It�s Still the Economy, Stupid

“"The sad fact is anyone needs big bucks to run fir office so it has to come from somewhere. Many of those big contributors on your list give to both sides."
- Stratd00d


Exactly. Until we the people change how campaigns are financed, we'll remain a democracy in name only.”

“We are not a democracy for good reasons. You really want to give the government one more thing to do?

As long as there are two sets of rules, politicians will be bribed for loopholes.

If we break the rules, we get the Martha Stewart treatment. If corporations kill 50 people, pollute the Gulf and create an untold loss of income for us..nobody goes to jail. And nobody gets the blame. Business as usual.”

“It's too big, can't you see it violates the laws of Physics, it's like trying to change the course of a huge comet by shaking your Buy-bull at it.”

“...not with that attitude ;v)”

“V, there's no reasonably fair way that I've ever heard to change campaign finance, given the extremely left wing lamestream media bias.”

“I simply cannot imagine a viable way of changing campaign finance. Obama may be the first this go-around to spend a Billion campaigning, it cannot be beat.

Ron Paul is going to get agitated to have gained so much this election (finally), but not enough to gain the R ticket. So what are his choices? If he's dumb enough(yes, he is) to think he can actually get elected, then he'll transfer to an Indi ticket, there-by guaranteeing Obama the win. The other choice is bowing out, not likely. Besides, if I were he, I'd let America suffer another 4 years under Obama, and then either run again with greater success, or put together my son's presidential run.”

“His anti war/drug war and his dislike of the fed are the only things I share with Ron, but he as an(L)or(I) would draw somewhat equally from the (D) and (R).”

““I simply cannot imagine a viable way of changing campaign finance. Obama may be the first this go-around to spend a Billion campaigning, it cannot be beat."

Tax it, if you connies are right about the effects of taxes, we'll have little to zero $s in the politics even before the new tax is instated.”

“uncliff - " His anti war/drug war and his dislike of the fed are the only things I share with Ron"

Isn't that enough? Considering for a moment that we can no longer afford this constant expansion of the fed fighting endless wars against human nature..”

“Oh and Naked Ape...I don't think Ron Paul will be with us four years from now, odds are anyways. He doesn't expect to be President, he is just there to remind us what the Republican party once was.”

“Obama kills jobs, blames Republicans

[Url]http://nationaljournal.com/congress/obama-rejecting-pipeline-pokes-back-at-gop-20120118?mrefid=subhplead_1[/Url}”

““Obama kills jobs, blames Republicans". dOOd, when will you see that Obama is the Real Republican, not a neo-con republican or teavangelical republican, he's blaming what has happened to his once Republican Party.”

“Newt goes down in flames making the skin of female voters crawl. I want Ron Paul to win, but it's a victory already just knowing that Neocon Newt is toast.”

“The Lord's Potty is going Haywire, Hallehluja­h!”

“Howdy, Bateaux!

My brother lives in SC, and he's not looking forward to making a choice from this lot.”

“Santorum”

“Necks for 'Torum, what will the zouth come up with next? No birth control and a gov't doctor guarding every girls panties. Cheesus what is wrong with you hickie does and don'ts?”

“Cliff you've switched your mornin' med with your evenin' med, fix it ..... now.

Well hello bat ax! Been a little while. Hey I got a little something for you, Strat, and bait to chew over ..... President Biden. Howzat for skeery! If Obama keeps his vice, I'll be laying out bets .... who's in?!”

“Until this country spends 4.5% of world funding on military, which is proportional to our population, we will continue sinking into the this tar pit we've created.”

“Reports of Recovery Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
by Joel B. Pollak
http://biggovernment.com/jpollak/2012/01/23/reports-of-recovery-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/#more-414112
As President Barack Obama prepares for his State of the Union address in Congress, where he will no doubt claim credit for signs of economic recovery, new analyses by economists suggest that growth will slow and unemployment will remain virtually unchanged by year’s end.

According to economists surveyed by USA Today, much of the excitement around December retail sales was “hype,” and the fourth-quarter bounce was largely driven by post-earthquake/tsunami activity in Japan, not domestic policy. (When the economy suffers, the President blamed the earthquake; when it recovers, curiously, no earthquakes merit mention).

No longer buying Obama - in China or at home (Photo: CNN)

There is continued uncertainty in Europe, and even new uncertainty about slower Chinese growth. But the great drag on the economy remains the American housing market, according to economists, even though many of them expect prices to stop falling this year. Government interventions and bailouts under Obama and his predecessor may have deferred some pain but have prevented markets from full correction and recovery, reinforcing deep uncertainty.

The eagerness of many journalists to report the (real) positive developments of the past several weeks may have had as much to do with providing the president with a good message for the 2012 election year as with delivering good news to a public desperate for positive signs.

The 112th Congress has succeeded in restoring some fiscal and regulatory stability, but the president’s refusal to compromise on debt and deficit reduction has created new financial uncertainty. The U.S. is still the borrower of choice for global lenders–but only because the dollar remains the global currency, and because the rest of the world is in worse shape.

The President, for his part, continues deliberately to seek confrontation with his political opponents over even the most obscure details–confusing “taxes” and “revenues,” for example, in an attempt to paint Republican opposition to the former as intransigence on the latter. The result is a sense that the country is rudderless, its stagnant economy restrained by a government that insists on controlling more and more yet capable of managing less and less.”

“He must be a tea particle then.”

“When all the money is in foreign banks under One%er's names, that's what happens. What will Fib Newt-on do about that, offer a Lifetime of no taxes upon repatriation and an Aircraft Carrier Battle Group from your state under your name or lifetime free taxes on the Gangrisk Dark Side Colony?”

“Well why dont you just go steal their money then ? You seem to think that you're somehow entitled to it. I suppose that's what happens when there no moral compass guiding your thought process. In fact, you could just kill them and then take their money. I mean what's the difference? Who cares? There's no judgement day for God haters. Right? I'm sure you'd give it all to the poor, because you're morally superior to the greedy capitalists that you just killed.
Only problem is, if you could bring yourself to do that to the rich, eventually you could find a reason to do it to me.”

“Now why would I want to steal their money, I'm just fine and need less than I have now.

When you can show just one bite of proof that gawd it's Science F(R)iction as Fact, then I'll even take the time to read your misguided Fib Newton like drivel. Try explaining how Nitt Witt gave his church as much as to his country that has protected him from the imaginary Socialist and Commies who swim around in his coffee.”

“I can't stand either one of those guys, I've said it a million times and you keep Pretending I'm out campaigning for them. It's such a letdown, I dint believe you're capable of have a normal conversation.

Prove there's a God? I don't preach to anyone ever, never have, never will. To me it's a personal thing. I dont care what you believe or what you think about what I believe. In other words, you're wrong again.

I'm jus trying to get to the bottom of your driveling rants about the rich and find out what you would do about it. You won't ever say what you'de really to see happening in the world, I wonder why. Perhaps I overestimated you. I mean really, do you talk like that when you go tothe grocery store or the post office?”

“It's not capitalism, it's not biz , it's the size of biz and the health of capitalism that's is destroying our country. Size matters when any mistake is made, all feel the pain. Corruption should not be an operating feature of true capitalism, but it is the prominent feature when everything is up for auction on (R)(D)Bay.”

“Latest Congressional Budget Outlook For 2012-2022 Released, Says Real Unemployment Rate Is 10%

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/latest-congressional-budget-outlook-2012-2022-released”

“No they don't, "Tyler Durden" does.

Great source.”

“*snicker*

violin complaining about a "source".”

“Strat of course it is. The Obama mega money machine will finagle the numbers just one more time to squeak it down a wee bit more.... to show all them many Obama sheep he's heading in the right direction.

I feel for college graduates over the next decade. All that work .... all that debt ..... for what? ...... Good luck finding a job graduate! An expensive 4-year piece of paper ain't going to get you a whole lot nowadays .... unless you're willing to spend more on higher pieces of paper, you'd better not bother with just one.

Another thing not being mentioned: Europe is not getting accurate coverage in any of our news outlets. Things are worse there than what's being reported.”

“Did too
Did not
Uhh huh
Hunt uhh”

“American Lamestream media has ZERO credibility left”

“Gosh V, that's kinda racist isn't it?”

“the democratic party,
the party of segregation,
the party of Jim Crow,
the party of slavery,
the party of violin”

“Until 1964 civil rites, the Dixie-crats were all you say, but now they're all running and voting (R) ticket, in the name of superstition and Mewt Gangrisk fambilly values.”

“Time for pedx and the "secret mods" to rush in to protect v.”

“hey, if he can do it, so can I....”

“February 2, 2012 10:46am 209 Comments
Obama's Economic Approval Just 36 Percent
byPaul Bedard

In another indication of the difficulty President Obama's reelection campaign faces, only 36 percent of likely voters grade the administration's handling of the economy at good or excellent, according to a new Rasmussen poll.

In a national survey of 1,000 likely voters January 31-February 1, a whopping 62 percent grade the president at fair to poor, with poor collecting the largest number: 45 percent.

Still, Democratic officials say that they see a positive trend built on slightly better unemployment and housing numbers that could end up helping Obama in his reelection.

"We just need six more months," said a top Democratic official.

The polling data, however, shows big problems with men, middle-age and senior voters and Independents.

Just consider those likely voters who grade the president poor on his handling of the economy. Majorities in the Rasmussen poll include men (53 percent), voters aged 40-49 (55 percent), seniors (53 percent), whites (50 percent), non-black minorities (57 percent).

Independents and others not affiliated with the GOP or Democratic Party are also down on the president with 45 percent giving him a poor grade on the economy.
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obamas-economic-approval-just-36-percent/355126”

“""""Has Obama changed the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts the unemployed?

The answer is no.""""" <---Rev Wicked

You are right, it wasn't Obama. But his cronies are working overtime to "get the job done", there's no doubting that.

As for me being upset about usurping The Anointed One, I more than most am quite comfortable with the fact that Obama will not be a one-termer. America is changing direction, not very much at all can be done to change it. All this Gingrich/Romney/Paul bickering and debate is useless drivel. Strat and these guys that think something can actually be done to correct our wry course are fools. What's that saying?..... You reap what you sew. Ours is coming.”

“Strat nachurly I say that with the greatest affection.

But Cliff?...... Do you rent an apartment above a meth lab or something?”

“Yeah it's cool, I smell what You're steppin in, Ape. And you're probably right. Big trouble IS coming and very very soon. I say it all the time( and I'm called crazy for it). Were screwed
The "frontrunners" are just progressives in Sheep's clothing, juts like GW was.”

“Latest Congressional Budget Outlook For 2012-2022 Released, Says Real Unemployment Rate Is 10%

"Had that portion of the decline in the labor force participation rate since 2007 that is attributable to neither the aging of the baby boomers nor the downturn in the business cycle (on the basis of the experience in previous downturns) not occurred, the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 would have been about 1¼ percentage points higher than the actual rate of 8.7 percent" translation: CBO just admitted that the BLS numbers are bogus and real unemployment is 10%.”

“Komen Sense dOOd, the whole rite wing fell off the of the good ship 'Meriker, look out below!!!!!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/03/susan-g-komen-planned-parenthood_n_1252651.html”

“Remember the snake flag , 'don't tread on me'? Well the Tea Particles along with Susan Komen have tread too much on the American Worker, for too long.”

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January 2012 BLS Jobs Up 243,000, Unemployment Down to 8.3%

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm”

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This is the largest absolute jump in 'Persons Not In Labor Force' on record...and biggest percentage jump in 30 years.”