I'm personally not proud to be a Republican. The Republicans have allowed freedom to be thrown under the bus. Unless the Republican party is willing to organize behind a clearly defined platform for the future good of America then they will continue to fail at the polls.
Demographics have changed. A new generation has never had to suffer enough to care about freedom from tyrannical governments or to have pride in themselves enough to never want a free ride. That suffering is coming. We will probably see a good fifteen years of neo-socialism ruling America. We will probably see a foreign power rise so fiercely as to try to take over our land by force. There will likely be another great war. The children of those who fight that war if won will again be able to enjoy fifty years of prosperity. Until then we will be in decline. |
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The biggest mistake that the Republicans made was to not stand up to the special interests (Democrats such as Barney Frank) who demanded that sub-prime mortgages be made available to those who were not financially qualified to be home owners. We would have been better off simply giving the money to the poor to buy houses. That would have been redistribution of wealth. Oh well. In this case we could have said, better a handout than an opportunity.
If you live in America today with a roof over your head and a car in the driveway you are considered to be in the wealthy top 10% economically of all the people on the earth. Maybe the bottom 90% should come here and demand that you share the wealth with them. It could get ugly. |
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Redistribution of Wealth...
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Yeah, the economy is going down the drain just doing what we have been doing for the past 8 years. Something has to be changed.
Sub-prime mortgages got us into this mess. They fueled speculation in real estate because all it took to get a loan was a pen in your hand and the willingness to sign the papers. Demand for housing exceeded supply so builders started building more houses and apartment buildings were being converted to condos. When the housing bubble burst that uncovered the huge sub-prime mortgage scandal. AIG just happened to be guaranteeing those loans to investors. Since AIG was part of the Dow Jones they started to drag down the Dow Jones. Who started the sub-prime lending ball rolling and totally destroyed the soundness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Bill Clinton. He admits that it was a mistake. Yeah, change, we're going to choke on it. |
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Redistribution of Wealth...
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At the height of the Great Depression unemployment was 24.9%. You have no idea how bad things can get, yet.
The major driving force of the Great Depression was the complete lack of money supply in the hands of businesses. The major mistake the Federal government made in the Great Depression was to RAISE taxes and impose tariffs. We have not learned from our mistakes. Those of you here who are calling for change and taxing the rich never read your history books. Times will get much much worse. We guaranteed it this past Tuesday. |
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Unknow
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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny” Thomas Jefferson
Beware of all politicians. The only bright side to Obama being elected is that McCain will not be the president. Had McCain won I would have simply reversed the two names in my statement. |
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Redistribution of Wealth...
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Unknow
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Think of all the different types of taxes the rich may pay.
Federal Income tax State Income tax Sales tax on items purchased Property tax on real property Intangible tax on interest or securities Capital gains tax on property sold Inheritance tax Tax on corporate earnings 1/2 of employment taxes for employees such as Medicare and Social Security tax Unemployment compensation tax People with money look for return on investment for their money invested. Part of calculating that return is to look at the tax ramifications of making that investment. Everything we do in this country starts with investment capital, from the bonds that are sold to build highways to the common stock people buy in General Motors. If you tax capital gains by too much, such as those when a stock is sold after going up in value, then people with money will simply find an alternative place to put their money where the yield is higher and not as likely to go to the government in taxes. Rich people have choices. They hire accountants so they will wind up paying the least in taxes. Raising taxes on the rich simply means there will be less investment capital for the businesses who hire people like us. The economy grows by having people invest in it. For all of you who want to stick it to the rich I hope you realize that you might just wind up unemployed. |
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now that obama is president
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I had no idea I'd be loving the Obama presidency as much as I am. This is really fun.
I want cheap clean energy with no carbon footprint plus jobs, free education, home ownership, and free first class healthcare for all. I want world peace, lots of whales, and everybody to love the U.S.A. because we're soooooooooooo nice that no one would ever want to do anything bad to us. Give it to me NOW!!!!! Change change change! Is it all better yet? |
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To our perception any point in space appears as aging in linear time. Suppose that point in space actually exists in all increments of time at exactly the same moment, a thousand years ago and a thousand years from now all occupying the same space at the same time. Suppose God is a being who has no limitation regarding time and can exist in "His" present time at any point of our linear time that He chooses. To try to understand the abilities of the creator of all Physics is like a flea on a dog trying to explain why it feels a breeze when the tail wags. You're small, God is big, just accept it. "imkeys" all you did was explain how God is limited within his own reality of time .. Not at all. Omnipresence is not a limitation. I was trying to get you to think outside your own box. You didn't engage in my discussion. I leave you to pontificate to others. |
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eternal is said to be that which has no beginning or end and void of time ..but once something becomes self aware time then becomes a factor and a beginning is thus created ... therefore "eternal" can only equate to unawareness and does not equate to "always was".. anything consider to be "always was" can only exist in the realm of unconsciousness which means to claim that God "always was" would be referring to when God was unaware or achieving consciousness therefore that God supposedly used the term "I Am" can only express his existence not his eternalism To our perception any point in space appears as aging in linear time. Suppose that point in space actually exists in all increments of time at exactly the same moment, a thousand years ago and a thousand years from now all occupying the same space at the same time. Suppose God is a being who has no limitation regarding time and can exist in "His" present time at any point of our linear time that He chooses. To try to understand the abilities of the creator of all Physics is like a flea on a dog trying to explain why it feels a breeze when the tail wags. You're small, God is big, just accept it. |
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Unknow
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Obama has what it takes!! However, no matter what he does, he still has to overcome eight years of terrible policies and decisions by George W. Bush. I think it will take a lot longer to repair the world's opinion of America. At least now we have a President who cares what the world thinks! You know, as people keep telling the Republicans to get over it and move on I really have to apply the same thing to your thinking here. You can't have it both ways. Did Clinton inherit a strong economy after twelve years of Republican leadership? Maybe he did and he certainly took credit for it while he was in office. Obama promised me that he would change pretty much everything, and I assumed it was for the better. Now you've (Democrats) got four years to deliver it. Stop making excuses and man up to the promises. If we don't see REAL change for the better then it was just rhetoric. |
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I think a good way to judge the morality of an issue like abortion is this way.
"As an animal rights activist, can I cry for the rat or mouse that is about to be the subject of an experiment in which surgery is followed by pain which is followed by death while ignoring sensory pain cells in the human model? Many animal activists have spent days or months or years in jail after passionately defending the rights of defenseless animals who have no voice. Many of those same passionate individuals misplace their compassion when it comes to defenseless unborn humans. Is there a contradiction here? Each year, one thousand or more animal rights supporters gather near Washington, D.C. for their annual convention. The majority of these activists are women. As a matter of fact, there would be no animal rights movement without the gentler sex, who seem to possess a spirituality and wisdom that their male counterparts lack. Animal rights activists protest pain to laboratory rats, but support a woman's right to bring pain to her unborn fetus. Some vegan activists demand that meat eaters acknowledge the horrors of slaughterhouse films, or vivisection, or bullfighting. Yet, they turn a deaf ear and firmly shut a blind eye to the conscious being who grows within the mammalian human mother. Most of these passionate animal rightists also support the decision of a woman to cause pain to her fetus, as if it is their right to decide pain or no pain decisions regarding the living creature within a human body. Where is the compassion for the human animal that is destined to suffer? More than one female animal rights author has paralleled the abuse and struggles of animals to the sexual politics and multiple indignities suffered by women at the hands of a male-oriented society. Is abortion murder? Of course it is. It is more than just murder. It is death without compassion, for the living creature, not yet named, possesses pain receptors and is aware of his or her own suffering." I didn't write this, but I think I agree with it. |
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Have a great day. What is your opinion on the matter of a shaded President for America? I don't give a rat's behind what color he is. I would have gladly voted for Colin Powell or Conoleezza Rice on the Republican side and I wouldn't have voted for any number of white men on the Democratic side. I'm sure Obama will serve with pride for America and I hope that if the race issue has importance it will be because in some way Obama's election soothes hundreds of years of wounds that should have never happened in a supposedly Christian culture. |
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the Big Sell Off!!!!
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Show the Class John McCain did in his concession speech. It was a great speech. He must have been working on it every night for the past six months. |
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The McCain people's hatchet job on Sarah Palin was unwarranted and completely disgusting. McCain should have gone with his buddy Joe Lieberman and lost the election with him, or lost it with Giuliani, Romney, Huckabee. Jindall, or Pawlinty. The GOP was a sinking ship this year and Mad Captain Ahab McCain wasn't going to take the GOP campaign anywhere but to the bottom of the sea. Palin didn't lose it for him. I was never impressed with her but I also don't believe the garbage that was dumped on her today. It's just more lies from an election season based on sham and deception. The McCain workers who leaked this information should never be trusted to work for a campaign again.
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Before someone brings up Nixon as being the worst, Nixon was highly effective in office, corrupt, but effective.
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I have worked for campaigns in the past including Jeb Bush for Governor and been a local member of the Republican executive committee. Since then I have become disillusioned with all political parties. I will admit that Dubya was the worst president since Jimmy Carter who before Dubya was the worst president of my lifetime. I honestly believe that McCain would have been no better in office than Dubya.
I think Obama is the greatest politician of my lifetime. The definition of politician for me is someone who is part magician and can hide anything by waving a wand, a skilled speaker who is able to lie convincingly making the truth pale by comparison, and lacking core principles to the point of being able to get things done while still sleeping at night. I wish Obama the best. He has earned the right to be where he is today. Those of you who are gushing over this election are naive. |
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The first thing he will do is RAISE TAXES Some taxes probably NEED to be raised. how do you think the country is going to be ran and cared for if we do not provide the money needed to do so? When you personally need money do you tax someone else or do you earn it or borrow it? Taxation is very similar to using a gun to rob someone. It's a give me your money or go to jail situation. Remember the Boston Tea Party? It was about taxation. Fighting taxes got this country started. The Federal government should keep the roads safe and provide for the common defense. Beyond that social welfare should be left up to the states. Why doesn't the government go into business turning shale oil into usable energy or developing wind power? They might actually make a profit at it which could help pay for the endless social programs. |
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I dont think this woman has anywhere near the intellectual level to be with dancing with the stars, not to mention the highest office in the our land. This woman to me is like Dan Qualye in Drag. Im sure glad to see that we dont have to worry about her becoming our commander in chief (atleast for the next 4 years) I have also compared her to Dan Quayle. Neither Dan nor Sarah have fully deserved the merciless treatment the press has given them. They were simply not ready for prime time. Dan Quayle today may be just what the country needs but unfortunately in politics there are few second chances. Sarah needs to step away from the national spotlight. There both are Intellectual midgets with the mental compacity of Billy Ray Cyrus. What this country needs is someone who has a Sound mind, a soft heart and a firm hand,someone in the mold of a Jack or Bobby Kennedy, not someone who is still on the intellectual level of 95% if the people who watch Barney The biography I read of Bobby Kennedy told the story of a brilliant and endearing man who fought hard for what he believed in. John Kennedy led the Democratic party at a time when many of it's politicians were still racists at heart. He was willing to put his own reputation and life on the line for Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. I admire both Jack and Bobby. Dan Quayle has grown into a much better writer and conservative voice than you are probably aware of. I'm sure Billy Ray Cyrus is smarter than most politicians. He's certainly made more money and is managing one of the hottest sensations in pop music culture, his daughter. I assume you are referring to Barney Frank, and I agree that his constituents must have had a little too much lead in the drinking water during childhood. |
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Well to be accurate, Obama is president-elect. He hasn't served one minute as president. When he's sworn in he'll be the Commander in Chief. At that moment he gets the respect of that title. For now he's just another politician.
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I dont think this woman has anywhere near the intellectual level to be with dancing with the stars, not to mention the highest office in the our land. This woman to me is like Dan Qualye in Drag. Im sure glad to see that we dont have to worry about her becoming our commander in chief (atleast for the next 4 years) I have also compared her to Dan Quayle. Neither Dan nor Sarah have fully deserved the merciless treatment the press has given them. They were simply not ready for prime time. Dan Quayle today may be just what the country needs but unfortunately in politics there are few second chances. Sarah needs to step away from the national spotlight. |
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