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Speaker Pelosi: ‘Deficit Reduction Has Been High Priority For Us’
UHHHHH, WHAT?!
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Using The Debt Ceiling To Send A Powerful Message.
Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, expounds in horror that not raising the national debt ceiling yet again would be “insanity.” Goolsbee should consult a floor speech delivered not so long ago by a certain member of Congress who offered this counterargument to automatic debt ceiling increases: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. … It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies.”
Which die-hard Tea Party wingnut said that? It was none other than Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaking on the Senate floor in 2006 just before he voted against raising the debt ceiling. Obama was right.
HOPEY CHANGEY WAS AGAINST IT BEFORE HE WAS FOR IT?
Lets see -- it was baaaaaaaaaaaad to raise the debt ceiling in 2005 at 9 trillion, but it is morally imperative to raise it now at 14 trillion?
Uhhhhh, what?!
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Norton
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Where is that little pussy Shut the FukUP?
Cut and run again
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rottingjohnny
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Where is the Pussy STFU? Desperately googling more conspiracy web sights for more hate, corporate porn , and propaganda aimed at screwing the common man...atta boy pussy...
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Norton
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Locker, will you please give fatty some tips on butt plug removal?
He is having a terrible time with it lately.
Its been in fatty ever since you lost yours.
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Norton
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Pity, really
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Captain...or Skully
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leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Whiskey costs money. Is yer ol'Lady gonna give you yer allowance?
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Captain...or Skully
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leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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You have nothing to tell I.
I see how you roll. Sketch. Yeesh. Count me out.
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Norton
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Norton
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HERE COMES THE REAL CHANGE!
THE HILL: Dems up for reelection under pressure to nix healthcare mandate. “Vulnerable Democratic incumbents are bracing for a bruising debate on healthcare after the House votes on a total repeal of the law next week. The House repeal bill is expected to pass easily and might pick up some Democratic votes, shifting the political spotlight to centrists in the upper chamber.” ObamaCare is very unpopular, and it’s gotten more so since passage.
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FROM THE NEW YORK POST TODAY:
Ponzi socialism
By CHARLES GASPARINO
Last Updated: 4:36 AM, January 6, 2011
Posted: 11:08 PM, January 5, 2011
I Have seen the future, and it doesn't work.
Don't get me wrong: New Year's in beautiful Barcelona was a blast. Spain is a great vacation spot, with good food and gorgeous women -- but nobody seems to be working outside the tourist areas.
The reason is pretty simple: The Bernie Madoff-like Ponzi scheme of big government has been squeezing the productive class and redistributing its tax dollars and innovation to everyone else for years -- and is finally reaching its boiling point.
And the way things are going, we're probably not far behind.
Barcelona met the new year with the sort of subdued celebration that only 40 percent unemployment can bring. Once-swanky shops and restaurants along grand boulevards such as the Avinguda Diagonal remain vacant. Aside from the occasional government project, there's little sign of building or expansion.
The problem is that there isn't enough tourism to keep many of these businesses afloat; the natives who still have jobs don't have enough after-tax money to keep the private economy alive.
Spain -- like Portugal, Italy and, of course, Greece -- offers the lofty cradle-to-grave entitlements that only a Ponzi-schemer like Madoff could love: Big government stays big by buying the votes of those who feast off free health care and guaranteed pensions. But the system works only as long as enough productive people can keep working and paying the high taxes to keep the benefits rolling.
What happens when they can't find jobs -- because businesses can't afford to stay open because of high taxes? Well, the most productive move elsewhere to find better-paying jobs (as relatives of mine have left the Mezzogiorno region of southern Italy for generations).
Those who stay can't earn enough because businesses are paying so much in taxes that wages stagnate -- and the married couples among them can't afford to raise the next generation of productive citizens.
It's the same thing that happened when Madoff's customers began yanking money out of his fund: He could no longer maintain his shell game of "guaranteed" 12 percent returns, and his scheme collapsed just as the modern European welfare state is collapsing under the weight of its own guarantees.
Across Europe, private-sector jobs are disappearing, while governments face imploding budgets, debt defaults and social unrest. Unless the new Congress can change things quickly, the same will most certainly happen here in America.
After all, this is President Obama's vision for our future, with universal health insurance and entitlements for all -- except, of course, if you own a small business or work hard enough to make more than $250,000 a year, and thus are a "fat cat." Two years of this has brought us persistently high, 9 percent-plus unemployment.
There's some hope: November's elections caught Obama's attention; he reluctantly cut a deal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts and sent his economic advisers to assure the business community that he doesn't consider it the enemy.
And the political winds seem to be blowing us a better economy. A report out just yesterday showed that private-sector jobs are beginning to surge to levels not seen in years.
But the president still promises to kill those tax cuts in two years and to push even harder to impose ObamaCare and other big-government programs. He seems to think the European-style model is working -- even as rioters clash with police over there and young people leave the most economically devastated places.
Others in our government see the Ponzi scheme for what it is. The new House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan, vows to fight all Obama's initiatives to extend the size and scope of government.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey hasn't been afraid to take on his state's special interests, including the powerful teachers unions and other public-employee groups. Andrew Cuomo, New York's new governor, has so far been talking the right talk, with his plans to freeze state workers' pay and even cap spending and property taxes.
There was no more eloquent spokesman for the modern welfare state than Andrew's dad, three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo. But the younger Cuomo seems to realize that the government Ponzi scheme just doesn't work -- that it's why jobs are fleeing the state. Here's hoping Andrew's "conversion" is real -- and that he actually walks the walk.
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TO OBAMA, IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILY OR YOUR BUSINESS MAKES OVER 250K YOU ARE "RICH", BUT ...
Obama calls Gibbs $174,000 salary 'relatively modest'...
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A new Gallup poll, released Dec. 17, reveals that 40 percent of Americans still believe that humans were created by God within the last 10,000 years. This number is slightly down from a previous high of 47 percent in 1993 and 1999.
Another 38 percent of respondents believe that humans have evolved from more basic organisms but with God playing a role in the process.
A mere 16 percent of respondents subscribed to the belief of "secular evolution": that humans have evolved with no divine guidance. However, this number has nearly doubled from nine percent of respondents in a poll from 1982.
The poll also revealed that beliefs in creationism and evolution are strongly related to levels of education attained. When results are narrowed to those with college degrees, only 37 percent of respondents maintain beliefs in creationism. Meanwhile, the belief in evolution without the aid of God rises to 21 percent.
With regards to political affiliation, a majority of Republicans (52 percent) subscribe to creationist beliefs. This is compared to only 34 percent among Democrats and Independents.
Views on human origins vary based on church attendance. Of those who attend church on a weekly basis, 60 percent believe in creationism while a mere 2 percent subscribe to "secular evolution". These numbers are flipped among those who rarely or never attend religious services. In this group, only 24 percent believe in creationism while 39 percent believe in evolution without divine guidance. This represents the only subset of data reported where "secular evolution" beats out creationism.
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