Are we broke?

I know I'm broke.

Me too. And I'm not even American.

EastCoastMojo wrote: I know I'm broke.

Lesley wrote: Me too. And I'm not even American.

I'd love to help you gals out with that, but I'm too poor to be your sugar daddy.

Curmudgeon wrote: So maybe the money being made by the 1% that's being taxed at a much lower rate than the income of their underlings should be looked at a little harder. Oh, wait: Congress belongs to the 1%, not to us. (There's a little trolling, if you choose to call it such.)

Unfortunately, even if we taxed the top 1% at 100%, it wouldn't fund our current level of spending.

Exactly, unemployment is a crushing problem for millions of actual people, but it's fan-berkeleying-tastic for large corporations. They have no interest in achieving full employment, because they would lose the power they now have to force low pay/poor conditions/lack of income security on their workforce. Now that they have a taste of the power that high unemployment rates give them, how do we get them to give it up? It doesn't matter to the wealthiest that lack of employment is dramatically lowering the overall productivity of the nation, because they piece of the pie that they are able to cut for themselves is still larger when employers have such control over the working masses.

Where is this info that shows unemployment is "dramatically lowering the overall productivity of the nation"?

Everything I read says the opposite.

SVreX wrote: Where is this info that shows unemployment is "dramatically lowering the overall productivity of the nation"? Everything I read says the opposite.

Basic logic. I'm sure you wouldn't dispute that 10 horses can pull a greater load than 6, but if horses were sentient and you could convince 6 of them to do the work of 8 by telling them that any who complain will be immediately switched out with one of the four horses in another pen that you don't work and don't feed, you'd be able to make more profit with your 6 exhausted horses than the sucker paying to feed all 10.

But of course people aren't livestock. And we shouldn't think of the way we treat human workers in the same light. I want to live in a country where we all have a chance to pull a reasonable weight and get fed. I'm sad that you and so many others don't.

mguar wrote:

Jay wrote: If a human body is worth $24 billion, who can I sell one of my legs to for 20% of that?

As I said, I made an error the human body is worth 24 million not billion.. Why focus on that? I did say the human body wasn't counted. Does that mean you accept the rest as correct?

Can you break that down into price per part? I have a few that I'm not using...

I'm currently using all of those. What about spleen, gall bladder, unused reproductive organs, extra kidney... stuff like that?

I don't have satellite, or cable. Perhaps if I sold a few body parts I could afford them...

I'm not using my appendix. Think I could get an iPad for it?!

mguar wrote: As I said, I made an error the human body is worth 24 million not billion.. Why focus on that? I did say the human body wasn't counted. Does that mean you accept the rest as correct?

No, why would it?

Donald Trump is basically an ego wrapped in a hot air balloon wrapped in a really terrible hairpiece. I figured out he had nothing pertinent to say long ago.

I'm not American and honestly, I'd rather gnaw through a concrete wall than get into a discussion about your country's debt crisis. I'm just here to talk about selling body parts & cyborgs.

Lesley wrote: I don't have satellite, or cable. Perhaps if I sold a few body parts I could afford them...

I would be happy to place the opening bid if I can name the part.

Make me an offer

Having seen him last week, I don't think I'd give you much for any of his parts.

Mguar has no sense of humor. Maybe he sold that part of his body when he was younger.

Either stop posting or LIGHTEN THE EFF UP!

racerfink wrote: Mguar has no sense of humor. Maybe he sold that part of his body when he was younger. Either stop posting or LIGHTEN THE EFF UP!

Man. Seems to me someone could use a dose of their own medicine.

Lesley was being funny, and he understood NOTHING. He needs to drop the elitest attitude. He'll find his stay here much more enjoyable.

I thought he was hilarious

I have a body part which gets minimal use that I'll sell.

racerfink, lighten up. mguar wasn't being nasty which is typical troll activity. In other threads, I have found that he sometimes has an angle which I haven't thought of and it can be refreshing. Or infuriating. Either way, it makes me think. FWIW, there are several others on this board that do the same thing.

OBTW/FWIW: I don't take a damn thing Donald Trump says seriously. The man is the biggest blowhard on the planet.

Lesley wrote: Having seen him last week, I don't think I'd give you much for any of his parts.

I'd pay $20 to free that poor animal that has to live on his head

Curmudgeon wrote: I have a body part which gets minimal use that I'll sell.

Yeah, but you'd have to get the Herculiner off it if you want top dollar.

Wally, that's not an animal, unless you consider Orlon a living species...

Lesley wrote: I don't have satellite, or cable. Perhaps if I sold a few body parts I could afford them...

Why sell when you can rent?

mguar wrote: In reply to Lesley: I think the going price for a heart is $60,000 and a liver around that.. a single back bone retails for about $20.00 but a skull is worth $700 the real money is in the trace elements..

If those are high quality bones, I'd like to shop where you do. A good human skull for an anatomy lab can be $1600 , more than that if it is carefully dissected. Even a low quality specimen can go for over that price.

Oh, the vertebrae are also more expensive than you listed, too
http://www.skullsunlimited.com/record_family.php?id=270

and yes, all that pales in comparison to the cost of trace elements.