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I think I know what he's trying to say but it's pretty hard to word that any worse than he did.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 10:11 AM) But let's also note that there's a serious imbalance there...the labor costs issue should in normal times have begun to correct itself by the value of the Yuan increasing relative to the U.S. dollar given the size of the global trade deficit. The Chinese government is actively making sure that doesn't happen. Also true... but also things that don't have anything to do with how big our government may or may not be. We could have a 1870-sized government and with the same factors at work we'd still be getting our asses kicked.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 10:08 AM) Unless we are willing to pay multiples higher for basic stuff, those jobs are never coming back here. i was being sarcastic, thats been my point all along. We lose jobs to China because of labor costs, not because of some mythical undefined concept of "government" or semantic tax-rate arguments. Unless we wanted to become paid like Chinese workers that isn't going to change, but we blame politicians for this seemingly every day.

I thought there was a change to that just recently? Either the outgoing Bush admin. made changes or the incoming Obama admin. did it.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 10:43 AM) comparing playoffs from one decade to the next isn't fair, given that before 1995 only 2 teams from each league made the playoffs instead of 4 Well true, but back in the day the leagues were much smaller too.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 06:45 AM) FYI we don't give Presidents lifetime secrete service protection any more, starting with Bush. It's only 10 years now I think. I'm pretty sure it's the opposite of what you said. All presidents starting with Bush 43 get lifetime protection.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 07:42 AM) So he lied when he said we are going to change the Wash. works? He said he would not sign a bill that was not deficit neutral. This bill starts collecting taxes in 2010-11 and does not start spending until 2014. 1o years of spending puts this bill at 1.8-2.5 trillion in cost. No way is this deficit neutral. And on a side note, why did this NEED to get passed before Christmas? There has never been a piece of legislation ram rodded through like this one. Oh what the hell, its only 16-17% of our economy. Keep up the good work guys. Another thing, when the give the wash to the unions by exempting them from the cadillac plan tax, how do we make for that lost revenue? I'm not sure what any of this has to do with what I said, but ok

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 07:45 AM) China is a joke. Their economic #'s may be a bigger farse than ours. Can you say "bubble brewing". Look to short the Chinese mkt in the coming year. Great, all of our jobs are coming back from China then

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 02:00 AM) except when he was whining about playing time while working out in San Diego a few years ago. Clarification: he has been after his disastrous 2007 season when he almost saw his career go up in flames and was completely forgotten about.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 01:31 AM) Well if I can stomach Konerko's constant GIDP in most rallies and station to station running (though he is at least a productive hitter) than I can gladly take Thome back too. A.J. gets a pass since he has a terrific baseball I.Q. and can surprise at times on the speed, cause of his terrific reads as a baserunner. Every now and then AJ does something that makes me scratch my head, like he will round first on a single, slow down, then speed up and try to take 2nd and get tagged out by 4 steps.

American cars still have reputations for being pieces of s***. Not true anymore IMO, but they put out substandard crap for so long that this perception is still burned in peoples minds. As long as GM is still around, I'll probably never own anything other than a Chevy.

Well it's more a switch than a splitter, if there is some decline in quality somehow you'd really have to be a hard-core geek to notice. With HDMI there is either a connection or there's not.

If this is Facebook I click "Like"

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 23, 2009 -> 12:09 AM) You get the UAW to work for $2 per hour, and scrap pensions, and we can kick China's butt again. Hey look, someone gets it. But let's slash the government in half and this will TOTALLY happen, that's the only thing holding us back I know you're exaggerating to make a point, but without the auto workers and that manufacturing middle class being prosperous (because of those unions that eventually did themselves in) we don't have economic prosperity in the 2nd half of the 20th century.

I think the kind of gave it away

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 11:39 PM) He's the party leader... he needs to clean that s*** up. Yeah, to some degree, but the Senate rules are what they are and it's kinda impractical for Congress to just change they way they do their daily business (i.e., carry out negotiations in committee) just because the president wants them to.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 11:38 PM) It's not even remotely the same. You can't compare the two. My point being that you talked about some vague concept of "small government" being the reason for the U.S. having a booming economy in the past and glossed over/ignored all the other reasons that was actually true. The United States was never some mythical place where everything is different and jobs just magically came here, there were several factors that made the U.S.'s global position what it was and a lot of those things will probably never be repeated. I just threw China in there because they are eating our economic lunch right now and they obviously don't have small government (s*** their government and business sector's objectives are the same thing) or low taxes.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Dec 21, 2009 -> 01:01 PM) He's being mocked because all he does is talk about improving how the government operates, he doesn't actually do anything to back up his promises. QUOTE (Cknolls @ Dec 21, 2009 -> 01:59 PM) Yeah, still searching C-SPAN for the coverage. Where is it, Barry? wtf are you guys talking about? 8th grade civics anyone? The topic was the Senate and you guys are bringing up Obama and transparency as if they were all the same thing for some reason and Obama is running this show. Come on now. You all know better but choose to act like this... why?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 07:00 PM) If you want this country to survive, you have to get off of the government entitlements. Why is that so hard to understand? Oh, because that's the only way you know how to look at things. You've been suckered into the part of the population that says government is the only thing that can fix your way to anything that life throws at us as a country. At what point does it stop? That's what has made this country the most economically thriving country in the world was that the government generally stayed the hell out of the way until the last 70+ years (except Reagan - who only solved 65% of the problem and made the other 35% way worse). We WERE different, that is part of it. Liberals don't seem to want to admit that. They are always looking for the next entitlement or handout. Those rich f***ers can handle it! Evil bastards SHOULD pay the lower classes (redistribution of wealth is what we SHOULD be about). That thinking is so wrong. What the hell ever happened to making your own way? Now with all that said, there ARE times when the government should step in. I understand helping people up from difficult issues, and the safety nets. But fix the damn problems with the existing infastructure before you create the biggest entitlement of them all - but hell no, we can't do that, because then the power of the government wouldn't be what it is becoming. Yeah taxes and big government is just killing China's economy right now.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 07:19 PM) good to see that he's humble about the opportunities he wasted. Hope he does well. He always has been

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 06:22 PM) Sometimes I like to separate and eat my M&Ms/SweetTarts/Skittles by color.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 21, 2009 -> 10:53 PM) I remember trying to convince you all this guy was a huge pile of s***! I was one of the people that overrated him I admit, but the bashing got kind of out of control. As it usually does

Great, now we're going to start mocking other posters?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 20, 2009 -> 02:32 AM) My buddy does this too. Whenever I am giving him money I purposefully give it to him all f***ed up. My only weird thing is when I cook I always try to wash the dishes before I actually start eating whatever it is I made... I would stab you in the face.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 22, 2009 -> 12:22 PM) His overall numbers in September/October on winning AL teams 2004 w/Yankees 6 GS, 1-2, 34.1 IP, 6.29 ERA, 37 H, 24 ER, 29 K, 16 BB 2006 w/White Sox 6 GS, 0-4, 40 IP, 4.28 ERA, 33 H, 19 ER, 57 K, 10 BB 2008 w/White Sox 6 GS, 2-4, 31.2 IP, 6.25 ERA, 31 H, 22 ER, 30 K, 13 BB Total: 18 GS, 3-10, 107 IP, 5.47 ERA, 101 H, 116 K, 39 BB, 1.31 WHIP You were saying? lol. I would have to say this wins.