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Your premise is flawed. Besides, Obama has/had the power to walk right out of the wars, and in fact, said he would. Another lie... Everything else in the budget that has gotten bloated as hell was/is his policy. Especially since he added the stimulus and health care (saying that wouldn't add to the budget and a month after it passed it does, ANOTHER lie) as a baseline. The point is, you give someone $1,000 to spend, it would cost $100 normally, they will spend the $1,000 so that they get $900 more next year and scream 10% cut, look what I did! That's what is happening right now.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 10:43 AM) Did a solid job of sweeping this under the rug. I'll await Kap telling me how that's too mean of the government anyway and they deserved his tax dollars. If only they'd taken more, then the economy would be fixed. They didn't "benefit" from anything as most of these were contracts already in place.

Except it's not, other then the wars.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 23, 2010 -> 02:35 PM) there was a mother jones issue last year on the environment that had like 10 great articles, the highlight being the nuclear energy article. And what was their conclusion?

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 22, 2010 -> 10:33 PM) we can all make a lot of stupid claims. The ONLY reason you say this is because I said it. If you would have, it would be the most profound thought you ever had. Give it a rest. The entire point is these people spend to their budget even if they don't have to. It's why they can't find $34 billion to cut to pay for unemployment. PAYGO, oh wait, we can't do that, because then we'd actually have to work at it. Congress is a bunch of sackless wimps whose sole justification is their own power, f*** what the people want.

How's this for a different perspective? http://www.cnbc.com/id/38294088/What_Does_...ok_Like?slide=9

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 22, 2010 -> 04:56 PM) I've heard of anxiety/depression meds making people suicidal. Which kind of sounds like an epic fail actually but I guess it really happens. When the chemicals of your brain are altered that quickly, it can make you really not normal.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 22, 2010 -> 08:54 PM) eh, not to be a dick, but I'm not really sure why I bothered posting in this thread because I don't really feel like doing this right now. This isn't a party thing. It's a budget issue. Let's cut... cut what, when you have to spend to maintain your budget? That's the mindset, and has been for 50 years. They won't cut s***, that's the point. As the budget gets more bloated every year, of course it's the same percentage of the economy as it was 50 years ago, but it's 500 times larger. Weee have a problem that no one wants to face, and we've done more in the last 24 months (note that, for those who want to make this partisan) to damage s*** then in the first 224 years of this country.

Serious question... can you all understand how the budgets for government entities are done? And why the whole thing is a gigantic sham?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 02:34 PM) We go to war in Iraq, spend $1T, kill a few thousand soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis, and loss a ton of political power globally... and get nothing out of it. China spends less, without all the death, destruction and loss of global political capital, and in 10 years will have gone a long way to energy independence. Embarrassing.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 07:44 AM) You know, you just the other day screamed about the extremism in politics being a problem. Now a guy who crosses party lines is a whore? Yes. He is a whore. Period.

QUOTE (girlslikebaseballtoo#26 @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 08:55 PM) It's making me sick already ...and I'm only 2 days in!! LOL If it is that serious, like SS2K said, I've been well down this road before. Let me know. If it's just someone messing around, well, take care of business by whacking their fingers off so they can't type anymore.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 07:11 PM) I go out of town for one god damn week and the sprouts of weeds think they are running the show. I come back and see these things grow to 3 feet tall and s***. Why do the weeds always live through droughts, come back when you accidentally step on them, and grow so much faster in fertile soil, while regular plants that I actually want to grow will wither away and die if I sneeze too hard near them? I hear that. And everything's bigger in Texas.

Don't remind me. "FBI" and "IP addresses" make me sick, 12 years later.

It cracks me up how the filters, context, gotta be careful how this looks, etc. crowd here would be like flies on s*** to condemn a Republican in this instance, context or not. And, there'd be 5,354,852 videos, posts, and comments about what an evil, racist bastard that Republican is, again, context or not.

Lindsay Graham is a whore. And a cheap one at that. I wonder what Joe Biden offered him last week in their "secret meeting"?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 09:20 PM) Well look at that... private companies making it work. With some pretty large government funding.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jul 19, 2010 -> 03:34 PM) I am really debating if I want to buy Tesla stock. I think it might be a good long term investment. This is a paper tiger, at least right now. They make no real profit.

THIS is my problem with the Rick Perry's of the world. Asshole.

I see the issue Tex was having with his browser (I finally decided to get into 2010 and use firefox...) anyway... I'll rephrase... he hates America's political spectrum, and he will (is) transform (ing) America into a socialist country... slooooooooowly but surely, he's swinging that pendulum (although in 24 months, after the lame duck congress passes everything Obama wants, it will be a very fast "transformation".) No, not USSR socialist, but definitely European socialistic, and that sucks. That's why our system was better, up until now. I know, you think he's "centrist", but centrists don't do the s*** he's doing. I know, you think not, but whatever. It's almost pointless to say anything anymore because government control of auto, health, insurance, banking, etc. is pretty damn "centrist".

That's honestly what bothers me about politics - whether or not you've figured out why I post the way I do in here... Anyway, the gays are all orgies and disgusting people crap, all the people need to be sent to Mexico if you voted for Obama (truthfully, he does hate America, or should I say, did, because he's "transforming" it into what he thinks it should be, ask Michelle, who pretty much admitted she hated America before her husband became president). People are misinformed, but they can't help it. There are some here that truly believe America needs to be more socialistic in its government policies. You got your wish, but don't b**** when that trap door bites you in the ass later. The biggest issue is ignorance. And the Republican Party is a bunch of weak minded asshats, but that's another story.

It's funny how you always find information to condemn everything but your massive government.

Well, there you go. You get population control that way.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 12:42 AM) lol. look guys, I'm not gonna write a dissertation to make a simple point that I've tried to make like 10 times at various points on this board. The hysteria over minor changes in the tax rates is totally unfounded and in some cases are more or less a naked giveaway to the wealthy and criticism of this point is avoided by randomly shouting hyperbolic phrases like "class warfare." Except all of the changes that are getting ready to happen are not "minor" when added together. And this administration knows it. Again, let's tax our way to prosperity - because that works. To paraphrase - lol

Hey bastages, things still working ok? I saw several IRC droid clients for my phone. No wonder Kal likes IRC so much... Do those programs work well on cell phones? Anyway, let me know if you guys need anything else. It's been a while since I asked ya'll.