“Here is a great way to boost our economy. Everyone with a foreign car should go out and buy either GM, Ford or Chrysler. That way your money will give the economy a big boost. Americans should support the USA, not Japan or Korea. When you buy foreign cars they tell you that the cars are made here, which is wrong, the cars are assembled here. Another point: When you buy a foreign car some of your money goes to that country.”
“It looks like Obama is waging a war on women of his own. He made Hillary take the blame for getting the diplomats in Benghazi killed and he put up Susan Rice as the stooge to lie about it. Now let’s take a look over at the DHS.”
“Leftists who are suggesting that the folks talking about secession should be stripped of their citizenship, deported and exiled could learn something from Mother Nature. A parasite can’t survive very long without its host.”
“Let’s hope that during this latest Palestine war that an American Navy ship isn’t attacked and 34 sailors killed and 171 wounded by the Israeli Air Force. Back in June of 1967, the USS Liberty was attacked for hours by IDF jets and torpedo boats even though she was clearly flying Old Glory. Just like the Benghazi attack, no help was forthcoming by the powers that be (another Democratic administration, Lyndon Johnson’s). Just like the Benghazi attack, the USS Liberty attack was covered-up by the White House, too.”
“All of the Wal-Mart employees who plan to strike aren’t doing it to tear down the Walton $86 billion empire, and bring them down to their level. It’s about fairness and some people just don’t get it. Even the front page of the paper says there is an increase in food assistance. Probably because most Wal-Mart employees need it. Then they are branded as takers by the very people who cause it. What’s wrong with having an $80 billion empire and getting your employees off food stamps? Makes you wonder who the takers really are.”
“Dear President Obama, please do not put America through a contentious nomination process for secretary of state after the ‘Hillary’ leaves. Susan Rice’s nomination is dead in the water. Sen. Kerry’s nomination will just bring out the ‘Swift Boaters’ and expose his Vietnam-era dirty laundry all over again. There is just one person who would sail through, Ms. Jane Fonda. She already has lots of experience talking to America’s enemies. The Democrats love her and the Republicans would give anything to see her on foreign soil and not on American soil.”
“I wanted to know if anyone else feels like I do: unhappy about why the Mesa City Council has to push a light rail through on Main Street. Why is Mesa wasting all of the money it spent to make downtown Mesa welcoming and beautiful with all of the upgrades down there only to be torn down for some ugly and expensive light rail? What about all of the businesses that have to put up with yet another renovation? Has anyone wondered why Mesa just gave away land for the Goldwater Library to be built? And why is it building high-density senior living on existing land? Are there no better options? What happened to the nice aquatic center that was going to be built? Or the water park that was going to be built? What do other Mesa citizens think about this? Just wondering.”
onerebel posted at 7:45 pm on Tue, Nov 27, 2012.
Yeah maybe, but it still brings a smile to your face when the elitist fall off their soap box onto their face! [beam]
Engaged Voter posted at 11:56 am on Tue, Nov 27, 2012.
Actually, since onerebel was the only person using the term Freeloader...
Strawman arguments may be easy to win, but it's pointless. ;)
Masterrogue666 posted at 9:56 pm on Mon, Nov 26, 2012.
Ouch, onerebel, that one stung! You hit sdjtaz right between the eyes with the truth. There's no fighting that...
onerebel posted at 6:11 pm on Mon, Nov 26, 2012.
" People who tend to be more liberal are also more highly educated." I love it when a Liberal stands on their soap box to proclaim to the word how smart they is. So sdjtaz, your going to give us a fact-less, bigoted, generalization, and tell us any moron can be a entrepreneur ? Where are your facts? I have read studies that claimed just the opposite. whether it be genius or idiot, both conservatives and Liberals have their share. As for your claim red states take more money then they send to Washington making THEM the freeloaders, lets take a look at that. How do states like Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota as well many other red states, differ from New York, California, New Jersey and other blue states? How about the number of people per square mile. I'll bet if you take the drive from here to the Black Hills your glad your tax dollars built a interstate where no one lives. So you feel a hard working rancher or farmer in a rural area is a freeloader? While someone that has been sitting on their backside for years in a big city collecting welfare is acceptable behavior? Is this the conclusion you reach with a so called superior education?
DonMey posted at 10:42 am on Mon, Nov 26, 2012.
I find it funny how people rant about the incompetence of WalMart workers, and then rant against WalMart paying their people crappy wages.
There isn't a whole lot of skill involved in working retail. If you have a low-skill job, you have a low-skill paycheck to go with it.
Bluepoet posted at 10:14 am on Mon, Nov 26, 2012.
Vent#1--Get real, "Buy American" is a shrinking possibility, in a world where cheap labor trumps living wages. Take your head out of 1970s, and look around. They don't make Kcars anymore. Personally, I draw the line at buying Korean...
Vent#3--Hey, nothing against protesting the Government. The Left led the way, in that regard, so I find it ironic that the Right is now trying it...pathetically, of course. The crack about parasites is truly priceless, too, considering that those states who would be cut off from Federal money would stand to lose the most.
Vent#5--I give it about five more years, before the Union movement resets. In the meantime, expect large corporations to make things more and more difficult, for their employees, as they perceive the continued death of Unions. It's a cyclical thing...
Vent#7--I wonder about a lot of things that my lovely town of Mesa does...I applaud that they see the need to revitalize the downtown, but I'm not so sure they are heading in the right direction, with senior apartments and Christian colleges, while at the same time installing light rail. Seems to me they have enough problems just keeping the streets paved--never mind the appalling state of our parks, these days. But, we keep voting down anything that remotely resembles a tax--we'll probably have most of the city wondering why property values are so low, in a few years, while the blight continues to grow. I suppose we can always blame Obama for that, too?[rolleyes]
chatmandu002 posted at 9:26 am on Mon, Nov 26, 2012.
Vent #1: You are wrong, many foreign carsa are built here in the US. My Honda van is made in Franklin, TN. Toyota Camry is the most American made care with over 80% of the parts made and assembled in the US.
Vent #2: Our people died then Obama lied. He always blames someone else for his mess-ups.
Vent #3: Secession is always an option when the tyranny of the Government over comes the peoples' freedom.
Vent #4: Wrong, Comparing apples and oranges. Our people died in Benghazi and Obama and his crew lied for weeks.
Vent #5: More class warfare that is the mainstay of the Obama administration and democrat doctrine.
Vent #6: Obama will use the nominations to divert attention from the tricks he will be using to raise taxes and never cut spending.
Vent #7: Gotta spend that stimulus money somehow, besides Mesa will never the fresh and beautiful again.
sdjtaz posted at 9:14 am on Mon, Nov 26, 2012.
Venter #3 and one rebel, please let me remind you of three facts.
Fact #1: Examine the numbers to see who really takes money from the federal government. For the most part, "Blue" states tend to send more money to Washington than they receive back. "Red" states tend to take more money from Washington than they send. Like it or not, this shows that the "freeloaders" actually look more like you than you think.
Fact #2: People who tend to be more liberal are also more highly educated. Consequently, there is a direct relationship between overall education level and income level. This means that the same leftists that you are complaining about are probably earning more money than you and paying higher taxes.
Fact #3: If you really want to know who that "takers" really are, start by looking at corporations. Government giveaways to the corporations far exceed the amount of money that we spend on individual welfare programs. Also look at those individuals at the highest income levels. When, like Mitt Romney, they place their money in off-shore accounts, it is also taking money from the government.
In the end, the need for government assistance is not a "red" or "blue" issue. I know several people that vote Republican, yet have received food stamps, received help paying their medical bills through Medicare (their bills far exceeds the amount of money that they have put into Medicare), and have also received many other governments benefits. The perfect example was the old man at the Tea Party rally holding up the sign stating, "Keep your government hands off my medicare". What I see from the far right is " If I get help from the government, I've earned it. But if anyone else gets it, they're freeloaders, stealing my tax dollars!"
In the end, what I see from the right is a bunch of whiners and traitors. I am a moderate (which in your eyes makes me liberal) and I would never sign a petition asking to secede from the United States. To me, that is the ultimate sign of hatred for the nation.
In the end, we had a free election and your guys lost. Now it's time to get over it and actually work towards a compromise that works best for the United States. After all, the United States was built through compromise (if you study the history of the Constitution, you will find compromise throughout).
onerebel posted at 6:43 pm on Sun, Nov 25, 2012.
Venter # 3, That's too funny! That does bring up a great question. What would all the freeloaders do to survive if the people that support them yet they despise, were to all leave the country? OH what would the rats do?
Retiree2000 posted at 4:56 pm on Sun, Nov 25, 2012.
Venter #1: Why would I settle for a product that is less reliable, has less style and fares worse in safety crashes when I can buy a Toyota, Honda or some other "foreign" vehicle that was made in the USA? I've owned American cars and had nothing but problems with them. I gave up on US automobile manufacturers in 1992.
Venter #7: I just wish I could live long enough to see light rail expand east to Power; south to Williams Gateway; south along Gilbert to the shopping at San Tan & Gilbert (through downtown Gilbert); south on Country Club to downtown Chandler; north and south on Rural/Scottsdale Road to south Tempe and north Scottsdale, etc. It's a great way to avoid traffic and parking issues. The Valley should have started this 40 years ago or longer and maybe we would have the gridlock and air pollution we have now!
truth posted at 3:25 pm on Sun, Nov 25, 2012.
Nativity scenes, After Pope Benedict XVI says in his new book that there were no oxen, donkeys, or other animals at Jesus's birth. The pope also says the entire Christian calendar is based on a 6th-century monk's miscalculation of when Jesus was born.
truth posted at 3:18 pm on Sun, Nov 25, 2012.
You can explain to Republicans a 1000 times but they just can't comprehend: For the 1000 time, Former CIA Director Davis Petraeus testified before Congress last week that intelligence officials knew from the start that the attack was the work of Ansar-al-Sharia, a local terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaida-yet somehow, the White House's talking points were edited to blame the attack on a unspecified "extremest." Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said this week that the public talking point on Benghazi were edited by the intelligence community, not the White House. A reference to "al Qaida "was changed to "extremest" so a not to tip off specific terrorists group that the CIA sources in Benghazi and was on it's trail. Many CIA sources say there is no evidence that al-Qaida was directly involved in the attack; instead, some of the attackers may have been "supporters" of radical Islam, with "tenuous links" to a local terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaida. "Supporters" or "terrorist," "involvment" or "links"- much of this debate hinges on subtle matters of semantics. "Something obviously went wrong in Benghazi." MotherJones.com WashingtonPost.com The New york Times
For the 1,000 time the Republicans should learn you can't win elections with unestablished and half truth. Lets not forget the Republicans cut 1/2 billion dollars from the Embasy's security fund in 2011 and again in 2012.
Whatif posted at 2:25 pm on Sun, Nov 25, 2012.
We all should turn off the TV and read more. I just finished Friedrich Hayek's book, "On the Road to Serfdom." If you're interested in understanding what a pawn we are, check it out. It can change our opinions on what we are buying, perspectives on foreign policy, etc. Good luck in your pursuit of life, liberty and property.