Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/01/romneys_jaw-dropping.php" target="_blank">http://www.laobserved.com/biz/...ping.php</a> As the writer says, jaw dropping.
Originally Posted By fkurucz I have come to expect nothing less than this from him. The man made his fortune as a corporate raider.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Stop talking about this. This should only be discussed in quiet rooms. People who vote for this guy are nuts.
Originally Posted By fkurucz More on Romney. Didn't he learn by what happened to Cain? <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/12/news/economy/romney_envy/index.htm?iid=HP_LN" target="_blank">http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/1...id=HP_LN</a> "Romney: Income inequality is just 'envy'" "According to Mitt Romney, the nation's growing focus on income inequality is all about envy. "You know, I think it's about envy. I think it's about class warfare," the leading Republican presidential candidate said Wednesday on The Today Show." What a clueless buffoon.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Oh yeah. I totally envy the wealth that flows from destroying families and even whole communities economically dependent upon local businesses and factories. I really, REALLY want to be a heartless narcissistic d-bag who doesn't give a ratatouille about anyone else. I'd much rather be filthy stinkin' rich and completely hated by hundreds of thousands of laid off workers, than be broke and compassionate of others. Yeah, baby. Dole out the pain and give me the GAIN!! Woo hoo!! /sarcasm
Originally Posted By Tikiduck Thing is, you could play this clip to a dirt poor Republican who cant feed his kids, or pay his rent, and he would still agree with everything this clown says. This guy is nothing but another sharp, conniving plutocrat, who feeds on ignorance. There simply are NO Republicans who are not cut off from the reality of the average American.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Actually, there is one. But the RNC has deliberately kept him from the debates and the conservative mainstream media: <a href="http://www.buddyroemer.com/" target="_blank">http://www.buddyroemer.com/</a> I haven't been a Republican in decades, but Buddy reminds me of the kind of moderate Republican my parents were. And he is precisely the kind of 'anti-crony capitalism' candidate the RNC is scared to death of. This is the candidate the Republican party should be running.
Originally Posted By Donny I wonder why democrats are not encouraging their State governments to raise taxes on the rich and the big businesses that exists in that state ?
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I wonder why democrats are not encouraging their State governments to raise taxes on the rich and the big businesses that exists in that state ?" Dear Box Of Rocks In Your Head, California is doing just that. Governor Brown would love to do so, but the minority GOP is blocking it because of the archaic provisions of Prop 13.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Donny... if you keep insisting on coming to the boards in an attempt to 'bait' us with 'gotchya' types of questions such as this one... you should at least do your homework to make sure you don't end up looking like an idiot. What SPP wrote. And California ain't the only one: <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/ny-governor-legislature-reach-a-deal-to-raise-taxes-on-the-rich-and-reduce-them-for-the-middle-class.html" target="_blank">http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...ass.html</a> <> New York’s governor and legislative leaders struck a deal Tuesday to raise taxes on the wealthy and slightly reduce them for the middle class. The deal reflects the first restructuring of the New York tax code in years and will net an additional $1.9 billion in revenues for the state in 2012. The plan -- negotiated in record speed considering Albany’s usual gridlock -- is expected to be approved by the state Legislature in the next few weeks. "Our state government has come together in a bipartisan manner to create jobs, grow our economy and, at the same time, enact a fair tax plan that cuts taxes for the middle class," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement released with state leaders. Cuomo noted that the deal creates the lowest tax rate for the middle class in 58 years. <> More at the link, folks.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 First of all, correlation is not causation. Second, also near the top of the list of bad employment numbers are low-tax states like, NC, SC, GA, Mississippi, and others. High-tax VT and MA have among the best numbers, and high-tax NY is smack dab in the middle, right next to low-tax TX. It's all over the map. Hint, Donny: when you hear things on your radio that (almost by definition) have been manipulated and selectively chosen to make a particular political point look "correct" (which all partisan shows do, but which right-wing radio is especially prone to do), don't just say "Aha! I knew it!" and then regurgitate it back here. I mean, that's what they want you to do, but resist the urge. Don't just accept what they say. Investigate a little. You just might learn something.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox It's good advice, Dabob. And we've offered it to Donny countless times. But he still won't budge and actually do a little research on the stuff that Beck and Limbaugh and Scarborough are telling him. He simply accepts their rhetoric as gospel. He'd rather feel content by accepting false information than feel disappointed that he's been lied to for years. If Donny wanted to "investigate a little," then he would. But he'd rather show up here with his right-wing talking points and shove it in our faces, as if he knows everything and we know nothing. "In your face, liberals. HA!" At least we can be certain of three things in life: Death, taxes, and that Donny is never going to change.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper "Death, taxes, and that Donny is never going to change." Add to that "people that can't help but to respond to Donny."
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I guess I still like to think the best of people, and that maybe they can change. For sure, some people can. I still like to think that Donny could too. Maybe that's foolish.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox There will always be people who respond to Donny. I'm one of them. We're not necessarily a proud bunch, but we're tenacious.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox << I still like to think that Donny could too. Maybe that's foolish.>> It probably is foolish, at least at this point, because he works very hard to keep from changing. Just a teeny bit of fact-checking on his part, and he'd have a very difficult time maintaining his current belief system. And on a deeper level, I think he knows this. Until he experiences a major life change, like long-term unemployment resulting in financial hardship, he's going to continue viewing the world through his particularly narrow distortion lens.
Originally Posted By Donny After my first divorce I lived in a 19 foot camper trailer in Prescott Arizona.It took me a year to be able to afford to live in the trashiest trailer park and in the worst trailer in the park in less then a month I had the cleanest trailer both inside and out to the point my landlord gave me a free month of rent.I have moved to Wisconsin then moved to Florida getting a great job both times.I have worked in government most my life and I have watched people abuse the system and watched the system fail to protect itself from abuse and fraud.I want to see our social services go to wards people who are honestly looking to be independent and I want to see the leeches get cutoff
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Leeches? You mean like government employees?(I happen to be one also...and what I see passing for a full day's work for some people...oy vay!)
