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Old 11-07-2011, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Originally Posted by roysoldboy View Post
It must have been a leftie since the statue is leaning very hard to the left and falling down. Maybe he tried to tell us all something with that direction.

Ronald Reagan Statue Vandalized in California | TheBlaze.com
It says it was a theft attempt.
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Old 11-07-2011, 07:07 PM
 
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Uggh, it's a statue. So. what?

I think they knocked down a giant "Burger King" statue in NY too. Not altogether bright conservatives will still love Reagan, and Burger King will still be selling trigga-burgers tomorrow.

If it makes you feel any better, I'd take a whiz on that man's grave if it were not a misdemeanor.
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Old 11-07-2011, 07:09 PM
 
Location: Long Island (chief in S Farmingdale)
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Since you keep mentioning Sean, why don't you call him and debate Reagan!

Anyway, here are the actual statistics:

Federal Budget Outlays
Proposed (Reagan) and Actual (Congress) and Cumulative Percent Difference (billions of dollars)

Fiscal Year-- Outlays---------- % Difference-- Cumulative
------------ Proposed/actual----------------- Differences

1982------- 695.3/745.8------ 7.3%---------- 0.0%
1983------- 773.3/808.4------ 4.5------------ 12.1
1984------- 862.5/851.8------ -1.2----------- 10.8
1985------- 940.3/946.4------ 0.7------------ 11.6
1986------- 973.7/990.3------ 1.7------------ 13.5
1987------- 994.0/1003.9----- 1.0------------ 14.6
1988------- 1024.3/1064.1---- 3.9------------ 19.1
1989------- 1094.2/1144.2---- 4.6------------ 24.5

Totals------ 7,357.6/7,554.9--- avg. 2.8------- avg. 3.1

Sources: Budget Message of the President, FY's '81-'89. Budget of the United States, FY 1993, Part 5, Table 1.3, pages 5-18.

As can be seen, Congress spent, on average, 2.8% more than Reagan asked for and the cumulative (yearly compounding rate) was 24.5% more.
There is no cumulative rate that is a made up stat. The reason why I bring up Sean is he is the one that made that bs up. Its a fake stat, its not how you do math.
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Old 11-07-2011, 07:13 PM
 
Location: Long Island (chief in S Farmingdale)
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since you are the math expert here, self-declared, maybe you could do some of that addition, subtraction, etc in a liberal style.
2.68%
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Old 11-07-2011, 07:18 PM
 
Location: Looking over your shoulder
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It must have been a leftie since the statue is leaning very hard to the left and falling down. Maybe he tried to tell us all something with that direction.

Ronald Reagan Statue Vandalized in California | TheBlaze.com
It appears that he’s leaning to more to the left because the Republican Party is leaning too far to the right. He’s just trying to get a little balance back in politics!
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Old 11-07-2011, 11:36 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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It says it was a theft attempt.
Are these the words that tell you it was an attempted theft? “Either someone really didn’t like Reagan or they tried to steal it so they can sell it for scrap metal

Golly Finn, maybe you need to read more than just that paragraph. Well they did have the words you could use to say just theft, I guess.
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Old 11-07-2011, 11:38 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Uggh, it's a statue. So. what?

I think they knocked down a giant "Burger King" statue in NY too. Not altogether bright conservatives will still love Reagan, and Burger King will still be selling trigga-burgers tomorrow.

If it makes you feel any better, I'd take a whiz on that man's grave if it were not a misdemeanor.
Were you one of the people who wanted to do that on George Bush's grave? I bet you were.
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Old 11-07-2011, 11:39 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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It appears that he’s leaning to more to the left because the Republican Party is leaning too far to the right. He’s just trying to get a little balance back in politics!
That statue is leaning more to the left than you seem to be. I have said that maybe that is what that crud was trying to do, make Reagan lean left.
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Old 11-07-2011, 11:41 PM
 
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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Are these the words that tell you it was an attempted theft? “Either someone really didn’t like Reagan or they tried to steal it so they can sell it for scrap metal

Golly Finn, maybe you need to read more than just that paragraph. Well they did have the words you could use to say just theft, I guess.
Could have been the caption to the photo
"A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan sustained damage Sunday morning after an apparent theft attempt."

Or the first sentence of the article
"A life-size statue of former President Ronald Reagan is tilting at an odd angle in California after someone apparently tried to make off with it."

There is, however, absolutely nothing in the article to back up your claim that "it must have been a leftie"
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Old 11-07-2011, 11:43 PM
 
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Could have been the caption to the photo
"A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan sustained damage Sunday morning after an apparent theft attempt."

Or the first sentence of the article
"A life-size statue of former President Ronald Reagan is tilting at an odd angle in California after someone apparently tried to make off with it."

There is, however, absolutely nothing in the article to back up your claim that "it must have been a leftie"
Beck said so, so it has to be the truth
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