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fear mongering from the left, how unusual. about the only thing that might happen is the government gets shut down for a short period of time, and obama will try to blame the republicans like clinton did, but in reality it will be obama that refuses to sign legislation sent to him by congress, the same thing clinton did, and the government will shut down some departments.
as for the other crap, since the senate would likely be in republican hands, barely, compromise will be forced on congress in order to get anything done, as you know the democrats will do everything they can to block the republicans agenda.
1. Bring back the Mullet hair style.
2. Put a bounty on homosexuals
3. Put a bounty on anyone with darker skin other than "pasty white"
4. Coon dogs are a legal tax exemption
5. Fishing for catfish with dynamite is legal
6. Ear rings are OK, unless they're on your nipples.....then it's hard time
7. No sales tax on concrete blocks to support your car or mobile home.
Just a few that I can think of, anyone want to add to the list?
Make senior citizens eat dog food
Put liberals in desert concentration camps
Outlaw Code Pink street theater
Require PETA members to shovel out livestock pens
Death penalty for wearing birkenstocks
3) Spend every waking hour investigating the Obama administration.
- - Outsource this. Only deal with hard concrete facts.
4) Repeal the 14th amendment -- divest immigrants' children of citizenship.
- - No. Enforce current immigration regulation and that will cut down the problem.
5) Cap and trade? Forget about it.
- - Great - please do this.
6) More disastrous economic policies like the practices that caused our financial crisis.
- - You mean like forcing banks to lending money to people who had no business taking out the loans? You mean like repealing Glass-Steagall? That was Democrats.
7) Kill or drastically slash Food Stamp program.
- - Not now. And when it's time for action, just slash it, don't kill it.
8) Roll back and repeal equal rights for gays.
- - Not a top priority right now.
9) Abandon the unemployed.
- - Get the economy moving with real tax cuts FIRST before cutting any unemployment benefits. 10) Paralyze one branch of our government.
- - When the one branch is like a virus, yes - you cut it off from the tree.
Especially 10) Cut off the diseased branch from the tree!!
Should have read "WHEN they take over" not "IF they take over." Why? Because 55 or 60% of the people have figured out that you cannot love employment and obstruct employers, you cannot stimulate the economy by wasting money you do not have, and looting the treasury to increase the gap between public employees and private sector employees is not part of any rational economic system.
All your chart shows is the Dems having a plus budget and Repub's spending it away leaving the Dems to clean up the mess. Just like they are doing today......:rolleyes
While I can just see all the Rebuplicans here laying on the floor kicking and screaming in their usual tantrums this is our future if they gain control of congress this November.
Don't think so? Then remember the last 8 years under that moron G.W.Bush!
"Perhaps Americans should know what's really at stake if this batch of Republicans takes over Congress in November. Here are 10 terrible things the GOP might do:"
The FAR greater of two evils again, only worse this time??? Can you imagine Tea Party(Palin's crowd) joined at hip with Neocons (Mccain & Palin's crowd) ??? These Tea Party folks are the 1930's Germans, and may not be as "naive" as I thought!:
"...The popular theory of tribalist anti Nazis often condescendingly excuse the german people as "victims of hypnotic propaganda".This is a myth.The Nazi party was democratically elected in 1933,remained in power until the bitter end and had the unwavering and adoring support of virtually all of the germanic peoples...."
While I can just see all the Rebuplicans here laying on the floor kicking and screaming in their usual tantrums this is our future if they gain control of congress this November.
Don't think so? Then remember the last 8 years under that moron G.W.Bush!
"Perhaps Americans should know what's really at stake if this batch of Republicans takes over Congress in November. Here are 10 terrible things the GOP might do:"
Yep, those bad 8 years:
"The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose from 4.2% in January 2001, peaking at 6.3% in June 2003 and reaching a trough of 4.4% in March 2007. After an economic slowdown, the rate rose again to 6.1% in August 2008 and up to 7.2% in December 2008.[55] From December 2007 when the recession started to December 2008, an additional 3.6 million people became unemployed.[56] And, in January 2009, his last month in office, the nation lost 655,000 jobs, raising the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent, the highest level in more than 15 years.[57
Bush inherited a faltering economy from Clinton, the economy having grown at a 1.1% annualized rate over the previous three quarters from March 31 of the first year of Bush presidency [64](see Early 2000s recession). Bush had his tax cut plan approved by Congress in June, proposed early as a response to the economic decline and, despite the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Overall real GDP grew at an average annual rate of 2.5%. Between 2001 and 2005, GDP growth was clocked at 2.8%. The number of jobs created grew by 6.5% on average. The growth in average salaries was 1.2%. Growth in consumer spending was 72% faster than growth in income. Investment in residential real-estate soared, growing 26% faster than average.[10][63]
Despite growth levels below previous levels, a March 2006 report by the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee showed that the U.S. economy outperformed its peer group of large developed economies from 2001 to 2005. (The other economies are Canada, the European Union, and Japan.) The U.S. led in real GDP growth, investment, industrial production, employment, labor productivity, and price stability."
When did the dems take over congress.
The real morons always claim how bad things were during "The Bush 8 years" but, always ignore how good things were for the 6 years before the dems took over congress.
Last edited by Quick Enough; 09-22-2010 at 03:53 PM..
Yep, those bad 8 years:
"The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose from 4.2% in January 2001, peaking at 6.3% in June 2003 and reaching a trough of 4.4% in March 2007. After an economic slowdown, the rate rose again to 6.1% in August 2008 and up to 7.2% in December 2008.[55] From December 2007 when the recession started to December 2008, an additional 3.6 million people became unemployed.[56] And, in January 2009, his last month in office, the nation lost 655,000 jobs, raising the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent, the highest level in more than 15 years.[57
Bush inherited a faltering economy from Clinton, the economy having grown at a 1.1% annualized rate over the previous three quarters from March 31 of the first year of Bush presidency [64](see Early 2000s recession). Bush had his tax cut plan approved by Congress in June, proposed early as a response to the economic decline and, despite the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Overall real GDP grew at an average annual rate of 2.5%. Between 2001 and 2005, GDP growth was clocked at 2.8%. The number of jobs created grew by 6.5% on average. The growth in average salaries was 1.2%. Growth in consumer spending was 72% faster than growth in income. Investment in residential real-estate soared, growing 26% faster than average.[10][63]
Despite growth levels below previous levels, a March 2006 report by the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee showed that the U.S. economy outperformed its peer group of large developed economies from 2001 to 2005. (The other economies are Canada, the European Union, and Japan.) The U.S. led in real GDP growth, investment, industrial production, employment, labor productivity, and price stability."
When did the dems take over congress.
The real morons always claim how bad things were during "The Bush 8 years" but, always ignore how good things were for the 6 years before the dems took over congress.
Of course forget the surplus Bush inherited from Clinton, and overlook the gorillas in the room, those two wars that drove our nation into the ground, all the military contractors ("jobs") that bilked the US Treasury for PROFIT, the Bush tax cuts, borrowing from China, etc. Now GOP offers the Americans the marriage from hell, Tea Party/Neocon unity! I wish voters would divorce the GOP Party, but I'm afraid GOP voters are suffering from some form of abusive syndrome, only staying with what they know!
It truly appears that the results of our vastly important November voting will send this extremely loud and clear message to HO & his entire WH entourage : "Pack your belongings and prepare for a most speedy exit from the WH shortly after the next elction in 2012" !
May the saint's preserve this nation until that exceptional day arrives !
Reagan = tax and deficits
Bush = tax and deficits
Clinton = biggest surplus in US history.
Bush 2 = spend and destroy the biggest surplus to the biggest deficit.
Obama = Two years in, triples Bush's deficits.
How could you leave the guy after Bush off the list?
I won't defend Bush. But you can't honestly defend Obama and pretend to care about deficits.
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watchout for that rightwing agenda
These Tea Party folks are the 1930's Germans, and may not be as "naive" as I thought!:
