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Reporting the news costs money. You need to hire staff, go on site, pay expenses. There's research, production costs, equipment. MSNBC has two high school interns working for free and a street food cart vendor chsing down leads for them.
We don't have cable TV since we rarely watch TV, but when I do watch I stream MSNBC live on my computer. The streaming website also has a chatroom attached to it. Fairly decent concept, as everyone in the room is also watching the news commentary and can comment on what's being discussed.
What I have been able to learn from chatting with a bunch of hardcore liberals is this: NONE of them are interested in the reality on the ground. I take items of debate/fact from CD P&OC forum and present them to the Liberals in that chat room, and 9 times out of 10 they simply will not accept the facts on the ground as they are, particularly if it involves tearing down the Barack Obama Administration.
I have found myself VERY frustrated at times, because these people do not want to hear the truth at all. From this experience, I can see why MSNBC appeals to Liberals, because the Lion's Share of liberals have ZERO interest in anything other than protecting this President at all costs.....facts be damned.
Not one segment about the obama/Solyndra debacle. The scandal is ALL OVER the networks, in the print media, on cable...EXCEPT for the ed, madcow, larry and tingle's shows.
Not one word from this bunch of radical leftists, who are clearly interested in protecting obama as much as they can.
The Solyndra 'debacle' wasn't much of a debacle. The government lent them money and the company went belly up. This happens all the time in the private sector. While the righties want to believe that this is a stunning indictment of the Obama Administration, there is no hard evidence of wrong-doing.
Moreover, the scale of this is nothing like the billions of missing cash the Bush Admin couldn't account for and went missing in Iraq.
The Solyndra 'debacle' wasn't much of a debacle. The government lent them money and the company went belly up. This happens all the time in the private sector. While the righties want to believe that this is a stunning indictment of the Obama Administration, there is no hard evidence of wrong-doing.
Moreover, the scale of this is nothing like the billions of missing cash the Bush Admin couldn't account for and went missing in Iraq.
Are you seriously comparing a taxpayer funded debacle/failure to that of the risk/reward variability that takes place in the private sector?
My goodness. You really aren't concerned about your taxdollars at all are you? Democrats absolutely LOVE people like you MTA! You should be furious instead of protecting this Administration!
Geez, man, get a handle on yourself! This nation is sinking fast....we don't need apologists explaining away waste!
PS...Billions in cash missing? If you're referring to the planeload of money that was missing.....that was Iraqi money. Not taxpayer dollars.
The Solyndra 'debacle' wasn't much of a debacle. The government lent them money and the company went belly up. This happens all the time in the private sector. While the righties want to believe that this is a stunning indictment of the Obama Administration, there is no hard evidence of wrong-doing.
Moreover, the scale of this is nothing like the billions of missing cash the Bush Admin couldn't account for and went missing in Iraq.
As usual you show your lack of knowledge on a subject while commenting on it.
Are you seriously comparing a taxpayer funded debacle/failure to that of the risk/reward variability that takes place in the private sector?
My goodness. You really aren't concerned about your taxdollars at all are you? Democrats absolutely LOVE people like you MTA! You should be furious instead of protecting this Administration!
Geez, man, get a handle on yourself! This nation is sinking fast....we don't need apologists explaining away waste!
PS...Billions in cash missing? If you're referring to the planeload of money that was missing.....that was Iraqi money. Not taxpayer dollars.
No, that was U.S. taxpayer cash -- $12 billion worth:
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WASHINGTON — A House committee report has questioned whether some of the billions of dollars in cash shipped to Iraq after the American invasion — mostly in huge, shrink-wrapped stacks of $100 bills — might have ended up with the insurgent groups now battling American troops.
The report was made public Tuesday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a hearing when Democrats sharply questioned the former American civilian administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, about lax management of the nearly $12 billion in cash shipped to Iraq between May 2003 and June 2004.
Bremer defended his performance as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, noting that the United States had to bring tons of dollars into Iraq because the country had no functioning banking system.
"We had to pay Iraqis in cash," Bremer said of the money, most of which came from Iraqi oil sales. "Delay would have been demoralizing and unfair to millions of Iraqi families."
No, that was U.S. taxpayer cash -- $12 billion worth:
Your source does not say that $12B was lost. Your source calls into question the management of that cash. That's a tad bit different than saying $12B was lost and/or unaccounted for.
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