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Posted By FairNBalanced 8 months ago in NewsUnlike in the 1958 cult movie "The Blob," which featured a creature from outer space that consumed everything to which it attached itself, government is a homegrown monster, consuming ever-increasing amounts of capital. And this government blob doesn't discriminate. It grows no matter which party is in charge. While the deficit last week raced past $1 trillion, the federal government and many state governments are trying to pry more of our money from us so they can finish creating a dependency culture from which we'll never escape.
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FairNBalanced8 months ago
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antibrainwasher8 months ago
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Where were you, you worthless coward hypocrite, when Bush was spending a trillion to murder innocent Iraqis for the benifit of big oil and Haliburton and Israel?
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No, your a traitor, always putting your party first, ahead of this country. And your monikor, fair and balanced, is the slogan put forth by the propanda arm of the billionaire club that manufacture your facist morality, the same lies and cons you vomit forth each day, like a good little repug loyalist beauch.-
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beavith18 months ago
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(hitting anti with a bucket of cold water...)
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your boy is spending more than that in his first three months.
i don't know fascist or socialist or democrat or republican. i do know wasteful spending especially because its on a scale never seen before. -
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cushi8 months ago
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antibrainwasher8 months ago
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Oh look, it's the same collection of faux noise loyalist cons having a little tea party organized and finainced by the billionaires and war profiteers who want to keep 100% of the money gained by 8 years of unregulated warmongering and casino capatilist repug greed.
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Another repug circle whank, and floating above is the mascot and mesaih of the cons, a floating flatulent hot air balloon of the leader of the repugs, the porcine pedophile Drug Limpboy.
Did all you whankers vote for Caribu Barbie to fix the economy, the pile of crap left after the repugs controlled all, including the justice departement you filled with brown shirt loyalists?-
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mesodude8 months ago
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mesodude8 months ago
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"It's time Maloney, the rest of Congress and state legislators hear from the people. Not a penny more until you put your house in order!"
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--You're at least 8 years too late for your outrage to be compelling or credible. You screwed yourselves when you lied Bush and Cheney into office twice and didn't raise a peep when they spent out of control. Get serious.
"Time for a Tea Party!!!! This spending is got to stop."
--Sure. That's a really strong and nuanced argument. Of freaking course we need to stop out of control spending--eventually. Stopping on a dime and spending no money at all now is not the recommendation of any reputable economist. No reputable economists agrees with you cons.-
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nostalgia8 months ago
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"No reputable economists agrees with you cons."
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Really?
President Obama says that "economists from across the political spectrum agree" on the need for massive government spending to stimulate the economy. In fact, many economists disagree. Hundreds of them, including Nobel laureates and other prominent scholars, have signed a statement that the Cato Institute has placed in major newspapers across the United States.
http://www.cato.org/fiscalreality-
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mesodude8 months ago
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"President Obama says that "economists from across the political spectrum agree" on the need for massive government spending to stimulate the economy."
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--No.He doesn't say anything about "massive government spending". That's a lie and cheap Limbaugh talking point. We do need to spend lots of money. The economy has collapsed so where the hell else do you think the spending would come from?
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nostalgia8 months ago
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"the federal government and many state governments are trying to pry more of our money from us so they can finish creating a dependency culture from which we'll never escape."
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An Atlas Shrugged era gets closer and closer
Why work if the govt will take care of you
Did you notice some of the signs at the tea parties? - "I Love Ayn Rand" "Who is John Galt"
There is a reason that a book written in the 1950's is in the top 20 at Amazon.com-
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mesodude8 months ago
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"An Atlas Shrugged era gets closer and closer
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Why work if the govt will take care of you"
--That what we thought when Bushco GAVE defense contracts to their friends but cons were DEAD SILENT then. That's why we know you're full of horsesh*t now, nostalgia. Why can't you people grasp this? ;-P-
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nostalgia8 months ago
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No one works in the defense industry Meso?
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Shocking!
Defense isn't a constitutional mandate for the Federal govt - amazing!
Of course you are looking forward to the subsidies from the Obama administration to create "green jobs" aren't you?
Maybe you need to read about the study from Spain - they have been subsidizing "green jobs" and the results are interesting
Bloomberg.com has info on the study
Job Losses From Obama Green Stimulus Foreseen in Spanish Study
Subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created if Spain’s experience with windmills and solar farms is any guide.
For every new position that depends on energy price supports, at least 2.2 jobs in other industries will disappear, according to a study from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid.
The premiums paid for solar, biomass, wave and wind power - - which are charged to consumers in their bills -- translated into a $774,000 cost for each Spanish “green job” created since 2000, said Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at the university and author of the report.
“The loss of jobs could be greater if you account for the amount of lost industry that moves out of the country due to higher energy prices,” he said in an interview.
So let's transfer all defense industry money into subsidies for green jobs and see how many other jobs we can destroy
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mesodude8 months ago
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"No one works in the defense industry Meso?
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Shocking!
Defense isn't a constitutional mandate for the Federal govt - amazing!"
--Stop being simplistic for once. You people GAVE jobs to Bush and Cheney's cronies. They didn't EARN those jobs by bidding for them. Nor did Monica Goodling and her pals from Pat Robertson's crappy law school. You cons LOVE to claim you work so hard but you forget that people with brains are watching your every move. We see when you give special favors to your friends and hire poorly qualified people at $100k Justice Department jobs, nostalgia. You're not living in reality if you think that it is.
"Of course you are looking forward to the subsidies from the Obama administration to create "green jobs" aren't you?"
"No less than cons were looking forward to subsidies for wealthy farmers, nostalgia."
"Maybe you need to read about the study from Spain - they have been subsidizing "green jobs" and the results are interesting"
--Don't do this...Cons do the cherry picking thing-- find the one or two obscure studies that support what you already believe--and then claim that this alone is compelling evidence that we should or shouldn't do this or that thing. I'm not going there with you.-
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nostalgia8 months ago
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LOL Meso you must have been jumping for joy when Obama selected former Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn deputy secretary of defense
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As for the study on green jobs from Spain it is very relevant
They used govt subsidies to create "green jobs"
Can you name another country that has done that?
Don't tell me that we have nothing to learn from a European country!
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mesodude8 months ago
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"LOL Meso you must have been jumping for joy when Obama selected former Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn deputy secretary of defense"
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--Nostalgia, do *not* start on the subject of lobbyists since you cons' entire horsecrap-based tea party "grassroots" movement is funded by FOX and K St. -
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amazed8 months ago
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((The Public is sick FROM the irresponsible wasteful spending of the Bush administration that has put us in this untenable position to begin with! ))
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I agree that the public is sick of the irresponsible wasteful spending of the Bush Administration.
What I can't understand is how the "public" who is sick of Bush's wasteful spending believes that the answer to it is even MORE and UNPRECEDENTED wasteful federal spending as an antidote.
It defies common sense.
It is also quite alarming to see the invective and ridicule heaped upon anyone who dares to question the crazy spending and especially at the tea party participants and events themselves.
This along with siccing the DHS on right-wing "extremists" and warning about how likely they are to become violent, even though, by its own report, there's no evidence of any violence being planned.
The intolerance of the left is appalling and, for the most part, they still believe that they are the most open-minded people around.-
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amazed8 months ago
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And meanwhile, Obama is seizing even MORE executive priviledge than Bush and arguing even more forcibly and creatively to expand the powers of the FISA and the Patriot Act -- even to the extent of arguing that anyone who feels they have been spied upon unjustly should not have any standing to even sue the government at all.
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But hey, it's all okay now, because it's THEIR guy doing it.-
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canadianrancher578 months ago
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I'm sort of a liberal but I agree with most of your two comments, What I fear is that we have reached the point where it really doesn't matter if it is a conservative or liberal type of government that gets elected , government does waste alot of money but the shear size of government is what is killing the taxpayer. Your country is like mine up here there are at least three levels of government and they continue to grow every year and they continue to increase the amount of money they need to operate each year.
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Some of the things that cause me much grief are when I see cities building sports facilities that are used by private interests to make money, like in Vancouver where the city is going to be left with a big bill because they are going to pay for the housing needed for the olympics . I don't feel that it is politics that is hurting us as much as just government and it is a result of creeping socialism that we have accepted under both liberal and conservative rule. -
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mesodude8 months ago
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"Obama is seizing even MORE executive priviledge than Bush and arguing even more forcibly and creatively to expand the powers of the FISA and the Patriot Act --"
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--Again--what makes you think anyone should care what you think NOW when you didn't care what Bush was up to? -
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cushi8 months ago
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It is apparent to anyone with common sense that the economy NEEDS to be stimulated at this point, thus REQUIRING an influx from the strongest economic source at our disposal - the GOVERNMENT.
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Furthermore, as to siccing the DHS on right-wingers, if they were NOT so vociferously heaping "invective" and "ridicule" upon the President and his administration, AND inciting violence among their ranks, they would NOT have become a concern to the DHS or anyone else. They have only themselves to blame for being targeted, since THEY chose to paint a great big bullseye on themselves with all their rankerous BS and lunatic ravings!
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mesodude8 months ago
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"What I can't understand is how the "public" who is sick of Bush's wasteful spending believes that the answer to it is even MORE and UNPRECEDENTED wasteful federal spending as an antidote."
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--The reason you lack credibility is because you've decided in advance that *anything* Obama spends money on is "wasteful." We SAW examples of Bush's wasteful spending as it was happening and cons raised nary a peep. Your argument is ridiculous and simplistic because NO REPUTABLE ECONOMISTS are saying stop any and all spending right this moment. NO ONE is saying that except cons and you have no basis for arguing that that's going to help us get out of this recession--because you know it won't.
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GWHayduke8 months ago
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Hilarious headline.
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Should have read:
"Public sick of Wasteful Gvt Spending, Claim they were wasting just fine W/O Gvt Help."
Why the sudden concern with wasteful spending?
What with disposable durable goods and automobiles from China and Korea, we Americans LOVE to waste money on worthless crap.
We dont save ANYTHING!
And the government is the cause of our problems?
Yes, this has got to be the stupidest, most undereducated population on the planet - or maybe just the most arrogant.
Likely both.
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Klarissa8 months ago
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THe president is well on his way to taxing us into ECONOMIC PARITY, one of his major campaign goals.
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Also known as the lowest common denominator.
This is change alright, change us all into dependence on the government's (bureaucrats who know better how to spend your money than you do) largess.-
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mesodude8 months ago
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"THe president is well on his way to taxing us into ECONOMIC PARITY, one of his major campaign goals."
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--100% baseless and unsubstantiated opinion of the severely uneducated. You don't know what you're talking about at all, Klarissa--as usual.
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coolslow8 months ago
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Just read the posts here from the lefties who self-describe themselves as intelligent, tolerant, thoughtful, patriotric, supportive of "our" President. The posts are vulger, derisive, dismissive, attacking, insulting, devoid of any defense of Obama actions other than Bush did the same, disrespectful of "our: previous President.
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mesodude8 months ago
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"The posts are vulger, derisive, dismissive, attacking, insulting, devoid of any defense of Obama actions other than Bush did the same, disrespectful of "our: previous President."
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Ohhh...Boo-hoo...We're soooo sorry we can't be as polite and respectful as the filthy teabagging neocon brigade here always is, coolslow. We could all learn from the lovely and always pleasant con community. ROTFLAO. If you people think you can smear Obama with your CRAP and lies (when you gave Bush a pass for spending us into the toilet) and then bitch that you're not getting posts that meet your "quality" standards for responses, then you really are certifiably BRAINDEAD. -
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