What is going to destroy us, the US?

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Under those parameters, "we" looks like a mighty small subset...

 

[subxboi]

Yeah but I can at very least eat a lot of pastries. =P

 

[Saint Peter]

He didn't say, you have nothing to fear, he said be afraid, be very afraid, and now, NOW, a lot of us are...


The power of the Presidency being wielded,
The power of the pulpit,

YOU'RE GOING TO HELL IF YOU DON'T REPENT!​

You are just bullshitting us now. He did not say those things. You did.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Help yourself to the pastry cart, but don't take anything with sprinkles, there may be mice...

 

[Saint Peter]

Mice don't scare me as much as religious presidents.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

You are just bullshitting us now. He did not say those things. You did.

I said what he said the way we here in the 'Heel say it 'cause tarnation, we didn't go to Harvard, we had to learn us real stuff to make a living!






*spit*

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Mice don't scare me as much as religious presidents.

HE Picked Rick warren!

 

[Saint Peter]

I said what he said the way we here in the 'Heel say it 'cause tarnation, we didn't go to Harvard, we had to learn us real stuff to make a living!






*spit*

You told me the same thing after I missquoted a busyboob post.

Minus the Harvard stuff.

 

[subxboi]

Lich King/Kerrigan '12!

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

I don't recall...
I can't remember...
My brain is a blender, it's like Jello!
But don't blame my gender...




Unless I'm Maureen, or Geraldine, or Hillary (had it coming) or Sarah, or Paula, the Tramp...

 

[B_Gus_Richards]

The Democrat Party

It won’t mean to. Everything it does, it does for you and in your name, and you’re the little guy.

It is the party, for the most part, of the single-issue voter. That issue might be abortion, wealth redistribution, the Environment, war, the poor, homosexuality, your job, your investment firm, or any one of a number of causes. A single-issue voter is never going to get what they want unless they pull a Faust, I’ll vote, without question for your issue, if in return, I get the quid pro quo on my issue. You see where this leads, the fallacy of False Expert as each special interest group is simply allowed to make laws to benefit them.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Cornelius Tacitus

It's a Culture of Corruption

The biggest problem is that it doesn't stop in Congress, take Science (or Medicine, or even Big Banking) for example and its Balkanization and Treasury teat research...

Your boy Bush already has had an 8 year head start on destroying the country. Let's not try to pretend that the mess we have just happened last week. Now go quote Rand or fellate Ish.

 

[RightField]

Your boy Bush already has had an 8 year head start on destroying the country. Let's not try to pretend that the mess we have just happened last week. Now go quote Rand or fellate Ish.

Most of the mess we have is the financial devistation that came from the Government (Democrats) infusing our banking system with "social" issues and implementing policies that pushed making loans to people who couldn't afford to pay them back (to reverse decades of "discrimination" based on the ability to pay back the loans). Bush could have reversed the policy, but didn't, but he did try to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and wasn't able to due to the loud outcry from dems like Dodd and Franks who were enriching themselves and their friends through the largess of those two "government bodies". This mess is from the democrats, not the Republicans.

 

[B_Gus_Richards]

Most of the mess we have is the financial devistation that came from the Government (Democrats) infusing our banking system with "social" issues and implementing policies that pushed making loans to people who couldn't afford to pay them back (to reverse decades of "discrimination" based on the ability to pay back the loans). Bush could have reversed the policy, but didn't, but he did try to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and wasn't able to due to the loud outcry from dems like Dodd and Franks who were enriching themselves and their friends through the largess of those two "government bodies". This mess is from the democrats, not the Republicans.

OH yes the CRA of 1979...Bahahaha. And yes, the Dems created this mess by being in power for just 12 months after the Republicans had total control for 7 years. Do you know how stupid that sounds? Take your republican talking points elsewhere. It's obvious you spout them because you're not smart enough to have an opinion of your own.

Deregulation, greed on Wall St. and propping up the housing industry with artificially lowered interest rates is what caused this mess. Bush has been in charge for almost 8 years and we have this mess yet he is not accountable? Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.

It's funny how W's lifetime M.O. of coming into a situation, completely fucking it up and leaving the mess for someone else to clean up was not repeated during his presidency, isn't it?

 

[RightField]

OH yes the CRA of 1979...Bahahaha. And yes, the Dems created this mess by being in power for just 12 months after the Republicans had total control for 7 years. Do you know how stupid that sounds? Take your republican talking points elsewhere. It's obvious you spout them because you're not smart enough to have an opinion of your own.

Deregulation, greed on Wall St. and propping up the housing industry with artificially lowered interest rates is what caused this mess. Bush has been in charge for almost 8 years and we have this mess yet he is not accountable? Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.

It's funny how W's lifetime M.O. of coming into a situation, completely fucking it up and leaving the mess for someone else to clean up was not repeated during his presidency, isn't it?

Obfuscation to hide the blame from where it really exists....typical democrat methodology.

 

[RightField]

OH yes the CRA of 1979...Bahahaha. And yes, the Dems created this mess by being in power for just 12 months after the Republicans had total control for 7 years. Do you know how stupid that sounds? Take your republican talking points elsewhere. It's obvious you spout them because you're not smart enough to have an opinion of your own.

Deregulation, greed on Wall St. and propping up the housing industry with artificially lowered interest rates is what caused this mess. Bush has been in charge for almost 8 years and we have this mess yet he is not accountable? Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.

It's funny how W's lifetime M.O. of coming into a situation, completely fucking it up and leaving the mess for someone else to clean up was not repeated during his presidency, isn't it?

Obfuscation to hide the blame from where it really exists....typical democrat methodology. I think Clinton called it "spin".

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

No. It's simple Gus.


The money behind the Democrat Party and it's long-tenured bought and paid for Politicians in the Congress ran the country to enrich itself and when their scheme collapsed because of their greed and lust for power, they simply did what they do on each and every single issue: blame the other guy, i.e., misdirect and ad hominem. The last two years were the worst and in that train wreck Bush, the Democrats, and that big money (Pauleson, Rubin, and others like Raines and Johnson, even Gorelic, [the Harvard connection at play]) were in lockstep accord with the looting of our labor and dreams.

This is the most Corrupt Government we have ever elected and it is simply looting the Treasury and giving us bread and circuses and that, my liberal firend, is a story that never, ever ends well.

 

[Ishmael]

Well, gas and circuses anyway. Right now a loaf of good bread is more expensive than a gallon of gas. What'd I tell you last year?

Ishmael

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

That you were the smart brother...






That was the herd panicking, an artificial bubble, now we're being asked to panic again, creating an artificial dip, and who's the lead spook?




That ought to get them going! "Wake ya up in da moanin' boy!"

 

[Ishmael]

No one believes that what the crowd in power is doing is going to work and now Obama has ceded leadership to the congress (like that's a big surprise, he doesn't have a clue so he's going to do virtually nothing).

Wonderful, a puppet president and a runaway congress.

They're going to piss away another trillion dollars and they're gong to piss it away as fast as they possibly can.

Of course when this winters snow melt finally hits the Mississippi/Missouri downstream we can look forward to another $200-300 billion being spent.

High unemployment, high inflation, $2.5 trillion missing from the treasury and not a damn thing to show for it.

Wunnerful, wunnerful.

Ishmael

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Yeah, I've been using the phrase, "gut him like a fish..."






That speech he gave this week was shameless; it's sole purpose was to make sure improving numbers were treated in the same manner as falling temperatures. He wants the power to defy reality and for that, just like Bush before him, he's willing to use fear.

 

[kbate]

Well, gas and circuses anyway. Right now a loaf of good bread is more expensive than a gallon of gas. What'd I tell you last year?

This, is a temporary thing, just as the $5.00/gallon gas was temporary. Crops - lag the market due to production time. Oil precedes the market - due to speculation.

Blaming the democrats, and not the runaway spending under the Republicans with their puppet president Bush - is a bit of a stretch. Apparently - the proper political layout, to achieve fiscal balance - is what we had under Bill Clinton a democrat for president and a narrowly held republican congress. That is the only time in my lifetime, that the government has even attempted fiscal responsibility.

Single party rule -- either party - means corruption and vote buying with our future earnings as the ante.

 

[Ishmael]

Yeah, I've been using the phrase, "gut him like a fish..."






That speech he gave this week was shameless; it's sole purpose was to make sure improving numbers were treated in the same manner as falling temperatures. He wants the power to defy reality and for that, just like Bush before him, he's willing to use fear.

He has to be true to his nature, it's the prefered weapon of the Marxist/Socialist.

Ishmael

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

I told Chuck Norris hammeringf Arnold over Energy was a waste of time...

It’s hard to pinpoint the worst part of the public lands legislation bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling up for an under-the-radar Sunday vote tomorrow.

The 1200-page, pork-laden, $10 billion proposal locks up millions of acres of energy-rich property by designating it as environmentalist-friendly “federal wilderness” area where not even as much as a bicycle would be permitted to travel across the land. Many of these areas recently became available when the ban on domestic drilling in Western states expired last fall and the liberal left couldn’t muster the courage to keep it in place due to rising energy prices. Now Democratic leaders are using different legislative strategies to put a new kind of ban in place.

One Republican House staffer put it this way: “Reid is going to make it federal land so no one can touch it. He’s locking up the equivalent of ANWR.”

The bill, S.22 "Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009," would cordon off more than 3 million acres from energy leasing by restricting various areas as “federal wilderness” or “wild and scenic” river ways.

http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2009/01/10/harry_reid’s_land_grab

Several Republicans, however, have their own projects in the bill making it a difficult vote to skip. Republican Sen. John Barasso of Wyoming, who is typically a reliable conservative vote, has a provision tucked away in the bill to withdraw 1.2 million acres of state land from mineral leasing and energy exploration, where 8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 331 million barrels of recoverable oil are estimated to exist.

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

He has to be true to his nature, it's the prefered weapon of the Marxist/Socialist.

Ishmael

So far his MO is to be low key, use goons, and hide behind his Press...

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

This, is a temporary thing, just as the $5.00/gallon gas was temporary. Crops - lag the market due to production time. Oil precedes the market - due to speculation.

Blaming the democrats, and not the runaway spending under the Republicans with their puppet president Bush - is a bit of a stretch. Apparently - the proper political layout, to achieve fiscal balance - is what we had under Bill Clinton a democrat for president and a narrowly held republican congress. That is the only time in my lifetime, that the government has even attempted fiscal responsibility.

Single party rule -- either party - means corruption and vote buying with our future earnings as the ante.

I agree, to a point; but the 110th Congress did us no favors in reining in Bush, NOW DID THEY?

They were corrupt and now we're where we are because no one would simply tell Dodd and Frank, and a few others, you have to go, YOU'RE Fired! For the rest of the argument, I refer you back to page one, I won't call you out, you don't call me out and the Republicans are against your (and/or my) issue, so I'm against Republicans!