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......The St Pete Bash was a rousing success. The attendees were highly motivated and beyond friendly. A huge debt of gratitude for MichiannaRed and the others who volunteered their time and resources to make the 2009 St Pete Bash a memorable event. New friendships were formed and old ones rekindled, a great time was had by all........Now on a lighter note I returned home to North Carolina today to find the OBAMACORN Administration is at it again with their calculator magic. They announced or should I say cheered(VP Biden as the head cheerleader) that because of that great 787Billion stimulus bill passed last Feb., 650,000 jobs were "saved" and/or "created". Now in that so far only $160 billion of the Stimulus bill has been spent the outlook for more jobs looks pretty good some would say......OK 60minman whats wrong with that scenario. Plenty is wrong. I have a calculator too. Mine says 650 thousand saved/created jobs divided by $160 Billion comes out to $246,153. per job. Alas the White House calls that "calculator abuse" because it doesn't show the big picture. Maybe it doesn't but their calculator is a magic carpet ride into more debt and uncertainty for our grandchildren, and their grandchildren, to be saddled with. I was asked not long ago what I would do to solve the "ills" of this Country. Right now America needs a big dose of financial castor oil to put a halt to the runaway spending. The taxpayer is not getting the value for the dollars our government spends......PS the 650 thousand jobs created/saved against the 3 million jobs lost since the Stimulus was enacted doesn't even begin to compute either, maybe I need a new calculator....Think the White House will send me theirs? " If guns kill people then pencils misspell words" |
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11/2/2009 5:51 pm |
Yes sir, it is called Liberal-math. It is OK to spend a billion to save a million using this formula. Heck, we should import the formula to Canada so those stinkin' foreigners would be too absorbed in their own problems and stay out of ours. ROFL Isn't PEACE a wonderful thing?
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11/2/2009 6:42 pm |
Yes, years ago we had the "new math." Now that has been replaced by "pie in the sky" math. Say it isn't so has been turned into say it is anything you want to be...a twist on the phrase of "if it feels good - do it. Only it is if it sounds good - say it.
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11/2/2009 10:40 pm |
Its just another phrase they use to say the word "lie" If deception and lies are all they are capable of, then why on God's green earth do we keep putting up with them?
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11/3/2009 3:46 am |
We have the power to kick them out of office, that is "if" we survive until their terms are up. Unfortunately for us, we have so many citizens who choose not to vote (for whatever reason) and a good portion of those who do vote aren't knowledgeable on the candicates. Proof of that was evident in the last election in November. At the rate we are spending, we may very well not have a country left to save when that happens. As I have said before, I have never before been so afraid for this country as I am now.
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11/3/2009 6:54 am |
I wouldn't want to agrue the rightness of the thing, for I'm not sure if it's right or not. However, the simplistic approach of the simple mind to achieve their own goal is what I'm willing to argue. Whether it's repubican tax cut or democratic spending, each can serve the right purpose. Reaganomic, showed us there is a time a place for Republican fiscal policy, FDR and the "New Deal'" showed us that Democratic spending, has it's time and place too. What we have learned is that government spending or tax cuts have far less to do with the amount spent or saved, and far more to do with the amount generated. It would be my contentions, that in the last 20 years we cannot count on big business and corporations to do the right thing. The stewardship of big business is no longer there. We can not depend on goodwill, patriotism, and humanity from corporations. Greed, avarice, survival, advantages, and profits is now the credo of big business. For those in charge, the measure of their success is the measure of their bonuses! I'm not sure that the "New Deal II" is going to work, but I'm certainly willing to argue the "old deal" won't.
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11/3/2009 12:49 pm |
Jimminy Cricket. Your distrust of big business and corporations is based on what? A few out of Thousands? I will take those odds anytime. Any business/corporation in capitalism is based on profit. The profit motive is based on many factors of which greed, avarice, survival and advantages are not among them. I dont know what you consider the right thing but the perponderance of businesses/corporations do the "right" thing over and over on a daily basis. Do you honestly believe our government in the past or right now is being good stewards of our money? ......Oh by the way a terrific comment. Its been well over a year now and the Bush/Obama spending spree has not made a dent in unemployment. Its time for another tax cut. Instead of giving to individuals give it to businesses and corporations they will know what to do. " If guns kill people then pencils misspell words"
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11/4/2009 6:00 am |
60min. In the "old days" it was the Rockefeller and Getty types that made this country great. Not that they weren't profit takers, but becauase they were profit givers also. Today, other than Bill Gates, these type of people don't exist. The current multi-millionaires can hide their name, behind a business logo. Who today? takes personal responsibilty for the banking business, mortgage business, investment business, automakers, oil companies, insurance companies. manufacturers. A tax cut, or bailout, simply feeds the green eyed monster. These companies aren't concerned about employment, They are concerned about profit. First generating profits through business and then generating profits through govenment. They act with impunity. For in losing the responsiblity of risk taking, they also lose the responsibility in profit making. They are no better, than the rest of the countries, whining about their 401k's, investment portfolio's, and mortgages and looking for govenment bailout too. Somewhere along the line, we have bought into entitlements. We have lose sight of the fact that there is a huge difference between protecting what you have, and having nothing at all.
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