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Hey, Global/Kend:Are you guys aware that most of our debt is the result of republican policy....as in massive tax cuts for the super rich while at the same time massively increasing military spending to fund global military adventures for profit. Not to mention Republican driven financial deregulation causing bubble crashes which in turn decreases tax revenue and increases safety net spending for all of the jobless.
Where were you Tea Party guys when all of this spending was going on? .....and why would you align yourselves with the party of out of control spending to begin with? Is it because the billionaires that created the Tea Party do all of the thinking for the party?The Teabaggers have played right into the hands of those who created the very debt problem the party is screaming about, c'mon wake up! When will you get that the billionaires just don't want to pay any tax and that doesn't include you?
President Obama needs to keep his promise and not negotiate with the Teaorists. Let them tear apart the Republican Party...and make 2014 truly the year for change we've all been waiting for.
Let’s look at the facts.
Since the last administration’s fiscal “know-how” crashed the market and economy in the final 2008 chapter, car sales are waay up, GM posted a 103 year record high profit in 2011, house sales have increased dramatically (in my area, there is NO housing slump now), the stock market has hit record highs, my health insurance is cheaper with far better coverage, the two wars are no longer killing and maiming hundreds of American soldiers and setting us back a billion dollars a year, hundreds of people are booking cruises every week, according to Citigroup credit card delinquencies have fallen for 35 out of the last 41 months, credit card debt has declined, the U.S. has far outpaced its economic recovery compared to European counterparts, corporate profits are at an all-time high as a percentage of gross domestic product ---
AND THE NAYSAYERS STILL HAVE THE STUPIDITY TO SAY THAT OBAMA HAS DONE NOTHING TO RESTORE OUR ECONOMY?
Global, we are adding jobs and not losing jobs, despite the best efforts of the Republicans...for 5 years now. So who is making this political?
Palindromedary: regarding last nights reply about the Robin Hood tax. I'm pretty sure that I've heard other countries have already successfully instituted this...so the financial groups threatening defection better check first. The rich brats always threaten to go play somewhere else when the taxman calls on them. They have used this same tactic on New York's Gov. Cuomo......"if you tax us we will leave your state"....he fell for it! I say let the brats leave, and don't let the door hit you in the ass!
Here is the video of Colorado flooding over a leaking gas well:
No 'Significant' Oil or Gas Leaks in Colorado? Watch This Video
And another collection of videos:
Colorado Flooding: Deaths, Dramatic Rescues, Fracking & Broken Oil Pipeline
thanks to the source http://crooksandliars.com/
I want to know what Obama policies have been a failure. The republican house has not any legislation pass on anything Obama has proposed. The only thing that did get passed was the ACA (Obamacare) and by the all indications and the CBO it is going to be a complete sucess. Those states who have got their markets up and going it looks like insurance rates are going to be at 50% cheaper. All the house has got done was to vote to repeal Obamacare...42 times. They already put this nation into danger once refusing to raise the debt ceiling. There is a minority in the house holding this country hostage. They care more about their own ideals than this country.
NO, it's not the Chinese. They hold less than 1/3 of our debt. The greatest debt? Our own SS benefits program, that which you and I pay into for life, that which the GOP would like to wipe out so that debt will go away. It's aready been shown that IRA's and 401K's are a mass failure to replace SS. And guess why.... can you say 'volatile markets'?
What Obama policies have been a failure? As far as I have seen, he was unable to get anything thru Congress except one meager stim which everyone knew was not enough. I'm no spring chicken, and I will say that this is the worst obstruction I have EVER seen by a minority party. So, no it is not obvious that his economic policies have bee a failure, what has been shown is that the GOP obstruction has succeed in killing off the lives of the people they claim to represent. But, guess what? Their W.S. buddies and all corps in general are doing better than ever. Not that it will put food on anyone's table but their. You cannot see the plutocracy coming even in that bulldozer they're driving.
Duck and Cover! Boys and girls! It's gonna get really nasty out there! By the way, I had to work at the Anacostia Naval Station a couple of times many, many years ago. Had to work at a lot of Federal and Military places, including the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, DIA and I can't even remember all the others. Oh, yeah, I also went to the same Community College (learnin' computer stuff) that Edward Snowden went to...what a coincidence...but I was there way before he was. So much for unimportant trivia...;-}
By the way, governments are falling all over the place from the ticked off citizens of those other countries that have managed to overthrow their corrupt governments. Never mind that the US just happens to want those governments to collapse because they are no longer under the US thumb. And so they use left-wing sounding entities like International Center for Non-Violent Conflict to do the dirty work for the CIA..ie: infiltrate those countries and stir up and train potential rabble rousers to cause internal conflicts...which eventually turn into violent ones. And we don't even have to send in our military (that's supposed to be the "non-violent" part)...at first anyway (but it always turns violent for the people doesn't it?). The CIA used to do this but got a lot of flack for it (fomenting internal descent and overthrowing elections and assassinating leaders the US didn't like) so now they, as they do much of everything else, farm out their dirty work to non-CIA operatives...hired "guns".
But in the case of Syria, anyway, and probably others as well, the internal rebels get a little bit of encouragement (and chemical weapons and outside mercenaries...like Al Qaeda) from the US, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Britain, etal.
I wonder if American citizens finally do rebel against the ruling elite in the US...would they also get encouragement and perhaps armaments from the rest of the world who already see the US ruling elite as worthy of being overthrown?
Oh, man, I hear a little Beethoven's 9th wafting through my brain from those microwave towers right now! Just kidding! No, really NSA spies, I DON'T hear voices coming from microwave towers. I guess thoughts don't qualify as "voices" do they? Man, you can't even joke anymore without some Barnie Fife clown taking you seriously. You can't crack a joke at airports...and it may even get so bad that you can't crack a joke anywhere without being a target for some quid nuncian prig political opportunist to target you. That's a police state! Seig Heil!
The United States spends 250 billion a year just on interest. Who gets all that? The Chinese? If there was no debt just think how much health care that would buy.
Prefrontal Lobotomies! Now! ;-0 But then, as in the movie Clockwork Orange, the authorities would have no reason to exist. Anyone who even mentions MKULTRA as having ever existed must be a paranoid schizophrenic and needs to have a prefrontal lobotomy so that they are never a threat to "National Security". ;-()) Because some of us have wised up to the fact that "National Security" means the security of the 1% and the insecurity of the 99%.
The term, Kend, at least in the U.S., is "non profit" rather than "charity" and I prefer it as the Schizophrenia Society is a support group of people helping themselves rather than a "charity" where someone has pity upon someone else and does them a kindness as to a lost dog. I actually prefer a government agency to a charity as that is a recognition of a basic human right and of its being upheld but the organization or society, I believe, is legally classed in Canada as a charity or non-governmental. Their website lists a charity classification number.
The pharmaceutical lobby is almost as powerful as the gun lobby but the homeless are not taking meds. The institutionalized are and the problem with the institutions is that they are just pumping stations for drugs, especially for the poor commoners of the inmates on the cut back state funded level.
I could understand if your reason was the government will collapse and there will be no law and order. But if you think you have a chance stopping the U.S. Government with your guns you are sadly mistaken.
It wouldn't hurt to curtail the availability of guns. We're too sick to play around with guns. We wouldn't pass a background check collectively, as a society.
Nonetheless, the problem is NOT that the mentally ill were evicted from the hospitals. That is a scapegoating of the mentally ill by the gun lobby, I think.
We are manufacturing mental illness in our society. Community is as essential to our mental health as the air we breathe and food we eat is to our physical health and the powerful in our society are trying to destroy community and, in some instances, replace it, woefully inadequately, with electronic devices..
The oppression in our society is not overt, it is of a psychological nature. Thus it results in psychological episodes.
The Ayn Randian ethos causes two things. First, people are EXTREMELY thoughtless in how they behave toward one another . Second, the angry response of some victims of this first result of the trend is to have very little consideration of the humanity of those they swing out at when they "get even with society".
This is just all political theater noise. It should be obvious by now that the Obama economic policies have been a complete failure to turn the economy around and the federal reserve has been the only force holding it together. The federal reserve monetary policy dwarfs any little "piss ant" BS fiscal policy bickering. Damn, they are buying 85 billion dollars of debt every month. The big banks are making a fortune on the interest rate spreads-- what a racket!!
Hanging part of the gun problem on Reagan is spot on. He gutted the mental care system in the US and rather than refer to "homeless" people, he smugly called them "Outdoorsmen", as if they all preferred to sleep on the street. He was an arrogant and petty person and his legacy is corrosive, despite all of the bogus praise that tea party and Republican devotees heap on him daily.
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the day the shooter (yes I know his name but I refuse to use it!) A Senate committee was going to hold hearings for stand your ground. But the Senate adjoirned as soon as the shooting started. Randi Rhodes said on her show yesterday that if the news media aired crime scene photos of mass shooting like they did photos of Syrian kids dying from sarin gas something may change. But as long as the NRA continues corrupting the legislative process nothing will ever change! If you don't believe me just ask the Colorado legislators who were recalled for voting for legislation that would require universal background checks! I have heard from republicans in the past that recall elections were unfair thier logic was that why disenfrancise the voters who elected a (R) candidate. I ask what about the voters who voted for the 2 (D)'s who passed legislation that the voters asked them to pass?
The NRA is a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States!
We are not an enlightened society. We are addicted to guns and violence. That's my conclusion. Will we learn from this latest mass shooting? Sadly, I don't think so.
DAnneMarc: Thanks! That was funny! And true! And scary! I think George Orwell missed that one.
DAnneMarc: No kidding! I know! And people, just like the lemmings following the Pied Piper, line up to buy these spy devices. I understand you can't even take the battery out...very easily. I guess if some sinister rogue government agency is after you...the only thing you can do is stomp on it or throw it over a bridge....naw! Too expensive!
And then they tweet or twitter every single personally identifiable thing about themselves. Oh darn...I guess we are not too much different from them by participating on this blog.
I often thought that maybe I should just try to fly somewhere just to see if they have me on their do-not-fly list. I got caught many years ago..right after 9/11..in an airport security search where they found a book that I was reading, that was critical of the Bush regime...I almost didn't get on to that flight.