Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States in the East Room of the White House. After taking the oath of office, President Ford spoke to the nation in a television address, declaring, "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
'[Harold Cook, a Democratic party strategist says of Perry that,] "For the most part he's unencumbered by conscience. That's a real luxury. If you aren't worried about the right policy all that's left is for your political director to tell you what's unpopular. We who are involved in Texas politics are all just props in Rick Perry's movie. When his priorities are just picked out of a hat based on what Republican primary voters want, we're bit players."
'...Cook scoffs at attempts by a man who has spent a quarter of a century inside the system to portray himself as an outsider, and his moves to claim credit for an economic environment in Texas that is a continuation of longstanding policies.
"Perry didn't invent the fact that we're a pro-business state. Yes, jobs have come here but a disproportionate percentage are low wage. Yes he's balanced the budget but it's on the back of the sick, the elderly and children, and public education and healthcare and the environment," he said
Perry's assault on education has generated considerable anger, even among some Republicans who view it as a false saving in a state with a large immigrant population.
The Texas legislature has cut the state's budget by $15bn (£9bn) – nearly 10% of spending – including a $4bn slice out of public education. Teachers are being dismissed and health services scaled back. Critics say the cuts are far deeper than what is required by the budget shortfall and that Perry is playing to a national audience.
That may appeal to Tea Party supporters but Bell said that once Perry's record comes under national scrutiny, many voters – not least the elderly and parents of school-age children – will recoil.
"When I was running for governor we would call Rick Perry the president of the 'thank God for Mississippi club' because if it wasn't for Mississippi we would have been last place in every category," he said.
Perry may also prove less palatable to the wider voting public once his other positions come under scrutiny. He proposes shutting the federal departments of education and energy, and advocates swifter and deeper cuts to the budget than those being proposed by even the most radical conservatives in Congress. He would repeal Obama's healthcare and environmental legislation.
He also takes a hard line on the death penalty in a country increasingly uncomfortable with executions. Perry vetoed a ban on capital punishment for those officially classified as "mentally retarded".
It will not help Perry with large parts of the country that he is another Christian evangelical from Texas when memories of George W Bush remain fresh.
"For the most part he's unencumbered by conscience. That's a real luxury. If you aren't worried about the right policy all that's left is for your political director to tell you what's unpopular. We who are involved in Texas politics are all just props in Rick Perry's movie. When his priorities are just picked out of a hat based on what Republican primary voters want, we're bit players."
reminds me of another governor from the state of texas
Rock me Jesus, roll me Lord...
Wash me in the blood of Rock & Roll
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 32,000 new jobs were created in the Lone Star state in the month of June alone adding to the total 220,000 jobs Texas created in the past year.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 32,000 new jobs were created in the Lone Star state in the month of June alone adding to the total 220,000 jobs Texas created in the past year.
this is what America needs
Uh huh.
How many of those were summer jobs in Texas's large tourist industry?
I'd be curious.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 32,000 new jobs were created in the Lone Star state in the month of June alone adding to the total 220,000 jobs Texas created in the past year.
this is what America needs
Did you read the piece I posted above? Nope? O.k. Nevermind.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 32,000 new jobs were created in the Lone Star state in the month of June alone adding to the total 220,000 jobs Texas created in the past year.
this is what America needs
Yeah. Some crazy nut case who recently shared stage with an anti-semetic preacher (who said it was time for Jews to accept Jesus) and a guy who claims that he's been physically attacked by demons 10 times.
The general election will, quite literally, decide the fate of a nation. Every time Team Obama criticizes the Texas economy for its minimum wage job boom, the president will be accused of attacking the working men and women of America. (Texas has created a large share of the new jobs in the United States in the last decade but studies indicate many of them are at places like Wal-Mart and Carl's Jr.)
President Obama will also get beaten up for presiding over the first bond rating downgrade in U.S. history as well as high unemployment. When the cold rains fall in early November next year, unemployed voters in places like Ohio will step into the booth and dream of a minimum wage job in the Texas sun selling fishing rods at big box sporting goods stores or working in call centers; they will vote against Barack Obama.
And in the process, they will write the epitaph to set upon the tombstone of history's greatest democracy: Perry-Palin, 2012.
We're screwed. Just what we need, more jobs selling cheap Chinese goods that the folks who sell them will barely be able to afford. Nice future we're going to have.
The general election will, quite literally, decide the fate of a nation. Every time Team Obama criticizes the Texas economy for its minimum wage job boom, the president will be accused of attacking the working men and women of America. (Texas has created a large share of the new jobs in the United States in the last decade but studies indicate many of them are at places like Wal-Mart and Carl's Jr.)
President Obama will also get beaten up for presiding over the first bond rating downgrade in U.S. history as well as high unemployment. When the cold rains fall in early November next year, unemployed voters in places like Ohio will step into the booth and dream of a minimum wage job in the Texas sun selling fishing rods at big box sporting goods stores or working in call centers; they will vote against Barack Obama.
And in the process, they will write the epitaph to set upon the tombstone of history's greatest democracy: Perry-Palin, 2012.
We're screwed. Just what we need, more jobs selling cheap Chinese goods that the folks who sell them will barely be able to afford. Nice future we're going to have.
Peace.
Not to be the thread police but if this was high school you so would have been busted for plagiarism!
The general election will, quite literally, decide the fate of a nation. Every time Team Obama criticizes the Texas economy for its minimum wage job boom, the president will be accused of attacking the working men and women of America. (Texas has created a large share of the new jobs in the United States in the last decade but studies indicate many of them are at places like Wal-Mart and Carl's Jr.)
President Obama will also get beaten up for presiding over the first bond rating downgrade in U.S. history as well as high unemployment. When the cold rains fall in early November next year, unemployed voters in places like Ohio will step into the booth and dream of a minimum wage job in the Texas sun selling fishing rods at big box sporting goods stores or working in call centers; they will vote against Barack Obama.
And in the process, they will write the epitaph to set upon the tombstone of history's greatest democracy: Perry-Palin, 2012.
We're screwed. Just what we need, more jobs selling cheap Chinese goods that the folks who sell them will barely be able to afford. Nice future we're going to have.
Peace.
Not to be the thread police but if this was high school you so would have been busted for plagiarism!
The general election will, quite literally, decide the fate of a nation. Every time Team Obama criticizes the Texas economy for its minimum wage job boom, the president will be accused of attacking the working men and women of America. (Texas has created a large share of the new jobs in the United States in the last decade but studies indicate many of them are at places like Wal-Mart and Carl's Jr.)
President Obama will also get beaten up for presiding over the first bond rating downgrade in U.S. history as well as high unemployment. When the cold rains fall in early November next year, unemployed voters in places like Ohio will step into the booth and dream of a minimum wage job in the Texas sun selling fishing rods at big box sporting goods stores or working in call centers; they will vote against Barack Obama.
And in the process, they will write the epitaph to set upon the tombstone of history's greatest democracy: Perry-Palin, 2012.
We're screwed. Just what we need, more jobs selling cheap Chinese goods that the folks who sell them will barely be able to afford. Nice future we're going to have.
Peace.
Not to be the thread police but if this was high school you so would have been busted for plagiarism!
I wasn't trying to pass the CNN article off as my own, rather I just posted what I thought was the most salient part, the original author's conclusion. Next time, I'll cite the source and/or post the link to the full article.
But I am kind of offended that you would think that I would think the members of this community or forum readers wouldn't catch it. C'mon, I might of fallen off the turnip truck but it wasn't yesterday. Sorry I didn't cite my source and as someone who wrote a ton of papers in my undergraduate years, I should have known better. Spank, spank, slap, slap.
The general election will, quite literally, decide the fate of a nation. Every time Team Obama criticizes the Texas economy for its minimum wage job boom, the president will be accused of attacking the working men and women of America. (Texas has created a large share of the new jobs in the United States in the last decade but studies indicate many of them are at places like Wal-Mart and Carl's Jr.)
President Obama will also get beaten up for presiding over the first bond rating downgrade in U.S. history as well as high unemployment. When the cold rains fall in early November next year, unemployed voters in places like Ohio will step into the booth and dream of a minimum wage job in the Texas sun selling fishing rods at big box sporting goods stores or working in call centers; they will vote against Barack Obama.
And in the process, they will write the epitaph to set upon the tombstone of history's greatest democracy: Perry-Palin, 2012.
We're screwed. Just what we need, more jobs selling cheap Chinese goods that the folks who sell them will barely be able to afford. Nice future we're going to have.
Peace.
Not to be the thread police but if this was high school you so would have been busted for plagiarism!
I wasn't trying to pass the CNN article off as my own, rather I just posted what I thought was the most salient part, the original author's conclusion. Next time, I'll cite the source and/or post the link to the full article.
But I am kind of offended that you would think that I would think the members of this community or forum readers wouldn't catch it. C'mon, I might of fallen off the turnip truck but it wasn't yesterday. Sorry I didn't cite my source and as someone who wrote a ton of papers in my undergraduate years, I should have known better. Spank, spank, slap, slap.
Peace.
Sorry, it was just that I literally read the article and went to AMT after and started reading your post and was like wait a minute... I just read this. I just wanted to make sure people got a chance to read the whole opinion piece, which I think is very interesting. It wasn't meant to be an "a-ha, gotcha!" kind of thing. I didn't mean to imply that you were trying to pass it off as your own, just that it wasn't properly cited, which does constitute as plagiarism.
Disclaimer: All words and thoughts expressed above are certified to be my own and in no way reflect those words and thoughts of others, Copyright Halifax2TheMax, 2011, All Rights Reserved.
Also the part about "making the federal government as inconsequential in your lives as possible"
Double woot for the win!
Can I assume this also means any law concerning morality (censorship of what can be broadcast, bans on gay marriage, etc) can be thrown out the window?
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
Also the part about "making the federal government as inconsequential in your lives as possible"
Double woot for the win!
Wait... you're talking about the guy who says he'd support a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality? would he end the Defense of Marriage Act and not stop the DREAM act?
Also the part about "making the federal government as inconsequential in your lives as possible"
Double woot for the win!
Can I assume this also means any law concerning morality (censorship of what can be broadcast, bans on gay marriage, etc) can be thrown out the window?
*snicker* To Christians, government begins in the bedroom and ends at the gun cabinet.
Rock me Jesus, roll me Lord...
Wash me in the blood of Rock & Roll
Also the part about "making the federal government as inconsequential in your lives as possible"
Double woot for the win!
Can I assume this also means any law concerning morality (censorship of what can be broadcast, bans on gay marriage, etc) can be thrown out the window?
usamamasan?
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
Less than two weeks into his official campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Perry has a 12-point lead over Mitt Romney, according to a nationwide Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents released Wednesday. Perry, the Texas governor, received the support of 29 percent of the poll's respondents.
Also the part about "making the federal government as inconsequential in your lives as possible"
Double woot for the win!
Can I assume this also means any law concerning morality (censorship of what can be broadcast, bans on gay marriage, etc) can be thrown out the window?
Less than two weeks into his official campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Perry has a 12-point lead over Mitt Romney, according to a nationwide Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents released Wednesday. Perry, the Texas governor, received the support of 29 percent of the poll's respondents.
WOOT
Thus cementing the win for the President in 2012.
Trust me... that train is going to wreck and it's going to be Glorious.
Less than two weeks into his official campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Perry has a 12-point lead over Mitt Romney, according to a nationwide Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents released Wednesday. Perry, the Texas governor, received the support of 29 percent of the poll's respondents.
WOOT
Thus cementing the win for the President in 2012.
Trust me... that train is going to wreck and it's going to be Glorious.
Woot, indeed.
There is a long way to go. The only thing that would cement a win for Obama would be for their to be jobs. Otherwise, it will be a battle against whoever is up against him. And it should be.
There is a long way to go. The only thing that would cement a win for Obama would be for their to be jobs. Otherwise, it will be a battle against whoever is up against him. And it should be.
oh, the fight isn't over... that's probably true.
But that Texas Good Ol' Boy charm isn't going to play well in the states that he'll need to win. And his record is a pretty bad one.
and just wait until the viral videos of him and Dubya lined up next to each other start.
And Jon Stewart is holding back the GOOD jokes until after the nomination.
Comments
I Dunno. But America lost.
Godfather.
545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
then we got Obama
Godfather.
'[Harold Cook, a Democratic party strategist says of Perry that,] "For the most part he's unencumbered by conscience. That's a real luxury. If you aren't worried about the right policy all that's left is for your political director to tell you what's unpopular. We who are involved in Texas politics are all just props in Rick Perry's movie. When his priorities are just picked out of a hat based on what Republican primary voters want, we're bit players."
'...Cook scoffs at attempts by a man who has spent a quarter of a century inside the system to portray himself as an outsider, and his moves to claim credit for an economic environment in Texas that is a continuation of longstanding policies.
"Perry didn't invent the fact that we're a pro-business state. Yes, jobs have come here but a disproportionate percentage are low wage. Yes he's balanced the budget but it's on the back of the sick, the elderly and children, and public education and healthcare and the environment," he said
Perry's assault on education has generated considerable anger, even among some Republicans who view it as a false saving in a state with a large immigrant population.
The Texas legislature has cut the state's budget by $15bn (£9bn) – nearly 10% of spending – including a $4bn slice out of public education. Teachers are being dismissed and health services scaled back. Critics say the cuts are far deeper than what is required by the budget shortfall and that Perry is playing to a national audience.
That may appeal to Tea Party supporters but Bell said that once Perry's record comes under national scrutiny, many voters – not least the elderly and parents of school-age children – will recoil.
"When I was running for governor we would call Rick Perry the president of the 'thank God for Mississippi club' because if it wasn't for Mississippi we would have been last place in every category," he said.
Perry may also prove less palatable to the wider voting public once his other positions come under scrutiny. He proposes shutting the federal departments of education and energy, and advocates swifter and deeper cuts to the budget than those being proposed by even the most radical conservatives in Congress. He would repeal Obama's healthcare and environmental legislation.
He also takes a hard line on the death penalty in a country increasingly uncomfortable with executions. Perry vetoed a ban on capital punishment for those officially classified as "mentally retarded".
It will not help Perry with large parts of the country that he is another Christian evangelical from Texas when memories of George W Bush remain fresh.
reminds me of another governor from the state of texas
Wash me in the blood of Rock & Roll
this is what America needs
How many of those were summer jobs in Texas's large tourist industry?
I'd be curious.
Did you read the piece I posted above? Nope? O.k. Nevermind.
Yeah. Some crazy nut case who recently shared stage with an anti-semetic preacher (who said it was time for Jews to accept Jesus) and a guy who claims that he's been physically attacked by demons 10 times.
I'm not making that up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0BGO2bv ... r_embedded
He's anti-education, anti-woman, sex phobic, anti-gay and pro-oil corporation.
This is not what America needs. That's the opposite of what America needs... that's pretty much exactly what got us into this mess in the first place.
President Obama will also get beaten up for presiding over the first bond rating downgrade in U.S. history as well as high unemployment. When the cold rains fall in early November next year, unemployed voters in places like Ohio will step into the booth and dream of a minimum wage job in the Texas sun selling fishing rods at big box sporting goods stores or working in call centers; they will vote against Barack Obama.
And in the process, they will write the epitaph to set upon the tombstone of history's greatest democracy: Perry-Palin, 2012.
We're screwed. Just what we need, more jobs selling cheap Chinese goods that the folks who sell them will barely be able to afford. Nice future we're going to have.
Peace.
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
Brilliantati©
Not to be the thread police but if this was high school you so would have been busted for plagiarism!
Heres the link to the full article:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/11/m ... hpt=po_bn1
haha. That is pretty sad.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I wasn't trying to pass the CNN article off as my own, rather I just posted what I thought was the most salient part, the original author's conclusion. Next time, I'll cite the source and/or post the link to the full article.
But I am kind of offended that you would think that I would think the members of this community or forum readers wouldn't catch it. C'mon, I might of fallen off the turnip truck but it wasn't yesterday. Sorry I didn't cite my source and as someone who wrote a ton of papers in my undergraduate years, I should have known better. Spank, spank, slap, slap.
Peace.
Libtardaplorable©. And proud of it.
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Sorry, it was just that I literally read the article and went to AMT after and started reading your post and was like wait a minute... I just read this. I just wanted to make sure people got a chance to read the whole opinion piece, which I think is very interesting. It wasn't meant to be an "a-ha, gotcha!" kind of thing. I didn't mean to imply that you were trying to pass it off as your own, just that it wasn't properly cited, which does constitute as plagiarism.
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That's some good shit Rick!
Woot!
Also the part about "making the federal government as inconsequential in your lives as possible"
Double woot for the win!
Wait... you're talking about the guy who says he'd support a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality? would he end the Defense of Marriage Act and not stop the DREAM act?
Well then.. that's something new.
All hat, no cattle. Just like another former Texas governor.
Wash me in the blood of Rock & Roll
*snicker* To Christians, government begins in the bedroom and ends at the gun cabinet.
Wash me in the blood of Rock & Roll
Less than two weeks into his official campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Perry has a 12-point lead over Mitt Romney, according to a nationwide Gallup poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents released Wednesday. Perry, the Texas governor, received the support of 29 percent of the poll's respondents.
WOOT
That would be great. A Win-Win.
Thus cementing the win for the President in 2012.
Trust me... that train is going to wreck and it's going to be Glorious.
Woot, indeed.
There is a long way to go. The only thing that would cement a win for Obama would be for their to be jobs. Otherwise, it will be a battle against whoever is up against him. And it should be.
oh, the fight isn't over... that's probably true.
But that Texas Good Ol' Boy charm isn't going to play well in the states that he'll need to win. And his record is a pretty bad one.
and just wait until the viral videos of him and Dubya lined up next to each other start.
And Jon Stewart is holding back the GOOD jokes until after the nomination.
You really think that shit is gonna fly in Ohio or New York or Washington?
I'm saying it might not even be Rick Perry running against Obama. There is a reason he is late to the party.
That's probably true, too.
We'll see.
that said... never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter. On either side of the aisle.