dmagicglock

you know who else says you should invest in precious metals?! Gordon Liddy!

fair enough joker, when you changing your avatar to the new obama one?

I like your fleet idea, thats interesting. As for Ford, I thought they didn't take any government money (If I'm not mistaken) and the surge in their sales was due to the negative stigma of their domestic competition (chrysler and GM) who took bailout money.

Well people under 65 who are "disabled" are eligible for medicare. Trust me, I've seen a lot of the "qualifying" individuals for social security and medicare everyday at my job. They're only qualifications is that they're too lazy to provide for themselves or their families. At which point they're collecting money that they haven't put into the system (a handout). Also, universal healthcare per current legislation, will be made available to people who aren't paying taxes, or even paying enough taxes to cover the cost of the healthcare. Thats where citizens like me, that will pay more taxes in a few years than they will in a lifetime, come in and provide their "handouts".

thats what I'm saying! we had a balanced budget by making cutbacks, especially in those areas. Where now we're spending ALOT in those areas (or trying to). I was just saying it was maybe another reason we should stray away from more handouts. I feel like democrats always want to talk about how they had a balance budget when clinton was in office, and they also want to talk about how great medicare, welfare, universal healthcare is as well, but fail to recognize they achieved their balanced budget by making concessions on the things they use to get elected.

damn you I was going to post it, but you beat me to the punch. I remember that because tensions were pretty high with Russia over us supporting Georgia during their incursion.

did that balance budget come about from cuts to medicare, welfare and dipping into the social security fund by chance?

holy thread resurrection batman

good thing we have helen thomas to cover it all today was her bday too! I wonder how she feels about universal healthcare since she'd be the first to go under the new system lol

I can agree with your comment "generally speaking" but specifically with concern to the joker illustration, I could not find one right wing outcry about it (prior to today), or left wing commentaries saying it went too far.

I posted that map earlier to show that the urban areas had undue influence on the last election. http://philhardwickblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/2008_election_map-counties.jpg I know someone else said something about gore getting the popular vote and bush still getting elected, so it looks like its broke either way.

I saw this quote from steve forbes... haha "The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here."

lets hope communism has reduced their navy to the same subs as the drug cartels...

literally

questions, comments, concerns? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/world/05patrol.html?_r=1

I saw the vanity fair article today, but it didn't even make the news when they had that in their magazine last year (when W. was in office). I just thought it was amusing of the double standard, when someone did the same thing to Obama the left wing media was in a tizzy.

Just like when any other competitor fails, the one that remains picks up more market share.. would probably repurpose GM/ford/chrysler facilities in the US and many of the people that lost their jobs would get new jobs at Toyota or Honda because they would have an increase demand for their product and would need additional employees, facilities to meet the necessary production. If you decrease the incentive for "foreign" companies to do business here by playing favorites with the domestics, we end up losing out in the bigger picture because nobody would invest in the U.S. Market because there's no incentive and the risks would outweigh the rewards. Then we end up losing all the tax revenue from the foreign companies to try and make our domestic companies succeed.

+1 If you look at a county by county breakdown of the last election, McCain won so many more counties but because the urban vote went to obama, apparently it represented "America".

Biggest drop in tax revenues since 1932!? Yet we're trying to pass billions of dollars in government programs!? heard about this on talk radio today but its not making a lot of shockwaves in the mainstream media hmmm? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/03/BUAL1939IG.DTL&type=business "The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation's plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab. The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion. Other figures in an Associated Press analysis underscore the recession's impact: Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago. Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent. Social Security tax receipts could drop for only the second time since 1940, and Medicare taxes are on pace to drop for only the third time. The last time the government's revenues were this bleak, it was 1932. "Our tax system is already inadequate to support the promises our government has made," said Eugene Steuerle, a former Treasury Department official in the Reagan administration who is now vice president of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. "This just adds to the problem." While much of Washington is focused on how to pay for new programs such as overhauling health care - at a cost of $1 trillion over the next decade - existing programs are feeling the pinch, too. Social Security is in danger of running out of money earlier than the government projected just a few months ago. Highway, mass transit and airport projects are at risk because fuel and industry taxes are declining. The national debt already exceeds $11 trillion. And bills just completed by the House would boost domestic agencies' spending by 11 percent in 2010 and military spending by 4 percent. Is there a way out of the financial mess? A key factor is the economy's health. The future of current programs - not to mention the new ones Obama is proposing - will depend largely on how fast the economy recovers from the recession, said William Gale, co-director of the Tax Policy Center. "The numbers for 2009 are striking, head-snapping. But what really matters is what happens next," he said. "If it's just one year, then it's a remarkable thing, but it's totally manageable. If the economy doesn't recover soon, it doesn't matter what your social, economic and political agenda is. There's not going to be any revenue to pay for it."

Ron Paul FTW!

thats cool he said something to you, I thought he was going to beg you for money. I get crackheads asking me for money there on brown and stewart street all the time. On a random note, doesn't that jimmy johns make sandwiches faster than humanly possible?

I can't believe this didn't make it to the mainstream media sooner... This is from 2003 and it shows what Obama's real intentions are (a single payer system)... aww barry wants to get rid of competition and the private insurance companies after all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE

i want this as a tshirt