Happy Birthday President Obama!
Keep em on their toes old bean!
and grow a backbone while youre at it, old man… yours is severely under-developed…
am i the only one that is disgusted by the whole house these days??? its crazy, you take what is normally a reasonable person, put em through an election and give em a seat in that house and they lose all sense of reality… i cant believe how much these guys are willing to do damage for nothing more than spite and hard headedness… the simple fact is this; if yall wanna survive with your “american way of life” intact then two things MUST happen…
#1 - cutting programs like crazy, yes entitlements too… but the dems wont do it
#2 - raising taxes… but the reps wont do it…
only a retard puts an ideal ahead of a very harsh reality… it would be nice if everyone could have their way but it will never happen… compromise is the name of the game… both sides need to give more than they are giving… and the republicans need to stop holding taxpayers hostage over ideological bullsh1t… but at least these ******* republicans have a pair… more than i can say for 95% of the democratic party… bunch of fukcing obsequious eunuchs…
but the number 1 threat to north american politics today is campaign funding and the tone these campaigns take… its just so so wrong…
Unfortunately, we in the U.S. support too many peeps who cannot or choose not to support themselves.
I work in the healthcare industry. About 80% of the people I see everyday are jobless. Some have lost employment due to no fault of their own. However, many never finished high school, never went to a trade school, and are ex-felons.
In my state (Ohio), a jobless individual can get free housing, food stamps, a check from the government to pay their utility bills (with no accountability on how they use that check), free healthcare, free education for their children, free breakfasts and lunches for their children through the local schools, and a free bus pass if they keep a record of jobs for which they have applied. Taxpayers fund all of this.
It is breaking our fiscal backs and it needs to STOP!
I would like to see:
- Drug testing of all welfare recipients. Fail it, lose it!
- Forced birth control of all welfare recipients. This can be done through a simple implant under the skin.
- Sterilization of all welfare recipients who give birth while on welfare (providing they were not pregnant before they went on welfare).
- Families forced to provide for their children who never learned to provide for themselves.
wow, you guys got fiscal depression out of a hbd thread…lol 
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1120504]wow, you guys got fiscal depression out of a hbd thread…lol :p[/QUOTE]
Well the guy is the poster child for fiscal depression.
[QUOTE=BJJ-Blue;1120520]Well the guy is the poster child for fiscal depression.[/QUOTE]
That would be his predecessor in my opinion. the current POTUS is still trying to empty out and clean the sack of sh1t he was handed at the start. lol
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1120551]That would be his predecessor in my opinion. the current POTUS is still trying to empty out and clean the sack of sh1t he was handed at the start. lol[/QUOTE]
So after 2.5 years it’s still Bush’s fault. :rolleyes:
Unemployment under Bush peaked at 7.4%. It’s never been below 7.8% under the community organizer.
The community organizer himself said it’s been his economy since July 2009.
So I gave him too much credit. Unemployment in his economy has never been below 8.8%. 
Source:
http://goodtimepolitics.com/2009/07/16/obama-owns-the-economy-give-it-to-me-says-barack/
Unemployment figures source:
http://www.miseryindex.us/urbymonth.asp
[QUOTE=BJJ-Blue;1120558]So after 2.5 years it’s still Bush’s fault. :rolleyes:
Unemployment under Bush peaked at 7.4%. It’s never been below 7.8% under the community organizer.[/QUOTE]
yep, it is STILL bushes fault.
Clinton’s path would have seen you retire the deficit by 2009.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1120567]yep, it is STILL bushes fault.[/QUOTE]
The good part is that I believe our electorate is smarter (and more realistic) than you and the same tired line won’t still work after him using it for 4+ years.
All the GOP has to do is use the question that’s asked at every Presidential election: Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Dude, it’s gonna be a landslide of Carteresque proportions. 
[QUOTE=BJJ-Blue;1120577]The good part is that I believe our electorate is smarter (and more realistic) than you and the same tired line won’t still work after him using it for 4+ years.
All the GOP has to do is use the question that’s asked at every Presidential election: Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Dude, it’s gonna be a landslide of Carteresque proportions. :D[/QUOTE]
I’m getting the “same old tired line” from your mainstream press and television pundits. lol.
100% Americanized reiterative process man.
also, you’re kidding yourself if you think the GOP has a snowballs chance in hell of regaining power. The damage is too deep, extensive, expensive and the majority of America will not forget the horror story that was and is America this past 10 years.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1120592]The damage is too deep, extensive, expensive and the majority of America will not forget the horror story that was and is America this past 10 years.[/QUOTE]
FYI, Bush’s first 6 years were fine. Liberals like you seem to forget that part. We had unemployment at around 5% and steady GDP growth every year. It was in 2006 it got bad. And which Party controlled Congress the first 6 years, and which Party controlled Congress the last 2 years?
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1120592]also, you’re kidding yourself if you think the GOP has a snowballs chance in hell of regaining power. [/QUOTE]
Yeah, the GOP really got shellacked in the 2010 midterm elections. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=BJJ-Blue;1120558]So after 2.5 years it’s still Bush’s fault. :rolleyes:
Unemployment under Bush peaked at 7.4%. It’s never been below 7.8% under the community organizer.[/QUOTE]
Really??? So it jumped .4% during the swearing in ceremony??
[QUOTE=MasterKiller;1120650]Really??? So it jumped .4% during the swearing in ceremony??[/QUOTE]
I just posted the numbers. Of course even I know you have to give the guy a few months for his policies to take effect. That’s common sense. Of course those numbers only got worse in that time, so the numbers minutes after he was sworn in were actually the best numbers he’s ever had.
In short, the guy would love to have the economic numbers he inherited from Bush.
[QUOTE=MasterKiller;1120650]Really??? So it jumped .4% during the swearing in ceremony??[/QUOTE]
You’re right, sticking him with January’s numbers was unfair. I’ll start with February’s numbers:
Unemployment under Bush peaked at 7.4%. It’s never been below 8.2% under the community organizer.
:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=BJJ-Blue;1120558]So after 2.5 years it’s still Bush’s fault. :rolleyes:
Unemployment under Bush peaked at 7.4%. It’s never been below 7.8% under the community organizer.[/QUOTE]
you act like 2.5 years isnt a drop in the bucket? these are long term problems that have been comming on in stages over a long period of time… but yeah, clinton and bush, both, have done alot of damage to the US economy… everyone thinks clinton is a financial genius… he’s just a good thief… he kows how to milk things… he knew he was at the peak of a cycle and he took full advantage of it… alot of people did… none of them them your average guy…
you act like there is a reset button after every election??? you do understand that policy from previous aministrations affect future administrations right???
[QUOTE=BJJ-Blue;1120668]You’re right, sticking him with January’s numbers was unfair. I’ll start with February’s numbers:
Unemployment under Bush peaked at 7.4%. It’s never been below 8.2% under the community organizer.[/QUOTE]
So which specific policy change can you point to that Obama enacted to cause this jump in one month?
[QUOTE=MasterKiller;1120750]So which specific policy change can you point to that Obama enacted to cause this jump in one month?[/QUOTE]
It’s never been below 7.8% the entire 2.5 years he’s been President.