State of the Union Address (1/20/15)

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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Pepe Silvia wrote:
    drinkbigredinstead wrote:
    Attaway77 wrote:
    I was fortunate enough to be invited to this tonight.. Pretty freakin cool to be inside there watching it all.


    Not a fan of Obama, but being able to witness would be an experience regardless of who is in office.


    i wouldn't have spent all that energy just to be lied to in my face....

    Meh. I still watched it. Had to for my Political Science class.
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    EdsonNascimento wrote:


    2 words: Jimmy Carter.

    :clap:
  • whygohome
    whygohome Posts: 2,305
    SweetChildofMine wrote:
    The battery company President Obama announces in the state of the union address files bankruptcy two days after the speech.

    WTF?

    Anybody tired of these C%&Ksuckers? Let me the F@#k OUT of this insanity! I am now thoroughly convinced the world is a pile a Chit. How many more things can corporate F@CKs destroy? It most likely the only hope for keeping the lights on in this region. Im sorry sabotage. Im calling it. They want you to believe its waste. Cat and mouse crap. Nobody does a thing as the world falls to hell. Destroy yourselves please. Live in the sewers you have created all for the love of money.

    http://news.investors.com/Article/59930 ... -obama.htm


    Doesn't matter anyway. China and Germany not only will dominate the battery market, but also the Solar and Wind markets.

    What have we been doing for the past 10 years?
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    whygohome wrote:
    SweetChildofMine wrote:
    The battery company President Obama announces in the state of the union address files bankruptcy two days after the speech.

    WTF?

    Anybody tired of these C%&Ksuckers? Let me the F@#k OUT of this insanity! I am now thoroughly convinced the world is a pile a Chit. How many more things can corporate F@CKs destroy? It most likely the only hope for keeping the lights on in this region. Im sorry sabotage. Im calling it. They want you to believe its waste. Cat and mouse crap. Nobody does a thing as the world falls to hell. Destroy yourselves please. Live in the sewers you have created all for the love of money.

    http://news.investors.com/Article/59930 ... -obama.htm


    Doesn't matter anyway. China and Germany not only will dominate the battery market, but also the Solar and Wind markets.

    What have we been doing for the past 10 years?
    Nothing except two wars and other things and ignoring on how to make our country better.
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  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Tonight @ 9 PM Feb 12 2013

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/02/obama-set-to-deliver-fourth-state-of-the-union.html

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/02/12/171740019/4-things-to-expect-in-obamas-state-of-the-union-address
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    edited January 2014
    Tonight @ 9 p.m. ET (1/28/14)

    Post edited by Idris on
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,424
    an exhibition of fake ass standing ovations, where the republicans are going to stand up tonight, but tomorrow begin to block everything he wants to do.

    no thanks.

    i sometimes wonder why we even go through the formality of such a speech when everyone on earth knows that the agenda is not going to happen for no other reason than "just because"....
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,424
    anybody watching this shit? all of these ovations, knowing full well that obama's agenda is dead on arrival in the house and automatically filibustered in the senate. here is to another long year...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Yah watching it, also texting a friend about it. We both watching, but I'm about to change I think, I'll catch the highlights on CNN.
  • Guitar92player
    Guitar92player Posts: 664
    gimmesometruth27 said:

    back on topic. does anyone here really think obama is going to get anything done with a hostile congress?

    and by the way, if newt wins he wants to colonize the moon...

    If Congress refuses to get anything done, and if Obama does something that the people actually want, then let him use executive orders. If such powers exist, let it happen; if Congress hates it then too bad, its in the Constitution. Past Presidents have used wayyyyyy more executive orders than Obama.

    ~Carter~

    You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets, oh
    or you can come to terms and realize
    you're the only one who can't forgive yourself, oh
    makes much more sense to live in the present tense     - Present Tense
  • CH156378
    CH156378 Posts: 1,539
    I loved the speech. America is lucky to have him as president.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    So year six is finally The Year of Action?

    Let the good times roll ....
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Jason P said:

    So year six is finally The Year of Action?

    Let the good times roll ....

    The Cars!

    "If the illusion is real, let them give you a ride"

    Fitting, eh?
  • petejm043
    petejm043 Posts: 156
    I am not a big fan of the President. But I think his speech last night was good. Especially when it came to the middle class and the profits companies are making. I think he is right...its time that these companies start given raises to its workers.
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    BuMp
  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    I can't wait to see folk blow their tops when Obama proposes taxing the rich. Which should have been done the first year he was in.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    backseatLover12 wrote: »
    I can't wait to see folk blow their tops when Obama proposes taxing the rich. Which should have been done the first year he was in.
    I thought they're taxed already :-?

    My history of watching this (regardless of president) is catching the first few minutes, then saying "fuck it" and moving on.
  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    edited January 2015
    I can always only handle like one minute of that phony applause and then I switch stations.

    The rich are hardly taxed hedonist, are you kidding? Why do you think we're losing the Middle Class? And did you know that the biggest corps (GE one of them) pays no tax at all? Nothing, zero.
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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    edited January 2015
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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    state-local-federal-taxes-income.jpg

    As you can see, the poorer you are, the more state and local taxes bite into your income. As you get richer, those taxes recede, and you're mainly getting hit be federal taxes. So that's another lesson: When you omit state and local taxes from your analysis, you're omitting the taxes that hit lower-income taxpayers hardest.

    But here is really the only tax graph you need: It's total tax burden by income group. And as you'll see, every income group is paying something, and the rich aren't paying much more, as a percentage of their incomes, then the middle class.

    total-tax-bill-income.jpg

    That's really what the American tax system looks like: Not 47 percent paying nothing, but everybody paying something, and most Americans paying between 25 percent and 30 percent of their income -- which is, by the way, a lot more the 13.9 percent Mitt Romney paid in 2011*.

    When politicians try to convince you that half of Americans aren't really paying taxes, it's usually because the real data undermines their preferred policies. For instance, you wouldn't look at these numbers and think tax cuts for the rich need to be a huge priority. And that's one reason people who want more tax cuts for the rich don't like to show you these numbers.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/19/heres-why-the-47-percent-argument-is-an-abuse-of-tax-data/

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