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The 112th Congress - A Congress divided shall not cry!

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These guys are so good at talking out both sides of their mouths . Founding fathers, Founding fathers, lets track everything you do. Unreal
 
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Someone named "angrymom80" just started following me on Twitter. Their profile:

Former military, Bible-thumping, gun carrying CONSERVATIVE. Love God, family and USA. LIBERALS NOT WELCOME!
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:confused:

In Michele Bachmann's world this makes perfect sense. :p
 
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SteveF said:
it is funny how big government is only a problem when the repubs are trying to get elected. after that, it is anything goes.
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Which is exactly why anyone who believes their small government nonsense is a fool. Actions speak louder than words...even if the words are boisterously drooling out of the holes under Bachmann or Palin's noses.
 
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Priceless said:
And anyone who opposes it is a terrorist sympathizer!
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Yeah. This law, like the PATRIOT Act, has good intentions. We all know where the four-lane good intentions expressway leads to...
 
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XYZ said:
Which is exactly why anyone who believes their small government nonsense is a fool. Actions speak louder than words...even if the words are boisterously drooling out of the holes under Bachmann or Palin's noses.
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I don't believe anybody will bring about smaller government, because a smaller government would be one with fewer jobs in it. If you cut government spending, the biggest place you're going to cut it is in payroll. If you "streamline" government, jobs are going to disappear. And with Obama needing to get as much good press as possible for re-election, there's no way he's going to have his legacy be tarnished with inflated unemployment numbers because he cut loose a significant portion (which, to me would be at least 1/10) of the Federal Government.

I can't believe people buy into the whole "re-investing in innovation and education" yet Obama is going to veto anything with earmarks. That's got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard! That's like saying you want bacon on your sandwich, but you don't want it from a pig.

As far as the GOP goes in proposing "small government": I think that's a load of crap too. They'll go with less money going to social programs, privatize SS and Medicare, but don't you dare touch the military! Don't get me wrong, I believe we should support the military very well...but I also feel that there's a lot of money wasted in that dept. as well. Smaller government applies across the board.
 
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IrishWildcat said:
I can't believe people buy into the whole "re-investing in innovation and education" yet Obama is going to veto anything with earmarks. That's got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard! That's like saying you want bacon on your sandwich, but you don't want it from a pig.
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You're assuming that the money goes away along with the direction on how to spend it, which I do not believe accurately reflects Obama's intentions. I think he intends for the same amount to be budgeted, but without instructions from Congress as to specific projects on which to spend it (thus leaving it to the discretion of the agency in question).
 
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Here's some more fun stuff.

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/...:U0ckkD:aEyKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr

America is the richest country on earth, measured in per capita income, but the way we spend our money makes us one of the poorer.

American workers earn about as much annually as do their counterparts in France and Germany and Denmark but work almost three months longer.

We're the only advanced economy that does not guarantee at least some paid vacation. In fact, about a quarter of U.S. workers in the private sector receive no paid vacation at all.

We are one of only a handful of nations that does not guarantee paid sick leave. Almost half the private-sector workforce has no paid sick days.

The United States is virtually alone in not guaranteeing some form of paid maternity leave.

Here, day care is expensive. Preschool programs for parents without means are few and far between.

In Europe, almost all countries offer low-cost or free child care and preschool programs. In France, for example, almost 100 percent of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds are enrolled in free full-day schools staffed by teachers paid good wages.

If you lose your job here, unemployment benefits pay a much smaller fraction of your wages, for a much shorter duration, than in Europe.

We are the only industrialized nation that doesn't make access to health care a basic right.
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And my favorite part.

The result? America boasts almost 400 billionaires, while 37 million people have incomes below the poverty line.

From 1993 to 2007, the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans captured half of the overall economic gains. From 2002 to 2007, their share rose to two-thirds.

Meanwhile, the average wage of Americans, adjusting for inflation, is lower today than it was in the 1970s.
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And the best part of all that? We're broke all at the same time. So, somehow despite spending LESS on all of these things for ALL of these years to make sure that you can be as rich as you want to be, we still ended up BROKE in the end.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
And the best part of all that? We're broke all at the same time. So, somehow despite spending LESS on all of these things for ALL of these years to make sure that you can be as rich as you want to be, we still ended up BROKE in the end.
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Econ 101. Guns vs. Butter. We've gone full guns. And you should never go full guns.
 
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unofan said:
Econ 101. Guns vs. Butter. We've gone full guns. And you should never go full guns.
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But if the other side has more guns than you, you lose the butter. So, the visceral reaction is guns and more guns to keep the butter. So if you have more guns than the other guy, you can win his butter via conquest.

Sounds like a plan! How about a nice game of Risk?
 
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joecct said:
But if the other side has more guns than you, you lose the butter. So, the visceral reaction is guns and more guns to keep the butter. So if you have more guns than the other guy, you can win his butter via conquest.

Sounds like a plan! How about a nice game of Risk?
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How's that Iraq/Afghanistan conquest working out?
 
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