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Obama is a weak president
- Nov 30, 2012 3:48 pm GMT
[QUOTE="whipassmt"]
[QUOTE="Yusuke420"]
You STILL have not addressed the fact that the GOP has blocked every single attempt by the president to provide a balanced budget. Why don't you think the GOP has ANY blame in the current political climate?
[/QUOTE] And the Democrat-controlled Senate voted down Obama's budget 97-0.
[/QUOTE] Citation needed, but that still doesn;t address the GOP obstruction in the house that is why we have to deal with the current fiscal climate.
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- Nov 30, 2012 3:50 pm GMT
Unrelated to OP's thread, which has a few issues, who is the chick in your sig?
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- Nov 30, 2012 3:51 pm GMT
[QUOTE="whipassmt"][QUOTE="Yusuke420"]
You STILL have not addressed the fact that the GOP has blocked every single attempt by the president to provide a balanced budget. Why don't you think the GOP has ANY blame in the current political climate?
[/QUOTE] And the Democrat-controlled Senate voted down Obama's budget 97-0.
[/QUOTE] link please?- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Nov 30, 2012 3:56 pm GMT
Education is the most interesting and difficult adventure in life. Educating - from the Latin educere - means leading young people to move beyond themselves and introducing them to reality, towards a fullness that leads to growth. This process is fostered by the encounter of two freedoms, that of adults and that of the young. It calls for responsibility on the part of the learners, who must be open to being led to the knowledge of reality, and on the part of educators, who must be ready to give of themselves. For this reason, today more than ever we need authentic witnesses, and not simply people who parcel out rules and facts; we need witnesses capable of seeing farther than others because their life is so much broader. A witness is someone who first lives the life that he proposes to others.
- Benedict XVI, Message for the World Day of Peace 2012
[QUOTE="Yusuke420"]
[QUOTE="whipassmt"]
[QUOTE="Yusuke420"]
You STILL have not addressed the fact that the GOP has blocked every single attempt by the president to provide a balanced budget. Why don't you think the GOP has ANY blame in the current political climate?
[/QUOTE] And the Democrat-controlled Senate voted down Obama's budget 97-0.
[/QUOTE] Citation needed, but that still doesn;t address the GOP obstruction in the house that is why we have to deal with the current fiscal climate.
[/QUOTE] Okay it appears I was wrong about the Senate voting down Obama's budget.
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- Nov 30, 2012 3:58 pm GMT
[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]
Unrelated to OP's thread, which has a few issues, who is the chick in your sig?
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Viva Bianca
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:02 pm GMT
What else are you wrong about? Also ADDRESS THE GOP OBSTRUCTION IF YOU'RE GOING TO DEFEND THEM!!!!
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:22 pm GMT
Assuming the TC is actually being serious with his cricitisms, Obama did good by stabilizing the American economy using the A.R.R.A. and in the process halting an economic recession that could have led to a second Great Depression, which would have fvcked people around the world something fierce. The national debt is literally not a significant problem for the U.S. in terms of sustainabilty, since annual deficits have been shrinking and will continue to shrink as the economy recovers.
This is reflected in the interest rates, which are incredibly low (and even negative, I think) because creditors tend to think of the U.S. government as one of the most reliable stores of wealth in the world despite its apparent fiscal shortfalls, due to its vast resources. In any case, increasing the national debt by 5% of G.D.P. with an 800 billion dollar stimulus bill is something that any sane economist would do in order to prevent a global economic meltdown. As for the A.H.C.A.A., that's a social policy that I don't care about because I'm not American, but it's been estimated to be deficit-reducing and cost-reducing.
Edited on Nov 30, 2012 4:36 pm GMT Edited 2 total times.whipassmt wrote:yes but communism is a form of atheism.MattUD1 wrote:Communism is the end result of society where after a dicatorship of the working class the working class will work to acheive the common good and create a class-less and propertyless society.Assuming the TC is actually being serious with his cricitisms, Obama did good by stabilizing the American economy using the A.R.R.A. and in the process halting an economic recession that could have led to a second Great Depression, which would have fvcked people around the world something fierce. The national debt is literally not a significant problem for the U.S. in terms of sustainabilty, since annual deficits have been shrinking and will continue to shrink as the economy recovers.
This is reflected in the interest rates, which are incredibly low (and even negative, I think) because creditors tend to think of the U.S. government as one of the most reliable stores of wealth in the world despite its apparent fiscal shortfalls, due to its vast resources. In any case, increasing the national debt by 5% of G.D.P. with an 800 billion dollar stimulus bill is something that any sane economist would do in order to prevent a global economic meltdown. As for the A.H.C.A.A., that's a social policy that I don't care about because I'm not American, but it's been estimated to be deficit-reducing and cost-reducing.
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:24 pm GMT
A.R.R.A., not A.R.A.
and A.H.C.A.A.
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:30 pm GMTwhipassmt wrote:yes but communism is a form of atheism.MattUD1 wrote:Communism is the end result of society where after a dicatorship of the working class the working class will work to acheive the common good and create a class-less and propertyless society.
Never thought you'd be one to nitpick.
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:32 pm GMT
[QUOTE="Barbariser"]
Never thought you'd be one to nitpick.
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Not normally am, but you use these acronyms semi-frequently (nothing wrong with that).
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:36 pm GMTwhipassmt wrote:yes but communism is a form of atheism.MattUD1 wrote:Communism is the end result of society where after a dicatorship of the working class the working class will work to acheive the common good and create a class-less and propertyless society.
[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]
[QUOTE="Barbariser"]
Never thought you'd be one to nitpick.
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Not normally am, but you use these acronyms semi-frequently (nothing wrong with that).
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I'd probably better change them, at least for the sake of people who might have no idea what those are and need to go googling.
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:41 pm GMT
WE CAN STILL BE FRIENDS THO
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:46 pm GMTwhipassmt wrote:yes but communism is a form of atheism.MattUD1 wrote:Communism is the end result of society where after a dicatorship of the working class the working class will work to acheive the common good and create a class-less and propertyless society.
I look forward to a future of many corrected abbreviations and at laughing at silly econs arguments.
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- Nov 30, 2012 4:49 pm GMT
Hopefully more of the latter than the former.
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- Nov 30, 2012 5:22 pm GMT
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That pictures really helps support your claim.
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- Nov 30, 2012 5:24 pm GMT
Us dumbasses elected a democratic president and senate with a republican house.
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- Nov 30, 2012 5:27 pm GMT[QUOTE="MacBoomStick"]
Us dumbasses elected a democratic president and senate with a republican house.
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- Nov 30, 2012 5:36 pm GMT
Education is the most interesting and difficult adventure in life. Educating - from the Latin educere - means leading young people to move beyond themselves and introducing them to reality, towards a fullness that leads to growth. This process is fostered by the encounter of two freedoms, that of adults and that of the young. It calls for responsibility on the part of the learners, who must be open to being led to the knowledge of reality, and on the part of educators, who must be ready to give of themselves. For this reason, today more than ever we need authentic witnesses, and not simply people who parcel out rules and facts; we need witnesses capable of seeing farther than others because their life is so much broader. A witness is someone who first lives the life that he proposes to others.
- Benedict XVI, Message for the World Day of Peace 2012
[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="MacBoomStick"]
Us dumbasses elected a democratic president and senate with a republican house.
[/QUOTE] We actually elected a democratic house as well, but alas, gerrymandering [/QUOTE] Well what are we gonna do, we can't have a handful of big cities deciding the Congress for the whole country. It wouldn't be fair to the people in rural areas of Pennsylvania to have Philly pick the entire Pennsylvania Congressional delegation.
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[QUOTE="whipassmt"]
[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="MacBoomStick"]
Us dumbasses elected a democratic president and senate with a republican house.
[/QUOTE] We actually elected a democratic house as well, but alas, gerrymandering [/QUOTE] Well what are we gonna do, we can't have a handful of big cities deciding the Congress for the whole country. It wouldn't be fair to the people in rural areas of Pennsylvania to have Philly pick the entire Pennsylvania Congressional delegation.
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Surely you don't actually believe republican states geremandered fairly do you?
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- Nov 30, 2012 5:42 pm GMT[QUOTE="whipassmt"]
[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="MacBoomStick"]
Us dumbasses elected a democratic president and senate with a republican house.
[/QUOTE] We actually elected a democratic house as well, but alas, gerrymandering [/QUOTE] Well what are we gonna do, we can't have a handful of big cities deciding the Congress for the whole country. It wouldn't be fair to the people in rural areas of Pennsylvania to have Philly pick the entire Pennsylvania Congressional delegation.
[/QUOTE] So we must kill democracy to save democracy?- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
