GOP: Cut Medicare/Social SecurityPosted By Dave Snope |
Yeah Rod, that's the big problem the country is facing right now. 8O
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December 1, 2012 10:07 PM
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December 2, 2012 06:41 PM
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GOP: Cut Medicare/Social SecurityPosted By Dave Snope |
And how do you run the country without cutting entitlements? It's impossible. No amount of screwing the rich will make a dent in it.
Mark Steyn offers some perspective:
Obama now wishes “the rich” to pay their “fair share” — presumably 80 or 90 percent. After all, as Warren Buffett pointed out in the New York Times this week, the Forbes 400 richest Americans have a combined wealth of $1.7 trillion. That sounds a lot, and once upon a time it was. But today, if you confiscated every penny the Forbes 400 have, it would be enough to cover just over one year’s federal deficit. And after that you’re back to square one. It’s not that “the rich” aren’t paying their “fair share,” it’s that America isn’t. A majority of the electorate has voted itself a size of government it’s not willing to pay for.
A couple of years back, Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute calculated that, if Washington were to increase every single tax by 30 percent, it would be enough to balance the books — in 25 years. If you were to raise taxes by 50 percent, it would be enough to fund our entitlement liabilities — just our current ones, not our future liabilities, which would require further increases. This is the scale of course correction needed.
If you don’t want that, you need to cut spending — like Harry Reid’s been doing. “Now remember, we’ve already done more than a billion dollars’ worth of cuts,” he bragged the other day. “So we need to get some credit for that.”
Wow! A billion dollars’ worth of cuts! Washington borrows $188 million every hour. So, if Reid took over five hours to negotiate those “cuts,” it was a complete waste of time. So are most of the “plans.” Any “debt-reduction plan” that doesn’t address at least $1.3 trillion a year is, in fact, a debt-increase plan.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334549/kindly-note-impending-bankruptcy-mark-steyn#
Mark Steyn offers some perspective:
Obama now wishes “the rich” to pay their “fair share” — presumably 80 or 90 percent. After all, as Warren Buffett pointed out in the New York Times this week, the Forbes 400 richest Americans have a combined wealth of $1.7 trillion. That sounds a lot, and once upon a time it was. But today, if you confiscated every penny the Forbes 400 have, it would be enough to cover just over one year’s federal deficit. And after that you’re back to square one. It’s not that “the rich” aren’t paying their “fair share,” it’s that America isn’t. A majority of the electorate has voted itself a size of government it’s not willing to pay for.
A couple of years back, Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute calculated that, if Washington were to increase every single tax by 30 percent, it would be enough to balance the books — in 25 years. If you were to raise taxes by 50 percent, it would be enough to fund our entitlement liabilities — just our current ones, not our future liabilities, which would require further increases. This is the scale of course correction needed.
If you don’t want that, you need to cut spending — like Harry Reid’s been doing. “Now remember, we’ve already done more than a billion dollars’ worth of cuts,” he bragged the other day. “So we need to get some credit for that.”
Wow! A billion dollars’ worth of cuts! Washington borrows $188 million every hour. So, if Reid took over five hours to negotiate those “cuts,” it was a complete waste of time. So are most of the “plans.” Any “debt-reduction plan” that doesn’t address at least $1.3 trillion a year is, in fact, a debt-increase plan.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334549/kindly-note-impending-bankruptcy-mark-steyn#
December 2, 2012 07:03 PM
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We all live in a turquoise submarine..Posted By Dave Snope |
Oooooh, how cuuute!
That sailor had better not wave to his girlfriend or they all might tip over and fall in.
It reminds me of a tourist submarine ride at an aging amusement park. Or a Columbian drug smuggling submarine. I see a lucrative export market for them. How many kilos of coke can it hold before it floods?
That sailor had better not wave to his girlfriend or they all might tip over and fall in.
It reminds me of a tourist submarine ride at an aging amusement park. Or a Columbian drug smuggling submarine. I see a lucrative export market for them. How many kilos of coke can it hold before it floods?
December 2, 2012 07:18 PM
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We all live in a turquoise submarine..Posted By Dave Snope |
Does anybody who looks at that picture believe that that little hunk of junk can launch anti-ship missiles? Especially the Yahoo dopes who blindly publish this junk? Maybe the first mate pops his head out of the tower and fires an RPG then ducks back down.
This appears to be just another Ghadir class mini-sub, with the usual BS embellishments by the Iranians and ignorance of all things military by Yahoo.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007274899
This appears to be just another Ghadir class mini-sub, with the usual BS embellishments by the Iranians and ignorance of all things military by Yahoo.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007274899
December 2, 2012 10:04 PM
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We all live in a turquoise submarine..Posted By Dave Snope |
They just tested some incredible new VTOL drone technology. "World's first in class", they say:
http://www.suasnews.com/2012/11/19603/iran-successfully-tests-koker-1-vtol-drone/
Now check out Japan's Chiba University QTW-UAV from 2008:
http://mec2.tm.chiba-u.jp/~nonami/english/research/uav/images/gal6.jpg
I'll be you dollars to donuts that Iran hasn't paid for one of it's Photoshop licenses, either.
http://www.suasnews.com/2012/11/19603/iran-successfully-tests-koker-1-vtol-drone/
Now check out Japan's Chiba University QTW-UAV from 2008:
http://mec2.tm.chiba-u.jp/~nonami/english/research/uav/images/gal6.jpg
I'll be you dollars to donuts that Iran hasn't paid for one of it's Photoshop licenses, either.
December 3, 2012 06:22 PM
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History Shows UsPosted By Dave Snope |
Not everybody is suffering:
“We have 54 trees in the White House,” an excited Michelle Obama proudly told visitors the other day. “54! That’s a lot of trees.”
“We have 54 trees in the White House,” an excited Michelle Obama proudly told visitors the other day. “54! That’s a lot of trees.”
December 5, 2012 04:44 PM
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Watts Up With What?Posted By Dave Snope |
Is there something surprising here? I don't understand your bold emphases. Anthony and pretty much every AGW skeptic agrees that temperature has gone up over the last 100 or the 200 years since the LIA. Some think that CO2 plays a small role but without the positive feedbacks claimed by warmists.
I disagree that there is much of a CO2 role for numerous reasons and physidal laws. It certainly hasn't been proven. For CO2 to cause atmospheric warming, the the models all are based on a heat amplification signature in the upper troposphere, the fingerprint of man-made global warming. It doesn't exist in recent satellite observations or in radiosonde measurements in recent studies published in late 2012 (Po-Chedley et al, Seidel et al, to name two).
AGW advocates will have to keep going on faith until a CO2 heat amplification can be measured, one that somehow circumvents the first and second laws of thermodynamics and the real gas law that we were taught in lower-level college classes.
I disagree that there is much of a CO2 role for numerous reasons and physidal laws. It certainly hasn't been proven. For CO2 to cause atmospheric warming, the the models all are based on a heat amplification signature in the upper troposphere, the fingerprint of man-made global warming. It doesn't exist in recent satellite observations or in radiosonde measurements in recent studies published in late 2012 (Po-Chedley et al, Seidel et al, to name two).
AGW advocates will have to keep going on faith until a CO2 heat amplification can be measured, one that somehow circumvents the first and second laws of thermodynamics and the real gas law that we were taught in lower-level college classes.
December 5, 2012 06:25 PM
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Time to start the bill paying OPosted By Dave Snope |
These people live in leftist alternate reality where they believe that a bailout will actually help them.
She may be honest, but it's not self-honesty. Address your problems directly, Detroit. Clean up your Pension Python. Going bankrupt is cleansing and empowering. Oh, and, elect a new city council that includes some private sector finance and management professionals.
California gave Obama over 3X as many electoral votes as Michigan and 2Z as many as Illinois. Bail out Jerry Brown's mess first. Bail out one, bail out them all, right?
She may be honest, but it's not self-honesty. Address your problems directly, Detroit. Clean up your Pension Python. Going bankrupt is cleansing and empowering. Oh, and, elect a new city council that includes some private sector finance and management professionals.
California gave Obama over 3X as many electoral votes as Michigan and 2Z as many as Illinois. Bail out Jerry Brown's mess first. Bail out one, bail out them all, right?
December 5, 2012 06:51 PM
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Kill the bastards!!A Message from the Ca teachersPosted By Dave Snope |
I see that they portray the wealthy as urinating on the teachers. They see the ones that are paying the lion's share of the teacher's salaries as urinating on the teachers. Pathetic.
And they portray Obama's bailout money as going to the rich and not the regular guy. Another lie. Most of it went for entitlements for the lower classes. Unemployment, food stamps, health care...
But whatever. It's Ed Asner, the man who most admires Stalin and wishes he could play him in a movie.
And they portray Obama's bailout money as going to the rich and not the regular guy. Another lie. Most of it went for entitlements for the lower classes. Unemployment, food stamps, health care...
But whatever. It's Ed Asner, the man who most admires Stalin and wishes he could play him in a movie.
December 5, 2012 08:39 PM
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Armageddon? Maybe Rubio was right <g>Posted By Dave Snope |
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