Debra Law
 
  1  
Thu 7 May, 2009 06:15 pm
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:

All the conservatives know how to do is bitch, bitch, and bitch with no solutions coming from their side of the isle. Wonder of wonders that they did nothing to stop Bush and his spending - while the GOP congress approved almost everything Bush wanted - including the veto power the president didn't use to cut the budget.

Bunch of hypocrites.


Did you mention solutions? Didn't you read the conservative handbook instructing their conservative GOP candidates on healthcare reform talking points?

No. 10: Tell the voters that the Democrat plan is bad for America. But if you offer no vision for what's better for America, you'll be relegated to insignificance at best and labeled obstructionist at worst. What Americans are looking for in healthcare that your "solution" will provide is, in a word, more: "more access to more treatments and more doctors...with less interference from insurance companies and Washington politicians and special interest."

The handbook, entitled "The Language of Healthcare 2009," instructs GOP conservative candidates how to master the art of Orwellian word manipulation. Thus, their solution (whatever it is--the details are unknown) will provide MORE of what America wants (goody-goody stuff!) and LESS of what America doesn't want (oogedy-boogedy stuff).

cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Thu 7 May, 2009 06:24 pm
@Debra Law,
Wonder of wonders; more conservatives have lost their jobs and homes, and the conservatives want to cut them off from having universal health care and supplements to carry them over while they wait to find jobs after they've been laid off from their jobs. They think it's strictly a liberal problem and all conservatives have enough assets to carry them over until our economy picks up again. After all, this is a transfer of wealth from the workers to the non-workers.

They can't see their own hypocrisy.
Debra Law
 
  1  
Thu 7 May, 2009 06:38 pm
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:

Wonder of wonders; more conservatives have lost their jobs and homes, and the conservatives want to cut them off from having universal health care and supplements to carry them over while they wait to find jobs after they've been laid off from their jobs. They think it's strictly a liberal problem and all conservatives have enough assets to carry them over until our economy picks up again. After all, this is a transfer of wealth from the workers to the non-workers.

They can't see their own hypocrisy.


All the while their de facto leader Limbaugh mocks the recession and rubs his 400 million dollar contract into the faces of the unemployed.
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H2O MAN
 
  0  
Thu 7 May, 2009 09:51 pm
@realjohnboy,


Don't you worry about a thing, just sit there an eat that government
cheese, eat all you want and wash it down with government Kool-Aid.

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs012.snc1/2912_77964574775_758674775_1594156_3433336_s.jpg

Everything will be OK, you have nothing to worry about... you can relax.
McTag
 
  2  
Fri 8 May, 2009 02:27 am
@H2O MAN,

Conservatives ran the banks, major industries, and the whole economy into the ground.
Mr Obama is trying to fix it.
He deserves credit, support, and praise.
In many sensible quarters, he gets it too.
Woiyo9
 
  -1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 06:07 am
@McTag,
Quote:
Conservatives ran the banks, major industries,


What?

How naive you must be to think only Conservative run Major Corporations.

You ******* people are living in some fantasy world. Rolling Eyes

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=F03
parados
 
  2  
Fri 8 May, 2009 06:41 am
@Woiyo9,
Quote:
only Conservative run Major Corporations.


How can you say that only conservatives run corporations Woiyo?






(It's so easy to attack someone when you only use part of their sentences. You might want to read McTag's entire sentence Woiyo.)
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H2O MAN
 
  -1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 06:41 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:


Conservatives ran the banks, major industries, and the whole economy into the ground.


Offer up some real proof of this claim... you can't because it's BS.
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H2O MAN
 
  -1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 06:52 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:



Mr Obama is trying to fix it.
He deserves credit, support, and praise.



The jobless rate just hit 8.9 percent and PrezBO gets the much
deserved credit, support, and praise for today's high jobless rate.
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H2O MAN
 
  -1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 08:11 am


This nations debt is so freaking high under Obama that if we were a European country, we would
not be allowed to join the European union of countries because our dept is so freaking high Shocked
cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 09:54 am
@H2O MAN,
Hey, waterboy, how high a debt is too high, and what is the current debt?

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mysteryman
 
  1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 02:44 pm
@H2O MAN,
Quote:
This nations debt is so freaking high under Obama that if we were a European country, we would
not be allowed to join the European union of countries because our dept is so freaking high


And you continue to ignore the fact that Bush and his admin are a big reason the debt is so high.
Yes, its true that under Obama it will skyrocket (if he gets everything he is asking for), but right now much of the debt belongs to the Bush admin.
You cannot blame Obama for something Bush did.
mysteryman
 
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Fri 8 May, 2009 03:00 pm
I am curious how the Obama admin is going to defend this...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/07/administration-proposes-significant-cuts-benefits-slain-officers/

Quote:
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is asking Congress to slash almost in half a 43-year-old Justice Department program that provides death, disability and education benefits to the families of slain police and public safety officers.

President Obama's 2010 budget reduces funding for the Public Safety Officers' Death Benefits Program from $110 million this year to $60 million for next year's budget.

The program, which pays benefits of more than $300,000 to the survivors of a safety officer killed in the line of duty, received $118 million in 2008.


So the program that pays benefits to families of officers killed in the line of duty is having its funding cut?
That sure seems like a compassionate act, doesnt it?

Quote:
A Justice Department finance spokeswoman told FOX News that the proposed cut is a false statistic because the program requires "mandatory funding," which means the money is automatically paid to all the families of slain officers.


snip

Quote:
Any family member who is eligible for benefits under this program will receive them," she said. "If the amount of claims surpasses the amount requested, the program will be further funded."


So they are going to cut the funding, but will ask for more money if its needed.
That will increase the deficit, wont it?
parados
 
  2  
Fri 8 May, 2009 03:08 pm
@mysteryman,

Obama isn't going to fund a program that might not need the funds that are going to it. But if it needs more than more will be added later.

So.. Can you tell us exactly how many safety officers will die in the 2010 budget year MM? Once we have that number from you we can judge whether the program is under funded or not.
mysteryman
 
  1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 03:13 pm
@parados,
Are you saying now that before someone can criticize something then that person must be able to see into the future?

Thats just assinine, and you know it.

But, to answer your question, lets look at the numbers so far...

Quote:
Killings of police officers reached their lowest point in decades last year, but are rising so far this year.

So far this year, 45 officers have died in the line of duty, according to The Officer Down Memorial Page Web site. By the end of May 2008, 43 officers had been killed. For all of 2008, 134 officers died in the line of duty.


So, the numbers of cops dying on duty has gone UP this year, and I see no reason for that to change.
But, even 1 is too many.

Tell me, do you tthink families of cops killed on duty deserve this money?
mysteryman
 
  1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 03:27 pm
I guess Obama doesnt care about polar bears either...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30635672/

Quote:
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will retain a Bush-era rule for polar bears, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday, in a move that angered activists who noted the rule limits what can be done to protect the species from global warming.

The administration had faced a weekend deadline to decide whether it should allow government agencies to cite the federal Endangered Species Act, which protects the bear, to impose limits on greenhouse gases from power plants, factories and automobiles even if the emissions occur thousands of miles from where the polar bear lives.

"We must do all we can to help the polar bear recover, recognizing that the greatest threat to the polar bear is the melting of Arctic sea ice caused by climate change," Salazar said in a statement. "However, the Endangered Species Act is not the proper mechanism for controlling our nation’s carbon emissions.


So will we see commercials and letters to the editor from the left about this, expressing the same outrage we saw when Bush and company passed this rule?

When can we expect the cries that Obama "doesnt care"?
parados
 
  2  
Fri 8 May, 2009 03:28 pm
@mysteryman,

You complained that Obama wasn't compassionate because he was cutting funding.

When examined, he only cut funding based on a prediction that the deaths would go down in 2010, not 2009. If the deaths don't go down the funding will be added later.

Your criticism was meaningless based on the actual story. There is no "lack of compassion" argument to be made. You could have attacked him for a wrong prediction of deaths of safety officers but you didn't. You attacked him as if he wasn't going to give any money to the survivors which was an obvious false attack.

So, if you can predict the number of officers, then you can argue that Obama isn't compassionate. Until then, your argument is garbage because Obama isn't cutting funding for survivors.
parados
 
  3  
Fri 8 May, 2009 03:30 pm
@mysteryman,
No.. read the story MM.

Quote:
"However, the Endangered Species Act is not the proper mechanism for controlling our nation’s carbon emissions.


Do you recognize that the Bush administration had a very different approach to controlling carbon emissions than that proposed by the Obama administration?

Do you want some cheese with your whine today MM?
mysteryman
 
  1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 03:32 pm
@parados,
Quote:
You attacked him as if he wasn't going to give any money to the survivors which was an obvious false attack.


I attacked the fact that he is cutting the funding, nothing more.
I didnt say, nor did I suggest, that he was going to eliminate the program.

Quote:
When examined, he only cut funding based on a prediction that the deaths would go down in 2010, not 2009. If the deaths don't go down the funding will be added later.


And where in the article was the prediction made that deaths would go down?
I saw nothing that even suggested that.

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mysteryman
 
  1  
Fri 8 May, 2009 03:34 pm
@parados,
I read the entire story, and it was quite clear.

The Obama admin is going to leave a Bush admin ruling in place.
How hard is that to understand?

And it is the same ruling that caused many on the left to complain that Bush didnt care about polar bears.
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