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Old 05-05-2010, 10:12 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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Well I am so glad that YOUR life is so casual and wonderful. Especially since it is being paid for with other peoples money. Therefore your, non wasting away, life exist off the backs of the working people.

That whole continent isn't worth a d***!
What gives you that idea? I have never taken a cent from social security or whatever you are referring to...
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
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Read John Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience and you will learn that many (certainly not all) conservatives are followers of authoritarian figures such as Beck, Limbaugh... with this info it's not hard to understand why the Right followed Adolph Hitler, Mussolini, etc.
How can Hitler be compared to Republicans.

Let's see, Republicans want minimalist government. Hitler believed in overbearing authoritarian government.
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
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What gives you that idea? I have never taken a cent from social security or whatever you are referring to...
Unless your family is wealthy you can not live off of two days of work a week. Also if you live in portugal you are probably getting free health care and who knows what else gift wrapped by your paternalistic government.
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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So did he lie about what Obama said the same way you're doing?
Did Obama not say that he thinks all people arrive at a point when they are making enough which makes anything more than that too much? Did I list one of his supporters that is worth less or made less that $250,000 last year. That is the number that Obama talks most about but so many of his friends and he himself make more than that.

It would be nice if you could prove that crap about lies. Beck plays that sound bite over and over and for some reason Obama says the same thing every time. Maybe we need to give some consideration who the liar here is.
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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He was talking about the financial regulations bill and Wall Street making gross profits while putting the country in a tail spin. Roy, don't you ever cross-check what Glenn Beck is saying?



Yes, Glenn lied and Roy repeats it like a parrot.
It appears that you haven't heard that sound bite so that proves that you don't watch Beck and that makes you a hero among the progs here but Obama did speak the words and tried to make it sound like an aside. Actually he was trying to get some laughs and a few can be heard on that sound bite.

It is tiresome to be called a liar by people who have never heard the words spoken because they don't want to hear them. Maybe you need to hear the speech in its entirety before you go off half-cocked.
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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No, he's a Beck Mark.
Have you failed to hear that sound bite, also. Lots of Beck haters here trying to make him a liar but the words are recorded forever and you can't prove that they weren't spoken.
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:25 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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Unless your family is wealthy you can not live off of two days of work a week. Also if you live in portugal you are probably getting free health care and who knows what else gift wrapped by your paternalistic government.
I live alone here, no rich family. I am getting free health care like everybody else in Portugal. It is not free anyway, it is financed with taxes and social security contributions, that I pay just like everybody else. No other gifts, either.

I earn about 35% of what I used to earn when working as a full-time employee in the same profession. 2 out of 5 days means 40% of the time. So my pay is pretty much standard in terms of hourly wage. It is enough for my humble lifestyle, I can even put about 100 Euros per month in my savings account.

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Old 05-05-2010, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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"Now, what we’re doing, I want to be clear, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy."
If he didn't reproduce the entire statement he lied.
For some reason Beck always manages to play all of that part of the speech. I guess you really don't know what he plays most of the time.
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:42 AM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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You're envious,angry, and unhappy.
None of those things is involved in what I think. I just think like Beck that it might be a good idea for the friends of Obama that I posted about to lead in the movement of keep from making the kind of money that is surely above the $250,000 that Obama keeps talking about. Is there a reason why they shouldn't lead in giving some of their wealth to the government to be distributed to those who don't make as much? If so, what do you think it is?
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Old 05-05-2010, 10:46 AM
 
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
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I live alone here, no rich family. I am getting free health care like everybody else in Portugal. It is not free anyway, it is financed with taxes and social security contributions, that I pay just like everybody else. No other gifts, either.

I earn about 35% of what I used to earn when working as a full-time employee in the same profession. 2 out of 5 days means 40% of the time. So my pay is pretty much standard in terms of hourly wage. It is enough for my humble lifestyle, I can even put about 100 Euros per month in my savings account.
So you are getting the same as other health care recipients but contributing less. Yeah socialism is so fair.
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