Michele Bachmann just announced she is officially running and filed the paperwork. Ron Paul doing his usual, and I have no idea why Newt is there wasting time.
One thing I REALLY hate about both Democrat and Republican debates is how they go over on time and just start rambling. They get asked a question and then they kinda answer it, then they switch to something they would rather talk about. Mitt actually pissed me off a little by talking over the debate host to try to talk longer when Mitt was being told they had to move on.
Posted by glassman on :
yawn... i can't decide which is more boring- the debate, or watching Boston defend a 4-0 lead. Posted by buckstalker on :
quote:Originally posted by glassman: yawn... i can't decide which is more boring- the debate, or watching Boston defend a 4-0 lead.
A bad hockey game is way better than any political debate...
Posted by CashCowMoo on :
quote:Originally posted by glassman: yawn... i can't decide which is more boring- the debate, or watching Boston defend a 4-0 lead.
Honestly it wasnt that good. The SC was way better. Just about every one of them said the same thing. Michelle was fired up though you could tell. Romney was playing the cool guy in the room. Pawlenty and Santorum didnt fare so well. Ron Paul actually spoke with confidence as usual, but he always seems to fall on deaf ears.
Posted by IWISHIHAD on :
Watching the Miami Heat get beat by Dallas and all those old guys was far better than any politics, at least to me.
Of course i'm not much interested in politics as most here no.
But i still like to read some of the debates on allstocks, although they don't have quite the firceness they use, not nearly as much fun.
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Posted by SeekingFreedom on :
Didn't watch it myself...here's one commentary I listened to...
I watched it and I sure did not hear anything new tax cuts and don't spend a dime none of that has ever created one job.
Posted by raybond on :
Mitt Romney: Federal Disaster Relief For Tornado And Flood Victims Is ‘Immoral,’ ‘Makes No Sense At All’
By Brad Johnson posted from ThinkProgress Green on Jun 14, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Obama meets victims of the Joplin tornado. Asked about federal disaster relief for recent tornado and flood victims at last night’s GOP debate, candidate Mitt Romney called the spending “immoral” and said the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be privatized. With greenhouse pollution on the rise, the United States has been struck by a “punishing series of billion-dollar disasters.”
Embracing a radical anti-government ideology from the most extreme elements of the Tea Party, Romney said that the victims in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and other communities hit by tornadoes and flooding should not receive governmental assistance. He argued it is “simply immoral” for there to be deficit spending that could harm future generations:
Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better. [...] We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.
From its founding, the federal government has served the Constitutional goals of domestic tranquility and general welfare of the American people by aiding the victims of climate disasters. Romney’s extremist stance in favor of corporate “disaster vultures” would leave the United States in ruin, with only rich and well-connected people like the Romneys assured of getting food, water, shelter, and protection when disaster strikes.
If Romney actually cared about the welfare of future generations, he would take action to arrest global warming pollution instead of supporting the oil company agenda, and would cut subsidies for billionaires instead of balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and vulnerable.
Posted by raybond on :
DID not we go through this history lesson once before?
having never been a fan of big govt? i do happen to know how and why the Feds got so big and powerful...
you see? back when the States had all the power? a bunch of them kept slaves, and that's how the Founders set the country up. The Civil war was about state rights, and the Feds won that war...
in the 60's? when the civil rights movement got going? it was because in some states/ they just refused to recognise all human beings as people with the same basic rights.... make no mistake- some of those states will go right back to the 1950's if the Feds do dump all that power back to the states too, and it will happen in a flash.
we are broke, we have been broke for well over a decade, and the GOP is just as responsible for it as the Dems are.
what is really immoral is to lower taxes and start a world war.. which is exactly waht we did after 9-11. what is really immoral is to take your business to a country that is Communist to make a few extra bucks... in the end? you will lose all your customers anyway since they no longer have jobs
Posted by CashCowMoo on :
Why hasnt Obama closed the loopholes for big corporations, and gotten tough on outsourcers?
Posted by buckstalker on :
quote:Originally posted by CashCowMoo: Why hasnt Obama closed the loopholes for big corporations, and gotten tough on outsourcers?
Because he is no different than any of the other GOP/DEM politicians...
Posted by glassman on :
quote:Originally posted by CashCowMoo: Why hasnt Obama closed the loopholes for big corporations, and gotten tough on outsourcers?
because the big Corps and the outsourcers own the Govt. It's not just Obama, it's every one of 'em... assuming for a moment that Obama even wanted to do it? How could he? Do you have any clue how your govt makes and changes laws? i'm always amused at how much people expect the president to be able do. They want to give credit where it isn't due and blame where it isn't due...
Reagan is a perfect example. Under Reagan? The deficit increased from 900+ billion (end of Carters last year) to more than 3 trillion (end of reagans last year).
if Obama had done/does that percentage of a deficit increase? the US Govt deficit in 2016 will be about 30 trillion$ think about that for a few minutes cash.. Obama is on track to beat that amount of a deficit increase and we are at war on several fronts, now how can that be possible? reagan was the "Ultimate Conservative Role Model" right?
until people begin to look at the Truth of things we will continue down this path that leads to economic oblivion. The politicians all count on US to be sheople
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