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Some people are buying SUVs like some people are ordering caviar at Applebees.
It's not elitist it's a fact but to what extent it's a fact is up for questioning, some English people whine too, some Germans whine, and some Italians whine....and some French people don't.
The media is just jumping all over this story of how everyone is suffering but I hate to break it to them but I'm doing just fine.
Gas prices will go down if America stops being oil prudes...we tell everyone else to drill the fuck out of their countries and the fucking environmentalists here bitch about any drilling OR refining we could do here....it's crazy! Mad Made global warming is a myth
Now what do YOU think about Obama cutting Corporate taxes![]()
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That's funny, America's CEOs must be a bunch of whiners too. They say the economy is "dismal."
Frustrated with the current economic policy, another CEO said, “The formula for international competitiveness is quite simple: minimal trade restrictions, predictable regulation, competitive tax rates, strong educational system, trade balance (not deficit), predictable currency, low interest rates, responsible fiscal spending and low corruption. Unfortunately, under the Bush administration, we have failed on many of the factors, with corruption and macroeconomic incompetence being the most insidious.”
-CEOs Portray a Dismal Forecast for the U.S.
Gas prices will not go down significantly while Bush keeps printing epic quantities of paper to keep up his socialist bailouts of failing banks and financial firms. I'm pretty sure it won't hit $200 this year but the only thing stopping it doing so eventually will be a recession, however the recession will still feature oil prices over $100 and thus inflationary to the economy as a whole.
Offshore drilling won't make any difference at all to the oil price, not one cent. Oil companies already own a ton of leases on areas they haven't bothered to drill in yet but they want more leases granted while the GOP is still in power so that the new assets pump their balance sheets up. Refiners have deliberately cut capacity for two decades to force their profit margins up.
Obama will raise the overall level of taxes corporations pay overall and rightly so. The entire tax system is currently so out of whack that it's going to prevent economic growth in the future. Corporations and top earners are going to have to pay a fairer share and the Reagan/Bushes Tax Increases on middle/low income earners reversed so that they have more money to spend. Until that happens real economic growth is going to be effectively at a standstill.
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Jesse Jackson wants to cut them off. Did you hear about it? Because with the wall-to-wall media coverage of the ongoing disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan and their coverage of why we're having a financial meltdown I'm not sure if it got mentioned on TV. You's think they'd spend time covering the really important stuff like Obama's nuts rather than all that trivial Iraq/Afghanistan/meltdown stuff that's never off the teevee.
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Iraq is going far better now...Afgahnistan is going to have to buckle down and get better but with pulling troops from Iraq you can add more force there and we're going to have to work with Pakistan to get in the areas where the big rats are hiding.....and if they don't want to work with us then we're going to have to pull some commando shit to get in there.
Kirkland Obama isn't a panacea he's just a guy who can give good speeches once he gets in debates he'll fade again....if you like Obama so much then elect him as the President of YOUR country because I'm NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR OBAMA....not this year, not in 2012, not in 2016, not in 2020. And it's solely based on his politics and nothing else....what Obama sees as right for America, I don't agree with. I don't think he's a muslim, I don't care if he is one, I heard what was going on in his church and hell it's not that different than listening to some crazy Imam....I don't think he was sworn in on the Q'ran I don't really freaking care....I just don't like that he's as far left as he is and he's waaaaaaay out there.
I like McCain, he's served his country longer, he's done more for his country, and he's solutions oriented...if the citizens say "we want offshore drilling" then McCain says "OK let's do it"
Obama has less experience right now than George W. Bush had in 2000 and that is the honest truth
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[quote=Lyle;559918Obama has less experience right now than George W. Bush had in 2000 and that is the honest truth[/quote]
Lyle, there's experience and then there's experience. Bush has experience bankrupting at least 2 corporations, profiting greatly from being part-owner of the Rangers (and trading Sammy Sosa), and seeing Texas slide to 50th in education all before becoming Prez. Just because he had more than Obama doesn't mean it's a good thing.
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The US already lost in Iraq, Iran won. Bush has managed to reduce the number of US soldiers being killed by putting the insurgents on the payroll so they're not as active as they used to be but this is not success. Strategically the US got its arse handed to it. Iran was playing chess while Bush was playing tiddlywinks.
Afghanistan is another war he started that he can't win. The outgoing US General in charge says that to win he'd need 450 000 troops when he only has 40 000. Pakistan isn't ever going to cooperate with us and it wouldn't make much difference if they did.
Obama won't be perfect but will not run the country into the ground like Bush has done/McCain will continue to do. It would actually be a good thing for America in the long run if McCain wins just so he can entirely fuck the country upside down. Then enough people will be forced to start paying attention to what's going on and fix it.
McCain flip flopped on offshore drilling too. He'll say anything to get elected. He'll change his position on things depending who he's speaking to. He's not just a flip flopper, he's a guy who holds two different positions on things simultaneously.
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