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[Deep Freeze] Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:22:38 AM 
Quite correct, strat. Obama is a liberal. I do not believe he is a "socialist". He made a few comments during the campaign that sounded socialist, but he clearly is not. Not in the truest sense of the word. As for  being the "lesser" of two "evils", that is strictly a matter of perspective.

As I said yesterday, he has not done anything, yet. We are a LONG way from having anything with which to discuss.
[_strat_] Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:32:57 AM 
Obama is a liberal if anything. Calling him a socialist is as ignorant as rightists can get. If a socialist would win the US elections, well then I might even congratulate them. But they did pick the lesser of two evils, thats a start, if nothing else.
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[Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:39:28 AM 
I haven't seen a positive step forward yet BSE.  The man just got elected.  I decided to take a 'wait and see' approach to him before I make any further judgement about the man.  And as far as being "bi-partisian"?  He's the most liberal member of Congress with the exception of Harry Reid, D-Nevada.  Bi-partisian?  I think not.
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[Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, November 06, 2008 5:36:23 AM 
The credit problem was Bush's fault????  HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh please, enlighten us MM!  I have to read that!
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[BLOOD SUCKER Esquire] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:30:22 PM 
Socialist? I thought this was a positive step forward for your country? A man with principle, that could see past the color barriers. And someone that, as he put it, was willing to overlook the Red-state Blue-state logic. Why is this a bad thing?

a. Hammerstein

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[METAL MELTDOWN] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:07:04 PM 
On the contrary...I quite like bush.........

OH...... you mean THAT Bush!!!

YES the credit problem was Bush's fault as was WWII, the Spanish Inquisition and that case of genital warts that Bob gave to Alice back in 1967.....
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[LORD of TEXAS] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:42:25 PM 
Obama will help people with disabilities....i need all the help i can get.....

Edited at: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:47:37 PM
[Redman] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:31:24 PM 
Hah, just popped in to say hello I heard that there is some country on the other side of the lake and that they just selected a new president... and then I just logged in and just knew that you guys would be talking about it *nod nod*.
[Deep Freeze] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:15:07 PM 
HA!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm afraid a "clue" is all we really have right now, Lord. No way to tell if the "right" man got the job or not, as he has not done anything yet! Time will tell. I am glad you are back and so very vocal!!!
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[LORD of TEXAS] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:54:00 PM 
Damn...guys get a clue................I very happy for one.........The right man got the job.....
[Head banger] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:34:27 PM 
come on, mcain is responsible for crucifixion.  he is old!!! bush is responsible for the clone wars.  oops wrong book, the crusades.
 
  [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:32:23 PM)
[Deep Freeze] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:32:23 PM 
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Exactly! Jeez, you would think that they would start blaming Bush for the friggin Crucifixion!!!!!!!!!!!
Look, I understand that he has a responsibility. Such is the burden of office. I just take offense when Bush is blamed for things that  are clearly NOT his doing. I would take the same offense if it were Obama or anyone else! (Except maybe Hillary. I do believe she did cause the Great Plague) It astonishes me how people in this country refuse to accept responsibility for the STUPID things they do. It is because they DO expect the government to bail them out.
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[Head banger] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:25:29 PM 
HA.  come on.  he created huricane katrina too.  funny, our PM was blamed here for the "global economic crisis"  I wonder how he forced americans to sign bad loans?
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[Deep Freeze] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:52:42 AM 
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wondered if you were ever going to show up and actually say something. WOW.
Look man, I know you are a Bush Hater. You never tried to hide it. Unfortunately, it is NOT Bush's fault. At least not all of it. Like I have been saying for a LONG time, the blame for the crap we are in lies firmly on the heads of the "buying public".

It is SO easy to blame the president. He is "in charge". He is 'responsible". Well, OK. Maybe so but he certainly did not take a gun and hold it to the heads of the MILLIONS of MORONS that signed crappy mortgages for homes the KNEW they could NOT afford!!! Bush NEVER told ANYONE to buy crap on credit that they could NOT afford to pay for with CASH. It all comes down to being financially responsible for YOURSELF. It really amazes me how many Americans did NOT give back that "lousy" stimulus check you mentioned! Hmm.. interesting indeed.

I do not need to defend Bush any longer, as I do not believe he did a great job. But he did not destroy this country as so many "haters" would have us believe. WE did it to OURSELVES. Take a look at the amount of CREDIT BURDEN the average American has, man! Is THAT Bush's fault too????? Please!
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[Head banger] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:45:24 AM 
right, I just meant that what they say and do are often different things.  our govt (at the time) signed Kyoto.  did nothing to reduce GHG, infact let them go up.  all talk, no action is usualy the way.  the ocasional war or crisis is about all they seem to do.
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[METAL MELTDOWN] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:42:13 AM 
I should have stayed out of this thread.....

WTF is all of you worried about?  Take a look at the last 4 or 8 years in this country and tell me, seriously, how any of you can think that more of the same would be better.  Give Obama a fucking break and some time, then open your mouths and bitch if he makes it worse and I really dont think that is possible.  

Everyone was beating off over bush winning the last time and look at the state we are in today.  If he were the CEO of some fortune 500 company, he would have been drummed out years ago and please spare me the "he inherited this mess" B.S..  Even if he did, not much was done about it....OH.....I am sorry, I forgot about my 300 economic stimulus check.  Boy that sure saved my ass!!!!!
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[Deep Freeze] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:40:49 AM 
That is true enough HB, but if you know anything about American History, you will note that the job of president does require action from time to time. I mean, if we take a lesson from John Adams we can see that "non interference" is not always the best idea. 

If you recall, Adams did not want to get into the middle of  the British/French war.  Of course, our trading partners went NUTS!!!! And here in the US, half the country wanted to fight the French and the other half the British!  Non interference did not work! Then later, when Britain started grabbing our ships, James Madison decides to declare war on Britain and what happened? ... we got our behinds kicked in the War of 1812!!!  Had it not been for Jefferson at New Orleans, we might very well have been burned to the friggin ground by the British!!! Seriously! Madison got his butt  run out of the White House by the British and they burned it down!!

My point in all of this is, we cannot just decide to sit back and do nothing. Just as I said yesterday! What would happen if we did nothing? If we kept to ourselves and sealed up the country?? I'm afraid Monroe is not available to sail across the ocean amd make peace for us any longer!
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[Head banger] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:10:52 AM 
they all talk, its rare that anything more happens!
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[Deep Freeze] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:49:00 AM 
Very well said, Nick. It really is pop culture, is it not? There is NO ONE on earth that could live up to the hype we saw. No one!
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[Nicholas Fivepennies] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:55:23 AM 
I don't think Barack Obama will bring a lot of change at all. It's all pointless pop culture blabber. 
[Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:59:25 AM 
I personally think "the machine" has farrrrrrrrrrr too many parts and needs to be scaled down some.

However, your comments on Obama are right on the money. 

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[Deep Freeze] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:33:46 AM 
Certainly there are "high hopes".  There always are when a new man takes over the White House. Bush made promises, too. They all do. That is part of what they do. I do not believe the country is going to crumble or anything like that. We go on. We managed to get through Clinton so I see no reason to fear. I will say this, if Obama being president can make things better socially (race relations) then I am for that.  There is still far too much hate in this country and I would like to see it dissolve.

As for the economy, I really doubt that he is able to do much about that. I mean, he does not have  the experience to make those decisions.They will be made for him. Of course, he will take credit (as did Clinton and his supporters) but it will NOT be because Obama is some kind of great leader. The financial situation is being addressed and will right itself through the work of those that actually know what they are doing. The bailout money will not hurt! HA!!!!!!! I can assure you the machine has many wonderful parts and it will be fixed.
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[Head banger] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:21:46 AM 
well, I for one cant wait to see how it goes.  Obama promised to reopen the free trade agreements with Canada and mexico, to ensure that they meet enviro and labour standards.  most canadians think that we have higher enviro and labour standards.  I dunno, never read the american ones.  I do know that were I in charge f canada, I would bring the treaty that says we must supply the USA with oil along, and renegotiate both at the same time.
[Deep Freeze] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:49:38 AM 

I realize there will be wide and varied opinon regarding the result of this election. You all know where I stand and I make no bones about it. Having said this, I also realize that this Thread is for discussion. It was created to inspire debate. Darryn fully intended to challenge us as thinking individuals, not just "Metal-heads".  Sometimes we rant here, sometimes we muse. Sometimes we argue, sometimes we agree. But this room always gives me something to ponder when I am done.

I feel this morning alot like I did when Clinton was first elected. I am disappointed, surely. I am not angry. I am a bit sad and I am certainly concerned but not angry. The real problem this morning is, the new president has not done anything to warrant debate yet! All we are able to do now is offer conjecture. What might happen. I guess that is a reason to chat but I do not see much debate in it at this point.

I will not rail against the other party. I do not believe that will be constructive and I am not a poor loser. More importantly, I do NOT knock the captain of the team on which I play. I may not have voted for him, but you will never hear me make nasty comments about the US President while he is in office. I did not do it to Carter nor Clinton and Iwon't do it now. I do not see that as productive and certainly not wise. We as a country should always stand as one. That is something the "other side" has never learned.

As for why I am sad, there is a very good reason. John McCain is an American hero. A real-live hero. He was captured by the enemy, tortured. Refused to be a tool for propaganda (Right, Jane??) and endured hell for love of this great nation. And what did this country do? They turned their collective backs on him and picked a "rock star". So be it. As I have said over and over the last year or two, this is what happens when we have a voting public that looks to the likes of someone that calls himself "P Diddy"  or "Snoop" for their direction. This is NOT Obama's fault, this is the fault of allowing idiots and children to vote.


[DelivererofEvil] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:34:24 AM 
Congratulations on choosing reason above blind, expired policies. Now you americans and we the world will see what Obama will do of his term at the White House. Quite honestly, I am optimistic about the next 4 years.
[Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:58:45 AM 
Okay...the socialist won.  We're doomed.  Check back with me in about 3 years if you think I'm kidding.
[ron h] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:45:45 AM 
I stand corrected...somewhere between 135-136,000,000 votes...
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[ron h] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:11:30 AM 
No one man or woman is going to change anything...but 117,000,000 voters can...now we wait for 2 months for him to take the helm...let's see what GW does with his remaing time...
[Udo Sapper] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:56:10 AM 
Wish you guys good luck with Obama!

Changes are good and let's face it - nothing can be worse than George W. Bush Jr.

Gruesse
Udo
[BLOOD SUCKER Esquire] Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:20:45 AM 
Good luck with your new President.

a. Hammerstein
[ron h] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:18:34 AM 

Sorry for having to leave so abruptly...me thinks there's a lot of good advice he passed on...


  [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:08:59 AM)
[Deep Freeze] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:08:59 AM 
If only Clinton would have heeded that advice. Ah well......
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[ron h] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:04:54 AM 
I remember when Clinton won, and everyone's waiting for him to act on all his 'promises'...

In his first class...'Being the President 101'...(orientation)...he's standing there in front of Congress and receives proper applause, then is told to sit down and keep his mouth shut and watch how America is ran!!!  If anything, that is a situation I doubt McCain will have to endure, but if Obama wins...

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[Deep Freeze] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:53:40 AM 
HA!!! I suppose so. They always grant that immunity, don't they? Oh well, not the worst thing that could happen.
[ron h] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:42:35 AM 
Just a little teasing on this most beautiful of Fall mornings.  

In all honesty, but from the time the 'old' Prez leaves and grants ALL his friends immunty and clemency to sveral hundred criminals and the'new' Prez takes over is probably the most action you'll see out of Washington for quite awhile.  Isn't the first order of business for the 'new' is to take a "well deserved" vacation to Camp David??

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[Deep Freeze] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:33:46 AM 
Sinister?? Me? Oh come now, my friend. I am no seer! I am merely evaluating the situation and giving an opinion! Nothing more..............
[ron h] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:31:42 AM 
Jeez DF, you sound a bit sinister in your post...you know something I don't??
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[Deep Freeze] Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:32:00 AM 
A fine Tuesday to you all. A very, very big day in America! Today, we Americans will make political history in our beloved country. I truly believe that there is not a one of you that does not know what this day is all about.

Rather than go on about my choice versus the other candidate/party, I thought I would comment on the state in which we find ourselves on this most important day. Not since the early 1940's has the US been in such a condition. The world is a far different place and, for old men like me, this day will quite likely be the day that changes our lives forever. It is a new time. A time when the values and issues of great importance are no longer what they were. A time when this entire country has morphed into something nearly unrecognizable to those of us that can recall those days gone by.

To try to compare what we are now and what we were is completely unfair, since it is such a subjective opinion. There are so many that feel we are in need of "change", That we are no longer "the strongest nation on earth". That we shouldn't be. That we should be more like the other countries in the world and try to blend into what they believe is the "right" course.

This world has indeed changed. In 1942, we came to save the "oppressed". To rescue the world from tyranny. Now, many say we are the tyrants. America has a "bad name" in the world's eye and we are too arrogant. Or so I am told.

I wonder how this world would be without the United  States? I know that sounds like a petty argument but if you can, just for a moment, imagine what this world would be like if America sealed her borders, cut off ALL aid to any and all foreign nations and decided to stay out of the affairs of everyone else? Can you even picture it? I just wonder what would happen?
I suppose I could speculate. Use conjecture and draw for all of you an image that I see in my mind. I will not bore you with such nonsense.

In a few short hours, this country will change. This country will take a new course. History will be made, one way or another. I can assure you all, even those of you in other countries, that YOUR lives will change too. Remember that. For today, you will witness history and you will soon know what that really means.






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[Deep Freeze] Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:27:43 PM 
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kendall, my friend!  It appears we keep missing one another! I am doing a bit better. That evil, demonic doctor of mine has me in the gym every morning on a diabolical device called a treadmill. I believe it is something originally used during the Spanish Inquisition. HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am in pain all the time but I do FEEL stronger, you know? It's hard to explain.

In any event, it is GREAT to see you! Please come back more often.
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[Kendall aka JudasRyche] Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:58:53 AM 
FREEZE---Thanks! I haven't been around at all.  maybe twice in 5 months.  But I'll be around...feeling better ?   [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Deep Freeze from Friday, October 17, 2008 3:28:52 PM)
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[Deep Freeze] Friday, October 17, 2008 3:28:52 PM 
KENDALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was wondering what was taking you so long!!?!?!?!! So good to see you and I am glad you are still carrying the banner! Well done, my friend!
[Kendall aka JudasRyche] Friday, October 17, 2008 2:57:23 PM 
Blood..Well said!!!  The great pity is that everyone is NOT-informed and/or cares to look at WHO has made up and has been steering this great "business plan" of the "Brave New World".

It's just astounding to realize that something that I always knew really that the countries that went into fight supposedly national socialism and won, supposedly, came out of it as national socialist countries because the governments had taken over massive rights to rule farmers and all the infrastructure of the nation. Britain was the same. I used to laugh at Winston Churchill's replays of his old speeches when he told the British public to go off and fight to retain their way of life and their system, their ancient cherished system – while his own secretary released a book called "The Fringes of Power" and admitted that in his own particular peer class he was celebrating the fact that out of this war in Europe would come a united Europe, the dream that they'd had for ages. So we're all conned down the river, all of us and all those poor guys that go off to all these wars to fight for this socialist order never really figure it out afterwards. They're too proud of having done their bit. They can't see the big picture and they don't see where it's all going.
 
There's no doubt about it, even with Cecil Rhodes who started up the Cecil Rhodes Society that was meant to take over all the corporate interests and minerals rights of the world, coupled with Lord Alfred Milner's group, The Round Table Society, eventually merged together with Cecil Rhodes and became the League of Nations and then it became the United Nations/Royal Institute of Foreign affairs. They had it all planned then, to bring in this world socialist state, a state run by the fascists at the top, those who deemed themselves worthy of ruling the lessers and also the commoners would be run with masses of bureaucracies in a communistic fashion: The marriage of fascism and communism. That's what it's all about. The right and the left come together, planned 100-odd years ago, probably longer actually. At least the records that we now get access to are 100 years old.
 
That's what Alvin Toffler's book "The Third Wave"(the hero of Newt Gingrech) is all about, the coming together of the two systems. If you want to read Gorbachev's speech to the politburo, look up the Toronto Sun. Go back in its records and check Eric Margolis' write up on Gorbachev's last speech to them because he says to them "you'll hear that communism is dead. Don't believe it. We're simply moving into the next phase."
 
What does he mean by that? Go back in the writings of Lenin. Lenin said the dictatorship will last about 70 years and then we shall merge into the West. The system that will come out of it will be not quite capitalist and quite socialist. What he's talking about is this new – it's actually global socialism, a globalist fascist system at the top running the whole kit-and-caboodle. That's what it's all about and they have written about it, the big players wrote about it. They just haven't taught it in school. They've kept us all in the dark. They've taught everyone to be nice little social citizens, have a group-think, talk about what's on television and just play ourselves forever and purr like cats that have been fed and well stroked. That's how we've been trained.
 
This is what Aldous Huxley (the great eliteist psychopath)talked about, the methods into the Brave New World with his book that came out after it, which was "Brave New World Revisited".  He was quite confident that through a scientific means and scientific education all of their plans could be brought about, they could literally scientifically train billions of people across the planet not to notice the direction in which they were going. We could be trained to believe that everything that happens scientifically and where science would take us was all quite natural, by simply putting it out in front of us. Putting it into movies to make it exciting and we'd all go along with it and unfortunately, so far it's worked. He also talked about the ultimate destruction of the last vestige of the family unit, especially between male and female.
 
Now you have new redefined families of all kinds. They've been very successful with that too. Men really have been neutered and they're not men anymore. They sit and adopt the image that's given to them by television and pushed by the culture at the top. They pretend they just love sports and think about nothing else, swig beer and keep their mouths shut, because, after all, all the comedies say that they're dumb stupid creatures that are kept around as pets by the women who actually stay with them. That's what they've adopted. They've adopted a role projected by the media and the entertainment business and unfortunately, the marriage system is almost kaput. 

You destroy the family unit. You then separate the child from the family and as Lord Bertrand Russell (another elitist "liberal" leader) said that we always believed we've have to eventually take away the children all together at birth from their mothers and never allow them to know who their parents were, in order to recondition them into a brand new system. But by using experimental schools, he said, we found that through scientific indoctrination at kindergarten the parental influence won't work on the child. It will just bounce off the child. The scientific indoctrination will be stronger. Well, lo and behold, that's happened too. A couple of years ago when there was a strike of daycare workers in Ontario, maybe other parts of Canada, the women were in the streets with plaquards demanding that big brother, you know the big daddy there, the government, takes care of this for them. So here you have them demanding the very thing that the elitists wanted a long time ago. The mothers are demanding that the state take care of their children for them to get all this going because they had to get to work. When they split up the family unit, it was not because they liked women. They don't like women at all. It was to double the tax base, for one, and to destroy the family unit, number two, and so there was no one at home to have parental influence over the child. They might give them “contaminated ideas,” and that's the terms they use at the top. Contamination of ideas must not be passed on, meaning old fashioned values.

We are run, not by "parties" but by huge Foundations with major think tanks, ie the Royal Institute for Foriegn Affairs/Council for Foreign Relations with think tanks like the Club of Rome and Earth Council Alliance. Remember the "1,000 points of light" Bush 1 was talking about.  It's time for folks to start doing their own research and look into all the published books by these masters of "our" given reality.  It's quite simple to do.
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[BLOOD SUCKER Esquire] Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:56:28 PM 
The great struggle in any democracy is to know when to open and close the public purse. Blair was of the mind to hold the Kingdom hostage at the expense of the unions. Saying that, I assume that moral decay sets in after a certain point, and this may also happen in America. It takes many years to crawl out of the cesspool that a governemnt of this style leaves for it's citizens when they are voted out of power. And it takes many years to recover from the damage that they leave behind. Pity the misinformed electorate.

a. Hammerstein
[~ MG_Metalgoddess~] Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:45:57 AM 
Oh Freeze And Pain Kllr... I thank you for your fairness.. I only hope for the USA that things change.. It so disheartens me to see so many hard working americans, losing jobs, and homes, that some of you have worked so hard for. 

I only wish the best for everyone.. Its to bad that there isnt someone out there, that could seriousley come forward, and give the public a non-bias opinion.. and actually try and come up with a solution to the problems facing the future of the USA.. HEALER is right ....  Neither candate has really mapped out thier plan.. At least it would give the general public, a fair chance.. ( not that they follow through with these plans ever.) but then more people could beheld accountable.  For future elections..   Its the same here in Canada, as  far as politics go..  Harper wanted Conserv. run goverment.  so he called a election.. but he didnt get it.. 

I have family and friends that still live in the USA.. And I worry so much about them.. healthcare, retirement.. ect..

Thank you for beign so -open-minded.. I love you guys..  And Iam sorry If I got upset.. but my family is still in the USA.. and I worry.. 
It is a scary time for everyone.. And I hope for the best.. To all
And Painkiller... you can PM Me  I dont mind...LOL  Sean Hannity gets on my nerves.. He is rude to people. from both parties.. 


Hugs to you all and have a great day...

MG~
[Healer] Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:23:24 PM 
I think the point of this report was to drive the point that people really don't know who Obama is. Like Freeze has said, most of the general public would not know and issue from a tisuue (love that Freeze) and because the economy has tanked and everyone is scared they are blaming the current administration. For some reason they believe getting any Democrat in office is going to "fix" everything.  They are blindly voting for a man who grew up and was very close to a racist preacher and then knowingly associated with a demostic terrorist for years and only when called on it did he distance himself from these men.  Many people don't realize where most of his online contributions came from.  About half of the 8 million he raised has been traced to middle eastern countries.  Do you know how most of his college was paid for? Why are most of the middle eastern countries so interested in Obama becoming president? These are serious questions and people should be worried.  Another point is that Democrats already have the majority in Congress and it's looking like they may get the Senate too and now add a Democatic President in the mix and the Democrats have total power over our government.  This is never a good thing.  There needs to be some balance.  It's basicly giving Obama an open checkbook!  The American people, especially the young voters, should really take a close look at who they are voting for.  I didn't vote for either canidate during the primary and am now stuck with 2 disappointing choices but I know who I definitely don't want in office!
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[Deep Freeze] Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:43:45 PM 
My dear lady, regardless of how you feel about American politics, I would never resort to calling you a traitor or any other name. That would be rude and completely pointless. You are welcome to your opinion and I respect that. (By the way, it would be peace of mind...) HAHAHAHAHAA!!!
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[Painkiller1990] Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:53:24 PM 
First, I apologize for sending you the IM. I wasn't intending to do that.
Now, your point is really weak because in terms of what the US brings in every year, the deficit is always measured in percentage of the GDP. So while it has gone up purely in numbers, in terms of percentage of the GDP, it's not a big deal.
Let's not forget, Clinton gutted the Military which is how he got a lot of money to pay for his social programs. And, let me remind you, it was the Republican Congress that brought him to the table kicking and screaming, forcing him to balance the budget.
Bush inherited a recession in 2000, and the "surplus" was never an actual surplus, it was a projected surplus... big difference.

Clinton was a doofiss, so is his Wife. But hey, enjoy your new life in Canada, seriously. I give you major props, I really do, atleast you actually changed your citizenship because of your dislike for the US. You walk the walk...

  [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by MG_Metalgoddess from Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:26:25 PM)
[Head banger] Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:44:26 PM 

I think you might be confusing Debt and deficit.  a surplus is oposed by deficit.  debt is nearly always a constant in governments, like individuals with a mortgage.  in fact, most debts are mortgage type things.  its also hard to pin a specific president to any given state.  Looking at the graph, the day W took office the Debt took off.  he didnt have time to incure any costs, the first few years are inherited.  then you consider the world economy...

 

I dont want to debate US politics, not being there, I just hope its not someone who is blatently oposed to free trade, as that has helped both the USA and Canada.

 

[~ MG_Metalgoddess~] Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:26:25 PM 
Well however you americans now like to look at things is your choice.. I was a reg Independent,,, And That graph is not from a spun democratic site.. it from a USA Goverment site.. so its coming from your goverment.. LOL

They graph doesnt show a surplus.. it shows a debt.. and as you can see reagan ran up a large one.. So for who-ever would have gotten in after Bush sr or Reagan.. 

Anywased I have nothing against any of you all personaly .. but Like the saying goes .. you reap what you sew.. 

And I have noticed that no-matter what party gets in they lay blame to the other one.. which is why things will never work out there in america.. The mentality to try and problem solve the econimcal and financial problems.. will never be solved because of all the closed mindedness..     sad but true..
And unfortunatley the media doesnt help people make rational desicions.

Anywase.. Like I said I am glad I dont live there anymore..  Call me a traitor call me what you want.. At least I know I will be able to retire with piece of mind..

Done with this subject..
MG~
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[Deep Freeze] Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:22:29 PM 
Oh my dear MG! I'm afraid I simply cannot sit quietly while your Clinton reference goes unchallenged. Please forgive me!
Bill Clinton presided over the largest financial surplus this country has ever seen and ran it into the ground. He was a bumbling fool that was completely inept in matters of security and thought only of himself. He was what we refer to as a "limp noodle" with regard to anything other than his extra-marital exploits.

Any financial positives Clinton may have enjoyed were a direct result of the work Ronald Reagan did for this country, NOT Clinton's efforts. Not Bush's.  He put this country in a position to be attacked on our own soil by his weaknesses. Do not be fooled by silly graphs and liberal spin! Billl Clinton was a cancer to this great nation, just as his wife is currently. They are a self-serving, power hungry lot that will do and say anything to get what they want. 

George W may be unpopular and not very bright, but I would take TEN of him over ONE Clinton. Period.
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