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   russell5419 said, 3 months ago

   When you have an incompetent leader, nothing good comes out of it. Hang in there America, only three more years of this garbage.(unless we get lucky and he has a stroke on the golf course)
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Compromise to O is: Do it my way.
   That is the Chicago war.
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   old1953 said, 3 months ago

   Well, I think Nancy Pelosi will make a wonderful President.
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   TheFinalSolution said, 3 months ago

   “Vladimir Lenin, one of the inventors of communism, famously said “The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

   And who is this bourgeoisie that Lenin hates so much? It translates as the middle class!" (With thanks to Richard Daughty
   The Mogambu Guru)

   Sound familiar?
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   I Play One On TV said, 3 months ago

   Anyone who thinks that intransigence belongs to one party only is willfully ignorant. The fact that Republicans want cuts in Medicare and Social Security, which we all contribute to in preparation for the future, but will not even consider cuts to programs that even the Pentagon never wanted should provide balance to Mr. Asay’s cartoon.

   But, as a very long-time friend said to me, “You see what you want to see.”
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   Ionizer said, 3 months ago

   @I Play One On TV

   “…Medicare and Social Security, which we all contribute to in preparation for the future…”
   
   No, we contribute to them to pay for the current costs. Our kids and grandkids will contribute to take care of our future, but I don’t really expect that to happen. All Ponzi schemes fail sooner or later.
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   wmconelly said, 3 months ago

   “I am reading a book called “Early Modern France 1560-1715,” by Robin Biggs.

   The parallels with today are too numerous to list, but the general gist — and this book was not written with the intention of turning up “parallels” (it was written in 1977) — is that the landed elite in the 16th and 17th centuries used debt, foreclosure, high prices, and levies to steal mercilessly from the peasantry and keep them poor and under heel.

   The story of the 1% did not suddenly materialize when Reagan/Thatcher took the wheel. No matter what period in history you read, the rich have no compunction whatsoever about brutalizing and impoverishing the poor. It is how the rich get and stay rich."

   (With a tip o’the hat to Bill Appledorf)
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   Tigger said, 3 months ago

   Yes, Obama has told this lie so long, people believe him. He got his Tax Hike, now he does not want to keep his end of the deal and cit spending.

   Oh, Why is Harry Reid refusing to allow The Senate to read and vote on Bills passed by The House? The Democrat Senate is the Road Block.

   Obama is the Road Block as he vowed to Veto any Bill that alters the Sequester allowing him to decide where Budget Cuts should be made.

   Yes, Obama is excellent at blaming Republicans for Harry Reid’s failure to do his job and Obama does not want to show he’s a true leader and is not afraid to make the tough budget cuts to save our sinking ship.
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   Darsan54 said, 3 months ago

   Chuck, you’re confusing Republiclan hospitality for hospitality in general.
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    Darsan54 said, 3 months ago

    @Tigger

    Of course, you conveniently forget how one Senator (generally Republican) can stop anything with only the threat of a filibuster. I will fault Reid for believing that McConnell was going to be reasonable about filibuster reform. Turtleman is a traitor to the country and can only be expected to stab the middle class in the stomach every time.
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    ansonia said, 3 months ago

    I’m a practical person. One of the things I’m good at is getting people in a room with a bunch of different ideas who sometimes violently disagree with each other and finding common ground and a sense of common direction." Obama in September 2008, responding to CBS’s Steve Kroft’s question: Why do you think you would be a good president.
    .
    Well it’s obvious now, going into his fifth year, that he vastly overestimated his own skill level.
    .
    Remember when the the top congressional leaders from both parties met at the White House for a working discussion over Obama’s economic stimulus plan? This was his 3rd day in office and the meeting was meant to promote bipartisanship.
    One of the Republican senators challenged him over some issue in his plan. Obama said, “I won.”
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    Like he ever intended to find “common ground and a sense of common direction.”
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    Arrogant AND inept.
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    I Play One On TV said, 3 months ago

    @Ionizer

    Medicare and Social Security would have been vastly better funded had not presidents/congresses from the 1960s forward raided the cookie jar to pay for wars. Let’s look at how we benefitted from Viet Nam, Grenada, Gulf Wars I and II. I’d say the money would have been better left in the cookie jar…
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    I Play One On TV said, 3 months ago

    Hey, but who wants to raise taxes to pay for wars? Better to give a tax cut while costs go up exponentially….
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    Radish said, 3 months ago

    Asay never gets tired of lying to the flock.
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    Quipss said, 3 months ago

    @TheFinalSolution

    Bourgeois is the ruling class, the middle class is actually referenced as the group that would overturn bourgeois rule as they would no longer be needed.

    Meanwhile the USA has

    . Lowest tax rate (after deductions) in the western world
    . lower tax rate than most of developing world once corruption is considered ( paying 50k to the police department annually may not be a tax but is still not a source of joy
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