[GCFL-discuss] Let's rumble!!!

Thu Jul 5 21:26:57 CDT 2012

Good to hear from you Lance. You're the kind of guy I could talk politics
with over lunch at a diner and both of us smile even when we disagree. I
can't stand politics, excepts all kinds of decisions that are going to
impact our lives come out of politics, so I can't let go of it either.
And anarchism doesn't look like a promising alternative.

You're right, President Obama should blame his own party. The Republicans
are psychopathic, the Democrats are spineless cowards afraid of their own
shadow, and they seem determined to let the Republicans have all the
guns. Very dangerous. Obama should have shaken up the Democratic Party,
he should have broken up the "too big to fail" banks, but he was under
pressure to prove he was "responsible," not a "radical," not a
"socialist." He listen to the media instead of the people.

But, I disagree that he hasn't done anything he promised, and there are
some things that can and should be blamed on the Republicans. When George
Bush came into office, the national debt was $5 trillion, and for the
first time in my life, we were beginning to pay the debt down. Paying off
a debt requires a modest budget surplus. Little Boy Bush took one look at
the surplus and said "Let's give it back to the people," which would have
been a good idea, if "The People" were not in debt for $5 trillion. So
for six years of relatively prosperous times, he ran two wars and the
promise that "No, Republicans aren't going to cut social services,
where'd you get that idea?" on borrowing another $5 trillion. Obama came
in as the economy crashed -- which is the time to go into deficit
spending. IF we had been paying DOWN the debt in good times, he could
have run it UP to $10 trillion in bad times, or maybe only $8 trillion,
instead of up to $15 trillion.

That's what a balanced budget amendment to the federal constitution
should look like: over a period of 20 years, the budget must balance. No,
Obama has not seized that as his own platform, which he should, but
neither has the Boehner gang.

Anyway, your thoughts were not a rant. A rant is what the dispatchers at
the company I used to drive for used to go into on the radio, using up
precious air time showing off that they didn't know what they were doing
and were mad at the drivers for putting passengers first.

Siarlys

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:52:24 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
I can't stand politics. Both parties are only interested in themselves.
They honestly need to wear NASCAR suits covered in their funders so we
all know who we're voting for. Obama has not done anything he's promised
and has blaimed everyone but his own party for backstabbing him.
I honestly don't like either side, but I'm tired of the false claims that
OBama's spent nothing and it's all Bush's fault. In the end if they keep
claiming he's spent nothing that means he's done nothing and has no
credit for "saving" the economy... Which isn't close to being saved.
/end rant
Lance
On Jul 4, 2012 6:46 PM, "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List"
<gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:

Well, in that vein, I voted for Ron Paul in the primary. He would be a
disaster as president, but he says some things that need to be said, that
nobody else will say, AND he was by far the best the Republican field had
to offer. I already knew who was going to win the Democratic primary, and
in Wisconsin, we can vote in either primary, but we can't cross party
lines in a primary.

I was thinking way outside the box... Ron Paul replacing Joe Biden for
vice president on the Democratic ticket. I've never displayed a button or
sticker with Biden's name. He was a decent senator, but there are reasons
he never got out of single digits as a candidate for president... he
keeps putting his foot in his mouth.

Jeanene, you're not voting for the incumbent, you're not voting for
Romney... there are other options, but which one appeals to you?

Siarlys

P.S. I work the polls too, and vote on my lunch hour. You offered one
half the common wisdom in Chicago: Vote early... and often.

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 01:10:39 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> writes:
> I am not a Romney fan, so I won't be voting for him.
> I am fifty years old and have no idea why I would even want to vote
> for
> a President this fall.  For a decade (at least) I have voted against
> the
> incumbent in every political race and I will continue to do so.  I
> see
> it as the only way to make a difference.
> I love working the polls, and I vote early each election.
> Jeanene
>
> On 7/1/2012 1:02 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List
> wrote:
> > Hey y'all, its an election year!
> >
> > Let's have some fun kicking each other around the block!
> >
> > I'll go first:
> >
> >
>
http://siarlysjenkins.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-i-will-vote-to-re-elect-pr
> > esident.html
> >
> > Your move Jeanene!
> >
> >
> > Siarlys
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