“I see Mexico has the same problems with union management we have in the U.S. They are all crooks. The head of the teacher’s union was just arrested for embezzlement.”
“Republicans want to shrink the government to such a point it would only take one billionaire to control it.”
“Secretary of State John Kerry told Germans that Americans have the ‘Right to be stupid.’ He should know — if they weren’t stupid he would not have been in Congress or Secretary of State.”
“The Republican Party has turned itself into a cult without any credible leadership but remain united through a common hate and an adverse view democracy and majority rule.”
“How ironic that Michelle Obama, the wife of the man that refused to save embassy personnel in Benghazi, was the presenter of an Oscar for a movie about successfully saving embassy personnel in Iran!”
“John McCain did not vote for his friend, wounded war vet Chuck Hagel, because while a Republican senator, Hagel said that G.W. Bush was the worst president since Herbert Hoover. I disagree with that, too. G.W. Bush was the worst president in history, period.”
“Well, Tom (Patterson), I don’t support Obamacare, but HSA’s aren’t all that great either. My small child’s medical bills were over $200,000 last year, and will be that high every year of his life, which will be another 15-20 years. Thanks to insurance I ‘only’ had to pay $12,000 from my pocket. Way more than I am allowed to put in an HSA, and I will never have any money left in my HSA to be ‘saved.’ There is no real way for me to even know everything I am being charged for. I asked for a detailed bill of the $18,000 Phoenix Childrens Hospital wanted from me, it read ‘$1,044 pharmacy, $2,000 room, $14,066 ancillary services!’”
“If you’re a recently released illegal alien criminal proceed to the nearest voter registration office and register to vote Democrat. Don’t take any guff from them if they want a valid ID. Then proceed to the nearest Arizona Department of Economic Security office to sign up for your benefits. Buena suerte!”
“The president’s sequestration hammer amounts to nothing more than voodoo politics, the brainstorm of liberals who want to threaten taxpayers into believing, like Rep. Nancy Pelosi says, ‘Our problem is not with over spending, it is with too little funding.’ But factor this into the equation: if every rich guy in America paid 100 percent in taxes, we’d still need $1 trillion next year to balance the budget. Runaway spending IS the problem, Nance.”
truth posted at 10:15 am on Sun, Mar 3, 2013.
A Pew pole found that 45% of the public would blame Republicans for the sequester, with 32% blame Obama. How can Republicans insist on deep cuts from the National Parks, schools, and food-safety inspection, while leaving $8 billion in oil-industry subsidies untouched? Obama has offered to negotiate a deal containing virtually everything Republicans say they want-tax reform, $400 billion and Medicare cuts over 10 years, and more than $1 trillion in defect reduction over that same period. And yet the GOP said no, simply because the deal would include eliminating some tax deductions for the rich. Every other priority the party once had, including National Defense, has been sacrificed to protect the rich from higher taxes. But once the pain of these cuts becomes very real after April 1st or so, the brand damage will be undeniable, A defense hawks and party Pragmatists will crawl out of the woodwork to cut a deal. Once it kicks in Congress and White House will be forced to spread around the cuts sensibly, and public interest will finally trump self interest.
truth posted at 10:16 am on Sun, Mar 3, 2013.
The Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act, sponsored by Senator Menendez (D-NJ) was debated and defeated by the Senate for two years running, and would have eliminated $2.4 billion in annual tax deductions for the five major oil companies: BP, Exxon, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips. - See more at: http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/#sthash.i3GQWRyx.dpuf
Not surprisingly, many Tea Partiers happily accept subsidies, including Vicky Hartzler (R-MO, $775,000), Stephen Fincher (R-TN, $2.5 million) and Michele Bachmann (R-MN $250,000). No hypocrisy there.
The farm bill, up for renewal in 2012, includes an agricultural subsidy portion worth up to $30 billion, $5 billion of which is what you might call handouts, direct payments to farmers.
truth posted at 10:16 am on Sun, Mar 3, 2013.
Explore the Data
The New York Times spent 10 months investigating business incentives awarded by hundreds of cities, counties and states. Since there is no nationwide accounting of these incentives, The Times put together a database and found that local governments give up:
$80.4 billionin incentives each year
1,874No. of programs
Fund and Beatrice Weder di Mauro of the University of Mainz -- estimated the value of that too-big-to-fail subsidy at about 0.8 percentage point. We multiplied that number by the top 10 U.S. banks' total liabilities to come up with $83 billion a year.
Bluepoet posted at 11:16 am on Mon, Mar 4, 2013.
#1-One person arrested=all are crooks? Your logic is as flawed as your point.
#2-That's actually spot on, which makes it all the more funny...
#3-Nice out of context comment. The man was talking about our right of free speech, particularly in the right of assembly to protest. Something that most of the rest of the world doesn't have, at all. It's easy to pick on Kerry, for a lot of things, but stupidity isn't one of them.
#4-Your statement starts out to make a point, but your grammar and/or spelling confused your intent, making your vent meaningless. (Reminder to self--proofread before hitting post button).
#5-"Refused to save"? That's a rather strong statement! Do you mean to say that he failed to protect, or that he set up the hit? Either way, it seems you assume a lot, unless you have some first hand knowledge?
#6-Bush may have been the worst President ever...I think it's close, though...Martin Van Buren wasn't exactly memorable for his keen leadership ability, either. (Martin who? Yes, exactly.)
#7-Yes, that's a point I made, commenting on Mr. Patterson's article.
#8-It's not exactly that easy, but nice try...
#9-Everyone signed off on this brilliant maneuver, I'm afraid. I think there's plenty of blame to go around, here. It's worse than Voodoo politics, btw...it's Liar's Poker. Guess who loses, as usual?
onerebel posted at 9:59 am on Sun, Mar 10, 2013.
Venter # 5, It appears that God does have a sense of humor!
Venter # 6, Bush may have went down in history as the worst President ever, however that forever changed in 2008, Bush couldn't come close to the current holder of that title!
Last Venter, absolutely true, however trying to convince a Liberal that they need to stop spending more and more, then they need to stop raising other peoples taxes, is like trying to stop a dog from scratching itself!