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    Quote Originally Posted by BJJ-Blue View Post

    Wow, you got one right! Seeing you believe that, wouldn't you agree if Obama had moved more the center the Republicans would have worked with him more?

    No, i think you haven't been paying attention at all. Obama is center and slightly left. He has openly spoken with republicans and been openly rejected by them.

    not even on policy points.

    I think today's republicans aren't republicans at all, aren't conservatives at all. I think the whole GOP has been usurped by a much darker group of people who fall into various undesirable categories. Neo-Cons have ruined your country in case you didn't notice.

    But, you are blind from all teh foaming at your mouth that spews into your eyes.

    I think you're just a shill anyway. Like many others out there making sure the stupid dull witted message of right wing america gets repeated over and over again simply because bush told you that's how to make a lie stick.

    well, as that is a stupid idea, it doesn't work and you will be confronted on the stupid lies you reiterate.

    anyway... GO ahead, break down and start using epithets again seeing as you have zero valid points to use instead.
    Kung Fu is good for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BJJ-Blue View Post
    They aren't producing jobs right now because of what Obama is doing to them. He is saddling them with more regulations, more costs (healthcare being #1), and soon more taxes. This may be news to you, but when that happens employers cut jobs and/or stop hiring.
    So, why were there only 3 million jobs created during the 8 year term of George W. Bush? The rich were saddled with lower taxes and fewer regulations.

    There were over 23 million jobs created during Bill Clinton's 8 years, when the rich were saddled with higher taxes.

    Heck there were 10.5 million jobs created during Jimmy Carter's 4 years in office.

    http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/...ord-on-record/

    So, why weren't the rich producing jobs during George W. Bush's terms?
    1bad65, you make me laugh. Dare I say it? You seem to be suffering from ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome).

    "I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job." - John Wayne

    Clearly you want President Obama to fail, or else you wouldn't bring up every little thing you can to try and discredit him and his Administration. You seems to be actively hoping for failure.

    Perhaps you can take a lesson from The Duke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    No, i think you haven't been paying attention at all. Obama is center and slightly left. He has openly spoken with republicans and been openly rejected by them.
    LMFAO!!!! First off, he's a socialist. If he is "center and slightly left", please give me an example of a Democrat who you say is further left.

    Second, he himself locked the Republicans out of the healthcare negotiations. Of course when you are bribing Senators, you really don't want the opposition to be sitting there watching you.

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    I think today's republicans aren't republicans at all, aren't conservatives at all. I think the whole GOP has been usurped by a much darker group of people who fall into various undesirable categories. Neo-Cons have ruined your country in case you didn't notice.
    I agree they have not been conservatives for the most part. They have behaved like Democrat Lite. Calling them NeoCon is laughable. But coming from someone who says Obama is "slightly left", I'm not surprised.

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    I think you're just a shill anyway. Like many others out there making sure the stupid dull witted message of right wing america gets repeated over and over again simply because bush told you that's how to make a lie stick.
    Actually I'm asking my own questions I myself thought of. And you can't answer them because you will look even more foolish trying. Notice I regularly answer yours, yet you wont touch mine with a ten foot pole.

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    well, as that is a stupid idea, it doesn't work and you will be confronted on the stupid lies you reiterate.
    Great! You can start by answering/refuting this "lie":

    Why are rich, educated blue States like New York and California teetering on bankruptcy while uneducated, redneck red States like Mississippi and Alabama and Texas are not in that same boat?

    Good luck debunking that "stupid dull witted message".

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    anyway... GO ahead, break down and start using epithets again seeing as you have zero valid points to use instead.
    So says the guy who openly admits to trolling the site.

    I have a valid point about blue States facing bankruptcy though. Unless you can refute it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reality_Check View Post
    So, why were there only 3 million jobs created during the 8 year term of George W. Bush? The rich were saddled with lower taxes and fewer regulations.
    Quote Originally Posted by Reality_Check View Post
    So, why weren't the rich producing jobs during George W. Bush's terms?
    Which one is it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Reality_Check View Post
    ...there only 3 million jobs created during the 8 year term of George W. Bush...

    There were over 23 million jobs created during Bill Clinton's 8 years, when the rich were saddled with higher taxes.

    Heck there were 10.5 million jobs created during Jimmy Carter's 4 years in office.
    And how many have been LOST under Obama?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SanHeChuan View Post
    Paul Krugman? seriously? this guy is supposed to be considered an unbiased "journalist"? hes a shill for Obama and the left and has been for years. Sorry but Krugman is a ball gargling douch nozzle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BJJ-Blue View Post
    Calling them NeoCon is laughable.
    You realize that actual neo-conservatism is pro-big government, pro-bureaucracy, and anti transparency in government, right?

    I mean, this isn't coming from me as someone on the left, these are bedrocks of neo-conservatism, as it arose from Trotskyite philosophy and grew.

    Not arguing here, I'm just curious in what way what was described is not in keeping with neo-con political thought, even in the versions as followed by Wolfowitz, Cheney, et al? There's a big reason for the 'neo' in there. Even Wolfowitz paper is rife with the types of neo-con readings that are the bedrock of neo-conservatism, where there is one reading for the masses, and one for the rulers(again, a philosophy directly touted by neo-cons, not me casting aspursions).

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    1badbluebj -

    are you actually crying about my comments because I troll you?

    You deserve to be trolled. You're a neo-con shill posting neo-con garbage into forums that are entirely irrelevant to that stuff.

    At least I'm transparent about my intentions here in off topic 1badbj rant land, which you have been busy at turning into muck land in a hope of posting neo-con positive propaganda content into this site in the hopes that positive neo-con rants show up in search engines as if they were actually a voice of majority.

    Well, you fail. lol. But I guess if you need to collect money from your handlers for your positive endorsements of fascist policies and hubris filled folk, then you gotta do what you gotta do.

    Kung Fu is good for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BJJ-Blue View Post
    Which one is it?
    Fair enough, my question wasn't clear.

    You claimed that the "producers" are not creating jobs for fear of tax increases. I showed that they produced nearly 8 times as many jobs under the Clinton Administration (with its higher taxes) than the George W. Bush Adminstration. I also pointed out that the Carter Administration (which you hold up as "worst Administration evar") produced 3 times the jobs, in half the time.

    So, why did these producers produce significantly fewer jobs under the Bush Administration, and it's lower taxes?
    1bad65, you make me laugh. Dare I say it? You seem to be suffering from ODS (Obama Derangement Syndrome).

    "I didn't vote for him but he's my president, and I hope he does a good job." - John Wayne

    Clearly you want President Obama to fail, or else you wouldn't bring up every little thing you can to try and discredit him and his Administration. You seems to be actively hoping for failure.

    Perhaps you can take a lesson from The Duke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BJJ-Blue View Post
    LMFAO!!!! First off, he's a socialist. If he is "center and slightly left", please give me an example of a Democrat who you say is further left.

    Second, he himself locked the Republicans out of the healthcare negotiations. Of course when you are bribing Senators, you really don't want the opposition to be sitting there watching you.
    a) you clearly don't understand what socialism is if you think Obama is one.

    b) nobody locked out a minority. they had their vote, they were minority and didn't get to block it. Apparently, you fail to understand how democracy works as well.



    I agree they have not been conservatives for the most part. They have behaved like Democrat Lite. Calling them NeoCon is laughable. But coming from someone who says Obama is "slightly left", I'm not surprised.
    You are in denial about your fascist friends of a feather lol



    Actually I'm asking my own questions I myself thought of. And you can't answer them because you will look even more foolish trying. Notice I regularly answer yours, yet you wont touch mine with a ten foot pole.
    you haven't asked anything I haven't answered really, you just can't accept the truth because it doesn't fit with your narrow and unrealistic paradigm.



    Great! You can start by answering/refuting this "lie":

    Why are rich, educated blue States like New York and California teetering on bankruptcy while uneducated, redneck red States like Mississippi and Alabama and Texas are not in that same boat?
    do you understand population demographics? apparently, this is yet another thing you fail to grasp.

    Good luck debunking that "stupid dull witted message".
    I have no problem debunking your stupid dull witted messages. It's quite easy. I guess you are the one who doesn't recognize how stupid and dull witted the message you give is...but seeing as there is self evident aspects to that, so be it.



    So says the guy who openly admits to trolling the site.

    I have a valid point about blue States facing bankruptcy though. Unless you can refute it.
    Your point is not valid. You can't grasp the population sizes of the various states and the various economic realities that follow those numbers. A little simple math is all it takes for your weak and not very well thought out argument to crash and burn.

    should I call the wahmbulance for you. It looks like your feeling got hurt there. Maybe you need time to be alone with your thought.
    Kung Fu is good for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KC Elbows View Post
    You realize that actual neo-conservatism is pro-big government, pro-bureaucracy, and anti transparency in government, right?
    So that would make Obama a neocon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    1badbluebj -

    are you actually crying about my comments because I troll you?
    No, I just want you to answer a simple question. I have the knowledge to answer yours. Have I asked a question you are not intelligent to answer? Have a made a statement you cannot refute?

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    b) nobody locked out a minority. they had their vote, they were minority and didn't get to block it. Apparently, you fail to understand how democracy works as well.
    You fail to understand facts.

    "But rather than taking the political risk of bringing the motion to a vote, Democrats pulled off what appeared to be a stunt of their own: When the time came for the scheduled vote last Thursday, they huddled in a back room -- denying Republicans the quorum they needed to take action.

    Then things got interesting. Republican staff members had secretly set up a video camera outside the committee room. The camera captured a stream of Democrats leaving through a side door of the very committee room they were scheduled to be in -- calling into question Democrats' claim that a scheduling conflict involving another committee meeting prevented their attendance.

    Republicans put the video on YouTube, juxtaposing the empty chairs and the Democrats filing out of the room. They put it all to the tune of "Hit the Road, Jack."

    Not everyone was laughing. On Tuesday, the committee's Democrats let the Republicans know that their keys wouldn't work in the hearing room anymore. They'd had the locks changed.

    Why? "Because they [Republicans] don't know how to behave," Chairman Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., told Politico. Towns' office did not respond to request for comment. "

    Look like I back up my assertions. This happened in the sub-prime issue, not healthcare though. I was mistaken about the issue, but my point that Democrats locked out Republicans is 100% true.

    Source, with complete article:
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/200...literally.html

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    You are in denial about your fascist friends of a feather lol
    Do you even know what a fascist is? Fascism is when Gov't controls private industries, ie nationalizing. You know, like Obama has done with General Motors.

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    you haven't asked anything I haven't answered really, you just can't accept the truth because it doesn't fit with your narrow and unrealistic paradigm.
    Maybe you failed to see it the first few times. Ok, I'll just re-post it:

    Why are rich, educated blue States like New York and California teetering on bankruptcy while uneducated, redneck red States like Mississippi and Alabama and Texas are not in that same boat?

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    do you understand population demographics? apparently, this is yet another thing you fail to grasp.
    Last time I brought up demographics, I was called a racist and the thread was locked.

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    I have no problem debunking your stupid dull witted messages. It's quite easy.
    Great! I'll be waiting for you to answer the question I asked above.

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    Your point is not valid. You can't grasp the population sizes of the various states and the various economic realities that follow those numbers. A little simple math is all it takes for your weak and not very well thought out argument to crash and burn.
    So then you will explain it to me like I've been asking you to do the last few days, right?

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    should I call the wahmbulance for you.
    No need to call it, just answer the question I asked about certain blue States facing bankruptcy.
    Last edited by BJJ-Blue; 10-08-2010 at 07:08 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reality_Check View Post
    You claimed that the "producers" are not creating jobs for fear of tax increases. I showed that they produced nearly 8 times as many jobs under the Clinton Administration (with its higher taxes) than the George W. Bush Adminstration.
    Clinton's jobs were mostly created via the Dot-com boom. And Clinton actually cut capital gains taxes. Since capital gains includes stock market profits, alot of investing went on in the stock market at that time, and the Dot-coms were the biggest gainers by far, until the Dot-com bubble burst shortly before GW Bush took office.

    I notice you did not include jobs created during the Reagan Administration. Is there a reason for that? Also, if you include the data as to what those created jobs actually paid the workers, you would see alot of Carter's jobs created were lower income bracket jobs, while Reagan created alot of middle class and higher income bracket jobs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BJJ-Blue View Post
    Do you even know what a fascist is? Fascism is when Gov't controls private industries, ie nationalizing. You know, like Obama has done with General Motors
    In September 2008 the Big Three asked for $50 billion to pay for health care expenses and avoid bankruptcy and ensuing layoffs, and Congress worked out a 25$ billion loan. By December, President Bush had agreed to an emergency bailout of $17.4 billion to be distributed by the next administration in January and February. In early 2009, the prospect of avoiding bankruptcy by General Motors and Chrysler continued to wane as new financial information about the scale of the 2008 losses came in. Ultimately, poor management and business practices forced Chrysler and General Motors into bankruptcy. Chrysler filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 1, 2009 followed by General Motors a month later.
    He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -- Walt Whitman

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    As a mod, I don't have to explain myself to you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MasterKiller View Post
    In September 2008 the Big Three asked for $50 billion to pay for health care expenses and avoid bankruptcy and ensuing layoffs, and Congress worked out a 25$ billion loan. By December, President Bush had agreed to an emergency bailout of $17.4 billion to be distributed by the next administration in January and February. In early 2009, the prospect of avoiding bankruptcy by General Motors and Chrysler continued to wane as new financial information about the scale of the 2008 losses came in. Ultimately, poor management and business practices forced Chrysler and General Motors into bankruptcy. Chrysler filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 1, 2009 followed by General Motors a month later.
    And my point still stands. Notice Bush's bailout did not involve the Federal Gov't taking over a controlling share of GM. Nor did Bush fire the GM CEO at the time and replace him with a CEO of his choosing.

    Second, I was against any bailout, whether done by Bush or Obama. Again I show I'm consistant.

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