Capt.Slog
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eh? What a load of bollocks "From each according to his ability" - Karl Marx Could be St. Paul "This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor" Romans 13:5-7:
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The "Bridge to Nowhere" would have brought money to a town with a depressed economy for a couple of years and gave them 24 hour access to the airport. In a town that's main source of income is tourists this would have been a huge deal and could have brought new life to the area. What was the purpose of the "stimulus package" again? Oh, I forgot. $400 Million for birth control and the prevention of STD's. That's "stimulus" I can believe in. Prevention is generally far far cheaper than cure. Prevention is a very good investment for society.
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There wasn't a GOOD reason - there was only Bush's trumped up reason. And a $Trillion went down the tubes.
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Why am I not suprised that you don't want to go there? It puts your whining about the stimulus package into a context that shows how silly and hypocritical it is. Bush's administration added $5Trillion to the national debt and still left us in the worst economic mess for generations.
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How many people are "freeloaders" as opposed to people who want to work but can't for one reason or another (like over a million jobs lost in the last 2 months of Bush's presidency). How much taxpayer money goes to buy SUVs and plasma TVs for welfare queens? Didn't Gingrich's (R) congress eliminate "welfare as we know it"? Don't you think Gingrich(R) and E. Clay Shaw Jr (R)knew what they were doing when welfare was reformed?
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Um, I spend money too. Why should I give it to someone else to spend I'd rather they have a job and spend their own money, And I'd rather those that wanted a war in Iraq paid for it themselves instead of using MY tax dollars to pay for it. A $trillion spent right there and WE didn't even get any roads, bridges or schools for it.
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If this keeps up are we looking at the biggest first 100 day failure of all time? Explain yourself. He is fulfilling a campaign promise. One I disagree strongly with, but that IS what he said he would do. Spock agrees, too.
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Wrong even before you posted.
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Wayne, I guess you'd get a more rational response than "Charles Manson Sings Piggies" if you posted this in the skydiving forum rather than SC. It clearly is an abuse, and just another example of "Security Theater". We all should be outraged, regardless of political leanings.
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Reading right wing blogs will addle your brain.
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Where's Spock when you need him?
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From today's San Francisco Chronicle (and I fear it is right on the mark): "Regardless of election hoopla, Washington is the same one-party town it always has been - controlled not by Democrats or Republicans, but by Kleptocrats (i.e., thieves). Their ties to money make them the undead zombies in the slash-and-burn horror flick that is American politics: No matter how many times their discredited theologies are stabbed, torched and shot down by verifiable failure, their careers cannot be killed. Somehow, these political immortals are allowed to mindlessly lunge forward, never answering to rivals - even if that rival is the president himself."
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I am still outraged.
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The Bush tax cuts sure kept the economy humming along in great shape.
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Exactly!! Its still an obscene amount of money. These fat corporate f*ks should have to sell their house and get $100k MAX. They screwed up. They have stolen huge bonuses already this year....time to pay I say How is all this different from a lynch mob mentality? Did some of the CEO's fuck it up? VERY LIKELY. Did all? I HIGHLY doubt it. Consider the time that some of them would put into that business. It's not a 9-5 that when the whistle blows they run off without a care in the world. It can be a "get there first and stay til it's done." So now it's "sell their house" and "time to pay" . . . . is that truly how ALL should be treated? How do you know that? If they did a good job and hadn't run their bank into the ground, they wouldn't need the bailout. $500k/year when you should be ostracized for destroying the savings of your investors and destroying the jobs of your employees seems like a damn good deal to me.
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But this environment is anything but typical. The banks were given large (fucking large) infusions of cash so that they would make the lending markets more liquid again, but aside from giving bonuses, they're all electing to hold onto all the cash for fear of failure. While that might be the intelligent choice for them, it doesn't seem like the intelligent choice for us if the purpose of the money is to move things along again. Quite the opposite, it suggests that bailout II should be geared toward increasing the demand side. The free market got us into this mess. Government manipulation of the free market is what got us into this mess. In this case it was called the Community Reinvestment Act. Pity the data does NOT support your claim. The default rate on CRA loans is low. The sum total of all CRA loans ever made is a drop in the bucket compared to the magnitude of the mess. Nice scapegoat though.
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Republican Party: Losing the Battle for Brains
Capt.Slog replied to Andy9o8's topic in Speakers Corner
I love the way the Republicans on this forum provide evidence in support of the thesis. -
maybe you should be sure of the details (and the truth of the assertion) before jumping to conclusions.
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So are you suggesting that America should forfeit the right to criticize anyone else for wrongful aggression, and just sit back and remain silent, and do nothing? Since you acknowledge that Iran's aggression is wrong, I guess we can summarize your feelings about US criticism of Iran as: "We're hypocritical in doing so, but also correct in doing it." Is that a fair statement of your feelings? And since you like pithy sayings, here's another one: "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." Good men don't invade other nations that present no threat, good men don't engineer coups d'etat in other nations, and good men don't arm terrorists. The USA has, as jerryz pointed out, done all of these things. If you criticize Iran for doing these things, how can you excuse our own behavior?
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A truly naive view. The government did not force the investment banks to buy junk loans. The govt. didn;t force mortgage brokers to push loans on people without checking their income or assets. Government DEREGULATION is at the heart of the problem. It's hard to blame retailing or manufacturing companies in trouble for the mess the whiz-kids in financial sector caused.
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Republican Party: Losing the Battle for Brains
Capt.Slog replied to Andy9o8's topic in Speakers Corner
Given that it's a British magazine looking in from the outside, how do you make it out to be "one side"? The comments about Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter are right on. Because there were no comments about Olbermann or Maddow being equally hard headed and mind-numbingly paritsan. Pointing fingers at only conservatives pretty much defines one sided. You have clearly misread the article, or are deliberately misinterpreting it. It's NOT about liberals or Democrats, it's about REPUBLICANS. Another error. "Republican" does NOT equal "conservative", "Democrat" does not equal "liberal". -
ding, ding. We have a winner. If you'd ever lived in a truly socialist nation, you wouldn't say that. Neveretheless, capitalist greed led to this mess, so maybe a little control will indeed be a winner.
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Must be why he's nominated two Republicans to his cabinet.
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I'm glad Daschle has withdrawn the nomination. The GOP criticism was valid, IMO. Yes indeed.
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I guess you agree with my opinion. At 10:24pm on Dec 26, 2007 YOU wrote: "I don't believe that the gun bans work at all, for exactly those reasons - the criminals don't care, won't obey it and will still get weapons" Thanks.