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Thraxle wrote
at 11:18 AM, Wednesday March 4, 2009 EST
...and there is no sign that Mr. Obama is any different from the past democrats that sat in the oval office. The only exception is that he has 100% compliance within his party and a majority in congress that will pass anything Mr. Obama supports.
How hypocritical is it that Mr. Obama continues to remind the general public of the deficit he inherited, but then spends so recklessly that the possibility of having a balanced budget anytime within his term is utterly impossible. How hypocritical is it that the libs called the recent spending bill that was passed a "stimulus package". How does $20 billion dollars towards food stamps stimulate the economy? What jobs will be created by increasing food stamp allowances? This is only one example of many within that spending bill, but I'll try to avoid making this post unneccisarily long. One of you left wingers need to help me understand what our President is attempting to do. The view from the cheap seats here in right field makes the picture look exactly like I thought it would look before the election took place; the liberal democrats want a socialist republic in place of our cherished capitalistic society. Let's continue to drain the rich to pay for the poor. Let's continue to increase taxes on large corporations that have been laying off employees at an enormous pace. Let's increase benefits to the unemployed instead of finding ways to provide jobs for them. I'm ranting a bit, but one thing is clear. Barack Obama scares the living shit out of me. JP, UGB, anybody, please help me feel better about the job he's doing. And someone explain to me how the fuck he has a 67% approval rating. They must have done the polling at a foreclosure seminar or a foodbank. |
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TheBetterYodel wrote
at 12:31 AM, Saturday February 20, 2016 EST "Big biz isn't (IS) colluding with Ted Cruz, not Sanders. And just because the government is flawed now, doesn't mean it has to be. Sanders ideas is to get big biz out of government. "
Ted Cruz isn't perfect, the loans from goldman sachs are a concern as is his penchant for religious fever. I like him because he's a constitutionalist and a federalist. If you have to like a candidate 100% to prefer them then you must either deceive yourself or allow yourself to be deceived. The government is flawed because people are flawed. The only way to limit the havoc of corruption is to limit government to very specific roles. Let me ask you this, in what world does a man advocating for a $15 wage but calls inflation a phantom actually care for the working poor? Sanders is as populist as it gets. He's literally Trump for the left. Both sides are fucking wacked. |
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TheBetterYodel wrote
at 12:32 AM, Saturday February 20, 2016 EST Over 400 posts thread for thrax.
Thanks Obama. |
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Gurgi wrote
at 6:16 PM, Saturday February 20, 2016 EST This entire conversation was based on you saying that Cruz was the best candidate and only one that was not the establishment.
Sanders did not call inflation a phantom. He told insurance companies that they do not need to interest people because of the "phantom inflation". Two different things Yodel. What are you doing bud. You can insult him and say you dislike him all you want, it's your right. Be a republican and toot your horn. |
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TheBetterYodel wrote
at 5:23 PM, Sunday February 21, 2016 EST "This entire conversation was based on you saying that Cruz was the best candidate and only one that was not the establishment."
-I stand by that until proven otherwise. I don't consider a loan from a bank to make him establishment. I'm not fully versed on the disclosure of the loan situation but it's not enough to derail me from him yet. It's a pittance compared to the amount of money Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac gave Obama in the run up to his presidency. He didn't endorse any republican senators for the 2014 cycle and I thought that was important. It cost him all establishment love. "Sanders did not call inflation a phantom." -Yea he actually did. He wrote an op-ed piece in the NYT a short while ago. Go read it. Here I'll even link it for you. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-to-rein-in-wall-street-fix-the-fed.html NYT doesn't like to let people copy and paste so just look at the last sentence of the third paragraph. :) "He told insurance companies that they do not need to interest people because of the "phantom inflation". Two different things Yodel. What are you doing bud." -Speaking truth to power. "You can insult him and say you dislike him all you want, it's your right. Be a republican and toot your horn." I'm not a republican. If I were I would probably be hoping hillary won. |
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deadcode wrote
at 10:06 PM, Sunday February 21, 2016 EST This type of stuff deters me from Ted Cruz and makes me want to vote for Trump.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cruz-anti-gay-gamit-against-trump-falls-flat-627354691628 |
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Gurgi wrote
at 7:47 PM, Monday February 22, 2016 EST your article pointed out the same exact thing that I said already.
"Raising rates must be done only as a last resort รข?? not to fight phantom inflation." He's saying he doesn't believe that interest rates should be so high and that it shouldn't be justified with inflation as its reason. am i missing something? Do you believe he is saying inflation is not real?? |
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TheBetterYodel wrote
at 11:29 PM, Monday February 22, 2016 EST The definition of phantom is not real. The reason bernie isn't in favor of raising interest rates is that he knows that it will cause the full weight of the inflation that all the TARP bills (that he voted for) created to fall on the shoulders of the people who are going to vote for him.
Sanders is simply another asshole. Just like Trump. |
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TheBetterYodel wrote
at 1:39 AM, Tuesday February 23, 2016 EST @deadcode
I find it amazing that people disdain the main stream media so much but then believe them when it fits a preconceived notion of theirs. The irony..... |
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deadcode wrote
at 4:00 PM, Tuesday February 23, 2016 EST Not sure I follow the irony?
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deadcode wrote
at 10:53 AM, Monday February 29, 2016 EST Looking like Ted Cruz may be knocked out of the race on Tuesday and Marco may be knocked out by March 15th (florida). It's all about survival at this point.
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