Romney to announce running mate Saturday in Virginia
August 10, 2012 at 5:41 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Mitt Romney’s campaign says the presumed Republican presidential nominee will announce his running mate Saturday morning in Norfolk, Va. Continue Reading
Paul Ryan’s guiding light is Ayn Rand as is Wall Street’s. Odd that conservatives embrace a philosophy of greed & atheism ala Rand. As De Touqueville said in his treatise “On America”, radical individualism will eventually destroy America. That is exactly what the “Objectivist” philosophy of Rand is about. It is also the view of people like ex fed chair Alan Greenspan who was an intimate follower of Rand. It is really a philosophy of neo Fascism or as some have said, “if Fascism comes to America it will arrive in the guise of a”pinstripe suit” thus “pinstripe fascism”.
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I should add, here we have a Wall Street philosophy of greed that crashed the world economy being the path Romney decides is the one to follow as exemplified in his VP pick of Paul Ryan. Absolutely sickening & amazing.
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The republicans have been taken over by the tea party mentality with lots of bucks. How many votes all this money gets them is yet to be seen. On paper there is no difference in the policies of Romney and Bush. Ryan supports the trickle down fairy dust policies that have given huge body blows to the middle and working class and put the fat cats on record breaking profits. Oh yeah-it just about put our economy in a melt down. Is that what we want….?
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Dontcha know he now says he never really believed in her.
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HaHa
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So we have 36 people that think Ayn Rand’s philosophy is a good way to run a society.
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oh Jeez now were all in trouble !!!!!!!
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If you mean that the idea of him being one chair away from being president like the idea that Palin would have been….You’re right? However I really don’t think it will get that far. Other than the fox party die hards he’s not really well liked most anywhere…..About like Palin…
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kinda like our current VP. what has biden ever done anyway?
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Here is Paul Ryan’s view of life.
http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_ARand.htm
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Ryan claims that happiness and individual liberty requires limited government. Of course, as a base-solidifying GOP theocrat, Ryan thinks those governmental limitations don’t extend to women and gays — whose bodies and lives should be regulated and controlled according to his dogma.
The paradox is that even US catholic bishops have taken Ryan to task over the likely impact of his policies on the poor.
Probable effect? Like Palin, Ryan will solidify a base that likely would have held its nose and voted for the GOP candidate anyway. The bad news (for Romney) is that the choice will probably send independents and moderates to Obama.
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justasec, good comments but I don’t think Ryan is a theocrat as a devotee of Ayn Rand.
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well said johnb. what we presently have is a bunch of DO NOTHING idiots.
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Exactly republican Mitch McConnell’s plan-even to the detriment of American workers…..Anything to make Obama look bad-he even said it was his number one priority. Who carries water for these guys…..sheeeeesh.
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. Ryan embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand. Ryan heaped praise on Ayn Rand, a 20th-century libertarian novelist best known for her philosophy that centered on the idea that selfishness is “virtue.” Rand described altruism as “evil,” condemned Christianity for advocating compassion for the poor, viewed the feminist movement as “phony,” and called Arabs “almost totally primitive savages. Though he publicly rejected “her philosophy” in 2012, Ryan had professed himself a strong devotee. “The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” he said at a D.C. gathering honoring the author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.” “I give out ‘Atlas Shrugged’ as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it. Well… I try to make my interns read it.” Learn more about Ryan’s muse:
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Here’s Ryan’s own words on Rand.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79597.html
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Here’s more real Ryan & his oil interests.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/06/17/247570/paul-ryan-family-beneft-subsidies-for-big-oil-in-his-budget/
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Winston Churchill
I would have preferred Condoleeza Rice…but this will work.
This selection highlights the difference in world outlook between Jimmy Carter…oops.. I mean Obama….and the FREE world.
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So alwayscorrect, you prefer rule by elites of Wall Street ,i.e. fascism?
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You need to check the definitions of “capitalism” and “fascism.”
Obama and big government equates fascism.
Romney and capitalism equates freedom.
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Fascism is rule by corporate elites. Mussolini invented it.
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Why do the republicans back fascism….? Don’t they know the correct definition…? Bush and Henry Paulson’s decision to bail out the banks (with bonuses) proves this is not capitalism. Quit watching the propaganda channel and you will learn these thing.
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The republican party has officially distanced itself from middle america and now has to face the consequences. Romney was a shaky canidate to begin with and now has left all the undecided voters with absolutly no choice but to vote for a liberal or independent canidate. This choice shows the republican party is outdated and ran by a bunch of old dogs that are not in touch with reality.
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Your defenition of capitalism reminds me a lot of communist russia. A seperation of wealth and power where few have the wealth and many live in poverty.
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Take a look at the history of Germany….remember East and West Germany?
Which was more prosperous?
The great thing about the US, is that if you believe Wall Street is where the money is, you can go there and make your fortune.
Problem is….you have to do the work….the Government isn’t gonna hand it to you.
That is the tough part for the Obamanation.
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I really don’t think that East Germany and the United States are in any way comparable. That’s what you were saying, isn’t it?
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5% of Americans control 60% of the wealth.
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What wealth? We are reaching a critical mass here soon of where we will have less capital then we have debt. To put things into perspective
To put China’s ownership of U.S. debt in perspective, its holding of $1.2 trillion is even larger than the amount owned by American households. U.S. citizens hold only about $959 billion in U.S. debt, according to the Federal Reserve.
Other large foreign holders of U.S. debt include Japan, which owns $912 billion; the United Kingdom, which owns $347 billion; Brazil, which holds $211 billion; Taiwan, which holds $153 billion; and Hong Kong, which owns $122 billion.
Here is a graphic that actually shows the kind of trouble we are in.. usdebt.kleptocracy.us/
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Just to be clear.. I don’t support Mittens Wrongmy or NOBama.
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Is that why the CP still runs Russia even after socialism supposedly failed? Every one has housing, health care, education & food. Taxes have to be high to pay for those things, something the rich refuse to do in the US.
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Obama and prince Harry R have not had one budget bill vote in the Sanate in over 3 years. Senator Reed funds our government with continuing resolutions, so NO OVERSIGHT of our spending priorities exist! They just keep spending off the emergency budget. Big expensive funding to state and city government that we, they can not afford.Local governments need to take control of their spending especially in education, police and fire employment. I hope this returns to a local based tax so a little sanity can return to local government spending. After all, I do not want to bail out the state of California or any state that has spent excessively and resisted raising it own taxes, nor do I want to bail out year after year local governments who will not get their fiscal house in order! Ryan and Republicans have had the courage to put out a budget in the House and are being honest with the American People unlike Obama and company.
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You have to use pundit speak to make a point? Yes….Is a wonder boy who wants to take from those who have the least so those that have the most can continue to amass more than they could ever spend…….Here’s an idea….A report out of London (I think that’s where it came from) that was investigating how many Britians were getting away without paying taxes by hiding it in off shore accounts like Mittens is doing had also found that the American Wealth in those banks could be as much as five or six “Trillion” of untaxed moneys. To top it off some of those “Too Big To Fail” banks that we bailed out have set up banks down there to hold this wealth for tax invaders so they too are a part of bilking America….How about letting them keep their holy as hell tax cut, but actually declare ALL THIER WEALTH to be taxed……If they can work and live in America under our freedoms then they damn well should be able to pay their fair share of the tax load….Then you and I wont be carrying such a huge load of the basics like law enforcement, Fire, Public safety, Helping the poor (Who are often the elderly now days……Enough of this Ryan nonsense of attacking those with the least to allow those with the most to get by with more than they can ever possibly even spend
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johnb, did you read my post about the scam Ryan works with oil companies?
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Democrats believe Americans want food stamps, welfare checks and Obamacare, unlike some posters here I believe most Americans need and want a job! The welfare states of the past have ceased to exist. This will be the most important election of. my lifetime, perhaps in the history of our country because it is between the dependent socialist system versus the freedom of capitalism. This rise of power of socialism is the allaince of government workers and the welfare class. The irony here is government unions have received so much more than most tax payers the last 20 years that we can not afford their benefits much longer. Let local and state governments deal with the problem they have created!!
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Democrat do not want people on welfare or food stamps. Your statement is wrong. The amazing thing is that the Democrats are the ones who have actually balanced the budget and it’s the Republicans who spend us into a hole with wars when they happen to get some power. Now we are still climbing out of the largest hole the US has been in since the depression. It’s take a few more years, but we’ll get it done.
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You’re like one of those people who get duped but the Prince From Kenya scam or some other scam that sounds too good to be true….You feel sorry for them because they lost so much, but not too sorry because they really should know better……..
I guess you’re right…You’ve bought into the pundit propaganda so deeply that you really are a lost cause…..Until one day when it finally effects you or someone you care about……You can only hope it doesn’t get that bad, but if you’re gung ho on taking the ill wills out on those who have the least….Then don’t come around like you have some compassion about these issues, because you don’t…You’re on the self centered “I got mine so the hell with you” train……That’s damn sad…
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Now that’s just damn funny as hell….The Repo’s are middle America….if you dropped the fox trots you keep falling for…….You too would get a great belly laugh on that one…..Hell son….Nobody’s for middle America….That’s what happens when you have a bought and paid for government…..Middle America is just played to around election time. Otherwise….We’re secondary to the big money players regardless what side you’re on…..A few less Dems who have completely sold their souls….But generally the vast majority sell out middle America all the time
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You guys are truely a laugh riot….You never ever notice the huge Wambulance parades every time someone on the left says the slightest thing that desturbs any of you…..And yet you have little nads to actually turn that to the libs…..Must say though….Hard for the right to ever realize their own faults when they go through life wearing blinders and only see a tunnel vision version that’s layed out for them…….You’re being played by the very people you support….and played like fools……..
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I like/respect you Tundra, but try looking in the mirror once in awhile.
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Alwayscorrect and richard, truth about our pending economic collapse because of all the deficit spending of the last 30 years is too much reality for some on this site who are unwilling or incapable of understanding our problem. It is hard too believe Obama could run up five trillion his first term, but if you want socialism it gets expensive. Paul Ryan, a very bright man, will shine the spotlight on our presidents total mismanagement of our country. Community activist just does not prepare you for the office of president does it? I wish he was competent, but our reality proves he’s not!
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johnb, how about a constitutional scholar from Harvard.
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seriously. did you just try to pass obama off as a constitutional scholar from harvard? what a joke.
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Not true Kalani?
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How about this Kalani?
UC Law School statement: The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as “Senior Lecturer.” From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
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A majority of Americans are getting ready to show you that he is a very good president deserving of reelection.
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Always, or be born on third with a silver spoon in your rear end!
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Silver spoon like Romney & Ryan, Ron.
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if you knew anything about obama you would know he attended the most EXPENSIVE private school (punahou) on oahu. despite his mom being a hippy anthropology type – obama was given plenty of $$$ from his kansas grandparents.
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I suppose that’s why he just got done paying off his student loans just a few years ago when his first book was a success….
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The real contrast will be Representative Ryan who has submitted a budget each of the last two years only to have the senate NOT vote on any budget, even their own presidents. If the senate had voted, it would have activated the Budget Reconcilliation act and a REAL BUDGET would only need 51 votes! Hence, they did just what Obama wanted so he could continue his spending spree! I love this country but FIVE TRILLION OBAMA DEBT is pushing us to bankruptcy. Why do government workers love taxing and spending even if it pushes up our debt. Some may be a little greedy???
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Exactly spearman
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I used to believe that Obama didn’t know what he was doing and that scared me. Now, I find out the agenda he is tracking on is exactly what is his ideology and that frightens the hell out of me.
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Obama is governing as a moderate. If you think he’s liberal, there’s fully a third of the Democratic party that would beg to differ because they think he is not liberal enough. I thought everybody was clued into this by now.
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It’s sad, not one comment has a green box around it yet; it’s a shame that nobody can come to the same conclusion, playing policitics is bad for America and we should stick together no matter who is elected.
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The worst of this current partisanship was introduced by Karl Rove. He was the one that injected venomous negative ads into the Republican primary when Bush was running against McCain. He was relentless, and unfortunately, he was successful and everybody noticed. Subsequently, it got even worse with the Swiftboaters in the 2004 election and now with all limits gone from campaign finance, it has become a mud slinging fest. Bad feelings remain after the election is over and you get increasing partisanship. I hope that we will stop listening to all the negative ads and just vote for who we think will do the best job. We only have one president at a time and that person deserves the support of all Americans. It used to be patriotic to support our President, but some factions these days think they have a right to undermine him.
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Realist, you’re right, the racist factions.
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Karl Rove, Roger Ales, and the kings of talk radio have been on a non stop propaganda attack for many years now…….Unfortunately there’s too many who never actually read info anyplace else to find out just what a crock these guys are selling….It’s on huge stinking pile of skunk dung, and they buy it hook, line, and sinker then come on here pushing the same talking point verbatum. Kind of difficult to debate with people who have fallen under what’s akin to an occult following to the extreme right…
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Not quite…..I agree that most main stream media is really doing a poor job really covering the news, but that’s because the fools are spending too much time trying to do Opinion pieces like fox. Fox used to be an actual news channel, but they gave up on that several years ago when they started to move to mostly opinion programming. Now days about the only time there’s actual news is when it’s too big to be ignored. Otherwise it’s all anti anything on the left…all the time.
If the FCC had the nads they’d do something like Canada does where any inaccurate reporting has to have a public retraction within a certain period of time or there’s a fine…..fox tried to get it overturned in Canada because Murdock wanted a fox Canada, but the wise people of Canada came out in force and insisted they didn’t change it. We’d lose fox America with such regs.
Hell! Since the airwaves are public, then there should be a certain percentage of content that’s actual news (85 maybe) for a outlet to be able to actually call itself a news channel. Fox should be listed as an “Opinion Channel” …..Not news
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He doesn’t need to solidify the right-wing behind him; they’re already on board. He needs to reach out to independents and that will have become impossible with the selection of Ryan. Now it’s totally clear that the tea party has swallowed up the Republican party whole. Obama’s going to win in another landslide.
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The Right is not behind Romney by a long shot. and the Tea party was diffently not behind romney .He is the Republican establishment canidate That the right and tea party will support because he is not obama but as soon as he is elected we will be watching his every move and looking for a more sutiable replacment.
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“we”? Do you have a turd in your pocket?
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Wow! Jeff actually contributes to the conversation with valid points. Mark a like on that post! Keep them rolling jeff.
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Finally a politician that wants to tackle the debt of nearly $16,000,000,000,000. Time to cut up the credit card!
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Charlie, the republicans don’t support romney and the independents will not support ryan? Who is going to vote for this ticket? What in the world is going on with the republican party? Are they really this dillusional? I don’t even see where a moderate republican would want to vote republican this election!
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But the republicans do support Ryan and the Independents tolerate Romney and everyone agrees that the last three and a half years were pretty misirable. And moderates they are the happy ones how can die hard republicans be happy. Romney is not that far right of center on many issues.
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You mean Romney is misrepresenting his views to get elected? Everything he’s actually said paints him as a far right conservative. His selection of Ryan will make any backpedaling he might have tried to do unlikely. Face it: the Republican Party has gone over to Goldwater-style conservatism, and we all know how that turned out.
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Sorry Realist, but I think you’re just a hair off on that one…..This group would think Goldwater was too far to the left for them. He had wacky ideas, but in some respects he was at least willing to work across the isle……And even though he had strong opposition to the Dems he never seemed to advocate a one party system like these guys do
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Ryan on the ticket will force the discussion of our economic future, including entitlements! Discussion of entitlements like social security and medicare are scarry subjects for us all but small changes today may save our benefits without bankrupting our chilodren. Democrats have a long history of demagoguery on this third rail of politics, but the time of reckoning is comming soon so I hope we have this disussion so we can save this important benefit for all of us! We can print more money as Obama’s strategy but we need a REAL SOLUTION!
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I agree with you on this, but one of the main reasons this was hard to accomplish was that the Republican House did not want anything to do with voting for anything Obama might propose. They didn’t even support their own ideas if Obama supported them too. Will the Republicans decide they need to play ball when Obama is reelected? I hope so.
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Realist, you are a good obama Democrat! Just blame George Bush and the other party. Take credit for the good and blame others for the bad. We have seen obama philosophy give us 5 TRILLION MORE DEBT!
It is important to note when Mr obamma came into office he had a filibuster proof senate and a confortable majority in the house! WHAT HAPPENED, WHY DID NOT HE FIX IT???? Republicans could not stop anything!!!
I am glad that you recogonize this as a serious problem, however.
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Spearman, you have a number of posts tying Ryan to Wall Street and corporate America. The irony is that in both the 2008 and 2010 elections Wall Street, corporations and their executives contributed more to democrats than republicans. The democrats have done a fantastic job of tying republicans to corporate America when the truth is that both major parties tow the line for those interests. You also blame republicans for the economic woes caused by excesses of big banks while ignoring the fact that those excesses would not have been possible without the repeal of Glass-Steagall during the Clinton presidency; Glass-Steagall was enacted following the 1929 stock market crash for the purpose of keeping banks out of the speculative high risk markets. Clinton reaped the benefit of the repeal during his presidency and the country ultimately paid when the speculation by banks caught up. By the way, Clinton was also the president who cut the capital gains tax rate. I think Clinton was a good president, but don’t forget he cut taxes and spending.
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Joe, public sector unions, especially the teacher unions are creating alot of this information and misinformation for their membership to distribute! Unfortunately most is distorted and inaccurate. They fear anyone that can articulate a strong case against public sector unions. Paul Ryan’s number crunching will expose our inability to continue funding education without reform. Hence, they will do and say anything to discredit this good man!
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Clinton has described how he was forced by Rethuglicans to repeal Glass-Steagall. He says now he regrets letting them pressure him. I believe it was a Rethuglican bill.
At any rate Wall Street is steeped in the libertarianism of A. Rand as is Romney/Ryan. That is not the politics of Pres. Obama. The repeal of Glass-Steagall had everything to do with libertarianism’s “social Darwinist” worldview. I call it half baked “fundamentalist economics”.
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Those were bad sins, but NAFTA was the mortal sin…….That did more to damage the American worker than anything else….
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But charlie, the past 3 1/2 years have been better than the 8 before them! America knows which party is the problem and will show it in november. There are plenty of obama supporters Outside of the media (which has money to support its agenda) and this rediculously conservative state and area of minnesota.
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Sure if you enjoy govment running your life. handing out your money in unemployment extensions, Undermining our national security, cramming down socialist policies, and just generally being lied to over and over again then the last 3.5 years were geat. But if you wanted to open a limeonade stand, Belive in traditional marriage or god, Take a road trip accross the US then IT wasn’t so great.
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We must not live in the same country. I don’t see the government running my life in the least bit. I just don’t. I’m a business person and business is great, I live my life in harmony with my neighbors and nobody tells me what to do. I enjoy the peace of mind that comes with having a social safety net in the form of Social Security and Medicare and I can do whatever I please when it comes to my religous preferences. The only hassle I have with marriage is when reletives divorce and create disharmony in the family. Having more people happily married is a good thing. You can live where I live too.
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P.s. berg needs to make an actual statement about what he stands for instead of attacks and blanket party statements. His opponent is one tough woman that does have the ability to be elected as a democrat in north dakota
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As a firm Heidi supporter, I hope he continues doing what he’s doing. Actually, telling people what he stands for might make it harder for him to get elected, which is looking pretty grim for him right now.
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Spearman, so if Clinton was “forced” to repeal Glass-Steagall it is only logical that the economic boom of the Clinton years was attributable to the Republicans as well. But I am certain that in your view any bad Clinton policies were forced by the Republicans but all of the good Clinton policies were somehow slipped by without their participation. The more obvious explanation is the Republican controlled congress along with president Clinton successfully cut taxes and spending, something neither part has been able to do since. The economic policies during the Clinton years were the result of cooperation without extreme positions by either major party, something that is currently absent from both parties. While I don’t particularly care for the extreme positions taken by the Republican party, I at least find them to be honest in stating their intention. In contrast, I do not find President Obama at al credible; it scares me to believe that he was actually caught on tape explaining a foreign policy position to a Russian diplomat and remarking that they just needed to wait until after the election. The country needs a democrat willing to cut spending and taxes like Clinton or a Republican willing to abandon the silly positions on social issues like Reagan.
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Romney/Ryan/Rand’s Libertarian & neo-liberal economic strategies are basically synonymous. That is the economic mindset of austerity for the many & business as usual for the 5% or the 15 million that own 60% of the economy. It is a large Ponzi scheme to keep the 94% off balance by continuing to hide the illigitimacy of the current oligarchic arrangement. By another name it is rule by the elites or fascism, i.e. corporate rule. Anyone who believes in “social Darwinism” is by definition a fascist. It has become stylish & acceptable as a social system to believe that accd. to “radical individualism” people deserve what they get. “I’ve got mine you get yours” is our motto & we sweeten it up & call it “personal responsibility”. Hogwash! The economic system is structured to maintain the private ownership of the means of production thereby keeping the majority without its needs being met. What conservatives understand is that every time the masses make progress economically an economic downturn needs to be initiated. It is actually the ruling class going on strike to reverse the gains made by the quasi democratic processes by taking back the gains made by the people.
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Poverty? Define povery.
It is not poverty that worries people like you, it is ecomomic inequality.
“Why We Can’t End Poverty In America: It’s The Ignorance
The reason we can’t end poverty in America is not because the country isn’t rich enough to do that: it is rather because of the ignorance of those who would end poverty in America. Peter Edelman has an Op/Ed in the New York Times which shows this to horrific effect. And what’s really worrying is that Edelman is supposedly one of the experts on how we ought to reduce poverty.
One point that has to be made about poverty right at the start: to all intents and purposes America, like all other industrialised nations, has abolished poverty. What we have traditionally called poverty that is. Proper destitution, people dying of starvation in the streets from the lack of the wherewithal to purchase food. Absent drug or mental problems this simply does not happen any more. The reason being that we’ve all had those industrial revolutions and the societies are rich enough that we make sure such doesn’t happen. Sure, different places have different ways of doing it, some more governmental and tax based than others, but that basic job of feeding the starving, clothing the naked and sheltering the homeless does get done.”
Tim Worstall (Forbes)
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Most of the people with grand ideas about poverty have had little to no contact with those who are in that condition. I read on these boards all the time idealog that comes from impressions from afar. Judgements like that is akin to someone describing a long journey that they’ve observed from a helicopter and trying to express what it’s like being on the road……If they’d get down on the road and mingle a while they’d most likely have a far different outlook one way or other
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Yeh, food shelves are great.
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they are not great…they are not poverty either.
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Always, You’ve got to be kidding!
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Are you serious? Watch Ryan get chewed up and spit out. Did you know he only wrote 2 bills that made it into law in his entire almost 14 year House carreer? One was to rename a post office and the other was to amend a tax on arrows, that’s right, arrows. What a stellar carreer it’s been. I’m sure he’s batting about even with Palin on qualifications.
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Good point…
people should contrast his record with that of Barack Obama in the Senate.
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Ancient history my friend. You don’t get to run the Ryan of today against the Obama before he was elected president. Obama stacks up pretty well with his record against Romney who’s on run the Olympics for a few months and made money by picking the bones of bankrupt companies. Romeny showed his true self when he alienated everybody including the Prime Minister of England and the Mayor of London when he was on his world tour.
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yeh…big mistake…telling the truth.
Can’t win elections by telling the truth…
That is why you will never get it from Obama.
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Did Barack have a single bill he sponsored or sponsored that became law? Zero! Zero on both counts! Barack needs to run on his pathetic record instead of lying about his opposition!
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I do not count cosponsering bill which they both have done. Sponsor meaning one the authors of a bill!
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This is 2012 not 2008. You have to face facts and one of those facts is that Romney didn’t do anybody in the Repubican Party any favors by picking Ryan for VP.
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Charlie, I believe in traditional marriage defined as 2 people who love each other! Not only reserved for a man and a woman but any 2 people who are in love. No one is attacking marriage they are only shedding outdated bigatory thinking
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Charlie, I don’t see the government running my daily life. I choose where I work, how I get there, what I do after work, and generally everything I do in my life. Government would not be involved with buisness if buisness truly could regulate itself. Look at wallstreet and the gulf oil spill as 2 examples. Bush sending troops into 2 wars across the world was more of a threat to national security than anything obama has done. Obama actually is bringing our troops back to our soil where they belong!
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Both of the Middle east wars were for oil. I should know I was in one.
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What does that have to do with what Ron said?
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Realist, your opinion only! It is a shame you do not want to talk about entitlement reform, debt control, education reform, public service union reform, or any of the other important issues we face in the US. President has had his chance and he has failed at responsible leadership. His problem is his lack of business education and experience. We have states on the verge of bankruptsy and multiple cities already bankrupt. States like California will not raise their state or property taxes on individuals. IT WOULD BE UNFAIR THAT WE CONTINUE TO FUND THEIR IRRESPONSIBILITY WITH FEDERAL DOLLARS! His community organizing taught him how to divide America and he has done a great job at that. Paul Ryan will focus this election on the difficult decisions we need to make as Americans. Our oppinions are important but lets spend equal time on these important issues. I think you realize your man has not done a very good job!
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Do you go through all of your life with such blinders on? All these ill going on in the states are largely the cause by your damn fox party in the house. All these cuts that were forced to approve funding the budget had to come from somplace….Your boys wouldn’t allow the extreme wealthy to kick in even what they kicked in before your Bush put up two war fronts and lessoned the intake. You boys held a gun to the heads of the Dems and basically forced these cuts so there’d be no money to “Trickle down” to the states like in the past…..Your side is so damn rediculus…You do the damage and then spin it to make it the Dems……Like your boys were just innocent bystandars or something…..Pull you head out of the arse end of fox and you might actually see what’s going on….Man…If you don’t start looking for real news sources you’ll just continue spouting misinformation….
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johnb, does the below sound like it is fair to treat the POTUS as just a commuity organizer?
President Obama graduated from Columbia Univ. with a degree in political science in 1982. He worked in the financial sector in NYC for a year but decided to find more meaningful work in Chicago as a community organizer @ age 23 in 1985. He did that for 3 yrs. until he was 26.
Faced with the frustrations of community organizing, after those 3 years in Chicago, Obama decided to apply his skills in the wider world. He entered Harvard Law School in 1988, became the first African-American president of Harvard Law Review in 1990, and earned his law degree in 1991. He returned to Chicago to work as a civil rights lawyer and teach at the University of Chicago Law School. He eventually won a seat in the Illinois State Senate and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
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The Romney/Ryan jobs program is welfare for the rich investors in the defense industry. The US spends more on providing the world with weapons than all other countries put together. Now that’s a jobs program! Rethuglican’s need to live up to their name I guess.
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Have you thought of the Social Security issue in these terms? Who spent the SS Fund money that has been received from contributions by workers ever since the inception of SS. The SS fund would be in the black indefinitely, but the money has just disappeared! This in my mind is the real crime of the century. Just exactly how much has our out of control military / industrial complex robbed from the SS fund!!!! What is the problem? Remember that fifty two percent of every tax dollar is allocated to the military! This my friends is nuts!!! And needs to change; problem is – who has the courage to take on these criminals!!!
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fifty per cent of every dollar is allocated to the military?
Where did you get that statistic….some doped up sixties throwback in San Francisco.
What’s that you say…oh yes…I forgot…Nancy Pelosi.
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The amount per $ is not 52% but about 5-7%.
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My 52% came from the fact that of all discretionary spending 52-54% is defense related. see below.
The U.S. Department of Defense budget accounted in fiscal year 2010 for about 19% of the United States federal budgeted expenditures and 28% of estimated tax revenues. Including non-DOD expenditures, defense spending was approximately 28–38% of budgeted expenditures and 42–57% of estimated tax revenues. According to the Congressional Budget Office, defense spending grew 9% annually on average from fiscal year 2000–2009.
Because of constitutional limitations, military funding is appropriated in a discretionary spending account. (Such accounts permit government planners to have more flexibility to change spending each year, as opposed to mandatory spending accounts that mandate spending on programs in accordance with the law, outside of the budgetary process.) In recent years, discretionary spending as a whole has amounted to about one-third of total federal outlays. Department of Defense spending’s share of DISCRETIONARY spending was 50.5% in 2003, and has risen to between 53% and 54% in recent years.[31]
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Always, no response?
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