Democratic thinking when speaking on camera 101: Say as few words as possible so they don't know you're misleading them. When confronted by a question you have no answer to, blame it on the GOP. Always tell the cameras that the only way to fix any given problem is to give the government more control over it. When confronted with budget problems, tell them you must spent a trillion more to fix it; then blame Bush or Reagan. Be cunning & crafty like the snake from the Garden of Eden.
A time for choosing by Ronald Reagan is all i gotta say to this... A man who didn't need teleprompters to sound smart, had a story for every occasion and one of my biggest inspirations.
@jmintube you dems got no room to talk, because with that statment you just threw out any prospect of FDR doing anything.... I look at unemployment, and military strength. Reagan did well with both.
@mikethebassguy 1. I am not a democract 2. By choosing to analyze only 2 criteria that a president is supposed to cover, you lack any sense of a larger picture.....just as you choose to draw inspiration from soundbytes, you are clearly not committed to truly analyze his presidency in its entirety....perhaps because it is convenient or perhaps because you are afraid of what you will find. You cannot simply bury your head in the sand.
@jmintube i look at what is important to me, which is the ability to go and get/ keep a job and also look at our armed forces to see how secure we are. Reagan did excellent on both of those points... I don't care about social programs as i am fully against any and all forms of goverment aid. I care about lower taxes (personally in favor of a flat tax across the board) I look at the Reagan years and i see success.
@mikethebassguy just so you understand, your vision of success involved the condemnation of millions to a hard and brutal life. Where financial security is unheard of. In many ways, your vision of success resembles that of Hitler's practice of eugenics. Your vision also carelessly ignores the impacts of capitalism on the environment. Perhaps when water becomes a scarce commodity you will re-evalute your vision. Your vision is also very archaic...I would of expected a Roman to present your view.
@jmintube lol you said you wern't a democrat? so what the hell are you then? a socialist? marxist? you probably believe in global warming etc too, and water will never be a problem as i live in the country. I care about being self sufficient, and will provide and protect for my family and friends. No one else.
@mikethebassguy He did well at 2 fronts... amongst hundreds that the POTUS is responsible for... WTF? Sorry Mike, reps have been having a downturn for quite some time... except for GHB senior, he's good in my book. Either way, stop talking like it's a them and us mentality, ie your dem comment. Having ONLY 2 choices is the biggest problem... oh yeah, and religiosity poking it's damn nose in government... vicariously through idiot zealot politicians...
@hieronomy This country wasn't founded to give handouts, or any other social programs, this country was founded for "the people" individual liberty, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Socialists and marxists are for the goverment telling whats best for the collective people and its not welcome here.
@mikethebassguy So are you saying that you dismiss these factual claims? And sounding smart and being smart are 2 different things... you sure you want HIM as an inspiration? Are you trying to get into acting, heard he was a helluva actor...
@kingjust627 You can think whatever you like, and i would agree about the republican party, thats why the tea party needs to take over the republican party. And it is not religion poking into goverment its goverment forcing religion (atheism is a religion just like christianity)
And it is a them and us, i spit at socialists and marxists, and thats what liberals are leaning towards... if i see an obama sticker on a car i don't pull over and help them change a tire for example
@mikethebassguy SMH Ok "Mike", lets get some things straight. 1. Atheism is not a religion, it is the total opposite of it. You can beleive all what "religious" people say about the non religious, but from a NON RELIGIOUS to a sheep like you, it IS a disbelief with no tenets no dogma, UNLIKE religion. 2. Religion is no more special then believeing in santa clause, though idiot officials have been trying to inject THEIR beliefs for ages. So rethink your fallacious assumption. cont.
@kingjust627 Atheism is a religion whether you like it or not, let me prove it. Atheists want God taken out of the pledge, the 10 commandments out of the courts, "so help me god" out of the oath... Now if Atheists don't believe in God then "god" is just a meaningless word that they cannot take any offense to. But no they want to force everyone not to have anything to do with it (force converting) its really simple actually Atheism - marxism go hand in hand
@mikethebassguy This doesn't prove atheism is a religion you nutbag. The pledge never had god in it until 1954, look it up. No religious doctrines should be in any of our courts as it shows favortism towards that particular religion. Would you like the quran in our courts? They have the same liberties as you... NO, i didn't think so. So help me god... that's a choice and no one is forced to say, so pulling that out of your ass well, i'm not surprised. cont....
@mikethebassguy It's not that they don't want anyone to have anything to do with (you are a really big dummy as you truy to speak for atheist ideals, but have no fucking clue), you can practice it how you see it. But government cannot force people to commit to religious practices, it goes against the "respecting the establishment" clause in the first amendment. Jesus fucking christ, get your shit together. Your a like a rusty shot gun spraying bullshit everywhere...
@mikethebassguy Lastly, atheism is NOT marxism. Athiesm is the LACK of belief in ANY gods. Marxism is "is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism." <--- How the fuck is that athiesm you dolt!!!
@mikethebassguy Do me a favor... you have shown to be a hateful bigotted idiot. Stop posting as you are speaking about things from which you've pigeon holed or are completed fucking ignorant to... with all do respect.
@kingjust627 I believe in the constitution, socialists and marxists aka liberals have been trying to undermine it for sometime now, Nazis and Communists both preached atheism under the state, so it doesn't matter what upbringing hitler or stalin had for that matter. "we already have a mixed socialist/ capitalist system" yea i do have a problem with it and we are working to correct it in the election, if we fail the system will collapse anyway and patriots will rebuild the country anyway.
@mikethebassguy 3. Your last comment is what seperates animals from humans. Not matter who the person is, I would help them. Regardless of religion, political leaning, color, favorite flavor. Your character shows that of prejudice and bigotry, for idiot reasons... "bumper sticker". YOU are what is wrong with this country. You alienate yourself to think that THEY are out to get YOU and you segregate yourself through superficial ideaological idiocy.
@kingjust627 Well if atheism is right we are all animals and soulless creatures... What part of i hate the left don't you get? look at history the left has been responsible for the deaths of millions of people, Nazism, communism etc are responsible for many of my relatives deaths, and any political party that institutes any part of either ideology I will be against (right now thats liberals) No liberal will ever get anything from me.
@mikethebassguy Atheism isn't about right or wrong you moron, just get the definition right. But you are right though, we are animals and souless. We just have larger brains and there has never been evidence of a soul. Good job promoting moronic ideas behind false definitions. The left, who are you to define what is meant by "the left". Setting up your own buildings to knock them down I see. Nazism... you know hitler was christian, right? Read meihn kahmf... know your history dude.
@kingjust627 So it was really christianity that killed your relatives... SMH No liberals will get anything from you, but yet our socialized programs created the military, roads, railway, etc. You take, use, and are defended for... but don't give back... your pretty selfish and self centered... I'll be sure not to piss on you when you are on fire, i'll just get a water hose because i'm not idealogically fucked up like you. Everyone are humans in my eye. You on the other hand... diplorable.
@mikethebassguy When someone objects to servicing you because you don't believe what they believe, or selling you a very basic product for the same reason, don't start bitching about your rights. Just remember your moronic comment HERE, about government forcing religion.... And for your own benefit, why don't YOU ask an atheist if what they 'disbelieve' is a religion instead of someone who is already a bigot towards those of no belief. I'm sure you won't, but facts elude those like you.
@kingjust627 "those who think differently then you" no, i spit on them for undermining the constitution, and the very foundation of our country... socialists and marxists have europe and russia, hate to break it to you but the majority of this country will not allow them to take root here.
@mikethebassguy so basically the way you think is right and true and the only way huh? It seems like the very system you don't want to be enveloped in this country, you are doing it yourself through your self centered zealotry. Some would say the same to you about the way you think, are they right true? Again YOU are what is terribly wrong with the citizens of this country... We already have a mixed socialist/capitalistic society... got a problem with it?
Reagan Didn’t Promise To Do Great Things For Us, He Showed Us That Great Things Came From Within. I never had the privilege of meeting former President Ronald Reagan in person. Few Presidents have been as consistently underestimated as Reagan. He was viewed with considerable disdain by the Washington establishment because he was one of us- a patriotic, genuine man with a moral clarity grounded in Christianity and a deep belief in American exceptionalism.
reagan is loved because this is amerikkka... as long as your rich and white and have a bible in one hand and a gun in the other you'll be loved.He spoke in a very gentle grandfather voice and hated minorities,and loved wars --thats all you need to know to be loved in amerikkka.
Ya know. I've noticed with Democrats that they're gonna ride that scooter of "Obama inherited Bush's debt", until you say "what about Reagan, didn't he inherit Carter's debt?" then they try and back track, by saying, this is about Obama not Reagan. Seems like we've got hypocrites on our hands called Obama-Dumbacrats. Holy crap people. JUST ADMIT IT!!! YOU ARE WRONG!!! 3 simple words. Or does your vocabulary not go that high?
The fuck? Friedman was AGAINST old money and saving money for future generations and was pro spending and create more wealth. Raegan used Friedman for his own cronies to get richer. He killed the space programs, admitedly the greatest public investment, and killed education. Alternative energy sources technologies were available since the late 70's and he dumped them for the sake of oil companies. What are YOUR arguments?
@realworldbycj You are a fucktard. Supply side economics does not work has never worked and will never work especially since the implementation of NAFTA.
If you simply give a trillion dollars to the top corporations in this country the vast majority of that money will never be used for Job creation. Most of it will sit in volts for growth numbers. It creates artificial worth and nothing more.
If you give that same amount to the people of the country almost every penny gets pumped back into the economy.
People buy goods and services. Corporations historically increase corporate bonuses. They also invest a lot in overseas ventures. and stockpile the rest.
If instead of the large banks getting bailed out directly, if the government would have directed the FED to give that same money in the form of mortgage vouchers all of the people that were at the shitty end of this situation would have had their mortgages paid off and the banks would have STILL BEEN SAVED.
The Mortgage companies would have had to start over. An easy thing to do as a world bank, not so easy for us with a foreclosure on us.
@Clownwhiper I don't stand for profane language! I will NOT tolerate that! It shows a severe lack of intelligence! I am NOT saying jobs are created by the gov't giving corporations a trillion dollars. I don't believe in subsidies.
@realworldbycj Subsidies?? you mean like gigantic tax cuts right?
many of the largest corporations get both.
Welfare is welfare. GE paid a negative tax rate last year.
The neocons are not selling out country they are giving it away!
I beg your pardon for the "bad language" But when people perpetuation fantasies and promote fallacies to me it is akin to treason and that my good sir is something that I will not tolerate.
it's always a strange thing how people can ignore the truth. the facts are there in black and white but we have all these Reaganites jumping up and down stamping their feet and making lame excuses that they wouldn't accept from Obama and yet at least some of it would be true in his case.
It's always refreshing to hear a communist speak their mind.
I'll make two points here...During Reagan's administration, he was wildly popular. If you doubt it just look at the electoral maps for the Presidential elections for 1980, 1984, and yes 1988 as he helped George Bush sr. win his election as well. As for the deficit, the Democrats controlled Congress, and the purse strings of the US budget. So I guess you should blame congress. Hey why not? It works for Obama!
@reaganremembered However, Congress DOES create and maintain budgets in the US. So although the President should always have the opportunity to veto or pass any given budget bill. He may not always get that chance due to democratic Congress.
@barknasty49 If you don't believe it, you're an idiot. Reagan raised the debt limit 17 times. Reagan traded arms to Iran for hostages and gave amnesty to six million illegal aliens. I guess you could say that he helped destroy America like that black guy that you claim is from Kenya that you hate so much. You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Please read a book and quit listening to that drug-addict Rush Limbaugh.
Reagan's goal was to usher in the return of the Robber baron era BEFORE there were unions and BEFORE there was a large middle class. So why be surprised the middle class is shrinking? Y'all voted for that.
However, while Reagan and the Christian Right had their love affair with Afghan mujahiddeen Holy Warriors (Rambo movie) of which the Taliban were one group -- and those did NOT attack the USA (and it's doubtful OBL had a role in 9/11), anti-USSR meddling there began with Jimmy Carter .. fact.
A fascist is someone who believes that a one-party state is a good idea. Fascism is literally a government controlled by one party. therefore, both the democrats and the republicans wish they could be fascist. Learn what a word means. Fascism isn't necessarily bad but it has been associated irrevocably with being bad because of Hitler and the Nazi's. Who were the most extreme example we have had recently. (Read last 100 years)
There you go again. Twisting the truth to suit your own ends and means. This video is nothing more than Liberal/Communist propaganda. If you're interested in the truth, study the man, not listen to Liberal/Communist claptrap about the man. Do your own research, but do it objectively, and not with any motive.
@SmokestackBri WTF is a 'liberal Communist?' a progressive indvidual that feels badly before he fucks someone over OR did you mean a conservative fascist... a person that enjoys fucking people over AND gets his (her) simple minded victims to cheer while he/she does it? Clairify please :-p
@26yearstoorion Considering "conservative fascist" is an oxymoron, that is the wrong answer. Fascism is more closely linked with communism/socialism/liberalism. That's what National Socialist means. Which is what Obama is.
@ColtJustice i guess that's why all conservative fascists are morons hahahaa they don't care as long as you think what they want you to think and believe what they want you to believe and generally just do what they tell you to do and any dissent will be viewed as an act of treason because for them, that's real freedom.
OK this math is going to kill liberals... When Reagan came into office, people were paying 5% taxes and making $5 an hour. OK bear with me now... So that's $.25 an hour.... GOT IT LIBERALS????
When he left office, taxes were raised to about 11% but people made about $20 an hour. Now, would you rather take the $20 an hour job at 11 percent or the $5 an hour job at 5%?
@larryt7001 good job not accounting for things like inflation; I see that tactic from republicans all the time when they want to use nominal dollars rather than real. In 1979 the average hourly wage was equal to $15.91 (adjusted for inflation). By 1989 it had reached only $16.63/hour. That's a gain of only 7 cents per year for the entire "Reagan decade".
If you are going to be a idiot when it comes to finance, at least try to be honest.
Reagan was not the worst president ever. Warren Harding and George Bush Jr were both far worse. (yes, Warren Harding was worse than Herbert Hoover. Who do you blame? The paramedic on the scene, or the guy that pulled the trigger?)
truth about her life. just ask Joe how that works.
In an interview with The Omaha World-Herald, Buffet said none of the online guesses about Bosanek's salary are right, and the critics are missing his point. The next logical question to that statement is what is your point? Do you want to raise capital gains taxes and discourage investment in this country? well the liberals do as part of the break the free market and teach people to be slaves to the government but like all the Hitler's learn
Why shouldn't she be scrutinized like Joe the plumber was? SHE & BUFFETT brought her into the spot light she is fair game for getting to the truth about her life. just ask Joe how that works. Both Buffet and Ms. Bosanek have said that that’s private information. Buffet did announce that she’s paying 35.8%, and he’s paying 17.4%.
Warren Buffet, the oracle of Omaha, and chairman of the Berkshire Hathaway mutual fund, launched his secretary into the limelight by saying that it’s unfair that she pays more in federal income taxes than he does. The first question many have had is if we’re going to reform this nation’s tax code based on how much this particular secretary pays in federal income taxes, shouldn’t we know how much she makes?
By raising middle class taxes and lowering upper class. Reagan enabled those whom he knew created/create jobs, to do just that. Upper class employes the middle class. With lower taxes, they could afford to: Raise wages, lower prices, and hire on additional employees thus creating millions of jobs.
@realworldbycj This is assuming that they will hire. Take away money from the middle class, they can spend less. Also, if you can squeeze more work out of someone with no pay change, instead of hiring more what would you do? See this assumption that lowering taxes on the rich and raising the middle class taxes is stupid. We are talking about income right? Because a rich persons INCOME doesn't create jobs, the companies dispensible cash does... oh yeah, and demand.
@kingjust627 You're right there's a lot of variables. But there's a lot we're not doing to provide means by which jobs can be created. It's not just lowering taxes, it's also and this is going to sound cliche, but, bringing oil drilling home rather than paying an arm and a leg over-seas. That would easily create millions of jobs without breaking a sweat! Yet, we turn our noses up at that stuff. In this current situation, we can't afford to be picky about the jobs we create.
@realworldbycj Agreed, but we, and I mean WE, as a whole cannot depend on for profit entities to do whats right for the nations economy. That is not good business... if you understand what I mean. Oil drilling... well, it would create jobs i'm sure. But again, for profit industries NEED to be regulated in order to such things safetly. It's worthless to have tons of oil on demand... but yet the oceans eco-environment destroyed. To many damn caveats to consider... LOL
@kingjust627 It's simple. If a company does something stupid in today's world, it costs them a lot of money. It's not gonna change if we bring oil industries home. they won't want to mess up, because they'll wind of paying for it severely! The reason so many oil spills occur now days isn't because it's oil. It's because the companies and their employees get too careless about SOP. Besides, we and I mean WE need oil. There is no other resource as reliable as oil right now.
@realworldbycj How does it cost them alot of money, and how would it be enforced? It's bad enough we have paid politicians, and with knowing that, to assume consenquences will be appropriately handed down is delusional at worst and hopeful at best. Obviously, cutting corners to increase their bottom line will evidently lead to faults, such as BP. No doubt we need the oil, but we need to do it more intelligently managed, with regulations enforced.
@kingjust627 The regulations we are already set in place. The last thing we need in the US is more of them lol. There's already too many in some places. Every time something goes wrong in the oil business, the government throws more regulations at it, as though the last 15 new ones didn't work. There does inevitably come a point when the only way to do business, is to cut through regulations. Plus, enforcing those regulations will also cost a lot more money than we have to spend.
@kingjust627 Stopping any additional drilling all because 1 company cuts corners and screws up, is plain ridiculous. Obama shut down 2/3rds of the oil rigs in the Gulf all because 1 messed up in cutting corners. Raising taxes to extortionary levels, lowering middle class taxes to reasonable ones, all while putting so many regulations on the private sector that they have to get permission from the gov't just to take a leak, seems a little over the top, don't it? Just saying.
@realworldbycj Ridiculous... why? To assure that the other rigs don't have the faults that the BP one had? That seems like preventative action to me. What is extortionary levels when they can still buy a loaf of bread and pay their bills... yet those that can barely do that, would have more taken away? THAT doesn't make sense. Using extortionary as a catch phrase is misleading. The 16th amendment, approved by a republican prez... Taft. Unfortunate huh?
@realworldbycj Explain why it's extortion for companies to pay a little more so that their consumer base can have a little more money to spend on the very goods and services corporations create? You feel this is wrong and feel that the reverse is true, right? Didn't romney say corporations are people my friend? I can't understand why people think that taking from those who basically have nothing will help the situation, when those that can contribute... shouldn't. Faulty logic
@kingjust627 Nope, I don't believe that the middle class should pay higher taxes and vice versa. I believe that raising upper class taxes takes away any potential for employers to have the money to create jobs. Like I said, I don't think corporations should get big tax breaks. I feel that if we had a flat tax for all, it would actually strengthen the economy. Like Herman Cain's 999 tax proposal. Something similar anyway.
@realworldbycj A flat tax is ridiculous... you will basically be giving a HUGE tax break to those that do not neet it, and raise it on those that BARELY get by. That is why Cains tax proposal was laughed it. Like a said, raising the income tax on an individual who makes millions will not stunt growth. The incentive to hire employees with lower taxes on them is that they can spend. I don't understand why no one can see that. Corporate tax rates are a different story.
@realworldbycj What jobs do actors, atheletes, etc make... where if their taxes go up another 5% that they can't live? Apply that question to anything else and you can see that it is not the taxes that are the issue at hand. Why is there is need for million dollar bonuses, for a failing company, or even if it is successful, that salary is already in the millions? There are so many arguments for higher taxes on those that can afford it... not the other way around.
@realworldbycj Lastly, no one is projecting early 20th century tax rate of 90 percent. If you make millions or are worth billions, and cannot make your money work for you or you cannot live off of the difference when taxed at 30%, why is it the tax rates problem? 1,000,000 / 30% = 700,000... if you cannot live, invest, and grow from that... again... how is it the tax rates that is the problem? In a world of constraints, having money doesn't make you above them.
@kingjust627 ummmm...30% of 1,000,000, is not 700,000. It's very basic math, it's 300,000, if 10% of a million is 100,000, then add another 20% and whaa laaa. Basic and simple. But your logic now scares me even more now, knowing that you wouldn't care if the rich companies paid out nearly 3/4 or 75% of their gross earning for each year. Wow!!! Talk about extortion!!!
@realworldbycj He clearly meant 700,000 left over after taxes. Don't you think calling him on the 700,000 thing is hypocritical coming from the guy who said "They're the ones who believe that equality and the phrase 'all men are created equal' means that they have the Right to make as much as Bill Gates "
@realworldbycj Buffet cries foul on secretary’s critics. Why shouldn't she be scrutinized like Joe the plumber was? SHE & BUFFETT brought her into the spot light she is fair game for getting to the truth about her life. just ask Joe how that works.
@powerhawk2000 I appreciate you trying to enlighten me with your understanding 'n all. But I'll stick with what works best for me. Facts based on facts, not speculation and democratic thinking.
@realworldbycj Based upon those numbers, the next logical question is how are each of you declaring your income, as earned income or as dividends or capital gains? Buffet’s response to these questions, thus far, has been to call them personal attacks against Ms. Bosanek. He’s amplified his response by saying these criticisms are ‘ridiculous’. Why shouldn't she be scrutinized like Joe the plumber was?
SHE & BUFFETT brought her into the spot light she is fair game for getting to the
@powerhawk2000 Personally, I could care less how Buffett declares his taxes. If he's guilty of cheating the system, whatever, let the IRS worry about that, that THEIR job, NOT ours. Only Libertarians and Democrats care about that stuff anyway. They're the ones who believe that equality and the phrase "all men are created equal" means that they have the Right to make as much as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. I say, they've spent their lives working their companies to success...
@powerhawk2000 ...let 'em enjoy it! "To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry or skill, is to violate the first arbitrarily the first principle of association---the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." ---Thomas Jefferson---
@realworldbycj So you think that it is fair that Nike works people 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for $2 a day in Indonesia because the US set up a dictator over there who used American weapons to terrorize local populations, kill hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities, and protect foreign companies that used undue leverage or acquired resource rights from a puppet government. I think that if TJ were presented with that situation and your quote, he would say "Sorry guys, effed that one up!"
@sfjeff1089 The quote that I used had literally zero reference to anyone outside the US. It had reference only to US here IN the US. It means that plans that take from the rich who have worked tirelessly to gain their success in this life, to give to he that hasn't worked hard at all, or refuses to go and get a job, is blatantly and arbitrarily wrong! I wasn't talking about anyone in Indonesia, Africa, or India.
@realworldbycj Ok, so let me get this straight. You are saying that the quote is correct, but it doesn't apply to someone like Mitt Romney or Warren Buffet who get paid based on other people working hard on the rich side, and it doesn't apply to someone like a Fast Food manager that works 60 hours a week on the poor side. Maybe we agree on this after all.
@sfjeff1089 I lived for a time in Albania, those people are some of the happiest people around, why, because even though they're less fortunate than we Americans, they are very blessed to have work at all! Some jobs make the equivalent of 20 dollars per day, others make 10 dollars a day. But they never complain! It's good that we feel bad for those less fortunate than ourselves. But they've been under suppression of their own government for years.
@realworldbycj Ultimately part of our success or failure in this life depends on hard work and innovation and part depends on negotiating leverage. It is quite possible that I agree with most libertarians on how the former should be treated and how the latter should be treated, but I come up with a quite different world view because I have a relatively high estimate for how much of our success or failure comes from negotiation and leverage.
@sfjeff1089 ... Also, I believe that government is not the only entity that can suppress. If a CEO wants the benefits of a union, then they can get that by getting together with about 3 board members. From that perspective, a union is not something that hurts the economy by forcing inefficiency in, but rather something that levels the playing field to lessen the gap between what people create and what people get paid for that creation.
@sfjeff1089 ... When only a small portion of the work force has enough negotiating leverage to get paid enough for what they make that they can afford to buy it, then that seems like a decent operating definition of a third-world country that can only grow by increasing exports. At least after the debt bubbles finish collapsing.
@sfjeff1089 Seems to me, you've got one agenda, prove how terrible America is in your own pathetic mind. Why not just be grateful for what you have? And help where you can? Rather than accuse others of being wrong and you ALWAYS being right? I have nothing further to discuss with you. You're among those who have already made up their minds on America being a terrorist nation, bend on success even at the cost of misery around the world. You're just trolling, pure and simple.
@realworldbycj "...prove how terrible America is in your own pathetic mind"
Not at all. I am trying to help us to reach our 1932 moment without going through as much pain this time around.
Funny that you mention that about America being a terrorist nation. I consider the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Indonesia regrettable, the hundreds of thousands of deaths in 1980s Nicaragua regrettable, and the 2000's 1 million deaths in Iraq regrettable. Maybe you could clarify your position?
@kingjust627 I will gladly explain something that you should've learned in high school. The big "money grubbing corporations" you hate so much, are the reason any jobs ever get created. Without companies like Exon Mobile, Microsoft, Walmart, Target, & all the other fortune 500 companies out there. Our unemployment rate would not be 8.5%, but rather, 50% or so. Get the picture? You wanna create jobs? Stop taking from the corporations that CREATE THEM.
@kingjust627 When they have to pay 30% of their gross revenue in taxes, they HAVE TO COMPENSATE for their losses. In ways like: Lowering wages to their employees, raising their prices aka inflation, and the worst part is when they wind up laying people off. Yet we get mad at them every time they do it! We're created a bad economy for ourselves! So, I say we should roll up our sleeves, and get to work! Because every minute we complain about them being wealthier than us, is a minute we wasted!
@kingjust627 I understand Obama's logic in raising upper class taxes once again to 30%. I do. I get it. But it WILL NOT WORK!!! It's time tested! Why do you think inflation occurred during the Reagan administration? It's because of what Carter had been doing. Reagan lowered taxes all around to create jobs. He lowered them so low, that our nation would not be able to survive the way we were going. He understood that. Hence, he raised taxes considerably 7 out of 8 years.
@realworldbycj It won't work because the greed in the upper upper class will pass down that cost to us. But you seem to be fine that they can practice business like that.
@kingjust627 Greed in the upper class? Really? It's called "free market" for a reason. You seem to either have a problem that they make more money than you or just not get how the economy runs? I don't know. But I do know that by raising upper class taxes as high as he has & is continuing to do, inflation will and is already occurring! The national average for a gallon of gas was 1.75 on Jan. of 09, now we're paying around 3.50 where I live, and I am paying far less than many!
@kingjust627 It's not corporate greed, it's the tax code! When the BP oil spill occurred, Obama did something very stupid! He closed down more than 2/3rds of the oil drilling in the gulf! WHY?! The demand NEVER went away, but the supply sure vanished fast! When those two things happen together, ya know what happens? INFLATION!!! If he would approve things like, say...an oil pipeline, & or, onshore drilling, and if we'd stop importing our oil. We would see gas prices come down! It's THAT simple!!
@hieronomy I read nothing but liberal propaganda in your comment here. I'm not even sure it's worth a intelligent response from me. So I'll say something like you would. "It's all Bush's fault! He did it! The war is wrong!" People might ask why you feel that way however. Your response will be simple and will lead to one ultimate conclusion. That you only hated it because Bush ordered it. But if it were Obama who had done it. No problem on your end. Partisan politics: What democrats are all about
@kingjust627 Regardless of what anyone says, Reagan saved us from another great depression. I can tell whenever someone is full of it, because they blame EVERYTHING on the Republicans, and NOTHING on the Democrats.
Democrat, Libertarian, Liberal = non-sense. They have no logic backing up what they say! Just hot air! They say whatever they think will get them elected.
@realworldbycj Funny how you moch the liberals... which i'm not one, yet the field of contestants in the game of the most stupidest fucking humans, well are the front runners in the republican primaries. THEY say exactly what needs to be said to take money from people to disseminate hate. FACT.
@kingjust627 Gas prices would drop exponentially, long term jobs would be created. And our economy would be stronger due to those things alone. But there would be more to happen than just that. Like it or not, oil is a literal building block of society, get rid of it, and you don't just rid of world of fossil fuels, you rid the world of more than 3/4th of its' product line. Try going without rubber and plastic based materials for the rest of your life.
@realworldbycj Gas prices would not drop exponentially... as a global market, dictating prices from opec, and just an all out gauge on the consumers... I highly doubt profits are going to be cut. It's obvious we need our oil, i'm for doing it more reasonably. Unless the oil we get is not sold to the market, maybe prices can come down. But have a competeing alternative will also drive the prices down... to make it more appealing to THAT alternative.
@realworldbycj After you answer my question first... but you can't, and that's the problem. Oil production and discovery has varied. But speculation will always exists based on world events. Flucuate, YES, exponential drop... sorry brotha, "PIPE" dream. Pun intended.
@kingjust627 I think it's important to move toward cleaner "green" energy, but we can't become dependent on THAT alone until we know how best to use it in the replacement of oil based products. They're continually trying to move into green tech, but it isn't up to par with oil tech. Ya know. So we should continue working toward greater, clearer technology, but we can't afford at this point to cut oil based technologies out of the picture.
@realworldbycj HHO technology has bee out for so long. There have been stories where a man created a vehicle that RAN on water (generating HHO through electrolosis) but was mysteriously killed. I wonder how the petroleum market would have done if the government actually backed that mans creation. While it is a conspiracy theory... HHO is a reality... and an excellent and safe alternative.
@kingjust627 I actually have a video on my PC somewhere that shows a scientist who developed that same thing. Maybe it's the same guy? Anyway, It's possible that the amount of water need just drive 10 miles was too much for any ordinary vehicle to transport. But like you said, it is a conspiracy theory", and a theory without factual or physical evidence to back it up and prove it fact, is just a theory. People will do anything to make oil companies sound like the devil sometimes lol
@realworldbycj As much as I hate to say... I have to agree! LOLOL It's unfortunate we have to, but the veins of this country are flooded with petroleum based products.
@kingjust627 Well, it's not all bad ya know. I love the idea of cleaner energy, it's safer, more reliable. But, the way things are, if we just suck it up, keep pushing for cleaner technology and support the ideas which lead in that direction, we'll be fine. I don't really put much stock in global warming personally. I believe it to a degree. But it just doesn't add up enough for me.
@realworldbycj But... if it was the other way around... the middle class would have the dispensible cash to SPEND, creating demand for a companies product, making the company generate more profit and the need to hire people. Putting the control of the money in corporations hands is wrong. It should be in the hands of those who consume those goods... the middle class. Taxing the middle class will kill demand... thus possibly killing companies that have excessive surplus of goods
@kingjust627 I respectfully disagree. Why? Simple. If you own a company, and you make lets say...$100,000,000 annually, would you be ok with the government taking it all to give to your customers? I know I would throw a fatty law suit at the government for that. That's overstepping their Constitutional authority.
It's really not as complicated as they are telling us. It's truly much simpler. There are things that I think big companies shouldn't get, like big tax breaks. But...
@kingjust627 ...to say that it is wrong to let a company has the money it has made, is the same as Obama taking money from the middle class saying "we'll decide how best to spend your money!" You getting my point? I hope what I am trying to convey to you is making sense. It is to me, but it might be losing something in transition from mind to key board lol.
@realworldbycj Actually... reagan rose taxes for 7 years straight... Didn't you watch the video? So, if middle class is being taxed more, let's say 5% more, and they only get a 3% increase in their income... how does that work out? If you havn't realized, everything is a game of numbers to those with power (which is usually those with money). They "trickle down" just enough for the few, when they have Trillions, just maintain their millions in profit. That's really clever, no?
@realworldbycj Question... why can't they just absorb the tax hike, not increase salary, lowering middle income taxes... so that the middle class WILL have more money to spend, thus creating more demand for THEIR products, which will increase profits, etc. so on and so forth? That tax hike, would be non existant... but we can't effect their profits, can't we???? Like I said, giving wealthy greedy people power over the economy is non beneficial to the middle class.
@realworldbycj yes and in the 10 years after reaganomics the wages for the average american grew by a whopping 3% WOW that's about 1% every 3 years while the richest american's saw their incomes increase by about 74%. so what happened to the trickle down economics that was supposed to happen? well that was just a big fat conservative lie, it never happened. the rich spent their extra cash at the shops that other rich people owned and the money just stayed up there and never came down.
Really? You're going to compare Reagan to Osama Bin Laden? Why aren't you blaming Bill Clinton for any of this. He was no saint. Oh, wait, gotcha, you only attack Republicans, ok. Libertarian idiot!
How can this guy compare Reagan to Obama? The previous 43 Presidents spent a total of 6.3 trillion dollars. Obama in ONLY 3 years, spends 6.5 trillion, rounding to the nearest billion on both.
@realworldbycj RWBCJ, not to be brash... but don't be a tool. Reagan was not and did not inherit a fucking mess. So your comparison of money spent over what time is completely irrelevant... This is about reagan not obama... is it not?
No president of the 20th century had a more positive and enduring influence than Ronald Reagan, who was born 99 years ago today. Other presidents, from Wilson to FDR, exceeded Reagan in their impact, but much of it was negative. Sure, they won wars, but they almost destroyed the American economy as well. Reagan, by contrast, won the Cold War and also revived the American economy from decades of abuse. He was successful both at home and abroad.
"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
It's bad enough that the nation's jobless rate is 9.7%. But the real national employment rate is even higher than the U.S. Department of Labor's May figure shows. The official unemployment index, based on a monthly survey of sample households, counts only people who reported looking for work in the past four weeks. It doesn't account for part-time workers who want to work more hours but can't, given the tight job market.
for the republicans, does america NOT have a saying called "Freedom Of Speech"?.
say what you want to us liberal democrat's about Obama and [well most of us] we just shrug it off, but when we say something about Reagan, you guys [and girls] just FLY OFF THE HANDLE!.
@TheMonkeybutler20 Well I don't speak for all Conservatives. But maybe the reason is because you're such immense hypocrites? Or maybe because you guys love ANYTHING Obama does. Yet hate EVERYTHING Bush or Reagan EVER did? Ever think about that? My guess is not. Why? Because you're too busy being hypocrites. You guys don't "shrug if off". You go ballistic if someone attacks your candidate/s! I say, get over yourselves. I HATE partisan politics! But it's all about your party with you guys!!
Why are teabaggers so in love with Ronald Reagan? He's totally unlike them. Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times, gave amnesty to illegal aliens, tripled the debt, had Reaganomics & "trickle down" effect that didn't work, never worked & will never work, left office with the BIGGEST national debt & deficit in history & was involved in the Iran Conta scandal. Ronald Reagan may talk like a Republican but he governs like a Democrat. Ronald Reagan is a RINO
@moosicninja09 I bet you're just saying that just cause your rich daddy likes him. Any fucktard should be able to see he WAS one of the worst presidents, he was a anti-labor anti-union monster who fired over 13,000 people in a union him self, he refused to raise the minimum wage for the working class at a time that it was needed. He did more damage to working class wages than any other president in U.S. history. Hell even Nixon was better then him. Stick to music kid.
@b52goats You sound like you're an envycrat and your response to @moosicninja09 sounds very immature and childish. No president was perfect but our situation was much better in 1988 than it was in 1980. If results matter, he was one of our best.
@iwontreadyourreply You sound ignorant, and you are ignorant. Your lack of political and economic knowledge shows, to debate this matter with a person such as your self would get me no where. "No president was perfect" you state the obvious; no human is perfect thus our imperfection shows in our work. Results, in a such a essential and crucial position, is one of the only things that matter. On a list of commendable presidents he is the furthest from the top.
@b52goats If results matter regarding my knowledge of politics and economics, I'd only trade my education, employment opportunities and investment portfolio with those in the top 5-10 percentile so it doesn't matter if you think I'm ignorant. And, I worked for it. It didn't come from my (very not) rich daddy. If you want to focus on other commendable attributes, I'll stand by my original comment that you are an envycrat. I bet anything I nailed it. Go ahead, list some of those attributes.
@realworldbycj Well..thats a hard one.. I mean they both fucking suck, but I'd have to say Reagan because he basically launched the start of more spending and had many people in unions laid off/ lessened their wages, the federal debt was $994 billion when Reagan took office in 1981, and grew to $2.9 trillion when his second term ended in 1989. But over all obamas pretty horrible, and what makes it worse is people are just brain washed to think that hes some type of god sent president. They're-
@realworldbycj -just to stupid to realize how much more debt he put us in and how he just lied to get votes, he'll tell you what you wanna hear but he doesn't do anything close to it.
@b52goats I don't want to sound offensive here, but to in the context you put it, is spelled "too". Sorry, I'm not trying to be smart allec or anything.
Ya know, what you just described, sounds a lot like Obama. I am just being honest with you.
@b52goats And an interesting fact for you about Reagan. By raising middle class taxes and lowering upper class. Did it ever occur to you that maybe Reagan understood that the upper class employes the middle class? As in, lower taxes creates jobs, lower prices, and higher wages.
But thank you for your comment! One more quicky question: Without putting down anyone else. Can you tell me what should happen in America to fix the economy and bring our troops home the best way?
@realworldbycj Fix the economy; Lower spending such as military and foreign aid ( cut all foreign aid if possible), use America's energy sources (thus creating more jobs in the process) stop the war on drugs, shrink the federal government, reduce government officials pay, increase the taxes for the rich yet give corporations that ship goods tax cuts. -Bringing the troops home; the same way we came in fly out hah, but no we'll need a large number of EOD tech teams to make sure our boys get-
@b52goats Okay, thanks. Believe it or not. You're the first person to EVER respond to that message and I've asked that question to many people now. So, really thank you! I appreciate your input on the matter! You appear to have a truly bipartisan viewpoint, am I right on that...or?
Democratic thinking when speaking on camera 101: Say as few words as possible so they don't know you're misleading them. When confronted by a question you have no answer to, blame it on the GOP. Always tell the cameras that the only way to fix any given problem is to give the government more control over it. When confronted with budget problems, tell them you must spent a trillion more to fix it; then blame Bush or Reagan. Be cunning & crafty like the snake from the Garden of Eden.
realworldbycj 8 hours ago
A time for choosing by Ronald Reagan is all i gotta say to this... A man who didn't need teleprompters to sound smart, had a story for every occasion and one of my biggest inspirations.
mikethebassguy 4 days ago
@mikethebassguy If you draw inspiration from misinformation and sound-byte speeches, then there is something very wrong with you.
jmintube 3 days ago
@jmintube you dems got no room to talk, because with that statment you just threw out any prospect of FDR doing anything.... I look at unemployment, and military strength. Reagan did well with both.
mikethebassguy 3 days ago
@mikethebassguy 1. I am not a democract 2. By choosing to analyze only 2 criteria that a president is supposed to cover, you lack any sense of a larger picture.....just as you choose to draw inspiration from soundbytes, you are clearly not committed to truly analyze his presidency in its entirety....perhaps because it is convenient or perhaps because you are afraid of what you will find. You cannot simply bury your head in the sand.
jmintube 3 days ago
@jmintube i look at what is important to me, which is the ability to go and get/ keep a job and also look at our armed forces to see how secure we are. Reagan did excellent on both of those points... I don't care about social programs as i am fully against any and all forms of goverment aid. I care about lower taxes (personally in favor of a flat tax across the board) I look at the Reagan years and i see success.
mikethebassguy 3 days ago
@mikethebassguy just so you understand, your vision of success involved the condemnation of millions to a hard and brutal life. Where financial security is unheard of. In many ways, your vision of success resembles that of Hitler's practice of eugenics. Your vision also carelessly ignores the impacts of capitalism on the environment. Perhaps when water becomes a scarce commodity you will re-evalute your vision. Your vision is also very archaic...I would of expected a Roman to present your view.
jmintube 3 days ago
@jmintube lol you said you wern't a democrat? so what the hell are you then? a socialist? marxist? you probably believe in global warming etc too, and water will never be a problem as i live in the country. I care about being self sufficient, and will provide and protect for my family and friends. No one else.
mikethebassguy 3 days ago
@mikethebassguy I see, well.....enjoy the artificial boundaries of your life.
jmintube 3 days ago
@mikethebassguy
"no one else " ? Definitely a Republican mindset .
hieronomy 1 day ago
@mikethebassguy
"I look at what is important to ME " . no further comment necessary .
hieronomy 1 day ago
@mikethebassguy He did well at 2 fronts... amongst hundreds that the POTUS is responsible for... WTF? Sorry Mike, reps have been having a downturn for quite some time... except for GHB senior, he's good in my book. Either way, stop talking like it's a them and us mentality, ie your dem comment. Having ONLY 2 choices is the biggest problem... oh yeah, and religiosity poking it's damn nose in government... vicariously through idiot zealot politicians...
kingjust627 22 hours ago
@mikethebassguy
Yeah he had a story alright . Look at the scoreboard . The return of the gilded age .
hieronomy 1 day ago
@hieronomy This country wasn't founded to give handouts, or any other social programs, this country was founded for "the people" individual liberty, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Socialists and marxists are for the goverment telling whats best for the collective people and its not welcome here.
mikethebassguy 1 day ago
@mikethebassguy So are you saying that you dismiss these factual claims? And sounding smart and being smart are 2 different things... you sure you want HIM as an inspiration? Are you trying to get into acting, heard he was a helluva actor...
kingjust627 22 hours ago
@kingjust627 You can think whatever you like, and i would agree about the republican party, thats why the tea party needs to take over the republican party. And it is not religion poking into goverment its goverment forcing religion (atheism is a religion just like christianity)
And it is a them and us, i spit at socialists and marxists, and thats what liberals are leaning towards... if i see an obama sticker on a car i don't pull over and help them change a tire for example
mikethebassguy 16 hours ago
@mikethebassguy SMH Ok "Mike", lets get some things straight. 1. Atheism is not a religion, it is the total opposite of it. You can beleive all what "religious" people say about the non religious, but from a NON RELIGIOUS to a sheep like you, it IS a disbelief with no tenets no dogma, UNLIKE religion. 2. Religion is no more special then believeing in santa clause, though idiot officials have been trying to inject THEIR beliefs for ages. So rethink your fallacious assumption. cont.
kingjust627 13 hours ago
@kingjust627 Atheism is a religion whether you like it or not, let me prove it. Atheists want God taken out of the pledge, the 10 commandments out of the courts, "so help me god" out of the oath... Now if Atheists don't believe in God then "god" is just a meaningless word that they cannot take any offense to. But no they want to force everyone not to have anything to do with it (force converting) its really simple actually Atheism - marxism go hand in hand
mikethebassguy 12 hours ago
@mikethebassguy This doesn't prove atheism is a religion you nutbag. The pledge never had god in it until 1954, look it up. No religious doctrines should be in any of our courts as it shows favortism towards that particular religion. Would you like the quran in our courts? They have the same liberties as you... NO, i didn't think so. So help me god... that's a choice and no one is forced to say, so pulling that out of your ass well, i'm not surprised. cont....
kingjust627 9 hours ago
@mikethebassguy It's not that they don't want anyone to have anything to do with (you are a really big dummy as you truy to speak for atheist ideals, but have no fucking clue), you can practice it how you see it. But government cannot force people to commit to religious practices, it goes against the "respecting the establishment" clause in the first amendment. Jesus fucking christ, get your shit together. Your a like a rusty shot gun spraying bullshit everywhere...
kingjust627 9 hours ago
@mikethebassguy Lastly, atheism is NOT marxism. Athiesm is the LACK of belief in ANY gods. Marxism is "is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism." <--- How the fuck is that athiesm you dolt!!!
kingjust627 9 hours ago
@mikethebassguy Do me a favor... you have shown to be a hateful bigotted idiot. Stop posting as you are speaking about things from which you've pigeon holed or are completed fucking ignorant to... with all do respect.
kingjust627 9 hours ago
@kingjust627 I believe in the constitution, socialists and marxists aka liberals have been trying to undermine it for sometime now, Nazis and Communists both preached atheism under the state, so it doesn't matter what upbringing hitler or stalin had for that matter. "we already have a mixed socialist/ capitalist system" yea i do have a problem with it and we are working to correct it in the election, if we fail the system will collapse anyway and patriots will rebuild the country anyway.
mikethebassguy 3 hours ago
@mikethebassguy 3. Your last comment is what seperates animals from humans. Not matter who the person is, I would help them. Regardless of religion, political leaning, color, favorite flavor. Your character shows that of prejudice and bigotry, for idiot reasons... "bumper sticker". YOU are what is wrong with this country. You alienate yourself to think that THEY are out to get YOU and you segregate yourself through superficial ideaological idiocy.
kingjust627 13 hours ago
@kingjust627 Well if atheism is right we are all animals and soulless creatures... What part of i hate the left don't you get? look at history the left has been responsible for the deaths of millions of people, Nazism, communism etc are responsible for many of my relatives deaths, and any political party that institutes any part of either ideology I will be against (right now thats liberals) No liberal will ever get anything from me.
mikethebassguy 12 hours ago
@mikethebassguy Atheism isn't about right or wrong you moron, just get the definition right. But you are right though, we are animals and souless. We just have larger brains and there has never been evidence of a soul. Good job promoting moronic ideas behind false definitions. The left, who are you to define what is meant by "the left". Setting up your own buildings to knock them down I see. Nazism... you know hitler was christian, right? Read meihn kahmf... know your history dude.
kingjust627 9 hours ago
@kingjust627 So it was really christianity that killed your relatives... SMH No liberals will get anything from you, but yet our socialized programs created the military, roads, railway, etc. You take, use, and are defended for... but don't give back... your pretty selfish and self centered... I'll be sure not to piss on you when you are on fire, i'll just get a water hose because i'm not idealogically fucked up like you. Everyone are humans in my eye. You on the other hand... diplorable.
kingjust627 9 hours ago
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kingjust627 12 hours ago
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@mikethebassguy When someone objects to servicing you because you don't believe what they believe, or selling you a very basic product for the same reason, don't start bitching about your rights. Just remember your moronic comment HERE, about government forcing religion.... And for your own benefit, why don't YOU ask an atheist if what they 'disbelieve' is a religion instead of someone who is already a bigot towards those of no belief. I'm sure you won't, but facts elude those like you.
kingjust627 12 hours ago
@mikethebassguy You actually spit at people who think differently then you... WOW, grow the fuck up. Spitting is what children do at the play ground.
kingjust627 12 hours ago
@kingjust627 "those who think differently then you" no, i spit on them for undermining the constitution, and the very foundation of our country... socialists and marxists have europe and russia, hate to break it to you but the majority of this country will not allow them to take root here.
mikethebassguy 12 hours ago
@mikethebassguy so basically the way you think is right and true and the only way huh? It seems like the very system you don't want to be enveloped in this country, you are doing it yourself through your self centered zealotry. Some would say the same to you about the way you think, are they right true? Again YOU are what is terribly wrong with the citizens of this country... We already have a mixed socialist/capitalistic society... got a problem with it?
kingjust627 9 hours ago
Reagan Didn’t Promise To Do Great Things For Us, He Showed Us That Great Things Came From Within. I never had the privilege of meeting former President Ronald Reagan in person. Few Presidents have been as consistently underestimated as Reagan. He was viewed with considerable disdain by the Washington establishment because he was one of us- a patriotic, genuine man with a moral clarity grounded in Christianity and a deep belief in American exceptionalism.
phoenixbornagain 1 week ago
reagan is loved because this is amerikkka... as long as your rich and white and have a bible in one hand and a gun in the other you'll be loved.He spoke in a very gentle grandfather voice and hated minorities,and loved wars --thats all you need to know to be loved in amerikkka.
mortbart 1 week ago
reagen was a good president. he had to recover by spending money after carter's time.
animefreaks2012 1 week ago
Reagan was a nasty ol fart.
Brenda2OOO 1 week ago
Reagan was just bad as both Bush's.
TheCaliCapitalist 1 week ago 3
Ya know. I've noticed with Democrats that they're gonna ride that scooter of "Obama inherited Bush's debt", until you say "what about Reagan, didn't he inherit Carter's debt?" then they try and back track, by saying, this is about Obama not Reagan. Seems like we've got hypocrites on our hands called Obama-Dumbacrats. Holy crap people. JUST ADMIT IT!!! YOU ARE WRONG!!! 3 simple words. Or does your vocabulary not go that high?
realworldbycj 1 week ago
@realworldbycj
The fuck? Friedman was AGAINST old money and saving money for future generations and was pro spending and create more wealth. Raegan used Friedman for his own cronies to get richer. He killed the space programs, admitedly the greatest public investment, and killed education. Alternative energy sources technologies were available since the late 70's and he dumped them for the sake of oil companies. What are YOUR arguments?
VonManavis 1 week ago
@realworldbycj You are a fucktard. Supply side economics does not work has never worked and will never work especially since the implementation of NAFTA.
If you simply give a trillion dollars to the top corporations in this country the vast majority of that money will never be used for Job creation. Most of it will sit in volts for growth numbers. It creates artificial worth and nothing more.
Clownwhiper 5 days ago
If you give that same amount to the people of the country almost every penny gets pumped back into the economy.
People buy goods and services. Corporations historically increase corporate bonuses. They also invest a lot in overseas ventures. and stockpile the rest.
Clownwhiper 5 days ago
A simple example is this:
If instead of the large banks getting bailed out directly, if the government would have directed the FED to give that same money in the form of mortgage vouchers all of the people that were at the shitty end of this situation would have had their mortgages paid off and the banks would have STILL BEEN SAVED.
The Mortgage companies would have had to start over. An easy thing to do as a world bank, not so easy for us with a foreclosure on us.
Clownwhiper 5 days ago
@Clownwhiper I don't stand for profane language! I will NOT tolerate that! It shows a severe lack of intelligence! I am NOT saying jobs are created by the gov't giving corporations a trillion dollars. I don't believe in subsidies.
realworldbycj 5 days ago
@realworldbycj Subsidies?? you mean like gigantic tax cuts right?
many of the largest corporations get both.
Welfare is welfare. GE paid a negative tax rate last year.
The neocons are not selling out country they are giving it away!
I beg your pardon for the "bad language" But when people perpetuation fantasies and promote fallacies to me it is akin to treason and that my good sir is something that I will not tolerate.
Clownwhiper 5 days ago
Another fallacy.....
Ronald Reagan inherited 9.3 billion in debt from Carter.
He left a 3 trillion dollar debt to George H W bush who amplified that
Clinton paid for the whole mess and left a surplus which Bush (W) back into a huge whopping dept again.
How long does this have to go on before people like you wake up?
Clownwhiper 5 days ago
Boy, This is neutral......*sarcasm*
timsvtgen1 1 week ago
it's always a strange thing how people can ignore the truth. the facts are there in black and white but we have all these Reaganites jumping up and down stamping their feet and making lame excuses that they wouldn't accept from Obama and yet at least some of it would be true in his case.
plwpahi 1 week ago
Regan was the worst president what he did to the states almost destroying the us. Obama2012
TheGoyanks 1 week ago
It's always refreshing to hear a communist speak their mind.
I'll make two points here...During Reagan's administration, he was wildly popular. If you doubt it just look at the electoral maps for the Presidential elections for 1980, 1984, and yes 1988 as he helped George Bush sr. win his election as well. As for the deficit, the Democrats controlled Congress, and the purse strings of the US budget. So I guess you should blame congress. Hey why not? It works for Obama!
reaganremembered 2 weeks ago
@reaganremembered However, Congress DOES create and maintain budgets in the US. So although the President should always have the opportunity to veto or pass any given budget bill. He may not always get that chance due to democratic Congress.
realworldbycj 1 day ago
If you believe this your a communist that's all I can say.
barknasty49 2 weeks ago
@barknasty49 I suggest you prove that they are lies. Until then YOU are the fucking communist.
splicedenergy 2 weeks ago
@barknasty49 If you can read this, you don't know your grammar. That's all I can say.
MattBeckstrom 1 week ago
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@barknasty49 If you don't believe it, you're an idiot. Reagan raised the debt limit 17 times. Reagan traded arms to Iran for hostages and gave amnesty to six million illegal aliens. I guess you could say that he helped destroy America like that black guy that you claim is from Kenya that you hate so much. You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Please read a book and quit listening to that drug-addict Rush Limbaugh.
Atlantafried 1 week ago
america will get dominated in a war with iran
420cannabis11 2 weeks ago
Reagan's goal was to usher in the return of the Robber baron era BEFORE there were unions and BEFORE there was a large middle class. So why be surprised the middle class is shrinking? Y'all voted for that.
However, while Reagan and the Christian Right had their love affair with Afghan mujahiddeen Holy Warriors (Rambo movie) of which the Taliban were one group -- and those did NOT attack the USA (and it's doubtful OBL had a role in 9/11), anti-USSR meddling there began with Jimmy Carter .. fact.
dilbertgeg 4 weeks ago
A fascist is someone who believes that a one-party state is a good idea. Fascism is literally a government controlled by one party. therefore, both the democrats and the republicans wish they could be fascist. Learn what a word means. Fascism isn't necessarily bad but it has been associated irrevocably with being bad because of Hitler and the Nazi's. Who were the most extreme example we have had recently. (Read last 100 years)
Azraelean 4 weeks ago
Teddy Roosevelt along with FDR were the greatest presidents of the modern American era.
Why?...
Both of them told the "Greed is good" loving rich to screw off!!!
Teddy destroyed their vile monopolies!
FDR punished them for the crash of 29, Then we took that money and built up America's infastructure and middle class.
They're what America needs now and Obama ain't it!
Screw Ronald Reagan hero of the 1% and the brainwashed radical conservatives!
jd007200 1 month ago
Bunch of psudo liberal crap. Ronald Reagan was the best president in history.
Scattnam 1 month ago
@Scattnam Really??? Over Lincoln, Washington, FDR, Truman??? Really? Why?
spadaydaga 1 month ago
@spadaydaga Really!!! The only one you stated that could come close to Reagan would be Washington.
Lincoln, FDR, and Truman all worked to limit freedom in America, FDR and Lincoln were among the WORST presidents in American history due to this...
4400visitor 2 weeks ago
@Scattnam That must be some good crack your smoking, do you have a regular connection or make your own?
26yearstoorion 1 month ago
There you go again. Twisting the truth to suit your own ends and means. This video is nothing more than Liberal/Communist propaganda. If you're interested in the truth, study the man, not listen to Liberal/Communist claptrap about the man. Do your own research, but do it objectively, and not with any motive.
SmokestackBri 1 month ago
@SmokestackBri WTF is a 'liberal Communist?' a progressive indvidual that feels badly before he fucks someone over OR did you mean a conservative fascist... a person that enjoys fucking people over AND gets his (her) simple minded victims to cheer while he/she does it? Clairify please :-p
26yearstoorion 1 month ago
@26yearstoorion Considering "conservative fascist" is an oxymoron, that is the wrong answer. Fascism is more closely linked with communism/socialism/liberalism. That's what National Socialist means. Which is what Obama is.
ColtJustice 1 month ago 3
@ColtJustice i guess that's why all conservative fascists are morons hahahaa they don't care as long as you think what they want you to think and believe what they want you to believe and generally just do what they tell you to do and any dissent will be viewed as an act of treason because for them, that's real freedom.
plwpahi 1 week ago
THIS GUY IS A MORON!
larryt7001 1 month ago
OK this math is going to kill liberals... When Reagan came into office, people were paying 5% taxes and making $5 an hour. OK bear with me now... So that's $.25 an hour.... GOT IT LIBERALS????
When he left office, taxes were raised to about 11% but people made about $20 an hour. Now, would you rather take the $20 an hour job at 11 percent or the $5 an hour job at 5%?
larryt7001 1 month ago
@larryt7001 So you agree that Reagan was a tax-and-spend liberal?
tollboothjason 1 month ago
@larryt7001 good job not accounting for things like inflation; I see that tactic from republicans all the time when they want to use nominal dollars rather than real. In 1979 the average hourly wage was equal to $15.91 (adjusted for inflation). By 1989 it had reached only $16.63/hour. That's a gain of only 7 cents per year for the entire "Reagan decade".
If you are going to be a idiot when it comes to finance, at least try to be honest.
Scomp18 1 month ago
Reagan was not the worst president ever. Warren Harding and George Bush Jr were both far worse. (yes, Warren Harding was worse than Herbert Hoover. Who do you blame? The paramedic on the scene, or the guy that pulled the trigger?)
sfjeff1089 1 month ago
the people will gather together and destroy you
powerhawk2000 1 month ago
truth about her life. just ask Joe how that works.
In an interview with The Omaha World-Herald, Buffet said none of the online guesses about Bosanek's salary are right, and the critics are missing his point. The next logical question to that statement is what is your point? Do you want to raise capital gains taxes and discourage investment in this country? well the liberals do as part of the break the free market and teach people to be slaves to the government but like all the Hitler's learn
powerhawk2000 1 month ago
Why shouldn't she be scrutinized like Joe the plumber was? SHE & BUFFETT brought her into the spot light she is fair game for getting to the truth about her life. just ask Joe how that works. Both Buffet and Ms. Bosanek have said that that’s private information. Buffet did announce that she’s paying 35.8%, and he’s paying 17.4%.
powerhawk2000 1 month ago
Warren Buffet, the oracle of Omaha, and chairman of the Berkshire Hathaway mutual fund, launched his secretary into the limelight by saying that it’s unfair that she pays more in federal income taxes than he does. The first question many have had is if we’re going to reform this nation’s tax code based on how much this particular secretary pays in federal income taxes, shouldn’t we know how much she makes?
powerhawk2000 1 month ago
By raising middle class taxes and lowering upper class. Reagan enabled those whom he knew created/create jobs, to do just that. Upper class employes the middle class. With lower taxes, they could afford to: Raise wages, lower prices, and hire on additional employees thus creating millions of jobs.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj This is assuming that they will hire. Take away money from the middle class, they can spend less. Also, if you can squeeze more work out of someone with no pay change, instead of hiring more what would you do? See this assumption that lowering taxes on the rich and raising the middle class taxes is stupid. We are talking about income right? Because a rich persons INCOME doesn't create jobs, the companies dispensible cash does... oh yeah, and demand.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 You're right there's a lot of variables. But there's a lot we're not doing to provide means by which jobs can be created. It's not just lowering taxes, it's also and this is going to sound cliche, but, bringing oil drilling home rather than paying an arm and a leg over-seas. That would easily create millions of jobs without breaking a sweat! Yet, we turn our noses up at that stuff. In this current situation, we can't afford to be picky about the jobs we create.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Agreed, but we, and I mean WE, as a whole cannot depend on for profit entities to do whats right for the nations economy. That is not good business... if you understand what I mean. Oil drilling... well, it would create jobs i'm sure. But again, for profit industries NEED to be regulated in order to such things safetly. It's worthless to have tons of oil on demand... but yet the oceans eco-environment destroyed. To many damn caveats to consider... LOL
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 It's simple. If a company does something stupid in today's world, it costs them a lot of money. It's not gonna change if we bring oil industries home. they won't want to mess up, because they'll wind of paying for it severely! The reason so many oil spills occur now days isn't because it's oil. It's because the companies and their employees get too careless about SOP. Besides, we and I mean WE need oil. There is no other resource as reliable as oil right now.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj How does it cost them alot of money, and how would it be enforced? It's bad enough we have paid politicians, and with knowing that, to assume consenquences will be appropriately handed down is delusional at worst and hopeful at best. Obviously, cutting corners to increase their bottom line will evidently lead to faults, such as BP. No doubt we need the oil, but we need to do it more intelligently managed, with regulations enforced.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 The regulations we are already set in place. The last thing we need in the US is more of them lol. There's already too many in some places. Every time something goes wrong in the oil business, the government throws more regulations at it, as though the last 15 new ones didn't work. There does inevitably come a point when the only way to do business, is to cut through regulations. Plus, enforcing those regulations will also cost a lot more money than we have to spend.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj So is there something wrong with the regulations or the companies that can't seem to follow them?
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 Stopping any additional drilling all because 1 company cuts corners and screws up, is plain ridiculous. Obama shut down 2/3rds of the oil rigs in the Gulf all because 1 messed up in cutting corners. Raising taxes to extortionary levels, lowering middle class taxes to reasonable ones, all while putting so many regulations on the private sector that they have to get permission from the gov't just to take a leak, seems a little over the top, don't it? Just saying.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Ridiculous... why? To assure that the other rigs don't have the faults that the BP one had? That seems like preventative action to me. What is extortionary levels when they can still buy a loaf of bread and pay their bills... yet those that can barely do that, would have more taken away? THAT doesn't make sense. Using extortionary as a catch phrase is misleading. The 16th amendment, approved by a republican prez... Taft. Unfortunate huh?
kingjust627 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Explain why it's extortion for companies to pay a little more so that their consumer base can have a little more money to spend on the very goods and services corporations create? You feel this is wrong and feel that the reverse is true, right? Didn't romney say corporations are people my friend? I can't understand why people think that taking from those who basically have nothing will help the situation, when those that can contribute... shouldn't. Faulty logic
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 Nope, I don't believe that the middle class should pay higher taxes and vice versa. I believe that raising upper class taxes takes away any potential for employers to have the money to create jobs. Like I said, I don't think corporations should get big tax breaks. I feel that if we had a flat tax for all, it would actually strengthen the economy. Like Herman Cain's 999 tax proposal. Something similar anyway.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj A flat tax is ridiculous... you will basically be giving a HUGE tax break to those that do not neet it, and raise it on those that BARELY get by. That is why Cains tax proposal was laughed it. Like a said, raising the income tax on an individual who makes millions will not stunt growth. The incentive to hire employees with lower taxes on them is that they can spend. I don't understand why no one can see that. Corporate tax rates are a different story.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@realworldbycj What jobs do actors, atheletes, etc make... where if their taxes go up another 5% that they can't live? Apply that question to anything else and you can see that it is not the taxes that are the issue at hand. Why is there is need for million dollar bonuses, for a failing company, or even if it is successful, that salary is already in the millions? There are so many arguments for higher taxes on those that can afford it... not the other way around.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Lastly, no one is projecting early 20th century tax rate of 90 percent. If you make millions or are worth billions, and cannot make your money work for you or you cannot live off of the difference when taxed at 30%, why is it the tax rates problem? 1,000,000 / 30% = 700,000... if you cannot live, invest, and grow from that... again... how is it the tax rates that is the problem? In a world of constraints, having money doesn't make you above them.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 ummmm...30% of 1,000,000, is not 700,000. It's very basic math, it's 300,000, if 10% of a million is 100,000, then add another 20% and whaa laaa. Basic and simple. But your logic now scares me even more now, knowing that you wouldn't care if the rich companies paid out nearly 3/4 or 75% of their gross earning for each year. Wow!!! Talk about extortion!!!
realworldbycj 1 month ago
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@realworldbycj He clearly meant 700,000 left over after taxes. Don't you think calling him on the 700,000 thing is hypocritical coming from the guy who said "They're the ones who believe that equality and the phrase 'all men are created equal' means that they have the Right to make as much as Bill Gates "
sfjeff1089 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Buffet cries foul on secretary’s critics. Why shouldn't she be scrutinized like Joe the plumber was? SHE & BUFFETT brought her into the spot light she is fair game for getting to the truth about her life. just ask Joe how that works.
powerhawk2000 1 month ago
@powerhawk2000 I appreciate you trying to enlighten me with your understanding 'n all. But I'll stick with what works best for me. Facts based on facts, not speculation and democratic thinking.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Based upon those numbers, the next logical question is how are each of you declaring your income, as earned income or as dividends or capital gains? Buffet’s response to these questions, thus far, has been to call them personal attacks against Ms. Bosanek. He’s amplified his response by saying these criticisms are ‘ridiculous’. Why shouldn't she be scrutinized like Joe the plumber was?
SHE & BUFFETT brought her into the spot light she is fair game for getting to the
powerhawk2000 1 month ago
@powerhawk2000 Personally, I could care less how Buffett declares his taxes. If he's guilty of cheating the system, whatever, let the IRS worry about that, that THEIR job, NOT ours. Only Libertarians and Democrats care about that stuff anyway. They're the ones who believe that equality and the phrase "all men are created equal" means that they have the Right to make as much as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. I say, they've spent their lives working their companies to success...
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@powerhawk2000 ...let 'em enjoy it! "To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry or skill, is to violate the first arbitrarily the first principle of association---the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." ---Thomas Jefferson---
Pretty simple really.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj So you think that it is fair that Nike works people 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for $2 a day in Indonesia because the US set up a dictator over there who used American weapons to terrorize local populations, kill hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities, and protect foreign companies that used undue leverage or acquired resource rights from a puppet government. I think that if TJ were presented with that situation and your quote, he would say "Sorry guys, effed that one up!"
sfjeff1089 1 month ago
@sfjeff1089 The quote that I used had literally zero reference to anyone outside the US. It had reference only to US here IN the US. It means that plans that take from the rich who have worked tirelessly to gain their success in this life, to give to he that hasn't worked hard at all, or refuses to go and get a job, is blatantly and arbitrarily wrong! I wasn't talking about anyone in Indonesia, Africa, or India.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Ok, so let me get this straight. You are saying that the quote is correct, but it doesn't apply to someone like Mitt Romney or Warren Buffet who get paid based on other people working hard on the rich side, and it doesn't apply to someone like a Fast Food manager that works 60 hours a week on the poor side. Maybe we agree on this after all.
sfjeff1089 1 month ago
@sfjeff1089 I lived for a time in Albania, those people are some of the happiest people around, why, because even though they're less fortunate than we Americans, they are very blessed to have work at all! Some jobs make the equivalent of 20 dollars per day, others make 10 dollars a day. But they never complain! It's good that we feel bad for those less fortunate than ourselves. But they've been under suppression of their own government for years.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Ultimately part of our success or failure in this life depends on hard work and innovation and part depends on negotiating leverage. It is quite possible that I agree with most libertarians on how the former should be treated and how the latter should be treated, but I come up with a quite different world view because I have a relatively high estimate for how much of our success or failure comes from negotiation and leverage.
sfjeff1089 1 month ago
@sfjeff1089 ... Also, I believe that government is not the only entity that can suppress. If a CEO wants the benefits of a union, then they can get that by getting together with about 3 board members. From that perspective, a union is not something that hurts the economy by forcing inefficiency in, but rather something that levels the playing field to lessen the gap between what people create and what people get paid for that creation.
sfjeff1089 1 month ago
@sfjeff1089 ... When only a small portion of the work force has enough negotiating leverage to get paid enough for what they make that they can afford to buy it, then that seems like a decent operating definition of a third-world country that can only grow by increasing exports. At least after the debt bubbles finish collapsing.
sfjeff1089 1 month ago
@sfjeff1089 Seems to me, you've got one agenda, prove how terrible America is in your own pathetic mind. Why not just be grateful for what you have? And help where you can? Rather than accuse others of being wrong and you ALWAYS being right? I have nothing further to discuss with you. You're among those who have already made up their minds on America being a terrorist nation, bend on success even at the cost of misery around the world. You're just trolling, pure and simple.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj "...prove how terrible America is in your own pathetic mind"
Not at all. I am trying to help us to reach our 1932 moment without going through as much pain this time around.
Funny that you mention that about America being a terrorist nation. I consider the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Indonesia regrettable, the hundreds of thousands of deaths in 1980s Nicaragua regrettable, and the 2000's 1 million deaths in Iraq regrettable. Maybe you could clarify your position?
sfjeff1089 1 month ago
@kingjust627 I will gladly explain something that you should've learned in high school. The big "money grubbing corporations" you hate so much, are the reason any jobs ever get created. Without companies like Exon Mobile, Microsoft, Walmart, Target, & all the other fortune 500 companies out there. Our unemployment rate would not be 8.5%, but rather, 50% or so. Get the picture? You wanna create jobs? Stop taking from the corporations that CREATE THEM.
realworldbycj 1 week ago
@kingjust627 When they have to pay 30% of their gross revenue in taxes, they HAVE TO COMPENSATE for their losses. In ways like: Lowering wages to their employees, raising their prices aka inflation, and the worst part is when they wind up laying people off. Yet we get mad at them every time they do it! We're created a bad economy for ourselves! So, I say we should roll up our sleeves, and get to work! Because every minute we complain about them being wealthier than us, is a minute we wasted!
realworldbycj 1 week ago
@kingjust627 I understand Obama's logic in raising upper class taxes once again to 30%. I do. I get it. But it WILL NOT WORK!!! It's time tested! Why do you think inflation occurred during the Reagan administration? It's because of what Carter had been doing. Reagan lowered taxes all around to create jobs. He lowered them so low, that our nation would not be able to survive the way we were going. He understood that. Hence, he raised taxes considerably 7 out of 8 years.
realworldbycj 1 week ago
@realworldbycj It won't work because the greed in the upper upper class will pass down that cost to us. But you seem to be fine that they can practice business like that.
kingjust627 1 week ago
@kingjust627 Greed in the upper class? Really? It's called "free market" for a reason. You seem to either have a problem that they make more money than you or just not get how the economy runs? I don't know. But I do know that by raising upper class taxes as high as he has & is continuing to do, inflation will and is already occurring! The national average for a gallon of gas was 1.75 on Jan. of 09, now we're paying around 3.50 where I live, and I am paying far less than many!
realworldbycj 5 days ago
@kingjust627 It's not corporate greed, it's the tax code! When the BP oil spill occurred, Obama did something very stupid! He closed down more than 2/3rds of the oil drilling in the gulf! WHY?! The demand NEVER went away, but the supply sure vanished fast! When those two things happen together, ya know what happens? INFLATION!!! If he would approve things like, say...an oil pipeline, & or, onshore drilling, and if we'd stop importing our oil. We would see gas prices come down! It's THAT simple!!
realworldbycj 5 days ago
@realworldbycj
Corp greed led those assholes to take shortcuts and fuck up thousands of peoples lives
and the environment .
hieronomy 1 day ago
@hieronomy I read nothing but liberal propaganda in your comment here. I'm not even sure it's worth a intelligent response from me. So I'll say something like you would. "It's all Bush's fault! He did it! The war is wrong!" People might ask why you feel that way however. Your response will be simple and will lead to one ultimate conclusion. That you only hated it because Bush ordered it. But if it were Obama who had done it. No problem on your end. Partisan politics: What democrats are all about
realworldbycj 1 day ago
@kingjust627 Regardless of what anyone says, Reagan saved us from another great depression. I can tell whenever someone is full of it, because they blame EVERYTHING on the Republicans, and NOTHING on the Democrats.
Democrat, Libertarian, Liberal = non-sense. They have no logic backing up what they say! Just hot air! They say whatever they think will get them elected.
realworldbycj 1 week ago
@realworldbycj Funny how you moch the liberals... which i'm not one, yet the field of contestants in the game of the most stupidest fucking humans, well are the front runners in the republican primaries. THEY say exactly what needs to be said to take money from people to disseminate hate. FACT.
kingjust627 1 week ago
@kingjust627 Gas prices would drop exponentially, long term jobs would be created. And our economy would be stronger due to those things alone. But there would be more to happen than just that. Like it or not, oil is a literal building block of society, get rid of it, and you don't just rid of world of fossil fuels, you rid the world of more than 3/4th of its' product line. Try going without rubber and plastic based materials for the rest of your life.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Gas prices would not drop exponentially... as a global market, dictating prices from opec, and just an all out gauge on the consumers... I highly doubt profits are going to be cut. It's obvious we need our oil, i'm for doing it more reasonably. Unless the oil we get is not sold to the market, maybe prices can come down. But have a competeing alternative will also drive the prices down... to make it more appealing to THAT alternative.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 "Gas prices would not drop exponentially" I want proof of that very thing! No propaganda! Actual, factually based PROOF!
realworldbycj 1 day ago
@realworldbycj After you answer my question first... but you can't, and that's the problem. Oil production and discovery has varied. But speculation will always exists based on world events. Flucuate, YES, exponential drop... sorry brotha, "PIPE" dream. Pun intended.
kingjust627 22 hours ago
@kingjust627 I think it's important to move toward cleaner "green" energy, but we can't become dependent on THAT alone until we know how best to use it in the replacement of oil based products. They're continually trying to move into green tech, but it isn't up to par with oil tech. Ya know. So we should continue working toward greater, clearer technology, but we can't afford at this point to cut oil based technologies out of the picture.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj HHO technology has bee out for so long. There have been stories where a man created a vehicle that RAN on water (generating HHO through electrolosis) but was mysteriously killed. I wonder how the petroleum market would have done if the government actually backed that mans creation. While it is a conspiracy theory... HHO is a reality... and an excellent and safe alternative.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 I actually have a video on my PC somewhere that shows a scientist who developed that same thing. Maybe it's the same guy? Anyway, It's possible that the amount of water need just drive 10 miles was too much for any ordinary vehicle to transport. But like you said, it is a conspiracy theory", and a theory without factual or physical evidence to back it up and prove it fact, is just a theory. People will do anything to make oil companies sound like the devil sometimes lol
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@kingjust627 When we reach that point, I'll give it 100 percent support. Until then, I say we stick to what we know will work.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj As much as I hate to say... I have to agree! LOLOL It's unfortunate we have to, but the veins of this country are flooded with petroleum based products.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 Well, it's not all bad ya know. I love the idea of cleaner energy, it's safer, more reliable. But, the way things are, if we just suck it up, keep pushing for cleaner technology and support the ideas which lead in that direction, we'll be fine. I don't really put much stock in global warming personally. I believe it to a degree. But it just doesn't add up enough for me.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj But... if it was the other way around... the middle class would have the dispensible cash to SPEND, creating demand for a companies product, making the company generate more profit and the need to hire people. Putting the control of the money in corporations hands is wrong. It should be in the hands of those who consume those goods... the middle class. Taxing the middle class will kill demand... thus possibly killing companies that have excessive surplus of goods
kingjust627 1 month ago
@kingjust627 I respectfully disagree. Why? Simple. If you own a company, and you make lets say...$100,000,000 annually, would you be ok with the government taking it all to give to your customers? I know I would throw a fatty law suit at the government for that. That's overstepping their Constitutional authority.
It's really not as complicated as they are telling us. It's truly much simpler. There are things that I think big companies shouldn't get, like big tax breaks. But...
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@kingjust627 ...to say that it is wrong to let a company has the money it has made, is the same as Obama taking money from the middle class saying "we'll decide how best to spend your money!" You getting my point? I hope what I am trying to convey to you is making sense. It is to me, but it might be losing something in transition from mind to key board lol.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Actually... reagan rose taxes for 7 years straight... Didn't you watch the video? So, if middle class is being taxed more, let's say 5% more, and they only get a 3% increase in their income... how does that work out? If you havn't realized, everything is a game of numbers to those with power (which is usually those with money). They "trickle down" just enough for the few, when they have Trillions, just maintain their millions in profit. That's really clever, no?
kingjust627 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Question... why can't they just absorb the tax hike, not increase salary, lowering middle income taxes... so that the middle class WILL have more money to spend, thus creating more demand for THEIR products, which will increase profits, etc. so on and so forth? That tax hike, would be non existant... but we can't effect their profits, can't we???? Like I said, giving wealthy greedy people power over the economy is non beneficial to the middle class.
kingjust627 1 month ago
@realworldbycj yes and in the 10 years after reaganomics the wages for the average american grew by a whopping 3% WOW that's about 1% every 3 years while the richest american's saw their incomes increase by about 74%. so what happened to the trickle down economics that was supposed to happen? well that was just a big fat conservative lie, it never happened. the rich spent their extra cash at the shops that other rich people owned and the money just stayed up there and never came down.
plwpahi 1 week ago
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b52goats 1 month ago
Really? You're going to compare Reagan to Osama Bin Laden? Why aren't you blaming Bill Clinton for any of this. He was no saint. Oh, wait, gotcha, you only attack Republicans, ok. Libertarian idiot!
realworldbycj 1 month ago
How can this guy compare Reagan to Obama? The previous 43 Presidents spent a total of 6.3 trillion dollars. Obama in ONLY 3 years, spends 6.5 trillion, rounding to the nearest billion on both.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj RWBCJ, not to be brash... but don't be a tool. Reagan was not and did not inherit a fucking mess. So your comparison of money spent over what time is completely irrelevant... This is about reagan not obama... is it not?
kingjust627 1 week ago
I think it's so funny that your logic is so out of style and stupid. Haha.
wetdog160 1 month ago
No president of the 20th century had a more positive and enduring influence than Ronald Reagan, who was born 99 years ago today. Other presidents, from Wilson to FDR, exceeded Reagan in their impact, but much of it was negative. Sure, they won wars, but they almost destroyed the American economy as well. Reagan, by contrast, won the Cold War and also revived the American economy from decades of abuse. He was successful both at home and abroad.
powerhawk2000 1 month ago
The Reagan mystique is largely myth.
Tippersnore 1 month ago
OK, this is RT Russian television. A Russian propaganda tool. This whole video is B.S. and full of half truths. Not worth watching!
drewby7777 1 month ago
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George Washington
1st U.S. President
"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
--The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.
ironfist2libface 1 month ago
reagan gets props from so many because he's the guy who purchased the christian vote for the repbulicans
bttwgtw 1 month ago
SUCKASS 64 PEOPLE HAD GONE CRAZY FUCK!!!
chellyashrie 2 months ago
It's bad enough that the nation's jobless rate is 9.7%. But the real national employment rate is even higher than the U.S. Department of Labor's May figure shows. The official unemployment index, based on a monthly survey of sample households, counts only people who reported looking for work in the past four weeks. It doesn't account for part-time workers who want to work more hours but can't, given the tight job market.
phoenixbornagain 2 months ago
for the republicans, does america NOT have a saying called "Freedom Of Speech"?.
say what you want to us liberal democrat's about Obama and [well most of us] we just shrug it off, but when we say something about Reagan, you guys [and girls] just FLY OFF THE HANDLE!.
TheMonkeybutler20 2 months ago
@TheMonkeybutler20 Well I don't speak for all Conservatives. But maybe the reason is because you're such immense hypocrites? Or maybe because you guys love ANYTHING Obama does. Yet hate EVERYTHING Bush or Reagan EVER did? Ever think about that? My guess is not. Why? Because you're too busy being hypocrites. You guys don't "shrug if off". You go ballistic if someone attacks your candidate/s! I say, get over yourselves. I HATE partisan politics! But it's all about your party with you guys!!
realworldbycj 5 days ago
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Why are teabaggers so in love with Ronald Reagan? He's totally unlike them. Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times, gave amnesty to illegal aliens, tripled the debt, had Reaganomics & "trickle down" effect that didn't work, never worked & will never work, left office with the BIGGEST national debt & deficit in history & was involved in the Iran Conta scandal. Ronald Reagan may talk like a Republican but he governs like a Democrat. Ronald Reagan is a RINO
MsLlcools 2 months ago
REGAN SUCKED
TheMonkeybutler20 2 months ago
Lol, he's farting facts out his liberal ass.
moosicninja09 2 months ago
@moosicninja09 I bet you're just saying that just cause your rich daddy likes him. Any fucktard should be able to see he WAS one of the worst presidents, he was a anti-labor anti-union monster who fired over 13,000 people in a union him self, he refused to raise the minimum wage for the working class at a time that it was needed. He did more damage to working class wages than any other president in U.S. history. Hell even Nixon was better then him. Stick to music kid.
b52goats 2 months ago
@b52goats You sound like you're an envycrat and your response to @moosicninja09 sounds very immature and childish. No president was perfect but our situation was much better in 1988 than it was in 1980. If results matter, he was one of our best.
iwontreadyourreply 1 month ago
@iwontreadyourreply You sound ignorant, and you are ignorant. Your lack of political and economic knowledge shows, to debate this matter with a person such as your self would get me no where. "No president was perfect" you state the obvious; no human is perfect thus our imperfection shows in our work. Results, in a such a essential and crucial position, is one of the only things that matter. On a list of commendable presidents he is the furthest from the top.
b52goats 1 month ago
@b52goats If results matter regarding my knowledge of politics and economics, I'd only trade my education, employment opportunities and investment portfolio with those in the top 5-10 percentile so it doesn't matter if you think I'm ignorant. And, I worked for it. It didn't come from my (very not) rich daddy. If you want to focus on other commendable attributes, I'll stand by my original comment that you are an envycrat. I bet anything I nailed it. Go ahead, list some of those attributes.
iwontreadyourreply 1 month ago
@b52goats Was Reagan worse than Obama do you think?
realworldbycj 1 month ago
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@realworldbycj Well..thats a hard one.. I mean they both fucking suck, but I'd have to say Reagan because he basically launched the start of more spending and had many people in unions laid off/ lessened their wages, the federal debt was $994 billion when Reagan took office in 1981, and grew to $2.9 trillion when his second term ended in 1989. But over all obamas pretty horrible, and what makes it worse is people are just brain washed to think that hes some type of god sent president. They're-
b52goats 1 month ago
@realworldbycj -just to stupid to realize how much more debt he put us in and how he just lied to get votes, he'll tell you what you wanna hear but he doesn't do anything close to it.
b52goats 1 month ago
@b52goats I don't want to sound offensive here, but to in the context you put it, is spelled "too". Sorry, I'm not trying to be smart allec or anything.
Ya know, what you just described, sounds a lot like Obama. I am just being honest with you.
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@b52goats And an interesting fact for you about Reagan. By raising middle class taxes and lowering upper class. Did it ever occur to you that maybe Reagan understood that the upper class employes the middle class? As in, lower taxes creates jobs, lower prices, and higher wages.
But thank you for your comment! One more quicky question: Without putting down anyone else. Can you tell me what should happen in America to fix the economy and bring our troops home the best way?
realworldbycj 1 month ago
@realworldbycj Fix the economy; Lower spending such as military and foreign aid ( cut all foreign aid if possible), use America's energy sources (thus creating more jobs in the process) stop the war on drugs, shrink the federal government, reduce government officials pay, increase the taxes for the rich yet give corporations that ship goods tax cuts. -Bringing the troops home; the same way we came in fly out hah, but no we'll need a large number of EOD tech teams to make sure our boys get-
b52goats 1 month ago
@b52goats Okay, thanks. Believe it or not. You're the first person to EVER respond to that message and I've asked that question to many people now. So, really thank you! I appreciate your input on the matter! You appear to have a truly bipartisan viewpoint, am I right on that...or?
realworldbycj 1 month ago