From Bloomberg Business:

• U.S. Jobless Rate Drops for the Worst of All Reasons

By Peter Coy on September 07, 2012

The U.S. economy added just 96,000 jobs in August, falling short of expectations and showing that with a presidential election just two months away, the nation still has a long ways to go to heal from the deep 2007-09 recession. The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent, but that was only because 368,000 people left the labor force. The share of working-age people who are either working or looking for work—known as the labor-force participation rate—fell to its lowest level since September 1981.

See the rest of the article at: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-07/weak-jobs-report-shows-obamas-long-road-ahead#r=read

Eww, what a creepy looking photo of Romney. Reminds me of when he went on his famous overseas trip and made a jacka$$ of himself.

He truly is creepy. And an embarrassment on the world stage.

Feisty Its good to see your comments again, American girl has been missing for the past few days.

Oblamo?

So glad Romney has your support. You deserve each other.

Be nice Joe, the community is just less than 88% white.

I have to add, weather was last night was as good as the local forecaster said. Not one thundershower, hail storm, or high winds. So, the weather channel is in the bag for Obama I guess.

This is what Chris Matthews said about Bill Clinton in praising him. Matthews needs help. His cheese has done slid off his cracker.

I always figured that if Bill Clinton landed on Mars. He would know how to do it with them. He would know how to reproduce. He would know everything. He would just instinctively know how to talk to people. They would be laughing in about five minutes. The Martians.

RE Post 1.9

Yeah Forbes is on the reality of GM. The Record Profit last quarter was partly from the European Opel division far exceeding expectations, GM drastically cutting back on R & D, and GM delaying upgrading production facilities.

Translation, GM sees a problem coming in the near future and are bracing for it!

I will say that sales did increase 10% in the US, but that is bringing up the rear of the other Automakers.

Mitt Romney is a known LIAR, admitted TAX-CHEAT, and a probable FELON, who only AVOIDED "FELONY CHARGES" by RETRO-ACTIVELY RETIRING from BAIN CAPITAL when nhe was still CEO, even though legal papers said he wasn't the CEO.

OK One by One explain these charges in detail. Start with the tax cheat bit

America? What has he done for America?

During this recession, what did he do to help?

Old Fat Guy,

As for liar, no different than a democrat putting the best face on their opinion. There has been no embellishments on his resume.

The journalist who accused Romney of being a probable fellon was barbecued by a number of left wing new media. There is no basis to call him a felon.

http://news.yahoo.com/sec-filings-not-clear-proof-romney-ceo-role-064959500.html

The applications to the SEC were perfectly okay. Romney was listed as a major investor, not the one applying for the loan. He was on a leave of absence. When on a leave of absence, you do not lose you position, you just are not active. http://news.yahoo.com/sec-filings-not-clear-proof-romney-ceo-role-064959500.html

Tax Cheat - on what basis do you accuse him of this?

Because he pays only 13.8% - that is a normal amount for someone with his wealth level because he is paying people to put money in places that keep him in either tax free municipal bonds, or long term stock sales and realized capital gains that are taxed at 15%. He is taking no salary from anybody, he is living off his investments as all people should be able to do if they don't listen to democrats!

Or because of the Swiss and Cayaman Island's investments?

Instead of paying taxes to the US, he is paying any taxes to those countries. They are not as high as here, and if he brings that money into the US, he will lose over half of it to Federal, state and local taxes here. There is no legitimate investment places that will advise a client they want to keep to have their money taxed an additional time.

Apple computer is up to 72 billion of overseas profits that will never come to the US for the same reason. Estimates are that there is between 1 & 2 TRILLION trapped in off shore accounts. This is the penalty we are paying as a country for having predatory tax laws.

Last Charge

Retro active retirement is done quite often. It is only done when the person had no role played in decisions during the leave of absence.

You are doing major calisthenics to hate this guy and I'll bet you will paste your tripe on multiple thread. Yes, I kind of have been on often enough lately to notice.

Here is a report from The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law showing how voter fraud is virtually non-existent in the US. The GOP is whining about voter fraud simply to keep minorities and seniors from voting against their hateful policies.

http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/

Let's Stay Together.

Okay Democrats, for your reviewing pleasure.

Stunning photos of President Obama, Michelle Obama, VP Biden and Jill Biden from last night and today. People are supporting this Administration big time. They were standing in line at 2AM this morning to see the president in NH.

http://theobamadiary.com/

Mitt Romney on Friday opened day one of the fall campaign sprint to Nov. 6 by launching himself out of the starting blocks like Usain Bolt at the Olympics.

Mitt's advisor's finally found a way to get him back on the campaign trail. They got him all fired up by telling him that they had found a floundering company with a fat pension plan to raid. Imagine how disappointed Mittie must have been when they told him he was going to have to mingle and converse with the little people instead of stealing their jobs and pensions.

Obama 2012/Romney 1040

Sailcat, they're monsters. They know our history with this sort of thing, yet they continue to push for it.

John Dean, today:

Frankly, I find this voter suppression disgusting. Southern conservatives, who now control the GOP, have succeeded in destroying the party of Abraham Lincoln, with its once long and proud tradition of seeking to extend the voting franchise, not restrict it.

The effort started in the last few years (2006 to 2008) of the Bush II Department of Justice, when Bush’s political appointees tried to force U.S. Attorneys throughout the country, but particularly in the South, to prosecute voter-fraud cases. However, the Administration had a fundamental problem: There was no evidence of voter fraud. But this did not end the effort. After Republicans won control of twenty-one states (occupying both the legislature and the governor’s office) in 2010, they began—in the name of preventing nonexistent voter fraud—enacting legislation to restrict voting.

http://verdict.justia.com/2012/09/07/the-republicans-shameless-war-on-voting

Wow why are you so demeaning to minorities.

Only if you are so deluded and dishonest as to consider bigots and racists to be legitimate minority groups.

Romney looks like a really psycho boss I once had.

He was the only person I've met who not one person who knew him had anything good to say about him.

BTW, Mitt - I heard you get money from the Muslim Brotherhood.

Got some tax returns to prove it's not true?

(Everybody - go read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by John Krakauer!)

Since we seem to have some GOP'ers on here:

Want to explain how Mitt "earned" $21.6 million from Bain Capital last year without lifting a finger?

Seems to me that had to be money Bain sucked out of those companies they were "helping", right?

Hello folks, I would like to preface my comment by saying I'm a political atheist. I don't care what political religion one wants to attach themselves to. In my estimation we have a one headed two party system serving their masters, Wall Street and the Federal Reserve/banksters.

I see, hear and read people blaming one political party or the other and if they are honest about the problem and want to see who allows this political reality show to perpetuate, all they have to do is look into the mirror. The elite have us exactly where they want us, at each others throats while they rob us blind. Rob us of our civil rights, wealth and our planetary resources.

Do you ever stop for a moment, contemplate and review what is actually causing our stress and problems as a society? Only if we come together as "We the People" do we have a chance to change the direction of our country and planet, but first we need to know what we are up against.

We allow a foreign entity (Federal Reserve, neither federal nor a reserve, a group of mostly European banksters) to control our currency! This system is why you, I, economies and nations are debt slaves! The Fed and their subsidiaries can print money, but how can they create wealth by letting bankers use it for speculation (derivatives market), greater consolidation, and big bonuses.

We let Wall Street run our government! Wall Street is Washington and Washington is Wall Street! We have a two headed one party system serving their masters Wall Street and the Federal Reserve!

Our presidential politicians in both parties are going to spend approximately 1 billion dollars each on their campaigns this year, yet we are laying off fire fighters, teachers and policemen. Two billion dollars on presidential campaigns, is that insane or what? Then, we allow the Super Pac’s with little regulation and full anonymity to influence our American elections through the sheer volume of money that will most likely be used for negative advertising to elect a corporate candidate or pass a corporate sponsored bill!

Our congress is bought and paid for by lobbyists and are involved with insider trading, doing the bidding for those who put the most money in their pockets! They get rich while we the “freeloaders” get cuts to Medicare and Social Security all the while they receive a tax payer salary and health benefits for life for themselves and their family compliments of the “freeloaders”.

We've legalized Corporations (Citizen's United) as people! They can now buy any election they want to, from sheriff to president! They don't even have to be American corporations! Corporations have severed their moral contract with America. It used to be you worked hard and helped them gain success and you shared in their success through better wages and benefits, all you get now is a pink slip.

The corporate use of offshore tax havens have kept trillions of dollars out of the American economic system which further decimates the American economy.

The BP Corporation will likely not be charged with any criminal malfeasance in the largest natural disaster in history. The oil leak continues to flow and there are reports Corexit is still being used without any oversight by the U.S.. Many scientists claim the gulf loop current has been broken as a result of the leak. If you want evidence of the leak just talk to the residents and oil spill workers living along the gulf from Texas to Florida.

The oil company lobbyists who have paid off our congressional leader to allow "Fracking" this method of injecting poison into our underground drinking water aquifer is an obvious serious health hazard to all Americans.

We invade a different country every year! Killing and displacing millions of people and spending trillions of dollars to enrich the Oil, Banking, and Corporate cartels!

The Census Department of the American Federal Government recently reported that “50% of the nation’s population were living below the poverty line”.
50 million people can't go to a doctor because they don't have health care!
47 million people need food stamps just to feed themselves!
25 million people are unemployed or underemployed!
15 million people's mortgages are worth more than their homes!

Our national debt is 16 trillion dollars! We pay off our debt with more debt! That is like putting gas on the fire! There is a term for that its called bankrupt. They tell the U.S. citizens it is their fault because they don't live within their means! They fail to mention it has everything to do with corrupt business and political leaders and the Federal Reserve and their fractional reserve banking system!

The worlds GDP is 65 trillion and the casino derivatives market is estimated at 1.4 quadrillion. Our 5 largest banks own 97% of the world’s derivatives. Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Portugal have defaulted and the Federal Reserve keeps concocting schemes to bail out the worlds economies. it is only a matter of time the U.S. citizens will realize our banks are just as insolvent as the Globe's banks are intertwined. But that’s ok, we’ll bail them out again (QE1, QE2, Op Twist 1, Op Twist 2 and implicitly LTRO 1 and LTRO 2) You know their motto, privatize profits and socialize losses! QE3 has already started with the currency swaps and the Bernank has hinted at cranking up the printing presses into overdrive. Let's see what happens next week!

Why aren't Jamie Dimon and John Corzine in prison? The corrupt international banking elite with tacit approval from Democrats and Republicans has given the world 1.4 Quadrillion in derivatives fraud, the HSBC drug laundering fraud, the MF Global fraud, the PFG fraud, the high frequency trading pilfering and stock market fraud, the manipulation of the precious metals and bond market fraud, the MERS mortgage fraud, nearly countless individual frauds from both Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, and the international 800 trillion LIBOR interest rate fixing banking fraud, just to name but a few recent FRAUDS and breaches of Bankster credibility and trustworthiness.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the flagships of our housing bubble that has burst! The housing market used to be what was fueling the middle class as manufacturing was being outsourced to foreign countries, it got over leveraged like our banks and stock markets and there is no resolution in site! The mortgage settlement just signed is just another small fine and in reality a bailout for the banks for what they are truly liable for.

They tell us social safety nets, Medicare and Social Security that you and I paid into is Socialism when the largest recipients of social welfare in the history of the world are our “Capitalist, Free Market” banking and financial institutions! Remember the bailouts? We keep bailing out the banks to the tune of tens of trillions and we're told it's because they are too big to fail and all the while we allow them to get bigger! We are witnessing the biggest bank robbery in history and the banks and financial institutions are doing the robbing!

Our media (presstitutes) are bought and paid for by corporations and treat us like mushrooms! Reuters and the Associated Press try to tell us what to believe and think, such as unemployment is at 8.3% and falling, freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength, war is peace, they hate us for our freedom, the terrorists are out to get you, the economy is great, borrow and spend! etc…

Our constitution, our most sacred document as a country is meaningless!

We have lost most of our civil liberties through the passage of the Patriot Act and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the new National Defense Resources Preparedness (NDRP)! They have authorized the use of spy drones in American skies! You can be surveilled by any number of Federal agencies, have your phone and computer tapped, bank, medical, and private records accessed! You can be arrested without gaining access to an attorney or a trial. We are molested at the airports or radiated for “security”. And just recently added National Defense Resources Preparedness (NDRP) which comes on the heels of NDAA. This Executive Order allows the government to take pretty much whatever it wants including crops, farm equipment, vehicles, boats, aircraft and fuel to “prepare” for the national defense. This includes making people work for free. You think I’m kidding about the free labor? Here’s a line straight from the EO that says, “. . . to employ persons of outstanding experience and ability without compensation. . .” This is authorized even in peace time!
NYPD’s aggressive street policing program, called “stop-and-frisk,” which predominantly targets low-income minority neighborhoods. In 2011, the program stopped and searched more than 500,000 New Yorkers, 85 percent of them black or Latino. This program is moving to a city near you!

We have created another cartel the “Prison Industrial Complex”! We have outsourced our incarceration of United States citizens which consists of over 6 million prisoners! This exceeds the number of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in history! All objectivity of prison reform has flown out the window in exchange for profits! No prisoners no profits! In some state contracts the conditions of privatization require that states guarantee prisons remain at 90% occupancy! Are there prison lobbyists? You bet and loaded with cash compliments of you and me!

The Military Industrial Complex is King, our defense budget is larger than the rest of the world’s combined! We are the enforcement arm of all the world’s cartels! The policeman of the world! In our countries short history we have bombed over 60 different countries! The outsourcing of our security to private military companies like XE (formerly Blackwater) is increasing dramatically!

The phony war on drugs! While our military protect the poppy fields in Afghanistan, the Opium supply produced in Afghanistan went from a modest 185 tons at the start of American intervention in 2001, to a robust 8,200 tons of opium, a remarkable 53 percent of the country’s GDP and 93 percent of global heroin supply; Wells Fargo has been caught laundering money for the Mexican drug cartel in the United States (look it up); The use of drugs in the health care industry is over a 100 billion dollar a year scam. There's no profit in the cure only in the treatment. You are not allowed to buy the same manufactured prescription drugs from other countries at a cheaper price because the drug lobby has had congress pass laws against it to protect their profits.

We let the elite divide us so that they can keep us in fear, distracted, and divided to the theft going on right in front of our eyes each and every second of the day! The theft of our civil liberties, money and property!

What is wrong with this picture and what does it say about us that we allow this to take place? We have lost our moral compass and our priorities as a country and need to get them back! It is time we concentrate on fixing America for awhile!

Sailcat, they're monsters.

Their ignorance is forgivable but their utter lack of shame is reprehensible.

What do Obama's grades when he was 21 have to do with running America?

Where your President gets his money, where he keeps it and how much he pays in taxes have a LOT to do with running America.

If American service members have to show their financial records so they don't get "unduly influenced" by outside forces, why shouldn't the President?

Why should an American foot soldier be held to a higher standard than the Commander in Chief?

Think about it.

I hear lots of republicans criticizing Obama either with misleading statements or just plain lies usually - the rest of the time it's ridiculous things like his saying 57 states (as if no one else ever has a slip of the tongue). What I NEVER EVER hear, however, is what Romney is going to do.

What is Romney going to do?

Please don't say he's going to turn the country around. Anyone can say that. How? What is his plan?

My guess is, Romney paid all of the taxes he owed!

If you're guessing then it should be obvious you don't know what you're talking about. We are talking about a man who lied about retiring from Bain Capital in 1999 and who failed to report the money he has stashed in foreign accounts in no fewer than seven state and federal financial disclosure forms. He has also stated he thinks blind trusts are a "ruse" and to illustrate that point he has placed his finances in a blind trust managed by his colleagues at Bain Capital.

Why does it matter? Romney has shown he is a liar and a cheat and he is proving he does not want to contribute his fair share to our government and our country. On the other hand, he has definitely showed he wants to rule over them.

President Obama in November! He is clearly our only rational choice!

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jul/10/robert-gibbs/democrats-say-mitt-romney-failed-disclose-offshore/

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/24/romneys-blind-trust-ruse/

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/purdum/2012/07/mitt-romney-age-old-ruse-blind-trust

loons from the left keep asking to see romney's tax returns as if he's done something criminal. as if the most well-funded tax collection agency in the world cannot answer that question in an instant.

what does their silence tell us?

their silence tells us the loons of the left reside in a huge loony echo chamber where reality is optional.

Typical rt winger ranting tonight...

The typical republican supporters of Romney.

Romney's famous speech rings so true when he said..."You can fool some of the people some of the time..........and these are the people I want to speak to!"

Obama/Biden 2012

Do you think Obama with his IRS and DOJ would allow Romney to pay one cent less than he owed!?

Romney isn't the first person to lie on his taxes and he won't be the last. Just so you know, cheating on one's taxes and lying on government financial reports are not a qualifications for the office of the presidency. They're negative things, in fact.

LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE TURNING UP THE HEAT ON MITTSTER! YA THINK MITT WILL DO TIME IN THE BIG HOUSE INSTEAD OF THE WHITE HOUSE?

BAIN BEING INVESTIGATED ON TAXES!

From Forbes.com 9/1/12

The New York Times is reporting that Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is among a number of firms being investigated by New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, for failing to pay taxes.

The New York AG's Taxpayer Protection Bureau has issued subpoenas to at least twelve financial firms, including Bain, looking into whether the companies converted management fees (taxed as ordinary income) paid by investors into fund investments which are taxed at a dramatically lower rate.

The controversial tax avoidance scheme came to light last month when Bain Capital internal financial information was published online by Gawker.com , however the investigation had reportedly commenced prior to the publication and is not believed to be tied to the document dump.

According to the Times

The tax strategy — which is viewed as perfectly legal by some tax experts, aggressive by others and potentially illegal by some — came to light last month when hundreds of pages of Bain's internal financial documents were made available online. The financial statements show that at least $1 billion in accumulated fees that otherwise would have been taxed as ordinary income for Bain executives had been converted into investments producing capital gains, which are subject to a federal tax of 15 percent, versus a top rate of 35 percent for ordinary income. That means the Bain partners saved more than $200 million in federal income taxes and more than $20 million in Medicare taxes.

While Governor Romney has not been active at Bain Capital for quite some time, he does continue to receive profits from the company and held investments in some of the funds that utilized the tax avoidance strategy.

If Mr. Romney does indeed have nothing to hide on his taxes why not release them?

When someone is up for a cabinet post their taxes are gonne over with a fine tooth comb. These two men (Romney and Ryan) are asking us to let them run our country. Do you really think the most powerful man in the world should be held to a lower standard than the Sec of Education?

Shady G ... I've the NFL football package on Direct .... don't go there. ;-) I'm a football FANATIC!!!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-234593160001/kenny_chesney_the_boys_of_fall_official_music_video/

I know ... off topic ... but life is good . .. with football, country music, and President Obama.

And seriously FR .. get the ignore back and working! So sick and tired of looking at HarleyChic (who gives bikers a bad name)'s posts!!! I ignored her and a few others and ... well ... please reinstate that!!

As I've said elsewhere I think the Democrats had a better convention (they always have better entertainment due to the fact most entertainers are liberals) but the trouble is it's not about the convention, it's not about Mitt Romney, it's about the economy and the President's record handling it. My recollection on that isn't near as rosy as those who made the case in my home town for a second term for the President.

I don't know if Mitt Romney can do a better job on the economy than President Obama, but I do know that I have to at least consider giving him a chance based on the current (still) sad state of economic affairs. Obstinate Republicans own a lot of the blame for that, but Congressional Democrats and the President aren't exempt from being held accountable, either !!

REPUB PLEDGE OBSTRUCTION OF RECOVERY AGAINST PRES. OBAMA...THEN WHEN THEY SUCCEED WITH RECORD AMOUNT OF OBSTRUCTION THEY BLAME PRES. OBAMA!

rt wingers whining that they didn't get their diaper changed by President Obama yet. You know how a baby cries with a mess it made in it's diaper, then when you want to change the baby they take off running and crawling away SO YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT?...yeah.....well you may like sitting in your mess, but it stinks for the rest of us!

Obama/Biden 2012

How many republicans does it take to fix the economy after 2009.. NONE, apparently it never happened.

Obama/Biden 2012.

Who the hell came up with the obviously staged picture at the top of this story. I mean really four pairs of hands applauding with Romney posed "heroically" and shot from a low angle. I guarantee this fake picture of comrade Romney came straight from his twisted and dishonest campaign......... Come on folks isn't this kind of stuff reminiscent of soviet era Russia....... Now that I think about it; this kind of crap is to be expected from the American Fascist Party.... Sorry I meant Republican Party.

Not only is Mitt Romney a liar and a cheat, he's a GUTLESS CHEAT!

No tax returns?!! YOu're a gutless liar and cheat and the USA holds you in contempt for not being a TRUE AMERICAN with AMERICAN values of HONESTY AND DECENCY!!

Get ready to eat the big one Romney!! THis is going to be a LANDSLIDE NOW!

What the GOP/Grover/Frankenstein's did the last 3.5 years should be criminal. The poor and middle classes lost their jobs and homes and the GOP blocked every attempt to balance the budget, improve healthcare and create the tax code that would create a booming economy. Company's are sitting on billions until this stalemate is resolved.

We need to vote every GOP incumbent out!

Aralee ... it's not about resentment. Trust me, Huntsman would have been a better candidate for the Republicans. It's about history. No businessman has ever been a good President.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/02/17/sorry-mitt-romney-good-businessmen-rarely-make-good-presidents

Mitt doesn't have "knowledge" as far as creating jobs. If so, he would be doing it now. He's got the money to create a business or two and yet, his choice is to use all that he has to run for the presidency. He answers to the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson.

A strong GOP contender with a plan would have been welcomed. But we got the lying bombastic Ryan and the weak and unworthy Mitt. And on that note ....

Obama/Biden 2012

Republicans celebrate weak job growth

http://ed.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/07/13731056-ed-show-playbook-fri-sep-7?lite

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/mitt-romney-pounces-on-president-barack-obama-over-weak-jobs-report-1.3966232

The RIGHT tells us about how ROMNEY is such a great business man, Well if buying a company and making it worst so they could file Bankruptcy is viewed as successful BUSH was a greater Business person because he Bankrupt a whole country, Romney's business record is a joke, he parted out those companies for profit, I don't thinks any American wants him to do it to OUR COUNTRY!!!!

I will vote for Romney because the Democrats blame the country's problems on his success. Democrats want to bring the successful down to the level of everyone else, taking the burden of finding a job and managing their finances themselves. Republicans try to create the conditions that can bring others up to the middle class or better. I am not rich, but I don't blame the rich and successful for my financial situation. If my situation is not what I want, I do the research and the work to get to where I need to be instead of waiting around for a handout.

I've been in business management almost my whole career and KNOW the difference of what success is from failure, I retired in my late forties, started in a company at the lowest position and ended my career Owning that company, I'm not RICH but happy, I don't judge success by what a person has or acquired but by the quality of life they live, I have nothing to be ashamed of but I can't say the same of ROMNEY, anyone that enjoys firing an employee is sure as hell not going to get my vote, that is life altering for that person that gets fired and find no humor in it. See We all have different standards and I'm not against success but I am a bit choosy on the type of success that I applaud or appall.

Ok, those on the right, I can confidently say that no one on this blog site hates Romney simply because he's either rich or successful. The problem we have with him is simple.

first: He's seriously out of touch with the average American. We know and understand you made your millions off the backs of the "average" worker AND we understand that it was all business decisions BUT you don't have to tout it in every other sentence and political stump you make.

Second: He refuses to take a permanent position on any subject. He always caters to the crowd he talks to. Think about it, he was a moderate when he was Governor of MA, THEN he went conservative during the Republican debates, NOW he's trying to be a moderate conservative. It's gotten so bad that even his own base is confused and doesn't trust him.

Third: If he has a plan, we seriously don't think he knows what it is. Remember he said that I do have a plan but didn't bring it with me and can't remember it. Remember the blackboard incident when he was trying to explain his medicare plan? THEN after his meeting with the "Big Oil" executives, he immediately had an "energy plan" etch'd out on a piece of paper which leaves to question, Whose plan is it, yours or Big oil???? He also said that his economic plan is to slash taxes for the rich...excuse me....."job creators" BUT he benefits from it. When was the last time he created a job???? He also wants to ease the regulations on Wall St. Why??? It's because of these regulations that Wall St is flourishing. Why mess with something that's working? If they are successful in repealing AHCA(aka Obamacare), you will see seniors AGAIN going back to deciding whether they should by their medicines or food with their reduced Social Security check since Medicare cost will skyrocket again.

Fourth: Forget the tax returns, we are really worried that if he IS elected, he will become exactly what Grover Norquist wants, an empty suit that will just sign every piece of legislation that fits his and all the other rich and powerful's agenda.

I for one would love to see that happen, then watch those SAME supporters on this site turn red with anger when they lose their good job to someone in India or China. Then watch as the debt balloons as well as unemployment rises and people's IRA's and 401K's tank again. Meanwhile, the Koch brothers and every other billionaire that gave money in support of Romney enjoy little or no taxes while the rest of Americans INCLUDING those that blindly trusted Romney to "take America back" suffer. Then you know what their excuse will be.....wait for it...........IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!!!

So will those on the right say the same thing that Obama's not President anymore and stop blaming the last guy.......DOUBT IT....

This is of course my opinion and a worse case scenario that I hope and pray doesn't come to past.

Shady G

LANDSLIDE COMING! Practice saying President Romney!

Buried up to your eyeballs in bull@!$%# and can't move an inch. Sounds like the landslide already took place.

Very few people in Washington DC realize that they work for us, the people. Mitt would be about the farthest from that notion as one could get. He would be "the boss". He would tell us what we need and when... he's already acting that way.

He takes a lie and repeats it often enough to get the Obama haters to latch on... I won't call them followers because it's pretty hard to follow nothing. It's like he's got some special knowledge in an alternate universe or something.

Listen people... go ahead and grade Obama's performance. But realize that with the unbelievable mess we were all handed, you need to at least "grade of a curve"... meaning that you grade him based on what was even possible to do in the environment he was given. Yes, it's more difficult to sort out, but it's the only way to do it. You can bet that if Romney is elected, he'll be grading himself on his own curve based on lies.

I don't care about Mitt Romney's tax returns.....all I want to do is ask him one queston....Gov. Romney, did you,or did you not take advanatge of The I.R.S. amnesty program for foreign bank accounts in 2008-'09?

He can spout all he wants about paying all taxes as "legally" required, and it would probablly be a true statement, but if he accessed this program, it shows he WAS trying to hide money from the government and cheat on his taxes,just was offered the oppurtunity to come clean and did.

He's still under indictment in Italy for cheating on taxes, why wouldn't he try here?

I'm going to keep telling this story until President Obama wins re-election.

WHAT BAIN CAPITAL DID TO KAY BEE TOYS:

Bain engineered a private equity purchase of a profitable company that had already gone through 'creative destruction' eliminating unprofitable legacy operations and saddled the company with hundreds of millions of dollars of debt. The company was not just profitable but an example of the kind of companies that demonstrate a wider social conscious for its customers and the larger community. Sixteen months after purchasing the company with only 6% cash of the value Bain takes out dividends at over 400% of their investment. Significantly this was done during the time of the attacks on 9/11 when the country as a whole was undergoing a hightened sense of patriotism, sacrifice and social duty. Less than 2 years after saddling KB Toys with massive debt and taking out astronomical dividends, K-B Toys faces Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closes 354 previously profitable stores.

Vultures take meat that is already dead and complete the final loop in the cycle of life.

Bain took a company that had already been restructured and was surging in profits and cash. There was never any interest by Bain to restructure KB Toys, that had already been done.

Bain purchased KB Toys simply to raid its cash, and they did so during a time when the rest of the country was undergoing a period of reviewing the founding principles of the country.

To call what Bain did to KB Toys as 'Vulture' Capitalism is an insult to Vultures.

They were pirates and this is why there is so much interest to change the subject and not let the real facts of Bain Capital come to the surface during the Republican Primary.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511407

"Instead of paying taxes to the US, he is paying any taxes to those countries. They are not as high as here, and if he brings that money into the US, he will lose over half of it to Federal, state and local taxes here. There is no legitimate investment places that will advise a client they want to keep to have their money taxed an additional time.

Apple computer is up to 72 billion of overseas profits that will never come to the US for the same reason. Estimates are that there is between 1 & 2 TRILLION trapped in off shore accounts. This is the penalty we are paying as a country for having predatory tax laws."

I call B.S. on the 50% part. What state or local income tax? There are many states without those taxes. You mean to tell me they would not take advantage of those tax breaks too...lol?

"Predatory tax laws" LOL now that is a good one. 8% is predatory huh? It is one of if not thee lowest rate in the world atm. I guess Apple is hurting for money huh? Would it break them to actually PAY the tax on that profit? No it would not. Would it help the U.S., which not only allowed Apple to be created, but the founders (humans) too? The U.S. and its taxpayers also protects Apple from foreign attack and provides rules and regulations with which Apple uses to make a profit. This is how out of touch with reality and greedy many people are atm. Without the government you could not have your company. Another country would come and take you stuff or you would have to pay taxes there.

Look at all the money out there, yet the people with it all are STILL FING crying. HOW MUCH MORE DO YOU NEED CRACKHEADS? You have a money addiction problem, call it a medical problem I do not care, but it will be the death of you if you do not do something about it or at least wake up. When you are willing to wreak a country, do not care about your workers, do not care about your fellow citizens or humans, do not care about anything, but yourself/profits, and you are a "leader" there is a problem.

You cannot make unlimited amounts of money. It has to come from somewhere and if we print more it devalues what you have already. People WILL NOT be your slaves/serfs. We can only take so much before we snap, it is only natural.

WHAT THE F*** IS EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET WORKING SO HARD FOR ANY WAY? What is the FING rush? We have to beat other humans to that prove our way is right? What are we doing? Why does money even matter since it is artificial, man made, and not "real"? How many hours of labor does it take to have enough food, water, house, medical, etc.? How many hours of labor do we waste on NOTHING? Things like clothes for fashion, jewelry, makeup, bling, etc.? How much are we polluting the planet for nothing? Why do we not take care of our children better?

GREED plain and simple there is no other explanation. Taxes are the only way to limit greed, but many rich people are not smart enough to understand that or their addiction is blinding their logic. Some are smart enough however.

Doe's anybody even listen to this moron anymore?Seems to me his crowds get smaller and smaller everytime he opens his pie hole

What just flabberghasts me? Is that the American Public....because of envy, greed, or just plain ignorance, doesn't look at all of that, just resents someone who is successful...and bashes them. Here's the quandrum for me, they don't respect Romney for being successful, in fact are resentful of his success, yet in dollar amounts he pays more in taxes that a good portion of us in the United States do, he gives more back in Charity than all the other candidates, percentage wise.

Why wouldn't we want to take advantage of his knowledge and elect him President?

My comment above should tell you exactly what I think of Mitt Romney's "knowledge", "charity" and "success".

Using the standard of making money as a measure of success, drug kingpins are highly successful individuals. They run empires, yet would we hire one to be president?

Romney's "charity" is nothing more than his required tithe to the Mormon Church. I'm not a Mormon, so his "charity" hasn't benefited me one iota. I'd have preferred some compassion from him for the 15,000 employees of Kay Bee Toys who lost their jobs, thanks to Romney's greed.

I do not resent Romney for his so-called success. He can keep his millions, his Swiss bank accounts, his car elevator, his dancing horse.

But he needs to keep his god-damned hands off my country.

Shady,

Re #1.21 [LANDSLIDE COMING! Practice saying President Romney!]

Sure … that is why Romney and PAC’s that support him have
pulled advertising from Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Dream On !!

Nice to see that Romney will have a lot of work ahead of him as the Obama bandwagon got a 3% bounce in the polls after the convention and now has a 5% lead in the polls. Also a 73% odds on favorite to win November 6th.

I'm beginning to think that maybe the republicans and the millionaire and billionaire supported PACs may not be able to buy this election after all. We know that they have already bought the republican party!

I'm beginning to think that maybe the republicans and the millionaire and billionaire supported PACs may not be able to buy this election after all. We know that they have already bought the republican party!

clywd, let's hope that the voices of the American people will be heard on November 6. Let's hope we will prove to the world that we are still a democracy.

I'm going to do my part!

OBAMA/ BIDEN 2012

I guess this Corporate Raider who hides his real income, thinks his Big Corpoate donors are going to buy this election,

It's Not Going to work.... Americans are not that foolish after King George and Darth Vader...

Vote out these Norquist Teabaggers too if you want any real progress as this Repuk Congress and their endless Obstructionism is what is killing America...

Aggie,

By design yes. $5,000,000,000,000 of the debt comes from the war criminal bush. the Hague has a warrant out for his arrest and that is why he has been hiding in Texas, the worst state int the Union, for 4 years now. So 1/3 of that debt comes from that A hole!

How come the Republicans hate the middle and poor classes? Are they seriously going to be raising taxes against us and lowering for the rich?

https://www.politify.com/

Plug in your numbers and see what your return will look like under either president.

Obama/Biden '12, so I don't have to pay the government/wealthy $5k in March.

• How many Republicans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

• None!

• They don't screw in lightbulbs, they just screw-up the economy!

Then President Obama has to fix in 3 years what they screwed-up over 8!

• OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
• FORWARD!!!

Or because of the Swiss and Cayaman Island's investments?

Instead of paying taxes to the US, he is paying any taxes to those countries.

DB Akron,

how do you know what Romney pays -have YOU seen his taxes?????????????

Sorry Mutthead, your family is not going to become the Royal Family. No, you will not be King and Queen.

I cannot wait for the debates. Mutthead the giant turd will be toast.

Last night I went to the movie and saw 2016 Obama. So much was explained as to where Obama wants America to be. Everyone needs to see this and throw him and his "team" out of office. America is the 1% because as it was explained in the movie our poorest citizens are richer than most of the worlds poor. This is true because most countries don't have safety nets for their poor and these people live in horrible poverty. They are the 99%. We are getting some jobs growth but they are in the service like waiters, maids, bartenders. He and his team are making sure we don't drill here in America or off our shores because those are good paying jobs and would help lift us back up. Instead he gives money to small countries to help them drill for oil and gas so they can sell it back to us at huge prices. This helps their countries but doesn't help us. Yet it is our tax dollars and our borrowing power with the world that if funding this. Why does he do this because this was a Dream of His Father that the big countries would fall into proverty. He didn't realize that with help from big countries their country could grow. Obama wants us to lose our riches and power in the world and to let other countries band together and be world powers. When he cuts our military down he weakens us so that other countries can take us over. Mexico is working now to take us over. We are almost to the tipping point for debt to China and others. America is the 1% and the rest of the world is the 99% not America's poor but the worlds poor. He thinks to spread the wealth global.

That "bounce" you seem to eager to claim? Well, it's on just one poll-the one the DoJ is suing because an Obama campaign worker who was fired claimed they overcharged for their work; the one that changed their methodology in response to Axelrod's criticism of their numbers- is in response to Clinton's speech.

Bill Clinton, I might add, is not on the ballot.

Moreover, I'm pretty certain that yesterday's job report will kill any little buzz Obama managed to get.

What else did the DNC convention teach us?

Well, first, that Democrats believe that "the only thing we all belong to is the government". Odd, is it not? How many have bled and died to protect us from that very ideology?

Second, that Democrats wither in the face of Republican criticism- going so far as to change- against the will of their delegates- their party platform to avoid that criticism.

Third, that they cannot manage their own finances- which goes a long way toward explaining the mess they've made of the country's. They cut a day from their Party's party, and still wound up $15 million in the hole. Good luck to the venders getting paid for what they shelled out.

Should make some good ads in the coming weeks.

OK One by One explain these charges in detail. Start with the tax cheat bit

oldfatguy - I cannot, because he is not facing any such legal charges.

Mitt Romney is a known LIAR, admitted TAX-CHEAT, and a probable FELON,

I'm no fan of Romney, and it is highly unlikely that I will vote for him this coming November. But to call a person a tax cheat and probable felon without any legal evidence is just name calling.

Your words seem eerily similar to charges made 4 years ago that Obama is not a native born American: long on rhetoric and ringing phrases, short on evidence.

Many Americans are naive to what Obama means by re-distribute wealth and what he means by change (none of which he has done in almost 4 years), he means we will all be the same and he would like to see many less wealthy Americans, we all would get the basics supplied by the government and we all would be just getting by while the politicians, their family and friends have all the wealth and power and wealth. If Obama took all the wealth away from all the wealthy in the US tomorrow, not a single one of you will be wealthy unless you go out and earn it yourself, just like you can now. But if government gets too much control, creates too many regulations and higher taxes, getting wealthy or being middle class may get allot tougher. This election may be as important as our revolutionary war, this election is about keeping our freedom from government control and high taxes and keeping out Constitution the way it is. Obama speaks great. gives good speeches. says great thing, but has never done any of them before he was president and hasn't done any since he was President (reminds me of a great Con Man).

These are the 26 Billionaires that are trying to buy the election for their front men, Rack and Ruin.

Sen. Sanders also did the last thing the billionaires wanted. He called them out by name.

According to the report, America for Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, here are the 26 billionaires who are trying to buy your government:

1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, Mr. Adelson has experienced a nearly eightfold increase in his wealth over the past three years (from $3.4 billion to $24.9 billion). Forbes recently reported that Adelson is willing to spend a “limitless” amount of money or more than $100 million to help defeat President Obama in November.

2. The Kochs (David, Charles, and William) are worth a combined $103 billion, according to Forbes. They have pledged to spend about $400 million during the 2012 election season. The Kochs own more wealth than the bottom 41.7 percent of American households or more than 49 million Americans.

3. Jim Walton is worth $23.7 billion. He has donated $300,000 to super PACs in 2012.

4. Harold Simmons is worth $9 billion. He has donated $15.2 million to super PACs this year.

5. Peter Thiel is worth $1.5 billion. He has donated $6.7 million to Super PACs this year.

6. Jerrold Perenchio is worth $2.3 billion. He has donated $2.6 million to super PACs this year.

7. Kenneth Griffin is worth $3 billion and he has given $2.08 million to super PACs in 2012.

8. James Simons is worth $10.7 billion and he has given $1.5 million to super Pacs this year.

9. Julian Robertson is worth $2.5 billion and he has given $1.25 million to super PACs this year.

10. Robert Rowling is worth $4.8 billion and he has given $1.1 million to super PACs.

11. John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made his fortune betting that the sub-prime mortgage market would collapse, is worth $12.5 billion. He has donated $1 million to super PACs.

12. Richard and J.W. Marriott are worth a combined $3.1 billion and they have donated $2 million to super PACs this year.

13. James Davis is worth $1.9 billion and he has given $1 million to super PACs this year.

14. Harold Hamm is worth $11 billion and he has given $985,000 to super PACs this year.

15. Kenny Trout is worth more than $1.2 billion and he has given $900,000 to super PACs this year.

16. Louis Bacon is worth $1.4 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

17. Bruce Kovner is worth $4.5 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

18. Warren Stephens is worth $2.7 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

19. David Tepper is worth $5.1 billion and he has given $375,000 to super PACs this year.

20. Samuel Zell is worth $4.9 billion and he has given $270,000 to super PACs this year.

21. Leslie Wexner is worth $4.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

22. Charles Schwab is worth $3.5 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

23. Kelcy Warren is worth $2.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

Shady G

Nothing?? Really? In 2010 when the masses delivered Oblamo's shellacking the republicans did what the masses wanted. They shut down this reckless fraud that wants to do nothing but to spend more and more money this nation doesn't have.

And yet when President Obama sat down with Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell to try and solve the debt issue with a plan to save $4Trillion, the GOP refused to compromise over raising taxes on the wealthiest 1% and we all got screwed.

Apparently Shady G is a multi-millionaire who needs the GOP to protect his best interests.

clwyd...I'd like the chance to talk to with you four years from now if Obama is re elected. You and many others will have egg on your faces...IF you can afford the egg. Just so ya know, you were warned.

You and other DON'T think that the Dems. have billionaire supported super PACS? Wow, are you people naiev.

So Bush is responsible for 1/3 of our debt incurred during his 8 year term. That STILL leaves 2/3 incurred by Obama in only 4 years. Bush is NOT in office NOW. Hasn't been for 4 years. Time to put the onus NOW on who is calling the shots and holding the credit card NOW. Bush is hiding out in Texas? Gosh, who would think to look THERE? I wonder where Obama will hide when the courts want to find him for ordering kill over capture, of an unarmed Osama Bin Laden, and sending drones to straif and kill civilians in Lybia? He'll be safe hiding wherever he's hidden all of his records I'm sure.

You all don't get it that Romney is NOT Bush. "Forward" isn't thats your theme this time around? Yet you all only look BACKWARDS. But it beats looking at the present doesn't it? Present is scary. Future under Obama is even scarier. You really should look into his background and who shaped his ideology. And EXACTLY what that means for America.

No Vinnie.....Shady G is a moron that believes only what others tell him. I would say most people in the 1% are far too busy to be wasting their time posting ignorant comments on this website. His grammar is also a dead giveaway.

I'm a member of the 1% and I can tell you that many of my high net-worth friends are spending lots of $ hoping to get GOP candidates elected this year. I was at one republican fundraising event that generated donations of more than $260k in a single night from less than 60 people. I donate to and am connected within both parties as a matter of strategic positioning, and to be completely honest, for my family's benefit. With that said, there is no way in hell I'll be voting for any republicans this November. I've never voted a straight ticket in my life, but this will be the first year I vote a STRAIGHT Democratic ticket. I'm tired of the lies, the religious extremism used to justify oppressive policies, the short-term focus, and the reckless abandon with which republicans conduct themselves in both official and personal matters. By planting their flag on "Mount Ignorance", they have now backed themselves into a corner. I like the Mitch Daniels and Huntsman's of the Republican party, not the Bachmann's /Ryan's/Romney's that dominate the national spotlight. As someone that benefits from their tax policies, I still can't bring myself to vote for a party that is willing to sacrifice the future of the middle class to help me keep more $ in my pocket. My business and my investments in America depend on a healthy, large, and well educated middle class. The democrats are the only party that cares about these people right now (given the actions and words of the GOP), and I know I was a lot better off after Clinton left office than when Bush did. It's time we vote a filibuster proof democratic majority into the house and the senate, and we let them prove themselves without GOP interference.

GET OUT AND VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!! Obama/Biden 2012!!!

Our economic problems didn't happen overnight. It's been happening over the past 15-20 years, but the economy was kept going by middle class Americans tapping into the equity on their homes until they were completely tapped out.

It shouldn't be all about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about doing the right thing for our country and the majority of its citizens. I consider myself an independent voter, but going back to the Reagan days and with the only exception having been Perot, I’ve always voted Republican. But all this single-minded, left versus right, ideological one dimensional bull has got to go! This is the problem with our country. It shouldn't be about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about Americans, especially our elected officials, doing the right thing for our country and its citizens.

Both parties have sold out the bulk of the American citizens, who they're supposed to represent, by allowing the "out-sourcing" floodgates to open wider and wider without taking any sensible measures to stem the tide. (Under Clinton jobs to China, Under Bush I & II influx of illegals or cheap easily abused labor into the US and jobs to Mexico/NAFTA) Our leaders are elected by the Citizens of the United States of America to represent the interests of those citizens and the country itself. They are NOT elected by the Global Market Place or foreign citizens!

We need whoever wins the next election to Start Protecting American Jobs and do whatever it takes to bring back the jobs they let go. They've got to give us somebody who will stand up for the American people.

We need to bring manufacturing back to the United States of America and both parties are ignoring tariffs as a way to level the playing field, raise money and bring jobs back home. Let's guess why. Oh that's right, tariff is a dirty word. Hum, maybe it’s that our so called leaders (political leaders) are beholden to the same people who are exporting our jobs.

I guess we should keep letting Corp Boards, Wall Street, CEOs and Foreign Lobbyists promote sending US jobs to countries where they work for slave wages, no benefits, no OSHA safety standards or no real environment regulations. How's that been working for us?

The so called “Global Market Place” is not a level playing field. Companies may have made higher profits by "out sourcing", but they've been putting middle class Americans who are a good part of the world’s customer base out of work. I’m not a lefty or member of any union. I run a business that employs over 20 people and produces products that are purchased by customers that do manufacturing and packaging. I’m just an average Joe, but I've been saying this for more than 10 years now. If I can see it, so can our so called leaders (political leaders) who are beholden to the same people who are exporting our jobs.

We need to add tariffs that are proportionate to the inequities in wages and regulations in the country where the goods were produced and or where we’re importing them from. We could then use the money raised by these tariffs to help companies build state of the art manufacturing plants here in the USA, which would create more jobs here at home for US citizens, which would then in turn increase our income tax revenue.

The people with all of the excuses as to why we can’t or aren’t willing to manufacture products here in the US are the same people who have provided us with the thinking that’s gotten us into this mess in the first place.

Over the past 15-20 years, I've seen too many of our customer's close manufacturing plants here in the USA and move those plants to different countries, decimating entire areas here in OUR COUNTRY. And I'm not alone. Returning jobs to American Citizens will provide income tax revenue to OUR Government versus our government having to pay unemployment benefits to those who would be jobless instead.

Bringing manufacturing back to the US not only gives jobs to the US citizens who would be working in those manufacturing facilities, but to the people that would be working in the businesses that would spring up all around them. This should also include the safe harvesting, production and distribution of our own natural energy here in the USA, rather than paying for fuel from countries where they hate us. Let’s keep that money and those jobs here in the US.

These so-called “free trade agreements” have to go. It was obvious when they were passing these agreements as to what was going to happen and sure enough it did. Our leaders had to have known this as well when they were passing these bills. It’s just common sense. We also need to bring customer support services back to the United States of America and staff them with employees who are US Citizens.

The “Global Market Place” is not a level playing field! The whole idea of the tariffs is so we can pay our factory workers a decent wage and not be blown out by these other countries where they don’t play by the same rules.

We may have to pay a bit more for products made here in the USA by US citizens, but at least we'll still have jobs and a future for our children.

The bottom line is that “Our Government” has to protect American industry and the jobs that those industries provide. If they do that, the rest will take care of itself.

Romney,Ryan and the GOP TeaTards was hoping our economy and unemployment would go belly up and over the cliff so they get their Clown elected, the TeaReTards in Congress are doing everything in their power to stop job growth. If it was up to me I would throw them all in jail for Sabotaging our Nation. They are a disgrace to America !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROMNEY TURNS UP THE INTENSITY .....TO FAIL!

President Obama looks at each person as an individual with many diverse lifestyles, jobs, incomes, religions, political views and takes them into consideration in every decision he makes.

Romney looks at people as a statistic, a number in the loss and profit column. During one of his speeches instead of saying country, Romney said company....Romney is too far removed from people, certainly too far removed from COSTCO type people to even try and act like one for a day. He is too imbedded in being a corporation to understand what an American is.

Obama/Biden and Team Democratic party 2012 vote for real Americans

Hey Miklkit # 1.102, The Koch TeaCult day will come, they seen to have no fear of their consequences, $ 400 Million Satan's Money to Cleanse the Middle Class to reward the Mega Rich so they can party in the Hampton's !!!

This president is an undeniable failure! Why would we want another four years of this insane spending and anti business policies??? obumbo is a failed pres and will NOT be reelected. No campaigning needed by Mitt, just point out the latest job numbers and the national debt amount along with the corruption in his administration of tax cheats.

Mitt/Paul 2012 For the good of the country and our future.

Teatards in Congress are using the American Flag for Toilet paper to get RobMoney & RyRand elected !!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought posters were being relatively civil until I read the ^^^ posts. Name calling [or altering an actual name] does not prove your cleverness -- just makes you look foolish. It's about time everyone was treated with respect.

Right On Schedule: The
republicanCrimeCartel Created this disaster back in Reagan's time and Perfected
it with the Bushies, especially With KingGeorge the VacuumBrained during his
NOTORIOUSLY SHAMEFUL Shrubber Reign 2001 - 2008. THEY ARE Causing this
Depression we are back into to get people mad at Prez O and vote for Rommel and
EddiMunster, his love mate. YOU KNOW what Rommel's got in mind For US???: A HUGE
American military, OTHER PEOPLE's Sons fighting Newly thought up And VERY
PROFITABLE WARS for 1-5%ers Riches and Corporate Wealth, And NO American
Universal National healthCare System. Does ANYONE KNOW what the ceo of United
HealthCare took Home for 2008 Salary? Hold onto your hats!!!: $128,000,000 *C A
S H* WHILE, Mind You, their paid policyHolders were denied and DIED. The FACT
that America HAS NO Universal HealthCare System like THE OTHER COUNTRIES, WHO
TAKE CARE OF THEIR CITIZENS who need medical attention and help instead of
fattening the
wallets of the EVIL Rich and paying for Unending Wars, IS A
NATIONAL DISGRACE!!!!!!! FACE IT Sister and Brother Americans, Rommel IS ON THE
SIDE OF THE FAT INSURANCE COMPANIES And WILL MAKE SURE We Americans Are Denied A
Wonderful HealthCare System. YEAH, A LOT of US are mad at Prez O; The Man Has
ROYALLY SCREWED UP LATELY: He let the $4.00+Gas and oil go by without a protest
OR Complaint to the Justice Dept Going after the oil companies for Price Fixing
And PRICE GOUGING. AND that shaking hands with karzai of afghan after what he
said????? "thanks sucker taxpayers..." NONETHELESS, Has ANYBODY got an idea what
republicanCrimeCartelSoldierRommel will do to US and ANY economic progress
made?? He WILL GUT US LIKE A FLOPPIN' FISH ON THE DOCK.....You're gonna' see
Unemployment up to 40% and NO Social Security..Gotta Pay for New Wars And NO
MEDICAL CARE At All; republicanCrimeCartelPanacea: Sick??, No "health care
insurance policy"? awww.. Sick?..Well, DIE
QUICK!!!!! AS "healthcare"
policies cost SKYROCKET out of control. And Rommel and his LoveMate Lyin'Ryan,
Like Rommel and Goebbels, are gonna' give you the
republicanCrimeCartelPropaganda Lies; You Love Your Family? Don't Go for it. You
Don't care?? Go Ahead, vote for these two Politaphiles and see what
happens......................... Here's the rundown on Mitt Romney's devastating
record as CEO of Bain Capital, a tenure marked by bankruptcies, bailouts, and
mass layoffs — all while Romney and his partners raked in Billions of Dollars in
profits for the firm and Romney himself amassed a Quarter-Billion Dollar
Fortune. Romney's Bain Capital Caused Mass Layoffs, Sent Jobs Overseas Thousands
of Americans were laid off by Bain Capital at companies it purchased, managed,
and, at least a quarter of the time, drove into bankruptcy, ruining Lives,
Destroying Careers and Families including Many Many Suicides While stuffing his
pockets, Keeping his Darling son
OUT of service to his country with the line
"My son is Fulfilling his Patriotic Duty by helping me get elected"...Got that
one?? and, Of Course, installing the InHouse car elevator for his "darling
little boy's $180,000Ferrari....Listen Up People...This guy IS Count Dracula In
carnate. A vote for ANY Republican politico is a vote against Yours and YOUR
FAMILY'S Well Being. You can take that to the bank.

Romney isn't the first person to lie on his taxes and he won't be the last.

Delusion from the left is palpable

Pretty sure Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos have signed their fairshare of the FACE of a check,...

What a moronic thing to say. Republicans don't work for pay?

Pretty sure most of those 'Job Creators' pay themselves FIRST. By check,...

Actually, if we wanted to be fair, we should really lay a lot of the blame on Clinton.

Bush was like the victim of a chicago drive by shooting, an innocent victim in the wrong place. He did spend some $$, and the democrat congress spent even more.

After that, sorry Pi, Obama has to wear it like a hair shirt.

...............The Great Recession is Made in America, but -

1. Europe has been hurt by the recession, and won't be able to buy more US imports.
2. Japan has been hurt too after it started to recover from its 'lost decades' and then went immediately under....with further problem from nuclear disaster
3. The above 2 used to buy a lot of American goods, but haven't been able to do so due to the recession Made in America.
4. US is hurt by self-destruction - GOP and Mitch McConnell wanted to destroy Pres. O if that means to also destroy US economy.

Then how can anyone to create more jobs .....definitely not Mitt the Vulture who loves to make obscene profits by outsourcing American jobs overseas...further worsening america.

hey Mitt, where are your tax returns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

actually i think it was your buddy Bill "The Womanizer" Clinton's policies that brought abought this whole mess.

I thought at least there was surplus toward the end of Clinton and there was definitely a recession at the end of Bush, both Bushes, actually.

I love it, Romney is so ineffective, you've got Republicans here blaming Clinton.

LOL!

• Had ENOUGH!!!

I'm self-employed and every year I have to write a fairly huge check to the I.R.S... I'm tired of watching the federal government waste money on unnecessary crap like when Pelosi, as Speaker of the House, rang up over $2 million in air travel expenses or when Obama and his wife couldn't coordinate schedules so he flew from Washington to Camp David in the morning and then sent Air Force One back to Washington to pick up his wife and bring her to Camp David that afternoon! It cost $181,757 per hour to operate Air Force One!

It would take three years of my taxes to pay for one hour of flying on Air Force One! I'll be damned if I'm going to lay down and pay a higher tax rate!!!

• Romney/Ryan 2012!Leadership for a Change! Yeah BABY!

Gallup poll = Obama approval at 52% a 7 point increase.

How come I feel like the Republicans are rooting for America to fail? It seems treasonous!

Sorry bunch of bastages!

Daniel you wrote....Pelosi, as Speaker of the House, rang up over $2 million in air travel expenses or when Obama and his wife couldn't coordinate schedules so he flew from Washington to Camp David in the morning and then sent Air Force One back to Washington to pick up his wife and bring her to Camp David that afternoon! It cost $181,757 per hour to operate Air Force One!

Could you supply some links for these claims....thanks.

Could you supply some links for these claims....thanks.

Good luck with that Gingerbread Mamma!

These Nazi propganda spin machines, don't do real well when having to back-up their BS! ☺

How do TeaPeople feel that Congress (The Weeper) will only be in session for 13 days between now and November 6th!

Wow..nice scam Weeper!

Before it had even started in earnest, the much-maligned vacation became a PR nightmare, after it emerged this morning that he and his wife took separate government jets to Martha's Vineyard just hours apart.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027541/Obama-golfs-Marthas-Vineyard-increasing-personal-debt-ceiling.html#ixzz25pmGVYVW

It was not Air Force One but another government jet but then again it was only a few hours

Hi Feisty, I hear you trying to keep them honest, notice I'm still waiting. Maybe he's looking for the email he received spreading all those lies and claims. Shucks, ol' George just about burned out the engines going back and forth to Texas to clear brush.

Godwin's Law being invoked by Feisty. Nothing is beneath her.

Budget, Policy, jobs has more to do with the control of congress. The President is strictly in an advise and consent type roll. He proposed policies and spending, Congress gives him what they see fit to give him.

As long as you see it as soley a presidential issue, you will always be lost.

Jerry....nice of you to post that link, but it is from a UK rag that specializes in gossip and not very good gossip at that. It does not have a very good reputation in printing the truth.

Only people who are willing to believe the worst about the President would take the Daily Mail serious.....it would be like reading the National Inquirer here!

Gingerbread,

Where did you go when the proof was posted

The Huffington Post claimed ignorance but he was by himself in the picture

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/18/barack-obama-vacation-the_n_930868.html#s333192

OK, Let's recap what some of you Republican GENIUSES are saying;

(1) Bill Clinton caused the economic collapse

(2) George W Bush was in office for 8 years and could not fix the mess that Bill Clinton (allegedly) created, BUT;

(3) Obama doesn't deserve to be president, because HE did not fix it in 3 years

So, is this reasoning supposed to make sense?

Is this supposed to make you sound smart?

Please explain how this makes sense....

Jerry.....I'm right here. So he traveled by himself? What's your point? They are the First Family, they are provided all the necessary courtesies that other First Families have been extended. Did you complain about George Bush, the President who took more vacation than anyone other recent occupant of the WH, except maybe Ronald Reagan??

Please tell me why you and others feel it necessary to be so disrespectful to the Obama family and not to other Presidential First Families?

I am sure Daniel's brain cramped up while writing that check. Camp David is approx 50 from the White House. The President travels there by car in bad weather and Marine One any other time. Not sure how you would land Air Force One on the top of a mountain.

The core of our countries problems lie in liberal progressive spending. This mess started long before President Bush was in office.

The problem is big government and high taxes.

It's been an hour since I asked a question about Republicans theory about Bill Clinton causing the economic collapse.

Still waiting for the Republican GENIUSES to come up with an answer that makes sense.... ANYBODY?

Thought so!

Daniel Streibig - Romney/Ryan 2012!Leadership for a Change! Yeah BABY!

Babies full of rabies.

Never heard a better description of the Tea Party than the one Kurt Vonnegut came up with years ago.

LOL.....

"Comedy central" coming from the Progressives which overwhelms their Social Media aspect of First Read.

Time for Mr. Obama to get a REAL speech writer. Maybe he could borrow Oprah's, or Rev. Wright's, or the Kennedy's. Heck, maybe he will just pull out some old speeches and use those on the stump.

RealAmericansFirst

Start fact checking these statements.. Then get back to me

http://defeatobama.us/abuses.shtml

Rt wingers come on to the blog and whine about things not going good enough while they hide the facts they are trying to sabotage the economy and anything good to make Obama a one term president!

TomWood-5404531 posted the same story the other day, see below.

On January 20, 2009 Republican Leaders in Congress literally plotted to sabotage and undermine U.S. Economy during President Obama's Inauguration. In Robert Draper's book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" Draper wrote that during a four hour, "invitation only" meeting with GOP Hate-Propaganda Minister, Frank Luntz, the below listed Senior GOP Law Writers literally plotted to sabotage, undermine and destroy America's Economy.

Frank Luntz - GOP Minister of Propaganda
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker (TN-R).Non-lawmakers present
Newt Gingrich

During the four hour meeting: The senior GOP members plotted to bring Congress to a standstill regardless how much it would hurt the American Economy by pledging to obstruct and block President Obama on all legislation.

Repubs have no answer when they are confronted with facts of how they are caught obstructing the recovery of America. Proof they hate America!

WHY DID REPUBS BLOCK REMOVING TAX BREAKS FROM COMPANIES LIKE BAIN< WHO TAKE AMERICAN JOBS OFFSHORE?

On 7-19-12, repubs blocked the bill that would remove tax breaks for companies that take American jobs overseas. These corporations take the profits then and hide them in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes to the U.S.

.......WHY DID REPUBS BLOCK THE BILL TO GIVE TAX BREAKS TO COMPANIES THAT WOULD BRING THE JOBS BACK TO AMERICA?

On 7-19-12, repubs blocked the bil to give tax breaks to companies that would bring back jobs to America.

WHY DO REPUBS HATE AMERICAN WORKERS? Because they love profit and greed and pledged to vote against any bill that would make President Obama look good. Repubs including Paul Ryan, pledged the night Obama took office to vote against America just to make Obama a one term president!

....Killing good paying American jobs is good for the economy?......unemployment, cost of retraining, taking a lower paying job, losing your savings, your home, your family, everything you worked for...to buy cheaper goods that you now cannot afford? HORSE HOCKEY! All the profits go to the greedy rich.

EVEN VETERAN REPUBS ARE ANGRY AT THE RT WINGER REPUBS OF NO COMPROMISE PLAN! WHEN YOUR OWN PARTY SLAMS YOU.....HOW BAD IS THAT?

Alan Simpson Republican, had this to say about his own party on 5/27/2012 Huff Post.

Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) lashed out at members of his party on Sunday, slamming them for their unwillingness to compromise on proposed tax increases.

In his characteristically colorful style, Simpson told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that Republicans' rigid opposition to new tax revenues has hampered productivity and diminished the chances of reaching an agreement with Democrats on debt reduction.

"You can’t cut spending your way out of this hole," Simpson, who was appointed as co-chair of President Obama's Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in 2010, said. "You can’t grow your way out of this hole, and you can’t tax your way out of this hole. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, we tell these people. This is madness."

Simpson continued: "If you want to be a purist, go somewhere on a mountaintop and praise the east or something. But if you want to be in politics, you learn to compromise. And you learn to compromise on the issue without compromising yourself. Show me a guy who won’t compromise and I’ll show you a guy with rock for brains."

If my fellow Americans are willing to vote a man who went to a college named after a man who says I should be killed because I have an interacial son (look up brigham young) as president, it's time for me to leave the USA.

The Republicans are compulsive liars and they've spent money to try and buy the election for President!!

Now I see who the sleezy Republicans are.. they are the rich and the greedy, as well as the liars!! They say it's Obama's fault we haven't recovered yet? Stupidity in the Republican party is rampant!! They deregulated rich investment bankers and let the economy go INTO THE TOILET!!

THE PEOPLE WHO LOST MONEY?? THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE LOWER CLASS!!!

THey stuck it to us like nobody has in our history of the USA!! If you listen to the money grubbers (Republicans and conservative a-holes) you'll get tricked.

Vote Obama and keep America moving forward! We don't need these a-holes who ruined everything already! They want to do it again because they'll never be broke, just richer.. That's how the Republicans have tried to cheat us!

Please vote Obama! A GOOD USA AND A KINDER USA!

Mitt "Corporations Are People" Romney thinks he and his right wing multi-millionaire and billionaire money-men can buy the office of President of the United States. But, I think the American people are too smart for Romney and his purveyors of misinformation, disinformation and false information.

• Judicial Watch Uncovers New Documents Detailing Pelosi’s Use of Air Force Aircraft

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained new documents from the United States Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s repeated use of United States Air Force aircraft. According to the documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Pelosi used Air Force aircraft on 85 flights from March 2009 through June 2010. Members of Pelosi’s family were guests on at least two flights.

Among the highlights from the documents, obtained pursuant to a FOIA request filed on January 25, 2009:

• Pelosi used the Air Force aircraft for a total of 85 trips, covering 206,264 miles, from March 2, 2009 through June 7, 2010. Pelosi, her guests and Air Force personnel logged a total of 428.6 hours on these flights.
• Members of Pelosi’s family were guests on at least two flights. On June 20, 2009, Speaker Pelosi’s daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons joined a flight from Andrews Air Force Base to San Francisco International Air Port. That flight included $143 in on-flight expenses for food and other items. On July 2, 2010, Pelosi took her grandson on a flight from Andrews Air Force Base to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, which is northeast of San Francisco.

According to previous documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the Speaker’s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol. For example, purchases for one Pelosi-led congressional delegation traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008 included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewar’s scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.

Judicial Watch also previously uncovered internal Department of Defense documents (DOD) email correspondence detailing attempts by DOD staff to accommodate Pelosi’s numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker’s last minute cancellations and changes. For example, in response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, “Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi's team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?…[T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case’… “The email also notes that Pelosi’s office had, “a history of canceling many of their past requests.”

“Pelosi’s abusive use of military aircraft demonstrates a shocking lack of regard for the American taxpayer and the men and women who serve in the U.S. Air Force. Speaker Pelosi may have a frequent flyer record for taxpayer-financed luxury jet travel,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-new-documents-detailing-pelosis-use-air-force-aircraft/

• Romney/Ryan 2012! Leadership for a Change!

The Morons sure don't learn, they messed up the country before and they just don't get it, they want to use the same dumb azz methods that failed, and they wonder why We democrats think they are stupid, what else would you a person that just can't understand simple math. It don't work where is all this magic money going to come from so you can give all the 1% more welfare.

Nearly 7 hours, and STILL NO REPUBLICAN ANSWER to my question......

You know why? Because there is no answer that would make any sense!!

Jerry....nice of you to post that link, but it is from a UK rag that specializes in gossip and not very good gossip at that. It does not have a very good reputation in printing the truth.

Only people who are willing to believe the worst about the President would take the Daily Mail serious.....it would be like reading the National Inquirer here!

Who owns The Daily Mail?

Might it be Rupert Murdoch? (aka The Antichrist)

Michigan unemployed. I think you need to stop making up facts that don't exist and stop hellucinating! No wonder you're unemployed!

For Daniel, your claims against Nancy Pelosi substantiated by Judicial Watch, are mostly false. Judicial Watch is a very conservative organization, that makes a living out trying to make Democrats look bad. In the interests of being truly fair an balanced, in making your claims you need to provide links to impartial (which Judicial Watch is not) backed up facts, not someone's opinion. Here's a link from Snopes and what they found when they checked it out.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/pelosi/jet.asp#PP15Z784GU15eJOf.03

Do yourself a favor, ask yourself WHY you are so intent on spreading lies about Democrats that you cannot take some of theobvious vast amount of time you spend trolling for 'information' and check it out to see if it is accurate.

FACTS are FACTS, Opinions are just that, opinions, but those pesky FACTS are too easy to verify or refute and reputable sources are far more important in making your case if you are to be taken seriously.

...the bigger the lies, the more likely people will believe you, Hitler once said.

I think some RepubliCONs have picked up his ideas, including this one, even though Hitler is pure evil.

Shame on you, RepubliCats, financed by the fat cats of Wall Street.

These are the 26 Billionaires that are funding Rmoney's media carpet bombing campaign.

Sen. Sanders also did the last thing the billionaires wanted. He called them out by name.

According to the report, America for Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, here are the 26 billionaires who are trying to buy your government:

1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, Mr. Adelson has experienced a nearly eightfold increase in his wealth over the past three years (from $3.4 billion to $24.9 billion). Forbes recently reported that Adelson is willing to spend a “limitless” amount of money or more than $100 million to help defeat President Obama in November.

2. The Kochs (David, Charles, and William) are worth a combined $103 billion, according to Forbes. They have pledged to spend about $400 million during the 2012 election season. The Kochs own more wealth than the bottom 41.7 percent of American households or more than 49 million Americans.

3. Jim Walton is worth $23.7 billion. He has donated $300,000 to super PACs in 2012.

4. Harold Simmons is worth $9 billion. He has donated $15.2 million to super PACs this year.

5. Peter Thiel is worth $1.5 billion. He has donated $6.7 million to Super PACs this year.

6. Jerrold Perenchio is worth $2.3 billion. He has donated $2.6 million to super PACs this year.

7. Kenneth Griffin is worth $3 billion and he has given $2.08 million to super PACs in 2012.

8. James Simons is worth $10.7 billion and he has given $1.5 million to super Pacs this year.

9. Julian Robertson is worth $2.5 billion and he has given $1.25 million to super PACs this year.

10. Robert Rowling is worth $4.8 billion and he has given $1.1 million to super PACs.

11. John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made his fortune betting that the sub-prime mortgage market would collapse, is worth $12.5 billion. He has donated $1 million to super PACs.

12. Richard and J.W. Marriott are worth a combined $3.1 billion and they have donated $2 million to super PACs this year.

13. James Davis is worth $1.9 billion and he has given $1 million to super PACs this year.

14. Harold Hamm is worth $11 billion and he has given $985,000 to super PACs this year.

15. Kenny Trout is worth more than $1.2 billion and he has given $900,000 to super PACs this year.

16. Louis Bacon is worth $1.4 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

17. Bruce Kovner is worth $4.5 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

18. Warren Stephens is worth $2.7 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

19. David Tepper is worth $5.1 billion and he has given $375,000 to super PACs this year.

20. Samuel Zell is worth $4.9 billion and he has given $270,000 to super PACs this year.

21. Leslie Wexner is worth $4.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

22. Charles Schwab is worth $3.5 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

23. Kelcy Warren is worth $2.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

Daniel Streibig

• Had ENOUGH!!!

I'm self-employed and every year I have to write a fairly huge check to the I.R.S... I'm tired of watching the federal government waste money on unnecessary crap like when Pelosi, as Speaker of the House, rang up over $2 million in air travel expenses or when Obama and his wife couldn't coordinate schedules so he flew from Washington to Camp David in the morning and then sent Air Force One back to Washington to pick up his wife and bring her to Camp David that afternoon! It cost $181,757 per hour to operate Air Force One!

It would take three years of my taxes to pay for one hour of flying on Air Force One! I'll be damned if I'm going to lay down and pay a higher tax rate!!!

• Romney/Ryan 2012!Leadership for a Change! Yeah BABY!

Of course if Romney/Ryan are elected, they'll pay for their own flights, right? I'm sure they will be penny-pinchers, like the financial stewards that they are, and will choose to fly coach like the rest of us.

And how many billionaires are funding Obama?

Has any of those people gotten tax money from that sham of a stimulus that then made it back to the dems in the forms of contributions and union dues / support?

Make a bet Romney wouldn't use 3 aircraft (one for himself, one for the wife and kids, and a 3rd for the dog) wasting OUR money.

Besdies despair Obama has created nothing.

gingerbreadmama you need to do your homework on snopes before opening mouth, just saying

It too a while to read all the post to this point. One question comes to mind. After 8 yrs. of GWB what did he do for America that was so "Good" that we the people would elect Obama?Don't go lame with the answers. Real accomplishments. I didn't count the posts but only 1 made a realistic assessment of the current situation America faces today. All these post that say Obama has failed still have no viable solution as to what they think they would have done differently other than support another politician with a questionable record and past. Them same people also wanted to demand a birth certificate and ignore the fact that all past presidential candidates have all provided more that 2 yrs. of tax records. What is Romney afraid of? Ann Romney claims the Democrats will find something else to pick on, what would that be Ann? Many of the problems we face today were decades in the making and you would have to be a fool to think it would all be fine in just 4 yrs. Even the Tea Party knew they couldn't change things in Washington in one election cycle. If everyone would just slow down and think about how a game of chess is played. Consider this, you can't win a game of chess with the 1st. move.....This is why I feel that only one previous post really makes a good case for discussion. Keep going in circles and see where you end up, right back where you started. After you exertall that energy then slow down and think about the game of chess and remember this fact, one who moves to fast looses, one who doesn't think about his/her move carefully looses, one who doesn't think about how the other person is going to react to the move (Plan Ahead), looses. Please stop expecting an overnight miracle, life just doesn't work that way. Some results come right away, some take time. If you think you have it all figured out then you should put your name in the hat and get a piece of the action and make a real difference.

Disappointing job numbers shows trickle down and the teabaggers in Congress are not working !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"It's a game. We [tax lawyers] teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich--and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them." - John Grisham

michigan unemployed...if you think it is worse now..then where have yoyu beenn hiding ? If you consider adding jobs as being worse..consider..we could be still loosing 500K in jobs per month under Bush..but then again..if Romney gets elected..you will get to see that all over again. Also consider..Romney and his company, Bain, was one of the compnaies outsourcing our jobs for more profit..and getting tax benefits from it....thank you congress..for all those free trade deals that are costing this nation thousands of jobs.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Stephen King, and Bill Maher are all in favor of getting their taxes raised. Along with Barack Obama.

Warren Buffet was the first to call it class warfare, and he says his class is winning.

When he shows his tax returns. Guess what, me. You will too. Willard going have you out measuring for the horse.

I'm fine with working. better than sitting on my arse trolling you libtards. but you all do make me laugh.

The only thing we will have to do if Romney is elected is pay more taxes.

It looks like Fox are starting to put the squeeze on for more details on his tax plan, you know you have problems when they are grilling for details.

My guess his plan for closing loopholes will less likely affect his rich buddies but will see us paying a lot more. If there was something good in it for the majority,They'd be tripping over themselves to let us know, instead of the pretzel games trying to get out of answering a direct question...twice.

: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/gregg-jarrett-mitt-romney-tax-plan_n_1865333.html

The only thing we will have to do if Romney is elected is pay more taxes.

At least under Romney you would be able to pay more taxes. Under Obama 7 million more are getting food stamps.

The only thing we will have to do if Romney is elected is pay more taxes.

Yup, and move to China, India, etc., if you're seeking employment in a low wage job, with absolutely NO benefits.......

I'm fine with working. better than sitting on my arse trolling you libtards. but you all do make me laugh.

So why don't you get off you lazy arse and get a job, welfare king!!

Oh, what. Are only neocons allowed to say that?

Here is the deal Republicans. Deep down they know the election is lost and will start the grieving process. This process has 5 steps:

1) Denial- seen in those posts of those who still predict a Romney victory.
2) Anger- many have never moved past this stage since 2008. Just remember their_hate is a testament to our strength!
3) Bargaining- that will show up in a little while. Show them compassion for they do not realize how_pathetic they are.
4) Depression- that is when it will get very quiet in here.
5) Acceptance- few will come this far. Charlie Crist has shown them the way!

single white male. do you really think i'm collecting welfare ? roflmao

On Charlie Crist it was fun to see the Democrats cheering the pro-life Charlie, who is also the man that said in 2008 Sarah Palin was more qualified than Barack Obama to be President.

Jerry,

39% of the people on welfare are white (72% of the population).

37% of the people on welfare are African American (13% of the population).

Al...Like those stages of grief for the TeaPeople! They're at stage 2 moving to stage 3. It's gonna be painful for them! lol

Sorry but peoples color are not very important to me as I think we are all Americans.

okay. So, you are not getting unemployment or food stamps? Repubs call that welfare.

What are you waiting for the gov't to do for you? Hand you a job.

michigan UNEMPLOYED ...

All you libtards going to have to go to work when Mitt wins presidency

Knowing quite a few of the progressive liberals that post on FR ... we all have jobs. You however, little man, have stated in your name that you don't. I want my tax money back from you. I have a PayPal account ....

@michigan unemployed#3: Aye gwad, if we have to wait until Mitt Romney is elected President to get a job, we are all more than screwed. We are dead!

I'm a Democrat, and have been steadily employed for 42 years and I have never asked for welfare,food stamps, unemployment benefits or any other support from the government.

That means that MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYED does NOT know what he/she is talking about (as usual.)

"MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYED" implies that you are either out of work, and probably collecting unemployment, food stamps, welfare or a combination of those things OR you are making money "under the table" and not paying taxes OR you are letting your spouse pay all the bills OR you are sponging off friends or family OR you are lying about being unemployed....

Which is it?

Randy-3238977....."Which is it?"

Probably "Obama Bucks":

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5tqH7UrzOw

And the "Obama Bucks" are going to run out 20 January 2013.

Ido,

LOL, I'm pretty sure I saw "MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYED" in that video. LOL

for your information i've never collected food stamps, welfare or any other freebie. i did lose my business and now what work i do i do under the table so no i don't support your welfare babies sorry . and how am i lying about anything Michigan unemployed what can that mean hmmmmm. maybe that we have had the highest unemployment in the nation with these PoS democraps running this state .

as an after thought what you doing still working after 42 years ? dont know how to manage your affairs like your president Obama ?

Michigan Unemployed,

So, you admit to working "under the table" and claim to not support the "welfare babies." That means you are not paying taxes on your income. How honest and patriotic of you.

Do you realize, or even care that you are a law breaking tax evader and a huge hypocrite?

Another thing, GENIUS: You have been mouthing off about Democrats not having jobs, then you attempt to belittle me for still working (having a job.) It's none of your business, but I started working full time at a young age, and I am still too young to retire.

I also married young and have been married to the same woman for 40 years, PLUS I raised 4 kids and payed for their college educations without any student loans. I paid for it.I guess you probably will find something negative about that, too.....

How about that... A Democrat who works, pays taxes, can keep a wife, and acts responsibly. Who would have thought?

You have absolutely NO credibility on any subject I have seen you comment on. The fact that you keep contradicting yourself leads me to question your sanity, or lack thereof.....

Michigan Unemployed,

I forgot to mention that you AND the couple of people who liked you comment are IDIOTS!!

Michigan, and where are you going to get more food stamps, quit your crying and get off the governments Tit, make something of your self instead of blaming others for your own failures, Oops I forgot you're a REPUBLICAN ..... LOL

No i am not a republican. I am what is going to cost OblameO his 4 more years I'm a independent. you democrats would have been better off electing Hillary at least she would have had bipartisanship. the fact is the man is to extreme and we need him out. And i thought that was what you all wanted was for everyone to be on the goverment tit but like randy the make a a life liar.

Obama is lying

Our Soldiers are dying

Our women and children are crying

Time to vote for Romney and Ryan

Michigan retarded and unemployed.

What a sick mind you have, just like the rest of the conservatives. I worked 34 years and I'm still working without pay in community service work for 10 years. How dare you you tell me and other liberals that we will have to go to work. Especially, when the headlines today read, "Republicans celebrate low jobs creation!" You have become the new anti-Americans!

Michigan Unemployed isn't even in Michigan. He lied, he don't even realize that Snyder and the republicans have been running this state since 2010 and passed laws raising taxes on the poor, the seniors and taking money out of the schools in order to give themselves a tax cut. REPUBLICANS, IDIOT, not democrats. Republicans in this state are anti everything except themselves and I am sure it isn't just Michigan. Michigan unemployed is just another right wing troll that has no culture.

Well said John in Battle Creek. He's using all of the cliche's and stereotypes about Michigan when in reality, this state has bounced back because Obama's actions to save the US auto industry. I would hate to think had that not happened, this state would be on the brink of total collapse. But hey, you forgot to mention Rick Snyder's accomplishments. He did repeal the motorcycle helmet law and lifted the ban on the sale of once illegal fireworks. WOW, I'm impressed.

Job numbers disappointing, Romney said on fox lowlife news that he was hoping this would happen so he would get elected. Romney says my Looney tune buddies in Congress are doing a good job trying to destroy President Obama by stopping the jobs bill act. This Nation doesn't need losers like Romney & Ryan running our Country. Don't give the Keys back to the Dirtbags that got us into this mess !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

michigan unemployed

Sorry that you lost your job scrubbing toilets at the diner. You might want to go back to school and improve that 5th grade education. Who knows? Maybe with hard work and 10 and 12 years of study, you might attain that coveted GED diploma!

Don't despair! You can do it, if you really try!!

Hey Romney, Obama calling. He wants you to cook his dinner and bring him a beer. You better have a smile on your face when you serve the President his dinner because he loves to fire spoiled punks like you! You are owned Mitt! You didn't pack a lunch and you weren't taking notes!

He might have turned up the intensity, but he has NOT turned up the TAX RETURNS or the Plan to fix the economy....

Here are the 26 Billionaires who are financing Rack and Ruin's carpet bombing campaign.

Sen. Sanders also did the last thing the billionaires wanted. He called them out by name.

According to the report, America for Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, here are the 26 billionaires who are trying to buy your government:

1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, Mr. Adelson has experienced a nearly eightfold increase in his wealth over the past three years (from $3.4 billion to $24.9 billion). Forbes recently reported that Adelson is willing to spend a “limitless” amount of money or more than $100 million to help defeat President Obama in November.

2. The Kochs (David, Charles, and William) are worth a combined $103 billion, according to Forbes. They have pledged to spend about $400 million during the 2012 election season. The Kochs own more wealth than the bottom 41.7 percent of American households or more than 49 million Americans.

3. Jim Walton is worth $23.7 billion. He has donated $300,000 to super PACs in 2012.

4. Harold Simmons is worth $9 billion. He has donated $15.2 million to super PACs this year.

5. Peter Thiel is worth $1.5 billion. He has donated $6.7 million to Super PACs this year.

6. Jerrold Perenchio is worth $2.3 billion. He has donated $2.6 million to super PACs this year.

7. Kenneth Griffin is worth $3 billion and he has given $2.08 million to super PACs in 2012.

8. James Simons is worth $10.7 billion and he has given $1.5 million to super Pacs this year.

9. Julian Robertson is worth $2.5 billion and he has given $1.25 million to super PACs this year.

10. Robert Rowling is worth $4.8 billion and he has given $1.1 million to super PACs.

11. John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made his fortune betting that the sub-prime mortgage market would collapse, is worth $12.5 billion. He has donated $1 million to super PACs.

12. Richard and J.W. Marriott are worth a combined $3.1 billion and they have donated $2 million to super PACs this year.

13. James Davis is worth $1.9 billion and he has given $1 million to super PACs this year.

14. Harold Hamm is worth $11 billion and he has given $985,000 to super PACs this year.

15. Kenny Trout is worth more than $1.2 billion and he has given $900,000 to super PACs this year.

16. Louis Bacon is worth $1.4 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

17. Bruce Kovner is worth $4.5 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

18. Warren Stephens is worth $2.7 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

19. David Tepper is worth $5.1 billion and he has given $375,000 to super PACs this year.

20. Samuel Zell is worth $4.9 billion and he has given $270,000 to super PACs this year.

21. Leslie Wexner is worth $4.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

22. Charles Schwab is worth $3.5 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

23. Kelcy Warren is worth $2.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

What happen to RobMoney's tax returns, What is Mitt & Annie hiding ???

Maybe that is why when I see that pile of dirty underwear, I immediately think of Willard.

Now, now Al, those dirty underwear have to be 'specially washed to make sure they are "touchable."

Note the "booties"

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/07/taking-a-rare-tour-of-a-mormon-temple/

Are we going down the road of dip, dip, dip in new blue Cheer? Ann actually used ALL for the shirts. She was pretty back then.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x4P3dTgFz8

Romney said that when giving a speech, he doesn't mention things that are "not Important."

Really, Mitt? Americans getting killed in a foreign country are "not important?"

Dreams of my Father, Thats all Commie's

@ Layton-3733410, post 5.2

Don't expect Romney to be anywhere near Washington D.C. on Saturdays or anywhere else that has to deal with work for that mater. It's a sin to work on Saturday and could get you kicked from the church for doing so.

Dreams of my Father, Thats all Commie's

You don't deserve the privilege of voting. I'm all for requiring aptitude tests. Once should at least have a clue before entering a polling place. That would clean out about a third of the Republican voters.

Angry Commie!!

Inbred Teabagger!!

Eastwood made a fool of himself.

So didn't Romney and Ryan. Panned across the boards for their lies.

Happy to see George Clooney and Tom Hanks assisting with the voice overs last night in the videos. Proud to have them in our party.

Classy smart guys.

Better stock up on tissue now Publius*. It might be in short supply on election night when Obama hands Willard his lunch!

@Publis*#6:Romney and Ryan have nothing to lose by making an ass of themselves. Poor old Clint though, not only shot himself in His own ass, It's gonna cost Him much. I hear His young wife isn't so thrilled about His dotage display either. Here is a man who is totally dependent on His public appeal. He sure played a large amount of hell with that. Old fool should have had more sense, but republicans all seem to lean toward the foolish side. Nothing any of us can do about that now. Sorry.

PAT....EASTWOODS TALKING TO THE CHAIR REMINDS ME OF WHEN HE WAS IN MOVIE..."PAINT YOUR WAGON"........GREAT MOVIE UNTIL CLINT SANG THE SONG, "I TALK TO THE TREES"......You would think he learned his lesson to quit talking to objects.....

Talking to the chair........how pathetic......"Get off my lawn"

Dreams of my Father Commie!!

at least his father isn't also his older brother like yours is, dumba$$

tonybeeerm

at least his father isn't also his older brother like yours is, dumba$$

tonybeeerm

Inbred Teabagger!!

See, This is why I call you a Commie, When someone disagrees with you you shout them down and want to take away there voting privilege. Don't you see? You are out of touch man!! Now go lay down before you hurt yourself.

23 Million out of work, a $16 trillion debt,

Your as dense as depleted uranium if you think for one minute that this election should be about anyones tax returns.

But it's okay to be about birth certificates for 3+ years? During a terrible recession? That's where the GOP was. Birth certificates and birth control.

You would rather Bush spend money on killing innocent people rather than Obama spend money on trying to create jobs for Americans.

Pat,

Those drones are missing all the innocent people and just hitting terrorists or are you so racist you think all Muslims are terrorists

Obama is giving money to his buddies who are funding his re-election.

Solyndra anyone?

Joe,

Just a few comments. All I see from your people is Obama, bad, grunt.

Whine whine, we didn't start a war, we didn't create any debt, we didn't crash the economy- whine, whine.

@Publis*#7.1: You wish it would not be about Romneys tax returns. You republicans would "moon" God in an attempt to deflect His worshippers from their concern about the morals of this gwaddamn thief. Romney is a felonious thief and a serial liar running with an even worse liar. A pair of pathological liars representing a party of bad pathlogy. These 2 are traveling the road to nowhere, and may indeed get there.

publis......playing with depleted uranium huh? Well that explains you.

These are the 26 Billionaires that are trying to buy this election.

Sen. Sanders also did the last thing the billionaires wanted. He called them out by name.

According to the report, America for Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, here are the 26 billionaires who are trying to buy your government:

1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, Mr. Adelson has experienced a nearly eightfold increase in his wealth over the past three years (from $3.4 billion to $24.9 billion). Forbes recently reported that Adelson is willing to spend a “limitless” amount of money or more than $100 million to help defeat President Obama in November.

2. The Kochs (David, Charles, and William) are worth a combined $103 billion, according to Forbes. They have pledged to spend about $400 million during the 2012 election season. The Kochs own more wealth than the bottom 41.7 percent of American households or more than 49 million Americans.

3. Jim Walton is worth $23.7 billion. He has donated $300,000 to super PACs in 2012.

4. Harold Simmons is worth $9 billion. He has donated $15.2 million to super PACs this year.

5. Peter Thiel is worth $1.5 billion. He has donated $6.7 million to Super PACs this year.

6. Jerrold Perenchio is worth $2.3 billion. He has donated $2.6 million to super PACs this year.

7. Kenneth Griffin is worth $3 billion and he has given $2.08 million to super PACs in 2012.

8. James Simons is worth $10.7 billion and he has given $1.5 million to super Pacs this year.

9. Julian Robertson is worth $2.5 billion and he has given $1.25 million to super PACs this year.

10. Robert Rowling is worth $4.8 billion and he has given $1.1 million to super PACs.

11. John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made his fortune betting that the sub-prime mortgage market would collapse, is worth $12.5 billion. He has donated $1 million to super PACs.

12. Richard and J.W. Marriott are worth a combined $3.1 billion and they have donated $2 million to super PACs this year.

13. James Davis is worth $1.9 billion and he has given $1 million to super PACs this year.

14. Harold Hamm is worth $11 billion and he has given $985,000 to super PACs this year.

15. Kenny Trout is worth more than $1.2 billion and he has given $900,000 to super PACs this year.

16. Louis Bacon is worth $1.4 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

17. Bruce Kovner is worth $4.5 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

18. Warren Stephens is worth $2.7 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

19. David Tepper is worth $5.1 billion and he has given $375,000 to super PACs this year.

20. Samuel Zell is worth $4.9 billion and he has given $270,000 to super PACs this year.

21. Leslie Wexner is worth $4.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

22. Charles Schwab is worth $3.5 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

23. Kelcy Warren is worth $2.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

GE-- Sends X Ray research division from Wis to China along with $20 billion to train 65 engineers and to build 5 research centers. Thanks Obama now you Dem's go a head and spin this .

The list of rich Obama supporters is about the same. I wonder if any other president never passed a budget?

I would like to see more set ideas from Romney,he is a bit to general.

The unquestioining love here for Obama or any elected official is a bit disturbing.

From what i see he dosent impress me.So much hate from a man who is supposed to lead the country.Class warfare and race hate from his supporters.

How about the law that was passed when the republicons owned the government that gives big tax cuts to corporations that export American jobs. How very patriotic of you republicons......

The Democrats tried to repeal it twice, first in 2010 and again last July, but were filibustered by you oh so patriotic republicons. Are you wearing your American flag lapel pin?

FIRE RYAN!! YEAH BABY!!

He's responsible for the US credit rating being downgraded.

Thats what they said to michigan unemployed...

DANIEL

ARENT YOU QUOTING GROVER NORQUIST! LMAO.

How does it feel to have your party be owned by a lobbyist? Thats right a lobbyist,. Taking orders from non government . THAT SAYS VOLUMES ABOUT YOUR PARTY AND YOUR VIEWS,WHEN YOU CAN BE OWNED BY A RAT IN A SUIT TELLING YOUR PARTY WHAT TO DO AND HOW!

LMAO! How pathetic are you guys. AMERICA WAKE UP. YOUR ISSUES ARE BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY GROVER NORQUIST AND IT IS TIME TO MAKE THIS MAN GO AWAY FOREVER. IF YOU ALOW THIS MAN TO KEEP DICTATING OUR COUNTRY YOU WILL SOON LIVE IN A DICTATORSHIP NOT UNLIKE THE MIDDLE EAST! THEY CALL HIM THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN WASHINGTON YET HE DOES NOT HOLD OFFICE! THAT IS A SCARY TOUGHT.START PAYING REAL ATTENTION AND STOP BELIEVING THE HYPE. MOST PEOPLE DONT EVEN KNOW WHO THIS MAN IS BUT THE REPUBLICANS ARE SCARED TO DEATH OF HIM!

Communists? Oh brother. Real original I hafta say.

Pat Boston MA.

Communists? Oh brother. Real original I hafta say.

What can one say Pat? Dust bunnies and everyone a damn commie.

Could we possibly leaves the communists and the Nazis out of this discussion.

That is supposedly why I went to Veit Nam . Maybe you should find out what cummunist means.

Old man, My point was that we have enough problems without calling each inflammatory names. My husband was over in Vietnam with you, two tours.

LISA -- Tell him Thank You for me , I also spent two tours there.

Old man, Thank you for your service. If I object to the use of Nazis in our discussion it is because I grew up in New York and many of my friends had parents and grandparents who had numbers tatooed on their arms.

lisa s-1749992

I will not comment as to my feelings about that war but to say welcome home Mr. Lisa.

blackcatwhitecat, I have my own feelings too. Thank you for the welcome home.

Word has it that the Canadians high-tailed it out of Ahmanutjob's neck of the woods before the swords got sharpened.

Why was that, o sage of the north?

Poor Republicans.... same old mantra about college transcripts, teleprompters, communists, etc. You do have to understand that their vocabulary is extremely limited, right? Don't confuse them with any facts or big words. You could slap them up side the head with facts and they are NOT capable of understanding them. And Romney wants to cut their education even further... poor slobs.

Isn't Americans For Tax Reform a conservative group that supports Romney.

What hidden taxes ? If you on welfare there is no new taxes, just a better healthcare system.....

Isn't Americans For Tax Reform a conservative group that supports Romney.

It's Grover Norquist and his pledge....

Grover and his Americans For Tax Reform is funded/bought by the Koch brothers!

The Koch brothers/Grover....... buy Romney!

Thank you I thought his facts seemed like lies.

Thank you I thought his facts seemed like lies.

Hope that helps....In TeaPeople world, Lies repeated become their facts!..Upside down logic, Oh, well!

Publius with the star is a Troll who either can't read, maybe has no comprehension, or, most probably, a gwaddamned liar. He/She's posting lies with the speed of a preacher collecting tithes in a 40 bed whorehouse.

Thank you I thought his facts seemed like lies

You "thought" because another know nothing told you to think?

Hilarious.

If you bothered to actually research it you would find "his facts" correct. There are 77 new taxes in PPACA. A huge govt bureaucracy is created. Rationed, deteriorating care. YAY?

If Obama had ran anything in his life, or worked a job, he'd be way smarter than he is now..

I didn't care much for Bush either. Just no experience between these two..

Romney will do a good job. About time a middle of the road President took office. His experience and trustworthiness, is just pluses we've not seen in a long time either.

we the sheeple....everybody should like Romney he has been on both sides of every issue at one time or another! Flip flop .....

Publis as per MOST of you GOP sheeple, READING the provisons you posted

Excise taxes on charitable hospitals ($50,000 per hospital if they do not meet HHS criteria of "community health assessment needs," billing and collection," and "financial assistance" (PPACA, 2010, pp. 1,961-1,971) ETC, WOULD ACTUALLY HELP AN INTELLIGENT PERSON{NOT YOU} TO UNDERSTAND THAT ALL THESE PROVISIONS ARE PART OF THE GOOD OF THE BILL....

DID YOU READ THEM??..I DID

FOR ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES, HERE IT IS

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/resources/authorities/patient-protection.pdf

LMFAO COPY/PASTE WITH NO REAL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEY ARE COPYING/PASTING

Conservative Rebellion

Thank you I thought his facts seemed like lies

You "thought" because another know nothing told you to think?

Hilarious.

If you bothered to actually research it you would find "his facts" correct. There are 77 new taxes in PPACA.

IGNORANT SHEEPLE LIKE YOU SAID THE SAME THING WHEN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WAS CREATED...

SOS FROM THE HERD

THINGS HAVE TO BE PAID FOR UNLIKE THE TAX BREAKS AND WARS BUSH CREATED

B.S.

Michigan Unemployed isn't even in Michigan. He lied, he don't even realize that Snyder and the republicans have been running this state since 2010 and passed laws raising taxes on the poor, the seniors and taking money out of the schools in order to give themselves a tax cut. REPUBLICANS, IDIOT, not democrats. Republicans in this state are anti everything except themselves and I am sure it isn't just Michigan. Michigan unemployed is just another right wing troll that has no culture.

Publius*: I can see from the comments by the folks after your description of odumbacare taxes, they just simply don't get it. The old, "I've already made up my mind, don't try to confuse me with the facts," line. This just goes to show that odumba and the dems and liberals CAN just lie, and lie, and lie, and make people believe them, just like they have done to the American people. I guess one must assume, they don't have the mental capacity to understand when they are being used! I actually thought the American people were smarter. Maybe not after all! What a shame. Just part of the, "I want somethin' for nuthin' gang," with no personal responsibility, just want to live off of somebody else, like leeches. We can only hope enough people "WISE UP" AND REALIZE, THEY'RE BEING USED!

These are the 26 Billionaires that are funding the carpet bombing intensity coming your way. They want to buy this election.

Sen. Sanders also did the last thing the billionaires wanted. He called them out by name.

According to the report, America for Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, here are the 26 billionaires who are trying to buy your government:

1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, Mr. Adelson has experienced a nearly eightfold increase in his wealth over the past three years (from $3.4 billion to $24.9 billion). Forbes recently reported that Adelson is willing to spend a “limitless” amount of money or more than $100 million to help defeat President Obama in November.

2. The Kochs (David, Charles, and William) are worth a combined $103 billion, according to Forbes. They have pledged to spend about $400 million during the 2012 election season. The Kochs own more wealth than the bottom 41.7 percent of American households or more than 49 million Americans.

3. Jim Walton is worth $23.7 billion. He has donated $300,000 to super PACs in 2012.

4. Harold Simmons is worth $9 billion. He has donated $15.2 million to super PACs this year.

5. Peter Thiel is worth $1.5 billion. He has donated $6.7 million to Super PACs this year.

6. Jerrold Perenchio is worth $2.3 billion. He has donated $2.6 million to super PACs this year.

7. Kenneth Griffin is worth $3 billion and he has given $2.08 million to super PACs in 2012.

8. James Simons is worth $10.7 billion and he has given $1.5 million to super Pacs this year.

9. Julian Robertson is worth $2.5 billion and he has given $1.25 million to super PACs this year.

10. Robert Rowling is worth $4.8 billion and he has given $1.1 million to super PACs.

11. John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made his fortune betting that the sub-prime mortgage market would collapse, is worth $12.5 billion. He has donated $1 million to super PACs.

12. Richard and J.W. Marriott are worth a combined $3.1 billion and they have donated $2 million to super PACs this year.

13. James Davis is worth $1.9 billion and he has given $1 million to super PACs this year.

14. Harold Hamm is worth $11 billion and he has given $985,000 to super PACs this year.

15. Kenny Trout is worth more than $1.2 billion and he has given $900,000 to super PACs this year.

16. Louis Bacon is worth $1.4 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

17. Bruce Kovner is worth $4.5 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

18. Warren Stephens is worth $2.7 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

19. David Tepper is worth $5.1 billion and he has given $375,000 to super PACs this year.

20. Samuel Zell is worth $4.9 billion and he has given $270,000 to super PACs this year.

21. Leslie Wexner is worth $4.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

22. Charles Schwab is worth $3.5 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

23. Kelcy Warren is worth $2.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

Thank you and Sen. Sanders - too many of these billionaires are hiding in the shadows.

Funny...

willard was on board with this as a part of the Ryan budget...

Right up to the nano second he realized he could slam Obama on the issue...

And yes,.. this is yet another reason why teapublicans aren't taken seriously...

Next...

Clinton answered this type of crap Publius is spewing very well on Wednesday night. The voucher program, even if only the rich and healthy choose vouchers, will bankrupt medicare quickly. There would be no cost controls in such a system and premiums for the older would just keep on rising. Even some of the very healthy seniors would come screaming back to traditional medicare - just as the whole program went broke (which many Republicans would celebrate).

where in the hell did you get this..Its no wonder you would vote for Romney/Ryan ticket because you are totally brainwashed..by the way is this your first election?It appears you went to an awful lot of trouble to post a comment of nothing but bullcrap...What is your source for these bs stats..Fox News?

Fact Check to the Rescue !!!!

Sorry sally bob... It doesn't look good for you.....

Fish in a barrel..... Yikes !!!!

""

It’s true that GM also has been expanding in China — but that was true long before the bailout. The “old” GM (the one that went bankrupt) was the largest foreign car maker in China in 2008, battling for supremacy there with Volkswagen.

The “new” GM has continued that overseas success. It sold a record 231,183 vehicles in China in May, up 21 percent from a year earlier, for example. That compares with 245,256 vehicles sold in the United States, up 11 percent from a year earlier and the highest in 33 months."

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/is-gm-becoming-china-motors/

Fact check this numbskull, if we give a failing car company $50 Billion, should they not use it to keep plants open here and EXPORT cars to China, instead of using it to build 11 NEW plants in China, and IMPORT those cars here?

Grasp that concept.

Simple.....Banks froze everyone out, only money available was the government. Obama made G.M. restructure management etc. Saving millions of jobs...Romney would have let them crash and burn. That's the problem with Romney, he treats everything in profit loss as if people are corporations to take over and strip profits from, then dump them. YIKES!!!! people aren't corporations, and corporations aren't people.......Danger Will Romney!

• General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy -- Again

President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again. The company is once again losing market
share, and it seems unable to develop products that are truly competitive in the U.S. market.

Right now, the federal government owns 500,000,000 shares of GM, or about 26% of the company. It would need to get about $53.00/share for these to break even on the bailout, but the stock closed at only $20.21/share on Tuesday. This left the government holding $10.1 billion worth of stock, and sitting on an unrealized loss of $16.4 billion.

Right now, the government’s GM stock is worth about 39% less than it was on November 17, 2010, when the company went public at $33.00/share. However, during the intervening time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen by almost 20%, so GM shares have lost 49% of their value relative to the Dow.

It’s doubtful that the Obama administration would attempt to sell off the government’s massive position in GM while the stock price is falling. It would be too embarrassing politically. Accordingly, if GM shares continue to decline, it is likely that Obama would ride the stock down to zero.

GM is unlikely to hit the wall before the election, but, given current trends, the company could easily do so again before the end of a second Obama term.

In the 1960s, GM averaged a 48.3% share of the U.S. car and truck market. For the first 7 months of 2012, their market share was 18.0%, down from 20.0% for the same period in 2011. With a loss of market share comes a loss of relative cost-competitiveness. There is only so much market share that GM can lose before it would no longer have the resources to attempt to recover.

see the rest of the article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2012/08/15/general-motors-is-headed-for-bankruptcy-again/

• Mighty expensive way to purchase UAW votes if you ask me....

• Romney/Ryan 2012!!! Leadership for a Change!!!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aWHbmXZFhiEsPublis ONCE AGAIN POSTING "FACTS" THAT ARE NOT FACTS...

THE REAL FACTS ARE THAT MOST OF THE CHINA PLANTS WERE OPENED UNDER BUSH

GM Opens Eighth China Plant, Won't Add Further Capacity Soon
By Tian Ying - December 17, 2008 01:30 EST

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. opened its eighth vehicle plant in China and said it had no plans for adding further capacity amid slowing demand in Asia's biggest auto market.

This ``has been a big year in terms of expansion'' and it ``probably will keep us occupied for the foreseeable future,''Kevin Wale, GM China's president, said by phone today. He spoke from the northeastern city of Shenyang after the opening of the carmaker's new 2.67 billion yuan ($390 million) plant.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aWHbmXZFhiEs

Publuis, JUST ONE OF THE HERD

Middle of the road here, but Publius just ripped you all.

Publius:

What is your point? W. wants some of the credit for the GM bailout? Are you against that bailout or just hedging your bets like your weather vane candidate? Yes, after Bush picked Paulson as his treasury secretary, his administration got a couple of things right when the mini-depression began. But then, nobody can be wrong all of the time. You will note that by the end of W's presidency, his father and friends were trying to convince him to dump the far right ideologues that had screwed up his administration. Gates and Paulson were part of the rescue that people like Jim Baker, Scowcroft, and others suggested to W. (Because they were appalled by the impact of people like Rumsfeld, Cheney. Remember, Scowcroft said he didn't know Cheney any more.)

But hey, American companies building things in China is like apple pie - or at least like Apple, Inc. You gloss over the hundreds of thousands that GM has hired in the US over the last three years. I would not expect more from someone who thinks that the American government should just walk away from an entire industry - perhaps the most important manufacturing industry. Or maybe you would rather have only foreign automobile manufacturers in the Southeastern United States - with no unions. That's your real preference, right? That was certainly the preference of Senator Shelby and Senator DeMint at the hearings regarding GM and Chrysler. That rang out loud and clear.

The UAW runs the business now! Let's see how good they do! I know they(board of directors on whom 4 uaw people sit) proclaimed $14,000 bonus for all GM union workers this year before tendering one dime in repayment money.The bonus wasn't extended to non union workers which i'm sure did a lot for the "espre de corp" of the company.I know they have already lost an amount equal to the baailout money they received,this year.It is only amount of time before they will be back,hat in hand,looking for more cash.Had GM been allowed to go into BK,this problem would have benn resolved .The 40 billion GM still owe in past,present and future retirement and benefits would have been reduced or eliminated by bK.Instead,Obamy using his extraordinaryconstitutional powers he bestowed upon himself,told the first in line creditors,the bond holders to suck air.The bond holders got nothnig,UAW got to keep their bloated salaries,retirement and benefit packages!Next time,someone will have to stand up to these thugs and tell them it is time to share the pain.

they are all on the goverment payroll ?

oh now on government payroll..like how?

Oh Social security i answered for you..and Medicaid.money they paid into like a bank account that can be trusted ...I see

Michigan Unemployed isn't even in Michigan. He lied, he don't even realize that Snyder and the republicans have been running this state since 2010 and passed laws raising taxes on the poor, the seniors and taking money out of the schools in order to give themselves a tax cut. REPUBLICANS, IDIOT, not democrats. Republicans in this state are anti everything except themselves and I am sure it isn't just Michigan. Michigan unemployed is just another right wing troll that has no culture.

Only Republican women. They know a birth control pill isn't the only thing they can swallow to prevent pregnancy.

binfl....I saw Ann getting all testy when she refused to answer questions on health care even though she commented on women care...TOO FUNNY! What a bit** She was so pissed some one would confront her.

Michigan Unemployed isn't even in Michigan. He lied, he don't even realize that Snyder and the republicans have been running this state since 2010 and passed laws raising taxes on the poor, the seniors and taking money out of the schools in order to give themselves a tax cut. REPUBLICANS, IDIOT, not democrats. Republicans in this state are anti everything except themselves and I am sure it isn't just Michigan. Michigan unemployed is just another right wing troll that has no culture.

A quote from MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYED:

"and Democrats just want women under the desk to suck it...."

MICHIGAN UNEMPLOYED, You have admitted to being "under the table." Would that be Romney's table, and what are you doing for him under there?

You should really change your name to "MICHIGAN UNINFORMED"

I agree 100%, "I would rather travel with someone that knows how to make it happen", unfortunately the current administration is looking forward and the car is in reverse at full throttle. All the while telling me to trust him to take me over the hill. Let's hope we don't have travel with him much longer.

D means Drive forward, as in progress.

R means Reverse, as in regress.

Here are the 26 Billionaires that own the republicon party.

Sen. Sanders also did the last thing the billionaires wanted. He called them out by name.

According to the report, America for Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, here are the 26 billionaires who are trying to buy your government:

1). Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands Casino, is worth nearly $25 billion, making him the 14th wealthiest person in the world and the 7th richest person in America. While median family income plummeted by nearly 40% from 2007-2010, Mr. Adelson has experienced a nearly eightfold increase in his wealth over the past three years (from $3.4 billion to $24.9 billion). Forbes recently reported that Adelson is willing to spend a “limitless” amount of money or more than $100 million to help defeat President Obama in November.

2. The Kochs (David, Charles, and William) are worth a combined $103 billion, according to Forbes. They have pledged to spend about $400 million during the 2012 election season. The Kochs own more wealth than the bottom 41.7 percent of American households or more than 49 million Americans.

3. Jim Walton is worth $23.7 billion. He has donated $300,000 to super PACs in 2012.

4. Harold Simmons is worth $9 billion. He has donated $15.2 million to super PACs this year.

5. Peter Thiel is worth $1.5 billion. He has donated $6.7 million to Super PACs this year.

6. Jerrold Perenchio is worth $2.3 billion. He has donated $2.6 million to super PACs this year.

7. Kenneth Griffin is worth $3 billion and he has given $2.08 million to super PACs in 2012.

8. James Simons is worth $10.7 billion and he has given $1.5 million to super Pacs this year.

9. Julian Robertson is worth $2.5 billion and he has given $1.25 million to super PACs this year.

10. Robert Rowling is worth $4.8 billion and he has given $1.1 million to super PACs.

11. John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made his fortune betting that the sub-prime mortgage market would collapse, is worth $12.5 billion. He has donated $1 million to super PACs.

12. Richard and J.W. Marriott are worth a combined $3.1 billion and they have donated $2 million to super PACs this year.

13. James Davis is worth $1.9 billion and he has given $1 million to super PACs this year.

14. Harold Hamm is worth $11 billion and he has given $985,000 to super PACs this year.

15. Kenny Trout is worth more than $1.2 billion and he has given $900,000 to super PACs this year.

16. Louis Bacon is worth $1.4 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

17. Bruce Kovner is worth $4.5 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

18. Warren Stephens is worth $2.7 billion and he has given $500,000 to super PACs this year.

19. David Tepper is worth $5.1 billion and he has given $375,000 to super PACs this year.

20. Samuel Zell is worth $4.9 billion and he has given $270,000 to super PACs this year.

21. Leslie Wexner is worth $4.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

22. Charles Schwab is worth $3.5 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

23. Kelcy Warren is worth $2.3 billion and he has given $250,000 to super PACs this year.

He is looking for the elevator for his plane.

Speaking of Willard's dancing horse,

Ann Romney got sued by a woman who bought a supposedly healthy horse from the Romneys. It turned out that the horse was lame. and had been injected with drugs to make it appear healthy.

Google it, then ask yourself if the Romneys are honest and trustworthy....

Birther on Board !!!!

And we thought we were done laughing at birthers !!!

Not hardly !!!!!

You go girl !!!!

Jeff, the only people who question the president's birth certificate are racists. Okay? And that includes one of Romney's sons, who questioned the birth certificate. And then we have his other son Tagg, who was against having a Hospice built in his town, because it would hurt the home values.

There is nothing admirable about the Romney family. Nothing.