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It seems that libs are implying that we can tax our way to a balanced budget. . Seems to me that you have an overactive imagination. No overactive imagination needed, it just requires removing the blinders. Libs do not want to reduce spending on almost anything besides defense, and our president says that increased taxes on the wealthy will pay for the investments in blah blah. It is clear that they think we can tax our way to a balanced budget. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

No we don't need them. However, when military contractors are given targets to make stealthy, maneuverable, supercruise capable (plus all the other performance targets) fighters that can operate from a carrier or land vertically, then they are going to be really really expensive. If we were willing to settle for a spruced-up F-15/16/18, that could have been much cheaper. That is a choice of what we want for capability/performance. It may be time to stop making manned aircraft to be placed in hostile environments, that is a choice that should not be blamed on the F-35. Also, without a bunch of F-35s, we will need a huge refurbish program for existing planes, or a bunch more F-22s and new F-18s or unmanned aircraft to fill in for aircraft that have to be retired. That wouldn't be super cheap either. It is easy to ridicule how much a military grade hammer or toilet seat costs, however, if it was your company that had to satisfy all the requirements of the military specification, testing, mountain of paperwork, etc. then you would also need it to be very expensive. If/when real procurement reform is able to buy a hammer from a regular hardware store, then of course it would be cheap, but then there is the risk of corruption (kickbacks) and risk of it not meeting some obscure performance requirement (low quality). Such off the shelf procurement is fairly easy for a company making cars to do, not so easy for a government's military. Hopefully we are getting toward that goal. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

It seems that libs are implying that we can tax our way to a balanced budget. There is a much more important question than whether taxes need to be raised. That question is: What is the ratio of spending cuts vs tax increase that you think is appropriate to mend our fiscal mess? Conservatives think that the ratio is heavily weighted toward spending cuts, even to the point that spending cuts should come first before tax increases are considered. I would like to hear what libs think. As others have said, we have much more of a spending problem than a revenue (tax) problem. It appears that libs believe, or at least assert the opposite. To the extent that taxes need to be increased, they should be less progressive - broaden the base. This should be accomplished by overall wide scope tax reform. Not very appetizing for politicians, but I think that there is actually a huge appetite for it among regular folks. The politician that expresses the real courage to take that on I think will benefit greatly. I think the same can be said for real social security and medicare reform. Many assume that part of the federal budget can't be changed, but I say it must be changed because we cannot tax our way into fixing the fiscal mess. Tax and entitlement reform are big ideas that I think have the general public, or at least conservatives, realize must happen. If a conservative makes these big ideas his major platform, then libs opposing it will look like cowards and deniers. The only part of the federal budget that has faced real scrutiny and had real programs axed is the military budget. There has been a lot of procurement reform, weapons programs terminated, base closures. There is certainly a lot of waste, but I think it is good to remember how this part of the budget has faced real scrutiny and real cuts - not the kind where a slower than planned increase is called a cut. Perhaps it is the libs plan to run up huge debt for longer, then just default on it, thereby eliminating the debt payment part of the budget. If that is their plan, they are wise to keep it secret while they continue to run up the debt, but we should then be spending the money on real infrastructure (we are not doing that now so much). People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Thanks for the laugh! As an expert on the original law, he has rather "special"/specialist ability to provide analysis of what the changes proposed really mean. If not, then nobody does except those, as you contend, that are involved with the changes, which happen to all be libs. That is convenient logic of yours. But of course we aren't talking about changes to the "law", as that would require the congress to be a part of it. No, we're talking about changes in how it is implemented at the executive - cabinet branch level, the so-called "waivers" which are supposedly allowed (the expert you acknowledge above says that there is no such waiver authority). People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

So far you have provided a lousy comparison. You avoided your normal temptation to use an analogy, well done on that. I don't say anyone should ignore his bias. I say that bias is not enough to ignore his arguments because he was a key player/author of the law in question. The so-called fact checkers libs are inclined to believe did no substantive analysis, just regurgitating of the claims, instead making a conclusion without real fact checking. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Wrong. Robert Rector, who... "ROBERT RECTOR, Heritage Foundation:" You could quote someone with credibility as non-partisan. Who is non-partisan? He is not just a commentator, he was there. He knows his way around the law unlike any of us do. Because of his first hand knowledge about the details, he has credibility that is not diminished just because of him being a republican. It seems that when you got nothing, you pull out the "source is partisan" argument. That wallows in a vast sea of lameness. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Most to nearly all sources are biased. So why not tell us where Robert Rector is wrong? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

From the good folks at fact check, http://factcheck.org/2012/08/does-obamas-plan-gut-welfare-reform/ Also Politifact.com http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/aug/07/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-barack-obamas-plan-abandons-tenet/ Do you have any no-partisan sources? All the biased folks at your so-called "fact check" did was regurgitate the liberal talking points. They might as well have just said that Obama says it isn't true and that is good enough for them. That's not fact checking, that is getting the opposition's statement (lie) on the matter. Don't have a rebuttal to the guy that wrote the work rule requirements, eh? Just like Peter Edelman and Judy Woodruff, they did not address the specifics of Robert Rector's assertions. Rector's assertions did deal directly with the claims of those complaining about the truthfulness of the Romney ad. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

There seems to be no assertion on that page about dishonesty. It looks like their complaint is that the reason for the increase is not described, so what? There's no gotcha there. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Wrong. Robert Rector, who wrote many of the requirements in the welfare reform law, is more familiar with the details than the Miami Herald, and recently told Judy Woodruff in an interview on the PBS Newshour that Romney's charges were absoutely true, and that the counter-claims about governors were false: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/july-dec12/poverty_08-09.html The video and text are there, here is a highlight: People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

The video said that flaring a stable biplane was a bad idea. I disagree with that. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

It is often said that answer is pretty worthless because depending on the person you talk to, you get different answers. Who exactly would you call? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Then what would be "prototype" about it? nothing i suspect it is a marketing ploy to generate discussion. success. How do you know it is "just a mirage that he freepacked a vented base canopy in. with a normal reserve" I put two and two together. I'm sharp like that. Seems presumptive to me, as opposed to sharp. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Then what would be "prototype" about it? nothing i suspect it is a marketing ploy to generate discussion. success. How do you know it is "just a mirage that he freepacked a vented base canopy in. with a normal reserve" People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Then what would be "prototype" about it? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

No, airspeed includes a significant vertical component, unless you are flying level. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I got the T3i - Holy cow batman, these things are complicated, I mean extremely versatile. A lot has changed since the Pentax models of the '80s. Just in the few hours I've been checking it out, it seems like some things aren't covered in the manual or Busch's compact field guide that I picked up. I guess I should get the complete Busch's guide, or maybe the for dummies guide. If anyone wants to suggest a particular guide book for a novice that would be great. The first mystery is the auto focus 'quick mode' for still shots, which seems to allow live view pics to be taken, but the autofocus won't settle down for the other autofocus modes when in live view mode. When out of live view, the autofocus doesn't have a problem, which seems weird. Also, I can't find any details of the quality settings in either manual I have. I did get it for a great price, $540 from a local shop (and an authorized Canon dealer) for the kit with the 18-55 lens. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Flat turns, right. The techniques are called different things by some. I wouldn't want to encourage you to actually do a complete "sink it in" accuracy type approach and landing, just get familiar with what it feels like up high. If you ever really need it, you will also need a really good PLF along with it. There is no need to pound in like that just for practice. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

A new jumper like yourself should get familiar with what it takes to do flare turns, braked turns, and doing an accuracy type sinking in type landing. The ability to do these will allow you to save yourself when you get into a jam. Getting into a jam is more likely to happen as your jump numbers increase and you jump at the WL you will have with your pulse. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

That step on the outside looks great, could be very nice for the taller folks, like some Porters have. Does anyone know if that was a custom job, or did it come that way from Quest? I so wish a step like that that was common on Caravans. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

The left side riser/release loop is exceptionally long, with a whole lot of the cable exposed past the loop. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

That right there is why I would never support Chick-Fil-A day. Most people in support are not supporting free speech, they're supporting Christian ideology, specifically Christian bigotry. If this were just about free speech, we'd see the same people 'supporting' the Ground Zero Mosque, the KKK's right to march, and the ACLU. People supporting Chick-Fil-A day don't give two shits about free speech, it all about anti-gay bigotry. So here it appears that you support the biggotry against christians And this makes you better how? Not only supporting anti-christian bigotry, but expressing it himself. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

No one was trying to prevent free speech. But many of the people who stood in line for fast food chicken today thought they were doing so to protect free speech. A little research will show that the LGBT community is more concerned with the company's actions (donating money to anti-gay groups). I think most people feel that the dude can say whatever he wants, and consumers can take their business wherever they want. Reverend Wright opposses gay marriage. Does that mean Obama contributes to an organization that hates gays? Opposing gay marriage does not necessarily mean that one hates gays. But if Obama is contributing money to Wright's organization, and if Wright is fighting against gay rights, then I would say that Obama is contributing to an anti-gay organization. (I don't actually know whether Obama is contributing to Wright or not; is he?) Obama also made it clear that he opposed gay marriage, until very recently. As Obama's chief of staff, the (now) mayor of Chicago was quite aware of that. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I would think that the objection to what you showed in your link would be that they were normal/ferrous steel instead of corrosion resistant/stainless steel. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Thar is a truly crappy analogy. Do you think others are unable to understand the issues involved without resorting to such a worthless comparison? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am