tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post8340107824177781280..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: We Have a Long Way to GoSilverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-60875010762331710222011-08-06T14:35:06.234-06:002011-08-06T14:35:06.234-06:00No Finntann, we also deduct the dough we are peein...No Finntann, we also deduct the dough we are peeing away in Iraq and Afghanistan (and other places), repeal the Bush tax cuts and we should be at a level of growth where we can deal with the budget.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-46573164533568325352011-08-06T11:01:49.547-06:002011-08-06T11:01:49.547-06:00I know I may get in trouble for saying this but I ...I know I may get in trouble for saying this but I can't help laughing when I say, to this comment of Speedy's "The "Tea Party" held a gun to the Democrats heads and said, "cut spending"!"........<br /><br />"Maybe they should have pulled the trigger instead!" :-)<br /><br />I know, I'm under arrest. That's fine :-)Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-39262356097011855202011-08-06T10:15:55.694-06:002011-08-06T10:15:55.694-06:00Ducky, lets see, according to Obama dot
com the ...Ducky, lets see, according to Obama dot <br /><br />com the figures are as follows:<br /><br />FY10: 530.8B<br />FY11: 549.1B<br />FY12: 553B<br /><br />http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/factsheet_department_defense/<br /><br />According to the CBO, the federal deficit for 2010 was 1300B dollars.<br /><br />So, according to your impeccable logic, eliminating the DoD... leaves us with a 747B shortfall.<br /><br />Estimates for the cost of the Bush Tax Cuts over 10 years estimate from a low of 600B to a high of around 3B. Taking the median figure of 1.8T over ten years, allowing those to expire will bring in another 180B a year. So...<br /><br />You are still short 567B<br /><br />And once again... No DoD, 567B Annual Deficit...<br /><br />HOW MUCH ARE YOU GOING TO RAISE TAXES?<br /><br />Looking at tax revenue as a percentage of GDP. The US sits at roughly 26.9% and cannot support its entitlement load, and we have not even begun to talk about the debt.<br /><br />Your Answer is raise taxes.<br /><br />Lets look at the failing democratic-socialist states in Europe and what their tax rate is:<br /><br />France: 46.1%<br />Ireland: 30.8%<br />Germany: 40.6%<br />Greece: 33.5%<br />Spain: 37.3%<br />Portugal: 37%<br />UK: 39%<br /><br />You are not only spending money you don't have, you are spending money that doesn't exist. The numbers wouldn't work even if you went back to the pre-Kennedy 91% tax rate on the wealthiest.<br /><br />So, how the hell do you think you can make it work here?<br /><br />Must be "New Math"...I'd be ROFLMAO if it wasn't so sad.Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-50785817550354251922011-08-06T08:46:39.651-06:002011-08-06T08:46:39.651-06:00The "Tea Party" held a gun to the Democr...The "Tea Party" held a gun to the Democrats heads and said, "cut spending"!<br /><br />Despite THAT warning, the Democrats FAILED TO ACT, costing the US Treasury BILLIONS in additional costs through a downgraded credit rating.<br /><br />Talk about irresponsible! DESPITE the Tea Party's insistance that they act, Democrats HELD FIRM and gave NO INDICATION to the markets that THEY could behave responsibly and action to address the Debt seriously.<br /><br />I've only three words for you, Jersey...<br /><br />"UNFIT TO GOVERN!"<br /><br />Anyone BUT Obama in 2012.Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-18492575441390145682011-08-06T07:55:22.262-06:002011-08-06T07:55:22.262-06:00Jerey" You wanna talk irresponsible? How ab...Jerey" You wanna talk irresponsible? How about the off-the-rails socialists of all parties who racked up more debt than we can ever pay off? That's irresponsible.<br /><br />Ducky: Socialism has killed more people than it has pulled out of poverty. Shared misery. Your comments on that horrible system are laughable.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-15840131919633990882011-08-06T06:14:15.728-06:002011-08-06T06:14:15.728-06:00Michelle Obama made a great statement at Barack...Michelle Obama made a great statement at Barack's Birthday bash the other day. She said: "All of Barack's white hairs on his head is proof that he deserves a second term."<br /><br />So I guess we had all better do our civic duty and re-elect him.Most Rev. Gregorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07540256252670065874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-62227260473984371032011-08-06T05:21:48.648-06:002011-08-06T05:21:48.648-06:00We held the country hostage.... and the DEMOCRATS ...We held the country hostage.... and the DEMOCRATS pulled the trigger!!!!Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-25693605393724851202011-08-06T05:13:15.070-06:002011-08-06T05:13:15.070-06:00with children in the car
You mean the conservativ...<i>with children in the car</i><br /><br />You mean the conservative people's children that didn't get aborted? What do YOU care about them, Snooki? They're you chief future source of income...Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-71850217623303735622011-08-06T04:17:39.347-06:002011-08-06T04:17:39.347-06:00This just in from the Netwits:
Why Marxists Are M...This just in from the Netwits:<br /><br /><b>Why Marxists Are Made Not Born</b><br /><br />A local United Way office realized that the organization had never received a donation from the town's most successful lawyer. The person in charge of contributions called him to persuade him to contribute.<br /><br />"Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at least $500,000, you give not a penny to charity. Wouldn't you like to give back to the community in some way?"<br /><br />The lawyer mulled this over for a moment and replied, "First, did your research also show that my mother is dying after a long illness, and has medical bills that are several times her annual income?"<br /><br />Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbled, "Um ... no."<br /><br />The lawyer interrupts, "or that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair?"<br /><br />The stricken United Way rep began to stammer out an apology, but was interrupted again.<br /><br />"or that my sister's husband died in a traffic accident," the lawyer's voice rising in indignation, "leaving her penniless with three children?!"<br /><br />The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, said simply, "I had no idea..."<br /><br />On a roll, the lawyer cut him off once again, "So if I don't give any money to them, why should I give any to you?"<br /><br /><br />Submitted by FreeThinke<br /><br /><i>"For every arrogant, selfish shit who struts the face of the earth ten thousand Marxists spring up in his wake."</i> <br /><br />~ Vendetta SanguiniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-64021713413038521982011-08-05T22:40:41.071-06:002011-08-05T22:40:41.071-06:00Sorry Finntann, the useless military and the miser...Sorry Finntann, the useless military and the miserable non progressive tax policy is what's killing us. I support neither.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-14570483958202624302011-08-05T22:32:05.835-06:002011-08-05T22:32:05.835-06:00>the Mormon system of authoritarian capitalism
...>the Mormon system of authoritarian capitalism<br />>So if you like oppression you'll love Mormonism.<br /><br />Just a word of precaution. Before you start spouting off about things related to Mormonism that you don't really know anything about, you should be aware that there are at least a couple of us here that are, let's just say, deeply familiar with the history, doctrine, and policies of the LDS Church, and will be more than able to tear apart the falsehoods with relaxed ease.<br /><br />Anyway, wouldn't want you looking silly (or rather, sillier), so just a friendly heads up. And by the way, Orrin Hatch is pretty wishy-washy from the standpoint of statesmanship, and Harry Reid is what I call a MINO (Mormon In Name Only). Just in case you were planning on standing them up as straw men.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-16965597451223727192011-08-05T22:07:54.968-06:002011-08-05T22:07:54.968-06:00"MK said...
It's gotten to the point ..."MK said...<br /> It's gotten to the point where cutting without hurting is not possible, thanks to crazy liberals and some republican allies"<br /><br />The wisest of the very wise, MK; you're so right and I think of this problem often.....anybody who'll finally cut and help get this country on its legs again won't be elected. We've let the Left create a nanny state which America never thought would happen here...except the ALinsky/Cloward-Pivin planners.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-42854210029253304652011-08-05T21:36:14.123-06:002011-08-05T21:36:14.123-06:00As opposed to the friggin liberal psychos who woul...As opposed to the friggin liberal psychos who would have us bankrupt for their INSIPID IDEOLOGY?<br /><br />No better than a mugger with a gun lifting wallets and handbags.<br /><br />I don't see how you can think spending money like it's burning a hole in your pocket is a good idea. It's shamelessly irresponsible.<br /><br />So, how much do your grandkids owe now?<br /><br />Cheers!Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-8839022322758679402011-08-05T20:41:40.582-06:002011-08-05T20:41:40.582-06:00There are untold millions of jobs I wouldn't w...There are untold millions of jobs I wouldn't want to do and millions more I'd be incapable of doing. The world would literally fall apart if the vast majority weren't performing tasks many of us educated, executive or artistic types were ill equipped to do.<br />---------------<br />Yup, and there is no reason we should stand for an economic system so screwed up that these people don't have a decent diet, decent housing and basic medical care.<br /><br />That is a socialists goal. It is of no concern to the Libertarian. It's the primary reason that I say a Libertarian can not be a Christian.<br /><br />I know, I'll get the old charity argument. And charity is a good thing. It is not an entirely good thing when it is used to soothe one's conscience while you try to keep the disgusting Calvinist structure in place. <br /><br />Good bless the child who's got his own.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-80909977840959794212011-08-05T20:29:17.837-06:002011-08-05T20:29:17.837-06:00Ruth Marcus was absolutely right.
The GOP "...Ruth Marcus was absolutely right. <br /><br />The GOP "Tea Party" friggin' psychos were willing to have the US FRIGGIN' GOVERNMENT DEFAULT for their INSIPID IDEOLOGY.<br /><br />No better than a thug with a gun carjacking a woman with children in the car. These people who did this are scumbags.<br /><br />I just don't see how any of you could think it was a good idea. It was all wel and fine to bitch about it, it was shamelessly irresponsible to get that close to doing it.<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-54365219677562118302011-08-05T19:52:24.002-06:002011-08-05T19:52:24.002-06:00PART TWO
He read the Bible every day, and I know ...PART TWO<br /><br />He read the Bible every day, and I know he knew that Envy was one of the Seven Deadly Sins -- and definitely not worthy of respect at any level.<br /><br />He lived to be ninety, and died peacefully in his sleep in his own home after a short bout with pneumonia with his surviving children around him. It really doesn't get much better than that.<br /><br />The Anger-Driven Life has always struck me as a great waste of a splendid opportunity.<br /><br />Here are two quotations from Shaw that strike me as appropriate to this discussion. They're not really meant to go together, but I think they complement one another very well just the same. <br /><br /><i>"All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake; not because it isn't a good thing to improve the world, if you know how to do it, but because striving and struggling is the worst way you could set about doing anything."<br /><br />"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you're thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."</i><br /><br />~ G. B. Shaw (1856-1950) <br /><br />The second of the two is one of my particular favorites. And yes I know Shaw was a Fabian Socialist, in favor of Eugenics and very snobbish about those he regarded as intellectual inferiors. But it doesn't matter to me. I read somewhere that Franz Schubert did of tertiary syphilis at the age of 31, and that Wagner did not admire Jews, and that Frank Lloyd Wright was a callous, selfish, egotistical old bastard who treated his family very poorly. So what?<br /><br />A person is so much more than a compendium of their flaws. I wouldn't care if Mozart had been a child rapist, and Beethoven a serial killer. That wouldn't take on iota away from the importance of the sublime genius that shines through every bit of their musical output.<br /><br />And so it goes ...<br /><br />I prefer to take a more sanguine view and to eschew the notion that life is tragedy filled with suffering that comes from injustice, etc. I can't see how anything could be gained from that Tragic View other than increasing amounts of misery and degradation.<br /><br />~ FreeThinke<br /><br />PS: I've always thought Orrin Hatch a bit of an old maid in pants, myself. He's prissy and namby pamby. Seems always a little too willing to consider the opposition's point of view at the expense of what-he-claims-to-be his own. I see him as the counterpart to Gentleman Joe Whatsisname -- the Orthodox Jewish senator from Connecticut with the wife named Hadassah -- both Gentleman Joe and Hatch are very soft-spoken, very reasonable, very kind and thoughtful, but in the end they never really DO anything. No follow-though, It's all TALK. ~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-59330668708997627592011-08-05T19:51:49.508-06:002011-08-05T19:51:49.508-06:00PART TONE
Thanks, Ducky. What you meant is a litt...PART TONE<br /><br />Thanks, Ducky. What you meant is a little clearer now.<br /><br />Again, though, it may be a matter of semantics. What constitutes "oppression" in your view may be different from my understanding of the term.<br /><br />After all, every one of us has to do many things he'd rather not have to bother with in order to stay alive and keep a place in society. If we don't we become bums or outlaws -- or both. Is that "oppression" or is it just reality?<br /><br />There are untold millions of jobs I wouldn't want to do and millions more I'd be incapable of doing. The world would literally fall apart if the vast majority weren't performing tasks many of us educated, executive or artistic types were ill equipped to do.<br /><br />I already told you one of my grandpas was a lowly janitor. I'm sure he didn't revel in broom pushing and swabbing out toilet bowls, but he did it uncomplainingly, because he realized it was a means to an end. He had a family to feed. I knew him only as an old man. My mother was the last of his eight children, but I'm sure he was reasonably content with his lot in life. I know he was proud that all of his children did a great deal better than he and grandma economically and socially. rather than letting himself be eaten up with resentment that he didn't have equal privileges with his bosses he worked with the opportunities he had, was a steady, reliable, agreeable man who may not have gone far, but was loved and respected by all who knew him. I think he was a great success, myself.<br /><br />(CONTINUED)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-55792907405588538672011-08-05T17:04:19.753-06:002011-08-05T17:04:19.753-06:00It's gotten to the point where cutting without...It's gotten to the point where cutting without hurting is not possible, thanks to crazy liberals and some republican allies. You better start slashing now before someone else will cut for you and be really mean about it.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-84866851940706187212011-08-05T16:57:46.952-06:002011-08-05T16:57:46.952-06:00Simple AOW, let's go back to the idea of autho...Simple AOW, let's go back to the idea of authoritative capitalism.<br /><br />Right now lare American corporations are sitting on nearly two trillion dollars and they aren't going to invest it ad they aren't going to hire UNTIL THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT.<br /><br />What is that? Here's a hint: It ain't environmental activism.<br /><br />Did you catch the Black Bush today? The human crap bag was making his job pitch and started in on what a tough year it's been. "The terrible weather, unemployment and the Arab Spring affecting oil prices". He kind of let his priorities slip as Chucklenuts never did.<br /><br />Meanwhile he's also pushing for a "free trade"(LMFAO) agreement with South Korea. That should create jobs -- in South Korea and it will get some of that 1.75 trillion moved off shore.<br /><br />But damn, don't tax them, they won't create jobs. Right?<br /><br />In ends when the fringe right wakes up.<br /><br />The struggle is eternal.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-5795235251601279482011-08-05T16:34:23.664-06:002011-08-05T16:34:23.664-06:00I concur with what Z said:
How do we start manufa...I concur with what Z said:<br /><br /><i>How do we start manufacturing here again? to me, that's a big key in this. When I hear Obama say JOBS JOBS JOBS, I cringe because he's usually promoting more gov't jobs; we need corporations and smaller companies to stop being insulted for being successful and to get busy producing and hiring. </i><br /><br />Any real recovery depends on an increased GDP -- not on the hiring of more government bureaucrats.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-91886329592984595882011-08-05T16:34:03.888-06:002011-08-05T16:34:03.888-06:00Oh by the way Freethinker, Utah has higher unemplo...Oh by the way Freethinker, Utah has higher unemployment and a lower per capita income than the liberal hell hole, Massachusetts.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-33693785191903940472011-08-05T16:32:45.797-06:002011-08-05T16:32:45.797-06:00Freethinker, authoritarian capitalism is a system ...Freethinker, authoritarian capitalism is a system that provides a level of economic freedom with political oppression. It's similar to state capitalism but the economic power is more wisely distributed.<br /><br />So if you like oppression you'll love Mormonism. Harry Reid do anything for you? He's not as bad as Orin Hatch, a real pile of human filth. Check his statements on the budget cuts recently although it may be just your style.<br /><br />As far as being owned, I men being left out of the power structure. The effort to get the powerless together is monumental. The struggle is eternal.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-35748074730362486332011-08-05T15:44:11.999-06:002011-08-05T15:44:11.999-06:00And, Ducky, why don't you enlighten us about &...And, Ducky, why don't you enlighten us about "the Mormon system of authoritarian Capitalism?" <br /><br />I couldn't be a Mormon, I'm sure, but from all the outward and visible signs they seem to be an astonishingly successful, prosperous, productive, clean living wholly benign group. The music program at Brigham Young University is very probably second only to that at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. The last time I checked, St. Olaf's was almost on a par. All three ar far superior to The Vienna Choir Boys -- at last as that esteemed group is today. <br /><br />The fruits of Mormonism appear far superior to those of Marxism, although I'll grant you that splendid work was achieved at the Moscow Conservatory and elsewhere in Russia, even under Stalin's reign of Terror. (Classical music is about the only thing that gives me hope frankly. It seems to endure even under the worst conditions -- and it has spread to Communist China with a vengeance, despite Mao's injunction against it as "decadent" and "Bourgeois." (That shows what <i>he</i> knew, right?)<br /><br />So explain please why you think there is something inherently wrong with the way Mormon's benefit from the Capitalist system?<br /><br />~ FreeThinke<br /><br />PS: I'm no fan of Mitt Romney. He's a liberal. - RAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-31447908911088815702011-08-05T15:27:44.548-06:002011-08-05T15:27:44.548-06:00Gosh, Ducky! If we are "owned," doesn...Gosh, Ducky! If <i>we</i> are "owned," doesn't that mean that <i>you</i> are owned too? You do live here in the good ol' USA, don't you?<br /><br />So, why point fingers as though you were outside or above it all? As I see it, we're all in the same boat -- and it's leaking badly.<br /><br />Don't you think we'd do better to work together to try to plug the leaks than to argue about who is responsible for getting us into the damned tub in the first place?<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-62313230294138707582011-08-05T13:37:42.350-06:002011-08-05T13:37:42.350-06:00Well, you're unlikely to make much progress in...Well, you're unlikely to make much progress in the next election. And to an extent it's your own fault.<br /><br />Bachmann, Cain, Santorum, Palin, Rick "Massive State Deficit" Perry, Newt ... going nowhere because by and large they are insane. Who does that leave?<br /><br />Why yes, Mitt Romney. Why is this extremely significant? Because few people have bothered to pay much attention to the Mormon system of authoritarian capitalism ... that is except for the Chinese and they have it down, believe it.<br /><br />So you have Romney or The Wall Street Tool. You are owned.<br /><br />Look around the world right now and the damn Syrians seem to be the only ones with any freaking balls.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.com