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Off Topic Chatter Forget Bushisms, Biden Gaffes, We have Obama blunders
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Replying to: fintail (Jun 24, 2009 5:49 pm) The economic boom in part was built on making war. That is a real stimulus for the economy. Where we went wrong is allowing poor and sometimes illegal lending practices to get out of hand. Now the call to repeat the same thing is unbelievable. I can say with all certainty that Cap n Trade is a product of the Liberal Left Democrats. With the high priest Al Gore leading the charge. It goes all the way back to Enron and was spawned by Gore, Hanson and Ken Lay. They just failed to push it past the GOP Congress and later Bush.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jun 24, 2009 7:47 pm) Lay and Bush were close friends...I am sure he would have been able to get away with anything had all eyes not been on him to begin with. That mess was at best a 50/50 blame game. An enviro-charade with windfall profits as the true objective.
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Replying to: fintail (Jun 25, 2009 8:27 am) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses
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Replying to: gagrice (Jun 26, 2009 6:15 am) "Not by coincidence most of our recessions and the great depression were while Democrats controlled Congress" A congress does not make economic policy. The controllers of economic direction have nothing to do with anyone who is elected. A congress really does not do much at all, hence the old joke: if pro is the opposite of con, progress is the opposite of congress. The previous Congress had no problem embracing the false wartime "boom" itself. The "trickle down" garbage brainwashed into them hasn't helped the average American either. When will people realize the problem isn't Democrat or Republican, but the underlying powers who control them both?
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Replying to: fintail (Jun 26, 2009 6:34 am) I do agree with you on that statement. I fear the Rockefeller family and the people they associate with much more than Kissinger and Cheney. The Aspen Institute is a hotbed of One World Politics. What was Clinton, Collin Powell and Ken Lay all doing there together in 2006 when Ken Lay died rather suddenly with no history of heart problems? Was it decided he was too much of a threat to the real powers? I believe Bill Clinton has weaseled his way into the inner circle. A place GW Bush would never be allowed. His dad maybe. Dubya is too much of a hick for those people to accept him. Ken Lay I am sure just used him.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jun 26, 2009 6:52 am) Clinton isn't in any inner circle, he too is too much of a hick, without the family fortune or really even the personal fortune enough to have influence. He's allowed to hang out because many people still like him, nothing else. |
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Putin is throwing his weight around in Russia closing all the casinos. Was that to top Obama devastating the casino business, with his threats to those that use Las Vegas for frivolous conferences? I think they both are after the top spot in the New World Order. My money is on Putin.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 01, 2009 5:43 am) It does have some huge problems - namely corruption on a scale that makes anything here look like a kid stealing a piece of gum, a broken and sickening criminal justice system, and crumbling infrastructure. However, on the plus side, it isn't saddled with debt like the US, it has enormous natural resources, it isn't enslaved to expensive and benefit-free Israel, and it isn't numbed and dumbed by political correctness and false guilt. It also lacks the dangerous demographic trends of Europe - that saddled with their sharp lack of natural resources and idiots seeking to centralize control in Brussels will take Europe out of the count unless there is a change there soon. There were few true winners of WW2 (the average American was not one of them), and the Soviets were a key victor. They milked it along in a wasteful and pointless cold war - and have kept their pride and attitude intact. He isn't called Stalputin by various wags for nothing. Russia has potential to be very strong. |
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You youngsters that voted for this President and Congress get to pay the bills. Did Obama really need an entourage of 500 people on his EU tour? WASHINGTON -- Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That's a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago. The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as "codels," has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data. Lawmakers say that the trips are a good use of government funds because they allow members of Congress and their staff members to learn more about the world, inspect U.S. assets abroad and forge better working relationships with each other. The travel, for example, includes official visits to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Journal analysis, based on information published in the Congressional Record, also shows that taxpayer-funded travel is a big and growing perk for lawmakers and their families. Some members of Congress have complained in recent months about chief executives of bailed-out banks, insurance companies and car makers who sponsored corporate trips to resorts or used corporate jets for their own travel. Although complete travel records aren't yet available for 2009, it appears that such costs continue to rise. The Journal analysis shows that the government has picked up the tab for travel to destinations such as Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Lawmakers frequently bring along spouses on congressional trips. If they take commercial flights, they have to buy tickets for spouses. If they fly on government planes -- as they usually do -- their spouses can fly free. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html |
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Colin Powell, one of President Obama's most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president's ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much. "I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them," Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN's John King, released by the network Friday morning. I wonder when it occurred to Collin Powell that Obama was out to bankrupt the USA? His campaign rhetoric should have been enough to scare any fiscal conservative. It was a race vote pure and simple and now Powell is regretting it.
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