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As long as you aren't a KKK, neonazi, doctor's office bombing pro-lifer, or vigilante anti-immigrationist, you have nothing to fear. So what are you so afraid of? Are you guys hiding something?
I love when people go on ritalin-induced, Tourettes-like tantrums.
As long as you aren't a KKK, neonazi, doctor's office bombing pro-lifer, or vigilante anti-immigrationist, you have nothing to fear. So what are you so afraid of? Are you guys hiding something?
You might be the one with something to fear with all the violence and hate you foster. I do believe extremist groups exist on both sides and you and Ballijuana should be aware. -- wouldnt the mandate extend to black panthers, black liberation theology, late-term baby killers, and law breaking illegal immigrants ?
*cough* Earth Liberation Front *cough*
If this assembly of tens of thousands of "extremists" was the best America has to offer, America is in good shape.
The G20 protesters make Americans look like a 4th grade field trip to the zoo.
It is the American way to take advantage of opportunity so.
I'm absolutely pro immigration and totally against guns and abortion.
I think there are stupid people on the left and on the right.
This report was not about them.
Why are board Republicans so eager to label themselves and other conservatives violent extremists?
Guilty mindedness, I'm guessing.
Plus it aggrandizes their version of retail politics, while confirming their persecution mania.
Poor, oppressed wannabe violent extremists....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincol..._b_187652.htmlThis latest GOP seems, at first, more surreal than offensive. The notion that Obama is a socialist because he wants a minor tax increase for a tiny fraction of Americans and would prefer to spend our treasure on helping people rather than on conducting wars of dubious origin or intention is more than a little strange, but if a small minority of people want to assert it, that is well within their rights. Floating the idea of secession over this is a very different story. The history of secession in the US is not a pretty one. Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other.
This latest GOP seems, at first, more surreal than offensive. The notion that Obama is a socialist because he wants a minor tax increase for a tiny fraction of Americans and would prefer to spend our treasure on helping people rather than on conducting wars of dubious origin or intention is more than a little strange, but if a small minority of people want to assert it, that is well within their rights. Floating the idea of secession over this is a very different story. The history of secession in the US is not a pretty one. Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other.
Wow- I am amazed at the notion - the belief - the ignorance that you and lib s think a "minor tax increase for a tiny fraction of Americans" is what is coming ? You think a minor tax increase will pay for this trillions of dollars our President is spending ? Wow -- I sit back and patiently await the WAKE-UP call for those lazy minded - blind liberals who voted him in. This will be a fun ride.
Blind conservatives never woke up and we went on one bumpy ride.
Eh, we never raised taxes all that massively to pay off the previous 60 years of deficit spending.
eh - we never spent trillions - printed all this money out of thin air -- ECOCOMICS 101 sir... We never dealt with Cap and Trade.... never contemplated abandoning the dollar for internation currency..
This is going to be fun...I hope most of you are just talking out your butt and in secret really preparing for what is to come....
Sure we did.
For decades.
Feigning indignance about the debt now just because your party is out of power is pretty silly.
what is to come?
When China and Japan cut back on buying our paper then we'll have to figure it out. It's not going to happen internally. We need to be forced to get our financial house in order. Even then, we'll be charging ourselves to the hilt when we can.
CD answered it more succinctly than I ever could.
Look at our national debt at the end of the Carter Administration. Then watch it rise, rise, rise...
and rise, rise, rise, rise even more and more.
It never ends, bro. The letter designation at the end of some slick- politician has zero bearing on deficit spending.
It took Obama being elected and promising our great-grandchildren's money to us for you to realize this?
Man, what hole did you climb out of this decade?
Federal bankruptcy. Although I admittedly have little knowledge of what exactly that means for every average American, I could point to the fall of the USSR as an indicator.
Only moreso because if the US falls, lots of others come with us. You dont just replace the world's largest consumer market over night.
Indeed. Though the citizenry still pretends it does.It never ends, bro. The letter designation at the end of some slick- politician has zero bearing on deficit spending.
thats why it won't fall.
Dont be so sure, mon ami. Maybe not in our life time, I'll concede that as unlikely.
But all empires fall. ALL.
true........but how would that benefit the world?
and who's going to roll over on us?
some have suggested china and/or japan. for what benefit would be gained?
Because you think it can't? Because it's hard to imagine America in the poorhouse?
This is the same kind of logic that allowed Katrina to devastate New Orleans. "Oh, it's not gonna happen. It just won't. It can't." Even as the hurricane hit the city, and meteorologists were pulling their hair out and looking on in horror, I distinctly remember a report early that morning (I was having my car repaired so I was up) about the newscasters saying how the damage has been contained and the city was safe. The news stations, as Jon Stewart pointed out, could have done a lot of honest reporting to make this situation much more apparent. But the news (cnn, msnbc, fox, all of them) seem to only exist to scare the American public about things like violent black men, how whitey will no longer be the majority in 2050, and the latest virus or bird freaking flu that's going around, rather than concentrating on things that actually matter. It reeks of a massive shunt-job, and I really wish we'd see some people holding, "throw CEO x out the window of a 40 story building" parties rather than "tea" parties.
The reality is that unless something is done to completely curtail the kind of corporate greed that results in 35 to 1 leverages, nothing is going to change. The big business will just find new ways to hose the American consumer. The only alternative I see to it is either finding some way to hold CEOs and corporate execs accountable (and by accountable, I mean if you steal, extort, or launder, you go to JAIL), or by a revolution by the masses, violently if necessary.
The problem with American government is that American business (predictably) has become smarter, bigger, and able to skirt the confines of the law beyond anything that should be possible. They hire lawyers to find every little loophole in the system. They negotiate in the grey area of the law. Pepsi paid ZERO dollars in taxes in the year 2000. Consider that for a moment.
They will continue to do this as long as they stand to profit from it financially with little chance of being caught and/or punished.
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