Posts: Kevyn | One Political Plaza

Food Prices Skyrocketing While Wages Are Stagnant

Dave wrote:

When energy costs rose with Bush in office it was his fault. When the same thing and worse happend under Obama, it's those nasty energy corporations. To the left, root cause analysis requires evaluating who's in office because to them it is always who's the problem, not what's the problem - completely unaware of how much of the problem is due to their policies.

Much of the cause of high energy prices is caused by commodity speculation. If investors in energy actually had to take delivery of product you would see a fallin and stabilization of prices. In this instance government regulation would go a long way toward solving the problem.

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Chuck Schumer wants to violate the Constitution .... Again

Mr Bill wrote:

Schumer is an ass anyway. What is amazing is how hard the libs are pushing this dumb-ass of amnesty. It's like they can't wait to put a rope around their necks. Trouble is, when they do, it takes every other American citizen with them. We have immigration-laws that will work, but you have to REALLY ENFORCE them to work! We haven't got a broken immigration-system, we have too many morons in public-office!

Although off the topic, you do realize that far more undocumented immigrants have been deported by the Obama justice department than under W or any preceding presidents who really did not enforce the law.

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Food Prices Skyrocketing While Wages Are Stagnant

wnd45acp wrote:

Food, gasoline/diesel/ heating costs by any source, electric bills, property taxes while home values fall and the list goes on and on .. while ecomony is stagnant .. force us to pay more for less until they bankrupt us... but all the taxes go up and we are forced to pay for outrageous teachers salaries and benefits to shut their mega power unions up and the same with any government worker from the street crews to the office personnel at all levels of government. Don't get me started.

Yup, those filthy rich school teachers are driving the cost of food and energy through the ceiling, you have a brilliant understanding of economics that escapes the rest of us.

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Will YOU come to my defense when I am arrested for peaceful resistance that would be considered by authorities to be illegal?

Peacful resistance to what exactly? Will you be walking down the street naked to protest oppressive nudity laws that unduly infringe on your libertarian right to be left alone to do as you please. Perhaps you will make noise and shine lights in a movie theater that shows a film you do not like. Maybe you will deficate on the floor in a grocery store to protest the misuse of tax money on food stamps. All kidding aside illeagel non violent protest takes many forms and those defending your actions are likely to vary greatly by who what why and how you decide to make your point.

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Why Not Libertarian?

Homestead wrote:

Fortunately, people are smartening up, so we are n... (show quote)

You realize of course that only a small number of your fellow citizens share your view. Think in numbers roughly the same as Ralph Nader and the green party on the left of the spectrum. do you remember how Nader was a spoiler for Al Gore in Florida? Nader only got a small percentage of the vote but it was almost all vote that would have gone to Gore if Nader was not on the ballots. If not for Nader Gore would have been President.

While the teabaggers delivered a congressional majority to republicans in 2010
their views are so far out of the mainstream they will eventually kill the party by utilizing exactly the primary leverage you propose. The shutdown and credit rating fiasco were both engineered by the tea party faction of the GOP and the vast majority of Americans hated both, yet when Bohner stopped them from repeating the same mistake they called for his head. The abismal approval ratings of congress are a direct result of the teabaggers in the house grinding everything they can to a halt. Mainstream republicans understand this but need the nuts on the fringe to get them over the top in primary's.

Teabaggers are a cancer on the republican party and for now the country as a whole. When a surgeon removes cancer he takes a margin of healthy tissue surrounding the tumor to make sure to get all of the cancer. In the next decade a changing demographic of voters will become that surgeon and mainstream republicans will be much of that margin as the tea party movement fades into a tiny blip on the radar of past history. You my friend and your fellow travelers are contributing to the downfall of the republican party and you don't even know it!

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Chuck Schumer wants to violate the Constitution .... Again

Here is a brief article explaining how a discharge petition works, how the nutjob who writes for the site you linked to thinks this is unconstitutional is beyond me.

A discharge petition is a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee and usually without cooperation of the leadership by "discharging" the committee from further consideration of a bill or resolution. Discharge petitions are most often associated with the U.S. House of Representatives, though many state legislatures have similar procedures. They are used when the chair of a committee refuses to place a bill or resolution on the Committee's agenda; by never reporting a bill, the matter will never leave the committee, and the full House will not be able to consider it. The discharge petition, and the threat of one, gives more power to individual members of the House and usurps a small amount of power from the leadership and committee chairs. The modern discharge petition requires the signature of an absolute majority of House members (218 members). Only twice has it been used successfully on major legislation in recent history.[1]

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Chuck Schumer wants to violate the Constitution .... Again

Here is a brief article explaining how a discharge petition works, how the nutjob who writes for the site you linked to thinks this is unconstitutional is beyond me.

A discharge petition is a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee and usually without cooperation of the leadership by "discharging" the committee from further consideration of a bill or resolution. Discharge petitions are most often associated with the U.S. House of Representatives, though many state legislatures have similar procedures. They are used when the chair of a committee refuses to place a bill or resolution on the Committee's agenda; by never reporting a bill, the matter will never leave the committee, and the full House will not be able to consider it. The discharge petition, and the threat of one, gives more power to individual members of the House and usurps a small amount of power from the leadership and committee chairs. The modern discharge petition requires the signature of an absolute majority of House members (218 members). Only twice has it been used successfully on major legislation in recent history.[1]

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On Stimulus Anniversary, GOP Says It Failed, Dems Want More Action

Borrowing money at Historicaly low interest rates and using it to improve infrastructure help struggling community's and schools while in the process putting several million people back to work undoubtedly kept us from falling into a second great depression. If the program was twice as big our economy would be better today and the cost would be more than made up by the increased revenue to the feds produced by that better economy.

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Conservative jokes and gaffes of the week

Thease were not gaffs or jokes this is exactly how people think and feel about the issues. Do you notice no one here has chimed in to say that any of the stuff this group of commentators said was misunderstood or taken out of context? The views expressed represent pretty exactly the country the majority of teabaggers want us to. become. This is why the republican party is split, they need to appear loyal to the nut jobs who buy into that sort of crap while hiding from the people in the center that if they vote republican they are supporting this crazy hatred stuff. The real Rino's are the quasi nazi nut jobs the teabaggers elected to take over the party, at first they were welcomed for their numbers now the real republicans see them for the cancer on the party they really are.

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Michael Dunn's (Mistrial for1st Degree Murder)

Why on earth would it be worth it to be toting a heater if you arn't allowed to threaten and blast people who annoy you?

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A handy, dandy guide for our conservativeteaparty "friends"

The folks the teabaggers really need to look out for is the Mexican Muslums
they are heavily armed,into narco trafficking, have built tunnels under the border big enough to drive an Escalades full of dope and jihadists through (a skill learned in training camps in the Gaza strip when they were there for vest bomb making lessons). The most terrifying thing is that they are lurking all around us waiting to strike when Obama gives the order. It is part of a secret global conspiracy arranged by then Senator Obama, President Bush, Arafat and Desante Fox over a decade ago.

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Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, T.R., somethings NEVER change

Although in my opinion FDR would be better suited for Rushmore, as our first Black President and the man to lead us against great odds out of the second great depression Obama is a more likely candidate.

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Al Qaeda Is Winning the War on Terror

jay-are wrote:

You can't be against Bush and for getting Bin Laden. Bush was for getting Bin Laden, and if you are for getting Bin Laden, you agree with Bush. Are you sure which side you are on?

Rumsfeld wasted US resources in Iraq rather than go in heavy in Afganistan where Bin Laden was hiding. as a result the entire region is a big mess with little hope of much improvement in the near future.

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Conservative war of food stamps continues

If we doubled the food stamp program and cut corporate wellfare in half the average taxpayer would save $ 365.00 a year. If that happened they could allow people to buy liquor and cigarettes with food stamps and I would not give a damn!

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Why Not Libertarian?

I have always liked the basic tenants of the libertarian view but it never deals very well with the grey areas the majority of our policy disputes fall under. For instance if I own a small piece of property should the government never be allowed to take it for the greater good even if I am well compensated for the land? Should I be allowed to burn old tires to heat my garage even though my neighbors don't like the smell, how about cigars in an eleavator if I own the building? I should be able to do business with only those I choose to but what if the Walton family dosn't like Blacks or Asians and bans them from all Wallmart and Sam club stores. This philosophy ion the abstract is appealing but is often useless in application.