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Still waiting to learn about the life and times of moderate Republicanism…
It’s a start. In Colorado there may be only a handful of people you might want to meet and talk with but they are out there still hoping for a better day. Then there are the rest of us who said enough is enough and changed to U.
am hoping to have some time either tonight or tomorrow night to finish it.
Damn that job thing… I typed this out an hour ago and never posted it
…oh, right, the roof over head thing.
I’m gonna bug you until you finish it, though. The two windmills I’m jousting at this year are bringing back the true Western Republican in whatever small way I can and encouraging discussion of concepts BEFORE they’re hot-button issues that everyone is too angry about to listen to each other.
Your husband lost his job and youve taken a 10% cut in pay, now that bastard wants you to head to the bank for a loan so he can go hunting and forego materials for your three home schooled yet nationally recognized student athletes. Whiat do you do?
Even for you ‘tad, this is beyond your normal incomprehensible drivel.
It’s pretty simple – the RepubliCAN’T party has whiffed again when given a critical moment in National public policy.
Given a choice of making a bunch of spending cuts that would make nice fodder for campaign slogans and actually making a significant reduction in spending, the Repubs candyassed out and decided to keep living in Teabagger Land.
Why? Because the Republican’t party continues to cling to their deluded views of Reagan:
http://english.aljazeera.net/i…
I’ll keep reminding the sane people here that Saint Ronnie reversed course on his orgy of tax cuts in 1981 with some very smart tax raises in 1982. But since history fails to register with simpering dumbasses, I’ll go for the family analogy that repubs seems to cherish.
When your kid runs up $1000 in cell phone bills and you’ve got a bunch of other obligations due, yes, you try and cut expenses to meet those payments.
But sometimes the obligations are so steep that there’s NO WAY you can cut your way to solvency. Most of us working-class folk hold our noses and go out and get a crappy second job to pay those bills.
It’s time for this country to go out and get a second job and raise revenues.
Didn’t we save and create 2-3 million jobs with that bloated stimulus Obama and the Democrats passed last year?
Oh yeah, $278,000 per job saved or created.
Thats not to mention that our nation needs @125,000-150,000 new jobs per month just to keep up. So how have we been doing for the last 2 years on that little objective …. not to hot.
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…so, you really want to go there?
Let’s talk about all those jobs created with the Millionaire Tax Cut over the last ten years. You know, the ones you gleefully pointed out were NOT being created during the 2008 campaign? Remember you posting those stats EVERY DAMN MORNING? So why would tax cuts work now when they haven’t worked for TEN YEARS? Why hasn’t the budget magically balanced itself, like Dubya promised when he signed the tax cuts into law?
Secondly, every time you post that $278K per job stat all you do is display the depth of your (well-established) ignorance. That number has been so thoroughly debunked it’s now laughable when you post it…but since you must have been on an extended dungeon run, here’s where that goes away:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/polit…
http://content.usatoday.com/co…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Yes, ‘tad, I realize that if you do the hamburger joint napkin math and divide the low end of the jobs created (2.6 mil) by the total amount spent on the stimulus ($666Billion) you get that fantastic number.
But take off the tax cuts (1/3) and actual spending on STUFF (less than a third) and use the mean of jobs created (3mil)then you end up with a number somewhere in the area of $80K.
And lastly, the Stimulus worked…period. Because we are not in the Bush II Depresssion. You claim to read the Economist…shall I link to all the articles that say the same thing?
thought so….DUMBASS
I have found it very interesting to watch Obama turn the tables on the Republicans in this debate. So the Republicans demand a 4 trillion package. Republicans now come out and say they can not get a 4 trillion package because the only way to reach an agreement with the Dems is to have at least some revenue increases. Now Obama turns the table on them by demanding that they stick to 4 trillion package and thus makes the Republicans look like the irresponsible ones. Obama takes a lot of heat for straddling the middle but I believe often proves to be way more effective than he often gets credit for. That is if he does cave at this point. 🙂
Finally it so ridiculous we are even having this conversation. We are arguablly in the worst recession since the great depression and as PRS so effectively points out tax increases and spending cuts are both anti stimulative. It is fricken economics 101. Your really could not get it more wrong on both sides.
By the way DJIA down 150 at 10:00 AM today. The rest of the developed World think we are complete idiots. Wonderful job handling this one so far to both sides.
$278,000 per job saved or created.
if you repeat it often enough, it must be true.
If you want to focus on numbers, here’s one – $60:
World of Warcraft 180-Day Prepaid Cards
Best Buy offers the World of Warcraft 60-Day Prepaid Game Cards for Windows or Mac for $29.99. Add three to your cart and they fall to $59.98. Shipping adds $8.97, or opt for free in-store pickup. Even with shipping, that’s $11.49 per month and the lowest total price we could find for this quantity by $21. Sales tax is added where applicable. These cards provide a total of 180 days of play time.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Wo…
FoxNews, etc…..
Don’t be a hater out of the gate, at least try to get facts first
‘tad, you have been punked SO MANY TIMES on this website on your deliberate twisting of facts and statistics that ANYTHING you post has a stench of deliberate stupidity.
If you’ll go up a few posts, I rammed three different web sites up your ass debunking your fake number you keep reposting. I noticed you slunk off butt-hurt from that thread, so you could post your nonsensical frogwash anew further down the page.
Give it up – maybe you should start posting more incomprehensible rants about “union bosses” and “DPS Graduation Rates.”
The complex formula goes like this amount spent divided by jobs saved or created. Or in this case $278,000 per Obama job.
What’s not funny is you could have saved $400 billion by cutting a $100,000 check to the human of each saved or created job. You know putting all back into the private sector and letting that capitalist magic happen.
Now what’s not funny is The Jobless Summer for American teens.
http://online.wsj.com/article/…
Never mind….
So I’ll say it again – the $287K number pulled out of Grover Norquist’s ass and hooted everywhere by simpletons like you is the low end of jobs created (2.4million) divided into the entire value of the stimulus package.
A third was tax cuts, slightly less than a third was spending on actual STUFF (like the new Colorado National Guard Armory in Boulder) and the rest went toward job creation.
The real number is about $80K. Please consult web pages cited at the top of this webpage.
Please call again when your bullshit is no longer being spouted.
…. and I took into account all the subversion and special accounting treatments you used to justify your crappy analysis..
Last, i guess what your saying is you would have supported the tax reductions on their face as a single issue. Yet here today you are probably pulling our your blogging hair screaming about Boehner’s actions on the debt ceiling-cut in government spending problem.
You know the one Obama is getting zero traction at the bully pulpit on.
I’m doing a hoard of paperwork for the SBA today, so a quick trip to the interwebz to debunk your pointless bullshit is a nice diversion.
I can keep this up all day!
It’s call Arithmetic, ‘tad. That’s where you perform functions like “Subtraction” and “Division” to achieve a provable value.
So, let’s go to the web, and try and show you again what the Recovery Act is made up of:
So, if we use that calculator on your PC (y’know, the one you use to split up all the treasure you find with your fellow orcs in WoW) we find that this total adds up to $787 Billion. The jobs created by the Recovery Act total between 2.4 and 3.6 million, so we’ll take the Mean (another “mathy” term) and use a nice even 3.0 Million jobs created.
So, taking away those Republican-friendly tax cuts (- 288 billion) and the stuff we bought (-275) we are left with $224 Billion, divided by 3 million, equals (roughly) $74,667. I rounded up to include some stuff covered by the other two parts.
$74,667 is less than $278,000. Now, that may work if your the Repub CEO of Enron, but not for the rest of us.
In summary, you are a shrieking dumbass. That is all.
I always sort of just rolled by eyes when David complained about the Department of Revenue and their lack of customer service. I just assumed that it was typical frustrating government agency stuff, and David was overreacting.
I was wrong.
Having now spent four or five hours over the last three days reflexively redialing the Dept. of Revenue, and getting nothing but a recording refusing to even put me on hold and just saying to try again later…. AAAAHHH! That shouldn’t even be legal. If hold times are two hours, fine, I know the government is understaffed… but it needs to at least be possible to reach the agency when they make a massive mistake like this.
Thankfully I have a CPA that gets to blow out her brains with DOR on my behalf.
The staff runs that place and it’s like the prisoners running the jail.
And Hick thanked Roxy for sticking around…
Wowwie,
Another insightful message about activities in the beltway, this in an email today. Now I expect I’ll get a bunch of comments that I’m a racist, etc…although I’m much more interested in anyone who wants to refute these facts. Was the money tied to ARRA or some other program? Come on Obama policy gurus, what gives?
La Raza translated per google …. “The Race”
Oh wait, that IS on the Birther Queens website…
I noticed (as usual) this is another one of your drive-by’s, posting your usual frogwash with no link. I know you could link back to the Birther Queen site, but you’re going to have to come up with a legit website for this one…which you can’t, since this shit has been around sine 2010.
FAIL –
I’ve never chipped into his cause ‘cept that Govenor race and previous Congressional races.
Anyway, this is great material to share here and watch as you do your usual freak out. Sadly in your above post you did not do your usual hateful personal attack of me. I quite enjoy watching the rage you harbor inside posted for all readers to see.
….I’ve just pointed out your obvious train of bullshit you post, and rather than answer anything I’ve posted directly, you’re the one who’s gone to the darkest, dankest parts of the interwebs and posted more and more bullshit.
As I’ve said, I’ve got time today. Your frenzied posts trying to change the subject have made my day…
Diverting millions from places like the Veterens Admin and the soldiers they care for to some group affectionately known as The Race, aka La Raza.
It’s like fish in a barrel with this administration. Failure to lead, failure to execute, Fast and Furious guns for drug lords and lobbyist funneled diversions of millions for groups such as this ….
…that has NO basis in fact, and has no weblink, and has not proven to be anything other than another one of your Right-Wing-O-Verse fantasies.
(I don’t care what party you like, this one’s funny!!)
Top 10 Reasons You know you’re a Republican:
1. You don’t think “The Simpsons” is all that funny, but you watch it because that Flanders fellow makes a lot of sense.
2. You’ve ever referred to the moral fiber of something.
3. You don’t let your kids watch Sesame Street because you accuse Bert and Ernie of “sexual deviance.”
4. You’ve ever tried to prove Jesus was a capitalist and opposed to welfare.
5. You’re a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty.
6. You use any of these terms to describe your wife: Old ball and chain, little woman, old lady, tax credit…
7. You’ve ever uttered the phrase, “Why don’t we just bomb the sons of bitches.”
8. You answer to “The Man.”
9. You fax the FBI a list of “Commies in my Neighborhood.”
10. You’ve ever referred to someone as “my (insert racial or ethnic minority here) friend”
No to all except …..
7. Absolutely, many times and in many contexts including business. I also like to incorporate the wording “carpet bomb” and “mother f____ers”.
10. Absolutely have refered to people. ‘That black, white, Indian with a dot, Mexican, etc… guy or gal’.
Now just to get you over the edge I do have a buddy that is half beaner and a sister that is half Mexican. My buddy refers to himself as the richest beaner in Colorado, therefore I repeat it for you. I don’t think he is really the richest American of Mexican heritage, but he claims it so ….
remember my disclaimer – (I don’t care what party you like, this one’s funny!!)
Seems you’re the one with issues so big you feel the need to post such lame disclaimers…..I do know a few good therapists thru the Vets court – would you like some contact info?