drf_1: "The problem is free stuff...This is what collapsed the economy in 2008".
====== audemus: You do realize don't you, that if you really believe that "free-stuff" is what caused the economic melt-down of 2008, you're just one of the blind many that have been duped into believing the big lie by this new breed of contemptible conservatives ? I'll offer the same advice that Eisenhower once gave another rather confused and easily led citizen. "THINK FOR YOURSELF." =====
Yes audemus, "this new breed of contemptible conservatives," have proven they cannot 'think' for themselves in the least, and continuously parrot the latest fox/rush republican talking points from the best propaganda machine we've ever seen in America!
This "new breed of contemptible conservatives" don't really care about the TRUTH, about the real drivers of our deficits and debt, and that this insane neocon imperialistic republican attitude has grown our government into exactly what Eisenhower had warned us about!
RepubsAreFiscallyLiberal: "Agreed, raptor - Boeing, Halliburton, Xe, etc. are all having banner fiscal years".
"Eisenhower was correct in his warnings".
Yes, our congresscritters continue to protect these "defense contractors" with tons of MONEY and tax breaks, and anyone that keeps parroting the silly line that "government does not create jobs," is past delusional and knows nothing about expenditures at a time of record low revenue from record low taxes!
I apologize for not being able to dumb it down enough for liberals to understand, however I will try again. Those on the take from the govt. whether corporate thieves or welfare bums, have exceeded what the middle class is able to pay while supporting themselves,so much so that the govt. must borrow 40 cents of every dollar it spends from our enemies. I do think for myself, and I suggest that you go to your local community college and take macroeconomic and microeconomic classes and learn how to think for yourselves.
The problem is free stuff. Free stuff can be anything from welfare to corporate subsidies. The people getting free stuff want more free stuff, so they elect people who promise more free stuff. The people paying for the free stuff can no longer pay for the free stuff and their own stuff too. This is what collapsed the economy in 2008. The unmarried mother of 4 illegitimate kids and the multinational agro companies need to take responsibility for themselves. Cut the subsidies, tax credits, section 8 housing, food stamps, free cell phones and every other give-away program leave what I earn alone.
You do realize don't you, that if you really believe that "free-stuff" is what caused the economic melt-down of 2008, you're just one of the blind many that have been duped into believing the big lie by this new breed of contemptible conservatives ? I'll offer the same advice that Eisenhower once gave another rather confused and easily led citizen. "THINK FOR YOURSELF."
Before you cut food to lower income individuals first cut the tax subsidies to major corporations. You can start with the oil industry!
Then raise the taxes back to a progressive tax rate based on WWII levels so we can pay off the deficit.
You do those two things and then I might agree to cutting other programs. Republicans I'm an Independent and I'm saying unless you start making sense and do what's right for everyone then I'm not voting Republican and I'm an easy vote to get because I'm no President Obama fan but then again you make it difficult nowdays to vote Republican.
Well, lots of posts since CBS put this up. I am just going to make one. How typically RepubliCON. Stomp on the poor while they are down. One thing I can't understand is how the urban RepubliCONs are going to justify this in the fly over states. A big part of their income is Agribusiness after all.
There is class warfare and the uppers are winning. Kind of like Charlie Sheen behind closed doors. "Winning." Like I said though, they will walk this back, the farmers will be really pissed.
"Underfunding this critically important program when families temporarily rely on it to put food on the table in a tough economy is irresponsible and inhumane," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., a food stamp advocate in the House.
The problem is, they're not on the program "temporarily", they are staying on it for years and years. I directly work with this population and I've worked with families who have not just gotten food stamps for years, but GENERATIONS! THAT is the problem, at least in Maryland.
Great news!!!! There's so much fraud that it needs to be eliminated. Obama's supporters on Welfare treat it like an entitlement so eliminate it. All social programs should be eliminated along with unions.
Yep. Better to let several thousand hungry adults and children starve than accidentally pay for a one cheater. ...A law of the jungle/informal euthanasia policy.
collie61 July 6, 2012 10:14 AM EDT "Hey Al Gore II. It was hotter then this in the 1920s. Check the records."
Hey lord monckton jr, if you're going to use one of the debunked skeptic arguments, at least get the decade correct, since they use 1934 for comparison, not the 1920s.
The year 1934 was a very hot year in the United States, ranking third behind 2006 and 1998. However, global warming takes into account temperatures over the entire planet. The U.S.'s land area accounts for only 2% of the earth's total surface area. Despite the U.S. heat in 1934, the year was not so hot over the rest of the planet, and is barely holding onto a place in the hottest 50 years in the global rankings (today it ranks 47th).
Globally, the ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998, with 2005 and 2010 tied as the hottest, and 2011 as the 9th hottest on record. We'll just have to wait to see about 2012....
State of the Climate, Global Analysis May 2012
This places May 2012 as the second warmest May in the 133-year period of record, falling 0.05°C (0.09°F) short of the record warmth of 2010.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/5
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U.S. completes warmest 12-month period in 117 years
As far back as records go (1895), never has the U.S. strung together 12 straight months warmer than May 2011 to April 2012 according to new data released today by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
2012 is USA's warmest year on record, so far May 8, 2012
The nation's unusual warmth keeps on rolling: Through April, the USA is experiencing its warmest year on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Tuesday, with a national average temperature of 45 degrees.
This is 5 degrees above the long-term average.
So far this year, more than 15,000 record high temperatures have been set across the nation.
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audemus: You do realize don't you, that if you really believe that "free-stuff" is what caused the economic melt-down of 2008, you're just one of the blind many that have been duped into believing the big lie by this new breed of contemptible conservatives ? I'll offer the same advice that Eisenhower once gave another rather confused and easily led citizen. "THINK FOR YOURSELF."
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Yes audemus, "this new breed of contemptible conservatives," have proven they cannot 'think' for themselves in the least, and continuously parrot the latest fox/rush republican talking points from the best propaganda machine we've ever seen in America!
This "new breed of contemptible conservatives" don't really care about the TRUTH, about the real drivers of our deficits and debt, and that this insane neocon imperialistic republican attitude has grown our government into exactly what Eisenhower had warned us about!
"Eisenhower was correct in his warnings".
Yes, our congresscritters continue to protect these "defense contractors" with tons of MONEY and tax breaks, and anyone that keeps parroting the silly line that "government does not create jobs," is past delusional and knows nothing about expenditures at a time of record low revenue from record low taxes!
I do think for myself, and I suggest that you go to your local community college and take macroeconomic and microeconomic classes and learn how to think for yourselves.
Then raise the taxes back to a progressive tax rate based on WWII levels so we can pay off the deficit.
You do those two things and then I might agree to cutting other programs. Republicans I'm an Independent and I'm saying unless you start making sense and do what's right for everyone then I'm not voting Republican and I'm an easy vote to get because I'm no President Obama fan but then again you make it difficult nowdays to vote Republican.
Then raise the taxes back to a progressive tax rate based on WWII levels so we can pay off the deficit.
You do those two things and then I might agree to cutting other programs.
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AMEN!
Really Catchey Tune! : )
I am just going to make one.
How typically RepubliCON. Stomp on the poor while they are down. One thing I can't understand is how the urban RepubliCONs are going to justify this in the fly over states. A big part of their income is Agribusiness after all.
The problem is, they're not on the program "temporarily", they are staying on it for years and years. I directly work with this population and I've worked with families who have not just gotten food stamps for years, but GENERATIONS! THAT is the problem, at least in Maryland.
"Hey Al Gore II. It was hotter then this in the 1920s. Check the records."
Hey lord monckton jr, if you're going to use one of the debunked skeptic arguments, at least get the decade correct, since they use 1934 for comparison, not the 1920s.
The year 1934 was a very hot year in the United States, ranking third behind 2006 and 1998. However, global warming takes into account temperatures over the entire planet. The U.S.'s land area accounts for only 2% of the earth's total surface area. Despite the U.S. heat in 1934, the year was not so hot over the rest of the planet, and is barely holding onto a place in the hottest 50 years in the global rankings (today it ranks 47th).
Globally, the ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998, with 2005 and 2010 tied as the hottest, and 2011 as the 9th hottest on record. We'll just have to wait to see about 2012....
State of the Climate, Global Analysis
May 2012
This places May 2012 as the second warmest May in the 133-year period of record, falling 0.05°C (0.09°F) short of the record warmth of 2010.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/5
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U.S. completes warmest 12-month period in 117 years
As far back as records go (1895), never has the U.S. strung together 12 straight months warmer than May 2011 to April 2012 according to new data released today by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/us-completes-warmest-12-month-period-of-record/2012/05/08/gIQAgsmmAU_blog.html
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2012 is USA's warmest year on record, so far
May 8, 2012
The nation's unusual warmth keeps on rolling: Through April, the USA is experiencing its warmest year on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Tuesday, with a national average temperature of 45 degrees.
This is 5 degrees above the long-term average.
So far this year, more than 15,000 record high temperatures have been set across the nation.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/05/climate-weather-warmest-year-on-record-/1#.T_cruJHhfpw
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Extreme Heat Breaks More Than 3,000 Records This Week
A scorching heat wave is gripping much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, setting an astonishing number of temperature records.
More than 3,000 temperature records have been shattered in the U.S. this past week, from June 28-July 4, 2012, according to NOAA.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/more-than-3000-temperature-rec/67593
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