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toosavoter
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| Posted: Mon Mar 1st, 2010 10:31 pm |
China cannot afford for us (capitalized) to fail... We are their biggest consumer... Their economy relies on our spending, and they buy our treasuries because our economy is a good investment...
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jesse jackson
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| Posted: Mon Mar 1st, 2010 11:53 pm |
aubie wrote: Spice wrote: I hopey thingys changey soon or we all be speeking Chinese.
My dad swears that the Chinese will be "taking over the US", he got mad because we didn't have our kids learn Chinese. I tell him they are just trying to kill off Americans by poisoning our baby food, lead paint in kids toys..etc..Heck, they even had killer pet food!! So, there's no point learning Chinese, we'll all be dead due to poison. It's hard to joke in text form...so I'm trying to be sarcastic.
It is sad when it seems nothing is made in the USA & if it is, it cost so much more that I can't afford it! Crazy!
Your Dad is well read. Check into how much land and business the Chinese have purchased in and around the ports in California and Florida.....you will be very suprised.
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mae0618
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| Posted: Tue Mar 2nd, 2010 01:32 am |
jesse jackson wrote: February 26, 2010
CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights
Posted: February 26th, 2010 09:00 AM ET
From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
Fifty-six percent of Americans say the government poses an immediate threat to individual rights and freedoms.
Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.
The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.
According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken - though the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall
It's just a darn shame no one is watching CNN!!!
If you really want to read what we are in store for, here is a GREAT column by another of my faviorites, Mark Steyn
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/26/our-own-greek-tragedy/print/
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jesse jackson
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| Posted: Tue Mar 2nd, 2010 02:09 am |
Thanks Mae, that was a good article. What is gonna take for the American people to wake up to this shafting. If Obama and all these politicians thought they would have to use the same healthcare they are pushing, they might change their views a bit.
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mae0618
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| Posted: Tue Mar 2nd, 2010 01:33 pm |
jesse jackson wrote: Thanks Mae, that was a good article. What is gonna take for the American people to wake up to this shafting. If Obama and all these politicians thought they would have to use the same healthcare they are pushing, they might change their views a bit.
I know! I never miss a column by Mark Steyn. Hopefully, when it all falls apart, there will be people like him around to get us on the right path again!. For some great clarification on Healthcare, read this:
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/03/02/alice_in_health_care
There go those pesky Economic Laws again, supply, demand, costs and all that stuff! I know some people REALLY don't want to believe they exist, or that somehow America is not subject to these economic forces, but believe me, we are!
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aubie
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| Posted: Tue Mar 2nd, 2010 02:48 pm |
jesse jackson wrote: aubie wrote: Spice wrote: I hopey thingys changey soon or we all be speeking Chinese.
My dad swears that the Chinese will be "taking over the US", he got mad because we didn't have our kids learn Chinese. I tell him they are just trying to kill off Americans by poisoning our baby food, lead paint in kids toys..etc..Heck, they even had killer pet food!! So, there's no point learning Chinese, we'll all be dead due to poison. It's hard to joke in text form...so I'm trying to be sarcastic.
It is sad when it seems nothing is made in the USA & if it is, it cost so much more that I can't afford it! Crazy!
Your Dad is well read. Check into how much land and business the Chinese have purchased in and around the ports in California and Florida.....you will be very suprised.
My father resides in Orlando (has since 1986). I was very surprised when he told me years ago that China owns the drilling rights off the coast of Fl , therefore the USA can NOT drill for oil there. CRAZY!!!!
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beckymc
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| Posted: Tue Mar 2nd, 2010 03:04 pm |
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/07/the_myth_that_keeps_giving.html
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USNavyVet
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| Posted: Tue Mar 2nd, 2010 05:36 pm |
Did anyone catch the special on PBS last night about Dolly Maddison?!?! I had NO IDEA the financial struggle, the self-made-power and the unbreakable love she had for her son after Pres. James M. death. It makes me wonder, if bankrupcy and self-sufficeincy loomed for politics today, who would be willing to stick it out & "take one for the team?" I think things would be A LOT different! She got no golden parachute at all and lost everything and ended up poor even supported with sustinence from one of her own slaves that bough his own freedom and came back to help her..... Where was I when my class studied about this?!?!? I guess it was all that fast cars & gals that had my mind, back then!
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Radius
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| Posted: Wed Mar 3rd, 2010 01:39 am |
China’s exponentially expanding economy is pushing its largest class of lower-income citizens into middle and upper-middle class status and beyond, exacting a heavy toll on rapidly depleting natural resources. As we know all too well that’s one of the primary reasons we’re paying such high prices for petrol these days.
China is taking countermeasures to secure its expansion towards global dominance and is now in the process of invading Africa, which has the largest supply of natural resources on the planet. Instead of rolling in with military might, they’re primary weapon's are diplomacy, a hand shake and the almighty yuan.
For years the Chinese have been quietly laying an infrastructural foundation across the entire African continent and are currently in the process of building new cities and improving existing ones. Most notably are the growing number of colleges and universities, where they’re offering African students free scholarships. The catch is….they have to learn to speak Chinese.
Meanwhile we’re teetering on the brink and headed towards a free-fall straight into an abyss of debt and ever-expanding poverty.
Edited to correct grammatical error.
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mae0618
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| Posted: Mon Mar 8th, 2010 01:04 am |
Radius wrote: China’s exponentially expanding economy is pushing its largest class of lower-income citizens into middle and upper-middle class status and beyond, exacting a heavy toll on rapidly depleting natural resources. As we know all too well that’s one of the primary reasons we’re paying such high prices for petrol these days.
China is taking countermeasures to secure its expansion towards global dominance and is now in the process of invading Africa, which has the largest supply of natural resources on the planet. Instead of rolling in with military might, they’re primary weapon's are diplomacy, a hand shake and the almighty yuan.
For years the Chinese have been quietly laying an infrastructural foundation across the entire African continent and are currently in the process of building new cities and improving existing ones. Most notably are the growing number of colleges and universities, where they’re offering African students free scholarships. The catch is….they have to learn to speak Chinese.
Meanwhile we’re teetering on the brink and headed towards a free-fall straight into an abyss of debt and ever-expanding poverty.
Edited to correct grammatical error.
Oh, who cares about all that.... the Academy Awards are on, and then American Idol, and then Dancing with the Stars, and , and, and.........
Bread and Circuses .......
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Spice
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| Posted: Mon Mar 8th, 2010 01:08 am |
You are right about that Mae, if more people cared we might not be in the mess we are in now.
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mae0618
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17th, 2010 03:36 pm |
Here is what your government CURRENTLY thinks of you....
"The American public believes that if a majority of those elected by them to office decide that something is good after full debate, it should pass," he said. "Process is interesting particularly to all of us around this room, but in the final analysis what is interesting to the American public is what this bill will do for them and their families to make their lives more secure."
Again..... wow.... just wow.....
Thank goodness they know what is best for all of us "little people"...
Someone else said something similar to this once... I think it was "Let them eat cake"
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mae0618
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19th, 2010 01:24 pm |
No worries... soon ObamaCare will be here! Yay! I won't have to work, so I will have so much more time to watch "The View" and "Inside Edition"!
I am SOOOOO confident that it will not cost anymore than the Government says, they are REALLY good at cost estimates! Let's look at some prior examples of their uncanny ability at cost projection:
Medicare (hospital insurance). In 1965, as Congress considered legislation to establish a national Medicare program, the House Ways and Means Committee estimated that the hospital insurance portion of the program, Part A, would cost about $9 billion annually by 1990.v Actual Part A spending in 1990 was $67 billion. The actuary who provided the original cost estimates acknowledged in 1994 that, even after conservatively discounting for the unexpectedly high inflation rates of the early ‘70s and other factors, “the actual [Part A] experience was 165% higher than the estimate.”
Medicare (entire program). In 1967, the House Ways and Means Committee predicted that the new Medicare program, launched the previous year, would cost about $12 billion in 1990. Actual Medicare spending in 1990 was $110 billion—off by nearly a factor of 10.
Medicaid DSH program. In 1987, Congress estimated that Medicaid’s disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments—which states use to provide relief to hospitals that serve especially large numbers of Medicaid and uninsured patients—would cost less than $1 billion in 1992. The actual cost that year was a staggering $17 billion. Among other things, federal lawmakers had failed to detect loopholes in the legislation that enabled states to draw significantly more money from the federal treasury than they would otherwise have been entitled to claim under the program’s traditional 50-50 funding scheme.
Medicare home care benefit. When Congress debated changes to Medicare’s home care benefit in 1988, the projected 1993 cost of the benefit was $4 billion. The actual 1993 cost was more than twice that amount, $10 billion.
Medicare catastrophic coverage benefit. In 1988, Congress added a catastrophic coverage benefit to Medicare, to take effect in 1990. In July 1989, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) doubled its cost estimate for the program, for the four-year period 1990-1993, from $5.7 billion to $11.8 billion. CBO explained that it had received newer data showing it had significantly under-estimated prescription drug cost growth, and it warned Congress that even this revised estimate might be too low. This was a principal reason Congress repealed the program before it could take effect.
SCHIP. In 1997, Congress established the State Children’s Health Insurance Program as a capped grant program to states, and appropriated $40 billion to be doled out to states over 10 years at a rate of roughly $5 billion per year, once implemented. In each year, some states exceeded their allotments, requiring shifts of funds from other states that had not done so. By 2006, unspent reserves from prior years were nearly exhausted. To avert mass disenrollments, Congress decided to appropriate an additional $283 million in FY 2006 and an additional $650 million in FY 2007.
(courtsey of The Heritage Foundation)
See???? no worries.... Back to Americal Idol!!!!
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mae0618
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19th, 2010 02:16 pm |
Here's what Mr. Hopenchange thinks of you today.. well yesterday...
“I don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or the Senate,” he said. . . . “What the American people care about is the fact that their premiums are going up 25, 40, 60 percent, and I'm going to do something about it.”
But never mind.... it's time for MARCH MADNESS!!!! ...carry on....
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mae0618
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| Posted: Fri Mar 19th, 2010 02:28 pm |
In case he hasn't read it (which he apparently hasn't), here is what the Constitution says:
Article 1 Section 7: “in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively.”
seems clear, but apparently not. I guess he is just soooo much smarter than the rest of us.
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