Two separate visions

We can go on the current path of destruction with the transition toward Socialism and Marxism to end up like Greece and Spain which we are close of becoming now with the 6 trillion added dept and growing for Socialist programs.

OR

We can get Romney in to stop the attack on business and our capital free market system and get the US back to what made it great and exceptional.

To dismantle the pork spending in D.C. by getting rid of the GSA, Freddie,Fannie,and other wasteful useless government programs that waste our tax dollars.

Its amazing that many of you posting are still buying into the fable that Romney is for the rich.

Bain has salvaged thousands of businesses that were struggling or bankrupt and saved several hundred thousands of middle class jobs.

Its amazing that many of you believe Obama saved GM when that was nothing more than a political ploy and much of that tax payer stimulus went to corrupt union bosses and GM operations overseas not operations in the US

We can bring America back to its core values of being a Capital open free market system pioneering innovation and creating better ideas free from Socialist government intrusions and Bureacracy.

For those of you calling Obama a Commie is close since Socialism and Marxism which is Obama,s ideology all ties together with Communism

Reprint for liberal eyes, if you can read and comprehend!

1) The Founding Fathers
were generally religious, gun-toting small government fanatics who were so far
to the Right that they'd make Ann Coulter look like Jimmy Carter.

2) The greatest evil this country has ever
committed isn't slavery; it's killing more than 50 million innocent children
via abortion.

3) Conservatives are much more compassionate
than liberals and all you have to do to prove it is look at all the studies
showing that conservatives give more of their money to charity than liberals
do.

4) When the Founding Fathers were actually
around, there were official state religions and the Bible was used as a
textbook in schools. The so-called "wall of separation between church and
state" has absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution and everything
to do with liberal hostility to Christianity.

5) The biggest problem with our economy today is
Barack Obama. His demonization of successful people, his driving up gas prices,
his regulatory overload and threats to increase taxes have terrified businesses
into hunkering down, refusing to spend money, and declining to hire new people.
Replacing him would do more than any government policy to spur economic growth.

6) Not only are conservatives more patriotic
than liberals, but most American liberals "love" America in about the
same way that a wife-beater loves his wife.

7) Out of every 100 cries of “Racism” you hear
these days, 99 are motivated by nothing other than politics.

8) Anyone paying income taxes is certainly
paying his “fair share" -- and then some -- compared to the people who pay
nothing.

9) You don't have a "right" to
anything that other people have to pay to provide
for you.

10) If we can ask people to present an ID to buy
alcohol, drive a car, or get on an airplane, then asking them to present
identification to vote is a no-brainer.

11) There's absolutely nothing that the
government does smarter, better, or more efficiently than the private market
with roughly equivalent resources.

12) The biggest problem with education in this country
is liberals. They fight vouchers, oppose merit pay, refuse to get rid of
terrible teachers, and bend over backwards to keep poor kids trapped in failing
schools.

13) Fascism, socialism, and communism are all
left-wing movements that have considerably more in common with modern
liberalism than modern conservatism.

14) The Democratic Party
was behind slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow laws. It was also the party of
Margaret Sanger, George Wallace, and Bull Connor. It has ALWAYS been a racist
party. Even today, white liberals support Affirmative Action and racial set-asides
because they still believe black Americans are too inferior to go up against
whites on an even playing field.

15) A man with good morals who falls short and
becomes a hypocrite is still a far better man than a liberal who can never be
called a hypocrite because he has no morals at all.

16) The most dire threat to America's future and
prosperity in the last 150 years hasn't been the Nazis, the Soviets, or
Al-Qaeda;, it's the spending and overreach of our own government.

17) Greed isn't someone wanting to keep more of
what he earns; it's people demanding a greater share of money that someone else
earns.

18) Most of the time in American politics, the
liberal "victim" is really a bad guy who is absolutely delighted by
the opportunity to pretend to be "offended."

19) Jesus Christ was not a conservative, a
liberal, or a politician. He was also not a capitalist or a socialist. Still,
you can say this: Jesus drew sharp lines about what's right and wrong, he
wasn't tolerant of what the Bible categorizes as sinful behavior, and there's
absolutely no question that he would adamantly oppose abortion and gay
marriage.

20) When you demand that other people fund your
sexual escapades by buying your contraception, your sex life becomes their
business.

What I don't get is what has happened to the Fourth Estate. The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press and yet they perform like Pravda.

The press got Richard Nixon. The Washington Post dug down, got to the truth and changed the political landscape. It sold newspapers. That's why we have a free press.

What's going on today? Oh, they're still hard at work when it comes to Romney, as they should be. But how come Obama gets so many free passes? The guy is trying to change the foundation of our country, what makes us strong, what got us this far. That's not a news story?

Yep 2 different visions...

Republicans = Vision of the economy that just serves the 1%

Democrats = Vision of the economy that is for the 99%

So vote for the Republicans and continue to flush America down the drain or

wise up Vote for the Democrats and continue restoring the American dream for the 99%

Obama inherited a $1.3T deficit from bush. For years, the GOP has refused to allow that to be addressed, perferring that it reflect negatively on Obama. That most recent example of this was last August, when the GOP walked away from $4T in budget cuts just to save the bush tax cuts for the wealthy and the corporate loopholes! Finally, studies have shown that the rate of spending increases under Obama is the lowest on 60 years!!

Obama spending binge never happened

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-which-president-is-the-biggest-spender-of-all/

Finally, all of the deficits under Obama have all been right around $1.3T! ( They dont just magically disappear the following year ya know! PLUS the interest on the debt goes up!)

So, if Obama inherited that deficit, and the GOP refused to take action to lower it, and Obama's spending increases have been so VERY low, WHOSE budget defcits are they?? YEP. Bush's. Republicans havent finished theri campaign to create enough debt so they could privatize SS and Medicare so they MUST allow the debt rise even higher!!! The GOP plan to "starve the beast" and create a debt crisis still isnt finished.

I believe that if a party deliberately endangers this country's national security by undermining the government's financial stability and economic stability, that party has committed treason!

If successful people are now evil, what is it that we hope our children will achieve in life?

Do we still need to send them to college? Won't that put them at risk of being successful?

If our children start a business and employ 1000 people do we not mention them and hope nobody asks how they are doing? We can lie and say they are unemployed.

Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Does it matter which neoliberal Wall St. hack is elected? The average guy will still be screwed over.

I truly hope America is smart enough to realize that the choice in this coming election couldn't be any clearer.

Romney: Wants to give himself, Obama, his donors and the top 1% a tax cut at the expense of the deficit and the other 99% of the country.

Obama: Doesn't want a tax cut for himself but prefers that the 99% receive one so that everyone has more money in their pockets to spend, save, invest or simply start a small business if they can.

I know what choice makes perfect sense.

The GOP have zero in the better idea area of healthcare except the same as usual. Notice, it's not until a Democrat takes office and proposes legislation, then they come out of the woodwork with, Oh we have an alternative, this idea that you can make insurance companies compete with one another, and portability accross state lines. All of a sudden they have ideas!!! then they come through with NOTHING! Typical Republicanism, great on the fiscal responsibility jargon, in reality, fiscally as irresponsible as the Democrats. They use terminology like tax breaks to make you believe they are fiscally responsible, but then get involved into two wars largely unfunded, and try to make you believe its those Democrats and their social welfare mandates. Their God Ronald Reagan did the same thing, then turned around and spent billions in the star wars program that helped some physicists discover a few particles and that was it.

Isn't this guy the governor of one of the poorest states in the U.S.??? Shouldn't he be working on that instead of trumping around the country acting like he is someone who belongs on the national political spot light. How about working on the poverty of Louisiana??

two visons?

How about the next housing bubble being created now. We need a leader!

nd You Thought the Housing Crisis Was Over!

By William Tucker on 7.27.12 @ 6:09AM

The Community Reinvestment Act is back, as if 2008 never happened.

Do you remember that thing about how the banks wouldn't lend to blacks and Hispanics because they were racists? And do you remember how they passed the Community Reinvestment Act so that banks were forced to reduce down payments practically to zero and lend to a lot of people they knew were bad credit risks? And do you remember how Wall Street bundled all these risky subprime mortgages and sold them to investors around the world so that when it became clear that those people weren't going to be able to pay their mortgages banks everywhere were left holding the bag and all five of the Wall Street investment houses either went under or had to be bailed out by the federal government?

And do you remember how, when it was all over, liberals said it was actually the banks' fault for "deceiving" all those people into thinking they could afford to buy homes and that the banks should be punished for it and some of those people be allowed to keep their homes anyway? And do you remember how all this cost the government close to a trillion dollars and put the whole economy in a hole that we really haven't begun to dig ourselves out of yet?

Well, get ready because the whole thing is about to happen again.

Yes, believe it or not, the federal government is now starting another initiative to force banks to lend to low-credit-rated blacks and Hispanics -- not just anybody but specifically blacks and Hispanics -- and is threatening -- and already imposing -- huge punitive fines if they don't. Moreover, this time they're going even further. They're going to take over the credit rating agencies and force them to change their standards to accommodate blacks and Hispanics so that nobody will have any idea who is a bad credit risk and who is not. In so many words, the government is about impose its will on the whole home-lending market and force another round of bad loans so that the banks are going to be looted once again so that even the federal government may not be able to bail them out this time.

The principle instrument this time is not the Justice Department, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as it was last time, but the brand-new Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, designed by good old Elizabeth "Nobody-Ever-Made-It-On-Their-Own" Warren, which should really be called the Bureau for Bringing Down the Entire Economy. As reported in last Sunday's New York Post by Hoover Institution Media Fellow Paul Sperry, the CFPB has just announced that it is adopting a 20-page "Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending" issues by the Interagency Task force on Fair Lending in 1994 that kicked off Attorney General Janet Reno's draconic enforcement of the Community Renewal Act. Part of the policy statement reads, "Applying different lending standards or offering different levels of assistance to applicants who are members of a protected [i.e., minority] class is permissible in some circumstances. Providing different treatment to applicants to address past discrimination would be permissible if done in response to a court order." There are already plenty of court orders sitting around.

Just two weeks ago Wells Fargo caved to a Justice Department offensive and paid $175 million for alleged past discriminating against minority borrowers. All this occurred even though the bank received an "outstanding" grade in its most recent Community Reinvestment Act exam. The government did not even bother to prove discrimination in a single instance but relied instead on statistics showing lower rates of homeownership in minority neighborhoods. Thomas Perez, the Justice Department honcho who is spearheading this campaign, says banks discriminate "with a smile" and "fine print" and are "every bit as destructive as the cross burned in a neighborhood." Nice objective evaluation there.

As in most such cases, Wells Fargo chickened out about going to court and refused to admit any wrongdoing but agreed to all kinds of diversity training and sensitivity counseling. The bank will have to "prominently display" a notice informing minority customers that they cannot be turned down for loans just because they are receiving public assistance such as unemployment benefits, welfare payments or food stamps. (Maybe they can even use food stamps for the down payment.) Wells Fargo must provide minority customers $50 million for down-payment and closing-cost assistance, including "Borrower Assistance Grants" of up to $15,000 per individual. It was also ordered to pay $125 million to as yet unnamed victims of previous discrimination. But get this! If those past victims don't show up, the money must be handed over to community organizing groups. President Obama, you have a job waiting for you if you lose office this fall.

Almost a dozen banks are under similar investigation and will be soon falling like dominoes unless one of them musters the courage to stand up to the Justice Department in court.

But the real destruction is going to be wrought by CFPB, created by Dodd-Frank and just getting started. Last week Richard Cordray, who is serving as a disputed recess appointee without the consent of the Senate, announced that not only will CFPB be going after banks but will also target the credit rating agencies that evaluate people's creditworthiness based on past performance in paying debts. They too will be vetted for racial discrimination. In May 2011, the non-partisan Policy and Economic Research Council completed what it described as the first evaluation of Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, the three credit rating agencies. The report concluded that in less than 1 percent of cases was a score changed by more than 25 points after a dispute process and that "consequential inaccuracies are rare." Moreover, "95 percent of disputing participants were satisfied with the outcomes of their disputes, suggesting widespread satisfaction" with the process. In other words, credit ratings are pretty accurate. Banks rely heavily on them and say that, if anything, the agencies tends to underestimate the rate at which minority buyers will default on mortgages.

So guess what happens next? Under the pretext of "regulating" the agencies, CFPB will hammer away, forcing them to upgrade the scores of blacks and Hispanics. Standards will be diluted or abandoned entirely and within a few years the banks will be flying blind with no reliable information on who is a good credit risk and who isn't. Does that sound like the formula for another mortgage meltdown? It sure does to me.

At this point in my story, it is customary for the journalist to proclaim that he isn't trying to protect the lenders but is really concerned with those unfortunate minority individuals who will end up with bad loans. Sperry follows this pattern by declaring, "In the end, it will be the minorities Obama and [Eric] Holder are trying to help who will be hurt most."

I think I'm going to have to depart from the tradition. I think what we are witnessing is the looting of America on behalf of minorities in a way that better end soon or we are going to bring the whole system down upon our heads.

With the current administration in power, the perception is growing among minorities that everything in the economy can be had for free and that President Obama and his administration are going to provide it for them. For instance, there is a scam going on around the country right now where con artists call up homeowners and tell them that President Obama has a new program where he is going to pay their electrical bills. All the homeowner has to do is provide his Social Security number and other personal information. The con game started in Michigan among minority populations in depressed cities such as Flint and Grand Rapids. It has now spread as far as far as Florida and Mississippi. More than 2,300 people in Michigan were bilked out of $1 million, another 10,000 have been swindled in New Jersey.

What is amazing is that all these people actually believe that President Obama is ready to pay their electrical bills. It is symptomatic of a rising tide of dependency and the growing sense that nobody has to be responsible for anything anymore and we can all live off "the rich." If we don't get these people out of office soon, there isn't going to be much left to pick over in the American economy.

It's ABSURD to think that a 10 year old law made the housing bubble burst! LOLOL Bush got the "American Dream Downpayment Act" passed in 2003 and I think THAT had a lot more to do with it. And in 2006-2006, the bush administration KNEW things were coming apart, yet said and did NOTHING! Republicans crashed the economy, and they have been sabotaging the recover for 3 1/2 years now, hoping for a recession before the election. In my view, if the GOP drives us into another recession, their losses in November will be HUGE! THAT would be a good thing.

When a political party deliberately creates a debt crisis, crashes the economy, refuses to address the suffering , one has to question their patriotism.

At a time of crisis, with the country’s entire financial system near collapse, with the economy collapsing, with the stock market collapsing, with unemployment skyrocketing, with people losing their jobs and retirement money, the GOP announced that their NUMBER 1 PRIORITY was to assure that Pres. Obama was a 1 term president---- even BEFORE he was sworn in!!!

They abandoned their duty to the American people for the sake of sabotaging a new president taking office in the midst of the greatest crisis since 1929.--- for the sake of political gain! I don’t know if that fit’s the legal definition of treason, but it sure smells like it and is at the very least, un-American and unpatriotic. Never before have I seen a political party abandon it’s country in time of crisis! NEVER!

Instead, they continued to worship at the altar of the moneyed and corporate elite while giving Joe America the finger!!

Under Reagan and under Clinton we had prosperity, including "jobs" and "taxes" that allowed people and government to work; only under Bush-Cheney did government become completely fixated on patronizing the very wealthy and neglecting responsibility to the majority. Today the Republican / Tea Party, with the now spoiled 1% pressuring them as their strong supporters and dictators, think only in those terms, to cater to "the money" and take the 99% for granted. The 1% is pouring their mega-millions into this election cycle with the full intent of controlling it for their purposes, to assure the continuing concentration on their interests, to return to "more of the same" Bush-Cheney style, to allow "the money" to continue to feed their insatiable "more" (never enough) appetite and just let the majority continue to loose.

The people, the majority have to recognize their own decline is directly correlated with the "puppet" politicians increased dependency on and concentration to serve "the money" and to see that those selling "liberalism" as the problem are promoting a lie that serves their purposes. Getting government spending and the deficit under control are needed goals but they don't address the source of the problems, which is the flagrant abuse by "the few" freely taking advantage. Run-away greed, gross dishonesty and self-indulgence, allowed by permissive and co-responsible politicians, caused repeated crises in savings-and-loans, banks, dot.coms, the investment, financial and mortgage industries, as well as corporate corruption (like Enron) and industrywide failures, all of which brought this country's economy to its knees and killed jobs in the process - with "the few" always walking away "fat and sassy" and leaving the costs to the majority. To allow a return to the irresponsibility of that Bush-Cheney style thinking, can only repeat the problems, whether sold as "conservative" or otherwise.

The voters need to see their losses are consistent with the neglect of responsibilities by the "puppet" politicians as they just concentrate on serving "the money" who own and control them and "pull their strings". Together, with their power, influence and money, they insultingly just take the voters for granted, feeling they can con the people and manipulate public opinion at their will - seen now in the aggressive propaganda campaign paid for by the 1%'s mega-millions. They have become emboldened by past successes in the manipulation of the Evangelistic Christian, the Swift-boat propaganda, the Tea Party movement and with their millions poured into the recent Wisconsin recall election; all being well designed, well directed and well funded efforts to sway voters in the same single direction. For the people to have a chance they have to recognize the deception, reject the propaganda trying to control them and firmly reject all of the "puppet" politicians that will continue to serve only the interests of "the money".

GOP - more billionaires, fewer worker rights, babies without post-natal health-care unless they can afford it, voter disenfranchisement, tax breaks for rich folk

DEM - The Affordable Care Act, Worker Rights, balanced wage & exec income, FAIRNESS for all, voter enfranchisement, Cut spending & Raise Taxes = Pay down the deficit !

The GOP's vision has stalled America's economy unless you're part of the 1% of 1%

The republicons two years ago were yelling the dollar will fall, no one will buy our debt because we are bankrupt

Last year during the debt ceiling debate they yelled the era of hyperinflation was fast approaching due to the debt ceiling

no other country is following the deficit reduction first approach- the EU dropped the plan a month ago. The UK is in a double dip recession

Your ideas are failures yet you still yell. When unable to defend I guess just make crazy bat@!$%# up and yell

instead of loking to blame everyone other then republicons lets just admit that people regardless of political stripe are motivated by greed. From the traders asking for the LIBOR rate to be changed so they can win their trading "bet" to the mortgage brokers pushing the subprime due to a kickback on the backside of the deal this was not a washington dc created crisis.

Follow the money

The Republican vision is that of 19th century Europe with a small wealthy class living off the labor of a semi-destitute working class. This is the very system that drove millions of Europeans to emigrate to America.

Oh my God this guy will be the
VP of USA , & our great Generals .& soldiers will salute to him , he is
very fit for a Convince .Store some where in the corner of a 3rd class city OOOPS
OOPS OR may be good for Infested bed beg
hotel like Hotel 66 or Hotel 69 lololol or trucking hotels on high ways
lolololollllol where is Ronald Regan or Kennedy we are waiting for

Jindahl is much too intelligent to say the ignorant things he says. I think someone "got to him". Someone made him an offer he can't refuse. The man is not speaking from the heart. He always looks like he has an "off camera" gun pointed at his head.

Romney's HORSE collected as a tax refund the amount equal to my full time wages.

Romeny's horse just had to look pretty and do NOTHING to collect my full wages as a "write off" refund. A rich man's hobby earned him a dip into the treasury, while my hard work (literally) earned the same amount in wages. My contribution in taxes was much less than that, yet still MORE than Romney's 13.9%. Go figure the FAIRNESS in any of that!

A rich man can deduct a hobby (horse) and take back the amount a middle class full-time worker earns during that entire year. The middle class worker still pays more than Romney's 13.9% share in taxes. Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world agrees with the overwhelming majority of Americans that THAT IS NOT FAIR!

TAX THE RICH MORE to allow them to actually share more fairly in the tax burden. Billionaires need no tax breaks added to their already shameless NON-PAYMENT of waht's fair. Fairer Taxes for thr rich NOW!

Perfectly describes Romney: "He says them, and then when his campaign aides realize that they don’t poll well, they don’t test well in focus groups, they come out and try to apologize for them, or take them back.”

Jindal is right in one respect. Obama and Romney have very different visions for America. Obama envisions a land of opportunity for all Americans.

Romney envisions and America with a wealthy 1% Aristocracy with 99% of Americans barely scraping out a living. His vision is similar to societies like India, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia where there are a very few wealthy individuals and the poorest people actually live in the garbage dumps of the rich.

Jindal...you bet it will be!

Maybe Bobby should hold an EXORCISM or some other kind of VOODOO BS they partake in in the swamps to un divide America into Romney's way of thinking .Romney will never win the election ,they have not even began to beat the Morman drum plus throw in this Ham and egger Jindal and you have the making of the biggest footnote in presidential elections since Dukakis . The press likes to portray the election as a dead heat but the only pockets R omney has voting for him are those about to die,and those with extreme wealth. I can understand how a progressive might be let down by Obama's performance but think about it and answer honestly and you should come up with a vote for the incumbent

He is right.

While I'm still a registered Republican, I'm just tired of the contrived statements that come from the Republican camp. Their greedy ideology crashed and burned during the Bush era. Their bigotry leads them to the hypocrisy of wanting the government to dictate peoples beliefs, the paranoia leads them to the largest government handout ever - to defense contractors, their ignorance and miseducation causes to them deny modern science. These nasty people seem to have bizarrely chosen to take the wrong side of history at every opportunity. Enough of this madness - it's utterly stupid that the Republican Party exists as it currently is. We need a brand new right.