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QUOTE(Cknolls @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 11:31 AM) Lower the business tax rates and you will attract a boatload of business to this country, and you will find multi-nationals re-patriating earnings from overseas. YOU EVIL SUPPLY SIDER!!!! HOW DARE YOU GO AROUND SPEWING FORTH VOO DOO ECONOMICS LIKE THAT!!!!! SHAME!!!!!!!!!

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Feb 13, 2008 -> 09:36 AM) Afghanistan was one thing. IRAQ is a whole other. They invaded a country saying they were supporting terrorists, only to find out later there were no links. Over the last 3+ years we have been fighting over when and how to get them out. Investigations into corruption within the administration, and other wrong doing. All the time Bush suppresses government reports on global warming. Gives the Kyoto accords the middle finger. Let's oil companies money rape American citizens, healthcare companies charge record prices, America ranks 24th in the world in broadband penetration, a national debt that is ballooning out of control, ignored all these "sub-prime" and intrest only loans that even I know were bad ideas and I didnt go to Yale. Iraq: Everybody and their brother, including most Democrats perceived Iraq as some form of "grave threat that needed to be dealt with". Bush does something about it and has been paying the price for it since. I will agree with you that it's time to start drawing down bigger numbers of troops than what is on the table from Bush. Kyoto Accords: A giant "f*** America over" treaty that penalizes us while ignoring India and the current biggest polluter in the world.......China. Anyone with half a brain in their head would give that treaty the finger as unfair. This is especially true since all these pious, stuck-up Euro-assholes are seeing their own carbon hold constant while the U.S. actually saw a decrease in 2006 ( last year of available stats ). Hmmn. I guess that treaty really worked out for you guys huh? http://www.mnp.nl/en/service/pressreleases...ndposition.html If you want something substantive done about carbon emissions how about seeing the enviro-alarmists drop their arguments to Nuclear? It's perfectly clean, safe as anything else, and ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS! Alas, they are not interested in clean energy, just in rolling America back to the stone age. Letting Oil Companies rape Americans: Oh boy, where do I begin on this one? Lets start by informing the economically ignorant that the President does not set the price of oil and neither do the oil companies. That is determined by a bunch of hair trigger traders in New York and Chicago. I guess Bush should just wave his hand and make high gas prices go away. That's about as realistic an expectation as getting Americans to deal with the real problem which is themselves and their gas guzzling SUV's and Trucks. When given the choice between taking responsibility for their own failings or blaming someone else, Americans will always choose option B. Pussies that we as a nation are. America ranks 24th in broadband penetration: So now it's the federal government's duty to give everyone a blazing fast internet connection so they can download porn..er.......I mean enlighten themselves.......yeah. If you don't have access to broadband because it isn't available in your area, I have one word for you....satellite. If you're some minimum wage slave who can't afford it, I have another word: Library. Healthcare companies charge record prices: This one's more fun than the oil part. If insurers weren't forced to pay for Viagra for some old pervert who can't get it up anymore, if they weren't sued 50 times a day by people who got denied for plastic surgery, if emergency rooms were actually used for emergencies and not every time someone's little snowflake catches a cold.........whew.......then maybe things wouldn't be so darn expensive. National Debt out of control: I actually agree with you there. The Republicans have done an utterly disgraceful job of managing the purse strings. Runaway spending's bad mmmmmmmmmmmkay! Subprime crisis: HAHAHAHA!!! Good one.........Oh wait, you were serious. Yeah YOU may know they were a bad idea, but to the knuckle-dragging masses out there who think they have money just because they have a check book it's a sweet deal. It, of course, is somehow government's fault when some Wal Mart drone making 9 dollars an hour takes out a loan for a house he couldn't possibly afford, doesn't read the fine print and doesn't care about the terms gets burned and loses something he had no business having in the 1st place? OHHHHHHHHH The humanity. This is just another symptom of our culture of instant gratification. Little things like personal responsibility and living within our means are old and busted. WHEW!! I'm out of breath!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 7, 2008 -> 05:20 PM) Exactly! It's not being reported because they don't need to report the positive. It makes the GOP stronger. You know, just sayin' NUKE, HOW THE HELL ARE YOU? Doing just fine. These days we're having far more difficulty fighting off boredom than anything else. We're just trying to run out the clock at this point. Some more good news, though, I now know the exact date I'll be leaving Baghdad. That would be April 6th. If you throw in travel time and such, I fully expect to be home in the US and back at my home base in Kansas on the 10th or 11th.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 10:17 AM) Have at it. Forget Dick Cheney! I'm the grumpiest old man in all of Washington!

I guess not receiving a nomination for this award is made up for by the fact that the award is in my name.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8-DEMt...ZefmRQD8UIVGG00 So now Hillary wants to garnish people's wages and force them to enroll in her socialized health care scheme huh? PLEASE DEMOCRATS!!! PLEASE CHOOSE COMRADE HILLARY AS YOUR NOMINEE!!! We Republicans will need all the help we can get this time out.

I get more and more turned off by this election with every passing day. The Republican field is still a mess ( although I think both Guiliani and Huckabee are done for after this week ) and none of the candidates have any new ideas. The Dems all talk about "CHANGE!!!" without offering anything really specific. Honestly I'm seriously thinking about taking this election off.

I take issue with the whole concept of "experience" in the first place. You could get the most experienced politician and pit him against some young guy who barely meets the age requirement and never held public office and I'd take option 2 if he had a workable plan that I agreed with. The whole reason the President has a cabinet composed of experts in the various fields is solely because the President doesn't know it all and trusts them for advice based on their expertise.

QUOTE(BureauEmployee171 @ Jan 26, 2008 -> 01:36 AM) Two things: From how I wrote it (to how I was thinking it in my mind) was two different things. As I re-read it, I said "we paid 1.2 Billion", whereas I meant & was implying we could pay 1.2 Billion (or every penny of our income tax) towards the debt and STILL not pay off the entire debt-interest amount. The other being - by showing that paying 1.2 Billion (or, all of our income tax total) and STILL not being able to pay off solely the debt-interest - was showing how far we, as a nation, have lived above our means. We, as a nation, can not continue to sustain our life quality at this rate, in that we cannot live on our 'borrowed time'. As I said...please, take the economic principles (of which I know much more of than I do other 'policies') and understand that we simply cannot sustain the lives we lead as a nation. We cannot afford the war in Iraq, socialized medicine, stimulus packages, the Fed dropping rates, etc. The Fed simply has run its course & has become obsolete (until the recession/depression comes and goes) in our economy. There is not stopping what is coming and that is an economic fact. We are headed towards a recession, yes, but the fact is - in the long haul - we are not headed for simply 'this' recession we are headed for a much, much, much larger bubble burst in the semi-near future (meaning a few years as it is impossible to pinpoint an exact timeframe) than simply the impending recession & nothing we are 'used to' (Fed dropping rates, influx of money, stimulus packages, etc.) as a society can protect us from that. We have simply lived above our means, bit off more than we could chew, and will eventually be forced to live below our means in due time. You and I agree on one thing for certain and that's the living above means point. The average joe schmuck out there either is completely ignorant about handling money or simply does not care. I have absolutely no sympathy for someone who gets wiped out because they spend too much. The government didn't really screw up when they went off the gold standard but when they got rid of the debtors prisons. Speaking of the government, there will come a day when the budget melts down because we're too deep in the hole and that's when the Social Security and Medicare and such will go bye bye.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 25, 2008 -> 07:24 PM) Actually, upon reading it again and again, I am finding more quibbles. For example, the interest paid on the national debt last year was vastly more than $1.2 billion. The general concept though, that its entirely possible that the combination of the Federal Reserve and the government itself will simply run out of stimulus bullets of the sort they've used to drag us repeatedly out of every recession since the big one in the early 80's due to the fact that we never really brought the system back into balance after the last recession. We kept piling on the debt in good times, and so that makes it harder for us to use deficit spending as a method of strengthening the economy in the bad times. And the Fed only has so many points of interest rates left that they can drop - if they dropped it the same amount that they did during the 2001 and after recession, they'd hit 0. Which does make it a shame that they couldn't construct a more effective stimulus package, because the system could well just not have enough in it to avert the coming slump. One of the biggest disappointments I have with President Bush and the Republicans when they ran Congress was their utter failure to rein in spending. Supply Side policies grew the economy and with it revenues flowing into the Treasury grew very well but spending grew a whole lot faster and between that and Iraq there went the surplus that Clinton left us. The nation's fiscal health is my biggest issue politically. Im not talking about Joe Dumbass who got foreclosed out of a home he had no business trying to buy anyway but the Government's addiction to wasting money. This is to say nothing of how our spending habit is being financed more and more by the likes of China and others like them. I have yet to see a candidate seriously address this issue and I'm really annoyed by that, almost to the point where I might take election day 2008 off this year.

In FY 2006 we spent 406 billion dollars on interest for the national debt. Certainly no small number but not the 1.2 Trillion that was mentioned earlier. That wasn't even in the ballpark. http://www.federalbudget.com/

QUOTE(Cknolls @ Jan 24, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) This is the same type of rebate as the previous one in 2003? (I believe). Remember when people were filing their taxes the following year and were b****ing they had to claim the rebate as income on their taxes. This is feelgood politics at its best!! The dollar index loves the stimulus package. Hyperinflation here we come. Agree completely. It serves no purpose, it's financed by more deficit spending ( what is the national debt these days anyway? ) and all it does is encourage people to spend more, which is exactly how we got into this mess in the 1st place. It's as if you had a coke-head who is coming down off a particularly bad binge and you hand him another line to snort. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.

Late to the party on this one and without reading any of the other replies yet, I have 3 words for this plan. STUPID, STUPID AND STUPID. The reason the economy is having difficulty is because of several reasons, none of which will be fixed by more deficit spending. The American consumer has been on a spending binge these last several years the likes of which has never been seen. Personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility and any semblance of sanity has been cast to the wind during this period. Instead of living within their means & saving for a rainy day or retirement, the American consumer has chosen to buy big screen TVs, cars, other gadgets they really can't afford. When they ran out of cash and borrowing power, they raided their home equity to pay for it all but then just kept right on spending even after that was gone. Speaking of homes, Americans have also bought homes they couldn't hope to afford using mortgage gimmicks ( ARM's, interest only, etc... ) that they were either too lazy, ignorant or just plain stupid to research. As soon as the interest rates went up, their payments shot to Pluto and they lost their homes. Boo f***ing hoo. Now, what does the government do? I love it. In their typical pattern of pandering and copping out instead of seriously dealing with a problem, they are going to throw a couple of hundred bucks at each family. How is this going to be financed? By more deficit spending. LMFAO!!!!!!! Politicians and consumers are f***ing made for each other. What a joke our government is.......on BOTH sides of the aisle.

QUOTE(iamshack @ Jan 13, 2008 -> 12:33 PM) So this is saying that in the next 5-7 years, we should have warmer than average temperatures, followed by a longer period of extremely below-average temperatures, peaking around 2022? This guys is a quack, right? Is that supposed to be sarcastic?

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Jan 13, 2008 -> 09:27 PM) I'm glad they are starting to give a reasonable time frame to get you all out of there. IMO, the US troops have done their job and it's time to bring people home. Like I said, it's a bit of a bargain from what we were originally expecting and it gives us a little something to look forward to.

QUOTE(MurcieOne @ Jan 13, 2008 -> 08:05 PM) Nuke, what was it like around the base while the latest bombings were going on.... 40,000 Lbs of explosives! That was nowhere near where I am. I didn't even know about it till I read about it on the web.

Back again. Nothing significant has happened since my last entry, and I'm pleased with that. One bit of news is that the date we're going to come home is getting narrowed down. They now are saying that we'll all be home by April 12th, and more likely during the 1st week of the month. That being the case, our total time gone would be 14 months. That's somewhat of a bargain from what we originally were told. We're all ready to get out of here. The tedium is beginning to wear on a lot of us and since the alternative is the balls out combat of our 1st few months it's just better to make good our exit.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 3, 2008 -> 10:23 PM) uh oh, sounds like the dean speech, watch the yelps. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I still remember that one. I don't think I ever laughed so hard as when I heard that.

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Jan 3, 2008 -> 08:32 PM) Go Obama. For an extreme right wing religious fundamentalist canidate, Huckabee is somewhat likeable. Although if wins the presidency i'm moving to Ireland. Weren't a bunch of you lefties supposed to move to Canada if Bush got re-elected in 2004? We're STILL waiting for you guys to follow through on that pledge.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Dec 30, 2007 -> 11:12 PM) before it finds a way to bite back. According to the asshats in the recording industry, they think it is illegal for you to take the CD's that you legally purchased and put them on your ipods. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7122800693.html It's a long story, so i won't post the whole thing, but the meat of the story is this line"The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files Howell made on his computer from legally bought CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings" I read a thread about this on Fark earlier today. Basically, they don't have a legal leg to stand on and they will lose in court unless this guy can't afford to defend himself.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318686,00.html 10 reasons enviro-alarmist propaganda isn't worth getting all steamed up about.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Dec 27, 2007 -> 04:29 PM) apparently the US administration has repeatedly denied requests to beef up security around her, per her request, and those on the foreign relations committee. us administration thoughts were that its Musharaff's responsibility to protect her and that his people were to be trusted to carry out that responsibility. It IS their responsibility to protect her. Since when did it become our responsibility to go around protecting foreign political candidates? I recognize that this is a sensitive time in that country but that changes nothing.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 26, 2007 -> 09:06 AM) Then we have this. October home prices fall a record 6.7% in October (rate annualized), the biggest ever drop for the 10-city Case-Shiller index. The 20-city version fell 6.1%. Chicago at -3.2% annual-equivalent actually fared better than most. Selfish of me I know, but Im looking to buy a 1st home in the August/September time frame in a small town near Seattle ( that's where my next posting is going to be ) and I'll be set up to profit nicely if things stay the same or worsen with home prices.

I know he's out of the race but Tom Tancredo would be my choice. Illegal Immigration is a huge deal for me and he's the only one to seriously address it.

QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Dec 23, 2007 -> 11:27 AM) Something you don't understand about that statement?