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I didn't say that. You sounded like that:
I just say, the GOP didn't let him do his job, after Bush had ruined America. Though America's situation slowly begins to improve. You can't do that in a few months, with a bunch of lunatic teapartiers in the House. Obama did improve quite some things and it's okay.
By the way, we aren't a monarchy and Obama isn't king. The work is mainly done in Congress. We actually vote in a Congress team. And if I compare the two teams, I'm all for the Democratic Congress team. Or do you love Boehner, McCain, McConnell and Bachmann's crazy teapartiers?
You actually type like somebody who is on welfare. You really kill a lot of time.... one opus, another opus.... and all extremely long. Herman Cain might say, "If you kill so much time on liberal blogs, blame yourself!"
You are a suppressing mind. You actually need a split personality to accept something like that. Are you a split personality? I mean some people hate themselves....
200 years ago you would've been like, "Slavery? Stop talking about it!" Indeed, many slaves pretended to love their slave masters. Even loving the person who tortures you is a human attitude. In Nazi Germany there were Jews who adored Hitler. And when the Nazis began to annihilate them, some of them even still said, Hitler wouldn't know about this and it couldn't be he wanted it. WOW!
The healthcare thing most certainly has to be improved. Nobody doubts that. So if you guys struggle, I do understand. Other people made different experiences. I heard people talking like, "Without Obamacare I'd be dead now"... or their loved one would. So here you see how the nation is divided. Some want more healthcare, you guys obviously don't want it at all.
In Germany PUBLIC healthcare works perfectly. And there it is LAW, that you aren't allowed to live without healthcare. And if you cannot pay that, government does. That's how it should be. Middle-age is over, when people croaked out on the streets. Why don't you just go to Mexico (I just return the fire)? I mean Germany is a great place to live, if you get a job there....
So! Obamacare has to be improved over the next four years. The German system works here too, law of nature isn't working differently here. What they don't have over there are those stubborn Republicans, who held us off... as a few blue-dogs too. But it has to be done.
America has always been "divided on many issues" and other countries are as well. Every human has their individual ideas. Democracy means battling that out and finding compromises. And that happens mainly in Congress. If you really like Boehner, McCain, McConnell and the teapartiers better than the Democratic team, so then you vote for the idiots.
TruthAddict
Without question we have to
I see problems with the “grown local production model”. You have huge population centers, like LA, or New York with a winter season. …. Anyway, producing all the food goods and services locally would be quite a feat considering most of the surrounding farmable land is owned by someone. In fact all the land except state and federal lands are owned by somebody. So unless you confiscate other people’s property where is your community going to get its farm land, housing and manufacturing infrastructure?
Just so you know, I was around during the Vietnam war and we had people talking and doing the exact thing you’re talking about. Starting communes, living off the land and sharing the bounty, all that good stuff.
But most of those people figured it was a hard primitive life and they grew up and became people like Steve Jobs, or maybe your doctor, or the manager of your local bank. Or people like country singer Willie Nelson.
What I’m saying is you’re not going anywhere that hasn’t been gone before.
The only communities I know of in America who are successful on the level you are disusing are the Amish. And one reason they are successful is their religious disciplines.
If America suffers a catastrophic event and infrastructure collapses nationwide, we may be forced into the model you are suggesting. But you will find little mainstream voluntary support for these ideas in today’s world. Remember, the world is not the occupy movement even though when you’re in the center of it you think the world is turning around it.
They thought the same thing back at Woodstock …. But actually that was a pretty big occupation that went down in history.
Keep thinking, I hope you come up with something :)
Palindromedary
If Bill Maher can put up $1M
Very well written.
I agree with much of what you said. Especially that America is not ready for radical social changes that circumnavigate the constitution. This doesn’t surprise me.
Liberals live in a bit of a bubble. They don’t seem to consider the flyover states that are almost all conservative. Or the fact that the country is mostly center right. You can’t force through a far leftist agenda with that kind of opposition.
That’s why the democrats lost so many seats in 2010.
And the unprecedented number of lawsuits from states against Obama’s policies kind of underscores the massive amount of opposition there is to his policies. Won't be long before the supreme court hears Obamacare.
If nothing else, Romney has an impressive resume, and may get the economy rolling again. Plus he's a decent family man.
duvall51
Did I read correctly that you have no employees and still have to pay for employee health care?
If that’s the case then independent self employed professionals who have no employees like engineers, architects, realtors etc. would probably have to pay too?
This will definitely contribute to many sole proprietors giving up their practices and looking to become employees of bigger firms. That will flood many job markets and depress wages.
Not to mention the heartbreak for people who built their little cottage industries and can’t afford anymore onerous expense on top of a bad economy.
It almost feels like society is being herded into a blind canyon.
Scary times.
duvall51 Our current economic state is
I’m a long term business owner too. I’m not hiring anymore. My partner and I are exempt from Obmacare and many other onerous business killing regulations because we are not employees and thus exempt.
We are selling off assets while we can and hoping for the best.
Many of these liberals have never run a business and have no economic experience about how wealth is created. They think that anyone who has more than them must have stole it or cheated someone out of it. The idea that people work hard all their lives to get wealth doesn’t occur to them.
The more liberalism they demand, the more people who own businesses are going to withdraw, layoff people or just quit. You can’t force businesses to work for no profit. Liberals just don't get it.
Therein is the fatal flaw of liberalism. You run out of so called rich people to tax into oblivion.
duvall51 Our current economic state is
Thank you. ~ Finally someone gets it!
Hallelujah, the light is on afterall
Our current economic state is very easily seen. The economy spiked a huge 400%, yet the income of the private sector (let me define what i call the private sector: any working US citizen who does not hold a government job) increased less than 2%. There is nothing supporting our economy. And IT WILL COLLAPSE. The FED will continue to print money to support the economy and that will work for a time, but eventually that wont cut it anymore. We are talking inflation of double digits. 12 to 15%. Listening to the governments "cheerleading" economists say how things will improve, then reading books written by these same people and seeing how much they controdict themselves. Hope for the best but PREPARE for the worst.
I'm not happy with the majority of the candidates running for office, but I can tell you the Obamacare is not what it's being shown to the public. I'm a small business owner, Obamacare will shut me down in less than two years. As a business owner i'm required to carry, at a minimum, whats called Obamacare. Which doesn't sound unreasonable. However uf you keep reading that "law" it says that if I don't i will be fined up to 75% of the annual cost of providing Obamacare to my employees. Here is the catch, it's an internet business, i have no employees, yet i will still be fined for not having it. Here is a novel idea, take the budgett for "entitlement" and spend it on Obamacare. Or better yet, quit spending $75 Billion to rebuild forgein mosks. The vast majority of governments don't like the US unless we're paying for something. So quit trying to cater to them. We are the UNITED states of America yet we have never been so devided. Take care of your own first. Then worry about the rest.
I’ve been watching Europe denigrating financially for years. It’s disturbing. Looks like Spain is teetering next.
George Soros is in the middle of it along with the global elitist bankers and other shadowy figures. They want to collapse the financial systems of the west, and then try and draw the world into some kind of global government control. Probably under UN control. Countries will still seem sovereign, but in truth they will have no sovereignty. Greece has lost its sovereignty and others may follow soon.
Want to know how to make Clarissa Smith go to DEFCON 1 and ICBM ready to launch a socialist propaganda rant?
Just say RON PAUL HAS GREAT IDEAS! And she’ll pull out her sacred Obama dagger and cut your tongue out while screaming Ron Paul is a lunatic!!! Then look up to heaven and pronounce “I Clarissa The Destroyer have silenced the non-believers”.
…. Clarissa darling, … the elitist to call anyone who disagrees with your ideology lunatics.
You vilify anyone that doesn’t agree with your narcissistic - one size fits no one - leftist loonery.
And I say that with affection because I admire your dedication to demonstrating absolutely no objectivity. ...... I’d have to tie one hand behind my brain and walk around blindfolded in a coal mine for a week to be so self absorbed with my own point of view.
If you want retain credibility, you have to balance your rhetoric attacks with some substance.
How about a short list of truthful facts of what you think Obama has done for America in the last 3 years. That would help all us peasants try and be as enlightened as you?
I think that’s a fair request if you think your guy is better than all the rest?
No rush, take your time; I’m sure you will have to do some research to find some points that might stand up to scrutiny or debate.
Good Luck
:)
I have many times watched Obama without a teleprompter. One time he was in a high school auditorium and some woman asked him a simple question that should have been responded to with a simple SHORT answer. But Obama rambled on with some disconnected gibberish for about 15 minutes. He must have been tired or something.
Seriously, both Michelle and Barrack can be public speaking challenged without their teleprompters and prewritten talking points. And to be fair GOP say crazy stuff too. All politicians do. Its a high stress job trying to get people to vote for you.
Speaking of Ron Paul, Grasshopper, did you see him in that movie "Bruno"? I was lucky I didn't get "sucked" in to paying good money at the theaters. This movie was oddly funny but was "worse than cancer". Very shocking indeed ..some of the scenes and motions. And, not being previously aware of Ron Paul being in that movie...or even what the movie was about...I was rather shocked that Ron Paul was in the movie. I did see Sacha Baron Cohen in his earlier movie several years ago. But had forgotten about it.
"Sacha Baron Cohen's gay Austrian fashion commentator Bruno did conduct an interview with Ron Paul, the Texas Congressman has confirmed, as had been reported last month."
By the way, you keep downing liberalism as being reckless or greedy with other people's money...but it sure hasn't been liberalism that set the new record on this kind of behavior. If we still had a healthy liberalism ruling this country we wouldn't be having the horrendous economic tragedy that has been caused by people with anti-liberal (aka: Conservative or Libertarian) principles that praise selfishness and hatefulness toward others. These bloodsucking leeches, at the top, rig the game so only they get well compensated. CEOs get golden parachutes when they leave the company they trashed but all of the workers get shafted. So-called Cadillac Welfare Queens are nothing compared to the greedy pigs at the top of the socio-economic heap who bribe government officials for special privilege and then turn right around and call the government they bribed dirty names. These scamming economic parasites have sucked the country dry and then turned around and called the people they scammed a bunch of liberal riff-raff. Well, one of these days these citizens will turn on the likes of these criminals and I wouldn't be too unhappy if they didn't stop at just throwing them in prison for life.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/bruno-fools-ron-paul-by-t_n_187...
Cute, but not accurate....the kids are more like the top 1% who are picking your pockets of your retirement savings and bank accounts. And you can bet that the top 1% are not liberals. They are either Republicans or Libertarians.
You can name-call all you want, just like Fox snooze does, but our recent terrible economic state has not been caused by liberals. This should be very obvious to most sane people.
Liberalism is like young teenagers left alone for the weekend with their parent’s wallet full of credit cards.
The parents come home and have to file for bankruptcy :)
RE We are focusing too much
I heard about Paul’s problems over some newsletter from many years ago and the accusations it had racist undertones.
Also heard when Paul was a practicing MD, he treated hundreds of poor people including minorities for free during his time as a doctor. That’s an example of libertarian charity at work.
“It’s less about what people say and more about what people do”. Apply that to Obama’s flowery campaign promises and compare it to what’s he done and tell me if he walks it like he talks it?
But don’t tell me its GW’s fault.
There will probably always be twinges of racism in all societies. It’s human nature for people to seek out likeness more so than diversity. We may be hardwired this way from after we ALL evolved from the plains of Africa and spread out across the globe. Perhaps it’s why the Neanderthals went extinct. Our homo sapien ancestors may not have cared about diversity and simply out performed the competition or wiped them out. But today there is but one human species that comes in different colors. It is us.
Best way to stop racism is stop talking about it. And politicians should stop using “race baiting” to push bad policies or make something out of nothing.
Prior to 2010, democrats had the house, the senate and the presidency. They still got little done because many democrats didn’t even agree with Obama. Some had to be taken in back rooms out of the public eye, threatened or bribed in order to get the health care bill passed and other contentious legislated rammed through. That’s why it was never on CPSAN.
The people voted out all the dems they could in the midterms as a result of this un-American behavior, and elected people who promised would stop the Obama agenda. They are doing in congress now what they promised their constituents and that is to block Obama from doing things that a majority of Americans disagree with. The people have spoken.
And in return, Obama is vetoing the XL Pipeline that even his union supporters want to go forward. And he’s deliberately denied expansion of new energy recovery domestically. Thus you have a failing economy.
Except in North Dakota where unemployment is at 3%. They can’t find enough workers fast enough to frack the oil out of the ground and get it to the American people who desperately need this energy.
And you just wait as these gas prices keep going up how quick the big oil haters suddenly realize that not only gas is sky rocketing, so is the price of food and everything else.
A lot of Republicans piss me off and GW Bush made his share of mistakes, GHW Bush raised taxes and broke his pledge. Republican presidents and Congress have contributed to deficits and the national debt. But GW Bush is also responsible for tax cuts that Obama himself extended.
We spend so much money on health care now and Obamacare will make it worse. Obama will cut medicare to help fund it, besides it's unconstitutional for the federal government to require people to buy healthcare much less anything else.
Obama started this whole birth control issue because he cant run on his record.
Tell me why you think he's so great???
I would describe myself as an armature political junky. I’m not in lock step with any particular ideology, but I have specific opinions about why I like or don’t like certain parts of differing political philosophy and policy.
As a result, I have yet to find a home with any political party.
In general, I think all political venues have flaws. Some more than others. That’s human nature. We’re not perfect.
At this point in life, if I were to create my perfect political party, it would be:
1) a bit liberal, but miles away from socialism
2) a lot libertarian
3) a bit conservative
Such a party has absolutely no chance of success because America is so finely divided on so many issues.
So I will remain adrift in my fascination for the brilliance of the founding fathers and the constitution, and feel chagrin at how far America has strayed away from it, or circumnavigated around it.
The best we can hope is that all the pulling and tugging results in a better us since we are pretty much stuck with each on this otherwise beautiful world.
I read this again and again, already quoted here -- just love it!
Now I'm going to Twitter it -- I just have to....
How libertarian where our beloved Founding Fathers? How many Afro-American slaves did they have? How did they treat their wives?
Must we really discuss THAT???
I love Handel, today in Germany spelled Händel, but actually born Hendel (see, it's relative, like "liberal"). I really adore his music, but he has a dark side: STOCK IN SLAVE SHIPS. So, I appreciate our fathers AND MOTHERS, but don't really want to live in their time. We had progress in the meantime and we won't roll it back.
Libertarianism is like freehand biking -- you easily fall on your face.
We are focusing too much on the president. If Ron Paul would become the GOP nominee (he never will) you would vote for a racist party. People like Santorum or Gingrich won't eat you, but you should have seen how they play the racist card. So if you're an African-American, you truly act like those lemmings which run into the water and drown themselves -- and nobody can explain why they act so silly.
Ron Paul himself owned a paper that contained racist stuff. His followers claim he wouldn't read all his papers, but...
1.) That's a mistake! Even I, as an amateur, watch my blogs -- nobody is gonna comment sometn' that is against the law or against human rights! I would linguistically atom-bomb any racist commentator harder than anybody else! If I was the owner of a paper I would at least keep my ears open, and listen to reports what's in there. For I am responsible!!
2.) I think the truth really is, Ron Paul at least is not very much against racism. He comes from Texas where he got used to racism. And still I very am afraid it's even possible Paul is a racist and he's just concealing it.
Whatever, focusing on the president is actually wrong. The work is very much being done in CONGRESS. We're not living in a Obama monarchy, democracy means balancing out power, controlling might, checks & balances. Right now our supreme court is disfunctioning, which is a little dangerous, but I think our democracy will be able to fix that. If Ron Paul was the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, it wouldn't be so very harmful, for he couldn't spoil much there. But as GOP candidate he would be a threat. Sadly, the GOP is fascist right now.