Yeah, that's the ticket, keep labeling those who are to the left of YOU...that will get their votes...
They did, McCain's resume showed him to be a slacker who felt entitled. He had no ideas that weren't ancient before he was born.
The GOP screwed up, clear as can be...
My experience is as a taxpayer and as a citizen who hates to see American blood and treasure wasted for nothing.
you are the one claiming special connection, and inside knowledge, and you exaggerate on both counts. I have been in a war overseas....and have seen their people going about their daily business while we fight for them.
We don't need to bury our heads in the sand, but we also don't need to bury any more of our troops for the lost cause of nation building. There are 2 things we are wasting here, our money, and our children's lives...
gotta go exercise, against my will and better judgement, carry on your self rightous rightist rant without me...:2razz:
There were no tax cuts considered, only tax increases. The democrats were twarted in their attempt to raise taxes. Hurrah!
A little stability is needed to get this economy going. Everything the administration has done, almost without exception, has generated an atmosphere of uncertainty around the cost of doing business in this country and reduced the availability of jobs. It started when the Dems gained control of congress, as did the current spike in the deficit. Just check the charts without political blinders on.
Attempting this sort of societal engineering in the middle of a war is unconscionable.
On Today, Pearl Harbor Day, I just got off the phone with my 89 year old father who was on the U.S.S. Pennsylvania in dry dock that day and also talk to my Father-in-Law who went in to Normandy 2 days after the invasion then walked through France into Germany in WWII so I have a special connection with the military. I have no special connection other than having a family that served but you call that an exaggeration. You don't know what you are talking about but are entitled to your opinion.
I asked you what your knowledge was regarding Iraq and although I have no special connection I do have three family members that were there. I value their input more than someone who hasn't been there and gets their news from the media. As much as you would like this to be about you, it isn't, just your lack of knowledge on the subject.
The only person here who exaggerates is you, and it is as I said, not what you claim it to be.. You place too much importance to what you hear as long as it is what you want to hear. Your relatives being there doesn't give you a special connection. If it does, nearly all of us are special. I have been in a war, and my only claim to fame is noting that the South Vietnamese Civilians didn't care who won. If they did, they would all be wearing military uniforms. Same crap is going on in the current wars. Sorry you can't see that ...
It has been my experience that the more war a person has seen up front and personal, the less they want to talk about it with people who weren't there. My grandfather was there on D-day, and he won't talk about it to anyone who wasn't a part of it.
A coworker was a dog handler, in country Vietnam, for part of his tour, and the rest of his tour was spent climbing in caves with nothing but a .45. That is all I know, since he didn't like talking about it at all. As little action as I have seen, I am practically a non-combatant. I carried ammo for others, and had a rocket explode nearby once, that is as close as I got.
When you hear someone spending a lot of time talking about it, they might just be a phony...
Seems you have a comprehension problem and ignore how many times I said I didn't have a special connection only A connection which of course you do not, so tell me where you get your information regarding Iraq, spending in general, and to get back on track that so called Middle class tax cut that Congress was debating? What does any of this have to do with the thread topic? I continue to make the same mistake of responding to off topic posts because most of them are way, way out there.
You keep insisting on this connection like it is indeed special. And so what? What insight does this give you that only you now have?
I was upset when almost 3000 lives were lost on 9/11 and the trillion dollars that one event cost this country. What is your experience regarding the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. As stated I had three family members there at different times and all came back with the same story. What makes your feelings more accurate than their first hand experience?
About the same insight as I have about the city of Houston TX as you have. I live here and know the city, people that have been to Iraq/Afghanistan have been there and seen first hand what is going on there. Guess that doesn't make me a liberal because I don't claim to be an expert on subjects I know little about.
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So you admit that your knowledge is second hand.
[/B]But you have so much to say, for not being an expert, on anything...
You do have a problem comprehending what is posted, don't you. Where in my post did I say the rich screw the middle class?
If you were as alert as you claim to be you would have been able to deduce from my post that the Republicans screw the middle class in favoring the rich. It isn't the wealthy who are to blame, of course they will accept tax cuts, even though there are some that are Patriotic and even wrote a letter to Obama begging him to let the tax cuts expire. That many Republicans happen to be wealthy and thus benefit from their own coddling is besides the point, but still, it is the party that screws the middle class.
I back up my statements with facts especially regarding this thread topic.
[/B]Is that a fact?:2razz:
My opinion comes from personal observations in a previous war, and the media, yes. The media isn't always wrong, except Fox News...Absolutely, never said it wasn't, the difference is that second hand information comes from a family member that I see and can personally talk to and have. Your second hand information comes from the media and somehow comparable to having a family member to communicate with. That is liberal, not moderate, logic.
My opinion comes from personal observations in a previous war, and the media, yes. The media isn't always wrong, except Fox News...
My opinion comes from personal observations in a previous war, and the media, yes. The media isn't always wrong, except Fox News...
Don't feel guilty about it...
The wife and I stimulated the economy more than our share the last 3 years, closed out almost all of my tax deferred savings to pay for a retirement house in Utah, while still maintaining a house in AZ. No new cars, tho. We still have ample income and more than enough savings in the wife's accounts. BUT, we are done with that for a while, until we NEED a new car.
Smart people take care of themselves, and their personal economies. We can't take pesonal responsibility for the national economy.
We all know why we got into the mess, but the problem is Obama hasn't done what was necessary to get us out quicker. Instead he is prolonging the nightmare with his big govt. community agitator programs. Promoting job growth doesn't mean bailing out the unions.
Doesn't mean bailing out Bank of America, AIG, or Goldman-Sachs either. Obama has his constituency, and Senate Republicans have theirs, although I hope the tea party has scared them a little now.
Same here - I've paid off a good portion of my credit cards, paid off my truck - and I have no intention of getting back into debt once I'm out unless it's extremely important.
I'm not about to feel bad about beefing up my savings account in the process, either.
You can do really well running a website like that? Just curious...The girl is doing real well, will have hers paid off in a few years if things keep going as they are. She co-owns a website that is part couponing, part affilate marketing, part "how to save money on purchases" forum.
You can do really well running a website like that? Just curious...
second hand is second hand, no matter how you cut it....your info is no better than his.Absolutely, never said it wasn't, the difference is that second hand information comes from a family member that I see and can personally talk to and have. Your second hand information comes from the media and somehow comparable to having a family member to communicate with. That is liberal, not moderate, logic.
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