Puerto Rico Independence gaining or what?

[gopher]

They can go anytime they like.

Precisely what the thread is all about. Or they can renegotiate the treaty as did Samoa which enjoys the same status but does not send their youth as cannon fodder into foreign wars.

 

[jimmoyer]

LOL, let's just allow only the poor who pay taxes
to sign up for duty ---- the logical extension of gopher's
premise --- it's unintended consequence.

 

[gopher]

luckily for those wealthy elitists, Bush's tax cuts have dropped and will continue to drop those numbers by a humongous number:

http://www.ctj.org/pdf/two1105.pdf

 

[gopher]

"the logical extension of gopher's
premise "

Nah - let's draft only the wealthy elitists!

 

[jimmoyer]

Well then that would be you Gopher, because as far as
I'm concerned you're a white bread wealthy boy
compared to the homeless on the street, so why
don't you give up everything you own because you're filthy rich compared to the beggar on the corner.

And while we're at comparing anyone with money
because it's quite relative because the line you draw
is ever shifting, give up your laptop so that the blackman
down the street can use it.

 

[gopher]

poor boy - he's totally -

http://www.screamingpoints.com/archives/026-incoherent.JPEG

 

[jimmoyer]

Gopher is a white rich boy.

LOL !!!

 

[gopher]

Don't I wish! Thanks!!!

 

[jimmoyer]

The blackman downtown thinks you are.

And he'll have to consider the desparate risk
of signing up to fight and you won't have to,
because you're rich compared to him.

 

[gopher]

Actually he and I would be in good company because I enlisted (or attempted to enlist) in the army during Vietnam. But I failed the entry test due to a heart condition.

Did you enlist?

Did Dick Cheney do so?

 

[jimmoyer]

No, I never did enlist. I'm your average everyday
chicken hawk.

 

[gopher]

http://www.harpers.org/art/cartoons/mrfish/AmericanEagle_350x303.jpg

 

[gopher]

Gotta give you credit for being honest about it - good show!