The Truth about Dive Paradise and the ScubaBoard Invasion

[Basscat]

I have no doubt that I'm the smartest person posting in this thread.

You are quite obviously mistaken.

 

[DandyDon]

I have no doubt that I'm the smartest person posting in this thread.

I think maybe you've had the most to drink.

 

[JG109]

I have no doubt that I'm the smartest person posting in this thread.

Lol, so the truth comes out in the end

 

[ff1diver]

 

[D_B]

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[reo]

I have no doubt that I'm the smartest person posting in this thread.

A very unique opinion, I'm sure. Any data to back that up?

Ron

 

[cruiser]

Please leave Obama (and therefore politics, which are irrelevant to the issue) out of this. Thank you.

Unfortunately, it's always about the politics though I wish it weren't.

 

[ggunn]

Nobody said anything about the SB invasions having anything to do with Washington.

Again for you - " Exactly. With all the advertising provided, they could have provided wonderful deals, if only they weren't constrained by having to grant freebies to all the principals. Too bad it's not a non-profit club sort of atmosphere where all the people could have realized the benefits of group savings and not just the organizers. "

Obama poison word for word. Wealth redistribution to the undeserving simply believing they are deserving because they exist. The Obama promoted "entitlement" mentality of if you make more then me, you should give me some of yours so I can benefit from all your hard work and risk taking. Mossman believes Pete should give everyone some of his, because Pete's got too much.

I think what is irrelevant is when somebody tries to tell a business owner that they can't financially benefit from all their hard work and risk taking and they should pass along those rewards to people who have no rights or claim to them. That unfortunately is where we are in 2011, to the point that somebody can make a statement like Mossman did to Pete and almost nobody is shocked by it.

My father would have read what Mossman said and his comments would have been simple, he would have shaken his head and muttered "My my, the balls on this one."

Read it all again S-L-O-W-L-Y and keep doing it until you can understand it spells out - S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M.

Here are the key words : "where all the people could have realized the benefits of group savings and not just the organizers. " - read those words again and again until you can understand they spell out W-E-A-L-T-H - R-E-D-I-S-T-R--I-B-U-T-I-O-N

Doesn't have anything to do with the infirm, throwing old people under a bus or Sarah Palin. It's about somebody (Mossman) trying to tell a business owner(Pete) they should forego the rewards for their risk taking (profits) and give them to people who don't even PAY ANYTHING to Pete for anything, so that Pete can S-U-B-S-I-D-I-Z-E their freak'n vacation. ARE YOU SERIOUS????????

This is how out of wack this country has become that I even have to point any of this out.

Go into Starbucks tonight and tell the manager you'd like him to contribute part of his salary to lower the costs of the stores coffee expense so you can get a cheaper cup of coffee. See how that works for you.

Wow. I really don't know where to start.

To begin with socialism is not a dirty word. You absolutely cannot have a society without some vestiges of socialism. Community ownership of infrastructure is socialism. Payment from public coffers for fire and police departments is socialism. Income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes are socialism. Having a military that we all pay for is socialism.

But beyond that, this country has been wallowing in the worst kind of socialism for decades, which is the financing of personal prosperity with public debt, and it was the Republicans who were responsible for it more than the Democrats (though they all had a hand in it). Follow the money. For example, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made an elite group of Americans fabulously wealthy with money borrowed from China; it was Bush's brand of poison that did that and we are all on the hook for it. The Republicans have defined themselves as the party of the wealthy and the privileged; I don't see how anyone who considers himself middle class could possibly vote for any of them. They want government to get out of the way of the rich so that they can continue harvesting and plowing under the middle class.

Class warfare? You bet. What, you didn't expect the middle class to return fire?

Unfettered socialism is bad, I don't contest that. But unfettered capitalism with the economic hoarding and predation it fosters is every bit as bad. And I define "bad" as detrimental to the chances of survival for a society and all the individuals who populate it.

But anyway, I digress. The only reason I wrote any of this was in response to your taking the comments of someone who commented on a dive trip to Cozumel as an excuse to spout off about Obama. I happen to agree with you that there was nothing wrong with the folks who organized the trip getting a "free" ride, but there is no connection to Obama any more than there is to The Three Stooges: Palin, Bachman, and Perry.

 

[Wookie]

Now may we hear from the Hitler crowd?

 

[mselenaous]

Hitler isn't AOW...If Hitler can't manage a dive center, guess he can't manage an Invasion.