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A Letter to Those who DIDN'T vote for Bush
"Jake" wrote in message news:5Y2We.110502$084.43497@attbi_s22... know Clinton lied about getting a BJ so what. His BJ lie didnt cause anyone to die like the Bushwackers lies have done. All Republicans lie there ass's off about everything. I think it must be part of the party pledge. Keep up the good work. King I hereby pledge, as a Conservative American, to lie about these facts, so the liberal Democrats look better.... 1. That Bill Clinton lied in sworn testimony to the Congress of the United States... what's commonly called perjury. Nah... he really didn't do that. 2. That Bill Clinton did almost nothing of note during his 8 years in office (oh, except left terrorism to froth up all around the world.. even while a first attempt was made on the WTC.) 3. Oh, and let .coms and telecoms and a bunch of other companies screw the economy because Janet Reno was too busy burning people to death in Waco and shooting American kids, mothers and dogs at Ruby Ridge. Bill was WAY to busy with this agenda to keep corporate over site in check. 4. That our military was seriously demoralized by this jerk who, as commander-in-chief, couldn't even be bothered to return a salute from his aircraft crews on Marine/Airforce 1. Let's also not forget, since I'm sure you'll bring up that the President is a 'rich' Republican, that more than HALF the liberal Democrats in Congress have more money than he does. The President is not a liar, or a thief, or a particularly good 'politician'. He can be wrong (what a thought!) and he admits when he is. The man has my respect for that. This is where the liberals are losing contact with America. Information flows freely now.. we don't have to take the high-and-mighty liberal news media's word for anything anymore. And the information is this: All the bunk the liberals feed us is nothing more than eye-candy propaganda with no substance. NONE. Ignore the terrorists, ignore the educational system, ignore the tax-and-spend policies of Washington, ignore the SS crisis, ignore a plethora of other issues and tell us "It'll be all right... we know better" doesn't cut it anymore. The liberals don't know better, and their rhetoric is old and tired. Nobody wants actors spewing sound-bites in Washington anymore. We want people solving problems. Sorry for the rant. Jake Oh no!!! That one is going to leave a mark... |
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I hate welfare!
The 94% of welfare that goes to rich corporations, that is. (oil companies, drug companies, halliburton, etc.) I have no problem with the tiny 6% of total welfare that goes to the poor, regardless of whether they can work or not, 6% is a splinter and 94% is a huge tree. Insanity, said Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. By this measure, the latest Bush tax cuts qualify as certifiably insane. Where have we seen this deranged fiscal strategy before? Remember Ronald Reagan and Supply Side Economics? In the early 1980s, Reagan promised the nation that if we lowered tax rates on the wealthy, the economy would grow so much the federal budget would be balanced "within three years, maybe even two." Sober people were skeptical-and rightly so. Reagan's Republican opponent for the 1980 presidential election, George H.W. Bush called it "voodoo economics." His own Budget Director, David Stockman, called it a "Trojan horse," a scam intended really to funnel more money to the already rich. Stockman was quickly dismissed. The results, we now know, were a disaster. In 1982, the first full year after the tax cuts were enacted, the economy actually shrank 2.2%, the worst performance since the Great Depression. And the effect on the federal budget was catastrophic. Jimmy Carter's last budget deficit was $77 billion. Reagan's first deficit was $128 billion. His second deficit exploded to $208 billion. By the time the "Reagan Revolution" was over, George H.W. Bush was running an annual deficit of $290 billion per year. Yearly deficits, of course, add up to national debt. When Reagan took office, the national debt stood at $994 billion. When Bush left office, it had reached $4.3 trillion. In other words, the national debt had taken 200 years to reach $1 trillion. Reagan's Supply Side experiment quadrupled it in the next 12 years. Is there anything to compare this to? When Bill Clinton took office he intentionally reversed the Supply Side formula, raising taxes on the wealthy and reducing them on the lowest wage earners. Supply Side true believers predicted the arrival of the Apocalypse. Bob Dole said the stock market would collapse. Newt Gingrich said the world would fall into another Great Depression. What actually happened? Between 1992 and 2000, the U.S. economy produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. history. It created more than 18 million new jobs, the highest level of job creation ever recorded. Inflation fell to 2.5% per year compared to the 4.7% average over the prior 12 years. Real interest rates fell by over 40% producing the greatest housing boom ever. Overall economic growth averaged 4.0% per year compared to 2.8% average growth over the 12 years of the Reagan/Bush administrations. Most impressively, Clinton reversed the mammoth deficits of the Supply Side years, turning them into surpluses. He used these surpluses to begin paying down the national debt. By virtually every meaningful measure-employment, growth, inflation, interest rates, investment, deficits and debt-the economy performed better once the Supply Side experiment was terminated and replaced with a more honest economic policy where we actually pay our bills as we go. This might all be ancient history if the spectre of Supply Side economics had not reared its ugly head again once Bush II took office. In selling his $1.6 trillion tax cut-half of which went to the wealthiest 1% of Americans-Bush promised in 2001 that it would produce 800,000 new jobs. In fact, the economy has lost 2.7 million jobs since Bush took office, again, the worst economic performance since the Great Depression. The effects of Bush's tax cut on the deficit and debt are exactly what we would expect having seen Reagan's results-only worse. Bush inherited from Clinton a fiscal surplus of $127 billion. In his first year he turned that into a deficit of $158 billion. In this, his second year, he will run a deficit of over $400 billion-a swing to the worse of over $600 billion in only two years. Now Bush has sold us on still another megadose of this same Supply Side voodoo. Two thirds of his new $350 billion tax cut will go to the top 10% of income earners. Bush's Congressional ally, Tom DeLay, promises more such cuts for every year Bush is in office. The long term effects of these policies are profoundly damaging. When Bush took office, the government's ten year surplus was forecast to total $5.6 trillion. This was critical to building fiscal soundness as the Baby Boomers begin to retire. Now, the ten year forecast projects a cumulative deficit of $1.1 trillion, a net loss of $6.7 trillion in only two years. With the exception of World Wars, this is the greatest, most rapid destruction of public wealth in the history of the world. |
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ndugu wrote:
I hate welfare! I want to know what source you cut-and-pasted that piece of propaganda from before I take the time to begin researching it fully? When Carter was president, at least near the end of his term, there were no jobs to be had anywhere... I should know... I was looking for one. Not even McDonalds was hiring. During the Reagan years we spent a lot of money, to be sure. Gee, I wonder how and why the Soviet Union finally collapsed after many years of threatening our country with nuclear annihilation? Maybe it was a coincidence (not)? Was there a 'Peace Dividend' in that little detail? You'd be silly not to see it.... GHWB and Clinton both rode on the coattails of Ronald Reagan's decisions. Bush I was a brainiac trying to play political games he didn't have the will for... his son does. Clinton did nothing but capitulate to his friends in Congress and ride along for the good time which would not last. The myth of big corperations is over, my friend. GM is nearly broke, US Steel and AT&T are no more, Boeing Aircraft hardly sniffs at military contracts anymore, and even Microsoft ain't what it used to be. Here's the kicker: Big corporations create jobs... a lot of jobs. When they make money, they pay their people decent wages and support the communities they do business in and carry huge tax burdens (even with the breaks they get). Big Corporations also buy lots of stuff from smaller companies, which spurs the economy further. Oh, and yes, the investors in these Big Corporations also make some money... is that evil, too? Your argument is old, Chief, and represents the 'sound-bite' thinking I was alluding to and also represents you as someone who can't think for himself. Evil, big corporations are the biggest benefactor of welfare, my ass. They are a huge component of innovation and GNP in America. Think for yourself before cut-and-paste propaganda that is meaningless. Oh ****.. another rant..... Jake |
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Jake posted for all of us...
I don't top post - see either inline or at bottom. ndugu wrote: I hate welfare! I want to know what source you cut-and-pasted that piece of propaganda from before I take the time to begin researching it fully? When Carter was president, at least near the end of his term, there were no jobs to be had anywhere... I should know... I was looking for one. Not even McDonalds was hiring. During the Reagan years we spent a lot of money, to be sure. Gee, I wonder how and why the Soviet Union finally collapsed after many years of threatening our country with nuclear annihilation? Maybe it was a coincidence (not)? Was there a 'Peace Dividend' in that little detail? You'd be silly not to see it.... GHWB and Clinton both rode on the coattails of Ronald Reagan's decisions. Bush I was a brainiac trying to play political games he didn't have the will for... his son does. Clinton did nothing but capitulate to his friends in Congress and ride along for the good time which would not last. The myth of big corperations is over, my friend. GM is nearly broke, US Steel and AT&T are no more, Boeing Aircraft hardly sniffs at military contracts anymore, and even Microsoft ain't what it used to be. Here's the kicker: Big corporations create jobs... a lot of jobs. When they make money, they pay their people decent wages and support the communities they do business in and carry huge tax burdens (even with the breaks they get). Big Corporations also buy lots of stuff from smaller companies, which spurs the economy further. Oh, and yes, the investors in these Big Corporations also make some money... is that evil, too? Your argument is old, Chief, and represents the 'sound-bite' thinking I was alluding to and also represents you as someone who can't think for himself. Evil, big corporations are the biggest benefactor of welfare, my ass. They are a huge component of innovation and GNP in America. Think for yourself before cut-and-paste propaganda that is meaningless. Oh ****.. another rant..... Jake Hey Oscar, was that the left hook or the right jab? -- My boss said I was dumb and apathetic. I said I don't know and I don't care... Tekkie |
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"Steve Scott" wrote in message ...
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:11:22 -0400, "ndugu" wrote: I hate welfare! The 94% of welfare that goes to rich corporations, that is. (oil companies, drug companies, halliburton, etc.) This may surprise you but no company pays taxes. I have no problem with the tiny 6% of total welfare that goes to the poor, regardless of whether they can work or not, 6% is a splinter and 94% is a huge tree. If the welfare goes to those that are incapable of caring for themselves, most don't have a problem with that. Insanity, said Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. By this measure, the latest Bush tax cuts qualify as certifiably insane. Where have we seen this deranged fiscal strategy before? Remember Ronald Reagan and Supply Side Economics? In the early 1980s, Reagan promised the nation that if we lowered tax rates on the wealthy, the economy would grow so much the federal budget would be balanced "within three years, maybe even two." Sober people were skeptical-and rightly so. Reagan's Republican opponent for the 1980 presidential election, George H.W. Bush called it "voodoo economics." His own Budget Director, David Stockman, called it a "Trojan horse," a scam intended really to funnel more money to the already rich. Stockman was quickly dismissed. The results, we now know, were a disaster. In 1982, the first full year after the tax cuts were enacted, the economy actually shrank 2.2%, the worst performance since the Great Depression. And the effect on the federal budget was catastrophic. How old were you in 1980? I personally remember the misery index. Do you? Inflation and unemployment added together in excess of 20%. Granted it's a ploy but 13% inflation and 7% unemployment were the realities of the Carter years. And I'll admit I voted for Carter. Once. We were in a recession teetering on the precipice of a 30s style Great depression before the Reagan tax cuts. The economy grew by 1/3 in the following 7 years. That's a bald-faced lie. Growth during Reagan's years was anemic; it averaged just over 2% annually. Meanwhile, when Reagan took office the U.S. was the world's largest creditor, and by the time he left office just eight years later, we were the world's largest debtor, and we remain so to this day. Our kids will still be paying off his debts, not to mention the debts of our current disaster-in-chief. Their politices were (and are) an unqualified catastrophe. |
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"ndugu" wrote in message ... Where have we seen this deranged fiscal strategy before? Remember Ronald Reagan and Supply Side Economics? In the early 1980s, Reagan promised the nation that if we lowered tax rates on the wealthy, the economy would grow so much the federal budget would be balanced "within three years, maybe even two." The results, we now know, were a disaster. In 1982, the first full year after the tax cuts were enacted, the economy actually shrank 2.2%, the worst performance since the Great Depression. And the effect on the federal budget was catastrophic. And the economy took off in 1985-88, many jobs were created, and things were going really good thanks to Ronnie Reagan and his economic policies. Jimmy Carter's last budget deficit was $77 billion. Reagan's first deficit was $128 billion. His second deficit exploded to $208 billion. By the time the "Reagan Revolution" was over, George H.W. Bush was running an annual deficit of $290 billion per year. Yeah, Reagan had to rebuild the military and help tear down the Iron Curtain. Is there anything to compare this to? When Bill Clinton took office he intentionally reversed the Supply Side formula, raising taxes on the wealthy and reducing them on the lowest wage earners. Supply Side true believers predicted the arrival of the Apocalypse. Bob Dole said the stock market would collapse. Newt Gingrich said the world would fall into another Great Depression. What actually happened? Between 1992 and 2000, the U.S. economy produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. history. It created more than 18 million new jobs, the highest level of job creation ever recorded. Inflation fell to 2.5% per year compared to the 4.7% average over the prior 12 years. Real interest rates fell by over 40% producing the greatest housing boom ever. Overall economic growth averaged 4.0% per year compared to 2.8% average growth over the 12 years of the Reagan/Bush administrations. Most impressively, Clinton reversed the mammoth deficits of the Supply Side years, turning them into surpluses. He used these surpluses to begin paying down the national debt. Interest rates for home loans were 10-18% during this time period. I don't call that low. Luckily, Slick Willie could continue to ride on the coat-tails of Ronnie Reagan's economy fixes. The effects of Bush's tax cut on the deficit and debt are exactly what we would expect having seen Reagan's results-only worse. Bush inherited from Clinton a fiscal surplus of $127 billion. In his first year he turned that into a deficit of $158 billion. In this, his second year, he will run a deficit of over $400 billion-a swing to the worse of over $600 billion in only two years. We are fighting a war, Stupid. We have had several terrorist attacks. We have had several devistating hurricanes. That **** isn't free. You liberals sure do like to re-write history. Instead of making this **** up, try thinking back to your own economic situation (home loans, employment, taxes, etc.) and also consider the wars, natural disasters, etc. THEN MAKE UP YOUR MIND. |
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:40:59 GMT, "Oscar_Lives"
wrote: "ndugu" wrote in message ... Is there anything to compare this to? When Bill Clinton took office he intentionally reversed the Supply Side formula, raising taxes on the wealthy and reducing them on the lowest wage earners. Supply Side true believers predicted the arrival of the Apocalypse. Bob Dole said the stock market would collapse. Newt Gingrich said the world would fall into another Great Depression. What actually happened? Between 1992 and 2000, the U.S. economy produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. history. It created more than 18 million new jobs, the highest level of job creation ever recorded. Inflation fell to 2.5% per year compared to the 4.7% average over the prior 12 years. What happened when his bubble burst in 2000 ? Because the false optimism based on his unworkable policies finally faced reality ? impressively, Clinton reversed the mammoth deficits of the Supply Side years, turning them into surpluses. He used these surpluses to begin paying down the national debt. He rode an economic wave he did not create, and took credit for it. The effects of Bush's tax cut on the deficit and debt are exactly what we would expect having seen Reagan's results-only worse. Bush inherited from Clinton a fiscal surplus of $127 billion. In his first year he turned that He inherited a financial collapse from Clinton. He also reaped the whirlwind of Clinton's 'soft on terrorism, cut down the military, we have the UN to protect us' policy. Click here every day to feed an animal that needs you today !!! http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me 'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.' 'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.' HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's Free demo now available online http://pmilligan.net/palm/ |
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"Oscar_Lives" wrote in message news:%a5We.351982$xm3.131864@attbi_s21...
"ndugu" wrote in message ... Where have we seen this deranged fiscal strategy before? Remember Ronald Reagan and Supply Side Economics? In the early 1980s, Reagan promised the nation that if we lowered tax rates on the wealthy, the economy would grow so much the federal budget would be balanced "within three years, maybe even two." The results, we now know, were a disaster. In 1982, the first full year after the tax cuts were enacted, the economy actually shrank 2.2%, the worst performance since the Great Depression. And the effect on the federal budget was catastrophic. And the economy took off in 1985-88, many jobs were created, and things were going really good thanks to Ronnie Reagan and his economic policies. Not even close. Our federal deficit exploded, as did our national debt, our trade balance went to hell, and the mass replacement of decent paying jobs with **** service sector jobs began in earnest. Jimmy Carter's last budget deficit was $77 billion. Reagan's first deficit was $128 billion. His second deficit exploded to $208 billion. By the time the "Reagan Revolution" was over, George H.W. Bush was running an annual deficit of $290 billion per year. Yeah, Reagan had to rebuild the military and help tear down the Iron Curtain. You either actually believe that, which makes you a moron, or you're just a brainwashed shill who has never been outside the U.S. If you know any Russians, make your claim to them and you'll get a hearty belly laugh. Is there anything to compare this to? When Bill Clinton took office he intentionally reversed the Supply Side formula, raising taxes on the wealthy and reducing them on the lowest wage earners. Supply Side true believers predicted the arrival of the Apocalypse. Bob Dole said the stock market would collapse. Newt Gingrich said the world would fall into another Great Depression. What actually happened? Between 1992 and 2000, the U.S. economy produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. history. It created more than 18 million new jobs, the highest level of job creation ever recorded. Inflation fell to 2.5% per year compared to the 4.7% average over the prior 12 years. Real interest rates fell by over 40% producing the greatest housing boom ever. Overall economic growth averaged 4.0% per year compared to 2.8% average growth over the 12 years of the Reagan/Bush administrations. Most impressively, Clinton reversed the mammoth deficits of the Supply Side years, turning them into surpluses. He used these surpluses to begin paying down the national debt. The effects of Bush's tax cut on the deficit and debt are exactly what we would expect having seen Reagan's results-only worse. Bush inherited from Clinton a fiscal surplus of $127 billion. In his first year he turned that into a deficit of $158 billion. In this, his second year, he will run a deficit of over $400 billion-a swing to the worse of over $600 billion in only two years. We are fighting a war, Stupid. We have had several terrorist attacks. We have had several devistating hurricanes. That **** isn't free. Even by Republican-controlled GAO estimates, the war on a human emotion accounts for -- at most -- 10% of the federal government's current deficit. The other 90% is a simply lack of spending constraint and pure pork, stolen from working class and poor Americans by a horribly corrupt oligarchy. Forty years of tax-and-spend Democratic control never netted us the same deficits and national debt as we have today. Next to today's Republicans the Democrats are spendthrifts. |
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Post it at HVAC not here
"Oscar_Lives" wrote in message news:gB3We.351843$xm3.343543@attbi_s21... "Jake" wrote in message news:5Y2We.110502$084.43497@attbi_s22... know Clinton lied about getting a BJ so what. His BJ lie didnt cause anyone to die like the Bushwackers lies have done. All Republicans lie there ass's off about everything. I think it must be part of the party pledge. Keep up the good work. King I hereby pledge, as a Conservative American, to lie about these facts, so the liberal Democrats look better.... 1. That Bill Clinton lied in sworn testimony to the Congress of the United States... what's commonly called perjury. Nah... he really didn't do that. 2. That Bill Clinton did almost nothing of note during his 8 years in office (oh, except left terrorism to froth up all around the world.. even while a first attempt was made on the WTC.) 3. Oh, and let .coms and telecoms and a bunch of other companies screw the economy because Janet Reno was too busy burning people to death in Waco and shooting American kids, mothers and dogs at Ruby Ridge. Bill was WAY to busy with this agenda to keep corporate over site in check. 4. That our military was seriously demoralized by this jerk who, as commander-in-chief, couldn't even be bothered to return a salute from his aircraft crews on Marine/Airforce 1. Let's also not forget, since I'm sure you'll bring up that the President is a 'rich' Republican, that more than HALF the liberal Democrats in Congress have more money than he does. The President is not a liar, or a thief, or a particularly good 'politician'. He can be wrong (what a thought!) and he admits when he is. The man has my respect for that. This is where the liberals are losing contact with America. Information flows freely now.. we don't have to take the high-and-mighty liberal news media's word for anything anymore. And the information is this: All the bunk the liberals feed us is nothing more than eye-candy propaganda with no substance. NONE. Ignore the terrorists, ignore the educational system, ignore the tax-and-spend policies of Washington, ignore the SS crisis, ignore a plethora of other issues and tell us "It'll be all right... we know better" doesn't cut it anymore. The liberals don't know better, and their rhetoric is old and tired. Nobody wants actors spewing sound-bites in Washington anymore. We want people solving problems. Sorry for the rant. Jake Oh no!!! That one is going to leave a mark... |
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Oscar_Lives wrote: "Jake" wrote in message news:5Y2We.110502$084.43497@attbi_s22... know Clinton lied about getting a BJ so what. His BJ lie didnt cause anyone to die like the Bushwackers lies have done. All Republicans lie there ass's off about everything. I think it must be part of the party pledge. Keep up the good work. King I hereby pledge, as a Conservative American, to lie about these facts, so the liberal Democrats look better.... 1. That Bill Clinton lied in sworn testimony to the Congress of the United The same Congress whose members lied to their wives...the one I detest most of all was the one out playing while his wife was dying of cancer. Let's get our moral outrage in perspective. States... what's commonly called perjury. Nah... he really didn't do that. Some of us didn't give a damn about what Paula thought Bill did in the hotel room.....WTF was she doing there, anyway? I would have been on the elevator by the time anybody got unzipped. 2. That Bill Clinton did almost nothing of note during his 8 years in office (oh, except left terrorism to froth up all around the world.. even while a first attempt was made on the WTC.) There was a peace treaty someplace, couple of wars (undeclared, of course). Mass genocide in Africa that the "Party of Family Values", "Christian Coalition", "Silent Majority" cared about much less than they cared about Bill's sex life. "When in doubt, choose life."? George and Jeb identify with the brain-dead, which is understandable. Let old folks drown or starve, in spite of the fact they are almost next door to a naval air station in LA. 3. Oh, and let .coms and telecoms and a bunch of other companies screw the economy because Janet Reno was too busy burning people to death in Waco and shooting American kids, mothers and dogs at Ruby Ridge. Bill was WAY to busy with this agenda to keep corporate over site in check. The FBI hasn't invaded many cabins, and Waco was a disaster set up by another fake Christian who f----- children. The feds were ready to kidnap Elian Gonzalex to save him from a fate worse than Republicanism.....where were they when children were drowning in NO? 4. That our military was seriously demoralized by this jerk who, as commander-in-chief, couldn't even be bothered to return a salute from his aircraft crews on Marine/Airforce 1. The military was demoralized by a gov't obsessed with sex and running the same hovels that still pass as VA hospitals. Walter Reed is pretty glamorous, and a good place for photo ops with kids who have lost a couple of limbs or had their faces blown away. Carriers are not good places for photo ops, esp. with signs that say "WE WON". Let's also not forget, since I'm sure you'll bring up that the President is a 'rich' Republican, that more than HALF the liberal Democrats in Congress have more money than he does. Can you find a descriptive word for antagonists that doesn't start with "lib..."? Rich means when you or your kids are arrested (a matter of public record) it is a "private family matter", but my sex life is a government matter. Jeb was ready to march on a nursing home, for purely political gain, to "save" a tragically brain-dead woman who left decisions for her husband to make about end of life issues and whose family could not accept the fact that her case was hopeless. If the bushes were capable of learning from experience, George would have remembered how badly things were handled by his father after Hurrican Andrew. The President is not a liar, or a thief, or a particularly good 'politician'. He can be wrong (what a thought!) and he admits when he is. The man has my respect for that. He is a mediocre loser, as a man and as an executive. He has proven that repeatedly. No executive I've ever known would have tolerated his incompetence, but probably would have voted for him ) This is where the liberals are losing contact with America. Information flows freely now.. we don't have to take the high-and-mighty liberal news I don't know which faction of the news that might be? media's word for anything anymore. And the information is this: All the bunk the liberals feed us is nothing more than eye-candy propaganda with no substance. NONE. Will you identify the liberals who feed you eye-candy propaganda? I need to know so's I can help root them out. Ignore the terrorists, ignore the educational system, ignore the tax-and-spend policies of Washington, ignore the SS crisis, ignore a George's answer to the SS crisis was to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare, a system already bust and predictably (Attention Republicans!) headed for disaster. The Rx coverage buys votes now, and George will be back in Crawford, where he hides from reality, before the s--- hits the fan. And you call me liberal? plethora of other issues and tell us "It'll be all right... we know better" doesn't cut it anymore. The liberals don't know better, and their rhetoric is old and tired. Nobody wants actors spewing sound-bites in Well........you don't have Ronnie "Voodoo Economics" Reagan to worry about any more. Reagan brought us "hire a temp", pay for your own retirement and insurance. The only reason my pay ever began to approach what men with the same education and skills earned was because of the LIBERALS who fought for generations. One of the worst ailments in American business is horrific system of workers compensation ... costs more to fight over who should pay than it does to provide treatment. Incredible waste, and one of the factors driving jobs out of the US. Washington anymore. We want people solving problems. Vote for Hillary... she is at least realistic about healthcare and what is wrong with it, and has the intellect to do the math. Nobody can bear to admit a LIBERAL has one good idea, so they don't bother even to listen. Sorry for the rant. Jake Oh no!!! That one is going to leave a mark... |
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"Steve Scott" wrote in message ... On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:11:22 -0400, "ndugu" wrote: I hate welfare! The 94% of welfare that goes to rich corporations, that is. (oil companies, drug companies, halliburton, etc.) This may surprise you but no company pays taxes. The S&P sheets say otherwise. For instance, Citigroup last year has a pre-tax income of $24,182 million, an effective tas rate of 28.6%, and a net income of $17,046 million. So, companies do pay taxes. |
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"FDR" wrote in message The S&P sheets say otherwise. For instance, Citigroup last year has a pre-tax income of $24,182 million, an effective tas rate of 28.6%, and a net income of $17,046 million. So, companies do pay taxes. Where does the money come from to pay those taxes? From the consumer, of course. The company may send the check to the government but the people still pay the taxes for every business. If you tax a business, it sounds good and is easy for politicians to sell to the voters, but the reality is those costs of doing business are passed on to the customer, you and me. |
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"Norminn" wrote in message ... Vote for Hillary... she is at least realistic about healthcare and what is wrong with it, and has the intellect to do the math. Nobody can bear to admit a LIBERAL has one good idea, so they don't bother even to listen. Ah, finally! Another intelligent woman poster! Liz |
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"Norminn" wrote in message
... Vote for Hillary... she is at least realistic about healthcare and what is wrong with it, and has the intellect to do the math. Nobody can bear to admit a LIBERAL has one good idea, so they don't bother even to listen. We listened. She just didn't have much good to say. |
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Norminn wrote in
: Oscar_Lives wrote: "Jake" wrote in message news:5Y2We.110502$084.43497@attbi_s22... know Clinton lied about getting a BJ so what. His BJ lie didnt cause anyone to die like the Bushwackers lies have done. All Republicans lie there ass's off about everything. I think it must be part of the party pledge. Keep up the good work. King I hereby pledge, as a Conservative American, to lie about these facts, so the liberal Democrats look better.... 1. That Bill Clinton lied in sworn testimony to the Congress of the United The same Congress whose members lied to their wives... Oh,that EXCUSES BJ Clinton's wrongs? And they lied to -their wives-,not to the NATION,and not under oath. the one I detest most of all was the one out playing while his wife was dying of cancer. Let's get our moral outrage in perspective. States... what's commonly called perjury. Nah... he really didn't do that. Some of us didn't give a damn about what Paula thought Bill did in the hotel room.....WTF was she doing there, anyway? I would have been on the elevator by the time anybody got unzipped. 2. That Bill Clinton did almost nothing of note during his 8 years in office (oh, except left terrorism to froth up all around the world.. even while a first attempt was made on the WTC.) There was a peace treaty someplace, The useless OSLO Accords? Where the Israelis compromised and the Pals never lived up to their side? couple of wars (undeclared, of course). Mass genocide in Africa that the "Party of Family Values", "Christian Coalition", "Silent Majority" cared about much less than they cared about Bill's sex life. "When in doubt, choose life."? George and Jeb identify with the brain-dead, which is understandable. Let old folks drown or starve, in spite of the fact they are almost next door to a naval air station in LA. The NO mayor and LA governor are the ones most responsible,but being Democrats,you excuse them. 3. Oh, and let .coms and telecoms and a bunch of other companies screw the economy because Janet Reno was too busy burning people to death in Waco and shooting American kids, mothers and dogs at Ruby Ridge. Bill was WAY to busy with this agenda to keep corporate over site in check. The FBI hasn't invaded many cabins, and Waco was a disaster set up by another fake Christian who f----- children. Tell me how BATF has jurisdiction on allegations of child abuse? Or drug making,as also was wrongfully alleged to illegally obtain use of military assets The feds were ready to kidnap Elian Gonzalex to save him from a fate worse than Republicanism.....where were they when children were drowning in NO? The NOLA mayor and LA Governor were to act FIRST.Those children would not have been drowning if their mayor and Governor had evacuated them *according to their own plan*. 4. That our military was seriously demoralized by this jerk who, as commander-in-chief, couldn't even be bothered to return a salute from his aircraft crews on Marine/Airforce 1. The military was demoralized by a gov't obsessed with sex and running the same hovels that still pass as VA hospitals. Walter Reed is pretty glamorous, and a good place for photo ops with kids who have lost a couple of limbs or had their faces blown away. Carriers are not good places for photo ops, esp. with signs that say "WE WON". Let's also not forget, since I'm sure you'll bring up that the President is a 'rich' Republican, that more than HALF the liberal Democrats in Congress have more money than he does. Can you find a descriptive word for antagonists that doesn't start with "lib..."? Rich means when you or your kids are arrested (a matter of public record) it is a "private family matter", but my sex life is a government matter. Jeb was ready to march on a nursing home, for purely political gain, to "save" a tragically brain-dead woman who left decisions for her husband to make about end of life issues and whose family could not accept the fact that her case was hopeless. If the bushes were capable of learning from experience, George would have remembered how badly things were handled by his father after Hurrican Andrew. The President is not a liar, or a thief, or a particularly good 'politician'. He can be wrong (what a thought!) and he admits when he is. The man has my respect for that. He is a mediocre loser, as a man and as an executive. He has proven that repeatedly. No executive I've ever known would have tolerated his incompetence, but probably would have voted for him ) This is where the liberals are losing contact with America. Information flows freely now.. we don't have to take the high-and-mighty liberal news I don't know which faction of the news that might be? The vast majority of them. You should keep up on your reading. media's word for anything anymore. And the information is this: All the bunk the liberals feed us is nothing more than eye-candy propaganda with no substance. NONE. Will you identify the liberals who feed you eye-candy propaganda? I need to know so's I can help root them out. You wouldn't accept anyone's data anyways,so it would be a waste of time. Ignore the terrorists, ignore the educational system, ignore the tax-and-spend policies of Washington, ignore the SS crisis, ignore a George's answer to the SS crisis was to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare, a system already bust and predictably (Attention Republicans!) headed for disaster. The Rx coverage buys votes now, and George will be back in Crawford, where he hides from reality, before the s--- hits the fan. And you call me liberal? plethora of other issues and tell us "It'll be all right... we know better" doesn't cut it anymore. The liberals don't know better, and their rhetoric is old and tired. Nobody wants actors spewing sound-bites in Well........you don't have Ronnie "Voodoo Economics" Reagan to worry about any more. Reagan brought us "hire a temp", pay for your own retirement and insurance. The only reason my pay ever began to approach what men with the same education and skills earned was because of the LIBERALS who fought for generations. One of the worst ailments in American business is horrific system of workers compensation ... costs more to fight over who should pay than it does to provide treatment. Incredible waste, and one of the factors driving jobs out of the US. Washington anymore. We want people solving problems. Vote for Hillary... she is at least realistic about healthcare and what is wrong with it, and has the intellect to do the math. The old "something for nothing" scam;that's how she'd pay for her giveaway programs. Nobody can bear to admit a LIBERAL has one good idea, so they don't bother even to listen. They mostly are not honest enough to deal with.Especially Hillary. Sorry for the rant. Jake Oh no!!! That one is going to leave a mark... -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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Crank-Post 2002 wrote:
Right, nothing good to say about Bush and his crime family. So, STFU about it asswipe. |
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Right, nothing good to say about Bush and his crime family. When Bush was asked for his opinion of Roe vs. Wade he replied, "I don't care how they get out of New Orleans". |
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Crank-Post 2002 wrote:
G Henslee wrote in : Crank-Post 2002 wrote: Right, nothing good to say about Bush and his crime family. So, STFU about it asswipe. So, ESAD about it asswipe. Your momma's eatin' my **** these days. I'll tell her to save some for you. |
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"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message news:YEeWe.5774$sa6.358@trndny06... "FDR" wrote in message The S&P sheets say otherwise. For instance, Citigroup last year has a pre-tax income of $24,182 million, an effective tas rate of 28.6%, and a net income of $17,046 million. So, companies do pay taxes. Where does the money come from to pay those taxes? From the consumer, of course. The company may send the check to the government but the people still pay the taxes for every business. If you tax a business, it sounds good and is easy for politicians to sell to the voters, but the reality is those costs of doing business are passed on to the customer, you and me. Hey, copmpanies don't pay for a lot of things then. They don't pay for advertising, they judt pss it along. They don't pay for wages, they just pass it along. They don't pay for equipment, they pass it along. So anyway, you can put the taxes anywhere you want, but to outright say the companies don't pay taxes is an incorrect statement. |
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wrote in message ... On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:40:59 GMT, "Oscar_Lives" wrote: "ndugu" wrote in message ... Is there anything to compare this to? When Bill Clinton took office he intentionally reversed the Supply Side formula, raising taxes on the wealthy and reducing them on the lowest wage earners. Supply Side true believers predicted the arrival of the Apocalypse. Bob Dole said the stock market would collapse. Newt Gingrich said the world would fall into another Great Depression. What actually happened? Between 1992 and 2000, the U.S. economy produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. history. It created more than 18 million new jobs, the highest level of job creation ever recorded. Inflation fell to 2.5% per year compared to the 4.7% average over the prior 12 years. What happened when his bubble burst in 2000 ? Because the false optimism based on his unworkable policies finally faced reality ? Yeah, those policies of lower interest rates and low unemployment and lowering debt. How silly they were. impressively, Clinton reversed the mammoth deficits of the Supply Side years, turning them into surpluses. He used these surpluses to begin paying down the national debt. He rode an economic wave he did not create, and took credit for it. Sour grapes. |
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FDR wrote:
.... Hey, copmpanies don't pay for a lot of things then. They don't pay for advertising, they judt pss it along. They don't pay for wages, they just pass it along. They don't pay for equipment, they pass it along. That's true...just like "the government" doesn't pay for anything, either. |
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Where the hell is "here"??
========== Telstra wrote in message ... Post it at HVAC not here |
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Jim Yanik . wrote:
Oh,that EXCUSES BJ Clinton's wrongs? And they lied to -their wives-,not to the NATION,and not under oath. Exactly 0 people died because of Clinton's sexual escapades. Thousands of people have died because of Bush's lies and incompetence. |
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wrote in message ... Jim Yanik . wrote: Oh,that EXCUSES BJ Clinton's wrongs? And they lied to -their wives-,not to the NATION,and not under oath. Exactly 0 people died because of Clinton's sexual escapades. Thousands of people have died because of Bush's lies and incompetence. Amen |
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