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- WHERE DO THEY GET THESE LAME FIGURES OF 1.1% JUMPS? OKAY, IF YOU TAKE A 12-ROLL PACK OF CHARMIN TOILET PAPER; WHICH USED TO BE LIKE $7 LAST FALL AND IT IS NOW $12...HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH A 1.1% INCREASE? LET''S TAKE ANOTHER EXAMPLE: IF YOU TAKE A BIG BOTTLE OF LISTERINE THAT USED TO BE $4.50 A BOTTLE AND IT SUDDENLY JUMPS TO $7.50 A BOTTLE....AGAIN, HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH A 1/1% INFLATIONARY INCREASE?
NOW, LET''S MULTIPLY 50 ITEMS IN YOUR GROCERY CARD BY AND AVERAGE OF $2. THAT EQUALS AND EXTRA $100.00 EVERY TIME YOU GO TO THE GROCERY STORE.
DON''T TELL ME THE INFLATION IS JUST 1.1%! THAT IS THE BIGGEST LARD OF B.S. I''VE HEARD IN QUITE A WHILE! - Reply to this comment
- Hopefully Bush can tame the inflation problem that was caused by Clinton. Its too bad all of Bushs time has been spent trying to fix problems caused by Clinton.
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If this is true, then God Help the next President. Can you imagine trying to clean up the messes Bush has made??? - Reply to this comment
- navpro, I told you I never bought those. I did however buy some cakes at the annual Pioneer Girls bake sale over the years. The cakes were made in the presence of nuns so no naughty ingredients would have been used.
Posted by GOP_forever at 11:28 AM : Jul 16, 2008
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You must be a real bore at a party!
LOL! - Reply to this comment
Worst President Ever.
Enjoying thet oil war?- Reply to this comment
- GOP_forever ;
Have you been eating the special girl scout cookies???? - Reply to this comment
- **Over the past 12 months, consumer inflation is up by 5 percent, the largest year-over-year gain since a similar 5 percent rise in May 1991.**
That was when there was another Bush in office. - Reply to this comment
- Um, Old300
Your king and cronies have had control for the last 8 years. Pleas explain how the democrats are to blame.
And if the democrats are to blame, are you saying the republicans are too inept to do anything about it? - Reply to this comment
- Phil Gramm obviously had the quote of the week. Voters dealing with skyrocketing gas prices and collapsing home values just love being called "whiners" by a millionaire. This kind of out-of-touch condescension comes as no surprise to anyone who has followed Gramm''''s career. He''''s left his fingerprints on some of the worst economic debacles in U.S. history. He was a champion of energy deregulation, which gave us Enron and blackouts and price gouging. He was a champion of deregulating the savings-and-loan industry, the bailout of which cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. And his leadership on banking deregulation helped create the current sub-prime mortgage crisis. Republicans love to talk about Obama''''s lack of experience. I''''ll take fresh blood over Gramm''''s kind of track record any day of the week.
The Huffington Post - Reply to this comment
- Grover Gets His Wish
Who is Grover Norquist?
In 1999 Grover Norquist was instrumental in securing early support for then Texas Governor George W. Bush, continuing a decades-long association with Karl Rove. ("The Wall Street Journal''s John Fund dubbed him "the Grand Central Station" of conservatism and told The Nation: "It''s not disputable" that Norquist was the key to the Bush campaign''s surprising level of support from movement conservatives in 2000"). After Bush''s election to the White House in 2000, Norquist was the prime architect behind the many Bush tax-cuts.
The "Wednesday Meeting" of Norquist''s Leave Us Alone Coalition has become an important hub of conservative political organizing. George W. Bush began sending a representative to the Wednesday Meeting even before he formally announced his candidacy for president in 1999. "Now a White House aide attends each week," reported USA Today in June 2001. "Vice President Cheney sends his own representative. So do GOP congressional leaders, right-leaning think tanks, conservative advocacy groups and some like-minded K Street lobbyists. The meeting has been valuable to the White House because it is the political equivalent of one-stop shopping. By making a single pitch, the administration can generate pressure on members of Congress, calls to radio talk shows, and political buzz from dozens of grassroots organizations.
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- Look how fast they spend it with GWB and a democrat congress.
McCain is our only hope to get the spending under control ! ! ! - Reply to this comment
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Grover%u2019s Vision:
An America in which the rich will be taxed at the same rates as the poor, where the minimum wage is repealed, unions are made irrelevant, and law-abiding citizens can pack handguns in every state and town. "My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit," says Norquist. "Because that person doesn''t need the godd@mn government for anything."
Norquist is famous for saying, "I don''t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." His plan is for the federal government to amass massive debt without increasing taxes on the rich, if the federal government is mired in huge debt it can no longer fund social programs of any kind.
Norquist Plans Conservative Agenda:
At the Conservative Political Action Conference, right-wing activist and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist urged conservatives not to work to accomplish anything in the current Congress.
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- It''s that no good for nothing democrat spend happy congress. If Obama gets elected they will spend even more.
Our govt is spending money faster than it can print or borrow it. That is the problem. - Reply to this comment
- It''s that no good for nothing democrat spend happy congress. If Obama gets elected they will spend even more.
Our govt is spending money faster than it can print or borrow it. That is the problem. - Reply to this comment
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%u201CGet married, develop a hobby, learn to belly dance, learn to golf %u2014 you know, we got two years free, but we gotta spend time and effort playing defense here,%u201D Norquist said. %u201COur job is to say %u2018no, no, no, no%u2019 for two years.%u201D
Norquist predicted, %u201CPeople are gonna go, %u2018oh maybe this bill isn%u2019t as bad as it looks.%u2019%u201D But he warned, %u201D Don%u2019t eat it, don%u2019t swallow it, don%u2019t touch it. Nothing good passes this Congress.%u201D
Transcript:
NORQUIST:Nothing good happens in the next two years out of this Congress. Nothing good.
If you read in the newspaper that there%u2019s a bill with a nice sounding name, and it sounds in the first sentence like the bill is good, you haven%u2019t read the whole bill.
Nothing good happens. They%u2019re not going to cut taxes.
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Look, get married, develop a hobby, learn to belly dance, learn to golf %u2014 you know, we got two years free, but we gotta spend some time and effort playing defense here.
Because the Democrats are going to be like young men on prom dates %u2014 they%u2019re gonna keep asking the same question of us over and over and over again. And our job is to say %u201Cno, no, no, no%u201D for two years.
Nothing passes in this Congress. - Reply to this comment
- It''s that no good for nothing democrat spend happy congress. If Obama gets elected they will spend even more.
Our govt is spending miney faster than it can print or borrow it. That is the problem. - Reply to this comment
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