Obama the oil giants are making your election like carter..Reaganomics

"It is hard to do corporate tax reform separate from individual income tax reform which is why this White House policy release should be viewed through a much more political prism until and unless we see real details on individual income tax reform."

Typical right wing mainstream media comment. The reality is that the 1%ers have gotten away with way to much. Their excuse that they want to do a balanced approach is a bunch of bull. They just want to continue to sock it to the 99ers while they keep making more and more. When they say that they want to reform Social Security and Medicare, that is code for elimination both of these benefits. Just look at what is going on in Indiana, where the legislatures want to give the power to Mitch Daniels so he can eliminate Medicare and Medicaid. Hopefully not too many people will be fooled by Mitt and the other GOP libertarian candidates who are a group of egotistical and self-interest millionaires.

don't you people see why the government is broke..corporations spend millions of money on one man..to get them elected..and then say the government is taking to much money from them

Thank god these moral majority candidates want smaller government. That Virginia anti abortion probe should be as small as possible, and seeing how it has NO medical reason, Nitt and Ricky should Ben Dover and take one up the Jackson to show how non invassive it is.

Hmm.... Do i want the mormon who says he is a progressive and then says he is a severe conservative? Who wanted to let Detroit die and then vulture the remains.

Do i want the one who wants to make contraceptives illegal? Openly says that women should not make the same pay as men for doing the same job.

Or do I want the one who Killed Bin Laden, saved GM, and is FORCING the insurance companies to insure.

It is a clash of the gods, The Prophet versus The Pope. Protestants, women, agnostics, atheists, Hindus, Muslims, and Scientologists are sidelined for the rest of the Republican primaries. Democracy no longer applies.

OIL Pricing 101:

There is a finite supply of Oil. This has been proven even though the Flat-Earther's will dispute it.

China and India are now huge oil-consuming newcomers (relative) that have INCREASED the DEMAND for the SUPPLY of OIL.

There is a finite supply of Oil so speculators find this an intriguing way to make a profit and drive the price upwards.

Every time that our economy starts to rebound, we'll drive more to our jobs / we spend a little more at the stores but we still drove there with our cars therefore consuming more of a FINITE SOURCE.

THIS IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE until we ween ourselves off of Oil and let the rest of the backwards world stay in the swirling toilet bowl of paying thru the nose for a FINITE RESOURCE.

Any questions?

The true title should be Santorum's momentum runs head first into Romney's huge pile of cash, like running into a brick wall.

Money talks in politics and Romney is leading the rest financially to the point that he has pretty much bought the nomination. The only question becomes whether a protracted Republican primary will drain him of to much cash to face off against Obama.

Still do not understand the Santorum draw. Here is a guy that is a washington insider. He has never ran a business and has used his past house position to profit as a peddler of influence. Vote Romney and we actually get a business leader and not a legislator. Some one who has a strong business background and experience. We already have a legislator in office in Obama. A vote for Santorum is just a vote for Obama.

The Republican party is in real trouble....and I'm not just saying this because I happen to be more liberal. When you look at this without bias you come to realize that the Republican party and the candidates running for the nomination have completely boxed themselves in.

The way I see it...the Republican party is now divided in three ways. 1) You have a group (Tea Party) that strictly stands by the constitution and their interpretation of it....2) A section of social conservatives (the Religious right)...and 3) the establishment Republicans who are a bit more moderate.

The problem is is that none of these candidates and I would argue nobody in general could possibly satisfy all three groups of the Republican party today. This is why, in my opinion, I think that Republicans aren't happy with their current crop of candidates.

For example, Santorum satisfies the number 2 group I mentioned above and could sway some voters in the first group of conservatives. However, the establishment Republicans see him as way too open when it comes to his religious beliefs and see it as a deterrent to independent voters who are crucial in the general.

Romney satisfies the establishment Republicans but as we have seen can't convince the first and second groups of tea party members and social conservatives.

No need to mention Newt....he has a hard time with all groups mentioned.

This is my honest take on the current state of affairs....thanks for reading. This is a repost....sorry.

In actuality the market determines the price of gasoline and even though the president can influence these prices as well as the economy, he still has relatively little control over it as a whole. Obama's efforts do sort of reminds me of Hoover's attempts to combat the downturn (especially earlier in the presidency) with various projects and change in order to encourage recovery. We look upon our presidents as leaders and scapegoats (this, to a much smaller degree, was done to Bush) but in reality, they cannot control everything.

it is so funny to hear the republicans talk about people getting free handouts ..Romney sanatorium .newt ..Paul..and all of them are getting those so called free handouts because they all work for the government..you republican voters are retards

The rapture cannot come soon enough It will rid us the religious nuts infesting the world, all that will be left behind will be rotting tea bags,tinhats and magic underware good for worm farms

The Energy policy set in motion by Dick Cheney's secret White House meeting with big oil and Wall Street speculators is still in effect today simply because it was an agreement to cooperate among one another to fix and set oil prices and the formula for setting futures prices. Legal, No! Almost impossible to investigate without a mole? Yes! Do you really think Dick kept minutes of those meetings and is willing to voluntarily testify that he and W along with the principal Oil Barons and Wall Street Moguls hatched criminal enterprises in the White House? The answer is to Nationalize both the Oil and Pharmaceutical industries and while the government might not run them efficiently at least we get the money for the natioanl debt flowing into the treasury instead of Cayman Island and Swiss banks.

Cain was a victim.

I have yet to see Cain sue those women for slander?

Dear Voting America,

I urge you to vote. I urge you to vote your conscience. It is so very important. I also urge you to lie to poll takers. It is none of their business who you voted for. If enough of us do that we could get some real enjoyment out of these elections for a change as political talking heads try to explain why their predictions were so wrong. Join this growing movement.

The economic Policies of Barack Obama and how he saved gm
by Neil Murphy

When Barack Obama took office in 2009, one of the first thing he had to deal with was the imminent bankruptcy of the big 3 automakers.The economy was dragging and unemployment was rising and President Obama acted to save auto industry in Detroit. All three companies are alive and well today. All three companies are alive and well today, particularly GM who posted record profits in 2011. The auto bailout is touted to this day as a success with all credit generally given to Barack Obama, but underneath the surface this deal doesn't look very good at all.
Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 and spent the better part of 2009 passing the Affordable Health Care Act. Known by its oppenents as Obamacare its purpose was to provide affordable health care for all Americans includint the uninsured and the uninsurable. The Economic Recovery act was also passed in 2009, a plan designed to spur job growth stimulate the economy. All three bills are frequently lauded as a success by President Obama and his supporters, but upon close inspection all is not as it appears to be.
Cut to 2012, unemployment is still high, the economy is still sluggish at best, and no one has actually received and affordable health care. Each of these bills can be argued on a point by point basis as anything from resounding successes to abject failures. My view is that these bills are 3 of the worst laws in the history of the United States and heres why. Beginning with the auto bailout.
Without getting into too much detail, a large amount of caash was infused into these companies in order to keep them operating. GM received 51 billion in federal money in exchange for partial ownership of GM. Subsidies were passed for the now famous chevy Volt a next generation green car. Tax credits were handed out some as part of the economic recovery act(stimulus). As a result of this GM paid no income taxes in 2011 on their way to posting the record profits mentioned.
As part of the stimulus bill money was spent on grants, loan guarantees and tax credits for green energy programs including solar, wind, and electric cars. General Electric was a main beneficiary of this money recieving billions of dollars for many projects, depending on your source the total amount approaches 100 billion dollars. Because of the green energy tax credits and subsidies for large wind and solar projects, GE posted an 18billion dollar profit. More subsidies were passed in 2012 including a 10,000 dollar tax credit on each Volt sold. What does that have to do with GE, I will show you, but first.
Cut to the Soviet Union, the largest communist empire the world has ever seen with millions of workers constructing widgets full time. What is a widget you ask? Its nothing, a product no one wants or need but is produced to keep the people working, back to 2012 and the widget of the 21st century. The Chevy Volt.
An insidious situation has been set up under the guise of economic recovery and creating jobs. Between GM and GE a profit of over 25 billion dollars was posted in 2012 and no income tax was paid by either company. Recently a new deal was announced, wherby GE agreed to buy a fleet of Volts from GM thus completing the trinity.
Under these rules GM is being paid in tax dollars to produce Volts that GE, also using tax dollars buys. With the newest subsidy in place both of these companies, 2 of the largest corporations in the world make a profit on every single one. How can you make a profit buying a car you ask? Well you use other peoples money, and thus our widget. How can this be considered good economic policy? Well its not its very bad economic policy, under these rules GE can buy as many widgets as they possibly can as fast as GM can make them and recieve an unlimited amount of tax dollars without ever giving anything back. Just buy them and park them on a lot somewhere. Is this deliberate or is President Obama incompetant? My opinion is deliberate.
On to Obamacare a hugely expensive entitlement program reviled by some, loved by others. The bill is reviled on the right as everything from unconstitutional, to wasteful beauracracy, to free handouts. It is all of these things. Obama is not incompetant he knows exactly what hes doing. These policies are designed to suck the life from our economy and they are doing there job well. If you can accept the terrifying premise that Obama wants the economy to crash everything makes peerfect sense. Both green energy and obamacare are designed as a way to destroy money. An infinite amount of tax dollars will be poured into all 3 programs.
America needs to wake up and see. An infinite cycle of taxpayer dollars is now setup between GM and GE, with nothing of value being created. Obamacare is going to suck money from every american most if not all will go to beauracracies and give aways, its is a bottomless hole where money goes to die whit nothing of value ever created, unless you count federal employees as a product.
The Stimulus bill was over 700 billion dollars and was also designed to destroy money. We have all heard of Solyndra and the bad loan, what not everyone realizes is that Solyndra knew it was going bankrupt at the time of the loan and so did the department of energy. Another thing not everyone realizes is that grants were given out to other, healthy, companies to buy Solar Panels from Solyndra who took a loss on every one sold until the money ran out and they went bankrupt. Leaving the taxpayer at the end of a long list of creditors and likely to recover nothing. By my estimate we have now spentwell over a trillion dollars on suicidal programs designed to harm our financial well being.
It is impossible for me to believe that POTUS, with all the infromation available to him could possibly imagine that any of this would work. My opinion is that his green energy programs and healthcare packages are a front for a communist/socialist agenda and its terrifying. Wake up Comrades. The widget factories are in full production and we need to act now or face a crash like none we have ever seen before.

CORRECTION: FORD DID NOT TAKE ANY MONEY MY MISTAKE

Romney still has not mastered the art of keeping his own feet out of his mouth and has shown to be as clueless as they come when it comes to relating to normal people. Rick Santorum is just ate up with that home school intellect and the agenda of using religion to hide behind so he can force his ideas down the throats of other people. And women are just sex tools when you really listen to santorum and are only equal when he and the rest of the people who thinks like him wants to get some for five minute's or less.

Man of constant sorrow, You are dead on !

Oh, wow, a close race!

Shall I choose Little Lord Romney or Rick "the Lord" Santorum or maybe Lord Newt?

Keep opening your mouth, guys, talk, talk talk. Let's really get to what you believe in. We little women especially would like to hear your personal views about how we should behave and what kind of birth control we should use. Maybe we could just give up our right to vote and stay home and make babies- LOTS OF THEM!

Shall I vote to send Newt to the moon or return us to Santorum's year of 1912? Or how about billionaire "say anything" Mitt.

I am starting to understand why the Ron Paul fans are so frustrated!

I will not vote for either side. I will be out front of my voting place protesting against both sides. I will be watching who votes in my distinct and know to stay away from them.

Romney is a cult and s/b put in his place. We can't have a non christian cult telling us what to do. down with the mormons.

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Cain was a victim.

I have yet to see Cain sue those women for slander

Maybe there is nothing slanderous to sue about.

Mormonism is not really a cult. Certainly not like the Branch Dividians or Jim Jones. It is a religion based on the the writings of Joseph Smith. To call it a cult is like calling PRESIDENT Obama a Muslim (and please don't post that you believe that either).

Let's see...Santantorum vs. Romney?? I think we'll vote to keep religion out of Governemnt..ROMNEY!