery goes. $901.3M for funds to education. (A third of this is for Pre-K) $228.7M for commissions to retailers selling lottery tickets. $144.6M for gaming and operating expenses for the lottery. $2,298.8M in prizes to winners. Now some people will probably complain that the largest amount of money goes out as prizes, but it's necessary to have a lot of prizes to keep people buying lottery tickets.

My solution is we should only be required to pay sales tax on the price we pay for a car; whether we buy it from a dealer or private owner. There should be no sales tax required if a person purchases a vehicle from a family member. After the sale, the owner would only be required to pay the registration fee each year to renew the license plate.

You're making an assumption the majority of Paulding residents are in opposition to the airport expansion. I have yet to see any data indicating the majority oppose it.

My father retired from the Army in 1973, after 21 years of service. When he first retired, military retirees received a pay raise each year equal to what the active military received plus a COLA. The Democrats stopped that though right after Jimmah Carter was sworn into office. Remember Carter was a Navy veteran, proving just because a candidate is a vet doesn't mean he will be someone who will protect veterans rights and benefits.

Remember, you're the one who said Ryan put the COLA cuts in the bill, thus putting the entire blame on him. I simply pointed out the bill was authored by both Ryan and Murray, thus giving them both the blame. As a veteran and military retiree, I don't use military service as a litmus test when voting for a candidate. What I look at the candidate in totality; meaning I look at the candidate's platform and ideas. If I feel those fit or mostly fits my values, priorities, and ideals. It shouldn't really matter if the person is a veteran or not. Here's a question for you. You're look

You're welcome. I must say though, MrDis was not in anyway being disrespectful to military retirees. He was just pointing out the fact military retirees and veterans were not the only ones who put themselves in danger on a daily basis or make sacrifices. As someone who spent several years as a LEO, I know what his words meant.

Just to bring up an interesting fact. Only 17% of those who serve in the military actually do so until retirement. When people think of how such a small number of people make sacrifices by serving in the military they should also think about how much smaller the group is of those who made those sacrifices for 20 or more years. The retirement of current federal employees and retired federal employees is not affected by this legislation. Isn't it refreshing to know that those who work for the government who do not make the sacrifices our military members do and the only danger they may fa

I agree emergency services personnel make sacrifices, but this piece of legislation has nothing to do with their benefits. With that said, if a municipality were looking at reducing their emergency services retirees retirement benefits, I would be right there with you against such a move because of the sacrifices and danger these people endured during their careers.

We all know your disdain for Republicans. You've made that very obvious for several years here. Whether you realize it or not, you have in fact brought party into it. You keep singling out Ryan by name, but there were two people responsible for this bill and the other Murray is a Democrat. You further brought party into it by making the statement, "Ryan is the one who put in the bill!!!!!!!!" Again this bill was put together by two people. What makes you so sure it wasn't Murray who wanted the COLA cuts to military retirement and Ryan conceded in a compromise for something else in the bi

Murray is a Democrat.

You do realize if the Senate passes this (I bet they do), it becomes law? Will you then hold the Senate responsible as well as the House for this?

Even if the Senate passes it today? I understand they will vote on it today. Let's take a look at how the vote breaks down in the House. Of the 332 yes votes, 163 were Democrats and 169 were Republicans. Of the 94 no votes, only 32 were Democrats while 62 were Republicans. Why did the vote turn out this way? Because almost every single member of the House are running for re-election (some are retiring) and they're afraid a government shutdown would harm their re-election bids.

Tax revenues are making a recovery in Paulding, but they are still down from what they were 10 years ago. We've had many discussions in this forum in the past years before the recession started, how the tax revenues collected were not enough to improve the infrastructure in the county, e.g. countywide sewerage and more revenue for the schools. Those discussions included how if manufacturing businesses located into the county they would not only provide decent paying jobs, but would generate much larger tax revenues compared to retail businesses. You could have more and more retail busine

I'm not hard of hearing. I've spent a lot of time on flight lines with C-130s in Afghanistan and Iraq to know how loud they are. I've flown in a lot of them, so I know how loud they are while inside one. They aren 't as loud when one flies over your head at 200'. While in Afghanistan, I worked l just over a quarter of a mile from the runway, as was the building I slept in. The noise from the C-130s weren't a problem. The noise from fighter jets though were a nuisance, especially while they were taking off in the middle of the night and would hit the afterburners as they lifted off.

We have become a ridiculous society.

There are deductions that still exist today, but there were a lot more deductions they could use during WWII and shortly after.

When people use the argument the rich paid a larger percentage of taxes during WWII than they do now; they're only telling you a partial truth. What they leave out is all the tax deductions they had back then to recoup a lot of that money. They don't have those same deductions today.