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Why do I have to keep bringing this up. Earmarking money is the way they set it up for funds to go to a certain place. Not all earmarks are bad. Pork on the other hand does seem to be a bad thing and Obama did say something about pork but he cannot say that he will not have earmarks because they are necessary to assign funds to almost all programs. Earmarks are provisions appropriated for individual projects and/or districts. Pork is an appropriation brought in for the sole purpose of bringing that money in to fund the district or a project in that district. They're one and the same. plain and simple. there is that very faint distinction, but if a project has been proposed for a power plant in illinois, i doubt anyone but those in that area are really going to give a s*it about it. It's pork/earmarks. Face it. He's a politician. Lying is second nature to him. Just like the stimulus bill, just like the appropriations bill. It's never going to stop. |
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Topic:
Cannabis alters human DNA
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geek said: *snip* just an fyi, i'd really not mention things like the first paragraph in the open online. there's a reason sites that discuss that stuff openly are private and not visible to the outside. better safe than sorry. |
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as good as I think this is...what about non-federal couples? in theory, if a federal law states that same-sex couples can get benefits, than states have to adhere. however, I doubt that he will do so out of fear from the potential outcry from social conservatives. I'm still missing the part why this should even be an issue in the first place, but that's a whole 'nother topic and I'd rather not start a threadjack. |
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global warming is a whole bunch of crap !! I guess that most of the scientists are dummies then. 
It's a whole 'nother topic, but there are scientists on both sides. Either way, every action we take has an impact on the environment - global warming or not. i personally believe global warming/climate change/whatever they conveniently call it next is a hoax, but I also understand that there are environmental costs in everything we do and we should be as responsible, as is logically and economically feasible, as possible to minimize those impacts. i.e. I believe everyone should recyle and conserve, but I'm not going to use one, two, or even just 3 sheets of toilet paper at a... sitting, i guess... to conserve. as stated by metalwing, clean coal is a farce. There is no such thing and there are far more uses for coal besides power. a billion dollars would build a very large wind field or even a solar field. it's pretty windy outside chicago from my understanding, it may be a better idea to go that route instead of coal. My personal opinion is that power should not be subsidized but I feel a wind farm is the lesser of two evils, unless there is the additional capital to go nuclear, which is far more efficint. this is just another "change" that is eerily similar to old policies. Good to see deception is still alive and well in Washington. |
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Especially with someone like Obama as president, right the man is ill-equipped and unqualified to be president and his socialistic policies well bankrupt this country. Oh and I doubt we well ever migrate to Mexico it’s a ****ty country. Why else would so many of them try to come over here to the U.S. They were coming here when Bush was President and before Bush. Bush didn't try to stop it. Big business doesn't want it stopped. The numbers of entries starting declining when the recession hit. When the recession hit, less jobs became available for them. actually, the largest employers of illegals, from what i understand, are not big business but rather, smaller proprietorships and partnerships. There is much less paperwork required in those businesses and they are much more likely to be businesses in a highly competitive field like construction, janitorial, or lawn care. It is illegals that keep many of those businesses in business around here anyway. |
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POTUS is not exactly mcDonalds... There is not supposed to be all this on-the-job training. That is the problem I see. hell, there's a person with no other job than to inform the president on foreign customs. Obviously, they're failing miserably.
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Madison, your posts are always good for a laugh. The spin just makes me dizzy. I'll argue against another who can argue the points. So how about this, when you put up an argument, I'll dispute it. This is just a copy 'n' paste job. if you can argue these points, then I'll join in. Until then... |
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Madison, your posts are always good for a laugh. The spin just makes me dizzy.
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Edited by
AndrewAV
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Mon 06/15/09 07:25 PM
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Perhaps we should be thankful that now we have a President with the sense to research foreign customs and traditions as opposed to one that can't pronounce "Nuclear." It was a sign of respect, maybe Obama didn't think a handshake was enough... Dialect differs in regions of every nation. He had an accent. Get over it. Think Pesci in My Cousin Vinny. He has an accent too. I bet you sound really funny (as would I) to those in the south to whereas, he'd fit in (EDIT* bush, that is). Dialect is no measure of intelligence or capacity. I have to say that there is something wrong with it in the fact he did NOT research the customs of the land, because nowhere is it a custom to bow to another except in mostly asian nations. There have been a lot of shortcomings on the side of foreign actions by this administration. i'm not saying former administrations were any better, but bowing to an arab king shows servitude and obedience. I guess the real question is, did the king bow back? |
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For the non CPAs - A Stimulus Story It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one. The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher. The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower. The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel. The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her "services" on credit. The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there. The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything. At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town. No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today. you forgot the interest. <-- CPA in training. |
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Topic:
gas prices
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it's all a plot by obama to force us all to go green. if gas prices are high, then people use less gas and alt. fueled cars will be more in demand. i mean, since everyone blew off the whole principle of the market and supply and demand and blamed it on bush's special interest oil groups, it must be obama's fault now... People were blaming Bush because he went into Iraq, the destabilization of the Middle East did have something to do with supply and demand which in turn had to do with rising prices. Prices are rising now as they do every summer. Demand going up, people are going on vacations. The benefit though is that new technologies will emerge. Whether or not one believes in Climate Change, oil is not sustainable for the future, there's no way we can find it as fast as we're using it. So we should be the leaders in the world in developing this tech now, that way other countries will buy our tech instead of us buying theirs. i know, I'm just feeling extra sarcastic tonight. To be honest, the actions in the middle east have barely changed the landscape. iraq has oil, but they are not a very large supplier. IIRC, Iraq is only 6 or 7 percent of the OPEC supply. That is hardly enough to drastically change the landscape at the scope it did. However, nations like China and Russia developing further have driven up global demand. The global recession lessened global demand along with the SUV/F350 craze here. Part of the hike was also related to speculators bidding up the costs artificially. I do not believe in man-made climate change, but as with all on this earth, oil is scarce and will run out at one point or another. granted, the saudis are sitting on enough to feed the world's demand at our current rate for 300 years on their own, but while right now it basically squirts out, eventually it will have to be extracted at extra costs. we have plenty of time to further develop alternative systems, but that is not a reason to not start now. As for tech, china and japan are the most efficient at making it. notice the location of most of the largest tech firms: microsoft, apple, intel, oracle, sun, etc. are all based here in america, they've just realized how much cheaper it is to have the asian nations make the actual product. |
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Topic:
gas prices
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it's all a plot by obama to force us all to go green. if gas prices are high, then people use less gas and alt. fueled cars will be more in demand. i mean, since everyone blew off the whole principle of the market and supply and demand and blamed it on bush's special interest oil groups, it must be obama's fault now...
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such a noteworthy response. It was necessary with the arrogance going on above it. so how about you explain the arrogance. |
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Wondering where all the monies these 10 banks are allowed to pay back will be utilized? distributed? from my understanding, it's going back into the tarp fund to be reallocated as the administration desires. I just need to find the article. congress was a little pissed about it. |
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such a noteworthy response. |
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The house and senate have no control over the people running this country. The "stimulus" was not intended to work. It was intended to provide the appearance that they care about the economy. In fact, if they had done nothing and let the bubble burst, the coming collapse would have not been as big. With all the money they've printed, the inflationary levels have grown to far to large levels and well.. To put it bluntly, the US is screwed.. No way out. :~K So what your saying is if we all started torching at least a couple dollars a day then the economy would recover? 
If we take the control from the banks to print money on a whim, then we would prevent this from happening again. The economy will fix itself, I've explained the self-healing nature of capitalism that other forms do not have before. You see, like I just said, the administration has short-term plans for all of this. There is no long term with any of this stuff past the 8-10 years some of the projects will take. There is no plan to deal with inflation, no plan to deal with us coming even closer to our credit limit, and no plan to help those that will lose jobs once the programs expire. |
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The house and senate have no control over the people running this country. The "stimulus" was not intended to work. It was intended to provide the appearance that they care about the economy. In fact, if they had done nothing and let the bubble burst, the coming collapse would have not been as big. With all the money they've printed, the inflationary levels have grown to far to large levels and well.. To put it bluntly, the US is screwed.. No way out. :~K let me say welcome... it's nice to see another head around here that understands the underlying principles of what's happening. None of this addresses the root problems that lie in our "fox guarding the henhouse" monetary system. All it has done is spend, not reform. In the end, we are simply further in debt and no precautions have been set to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. people may perceive that we are doing better, but with more loans coming due to adjust and the inflation that is waiting around the corner to kill all these lower-interest loans, I'm just sitting back and waiting for the next drop. |
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What about those of us who'd rather be known by our names, ideas, thoughts instead of political affiliations?? I vote my conscience - not for a party.  The only true independent I have seen on this site was Warmachine.The rest are either republicans-in-disguise or people that don't know much about politics.
I kinda take offense to this lol. I am far from republican. |
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you have the right to remain silent while you are being beaten. any thing you scream can and will be used against you you have the right to an attorney while you are being water boarded if you can not afford an attorney the worst one we can find will be provided for you. in ten or fifteen years LOL So what if we give then Miranda rights? It does sound a bit more human to me. And yes, we should be ttying these terror suspects and getting them procecuted as soon as possible. If they cannot be charged they ned to be released unless they are POW which is a different situation. they are war criminals. While I believe that we should charge them for what they've done, Miranda rights are granted only to US citizens/legal aliens, residents, visitors, etc. by law. Acts of war are a totally different ballpark. |
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could it be stopped just like that? (pretend I snapped my fingers) with a house/senate overturn vote, yes. However, much like the patriot act, this is power. and we know how washington is about power. give a mouse a cookie... |
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