Tom Toles for February 15, 2011

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    Jaedabee Premium Member about 13 years ago

    Pretty much.

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    WarBush  about 13 years ago

    ^^Last year 1.5 million jobs were created outside the united states because our gubbermint is giving companies tax breaks to those companies to have jobs overseas. And you want more deregulation?

    ^So you want to make college less affordable…terrific! Keep America stupid!

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    riley05  about 13 years ago

    Yeah, av8tor, lets push more pro-pollution policies. You obviously love pollution, and assume more pollution is what everyone else wants, too.

    War Crime…keeping America stupid means more votes for Republicans, and more ratings for Fox.

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    Simon_Jester  about 13 years ago

    av9tor…we DID that with the EPA under Bush, and none of that’s been UNdone.

    So where are the jobs?

    And what other job killing divisions of the government to you mean specifically?

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    WarBush  about 13 years ago

    Like I said Pavlov keep America stupid. The Pell grant is free money for young Americans to go and get a discount on higher education. It may not pay much but its money that does not get paid back until said individual becomes a productive part of society. A student loan makes it tougher to go to college because if the student can’t pay back that loan they can’t apply for more classes so they can’t graduate, can’t become a productive member of society, and will likely get a job saying “Do you want fries with that?”

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    Simon_Jester  about 13 years ago

    av8tor, Where are you getting those figures, and let’s see that analysis, shall we?

    And you sitll haven’t answered my first question.

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    iamthelorax  about 13 years ago

    They always start with things that affect the people (skinny or fat) and seem to go deaf when we explain we want them to put themselves on the table first.

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    TheEarthling  about 13 years ago

    Save Trillions NOW! Reinstate the draft! If the rich have to go to war it will end immediately.

    We send billions to Israel, our best ally, really?… What has Israel done for us? Here’s what they do for us as well as every other blood sucking foreign aid recipient. They spend it on American weapons which feed the military industrial complex which buys American legislators which pushes for more military foreign aid so recipients can buy more American war machinery and these bought and paid for legislators say cut wasteful social spending. Who are the idiots who vote these people into office?

    Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

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    Dtroutma  about 13 years ago

    Take a moment to listen to Boehner: “non-discretionary entitlements” are Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, tobacco growers, ADM, Cargil, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Conoco, Xi, and other K street “interests” from the “private sector”, and well, anybody BUT– “Joe Average”.

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    Jaedabee Premium Member about 13 years ago

    I would be for the removal of Pell grants if it could be shown beyond a doubt that the grants themselves prevent others from getting loans. I can’t see how that’s the case, necessarily, since remodeling the Student Loan program to accommodate more people doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t give them what is essentially a “mini-Scholarship.”

    I received a number of Pell Grants during my College years. They went to paying for my textbooks, etc.

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    WarBush  about 13 years ago

    ^Toles’ rant can be found here:

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/tomtoles/

    Where’s Supergriz and lonecat?

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    Motivemagus  about 13 years ago

    Av8tor, your climate science is debatable. Suggest you go here: http://www.realclimate.org/

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