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View Poll Results: How do we avoid a double dip?
Cut taxes on the rich 19 40.43%
Repeal EPA, FDA, and all wall street regulation 20 42.55%
Cut entitlements, unemployment, and education 22 46.81%
Raise taxes on the 47% of people who don't pay anything 32 68.09%
Repeal the minimum wage 16 34.04%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 47. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-08-2011, 02:31 PM
 
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Since conservatives are the only ones who can fix our economy, what should the koch brothers... *cough ahem* I mean tea party do to ensure that we don't enter a double dip recession?
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:34 PM
 
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How about exiting the Federal Reserve system and let the Treasury print its own notes interest-free, like Lincoln did?
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:36 PM
 
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We are already in a double dip. And you know what any sane person has to do, and that's toss out this silly, inexperienced, ideologically driven nincompoop from the White House and put in someone who will treat the American economy as the engine of growth and prosperity it should be, not a bunch of evil neer-do-wells that need to have all their wealth confiscated and redistributed in the name of social justice.

You liberals and your policies had your chance, and you failed big-time.
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:37 PM
 
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Um, Democrats and Republicans are equally at fault.
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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15% flat tax, no tax on dividends, mandatory 3 year military service.
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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Since conservatives are the only ones who can fix our economy, what should the koch brothers... *cough ahem* I mean tea party do to ensure that we don't enter a double dip recession?
Well all the libs want to do is spend money and raise the ceiling so they can spend more money.

What's a government supposed to do ?

BTW..I didn't vote. All your polls are extremist in view and never contain any sensible, logical choices..just illusionary hard right "get rid of them" choices.
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:41 PM
 
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Only one of those poll items would partly help. Restricting the powers of the EPA and FDA would help. The BIG BANKS and HEDGE FUNDS NEED RESTRICTIONS. Smaller traders on Wall Street do not.

An item you should have had was to restrict or shut down the Federal Reserve and to STOP BAILOUTS and QUANTITATIVE EASING

Also bringing the troops home from 130 countries would save a BOATLOAD of money

Repealing the Patriot Act and Restoring our Freedom would go a long way towards making this country "great" again.
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:45 PM
 
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None of those things will solve anything. This is a PERFECT example of how ignorant the average American is. ITS OUR DEBT BASED MONETARY SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Geezus people seriously.............wake the helll up! None of that crap matters. We were supposed to be able to print and coin our own debt free money like the fathers had envisioned. Lincoln did it, Kennedy wanted to do it. But the bankers usurped their control of our money system in 1913 with the passage of the Federal Reserve act putting that power into their hands. Now they have the power to create money out of thin air. Why are Americans so clueless as to what the Federal Reserve is and how fiat money in the hands of private banks works? I mean f'k educate yourselves!!! It's about MONEY CREATION and nothing else! We gave banks the power to create money out of thin air and lend that money back to us at interest......is it really that hard to understand how that power has led to our debt and the inability to ever pay it off? LMAO! This is why the American voting public is such idiots. They don't understand their own country or their own economic system.
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:45 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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15% flat tax, no tax on dividends, mandatory 3 year military service.
Had to think about that last bit, but it might be character-building and worthwhile, given the economic outlook. Defense spending is supposedly only 4% of GDP, and this wouldn't increase it all that much.
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Old 08-08-2011, 02:48 PM
 
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None of those things will solve anything. This is a PERFECT example of how ignorant the average American is. ITS OUR DEBT BASED MONETARY SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Geezus people seriously.............wake the helll up! None of that crap matters. We were supposed to be able to print and coin our own debt free money like the fathers had envisioned. Lincoln did it, Kennedy wanted to do it. But the bankers usurped their control of our money system in 1913 with the passage of the Federal Reserve act putting that power into their hands. Now they have the power to create money out of thin air. Why are Americans so clueless as to what the Federal Reserve is and how fiat money in the hands of private banks works? I mean f'k educate yourselves!!! It's about MONEY CREATION and nothing else! We gave banks the power to create money out of thin air and lend that money back to us at interest......is it really that hard to understand how that power has led to our debt and the inability to ever pay it off? LMAO! This is why the American voting public is such idiots. They don't understand their own country or their own economic system.
Just heard Alan Greenspan quoted as saying that we could do this to take care of all outstanding debt. Seems like we're already on that path....pretty far along, actually.
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