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I just think the whole "we need to cut spending now" people going "what?! we didn't mean defense" is definitely strange and doesn't make Republicans look all that good to the general public.
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Found more details. It doesn't sound so bad "...In fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was toward the end of the Bush Administration.”
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I'm fine with it if they do it smartly, which is asking a lot.
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So, libertarian- for the common defense- big and bloated or small and ineffectual? Those are your two choices SI |
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Tongue in cheek? There is no middle ground just two extremes? |
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Listening to you guys, those are the only choices we have with government. So, which is it you prefer? SI |
Which one do you prefer?
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I'm more of a small and ineffectual sort for the military but large and bloated for my social programs. I thought you knew that by now. :D
I was curious if forced to pick which you prefer since you seem to find fault with it at any turn. SI |
It's obvious I pick small and effectual for all programs. ;)
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Unfortunately, if you're the President with the Congress you are dealt and the defense department you have, you don't get to make that choice. And you have to pick one- you can't just punt on the choice.
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It's not the current President or the Congress (it could be anyone). It's the same that ails (some) corporate capitalism: political/management cronyism. Partisinism is too petty compared to the system which, for the most part, produces either of the two results. |
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It's like asking whether I would cheer for KU or K-State. How about neither? ;) Seriously though the military budget (not spending time to research so I could be wrong on the exact numbers but my point shouldn't change much) is like 6 times any other country in the world. Obama's new "drastic cut" is like 5.8. Why can't it be 4 times? Twice? Nobody ever said (including Libertarians) that it should be zero. |
Seeing the massive job opportunities a large military provides in personal, research and manufacturing, I always thought of the military as being mostly a social program.
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Unemployment rate falls to 8.5 percent; Obama: Economy starting to ‘rebound’ - Josh Boak - POLITICO.com
Unemployment falls to 8.5 percent. Numbers continue to look good, but will they continue to get better in the run up to the election? (and if they do, does the chances of the Republican nominee, be it Romney or whoever else, get seriously hurt?) |
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Without reading the article wouldn't employment numbers tend to go down during the holidays? |
Employment numbers are adjusted for seasonal fluctuations.
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So NPR said there have been 2 million private sector job gained since Obama took office. However, the cuts in government jobs is preventing a significant decrease in the unemployment figures (saw some reference to 500k lost gov't jobs)
Have the Republicans landed on the Holy Grail of strategies? Push for enough government (job) cuts that will mute nearly all private sector growth while still painting Obama as a Marxist.... Brilliant. They deserve the win for pulling this off and (mostly) for the Dem's being stupefied. |
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People with guns don't count. |
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For Obama, I think the first criteria most will look at is whether the economy is getting better. So if this trend continues, it will definitely help him and hurt the GOP chances. |
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Got the official read on this Jobless rate falls to nearly 3-year low - The Washington Post Quote:
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It is a social program, for well connected and otherwise incompetent lobbyists and corporate executives who generate overly inflated contracts to pad various people's pockets while donating a relative trickle to jobs (some of which are not even in this country). The military industrial complex is a very successful ponzi scheme, big pyramid of contributors, a lot sliced off for corruption, and some payments back in the form of actual military hardware but not enough to justify the costs. |
Good lord. Some politicians and their families need to learn that they don't have to react defensively to every thing that's critical of them. That's part of the gig. Reacting in this way brings it more attention and legitimacy at some level than it every would have if it was ignored.
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You really like to dig deep don't you? This article seems to be about an interview Michele Obama gave on TV where she was asked about a book written about her that was critical. Seems she just said the book was mostly silly and moved on. I don't know in what way she reacted that brings legitimacy except to mouth-breathers who repost every piece of garbage they find. :shrug:
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She said people were trying to make her look like an angry black woman. She didn't say it was 'silly'. She didn't say it was portraying her as a 'bitter woman' or an 'angry woman'. She implies that there's some sort of racial stereotype where none exists in the excerpt that I've seen released. It makes her look like a defensive person who indicates that there may be a lot more truth in the statements than she'd like you to believe. FWIW......Newt's comments related to black people and food stamps last week were equally as mind-numbingly stupid from where I stand. Why he ever thought that he had to limit his comments to just black people when discussing food stamps (other than the obvious reason) just boggles my mind. There's people abusing state and federal aid programs all over the place and it's certainly not limited to just black people. His comments make it clear we should be glad no matter what party or ideology we support that he's not going to be our President. It's just annoying that two people who should be more conscious of their comments and how they are stated given their status in our society are so lacking in those skills as was made obvious by their statements this week. |
False equivalencies and false outrage for teh win!
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I'll worry about this when I finally get an apology from Martin Luther King Jr.
There's a guy that should have known better. |
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You stay classy MBBF. |
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The obvious reason being that Newt Gingrich is an idiot and a racist. I thought that was pretty clear, but perhaps the clouds of politics somehow seem to put a fog over the obvious. |
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MLK Jr. set and example 50+ years ago that Michelle Obama could learn a lot from and that would even hold up under present times. He focused on the positive of what could come of a situation where race wasn't used as a crutch or a defense. He focused on NOT being defensive when stating his convictions. It's not even remotely close to similar. |
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Not obvious at all. That makes sense though. I rescind my pointing out of the sentence in question. |
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Lose credibility when using a word like "all-time" when you really don't know anything that happened before 1980. More accurate to say worse disparity in the last 32 years. All-time would include the late 1800s which makes today looks like a communist paradise, I would think. |
Does it say how much the lower end of the population's income went up between those years? Heck I've quadrupled my income since I left college in '92...
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You can't just look at your own data as you have to take into account aging curves and consider the small sample size. My income has gone up 30000% (or something like that) since 1992! Never mind that I was in 8th grade and mowing lawns. Heck, my wife and I have done great throughout this recession (aside from the moving across country twice). But that's because we just hit our early 30s and we're at that point in life where we're moving from entry level to more experienced jobs. It doesn't mean the job situation out there doesn't suck. SI |
Does anyone smarter than me have some thoughts on what this means for the US / World economy?
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I thought it was pretty clear that they were referring to the history of that specific poll when they meant all-time. If I saw "highest approval rating of all time", I would assume they meant since approval polls started being done, not that they're really claiming someone had higher approval than George Washington. |
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Imagine that. If he had said this in 2009, then he would have had some credibility. Now it's too little, too late. |
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If it's like here, it means you can expect the EU to open up an investigation into the gross incompetence of S&P in 2008 within the next week ;) SI |
Tensions are heating up and I would not be surprised if we are indirectly supporting these assassinations (via a third party). Somehow, I just don't think diplomacy or sanctions will work with Iran ...
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It just depends on where he is in his career. As a Senator, he criticized Bush for spending and for wanting to raise the debt limit. When he's running against Hillary, he's a super liberal. As the general election gets closer, he's going to get more moderate (I mean really, he wants to consolidate agencies? What a nut. Is he against public roads too?). His last term, his strategy will be based on what will give him the best book deals/speaking fees post-presidency. The guy's only 50 and he's in good health (other than the smoking). He going to be prominent public figure for decades. He's got to set that up. |
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I don't think any of what are you said is necessarily unfair, but I feel like Obama was billed a pragmatic thinker rather than a strict ideologue. Lots of people call it wish-wishy or flip-flopping, but I think it is largely a matter of being practical. |
Most of the people that thought he was a super liberal were his political opponents. Certainly in the primaries he held some positions to the right of Hillary, healthcare being a prime example.
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Not confirmed but indications another #2 or #3 down the drain.
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I hear all fourteen were the number three man in AQ.
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Here's some Washington Post fact checking from the debates. The most puzzling they say is below. Any Perry fans care to comment?
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The most puzzling thing is that you assumed there were any Perry fans on this board. |
Even more puzzling that anyone thinks Perry is capable of making fact-checked statements in a clear manner.
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Erdogan is more conservative than some previous rules, to be sure. I mean, Turkey had a female prime minister back in the mid 90s and it's not like we've had a female President. The country prides itself on being secular and progressive, tho there are always going to be conservative and liberal elements (in the loose definition of the word) of any political system.
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Well, somewhat disappointed. I get accidents happen etc. but there has to be someway to mitigate and remediate enviromental problems.
NBC Politics - Obama set to reject Keystone oil pipeline Quote:
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