Lets Keep the RNC out of our life .

RNC = ROMNEY'S NEPIHLIM CLUB .

“to reconnect with people,”

Best line of the day!

When did Willard CONNECT with people in the first place? lmao

I'm so looking forward for non-political junkies, like myself, to get a good look at Mannequin Mitt & his pampered princess Annie!

The Vulture/Voucher 2012!!

August 26, 2012 Charlie Crist endorsed President Obama.

Charlie Crist: I’ve studied, admired and gotten to know a lot of leaders in my life. Across Florida, in Washington and around the country, I've watched the failure of those who favor extreme rhetoric over sensible compromise, and I've seen how those who never lose sight of solutions sow the greatest successes.

As America prepares to pick our president for the next four years — and as Florida prepares once again to play a decisive role — I'm confident that President Barack Obama is the right leader for our state and the nation. I applaud and share his vision of a future built by a strong and confident middle class in an economy that gives us the opportunity to reap prosperity through hard work and personal responsibility. It is a vision of the future proven right by our history.

Paragraph 8 … And the president invested in our retirement security by strengthening Medicare. The $716 billion in savings his opponents decry today extended the life of the program by nearly a decade and are making sure taxpayer dollars aren't wasted in excessive payments to insurance companies or fraud and abuse. His opponents would end the Medicare guarantee by creating a voucher that would raise seniors' costs by thousands of dollars and bankrupt the program. More …

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/article1247631.ece

Republican elders said Sunday that this week's Republican National Convention here in Florida offered Mitt Romney an opportunity to re-introduce himself

He does that every time that he opens his mouth. He has a different position on EVERYTHING, according to whom is organizing his fund raising. He promised that he would never bring the "birther" BS about President Obama, but he flip-flopped the minute that Donald Trump -the most insecure birther with an expplosive ego- did a fundraising for him.

Of course, Mittens is there to SERVE THE BIGGEST DONORS, not the American People. Look at his sorry Convention: paid by lobbyists, and he says that has a pavillion to attract women. The name of the pavillion: Miriam Adelson, the wife of the super pac champion Adelson. Mitt Romney expects women to see "how much he cares abou them" by having this pavillion there. Ridiculous? YES! Also, they have prepared a ceremony honorig the KOCH BROTHERS.

This is Convention to honor BIG MONEY, NOT THE PEOPLE.

RCP (Average of polls) as of 8/21/2012 After Ryan Pick / Before Conventions
(08/24/2012) Missouri moves from Lean Romney to Tossup
11 Tossup States: Tied in one (FL=29), Obama leads in 8, Romney leads in 2.
Delegates: Obama = Solid(142)+Likely(30)+Lean(49) = 221 +Tossup(82) = 303*
Delegates: Romney = Solid(76)+Likely(58)+Lean(47) = 181 +Tossup(25) = 206
Total Delegates: [303+206+29 = 538] Win = 270*

What are these elders talking about, Romney reintroduces himself everyday and he is less likeable every time.

I hope that President Obama tells him: "Nobody has ever asked me TO SEE MY TAX RETURNS"

Of course, if he says that, Mitt Romney is going to DEMAND an apology.

What a disgusting person who's decided to pander to women and elders. After his ridiculous comment about 'Birthers' to the "WASP" crowd, that finally did it for me, (a woman and Native Hawaiian elder.)

So sorry, Mitt, you're not a Protestant!

"The convention offered Romney a chance “to reconnect with people,” said former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) of the forthcoming convention...."

I dont see how that's gonna work gov. Bush, it could take centuries for the Republitards to re-connect with regular folks...matter of fact I dont see it happening in hell; forget heaven because ya aint seeing no Republitards up there...all of em heading to hell...

LEFTISTREPORTING

Hey... whatever helps you sleep at night is fine with me!

It's easy to see why you're allergic to FACTS! lol

But, around these parts, we have a saying about "opinions" like yours!

The black voters are more and more going over to Romney as they see Obama for what he is. A LIAR. He has done more to set back the advancement of his own people than any other leader before him.

Sheeeis! Someone needs to watch the news. Romney has 0% That is ZERO PERCENT OF THE BLACK VOTE. THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED to the GOP ever.

The convention will be nothing but an Obama bash fest. Since the Repubs have no agenda (Mutt Heads secret list) what else do they have to talk about??? Nothing positive as everyone is so afraid of Mutt Head pissing off more people than he has so far.

Lestist....every single "poll" I have read says 0% of the black vote is
Romney's.

What your life would be like under Romney if you're middle-class.

1. Your taxes would go up - there is no scenario where the tax cuts for the wealthy would not be funded by the middle-class. Look it up.

2. Your health insurance will go up. Romney will repeal ACA. .

3. If you are a woman or have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, are over weight - you will lose your health insurance if you get sick. There will be no protection against losing your insurance because of pre-existing conditions. Romney will repeal ACA - there will be no protections.

4. You will lose Social Security benefits.

5. You will lose Medicare Benefits - it will go bankrupt by 2016.

6. If you are a woman, you will no longer have reproductive rights. If you get pregnant, you will be forced to bear that child or face murder charges.

Think these are far fetched? Read their platform and make up your own mind.

By the way - Where are your tax Returns Romney? What are you hiding? Did you take the 2009 tax evasion pardon?

LEFTISTREPORTING

Yo guy, you are embarrassing your team ... sssh, go back to bed, it's next to the toilet.

leftis? Go back under your rock, the slime is spilling out.

Here in Colorado our local news keeps telling us of a 4% advantage for the President, with just a few percent left undecided. Here we have enjoyed a very strong economy for almost all of the last 25 years under Democrat control of both State and local Denver-area government, and in 25 years the Denver region has seen population growth of over 250%. The Great Recession was not nearly as bad here as it has been in other places, and our home prices are back up around 15% since 2009 too. Here we have enjoyed some recovery anyway, and I see no good reason here to upend the recovery that we have enjoyed to this point, and return to a tax-cutting platform which has already saddled America with nearly $11 trillion in national debt just between Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bush Jr, plus another $2.5 trillion in inter-governmental borrowing from Social Security.

One definition of insanity is doing the same negative thing over and ever again and expecting different results, and Romney's economic platform is just a rehash of Republican economic plans since Reagan was in office. Cut taxes on our wealthiest citizens and they will spend much of their extra dough on foreign investments, expensive foreign cars, foreign vacations, foreign real estate, and foreign yachts, and only a minority percentage of that extra income will trickle-down here at home.

If cutting taxes on our wealthiest citizens actually "created" jobs, America should be awash in good-paying and secure middle-class jobs right now, as our top tax rate is half of what it was from 1960-1980 when our economy was as strong as it has ever been. Instead we are faced with a terrible loss of middle-income jobs, dilapidated roads and bridges, the loss of entire industries, the economic destruction of entire cities and regions, and under Republican control, the loss of many trillions of dollars of middle-class home and retirement account values, while a lucky few wealthy Americans have tripled their net worth at the same time. Has any of that record increase in net worth trickled-down to you? So why think that if we elect Romney that he and his friends will allow any of their table scraps to fall down to you?

I have noticed that the hurricane track has shifted eastward a couple of times in the last couple of days, as first the bulls-eye was on Mobile, AL. All that we can hope is that the storm track continues to shift eastward until the entire RNC convention becomes a wash too. It would be insane for any member of the bottom 80% in America to think that electing someone who specializes in stripping corporate assets and offshoring jobs would somehow be good for America, as the most-likely outcome based on history is another huge increase in our national debt, along with another major war, and while our defense contractors will do well, our civilian economy will do much worse, which will mean that hundreds of millions of Americans will again lose heavily, just as they did under Reagan, Bush Sr, and under Bush Jr too.

Need directions, Isaac? Hang a right at Sarasota.

Obama 2012/Romney 1040

Cue the clown music, it's going to be a great show. "Ladies and gentlemen... In the center ring..."

Then that same tiny little car pulls out... but most of the clowns weren't invited.

The only way team Romney/Ryan can win a close election is by voter suppression - new voter id laws, and purging voter registration rolls. And they are busy doing that right now. The DOJ needs to step up and put a stop to this.

Poor Mittens is upset that the networks aren't canceling all programming to cover the great "I AM." Why, how dare they not STOP their regular programming for Queen (let them eat cake) Ann, so that she might be venerated as is her due?

Mittens and Queen Ann: "We believe we are royalty AND MUST BE TREATED AS SUCH."

All delusion all the time.

The polls are misleading, but they favor the GOP in their bias. The idiot that the GOP is running isn't fooling anyone, we just aren't telling you pinheads that still believe their con.

Romney is getting 10 million dollar checks from dark money, usually checks written from a super pac that is just a mail box in Vermont. And why? big business is so scared of an Obama with nothing to lose. They know he wants to nail rich people, and they are pouring money into Romney's empty promises to "the middle class" so they can save money on taxes for the next 4 years.

HYSTERICAL lefty: after reading your posts, one can surmise what kind of "research" you do! You love that worldnetdaily, don't you, and you just can't get enough of the lunatic ravings of Glenn Beck?

One can only hope that you go back to school and learn what the word "research" means.

If your to stupid to check the facts out for your self and want to believe in the lies of others

Well then, I suggest you start by leading by example!

Your comment contained nothing but than YOUR opinion!

To which you are entitled to, however, you don't get to pass them off as factual, pal!

Period!

PS: Someone who resides in an outhouse shouldn't be talking about others smelling like sh!t!

Leftistreporting is the public face of the GOP's failed political ideology: Spineless, whiny, hateful, ignorant, and intolerant. Sounds a lot like Romney, doesn't it?

Why does the Republican Party want a convention to share that kind of message to the American people? One would think they would try to hide it...until after the election, of course.

Concerning Mitt Romney,

The following is the question that I have asked many people to answer honestly, and after many times, I still get the same look on people's and friend faces, every time I asked it.

Why someone who is reportedly worth somewhere in the 200 million USD ( Romney), and paid about $ 3,000,000.00 in taxes last year, suddenly has the urge to be the next President of the United States earning about $ 145,000.00 a year, minus FICA and Social Security deductions?

The Presidential salary does not even come close to cover ( Romney's ) tax bill, even after he cheated all the way down to the 15 % bracket( well, he actually said he only paid 13 % on Tv ).

Is there anything else that we THE PEOPLE need to know about it?

Hasn't Romney made enough money through out his political career, connections and power deals yet?

I'm sorry but my 3rd Grade math just doesn't add up!

And, what about his tax returns?

The problem with his tax returns( Romney's) is that they are going to show every trick in the book to avoid taxes here in the US, including offshore accounts in places like the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
These are very expensive " tools " ( Law firms specializing in Tax avoidance ), not available to the average American taxpayer who pay an effective tax rate of 23-30% tax based on income, and that goes as well for those who earn between $ 250k-600K a year.

At the same time he( Romney) will " Demand sacrifice " from everyone else in the country who is still lucky enough to have a job that was not outsourced to China or India ( manufacturing or tech).

Therefore the average american CEO or executive, does not have a .25C/Hr raise, or a lower co-payment policy for medical services for their employees( Assembly line or Office ).
Instead, they have millions to spend in tax avoidance law firm schemes and offshore accounts, in order to hide all the money, resources and wealth they extract from their respective companies, workers, and the Federal government in the form of taxes.

Now, what about his record at Bain Capital ?

How many people lost their job in NC when they closed the mills, and sold the machinery that was hauled first to Juarez MX, and then to Asia?

Has anyone visited Concord and Kannaplois NC ghost towns lately?

Unfortunately, that's who Mitt Romney really is.

So,

Can anybody clearly see how important for Wall Street is the Presidency of the United States yet, or does anyone needs more clarification on the subject?

romney has nothing in common with the middle class,poor or elderly.if elected he will represent the people he does have something in common with the rich.i was just wondering.think he even knows anyone middle class?well except his illegal alien gardner

Carl Rove/Romney/Ryan plan split the seniors away from other Americans to get at the money. Splitting Americans withe the health care voucher, telling seniors they are protecting them, but them give everyone else vouchers that will crash health care. That voucher would never be enough and will add higher costs right off the bat to those stuck on it. As soon as the repubs could win office they would strip Social Security from seniors like they did to people under 55.

Repubs creating voter suppression laws against the elderly to keep them from voting to protect Social security, Medicare, medicaid, and the Post Office. WHY DO REPUBS WANT TP PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING TO HURT SENIORS?...Greed and love of money over America. Romney show us your taxes. Seniors pay their fair share why won't you?

Obama/Biden and Team democratic party 2012, protect seniors from republican greed!

The Dems are our only real hope of taking back our liberty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jimmy Fallon may have had the best chuckle for the week about dear Mitts.

"Apparently CNN is doing a 90 minute documentary on the life of Mitt Romney. 90 minutes! The makers of Red Bull said, 90 minute Mitt Romney documentary? Sorry, that's even beyond us!"

Obama/Biden 2012

Polls keep showing a tight race between Romney and Obama, and they will until election day.

Of course, think rational, with the hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for political advertisements what else would you expect media to report, they have their hand in the pot.

If truth be known, this election is already over and Obama wins by a mile. The only votes Republicans can count on is the hard core religious right, or about 26% of the vote.

America voted for a 60% majority in the US Senate in 2008, the first time in almost 50 years that our national sentiment has been that one-sided, and the passage of legislation unpopular with the minority has been the result. That same minority also presided over the first year of the worst recession since the Great Depression too, which saw the home values and retirement assets of hundreds of millions of Americans destroyed, all so a few wealthy friends of the Bush family could make record profits. And how short a memory you Republicans have, blaming Obamacare on the President, since the idea was Mitt's idea to start with, and also, would never have made it out of committee unless Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine had voted for it too!!!

Unless you work for a health insurance company or within the medical community, Obamacare will be far better for you. If you have a pre-existing condition, or you engage in risky forms of recreation, Obamacare will be your only chance to have health insurance that covers your needs. Imagine if auto insurance companies were allowed to take away your car insurance for life because you had a single speeding ticket, which almost all of us would find incredibly unfair, especially in places where police ticket revenue is high. Losing the health insurance that you have paid into your entire life just because you got sick or experienced an injury is bizarre, and yet all too common under the healthcare system that our health insurance companies so badly want to go back to that they are willing to spend billions of dollars of your health insurance premiums trying to scare us all back into their hardline.

How long did you health insurance and medical community types think that you could continue raising our medical costs at 10 times the rate of inflation before somebody put a stop to it? Between my health insurance premiums, the new deductible, all of the new copays, and the benefits that were taken away, between 2001 and 2009 my total cost for health care increased by over 600%, while since President Obama had been in office, those same costs have only increased by 20%, and there has been no further reduction in benefits provided either, in fact, a few new benefits have been added, such as a free annual health exam, and some better access to prescription drugs too.

Remember that $716 billion in runaway health-industry profits that Obama "stole"??? That was the same $716 billion that the healthcare industry stole from all of us over the GW Bush years! Anyone want to give that stolen money back to the thieves who stole it in the first place? Anyone want to see more and more Americans having to take their critical healthcare needs to public hospital emergency rooms so that those costs can be spread onto an ever-smaller group of insured customers?

One other thing: If those same 15-20% annual healthcare cost increases and those 2% annual average pay increases were to continue through 2025, what percentage of Americans could actually afford to have health insurance as it exists now, since by 2025 the total cost would be in the range of several thousand Dollars per month? In 2001 my entire cost for both medical, dental, and any mental health costs was $127/month plus 20% of my dental costs, and 20% copays for only non-generic drugs, and that cost figure was only a small percentage above what the same costs were in 1979. We Americans have been ripped-off blind by our healthcare industry, and make no mistake about the lengths that the healthcare industry is willing to go in order to revive that golden goose too.

Let's all show the health insurance and medical community that we have not enjoyed their attempt at ripping us all off for their own personal profit, and vote to keep Obamacare by voting Democrat, so that 35 million Americans currently excluded from having health insurance aren't driven into bankruptcy through our current system that allows health insurance companies to cherry-pick its customers, and to deny care to anyone guilty of getting sick or getting injured, even just once.

"The Obama campaign and Democratic super PACs have spent tens of millions of dollars on television ads in key swing states taking aim at Romney’s private sector career, personal wealth and handling of issues important to women."

This is a funny statement coming from the republican party who has outspent Obama in every way so far..AS for issues comcerning women...what has or soes the republican party have in its platform that is actually for womwn in any way ? They are and are on the record as being against more health care for women..are aginst equal pay for equal work for women....they are against the poor in every way...they are going against the middle class for all they are worth...yet making sure their wealthy friends make out really well. As for the republicans wanting more tax cuts for big business..there was an article in the paper today concerning what big business was paying in taxes...with CEO's being paid much more than many were even paying in taxes..if they were paying taxes at all. MAny were getting huge refunds.

Feisty Redhead said:

Willard is losing the women vote by 10%

Willard is losing the hispanic vote by over 30%

Willard has ZERO percent of black voters

That is a 4% drop from Obama's share of the women vote in 2008. Blacks, as are students, will not show up at the polls in the same numbers they did in 2008, especially when the black unemployment rate is 15% and students have no job offers.

The polls are creeping closer and closer after Obama has been leading comfortably in most of the battleground states for the last six months. The latest Real Clear Politics average has Obama leading 47-46 with 7% undecided. That is the closest since the campaign began. Here’s the kicker. Most undecideds will go with the challenger. A University of Colorado model which had predicted correctly every presidential election since 1980 has Obama losing with 218 electoral votes to Romney’s 322, a landslide. Even more astounding in the model is the popular vote prediction, 53-47. If all the undecideds go with Romney in the Real Clear Politics average, that is EXACTLY the outcome.

Was asked why would Romney want to become President that easy to answer why_— To lower his tax bill. Put Ryan's budget in affect with lowerin the capital gains from 35% to 25% it would lower Rmney's 13.9% down to 3.9% after dropping the 10%. That would make up for about ten years of presidents pay. Poor Romney and Ryan needs a tax cut bad. Poor guys I feel for them.

I see the collapse trolls are just home from Sunday school.

Democrats stand up for the middle and lower classes of this country, these republicans don't know we have one. Republicans believe in every man for himself, democrats believe we live in a community. Family values are for everyone to live by, not just heterosexual family's. Family values are good things. Abortion shouldn't be a government choice as it is a legal medical procedure and the decision should be between a patient and a Dr. only.

You know, just a few months ago 66% of the republicans voting to pick their candidate voted anyone else but Romney. Now they are dropping their option of against him because of his religion, against him because he was the inventor of Obama cares, against him because he was to liberal in general. Many just plain didn't like him at all.

Regardless of all the lies, and half truths I certainly hope that this country especially the middle class and working poor voters, anyone that wants to really save medicare and Social Security will vote for democrats. Obama with Obama cares has extended the life of Medicare by 8 years. This is enough time to come up with a comprehensive plan to save it, not to destroy it like the voucher system would.

...high stakes for Romney?

Crucify or barbecue? How do you want to do it?

But that's cannibalism...going back to the middle ages - no surprise, Conservatives do stick to traditions. Minorities have always been victims, but this time they are doing it to one of their own? Human sacrifice?

Clayton, I think a millionaire like Mitt has a few other reasons to be President than lowering his taxes.

You're an idiot.

Willard is losing the women vote by 10%...the hispanic vote by 30%...(and)has ZERO percent of black voters

Could it be possible that black people are RACIST? What would be said if Obama had "zero percent of white votes?"

Leftistreporting:

Wow. Did I just read that you're not voting for Obama because HE'S the arrogant one? Seriously, you think that Obama is more arrogant than Mitt Romney? It's hard to imagine the words arrogant and Obama in the same sentence, yet that word pretty much makes up Romney's entire personality. You also consider a 10% lead in women voters to mean "pretty much 50-50," and you think that 0% of Black voters means that more and more are going over to Romney? It's nearly impossible to have a discussion with people who are this delusional.

Road Warrior-1005773, that University of Colorado poll has already been debunked. Using their new model, they are falsly advertising the claim they have "predicted the last 8 elections correctly". They haven't predicted anything yet-it's a new model filled with some very huge flaws. It's a total bull@!$%# methodology. Go ahead and hang your hopes on it. I'll stick with Nate Silver@538

Obama/Biden 2012

@Jim in Houston-1509351

A lot of of us have a real good feeling about Romney and that is because he's going to lose.

Obama/Biden 2012

Ron Paul on Romney: 'I don't fully endorse him for president'

Mr. Paul, in an interview, said convention planners had offered him an opportunity to speak under two conditions: that he deliver remarks vetted by the Romney campaign, and that he give a full-fledged endorsement of Mr. Romney. He declined.

"It wouldn't be my speech," Mr. Paul said. "That would undo everything I've done in the last 30 years. I don't fully endorse him for president."

...news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ron-paul-romney-don-t-fully-endorse-him-132604061.html

Obama's new campaign video:

"The Do-Over"

...news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-stars-obama-camp-over-122258826.html

Leftist is clearly a troll just trying to get honest folks riled up. Nobody is that ignorant of the facts are they? Even Romney supporters are smarter than that.

@ Joe Reyna - Dude. You're delisional if you think Romney had anything to do with closing mills in NC. Yes, I saw Kannapolis and Concord, NC daily for over 45 yrs, before I had to move. Saw Pharr yarns in Landis, Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, and countless others in other mill towns. Let me help you get the facts straight Joe. Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law. Dubya and his rep buddies, including NC senators Robin Hayes(R) and Elizabeth Dole(R) helped him and in one case Hayes cast the deciding vote to export bank computer jobs. That's why when you call Chase or B.O.A. you get a Hindu guy on the ph named "Bob" or "Rick" to help you with your account. Those jobs were suppose to go to Charlotte but bush thought more about the econemy of India than he did of NC's. No one other than people living/working in NC seemed to mind. You the consumer should see a discount from your bank with the money they save not paying American wages to US workers. Anybody got a bonus check, or something of monetary value or even a damn toaster from their bank? I didn't think so. Not spending it on long distance calls to India either. They use someting called voice over IP. Google it if you don't know what that is. Btw, both Hayes and Dole were voted out of office in 08. The people of NC clearly saw their loyalty was to bush. Dole and Hayes are both heavely invested in the pertoleum market. Thanks you dubya, hayes and dole for exporting approx 150,000 textile jobs to China and Mexico too. And yes, Kannapoils and Concord are shadows of what they once were and the ghost towns like Vale, Hiddennite, Ranlo, Dallas, etc, etc, are infinate. That was the doings of george worthless bush and his fellow rep oil buddies from 02 to 08. Not Mitt Romney. Need more clairification from someone who was actually there? Let me know. Tar Heel born and raised, I have a clue Joe.

But yet again there is a bigger picture everyone seems to be missing. Does anyone really care about the mill closings in NC? I mean people that live in other states? No. They couldn't give any less of a damn. And that's my point. This used to be 50 UNITED states. Not so anymore. This is America. So Colorado is burned up. So what? I don't live there. Oh well. Where were they from 02-08? Florida is about to be devistated by another hurricane. So what? I don't live there. Why should I care? Dirt farmers in the midwest crying over the lack of rain. So phucking what? I don't eat corn, pork, beef or chicken so why should I give a damn? None of them are people I know or Tar Heels so phuck 'em. That's their own attitude back at them. Now lets see how long before they realize I'm right, get pissed off and leave ugly replies or colapse my comment. This isn't the United States anymore, this is America. We're all on our own. When ya'll gonna figure it out? We did from 02-08!

Obama's hardly the right man for the job. He lacks the experience to fix the economic train wreck dubya left him with. He doesn't know how to create jobs and his healthcare plan is nothing more than the beginning of socialized medicine in this country. He's had Hillary sign the UN small arms treaty. This will be the cornerstone of the death of our 2nd amendment rights. He's issued 132 executive orders, one of which states the government can come take my house, my vehicles, my savings account, my guns, anything that's mine that they want and call it "national security." Why should a president that signs orders like that be trusted. Joe, can you clairify that for me? And I still want to see his birth certificate. Not a certificate of life birth. They are NOT the same legal document. It's like comparing a car title to the registration. Do any of you know the difference? If not, Joe can clairify. If he is an American citizen why was he following islam as a muslim in Jakarta growing up? Joe, help me out on this one. Oh Joe, one thing I've asked at least 1000 people and no one can answer this. Help me out bro. Isn't calling an illegal alien an "undocumented worker" the exact same thing as calling a drug dealer an "unlicensened pharmacist?" I'm to stupid to figure that kind of thinking out, so can you clairify please?

Romney is a typical rep. Trickle down economics doesn't work. Reagan proved it in the 80's. Rep look out for their rich rep buddies. We all know this.

Obama is a muslim. Read his executive orders and then ask yourself this. Which one of these canidates would be worse, not which one would do better. Put the horse BEFORE the cart people. muslims have vowed to bring America down from within. It's already begun. Like I said no longer 50 United States. My point? Agressors rule - step 1 - Devide, step 2 - Conquer. It's been underway but everyone is missing it due to clever distractions and political scandals.

And one last point to ponder. Why should how Romney spends his money bother me more than how Obama spends mine?

I'm done and gonna stfu. Everyone have a nice day. :) Thanks for all your help Joe. You're the man!

Would you look at that Alexandr1, safecracker is back.

Regarding the "Hurricane", for those of us who live here - this is not a hurricane. It is a tropical storm which = wind gusts and rain. I live 1-block from the bay and I haven't even lowered my patio umbrella. I'm not, however, unhappy that the storm disrupted the Republican circle-jerk.

Would you look at that Alexandr1, safecracker is back.

NDD,

He just can't help himself...

Sad...

To A Box of Rocks comment 1.53 :

Dude I think you are a perfect candidate for this movie:

http://2016themovie.com/

Just follow the link, and take all your unemployed buddies from Kannapolis NC to the theater with you.

Then vote for Romney on Nov 2nd, and report back around April 2013, and tell Us how you guys are doing out there in NC, ok?

Oh, and Please Don't forget to wear the camouflage fatigues and boots at the theater.

joe reyna

Concerning Mitt Romney,

The following is the question that I have asked many people to answer honestly, and after many times, I still get the same look on people's and friend faces, every time I asked it.

Why someone who is reportedly worth somewhere in the 200 million USD ( Romney), and paid about $ 3,000,000.00 in taxes last year, suddenly has the urge to be the next President of the United States earning about $ 145,000.00 a year, minus FICA and Social Security deductions?

Hmmmm, I wonder how concerned everyone was about JFK's wealth? His family wealth was estimated at over $1 billion dollars back then, that's more than $7 billion in 2010 dollars.

How about LBJ's wealth? He was estimated to be worth $98 million, which is over $607 million in 2010 dollars.

You bobbleheads need to get off your wealth envy kick and start looking at what is best for our nation. If you honestly believe our economy is any further away from the "cliff" we were told to believe in 2008 today, you have no concept of economics other than what Barrack Hussein keeps indoctrinating in you.

Romney/Ryan 2012 for real Americans

- David Stockman—the Reagan administration's point man in the fight for supply-side economics who proved when it came to deficit issues to be even more conservative than the fortieth president – has weighed in on the matter.

GOP policies have crippled our economy

"How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse."

Jim Spence,

Wealth on a candidate is not an issue when people are paid a decent salary, or have some type of safety net such as a real defined pension when they retire, not an undefined 401K plan pegged to the stock market( were you can lose the entire savings of 20 yrs of hard work), nor their house is " magically transformed " into a trade-able stock ( CDO), than can loose value without the consent of the owners( the person making the mortgage payments), or the duped investor who owns that CDO!

So under that scenario( before the time of your hero Reagan in 1986), no one gave a Rat's arses about the candidate's wealth Jim.

Do you want to know why Jim, because everyone had a fair shot at the American dream, either you had some kind of monetary retirement, or your house that you paid for 30 long years was woth something at the end of the day.

joe reyna

You know, it’s amazing how much you Liberals/Progressives self-aggrandize about being so “Forward” looking yet you live in the “good ole days” that you demonize the Conservatives and Republicans about. You really don’t understand.

If you really believe that we will see those “good ole days” with their bloated wages, benefits and legacy costs again, it’s understandable why you cling to the government and its repeated lies so strongly. Those days, my poor lost friend, are long gone.

The post WW II economy was a temporary at best phenomenon. First of all, it took humanity until 1960 to populate the earth with 3 billion people, since then, in a mere 50 years we have added 4 billion more. Do you honestly believe the world is just going to allow us to be the pre-eminent industrial and export power as they wallow in poverty? Please don’t be so naïve.

We had our opportunity and as we developed our wealth, prosperity and standard of living the world watched, and learned. Those 6.7 billion other people in the world have a responsibility to provide for themselves as do we. Just as our industrial revolution went through the growth steps, so are theirs. The emerging economies are here to stay, to think otherwise is narrow-minded. If you think the untrained, unskilled, illiterate laborer will ever earn $70+ dollars an hour, with benefits, you must be crazy.

We had our chance and we blew it. When our incompetent government decided it was within their powers to intrude more and more into the private sector with feel-good programs and more controls, the system began to unravel. Industries looked to other havens to produce, and 6.7 billion people were welcoming them with open arms.

Most of our manufacturing has been made as productive as possible through innovation, automation and decentralization. That’s what it’s supposed to do. This started long before your favorite bogeyman Reagan. I worked part-time, during the 70’s while in undergrad at Ford Motor Company, and remember the “Japanese invasion” and our ridiculous ignoring of it. By 1980 the unit I worked on went from 360 employees to 60 with robotics taking the other 300 jobs. So please stop your convoluted blame.

You and I know that the camel that broke the camels back was NAFTA and the WTO, neither of which were by Reagan. Our wages were doomed not only because of that but also with union intrusion and abuse driving industries offshore. You Liberals always complain about the wage disparity between CEO’s and worker compensation. It’s interesting you never mention the fact that in 1965 the ratio was 20:1. In 1990 it was 53:1. You may want to sit down for this, in 2000 it skyrocketed to 411:1. I don’t remember any of you Liberals screaming from the mountain tops back then. After the recession Bush inherited from Clinton the ratio dropped to 238:1. The ratio obviously collapsed during the 2008 collapse to about 210:1 and it’s on its way back up again.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this is right, but the only solution is to allow the free-market and more importantly and educated consumer to fix this. Everyone is thumping their chest about the 4.5 million jobs “created or saved” by Barrack Hussein but no one looks at what “kind” of jobs they are. Ninety percent of them are low wage/low benefit service sector jobs in retail, hospitality, health assistance and temporary jobs. This will NEVER rebuild our economy. We spent over $863 billion on the vaunted $timulu$, it created these 4.5 million jobs. This means each job cost us $200,000 EACH! We would have been better off to give each business $50,000 and made them create a job, this way we would have created 17 million jobs. Don’t you ever worry about where the money went to create all these jobs? You should.

Now, as far as your real defined pension is concerned, do you mean the $4 trillion dollars of deficits the cities have with regards to their “real defined pensions”? What do you think these pensions are invested in? They’re the same vehicles you can usually get in your 401K. I have been invested in the market for over 30 years, but I’m also invested in treasuries, bonds and commodities. The fact that most Americans can’t calculate a simple compounding interest rate should concern you more than how your 401K is doing.

Yes joe, we did have a shot at the American Dream until it became bastardized into “Keeping up with the Joneses”. You know this as well as I do. The words thrift and savings were replaced with credit cards, second mortgages and home equity loans. We used to live comfortably in a 1,200 sq. ft. house, today the average is 2,500 sq. ft. When the neighbor, or your brother-in-law, bought a Cadillac you bought a Beemer or a Benz. If the guy next door bought a new 18 foot Sea Ray you bought a 22 footer (I’m not saying YOU did all these things, it’s just for exemplary purposes).

In the meantime our greatest tragedy is we completely abandoned our education system and allowed a massive bureaucracy to methodically destroy it. I’m not talking about getting a college education, I’m talking about our K-12 nightmare. Most Americans read at an 8^th grade level, and you want a well paying job? Or the even more mythical “living wage”? Most high-school graduates can’t use—there, their or they’re—correctly in a sentence. Hell, most of the posts here can’t use it right. Ask a high-school graduate to calculate 40% of 450 in his head and his ears start steaming. But you Liberals want more in wages. More ominously you want the government, who has amassed $16 trillion in National Debt and $120 trillion in Unfunded Liabilities to take care of your retirement (Social Security) nest egg and your health care (Obamacare). Sorry, but I’m a bit skeptical.

Yes, those issues you mention about home values and monetary retirement are concerns, yet you continue to insist the same system that is responsible for allowing it to be ruined continue taking care of it. We have over 145,000 pages of regulations in the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations). Don’t you think SOMETHING in that morass of regulations would have implicated Golden Sacks (Goldman Sachs) with some type of wrongdoing? Congress found offenses that could be prosecuted and yet Eric Holder decided not to. Jon Corzine’s company, MF Global, just lost $2 billion dollars of investors money yet Eric Holder can find no charges be brought against him. Only the illiterate masses can believe this. More regulations are NOT the answer. Enforcing and severely punishing the offenders IS the answer.

We desperately need trade reforms to make our agreements FAIR, not free. Our convoluted progressive tax system has been manipulated any which way from Sunday for a century, and we still can’t make it work. Maybe if it wasn’t 72,000 pages long and had over 1,100 different forms we could make it more “Fair” as you Liberals like to so live by. No, instead you just think tweaking a few tax rates and dropping a few loopholes will fix it. Maybe, until the next round of tax amendments are passed by our criminals in Congress. Nothing Romney did with his money is illegal. We have the most feared auditing and collection agency in the world taking care of that, the IRS. He’s not in jail, so I have to believe that whenever he sends his, over 500 page long, taxes in they are OK. I’m more concerned with what the government does with my money than I am with how Romney invests his. And so should you. Regulations cost American businesses over $1.75 billion per year, and cost small businesses, those with fewer than 20 workers $10,585 per employee, or 36% more than paid by large businesses, those with 500 or more. And we wonder why businesses are failing at rate of over 200 a day?

I can go on about our economy collapsing entitlements, union destruction of industries, monetary malfeasance by our friendly Federal Reserve, fiscal malinvestment by our criminal government, currency manipulation by foreign nations, our need for a real energy policy and other things but I think you get my meaning.

We are struggling under a 20^th century economic system in the 21st century, and it has failed for a century. Keynesianism cannot work. Government cannot be the benevolent provider, only the true free-market can do that. We have to worry less about getting everybody into college and worry more about making sure we can all read, write and do simple arithmetic. America was NOT built by our government, it was built on the shoulders of domestic exportable manufacturing balanced with appropriate service industries. Our convoluted 80% consumption/service sector economy has never created the wealth, prosperity and standard of living we are accustomed to. If you can, name a country. Don’t bother, there is none.

We need to make serious changes monetarily, fiscally and under austerity. If not we are just kidding ourselves by kicking the can down the road over and over. We have to accept the following, we have lived, as a nation, far beyond our means and the message is, for the foreseeable future, that we will be forced to live beneath our means as this debt is paid.

Greed isn’t someone wanting to keep more of what they earn, its people demanding a greater share of money that someone else has earned.

I'll vote for anyone who will try to improve my standard of living ...without destroying someone else’s!

Romney/Ryan 2012 for real Americans

Romney and Ryan are crooked thieves that use their wealth and power to play by the Rules of the Rich (RoR), immunity from taxes, prosecution, facts, feelings and conscience. These two miserable human beings are the epitome of traitorous self-interest over duty and country. If these two miscreants do win we can say farewell to democracy as the dynamic-duo throw open the doors and allow the further looting of the American treasury by rich, white, racist, sexist, xenophobic, billionaire (self)-righteous "Christians." The American Taliban promises to be just as fun as the middle-east variety!!

TheOverlord

Romney and Ryan are crooked thieves that use their wealth and power to play by the Rules of the Rich (RoR), immunity from taxes, prosecution, facts, feelings and conscience. These two miserable human beings are the epitome of traitorous self-interest over duty and country. If these two miscreants do win we can say farewell to democracy as the dynamic-duo throw open the doors and allow the further looting of the American treasury by rich, white, racist, sexist, xenophobic, billionaire (self)-righteous "Christians."

WHEW!!!

Did you hurt yourself during that bizarre diatribe? You must have, it hurts just to read it.

Out of that whole adolescent rant you proved, via one simple statement, why no one on this planet should believe anything you said.

we can say farewell to democracy

We are NOT a democracy. We are a Federal Constitutional Republic with a Representative Democracy. Democracy in this sense means we simply have periodic free elections.

Then again, we who do know the difference between the two forms of government, Republic vs. Democracy, understand your ignorance. When our own POTUS, Barrack Hussein, denies that our Constitution is a Charter of Negative Liberties, the principles of a Republic are easily lost in your confusion.

Please go educate yourself about basic civics and then come back, the adults may let you play.

Try to keep up Spanky.

Romney/Ryan 2012 for real Americans

Barack Obama has:

Signed the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) Bill into Law allowing any US citizen to Be Detained WITHOUT trial (A federal Court Blocked it in May because it Violates the Constitution, but Obama is not trying to get it UNBLOCKED!).

He has Killed HUNDREDS of Innocent people (Including 3 American Citizens) in Pakistan and Yemen with Drone Strikes (He's Ordered even more drone strikes than Bush!).

The rate of National Debt under George Bush was Around $60 Billion a Month. Under Obama, it's been $190 Billion a Month, so that would be Nearly $600 Per US Citizen (Thanks Obama!).

Obama Care: Page 22. MANDATES, The Government will Audit Book of ALL Employers who Self Insure. Page 50, Section 152, Health Care WILL be Provided to ALL Non US Citizens, Illegal or otherwise. Page 126, Lines 22-25, Employers Must Pay for Their Part time Employees Health Care AND Their Families. Page 127, Lines 1-16, The Government WILL Tell you How much Money you can Make.

Obama has By-passed Congress to Enable the DREAM Act (Unconstitutional to By-Pass Congress, and the Illegals he allowed to become Legal Citizens has Committed over 19 Murders and Over 142 Sex crimes).

Obama Claims he Campaigned in 57 States (Maybe he wasn't Born in this Country?).

I'm NOT a Romney Supporter, but I would say Vote anyone BESIDES Barack Obama. And if Obama Gets Re-elected, buy Guns.

Since we don't know what he's for or against , he should reintroduce his self , right now he's a Mystery Man and he's asking American to elect him not knowing who he really is , He's been running for President for 6 years and we don't really know who he is .

We know he's a Mormon Priest , we know he's a Lier , We know he's bent on giveing the wealthy a no tax break and makeing the working poor pay more in taxes to cover what the wealthy dont pay .

Actually we dont really need to know more about this Mystery man after all ...... OBAMA 2012 ......

THIS IS A COMMENT FROM A GUY WHO CALLS HIMSELF "ROB WACK" AND IT BEARS REPEATING .....

I'm shocked; shocked, I tell you!

That Romney should lie - should have to twist and torture reality to a degree that you'd think the result came from the mind of a 9-legged burrowing cave creature on an alien planet in a distant galaxy - is just...oh, alright, alright, he's never been known to do anything else and you already knew that. This Romney specimen simply does not comprehend the concept of either a lie or a truth. Those words, in his mind, mean exactly the same thing: whatever he is saying at this second in time. He can, and has - many times - said exactly opposite things from morning to afternoon or from one day to the next, depending upon his perceived audience. And no one seems to notice!!

NOW THIS IS FROM A TV INTERVIEW WITH THE LAWYER THAT QUESTIONED MITT UNDER OATH WHEN HE WAS MAKING A CASE THAT HE ALWAYS FILED AS A MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENT.....

" I have alway filed as a Mass resident when in Utah running the Olympics, Take my word for it". When he was shown a copy of his tax returns that listed Utah as his residence of record, Mitt said that must have been a mistake, and that he didn't read his tax returns, he just signed them. This was testified to under oath, when pushed further about his statement about always filling as a Mass resident he relented that the firm that does his taxes made a mistake and he would correct it by filling an amended tax return. Mitt was also questioned as to why he was given a tax benefit on his Utah resident by filing as his residence of record. Mitts response was the clerk must have made a mistake and just given him a tax break because he was helping so much with the olympics; the lawyer said ... "kinda like a reward?" Well yes, Mitt responded.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! You just can't make this stuff up !

Show me a Republitard with clean tax returns and I'll show you a Chinese midget....

DocHolliday-2979123

Show me a Republitard with clean tax returns and I'll show you a Chinese midget....

There is a dwarf theme park in China called The Kingdom of Dwarves.

Fool's Gold

While the tax issue may have initially worked for you, clearly it is now providing you with diminishing returns. Considering that 46-47% of the country doesn't pay federal income taxes and that statistically that would include many of you condemning Romney for taking advantage of legal tax breaks available to him, the hypocrisy of your comments is so blatant it's remarkable. Maybe it just bothers you that a member of the "wealthy" class has figured out a way to reduce his subsidization of your deadbeat lifestyles.

So Fool, you are happy with tax breaks for the 1% to the tune of $700 billion over the next 10 years will be paid for by the other 50 odd % ... Fools like you?

I'm sure if that's true, that just as many supporters are watching it as opponents. Know your enemy! And besides, what good did the other best-selling documentary "Bush's Brain" do to defeat Bush? Right. None. So if you think a "best selling" mockumentary is going to defeat a smart President like our President Obama, think again. The vast majority of Americans prefer a rational leadership, not a Tea Party wet dream, whose leader first of all, can't make up his mind how he feels about anything, and second of all, goes against its own "small government" credo by trying to legislate a woman into giving birth to a rapist's baby. Good luck with that, hon!

cantakenomore those returns are very low. A handful of movie goers can push any dog to 3.5

If they pay NOTHING, they have NO dog in the fight...

cantakenomore:

What bothers me about this is that these same people have an equal say in how much others are taxed and what their taxes are used for. How is that not a conflict of interests?

Fool's gold....so tax cuts don't have to be paid for because they aren't cost??? Guess the CBO's estimate that tax cuts are also decrease in tax revenues, don't relate to cost. Why does the CBO have as a cost the Bush tax cuts as an increase in the deficit. How do you encourage deficit cutting and reducing the deficit without increasing revenues??? Any comments?

JackieK...

For the umpteenth time...you can take all the money...get it?? ALL the MONEY the top 1% have and it wouldn't touch our deficit...

It's called CUTTING SPENDING!!!

Ever put yourself on a budget?? ...and maybe balanced your check book a few times??

Fools Gold,

You say, "condemning Romney for taking advantage of legal tax breaks available to him, the hypocrisy of your comments is so blatant it's remarkable. Maybe it just bothers you that a member of the "wealthy" class has figured out a way to reduce his subsidization of your deadbeat lifestyles."

While I'm not in any position to take any advantage of the tax loopholes that favor the more wealthy, I don't begrudge those that do. But, when you are running for the President of the United States, arguably the leader of the free world, you must be an open book and transparent, especially with your financial records. You are seeking a position that can influence legislation that can further your wealth, as well as the wealth of your donors and associates. As a citizen of these United States, I am entitled to know what my potential President financial holdings are, and how they might influence his agenda. If Mr. Romney wished to remain a "private citizen", then his tax returns are none of my business. But, he has placed himself in another realm; he wants to be the leader of our Country. Therefore, I don't think it is unreasonable to know what is in his financial records. History has shown us that other than John McCain, who only submitted 2 years, but every other candidate realized the need to show their tax returns, Mr. Romney refuses. I'm sorry, but that is not acceptable to me nor many other citizens of the Country he wishes to lead.

Mr. Romney will not be receiving my vote.

Guess the CBO's estimate that tax cuts are also decrease in tax revenues, don't relate to cost.

Jackie:

A decrease in revenue is not a cost in the conventional sense, although Democrats/liberals try desperately to blur that distinction at every oppurtunity. A decrease in tax revenue is simply less money that is coming into the government. I know it's hard to wrap your "tax and spend" little mind around this concept, but you can always offset decreased revenue with decreased spending.

cantakeomore,

Just like everything else that comes out of the Right's mouth..Their rhetoric never matches their actions. Plus, they repeat a lie so frequently in hopes that people believe it to be truth. It won't work this year. But, you can keep repeating your lie if it makes you feel better. But the fall from your denial will hurt.

cantakenomore

ItsSimple...

Top-grossing documentary...can't argue with the numbers, can you? Can't argue with facts, can you? You may try and dismiss them, like most liberals do when their hypocrisy is shoved right back in their smug little faces...

And Sarah Palin had a top selling book for a while. Where is she now? Standing on the Bridge to Nowhere. Who cares if a miilonn people watched it, 999,999 of them were not going to vote for Obama anyway. Suck on those facts.

Fools Gold ---- your calling people deadbeats is getting just a little old. I spent 50 years working my a-- off for what little I have. your attitude seems to be typical of the Republican party , which in my opinion is enough to change peoples minds as it has mine.

Republican elders said Sunday that this week’s Republican National Convention here in Florida offered Mitt Romney an opportunity to re-introduce himself to voters...

He must be planning on shaking his Etch-A-Sketch.

Fool's ...that is a proper name for you....so a Tax cut that reduces revenue coming into the coffers is not a cost to our country???? Good lord that is worse than,"that depends on what your definition of is, is".

If I am running a company and I see revenues cut by 25% I have to do something to make up for that short fall or I will lose money. You guys always want to use the business analogy for running the federal government (they aren't the same but I will put it terms you understand) so in my example the company is the federal budget company......guess what, with 25% less money coming in the deficit and debt are going up....especially when the revenue not coming in is because people don't have a job and they now need help from government safety net programs to stay afloat (yep additional costs).

Clearly in the world of federal government a decrease in tax revenue is a cost.....stop your silly semantics, please.

Yes Romney has some strange positions, like hiring Bush/Cheney on his team.

Yes 17 of 24 of Romney's advisers are from the catastrophic Bush/Cheney regime. Why would anyone vote to have Bush/Cheney/Romney in office again? Then repubs wonder why Bush is still to blame for everything that is hurting the country! They are trying to bring Bush/ Cheney back into the white house! Now that everyone knows that Bush/Cheney lied America into Iraq war for profit and for Bush to be known as a "War President" for glory, why would vets and families of vets vote for these same people that helped Bush Cheney? Thousands of our troops killed and thousands more wounded and dying because Cheney and Bush wanted war profits to go to Haliburton with NO BID contracts. Romney hires these same people!!

VOTE NO TO ROMNEY BUSH CHENEY TEAM.

Vote President Obama/Biden and team Democratic party.2012 ...........Dump Bush Romney!

Stop the bull@!$%#. Everyone pays taxes in one form or another. Even when a kid buys a penny candy there is income profit built into the cost that the vendor pays tax on, ergo the kid paid the income tax for said vendor. We are all through labour tax collectors and tax payers.

Florida storm is a act of God to mop up the GOP Sin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's called CUTTING SPENDING!!!

So canttakenomore - walk the walk and get your party to cut defense spending by 100%. Problem solved!! Check book balanced. Budget balanced. Major headway to reducing the debt. Surely you would support such an effort because it meets all your single-minded goals.

So I guess the ones who want "Mittens" in as President must be of the 1%, they are rich, they are male, they have no need for insurance and don't pay the same in taxes as us 99%.

Amazing all I have heard out of him is taking away a woman's right, (in fact this was the first thing I heard out of his mouth, what does he have against women) take away my health care, my social security that I have worked hard for 50 years contributing, and I still pay my 20 some % taxes.

so what the heck is he going to do for the country's best interest, what about foreign affairs, global warming that no one wants to believe, gas prices that go up when someone sneezes, etc etc

So those who want to vote for him knowing what he is going to take away, ask yourself can you live with higher taxes, no insurance if you get sick, etc., basically your freedom

Watch what you wish for, for you may get it.

Well,

Since comment # 1 was collapsed by "unknown" dark forces as it usually happen when there is heated criticism of the GNOP, here we re-post again!

Concerning Mitt Romney

The following is the question that I have asked many people to answer honestly, and after many times, I still get the same look on people's and friend faces, every time I asked it.

Why someone who is reportedly worth somewhere in the 200 million USD ( Romney), and paid about $ 3,000,000.00 in taxes last year, suddenly has the urge to be the next President of the United States earning about $ 145,000.00 a year, minus FICA and Social Security deductions?

The Presidential salary does not even come close to cover ( Romney's ) tax bill, even after he cheated all the way down to the 15 % bracket( well, he actually said he only paid 13 % on Tv ).

Is there anything else that we THE PEOPLE need to know about it?

Hasn't Romney made enough money through out his political career, connections and power deals yet?

I'm sorry but my 3rd Grade math just doesn't add up!

And, what about his tax returns?

The problem with his tax returns( Romney's) is that they are going to show every trick in the book to avoid taxes here in the US, including offshore accounts in places like the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
These are very expensive " tools " ( Law firms specializing in Tax avoidance ), not available to the average American taxpayer who pay an effective tax rate of 23-30% tax based on income, and that goes as well for those who earn between $ 250k-600K a year.

At the same time he( Romney) will " Demand sacrifice " from everyone else in the country who is still lucky enough to have a job that was not outsourced to China or India ( manufacturing or tech).

Therefore the average american CEO or executive, does not have a .25C/Hr raise, or a lower co-payment policy for medical services for their employees( Assembly line or Office ).

Instead, they have millions to spend in tax avoidance law firm schemes and offshore accounts, in order to hide all the money, resources and wealth they extract from their respective companies, workers, and the Federal government in the form of taxes.

Now, what about his record at Bain Capital ?

How many people lost their job in NC when they closed the mills, and sold the machinery that was hauled first to Juarez MX, and then to Asia?

Has anyone visited Concord and Kannaplois NC ghost towns lately?

Unfortunately, that's who Mitt Romney really is.

So,

Can anybody clearly see how important for Wall Street is the Presidency of the United States yet, or does anyone needs more clarification on the subject?

#1.32 - Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:56 AM EDT

Fool:

Your analogy of a balanced budget....If I have an income (taxes) is reduced, lower pay; and my bills due are not reduced, and sometimes increase; not due to increased spending, but on increased on the cost of food, utilities, and transportation cost. I can try to reduce spending by eating only 1 meal a day, only heating my home just enough to keep the pipes from freezing, etc.

Most middle class people do these things, and still need to increase revenue to keep paying the bills due to lost income. The answer for balancing the budget for these middle class families is to go get another job or 2 to increase the revenues to pay the increase in the cost coming in every month.

What part of increasing the revenue for the government is so bad to you. Cutting spending is good to a certain extent, and most Americans are all for it. But, we also know that there also has to be an increase in the revenue side to even begin to reduce the deficit and start to balance the budget.

How are Romney/Ryan going to increase the revenue while cutting the spending?

I am just wondering how many of you are going to ARGUE witht the FACTS:

(Mind you, these figures come from the CBO and IBD)

35% of Americans Receiving Government Welfare

The United States is on a “dangerous road to fiscal decline and growing dependence on government,” and this is the “real legacy of Obamanomics.”

That warning comes in an editorial from Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), which cites reports pointing to the widening discrepancy among Americans in what they pay in to government — and what they take out.

In the second quarter of last year, 107 million Americans were receiving some kind of government welfare — not including Medicare or Social Security — according to a study from the Senate Budget Committee.

That’s up from 97 million just over two years ago.

Given that the 2010 Census showed the nation with a population of 308 million, the 107 million getting government assistance now comprise 35 percent of the total population.

In today’s federal budget, 70 percent of all spending goes to aid programs for individuals such as housing, food, income, student aid or other forms of welfare, IBD reports.

But IRS data show that nearly half of all Americans, 49.5 percent, pay no income taxes at all.

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the middle 20 percent of income earners — the true middle class — paid just 9 percent of federal taxes in 2009, and only 2.7 percent of total federal individual income taxes, while earning 15 percent of before-tax income.

President Obama has insisted that the “rich” do not pay their fair share of federal taxes. But the top 20 percent of earners paid nearly 70 percent of all federal taxes, and 94 percent of federal individual income taxes, while earning 50 percent of the income, according to the CBO.

And the top 1 percent alone paid more than 22 percent of all federal taxes, and 39 percent of federal individual income taxes, while earning 13 percent of the income.

Those earners paid just 17.6 percent of federal individual income taxes when President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.

In its report headlined “The United States of Dependency?” IBD observed that “we’re now on our way to a European-style welfare state. This is the ugly reality of Obamanomics. It fosters dependency in exchange for financial security. But that security is a mirage.

“The only real economic security any nation has is the strength and vitality of its private economy.”

IBD pointed to two other troubling numbers.

New Census figures show that 43 percent of all immigrants remain on welfare 20 years after arriving in this country.

And a new economic study found that nearly half of Americans die with less than $10,000 in assets, which the IBD calls “a sad comment on how government has displaced personal initiative and private savings in preparing for retirement.”

Times-Running-Out

Time IS running out for Romney/Ryan. Your guys are going to lose, and the country is going to be better for it when they do!

• OBAMA/BIDEN
• FOUR MORE YEARS

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Romney is America's last chance to be free of rule by Mexicans!

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...the top 20 percent of earners paid nearly 70 percent of all federal taxes

Please explain how you can twist these facts to make them conform to your crazed hallucinations. Cut and paste does not replace actual facts, little guy.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/currentdistribution.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Federal_Receipts_by_Source,_2010.jpg

Fools Gold #2.27 --- I made no such statement nor implied any such thing , THIS is one of the things I was talking about. I don't have any problem with the rich , MOST of them worked VERY hard to get where they are . YOU on the other hand I wonder about , it seems you have to lower other people to satisfy you ego.

Times-Running-Out - Intelligent people know the GOP is responsible for most of the sluggish growth in our economy due to their blocking every effort to put the country back on the right track.

It's unfortunate that YOU won't admit the truth or put the responsibility where it belongs - with the Republicans in Congress who said to hell with the country as long as they could make President Obama a one-term President.

The dishonesty of the GOP is beyond amazing.

Obama/Biden 2012

Teaparty Low...

Damn, you just described your savior, Obama...LOL

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012!

Vote against our community-organizer-n-chief like your life depended on it!

Mr. Etch-a-Sketch is going to reintroduce himself...hmmm...maybe he is a born again Christian or a Catholic now...

old man...

He was simply stating facts...something liberals have a difficult time with.

If you didn't save enough after working your arse off for 50 years, that's your problem. Should have changed careers some 30 years prior...

Times-Running-Out

IBD? The climate change deniers investment group? Their factoids are opinions and most likely a result of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Times ---- While I not going to ague your points you fail to note the differnce in wealth with your percentages , of coures the wealthy pay more while haveing a lower tax rate, and it is the current tax system that allows the poorest to no pay federal taxes , not the people themselves. I'm sure YOU use every deduction you can get.

If someone has failed miserably after a full term in office, why would anybody think they could do better if given another term. The never ending attempts at diversion and division by the left are not going to work. Romeny/Ryan will win. The conventions are nothing but pep rallys. The actual vote will be on susbtantive issues and one's actual record in office, that is where the case for Obama is hopeless.

Jackie,

Your analogy is one we can all relate to.

Look at this way. Let's say your income has gone down or stayed the same, and, like you said, your expenses have gone up and you're living with a shortfall. You could rack up a bunch of debt --- so much so that the likelihood of every paying it off is slim --- or, like a lot of families, you go out and get another job. This is a big sacrifice for you. You work your tail off to support your yourself and your family and it's hard.

You take that extra money and you intend to pay the bills. But you have a couple of spoiled kids. It's sort of your fault that their spoiled. You love them and have tried to make their lives better but your good intentions back fired, and they are a little spoiled. So they sneak into the shoebox where you hide the extra money under the bed and they buy the latest video game or X-Box or $300 Nike's, and suddenly all the extra money you worked for has been used up and you're still short of the electric bill. You reprimand them but they tell you just to go get yet another job. While you sacrifice, they don't.

I wouldn't mind paying more in taxes if I knew the extra money would be used to pay down debt, shore up necessary programs, increase efficiency. If I knew the money I work really hard for and have to give a good portion of it away would be used for good use. Unfortunately, the government has a miserable track record of showing much fiduciary responsibility. They've lost a lot people's trust in that regard. And then to berate me for not giving enough, it just makes the whole experience worse.

How are Romney/Ryan hoping to increase revenue? Spending cuts and tax increases when used together would work. Spending cuts and tax reform would work too. Our best bet to increase revenue without raising taxes would be to get people working again. Working people pay taxes, spend money, expand the economy. Getting people working again would solve a lot of our problems and would be the best way to do it.

So canttakenomore - walk the walk and get your party to cut defense spending by 100%. Problem solved!! Check book balanced. Budget balanced. Major headway to reducing the debt. Surely you would support such an effort because it meets all your single-minded goals.

Military is really the only thing the government is supposed to be spending money on.

“form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” - James Madison

I'm sure YOU use every deduction you can get.

Why not? When the government proves itself to be fiscally responsible as they ask most of us to be (the 50% who pay federal taxes), then I'll not scrutinize my returns and try to find every legal loophole...

Redhead Ranting...

thanks...boy, you sure don't resemble another infamous redhead on this vine. Thank God!

cantakenomore --- I dont beleive I said I was poor , thank you , I have plenty for mine and my familys needs with a little left over to help the more needy. I like to think I'm not greedy.

old man...

I spent 50 years working my a-- off for what little I have.

Okay, which is it? You use a statement to argue a typical liberal view but then state...

I dont beleive I said I was poor , thank you , I have plenty for mine and my familys needs...

Excuse mek, but am I missing something here? Sounds like you may be preaching out of both sides of your mouth...

Stakes high for Romney? No where near as high as the stakes for the country!

Convention organizers canceled Monday’s activities due to safety concerns associated with an impending hurricane, leaving Romney and the GOP with one less day to drive its message about what they charge are the failures of President Barack Obama, particularly when it comes to matters of the economy.

The republicans don't need one more day to tell everyone about the failures of the Obama economy. We already know about the 40 months of sustained unemployment over 8%. We already know that the reported unemployment rate is 8.3% and rising. We already know the national debt has increased $5.3 Trillion in the past 4 years under Obama... Those of us who are smart realize Obama has nothing to offer... no hope but plenty of change... change into to something most Americans don't want. GDP at 1.5% and another impending recession... it's only a matter of time.

If Obama keeps his job, this country is going to fall since Obama's policies have destroyed our economy. I find it utterly amazing that liberals want this country to fall. I guess it's true they hate America too.

Candice:

Thanks...I agree with your post, also. There are many ways to increase revenues in the government. I as a middle class voter would even agree to let all the Bush tax cuts expire, and go back to Clinton era rates. We need some sort of revenue increases, regardless of how we get them.

I haven't heard much regarding the republican policies, and Romney/Ryan's plans and/or policies on how they will increase revenues. Would like a republican poster to give me some specifics on how their plans will help to reduce the deficit and increase revenues.

Military is really the only thing the government is supposed to be spending money on.

Oh, so you can't walk the walk, eh raging redhead/cantake? We just heard you folks on the right say we have to cut spending, yet suddenly, you come up with an excuse as to why we can't cut spending. According to you folks, broke is broke, and we can't afford any more spending. Which is it?

I can only assume that you are not interested in FACTS. The Republicans caused the National Debt because they Lowered Taxes and spent more than they collected in Taxes. If you are interested and I assume you are not just sign onto the Official Government Web Site Bureau of Public Debt.

Get ready to be sick when you see that Reagan, Bush#1, and Bush#2 created the massive debt that we now have.

Republicans hate facts.

RedDevPS

The Military is one of the GOP's sacred cows. They love to either cheer the victories or mourn the defeats. It is just a big Reality Show for them.

RedDev...

Please...you can try but you're not going to be successful arguing that one. I believe RH Ranting was simply showing what our government is supposed to be responsible for...not what they've taken responsibility for...

It's high time we eliminate government waste...like the 3 million annully that continues to go into "lighter-than-air" aircraft (blimps)...

How many People on this page think America is the best country in the world!!! Am I the only one?

OBAMA- BIDEN 2012

Carl Lafoon said: I can only assume that you are not interested in FACTS. The Republicans caused the National Debt because they Lowered Taxes and spent more than they collected in Taxes

Facts Carl? You are calling what you typed a fact? It's not quite a fact. There are two parties involved in government spending and approving any tax cuts. Tell me exactly how it's the republicans fault when the democrats have their handprints all over tax cuts and increased spending.

lol

Please...you can try but you're not going to be successful arguing that one.

Au contraire - I have pointed out the idiocy of the claims from the right that we have to cut spending, yet when given an option, they worm out of it claiming that we have to cut spending except, except, except. The raging redhead classically proved that point. You see, we hear cut spending from the right on a constant basis, yet they are unwilling to cut spending for their pet projects. Hence, the right has no commitment to cutting spending, therefore, they are full of hypocrisy.

...and your democrats do? your "tax and spend" party? ...sheeple!

sheeesh! democrats would be funny if they weren't so damned pathetic...

Brianb- you should be ashamed. You say Liberals hate this country when the Republicans in Congress have done everything they can to destroy the country and absolutely NOTHING to help. President Obama has proposed several bills to help increase jobs and the GOP refuses to even bring them to the floor for a vote. They haven't cared who they hurt since their only goal is to make President Obama a one-term President.

You have no clue about anything yet you post your hatred daily for all to see. Too bad you don't put the blame where it actually belongs - squarely on the shoulders of the GOP!

Obama/Biden 2012

Seeking...

News Flash! ...Barry will be a one term POTUS...

and his ouster couldn't come quickly enough...

I see the same libbies are out in force this morning!

At least we don't re-reg over and over to make our numbers look higher than they are. I say you cons are no more than half a dozen strong at best.

..and your democrats do? your "tax and spend" party? ...sheeple!

If that is the best you can do, you've clearly lost the argument. Well, to follow suit, you Republicans, cut taxes and spend like a drunken sailor visiting every whore house in Southeast Asia without the courtesy of using protection. Not only do you break the bank, ya willingly spread disease and leave the clean-up cost on everyone else.

canntake --- -- It seems your the one missing the point. I didn't know one had to be rich to be happy in life. I try to live by the "Golden Rule" .I'm a county boy with simple needs. I have God and my Bible and a wonderful family , what more could a person need. One more point , I don't try to push my beliefs on other people , I don't think I tryed that in any of my posts , if you feel I have I'm sorry.

Conservative Republicans planned it This Way

After 30 years of conservative Republican destruction of the New Deal, their deliberate Bush-era spending spree in which Republicans followed the Jude Wanniskis’ “Two Santa Clause Theory” to a tee (namely, run up debt and deficits when in power, then scream about them when out of power as an excuse to hand government services and the social safety net over to private corporations) as well as the conservative Republican conspiracy to deliberately obstruct any attempt to offer relief to the working class as a political strategy to making Obama a one term President (a conspiracy in which Paul Ryan took part), America is at a tipping point where the incessant Right Wing propaganda blanketing the nation has many willful dupes –many whom even depend on the safety net Ryan is trying to destroy – believing that subjugation to the private corporate state equals “freedom.”

"It's high time we eliminate government waste...like the 3 million annully that continues to go into "lighter-than-air" aircraft (blimps)..."

Compared to the 4 BILLION we give to the oil industry annually in the form of subsidies. The subsidies that the right refuses to even discuss.

Romney Immigration plan...hire as many as he can, when he gets caught, don't turn them in, just hire them again! Yep caught twice hiring illegal Guatemalans through the Mormom church...he twice let them go not turning them into ICE for deportation. He let them run to their next job at his son's home. When questioned by reporter, Mittster answered..."OH GEEZ!" and walked away!

Romney has a lot of positions alright...ON BOTH SIDES!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Corporations are not people , not ever my friends.

Good Ol Romney the flip flopper, can't remember what he said anymore. Like repubs say, " Everybody should like him, he has been on both sides of every issue one time or another!"

Romney's speech at the convention...., here is a copy of it.

I said what I meant, when I said what I said, I meant what I said 100 per cent.

I meant what I said when I said what I meant, except now what I said when I said what I said.

Retroactively I said, not what I said, what I retroactively meant what I retroactively said.

Vote President Obama and Biden 2012

Jackie,

The Clinton tax policies worked because of the booming economy. The economy was booming because of Business to Business innovation, dot.com, and new technology. What we need is the next "gotta have" product or service to get us going again. Maybe that will be new energy solutions.

If some new innovation took off to drive the economy, people would be happy to go back to those old rates.

We need a Manhattan Project type program. We need to gather the best and brightest American scientists and engineers. Lock them in a room and not let them out until they come up with the best alternative energy solution that will gain us energy independence and require infrastructure build out. Lots of former NASA employees are available!

2012 is proving to be an extraordinary election year.

Romney is playing dodgeball with the issues, making the mistake of thinking that being INSIDE THE CIRCLE is somehow 'WINNING THE GAME' while being forced by circumstance to spend most of his time trying simply NOT TO GET HIT.

Obama is on the rim throwing balls at Romney while failing to comprehend that beyond his circle is yet another, larger circle comprised of the electorate.

We, the electorate, are throwing balls at both Romney and Obama, but unwittingly, only Obama has his back turned to us. The problem for Obama is that even the balls aimed at Romney can take him down en route.

Mr. Obama, turn around on occasion and check what we're doing. It would be a shame for you to be knocked out of the game simply for focusing too completely on a captive target.

@old man-3106200 - don't waste your time bantering with that troll. He doesn't care about you or anyone else, just the same as the rest of the rwnj morons. Even their candidate and new hero, yes the same one they said wasn't conservative enough, says he doesn't care about poor people. A majority of voters see through the facade and will let them know the first Tuesday in November what they think of them.

If someone has failed miserably after a full term in office, why would anybody think they could do better if given another term.

Explain George W Bush then, please?

RedDevPS - I was just pointing out what the constitution says our federal government has to provide. Military spending is pretty much it. Now if there are ways to cut costs in the military I am all for it. It'd be even nicer if we didn't need a military but as long as we buy our oil from the mid east we will need a military. Even if we don't get it from them we will need one but we need one more because of it. Maybe if the rest of the world didn't expect us to step in and fight their battles we wouldn't need it either. Maybe being the best place to live, work, and raise a family has it's price and that means stepping in for those who don't have a strong military (but then that part about this being the best place is only my opinion, I'm sure all of you will point out how it isn't anymore. It still is to me.).

The military is the only reasonable expense we should have right now. It isn't the fed's responsibility to take care of the poor, unemployed, sick etc. Let the states do it or let private charity do it, they do a much more efficient job of it. No one is saying these people who clearly can't take care of themselves should be left to the wolves (though some should) but it is the states who would do a better and more cost effective job of taking care of these people.

Candice - It would be nice if we could stimulate the economy with a Manhattan style project but for it to be effective it has to come from the private sector. The 90s wouldn't have been as great as they were if not for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and their personal computers.

Redhead Ranting - I completely agree with your thought that innovation needs to come from the private sector. NASA is an example of a government funded program though that, through research and challenging goals, created enormous off shoots into the private sector. Sadly, the one agency that had broad potential and impact was the first one dismantled.

Countless benefits. So easily gone.

Candice - Totally agree about NASA. I used to live across the street from John Glenn's daughter and was lucky enough to meet him at a block party, it was an absolute honor.

Time's Running Out -

I am just wondering how many of you are going to ARGUE witht the FACTS:

In the second quarter of last year, 107 million Americans were receiving some kind of government welfare — not including Medicare or Social Security — according to a study from the Senate Budget Committee.

Well, first, I think we should consider the source:

... released by Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee, show that more than 100 million people in the United States are on welfare — not Social Security or Medicare

So, no, this is not the Senate Budget Committee, this is only the Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee.

And, then, consider the research that others have already done on this report:

However, out of the 33 million on foodstamps, most also collect Medicaid, so its disingenuous to say 100 million are collecting welfare benefits by counting people two or three times because they collect more than one benefit. They also inflate the number by counting every person in a household where one recipient gets assistance.

So this is just another Republican lie. That's not to say that there hasn't been a huge increase in the number of people receiving government assistance, but there are a couple of reasons for that.

1. The Bush recession of 2008-9 cost 8 million jobs. With average family size of 2.8, that means that about 20 million people, by virtue of being laid off, became eligible for unemployment and in many cases foodstamps and medicaid. That's about 1/5 of that 100 million number.

2. That 100 million number quoted by the Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee includes those who receive a prescription drug subsidy under Part D of Medicare. Enrollment in Part D as of April 2010 was 27.6 million beneficiaries. So another 1/4 of that of that 100 million number is also due to George W. Bush and his Republican cronies in both houses, who all passed and signed that horrible piece of legislation. Medicare Part D is a huge waste of money - merely a government welfare program for drug companies:

Wikipedia:

By the design of the program, the federal government is not permitted to negotiate prices of drugs with the drug companies, as federal agencies do in other programs. The Department of Veterans Affairs, which is allowed to negotiate drug prices and establish a formulary, has been estimated to pay between 40% and 58% less for drugs, on average, than Medicare Part D. For example, the VA pays as little as $782.44 for a year's supply of Lipitor (atorvastatin) 20 mg, while the Medicare pays between $1120 and $1340 on Part D plans.

It isn't the fed's responsibility to take care of the poor, unemployed, sick etc

Says who? The Constitution does not say the Federal Government shall not care for the poor, unemployed, sick, etc... The country has decided society, as a whole, has some responsibility towards this end. And to that end, states do have the responsibility for administering unemployment, welfare, and food stamp programs. Funding takes place at both the Federal and State levels.

Private enterprise seldom undertakes expensive new projects without promises of minimum risk and maximum profits. Government funding has always been the leader in such risky ventures. Christopher Columbus would never have discovered "The New World" without funds from the Spanish treasury supplied by Queen Isabella. The Panama Canal that opened shipping worldwide would never have been built without funds from the United States treasury. The efforts of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates would never have evolved without JFK's commitment to reach the moon within a decade. The internet itself was a government funded initiative.

Proponents of private enterprise and capitalism have much to tout. It is the secondary force responsible for individual leadership in the world that provides mighty incentives for success surpassed only by national government incentives.

An equally powerful third force that has been too often neglected and responsible for the downfall of many of the world's mightiest civilizations is our moral conscious and social responsibility to those at the bottom of the ladder. The elderly that have worked hard their entire lives to be struck down with illness. Those unfortunate enough to experience physical impairment to curtail their contribution to society. The many unfortunate children born to a parent or parents that neglect their parental responsibilities. Those hard working people with social or mental deficiencies that keep them mopping our floors or those that simply did their very best only to be knocked down repeatedly by mischance. We ignore all of these people at our own peril. They outnumber us three to one. They will always prevail.

We seem to be sharply divided by political chicanery that upholding only one method of social discourse will cure our ills. I propose that upholding only one method of social discourse and ignoring the other crucial two is cause of all our ills. History reminds us that all great civilizations in the past fell by that same measure.

Commonsense101 - Very eloquent. How do you propose we do this? Clearly the way we have in the past is not working and the way we are headed, currently, is only dividing us. Forcing someone to care for someone else whether by taxing or entitlement is only creating a larger and more destructive divide in our country.

I'm not the least bit against the government helping out those who need help and I don't mind paying my fair share but the government has a poor history of doing anything efficiently and in these difficult financial times I want to get the best value for my dollar. There must be a better way. I don't know what it is but I know how it currently is isn't working and isn't sustainable especially with all the baby boomers soon to retire.

Do you have a better idea?

Mitt Romney's plan "Believe in America" on his website lays it out in simple terms.

1. Sign a Free Trade Agreement with Asia. NAFTA worked for Clinton in the 90s and Democrats shouldn't be offended if he takes a page from Bill's playbook.

2. Raise the visa cap for immigrants to fill 1.25 million high skilled jobs with "highly educated" immigrants.

3. Give a green card to every visa immigrant graduate who gets a degree in math, science, or engineering.

This plan has several practicalities.

First, it acknowledges that Americans have no work ethic anymore and we can capitalize on the work ethic of developing countries.

Second, rather than invest heavily in America's failing education system rife with lazy parents, criminal kids, and unions, Romney will draw on the talent pool from other countries. This not only increases America's talent in the labor pool but it depletes the labor pool in other countries. Saudis, Egyptians, Pakistanis, and Afghans will be less likely to attack America if they are working for American corporations.

Third, Romney recognizes that by filling the 1.25 million high skilled jobs with immigrants, Americans will have greater job opportunities in the retail and service industry where most Americans are bound to end up working as education cuts have to be made to balance state and municipal budgets.

It may not be pretty, but it gets America back to work. And it all clearly outlined in Believe in America at www. mittromney .com

Redhead Ranting, I can't begin to express how much I appreciate your response. It is an initial reaching out to one that may have differing views in search of common ground. That is the most difficult first step in reuniting a once great, but severely divided nation without threat of another horrible civil war or second American Revolution. I perceive both as legitimate and immediate threats in today's political climate.

Unlike the first patriotic American Revolution or economic disparities and human suffering of the first American Civil War, this corruption is at the hands of opposing political parties both led by a thirst for greed and power that we the people have foolishly placed in their hands. Taxation without representation was the initial grounds for the first American Revolution. That threat has never been more obvious then our present form of representation. We dutifully elect representatives of our own communities that immediately sell their souls to the highest corporate bidders via lobbyists. We have actually become so careless and partisan that we allow them to uphold pledges to political celebrities above their oaths of office to the United States Of America.

Do I have a better idea? I think so and I think you do as well. Throw all of the money changers out of government. All of the lobbyists, all of the special interests. Make it a grievous and most serious federal offense for any city, county, state, federally elected or appointed government official to accept so much as a dime from any source other than their government sanctioned paycheck. Make it a grievous and most serious federal offense to offer so much as a free lunch to any elected or appointed official.

We will soon find our elected officials to be comprised of patriotic citizen officials dedicated to temporary service of their communities instead of career politicians, just as our founding fathers envisioned.

Once we have honest and true representation in government, we can openly debate my premise for a civilization that meets the needs of all of it's citizens in a modern civilization built to last.

Commonsense101 - you've got my vote, now lets keep talking and hopefully more will listen. I couldn't agree more that this divide is nearing a climax that could be devastating to all. Thanks for your response and I look forward to hearing more of your ideas.

Why would Romney have Paul Ryan as V.P. Choice when Paul Ryan pledged against America, Pledged to vote against every bill just to make Obama a one term president? Paul Ryan took the oath of office, then pledged against the constitution to King Norquist, then pledged against America to take the economy down just to make Obama a one term president. Bin Laden wrote the same thing, take the economy down to destroy America? WHY DOES PAUL RYAN SUPPORT BIN LADEN PLAN TO TAKE AMERICA DOWN?

Tomasgrande posted this the other day.

Romney Ryan tax plans...Pretty simple Kill Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and privatize for their rich friends driving up healthcare costs and trying to force you to invest in Wallstreet where Romney and Ryan will deregulate even more to take the rest of your money they didn't get the first time. Ryan Romney want to privatize the Post Office because repubs force P.O. to over fund their pension plan out 75 years just to deliberately defund P.O. This will crash service and many towns will have no service or extreme higher costs via UPS or FED EX.

Ryan Romney plans incease tax breaks for the rich and cut food stamps to starving children and families, cut benefits to Vets, and increase taxes on middle class and poor by up to $2000 to pay for their tax breaks!!!

Ryan voted for every deficit raising plan of Bush. Romney lies about his taxes saying he worked at Bain for years now caught with documents saying HE WAS, he lies saying he wasn't. Both want to end capital gains tax for the rich, many rich don't pay taxes at all due to tax loop holes they create.

Ryan and Romney both push war on women and their healthcare see www.womenarewatching.org site for info.

President Obama and Team America killed Bin Laden together. Romney said he would not go after Bin Laden because it is too expensive. Romney values money more than taking out terrorists! $$$$$$$$$$$$$

Obama/Biden 2012

Life goes on without RoMoney & RyRand !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY DO REPUBS HATE AMERICAN WORKERS ? WHY DO THEY TAKE AMERICAN JOBS OFFSHORE? BECAUSE OF $$$$$$$$$$$ REPUBS LOVE MONEY MORE THAN THEIR COUNTRY!

Repubs on 7-19-12 blocked taking away tax breaks from companies that outsource jobs from America. In the same bill repubs blocked giving tax breaks to companies bringing jobs back to AMERICA!WHY DO REPUBS HATE AMERICAN WORKERS? Because the want profits offshore so they can hide their profits without paying any taxes on them$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Repubs blocked bill to remove Big Oil subsidies even when Big Oil execs testified they did not need them!

Ryan and Romney support keeping tax breaks for companies who offshore American jobs!!! Ryan and Romney support subsidies for big oil.

Vote President Obama/Biden , bring American jobs back!!!!

WHY ARE REPUBS TRYING TO REMOVE SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION IN MINNESOTA?

Simply because they looked at the graphics seeing the young who turned 18 usually vote against republicans. The elderly update their voter registration at the same time also. Repubs creating voter suppression laws all over the nation trying to stop the seniors, the Young, the poor, the middle class from being represented. They are changing laws that change hrs of voting, making less places to vote for democrats, changing absentee ballot laws etc, where ever it looks like a certain group votes more democratic party, the repubs create a law to remove or change it into their favor.

REPUBLICANS TAKING AWAY YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE WITH SUPPRESSION LAWS!

Vote Obama/Biden 2012, protect your right to vote!

Patriotic American: The President of the United States is NOT a GOD or a KING and yes, life will go on with or without Romney, however, it won't be a pretty site for the USA. We will continue to have high unemployment and GLOOM AND DOOM news for another 4 years with a president like Obama.

Obama's "agenda" for a 2nd term as President of the United States of America
is EXTREMELY EXTREME:

• The re-creation of a 21st-century version of FDR's Works Progress Administration program within the Department of Labor that would oversee a massive new bureaucracy and millions of new federal jobs;

• An additional government-funded jobs program that provides "good jobs" capable of supporting a family with a "decent standard of living."

• A new government mandate to force businesses to provide twelve weeks of paid benefits to employees who need time off to care for a new child, a sick family member, or their own illness. Plus, a higher, required minimum wage that would raise the floor for all employees.

• An expansive, de facto amnesty program for illegal aliens via both executive order and inter-agency directives linked with a reduction in the capabilities of the U.S. Border Patrol.

• Plans to bring in untold numbers of new immigrants with the removal of caps on H-1B visas and green cards. Immigration control to be placed in a NEW Executive Branch agency and taken away from CONGRESSIONAL CONTROL.

• Government-funded, neighborhood-based programs to better integrate the newly amnestied immigrants into society, including education centers and health care centers. A "federal solution" to ensure that the amnestied immigrants are treated "equitably" across the United States.

"The (Mr. Obama's) amnesty plan would make it illegal to apprehend "undocumented" persons in the "premises or in the immediate vicinity of a childcare provider; a school; a legal-service provider; a federal court or state court proceeding; an administrative proceeding; a funeral home; a cemetery; a college, university, or community services agency; a social service agency; a hospital or emergency care center; a health care clinic; a place of worship; a day care center; a head start center; a school bus stop; a recreation center; a mental health facility; and a community center.""

• A National Infrastructure Bank that would evaluate and finance infrastructure projects of substantial regional and national importance" and would finance "transportation infrastructure, housing, energy, telecommunications, drinking water, waste-water, and other infrastructures."

• The wresting of control of the military budget from Congress by placing an "independent panel" in charge of military spending while slashing the defense budget.

• Spreading the vastly reduced resources of the U.S. Armed Forces even thinner by using them to combat "global warming," fight global poverty, remedy "injustice," bolster the United Nations and step up use of "peacekeeping" deployments.

• A new "green" stimulus program and the founding of a federal "green" bank or "Energy Independence Trust," which would borrow from the federal treasury to provide low-cost financing to private-sector investments in "clean energy.

• A "green Manufacturing" revolving loan fund to create 680,000 manufacturing jobs and 1,972,000 additional jobs over five years.

• Detailed plans to enact single-payer health care legislation controlled by the federal government.

Total cost for the above Obama 2nd term initiatives are estimated @ $ 2,000,000,000,000 (and climbing). Of course, the cost is going to be on the backs of the American taxpayers for re-distribution into these programs.

So, WHO IS EXTREME ????

Vote for Mr. Obama and you will be voting for the complete and total destruction of America.

Romney-Ryan 2012 to take back America from the radicals.

Times-Running-Out

Time IS running out for Romney/Ryan. Your guys are going to lose, and the country is going to be better for it when they do!

• OBAMA/BIDEN
• FOUR MORE YEARS

Nice cut and paste, Time's-Running. Been visiting Fascists-R-Us again?

Sailcat - Clearly Time's-Running is nothing but a right wing radical who believes all the lies the far right has drummed into his head.

Obama/Biden 2012

Thurston Howell III / Eddie Munster 2012!

I have zero interest in Mitt Romney's wealth or personal career, no more than I cared who Bill Clinton slept with, not my business. The only thing I care about is his politics. When the time comes I will do a comparison of the two candidates and vote for whomever most closely matches what I think is most helpful for the country.

Thank god I don't have TV anymore, especially living in Colorado! All that mud-slinging advertising puts me off both candidates.

AG99, you avoid all of the mudslinging on the internet? Does Colorado have special internet rules against political advertising? God bless Colorado. To think you avoid television and come here to escape political adversity.

Seriously? Check back into rehab. Do yourself and everyone else a favor.

ROMNEY'S NEPIHILIM CLUB ,

The Hurricane could very well be GOD's Wrath .

@ Gil:

You will find these news very pleasant. The GOP delegates will go there, after they are done telling women that they will not be allowed to have an abortion, even if they are raped. Also, the GOP will DECIDE FOR THEM WHAT IS BEST, WHICH IS HAVING THE BABY. Of course, once the baby is born...YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN, DON'T COME TO US LIKE A LEECH ASKING FOR HELP.

Ybor Resort And Spa, Gay Florida Bathhouse, Offers Free Admission To Republican Convention Delegates

A gay Florida bathhouse could reap the benefits of the Republican National Convention next week by offering GOP delegates free admission.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/ybor-resort-and-spa-gay-florida-bathhouse-rnc-offer_n_1827894.html

Hey Anthony, did you get past the third grade?

IRESPOND,

I appreciate you defending women. It also needs to be pointed out that 31 states allow the rapist pigs to keep their parental rights for the child they are responsible for creating. The woman will never be able to move on. If that child is put up for adoption, what happens when he starts the search for his 'real' parents and discovers what his father really is?

or Gil, maybe it is the GOD that the right so believes in, preparing to punish people doing evil things in his name.

ROMNEY EVEN LIES TO HIS OWN PARTY! during rpub debates, they all asked to see his taxes, Romney said he would show them. So he lied once he got the top spot on the manure pile and Ann says they won't release them. Ann says Mitt cannot do this with out her! Mittster says he won't release his taxes ...why?

All the repub leaders tell Mittster to release them. Mitt is hiding his money offshore and is not paying his fair share of taxes. Now Paul Ryan and Romney want to eliminate capital gains taxes so they pay NO taxes! Ryan Romney plan raises taxes on middle class and poor to make up for the taxes they won't be paying! Vote no to tax dodgers Romney and Ryan.

Vote President Obama/Biden and Team America 2012, Vote for making Romney pay his fair share of taxes.

Can Annie Romney do horse tricks for the GOP Convention !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Patriotic: Congratulations you win the award for THE MOST STUPID POST TODAY.

Call it what you may, But MAYBE it is Nature's way to Clean all the Weirdos from teh RNC.. After all Only those that are really Committed to rebuilding this country will be brave enough to face the storm to ensure this gets done.

P.S. I Noticed that Uncle Joe decided not to 'Show Up', why is that, Afraid Mother Nature will make him pay?

Romney 1040 - preferably a decade's worth.

DO SEARCH ON Fox news dumber SEE ACTUAL STUDIES THAT PROVE PEOPLE ARE DUMBER FOR WATCHING FOX NEWS! Yep, do the search fox news dumber. Now you know why so many righties make false claims on the blogs and are so mis informed on subjects of importance.

WOW what a high degree of intelligence you must have. Is your IQ around the same as any other IDIOT, around 3 or is that your uppermost ability to think? You libbies complain about him not showing his taxes BUT do any of you EVER say Obama release your record? Show us WHAT passport you traveled under? Show us HOW you had millions in the bank RIGHT after leaving college and HOW you could afford a 3.4 million dollar home in Chicago RIGHT after graduating college? OR why you and your so-called wife both surrendered your Law Licenses? Maybe because they have WAY TOO MUCH TO HIDE or did something illegal and were about to be brought up on charges? Since there are only two reasons a lawyer would do that and the other reason is they DIED? Maybe he is using someones ID? Why will he not SHOW what NAME he used to apply for Student loans? But then hiding ones tax returns (One Thing) MUST be more important than answering the really TOUGH questions he KEEPS hiding!!!! I am by no means a Romney fan, but he at least appears to be MORE truth and honest than the CURRENT Liar and Chief!!!

To all liberals,

This is your genius in the White House. Funny how the liberal media does not bash him for any of these comments like they bashed Dan Quayle for misspelling the word potato. 57 states really? This moron got elected president of the United States, and he doesn't know how many there are. That was a sad day for America.

kfilly - when your candidate is Mitt Romney - who stands for nothing at all - you might want to re-evaluate calling our President names or clinging to a silly misspeak. You're running an empty shell of a human being who has no values and values no one but himself. He doesn't give a damn about the country - just wants to make sure he does one better than his daddy.

And, you're stupid enough to fall for his worthless campaign. Pitiful excuse for a party the GOP has become!

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Liberal Argument Playbook

Use these tactics when debating with informed Conservative:

1. Ignore the Facts that hurt your position. (If that doesn't work)
2. Say it is Bush's fault. (If that doesn't work)
3. Call them Racist and then run away!
(Note: If facts still contine to come your way, simple repeat steps 1 thru 3)

Hi I'm a Liberal and I'm Soooo Tolerant!!! I would never EVER judge some]one or hate them for their religion, race, politics or stuff like that...................

OMGOSH! You Christian Conservative Republican People as SO Racist, Homophobic and Ignorangt!!! Geezeeee!!!!

JACKIE

Show me Obama's Budget?????

Times: Small business tax credit, tax incentives for businesses to bring jobs back to the U.S., keeping the tax cuts for the middle class, letting the tax cuts for the 1% expire. The ACA...keeping insurance companies from dropping you for per-existing conditions, lily ledbetter act, the stimulus, the American jobs bill, just to name a few.

Care to list the republican budget and specific policies and jobs bills?

Jackie -

Care to list the republican budget and specific policies and jobs bills?

Small business tax credits, tax incentives for businesses to bring jobs back to the U.S., keeping tax policy for the middle class, and for those making $250,000 or more. Revamping ACA but keep provisions regarding pre-existing conditions, making insurance portable and more affordable, offering choice. Keeping the provision for children up to 26. Lily Ledbetter is already law, and no one is suggesting making any changes to that. Passing at least some of the 17 jobs bills sitting in the Senate. Stimulating the economy by creating a more business friendly atmosphere, supporting pro-growth policies, reigning in expensive and redundant regulation. Offering some certainty. Getting people to work.

And these are a few policies you might like: means testing Medicare and Social Security so that the filthy rich get less benefits (if any at all), making the programs more solvent and reserving more resources for those people who need them. Reforming the tax code to eliminate loop holes that mostly the rich take advantage of, which would in effect raise the effective tax rates the wealthy pay.

Expand energy policy to support all types of energy - wind, solar, hydro, nuclear, oil, natural gas and coal. Letting the states decide how to develop their land for energy production. (See the success story of Nebraska).

Those are some of the republican's budget and policy ideas.

Candice: I agree with your list, but, most of those you listed are what democrats and Obama have already put up and the republicans blocked them, or added on riders that made them not passable.

Also, I have only heard on the stump speeches of repealing the ACA...not revamping it. Expanding energy policy...just listened to Romney and he wants to keep the fossil fuel energy policies, and stated not giving to wind, solar, nuclear because of waste of money. Just wondering.

Candice - I'm surprised you took Democratic proposals and tried to pass them off as Republican. Everyone knows the difference except - it appears - you!

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Jackie,

If you look beyond the talking points there's quite a bit of policy agreed upon by both the Democrats and Republicans. What obstructs it is the difference in opinion of how to pay for it and what gets attached so much of it languishes undone. Good leadership would have worked out solutions and a lot of that would have gotten done. (We should demand they pass more specific and clean bills, instead of fewer huge ones with unrelated agendas attached).

You don't hear about revamping ACA because it's more interesting and divisive to use the words "gut" and "repeal." The Republicans have "replacement" ideas out there and they include pre-existing conditions, portability --- issues that are important to all of us. You hear so few sound bites on those provisions. And if you're stuck in an ideology, you tend to be selective in what you hear.

Oil is the easiest policy to pursue and it has a divisiveness about it that works in political rhetoric. Plus the technology is already there. Conservatives support the "all of the above" policy. Many of the alternative energy projects over the last few years were huge wastes of money, and had a sense of politics and cronyism which has made us all cynical. The truth is we'd all support alternative solutions if we could come up with some that were affordable and that worked.

I'm surprised you took Democratic proposals and tried to pass them off as Republican.

Careful, Seeking. If you agree with those proposals, you might be morphing into a Republican!

The people that turn their backs on the American workers, by taking our jobs oversea's for the almighty dollar, leaving people to lose everything are nothing more than traitors to our country. As far as I am concerned Mitt Romney is one of those TRAITORS of the U.S

Candice:

Thanks....I agree that working together would be great. My view on Congress is this...many of the democratic ideas and proposals have been talked about and brought up by republicans...and when written and proposed by democrats...the republicans turn around and are against them..voting them down.

What has been happening over the last 2 years is the republicans trashing the same proposals over and over again. I believe what you wrote in your post, that many republicans want the same things, but, why then are they not voting in congress for them??

Why isn't Romney/Ryan stumping with revamping and keeping those same principles in the ACA if republicans truly believe like you do; instead, it's all about repeal it. Republicans in the House of Representatives have voted 31 times to actually repeal the ACA...not revamp or keep some of the principles. Republican voting record doesn't actually fit with your principles and polices that you stated.

Just an observation.

Jackie,

Both sides are guilty of grandstanding, putting politics over policy and generally being stubborn. That accounts for the emergence of Independents, like you! It's gotten worse over the last several years. I don't know what it will take to turn things around.

Governor Romney is criticized for what seems to be a lack of conviction on issues. Maybe that's what we need. Someone not so stuck on the right or the left to get the two sides working together.

One can only hope....again.....

Thanks for the discussion, Jackie. I have to go do something a bit more productive. I hope to bump into you again sometime soon!

Thanks for a great discussion Candice.

Agree that we need both parties working together and helping everyone in America out. Hopefully, the partisanship will wane after the election; maybe positive talk and discussions like ours can help make a difference.

I'm watching the conventions, right now! They're talking about "reconnecting"... ummm When was Romney EVER connected to Americans??

Everyone with a normal IQ knows what most Americans only suspect ..... this man is an Abomination and "cult" member.

you are referring to the Marxists dicktater Obama right? You hate Romney because he can make money and you and your welfare homies cant! This Obama guy cant even prove he is a citizen, cant prove he went to columbia, cant prove he is a Christian, Muslim? Just WTF is he?

I'll tell you, he is the MOST radical POS to ever set foot in the White House...and he will be defeated!!!

You and your libtard friends can continue to tell lies but, the truth is... it is your man that is an Obamanation and a Cult leader

Johnny - go home. When you start with the stupid Marxists, dicktater (can't spell either) stupidity we know you're about 10 years old.

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Why doesn't these Republican TeaBilly Conservative Religious Freaks demand to see a Birth Certificate for Gawd?

Mitt is Mexican because his fathers relatives were born in Mexico. This is Right Wing nut case logic!

Obama's Boys... the TOP Out Sourcers are also on his pay roll... Now How can that Be... I was sure that BAIN was the ONLY ONES who have EVER Out-Sourced Jobs in America..

WASHINGTON -- During the past two weeks, President Barack Obama's campaign has blasted Republican challenger Mitt Romney as an “outsourcer,” focusing on his career with private equity firm Bain Capital. The Romney campaign hit back on Tuesday, claiming Obama's stimulus package failed to protect American workers and helped create jobs overseas.

If Romney really wanted a juicy example of outsourcing, he would have to look no further than the president's jobs council.

Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, 26 business leaders assembled by the president for job-spurring ideas, includes representatives of several companies that have used outsourcing, fueling job creation abroad and job losses in the U.S. Shipping work to low-cost overseas labor markets has been a trend in American manufacturing for decades. The White House has a plan to curb outsourcing, but companies represented on the jobs council reveal just how pervasive the practice is.

There’s General Electric, whose CEO Jeffrey Immelt has served as chair of the advisory board since January 2011. Since Immelt took over GE in 2001, the company has lost 37,000 American jobs, and added 25,000 jobs overseas, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some of those U.S. job losses are inflated by the company’s sale of NBC to Comcast in 2009.

Chris Townsend, political director of the United Electrical Workers labor union that represents roughly 5,500 GE employees in the U.S., said the company has closed more than 30 U.S. plants since Obama took office. GE would not confirm the number.

GE "is a company that, despite the constant claims of growth, continues to shrink in the United States,” Townsend said. “These are a mixture of things from garden-variety, old-line manufacturing plants to electrical apparatus service facilities, sometimes something to do with servicing. Several of them were GE Capital.”

GE's outsourcing-related job losses have occurred over a long period, Townsend said. Unlike some of the companies that Bain Capital invested in -- which quickly fell into bankruptcy, faced layoffs or saw jobs shipped overseas as the private equity firm continued to profit -- the GE plant closures have happened slowly, he said.

“If you just back up five, 10, 15 years, those were all plants that were in slow, steady decline," Townsend said. "And that’s been the tradition of a lot of these things. All we’re detecting is the end of the era of these companies really wanting to do mass manufacturing in this country.”

GE spokesman Andrew Williams said the company has increased its U.S. workforce in recent years with 17 new plant openings since 2009. He said GE’s foreign revenue has increased significantly since Immelt became CEO in 2001. The company’s exports are ultimately good for American labor, he said.

“If you’re going to keep jobs in the U.S., it has to be through exports,” Williams said.

Scott Paul, founding executive director of the Alliance of American Manufacturing, said he’s generally pleased with Obama’s record on preventing outsourcing. Though he criticized the administration for doing little to stop Chinese currency manipulation -- which drives up the price of U.S. exports and hurts American manufacturing -- he praised the president’s politically difficult move to bail out the auto industry and his tax policy proposal laid out in the most recent State of the Union speech.

But when it comes to the composition of the jobs council, successor to the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, “it’s a different story,” Paul said. “The optics of this are stupid, the economics are stupid, the policy is stupid.”

The jobs council also includes the AFL-CIO, though the labor union dissented from its final recommendations. And, to be sure, the mere presence of a company on the council does not equal an endorsement by the White House of all of its activities

White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage said the council advises the administration and doesn't set policy, and that being named to the jobs council does not mean the White House supports all of the companies' activities.

“The Jobs Council is an outside advisory board comprised of a number of individuals with diverse opinions and backgrounds, and just because a company is on the Council doesn’t mean that we endorse its specific business decisions,” Brundage said in an email. “The council is only intended to provide outside advice and recommendations on ways to create jobs here at home and improve our global competitive edge.”

Another company represented on the jobs board is Boeing, whose CEO, James McNerney, also chairs the President’s Export Council, the principal advisory committee on international trade. The aerospace giant has shed over 14,000 American jobs since 2008, according to a recent report by Public Campaign, a campaign reform advocacy group.

Since McNerney became CEO in 2005, he has done little to reverse the trend of outsourcing established more than a decade ago, according to Stan Sorscher, who worked as a physicist at Boeing from 1980 to 2000. Sorscher remains in regular contact with Boeing employees as a representative for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace labor union.

Sorscher said he witnessed a “culture war” at the company in late-1990s, when the company shifted from in-house design and manufacturing to a global supply chain. Sorscher said he believes that McNerney shares that new vision, which culminated in Boeing outsourcing nearly every part of the supply chain for the new 787 Dreamliner jet. The company has since admitted that outsourcing was responsible for driving up costs and delaying the project for three years.

“Boeing followed the textbook of outsourcing and dismantling the integrated design and manufacturing community" that had been a staple of the company,” Sorscher told The Huffington Post about the 787 project. “The biggest failure I could imagine would be that we could be six months late. It just never occurred to me we could blow it as much as we did.”

Boeing now views China as a trading partner, rather a competitor, said Sorscher. He said Boeing is counting on China to buy 5,000 planes by 2030. China, he said, "would gladly pay top-sucker price for whatever wreck is left after we’ve mismanaged this program and the next program and the one after that.”

In the last few months, Boeing has ramped up business in China. In September 2011, the company signed a 10-year contract with the state-owned Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Co. to build horizontal stabilizers for the 737 jet. The contract is the company’s largest with a Chinese supplier. And in March, Boeing announced partnership with the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China on energy research.

Several other corporations represented on the jobs council also rely on outsourcing.

Xerox, for example, has a business model that depends on providing its outsourcing services to other companies worldwide. In its most recent annual report, Xerox said it is the “largest worldwide diversified business process outsourcing company in the large and growing BPO market.”

American Express, one of the pioneers of outsourcing call centers to India in the 1980s, still depends on “outsourcing functions … [and] relocating certain functions to lower-cost overseas locations,” according to its most recent SEC filings.

Even jobs council representative Permac Industries, a 36-employee precision part manufacturer located in suburban Minneapolis, is finding its place in the global supply chain. The company offers “outsourcing management, a process where Permac teams up with other global suppliers -- inside the U.S. as well as offshore -- to get the job done,” the company’s website says. “While other manufacturers may deny the changing reality of U.S. manufacturing, Permac looks it squarely in the eye.”

The United Electrical Workers's Townsend said the outsourcing companies on the jobs council reflect longstanding failure to protect American jobs. Obama, he said "has not been serious about addressing the catastrophic destruction of good, primarily manufacturing jobs. ... Where on earth is their coherent response to this?”

Sarah Palin can see Florida from her Kitchen Window.

She does not have a choice. SHE WAS NOT INVITED, Neither were Bush and Cheney. I guess the GOP can recognize that they do not need more stupid people opening their mouths. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan can do that for themselves. They are heading to the GOP CONVENTION with the birther remarks and abortion CONTROVERSY, JUST WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS, RIGHT????????

Sara - Sara where is Sara ??? Boy the Republicans do eat their own!!

Boy the Republicans do eat their own!!

Why do you think they are against abortion. They need to keep the food mill populated.

"jstdafacts" Why dont you pull you head out of your rectum and actuall see the facts.

Ryans budget proposal would give medicare seniors the same healthcare program that Congress and their minions currently enjoy.

And for the rest of the Health care system forced upon the people against our will had been done so by the Democrats elitists, REID, PELOSI, and OBAMA. It was also they who put in the legislation to Exempt them selves from it as well as their staff and Unions as well.

So please if your going to quote things as fact make sure they are acctually factual. Dont put what the Democrats have done on the Republicans. Republicans have their down side as well but they are not so full of TRAITORS as the Democrats are.

By the Way people want to critisize Republicans for being with the rich. Then why is Obama associated strongly with the Rothchild Family who has control of 99% of the worlds Governments banks.

Really, left? The same plan as Congress? You really want to post that here?

So Congress gets a voucher?

Your Rothschild post tells us who you are, one of the paranoid who see black helicopters flying in the sky. Get help! Turn off Glenn Beck, he destroys brain cells through radio waves!

Hey Lefty, please post proof where the congress and Obama has exempted themselves from the Health Care plan. You can't because it did not happen. That is a right wing talking point that didn't happen. So please shut your mouth or show me some proof.

FOR REAL FACTS ON ACA health care plan...go to the official website for info. www.healthcare.org

Don't bother reading the righty rants of fantasy fables and folklore!

Remember... www.healthcare.org

VERNO

(Please note, it says 'GOOD PLAN' as opposed to what WE GET)

A federal employee chooses to get a "good" plan, then they will also pay for this. (But their portion of the premiums could reach as little as 25% of the total premiums.)

This insurance program is similar to other private insurance plans in that, the plans state:
• The network of doctors you can see
• The prescription medications covered
• Which specialists you can go to
• Which hospitals you can be specialized
• What instances may cause your claim to be rejected

However, they do get an excellent set of benefits by virtue of the fact that government employees form a large pool. This enables federal employees to have wider choices. And, by virtue of the fact that they form a large pool of insureds, there is no waiting periods for most of the plans. That means their insurance protects them immediately.

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL Comment collapsed by the community

By GNOP elders, don't you mean the party of pale, male & stale?

Willard is losing the women vote by 10%

Willard is losing the hispanic vote by over 30%

Willard has ZERO percent of black voters

And, these dinasours still believe they are the 'big tent party"?

These days, they couldn't fill a "pup" tent with new voters!

Keep believing you still have a horse in this race... lmao

Ryan/Akin 2012 - Representing compassionate, conservative, Christian, one vagina at a time!

The Party 0f pale Male and Stale. Reverse racism dear. As a black woman and a Latina, I recognize one sorry ass liberal when I see on.

Obama does not have the same perscentages as he did back in 2008 and you know it. That is why you and your silly crew of Obama worshipers are so MAD.

This is my first post for the weekend. Do you and your crew have a life, children, husband, family or a pet that you can relate too? How sad.

Concern - your stupidity grows daily and your eagerness to show it is overwhelming.

You are no more Latino than I am Syrian. You, however, are totally illiterate. Your cut and paste job is getting old. You don't even know what you paste half the time.

Please, you just look crazier every time you spout your total nonsense. Have a little dignity!

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seekingSanitation.

Is this the only song and dance that you know? Go wipe your nose and your A&& and go crowl under a rock. Please try to stay on the subject. Tu heres un pequeno monjonsito que esta atravesado simepre.

Romney/Ryan 2012.

Concern - your stupidity grows daily and your eagerness to show it is overwhelming.

Jaysus Seeking,

I thought it was your turn to guard Blatina's padded room today! lol

Romney/Bryan! lmao!

Don't forget the Republicans' favorite entitlement program, the military! We spend nearly as much on our defense budget as the rest of the world combined and the GOP squeals in horror every time someone makes the completely reasonable suggestion that military spending be cut back. If we reduced America's defense budget by 25% we would still outspend the next 10 countries combined (most of whom are our allies, by the way) and we would free over $170B every year to contribute to balancing the federal budget. Instead of whining about it, the Republicans in congress need to look at our military spending with the idea they are going to pare it back to a level that is more reasonable and manageable...unless those GOP chickenhawks are planning to invade yet another Middle Eastern country, that is.

http://www.globalfirepower.com/defense-spending-budget.asp

SAILCAT

It is funny you mention that... If it was not for the Military, chances are you would not be sitting in your nice little warm room typeing on you state of the art computer pi@@ing and Moaning about How much your Gov't DOESN'T GIVE you.

What about ALL the WELFARE BO has GIVEN away in the last 4 years? What about the PAID Commericals in MEXICO tell them to come to the USA and they will get free welfare and medical care?

Why is it that you libs can't bitch about REAL Issuses, is it because your Master has told you how GOOD these are and How EVERYONE show have EQUAL Money regardless if you Busted your A$$ all your life or just sat on it and collect gov't handouts?

Times:

Wow!!! What a bunch of baloney. A little bit of anger there. How about all the money wasted by the congress that still is making the military refurbish MA-1 tanks because of the pork in their districts, the military stated that the refurbishing wasn't needed, and that the same factories could be used for making a new tank.

That is wasting millions of dollars for something the military doesn't want or need. It's called the Military Industrial Complex; and it has more waste than any other department. Cutting some spending in the defense budget is far smarter than cutting those whose life has changed due to no fault of their own; downsizing and outsourcing.

Poor Time. You seem to be upset that reality is imposing itself upon your fantasy world. That fact is that Dwight Eisenhower warned America against a runaway military industrial complex and that is exactly what we have right now. We need to stop giving handouts to a hugely expensive military machine that is far larger than we need and that serves little useful purpose except to provide Republicans with the opportunity to start, and bungle, foreign wars. It is sucking the life out of our government and the money out of our pockets and it is giving us only the illusion of security in return.

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

We should try our best not to cut our miltary. We need our miltary to be the best in the world. I was in desert storm and we could look up in the air and see our planes flying because we had complete air superiority. We were able to completly dominate Sadam Husseins army. I just cant imagine any american in the right mind to be in favor of cutting out miltary unless its the very last resort

We need our miltary to be the best in the world.

Jesus. As I mentioned earlier, we could cut our military by 25% and we would still outspend the next ten countries combined...and most of them are our allies. What are we trying to do with our military, after all?

If tax cuts created jobs, then where are they? What other bills have the house passed? Well, let see they passed over a 100 bills about limiting abortion, (jobs?) they named post offices (jobs?) they proposed tax cuts for the richest (jobs?)

The house passed bills but nothing to create jobs. But the house sure has blocked any bill that would create jobs.

So who is playing games on the people and who are the liars?

I don't know what you are talking about, the republicans blocked the bill that would make insider trading illegal for congress members. I wonder why?

So if you think that Harry Ried has blocked a bill that would create jobs, just tell us what was that bill? I know republicans like their talking points but they never seem to be based in facts.

VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM.....VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012

All of the bills passed by the house to improve the economy has been locked up in Harry Reids desk and he wont let them have a fair hearing.

Which bills are those? Name one bill passed by the house that improves the economy. Tick, tock, tick, tock. We're waiting!!

jstdafacts: What jobs bill??? What budget??? The only thing President Obama has done in the past 2 years is fundraise and campaign.

REPUBS BLOCKED GIVING HEALTHCARE TO 911 RESPONDERS! WHY DO REPUBLICANS HATE 911 RESPONDERS?

When repubs were exposed blocking 911 responder health care on national TV most of them voted for it the very next day. SOME REPUBS STILL VOTED AGAINST GIVING HEALTHCARE TO 911 RESPONDERS! Why do repubs hate Americans?...Oh that's right...Ryan pledged to take the economy down the night President Obama took office. Pledged to make Obama a one term president and vote against every bill that would help America...just to make president Obama a one term president. Ryan the traitor pledging against all Americans to take the economy down, just like Bin Laden pledged in writing.

REPUBS WRAPPED THEMSELVES IN THE FLAG AND TOOK PHOTO AFTER PHOTO WITH 911 RESPONDERS< THEN BLOCKED GIVING THEM HEALTHCARE!

Vote President Obama/Biden and Democratic party who help the 911 responders in their hour of need!

JSTFACTS

Please give me a Refference for this Bill that was " just Blocked da Campaign Finance Reform Bill?".

I would love to read it and follow it's history.

BelieveinAmerica - clearly you don't have a clue. President Obama has proposed a jobs bill over 4 times that the GOP will not bring for a vote in Congress. It raises taxes on companies that outsource jobs; gives tax breaks to companies that bring jobs back to the US; has retraining for jobs; etc.

Times-running-out - the Campaign Finance Reform Bill was another that the GOP in Congress refused to bring to the floor. Do you not know ANYTHING the Republicans are doing? Or do you just not care?

Your stupidity in not knowing what you are talking about is overwhelming but so Republican!

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Don't bother to explain the facts to Republicans they have their minds made up. It's Obama fault.

If they want facts just sign onto the Official Government Web Site Bureau of Public Debt. The site shows that Reagan, Bush#1 and Bush#2 created the Current National Debt. It was caused by the Reagan Tax policies and the Bush temporary Tax cuts.

In simple terms they spent trillions more than they collected in Taxes. That equals a Debt.

Red Dev -

H.R. 2021 – The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011

H.R. 2587 – Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act

H.R. 1938 – North American Made Energy Security Act

H.R. 1852 – Children’s Hospital GME Support Act

H.R. 1249 – America Invents Act

H.R. 1231 – Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium

H.R. 1229 – Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act

H.R. 1079 – Airport and Airway Extension Act

H.R. 910 - Energy Tax Prevention Act

H.R. 872 – Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011

H.R. 366 – To Provide For Extension of Programs under the Small Business Act

Candice - you might want to actually know what you're talking about before you post. EACH of those bills had so much pork attached to them they were not brought up for votes. For some, it was increasing military projects that were unneeded. For others it was similar to the "bridge to nowhere" pork attached.

The GOP has not sent a CLEAN bill forward that hasn't been given consideration. But, nice try wit the lies!

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@Candice - finally, someone willing to step up to the challenge.

H.R. 2021 – The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act of 2011 - please explain how eliminating EPA environmental rules and allowing pollution creates jobs.

H.R. 2587 – Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act - explain how stopping the NLRB from doing its function create jobs.

H.R. 1938 – North American Made Energy Security Act - ok, a bill that does not allow the president to stop the Keystone Pipeline, which leads to a couple thousand jobs. Keep in mind, several governors did not want the pipeline approved.

H.R. 1852 - Reauthorizing spending on graduate medical residency programs at Children's hospitals is certainly a good idea, but again, how does it comprehensively solve the issue of creating jobs.

We can stop there - this list is a right wing talking point list. These bills do nothing to comprehensively solve the issue of job creation.

The circuit court just threw out a case that implemented regulations that even the EPA said would take $2.7 billion from the private sector and shut down coal plants. Taking money from the private sector, shutting down factories and mines costs jobs. Loosening restrictive regulation allows for business expansion and business expansion creates jobs.

When the NRLB can dictate to private business where they can or cannot build facilities, especially based on political or union agendas.....private sector business expansion becomes prohibitive. Businesses expand. Jobs are created.

The Keystone pipeline project would have created a couple of thousand jobs. You agree. Based on usual math, one job creates another, creates another. The domino effect of job creation, right? Especially since this project was mostly privately funded. It would have cost the tax payers very little.

Are you saying a couple of thousand jobs isn't worth the project? A couple of thousand people would probably disagree with you.

Todd Akin - WTF?

Americans are intelligent, spirited, and free-thinking. We respond and react to all kinds of news everyday. Let's all take a deep breath and THINK, really think, about what our candidates and legislators are saying and doing.

Thank you, Congressman Akin, for informing me, as a woman, that I have a little trap door inside my reproductive system that will shut if I am being raped....legitimately raped, that is, and prevent conception. I am grateful that you serve on the House Science Committee in Washington and have learned and shared this tidbit of biological science with me. Just think, I'm 61 years old and I never knew that!

I am also grateful to learn that there seems to be a difference between legitimate rape and I guess I will call it illegitimate rape. I always thought rape was RAPE, was never legitimate, legally and morally speaking, and that it was a criminal act of sexual intercourse or other sexual acts perpetrated upon a woman against her will. Please educate me as to the definition of "legitimate rape". BTW, I do understand that rape is, rarely, committed on men.

I think, sir, that you are at the very least, terribly misinformed, and at worst, a misogynist whose medieval taliban-like thinking came out of the closet oh-so-publicly yesterday. I hope you are finished as a politician and a "leader".

I think Republicans and anyone who espouses their views on human sexuality, abortion and birth control need to let some light and air actually circulate in their heads. Let me give you an example to help you think this through....

I am raped. I become pregnant as a result of this rape, because my magical little trap door doesn't shut. I am wounded mentally, emotionally and spiritually, and perhaps develop PTSD. My Republican government has made it illegal for me to have an abortion (this is what the Repubs are really after - reversal of Roe v. Wade), and so I carry and birth this child. I am single, and now I am a single mother - another social identity the Republicans frown on. I cannot work, because I have a baby to care for and raise. I am emotionally and mentally damaged from the experience of legitimate rape. I have no money to care for myself and this child. I know!!! I'll ask my government for help; after all, they made me keep the pregnancy. I'll apply for welfare......oops, just remembered, ALL GONE. So is Medicaid, Food Stamps, and child care. My Republican government has eliminated these help-the-needy programs to reduce the national debt and to shrink government, and to reduce their own taxes. What do I do now? This is a serious question I would like any Republican to answer.....perhaps Todd Akin will dig into his own pocket to help me out, putting his money where his mouth is. You may call yourself pro-life, anti-abotion, some even anti-birth control, but you are not supporters of this life once it is in the world needing care and support.

And now, since children carry the DNA from the 2 people who conceived them and tend to actually look like their egg and sperm donors, I get to look into the face of my rapist for the rest of my life.

I am a victim of a hate crime, a crime of rage, a crime committed on my body, and that's the key here that the religious right and Republicans seem to ignore...MY BODY. Anti-abortion legislators are mostly men, and you have absolutely not one clue about the experience of conception, pregnancy and birth, and never will.

As a thinker, I respectfully ask Republicans to take religion, and all its inherent shame, blame, and guilt about sexuality (I should say female sexuality), out of politics. Whatever happened to Separation of Church and State? I respectfully ask you to get out of my vagina, my uterus, my whole sexual nature, and to rethink your solutions of vaginal probes, forced pregnancy, legitimate rape, magical trap doors. I ask you to consider the reality that you have absolutely no right to commandeer what choices a woman makes about her own body.

I also often think about the fact that in all the insanity around the issue of SEX and women, I have never heard one word about sperm, forcing a MAN to look at sonograms of fetuses, asking men to pay for abortion of fetuses they have created, legislating that a man who created the fetus also be considered a murderer. Really, what's up with that? How did they become exempt?

Just think about it....use your intelligence, and if that's too big of a request, use your common sense.

Great post Julia.

And while you're on the subject of thinking and using common sense. Why don't you just for a moment think about the millions of people STILL unemployed and underemployed. Try looking beyond your own back yard and see the millions of Americans suffering who have lost their jobs, homes and more importantly hope for the future. President Obama is right in there with Carter for the worst president in history and another 4 years will be a disaster for this country.

Believe... And, if you can look past your narrowmindedness you will see that it is the Republicans in Congress who have blocked EVERY bill that would have helped to increase the number of jobs in the US. And, no, the worst President in the history of our country is and always will be George W. Bush. President Obama will rank among the top ten.

The Republicans in Congress have already lowered the congressional rating to its lowest EVER!

Obama/Biden 2012

I would like for ANYONE in here to tell me why trying to Stomp on the Pi$$-Ants is More important to you, the what is HAPPING to YOUR COUNTRY?

SeekingSanity

Can you prove that? Or are you just playying PARROT.

Because if that is true I would lvoe to read the House Bill and read what it says and then Find the History of it so I can see if how MT Senator voted on it.

If you CAN'T PROVE IT, then why are you REPEATING IT?

Times-Running-Out - if you bothered to listen to or read news you would know that - once again - the Republicans in Congress refused to put the President's jobs proposal bill up for a vote prior to going on recess. The bill proposed raising taxes on companies which outsourced jobs and giving tax breaks to companies bringing jobs back to the US. It had retraining money in it as well.

It didn't get to the Senate because the Republicans blocked it even getting a vote or discussion - for the 4th time!

I don't play PARROT for anyone. I leave that to you radical far righters who know nothing but the ignorance spewed by the Republicans who are so intent on destroying the US.

Obama/Biden 2012

President Obama is right in there with Carter for the worst president in history and another 4 years will be a disaster for this country.

Odd how, in a rant about the current economic conditions, you mention Obama and Carter as the worst presidents in history and ignore the Republican fool who tanked the American economy and caused all of our economic problems in the first place.

No, hands down, George W. Bush wins the coveted "worst president in history" title (he must covet it, he worked sooo hard to get it!). History will not be kind to George W. Bush.

And remember all the brouhaha over Biden's comment about the Republicans putting "y'all back in chains." He was absolutely right. The Republican Party is disgusting and the Tea Party MUST be purged. Whatever happened to my generation? I'm a boomer. We've all become exactly what we railed against in the the 60s and 70s. Shame on us. I have absolutely no respect for half of my generation, and the nation will be a better place once half of us are dead.

jstdafacts and grandall:

It is always best to be thought the fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

We "BOOMERS" are reaping what we sowed. We threw away our parents values and family values, in favor of I will do what I want. And we have. And Look where that has gotten us. We were "anti-establishment", now we are the Establishment. We gave the future generations "rights without responsibilities", "actions without consequences" and gave birth to two generations that think that they should have everything now without putting in the effort. We devalued the Family, ridiculed our parents religion, rebelled against anything and everything that put limits on us, and ushered in the future.

We are Responsilbe for the state of our decline in the USA!

Get over yourself. The liberal biased media lie was intended for the low thinking right wing voters. Republicans knew they couldn't keep their lies hidden so instead they told you that everything was a lie that you didn't hear on faux. Keeping the dumb, dumb and uninformed.

Appears they have sold you the con and you bought it hook, line and sinker.

Funny how Akins also blamed the liberal media until it was pointed out to him that it was the republicans not liberals bashing him.

VOTE FOR EDUCATION...VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT 2012

@mike-Pa: Do you mean when the Bushy guy said 'The convention offered Romney a chance "to reconnect with people,"...'? Cuz I was laughing at that too.

I mean, didn't he run in 2008? Hasn't he been out ahead of his GOP rivals since January? Aren't the GOP SuperPac's spending money hand-over-foot...trying to tell people who Mitt is, for the past four months?

I'm just not sure who he's trying to re-connect with. Is it other republicans who don't know or really like him? It sure isn't women or minorities....or democrats....or indy's or undecideds. We pretty much know how vague and wishy-washy he is.

Yea I agree with you, Jeb saying Romney needs to re-connect with....who ever....it hilarious.

Americans First

As always, your posts make me smile!

VOTE FOR EVERY DEMOCRAT IN NOVEMBER!!!!

Mike: You're so right. NBC news is only one of the several liberal media that only publish biased propaganda. It's no wonder NBC news rating are going down down down and will eventually go the way of CNN. Nobody will watch or listen in the end.

Hi Tomas....Saw the movie "Candidate" with Will Ferrell last night...the whole audience was laughing non stop, I was in tears laughing so hard. Reminds me of the righties on the blogs....Too funny for words!

Ryan has left a trail of his own trash that he won't be able to overcome. Ryan plan kills Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, cuts food stamps from starving children and families, cuts benefits to Veterans, Forces women of rape victims to have the children if they get pregnant, kills women's healthcare , and takes the savings 716 billions from medicare that Obama and Team America created with savings from waste, raud and better streamlining....and gives that money to the rich as tax breaks. Obama used that 716 billion and invested it back into more healthcare and longer healthcare for people using the system. Yep...Ryan takes all that money from those programs and gives Romney and himself more tax breaks including killing capital gains tax on the rich.......Ryan could not be any less of an American.....but he is not done yet with his plans to destroy the middle class and poor.

Vote Obama/Biden and Team America 2012 Protect Americans from the greedy rich Ryan and Romney!

starsailing

Sounds good. I like Will. I'll have to check it out.

Another great classic is The Candidate, with Robert Redford.

Salud.

Hmm, impressive, left is bringing out all the stereotypes, and CANNOT SPELL or write a sentence correctly.

So, left, clear no self respecting employer would hire you...how long have you been receiving benefits?

By the way How many welfare checks have squirled from the hard working tax payers.

Corporate welfare and welfare for the wealthy are a far bigger concern. Why would the country provide welfare of any sort to the people that do not need it. Sure makes a lot of sense .. dump the poor on the streets and funnel that welfare into the pockets of the rich.

I swear is there a Democrat on this planet who understands the operations of businesses. Corporate welfare is a phrase liberals have come up with. There is no such thing as corporate welfare. You should be more concerned about the longer food stamp and welfare lines. These are people who have lost all hope for ever finding a job. Millions of Americans are suffering because they STILL can't find a job to support their families.

Believe.... Yes there are millions of Americans suffering - because of the Republican party who just doesn't give a damn about anything but winning the White House. They basically said to hell with the US - we'll obstruct EVERYTHING this President ties to do to correct the problems we face as long as it make him a one-term President.

The treasonous GOP is the party that must go!

Obama/Biden 2012

I swear is there a Democrat on this planet who understands the operations of businesses.

I swear, is their a Republican on this planet who understands government is not a business?

"Corporate welfare" is a term describing a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations or selected corporations. The term compares corporate subsidies and welfare payments to the poor, and implies that corporations are much less needy of such treatment than the poor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_welfare

And since the right loves to rant and rage against a socialist state, why is it you folks support corporate socialism for the rich, but you only support capitalism for the middle-class and poor.

The notion that banks privatize profits and socialize losses dates at least to the 19th century, as in this 1834 quote ofAndrew Jackson:

I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the Bank. ... You are a den of vipers and thieves.
—Andrew Jackson in 1834 on closing the Second Bank of the United States.^{[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_for_the_rich_and_capitalism_for_the_poor}

Where is all the BITCHING from the LEFT HERE??? (Or is it OK when obama ben fits from it?)

WHY the DOUBLE STANDARDS ABOUT TAXES????

General Electric's CEO, Jeff Immelt, is in the crosshairs as the new chairman of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Many U.S. multinational corporations keep some profits abroad, none more than GE: Is total was $94 billion at the end of last year. As long as corporations tell their accountants they intend to indefinitely invest those profits outside the U.S., they don't have to make a provision for federal and state taxes on them. If the profits stay abroad, they remain untaxed.

The so-called "active finance exemption" allows the income from GE's overseas lending activities to remain untaxed in the United States. It is so important to GE that the company discloses in its financial reports the periodic need for this tax break to be renewed by Congress. The New York Times highlighted the exemption in a recent piece on GE's tax practices.

General Electric, which has faced a withering hail of criticism since The New York Times proclaimed last month that the conglomerate paid no federal taxes in 2010, despite $5 billion in U.S. profits.

ALSO

Obama Administration Gave General Electric—Parent Company of NBC--$24.9 Million in ‘Stimulus’ Grants.

ANOTHER NOTE:

As to the donations to Obama's coffers, Open Secrets has GE's 2008 donations to Obama's presidential campaign clocking in at $499,130 putting the company in Obama's top 20 donators. Other big donors include Goldman Sachs ($994,795), Citigroup ($701,290), and UBS AG ($543,219).

@Times-Running-Out I remember in the 80s think it was Reagan in office when G.E. paid no taxes and Jack Welch was C.E.O closed a production line here in Kentucky sent the jobs to Mexico eliminating 25 jobs the company made so much money from that move the company gave him a 100 million dollar bonus . A couple years later he was on a news story probally a leftis media like 60 min. He was drawing Social Security he addimitted he didnt need it because of his wealth and golden paracute retirement the commentator ask him if he was ashamed for taking money from govt. program when he clearly did not need it his resounding reply was NO! typical republican take all you can get and to hell with every one else. Since you listed all of Obama's contributers why did you not include Romney's and amounts?

Imagine that, somebody from the Party of GOD just used the C word in a post. I know, you guys are the party of family values.

ROMNEY EXTREME VIEWS HURTS THE SENIORS, MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR!

Romney Ryan tax plans...Pretty simple Kill Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and privatize for their rich friends driving up healthcare costs and trying to force you to invest in Wallstreet where Romney and Ryan will deregulate even more to take the rest of your money they didn't get the first time. Ryan Romney want to privatize the Post Office because repubs force P.O. to over fund their pension plan out 75 years just to deliberately defund P.O. This will crash service and many towns will have no service or extreme higher costs via UPS or FED EX.

Ryan Romney plans incease tax breaks for the rich and cut food stamps to starving children and families, cut benefits to Vets, and increase taxes on middle class and poor by up to $2000 to pay for their tax breaks!!!YES< RYAN PLAN EVEN CUTS VETS BENEFITS!

Vote Presidentt Obama/Biden 2012 protect Seniors, Middle class and poor from grreedy Romney and Ryan

starsailing: There is no plan to kill SS, Medicare, etc. That's utter nonsense. If you're going to comment you should do some research on the subject because you're statements are NOT credible.

Believe - you clearly have DONE NO research. Starsailing is 100% right - you don't have a clue!

Obama/Biden 2012

If your continued ignorant posts are indicators of the moral and intellectual superiority of the left, you guys are in big touble.

pgulrich - and your posts of the total lack of morals and intelligence prove the far right is beyond saving!

Obama/Biden 2012

BELIEVE>>>YOU NEED TO STUDY CURRENT EVENTS>>>quickly...you need to aplogize for that comment....Geez...

Hurricane Romney

From the Article above:

“I'm surprised that we, the Romney-Ryan ticket, are neck and neck in the polls right now particularly with some of the setbacks we have experienced,” said Arizona Sen. John McCain, the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee.

Rinse, Lather, Repeat. The Conservative Media is up to its old tricks again, lying about how the polls say it’s close so they can keep the Super-PAC money rolling in and let their minions think they have some hope.

President Obama has a HUGE lead where it counts, the Electoral College. He has enough to win ALREADY!

The article continues….

It’s a high-stakes act for Romney; the conventions are regarded as one of the few opportunities to sway undecided voters, whose numbers are dwindling in this especially competitive election.

There are no more undecided voters. This is another myth perpetuated by the Conservative Media.

Americans have already decided that President Obama is the best choice this November for
keeping the Middle Class strong, and maintaining our Democracy.

We need to keep the Senate, but most importantly, TAKE BACK THE DO NOTHING BOEHNER HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES so we can move this Great Country out of this BUSH created recession and create jobs for the Middle Class and Poor.

Salud.

The teaparty and evangelical Christians are two entirely different camps and I hope they realize it soon. The evangelicals should vote for the Christian Barack Obama and I don't care that his middle name is Hussein. He is still the Christian!!!

It is interesting that Isaac was the name of the son from Abraham and Sarah. It is the birth that started the division between the muslims and the Christians. Now I am sure this has some significance although I am not sure what yet. These people need to realize that when they do something mischievous like praying for rain and disgusting lie after lie their prayers will not return void. Sooner or later they will be repaid. And I don't know how the elders of the republican part are reacting to it but the fact that the presidential candidate is a Mormon and the vp candidate started in politics because he like the beliefs of an atheist Ayn Rand has to have some of the elders in complete denial or they are praying that Romney/Ryan won't go near the White HOuse Theyhave to be. And quite frankly I don't think Ryan should be in the House of REps. No wonder we have had such calamity andobstruction from what used to be a somewhat cooperative group. The repub;icans have left the church as far as I know. And that is not a good thing for America. I hope all the republicans find the guts to vote no.

I have four children, each name was chosen with significant meaning and reason, that's what most parents do.

ktlin -- Islam started in 622 AD. Isaac was born much, much earlier.

Sarah wasn't invited to Tampa.......neither was Abraham.

Somebody forgot to tell Isaac...........so he's just gonna show up.

Republicans seem to want to force so many rules and restrictions on womens issues....perhaps, in her infinite wisdom, mother-nature is foreshadowing a heavy rain now, so that the repub's are prepared for the tidal wave that will hit them, in November.

CPO Sharkey, Sarah Palin was actually invited but they come to an agreement on when she would speak. its a good thing because Palin would not be good for republicans.

Hey, It's MEEEEE, do you think your untrue facts are going to fix the economy and jobs? Its lazy a**holes like you that are responsible for the lack of jobs by putting Bozo in office and then willing to do it again. But I notice you deadbeats no longer talk about polls since they are starting to go the wrong way for you. Lets also get another fact straight for you libs, Obama does have an edge with single women but thats not the case when talking about married women who understand how to keep their legs shut so they do not need FREE birth control or an abortion because they were irresponsible by sleeping with every Tom , Dick and Harry. Rape is an entirely different issue and Romney has even said as such. The fact that Obama makes free birth control available to 15 year olds is simply pathetic and shows how disgusting you people really are.

Are you an idiot? First of all the President of the United States does not create jobs, although he tried but was blocked the the "no" party. Investors like Romney do. Just ask him. While you are at it ask him were the hell are they? Secondly even if you are married you still need birth control, moron. Not all unwanted pregnancies are the result of sleeping around. Hey....here's an idea.....let's abolish birth control and abortions so that we have more women and their babies on welfare because the deadbeat dad's won't support them.