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Unemployment Stays at 9.5%

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Rocketman1981, Aug 6, 2010.

  1. bucket

    bucket Member

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    He's President of the United States. Too bad your party thinks that makes him uppity.
     
  2. Dubious

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    No, I heard it from all the liberal Democrats on the BUY STOCKS NOW! channel.

    Feel free to show where the statements about sales numbers are wrong. And while you're at it, please give details of how the Rominee/GOP plan will be different from the Bush years that got us into recession. Or hell, just tell what is Rominee's plan is? he never says.
     
  3. tallanvor

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    feel free to look through it for the specifics. In summation: Fix the tax code , reduce spending, encourage more energy production, obvious things Obama refuses to do....

    Anyways to claim he doesn't have a plan is just incorrect, though maybe he doesn't talk about it much (I don't watch his interviews very often)

    http://www.mittromney.com/jobs

    This plan obviously differs from Bush's and Obama's since they didn't simplify the tax code or reduce spending.
     
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  4. roxstarz

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    Two guys are sitting around talking about politics.

    One of them asks the other, "So why are you a Democrat?"

    "Because my daddy and granddaddy were Democrats," was the man's reply.

    "What if your daddy and granddaddy were horse thieves?"

    "In that case, I guess I'd be a Republican."
     
  5. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Fixed it for ya bigtexx
     
  6. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    Obama wants to fix the tax code - house reps said no.
    Reduce Spending - Obama proposed 4 trillion in cuts - house reps said no.
    Encourage energy product - Obama wants to invest in new energy technologies. - house reps said no.

    So you are wrong on all 3 counts. And if a candidate doesn't talk about his plan, maybe that's because his plan sucks!
     
  7. tallanvor

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    NO he wants to tax the rich more. That's not what fixing the super complex, unfair tax code means.

    show me that piece of legislation.

    new energy technologies? wtf you and Obama talking about? That's not what's stopping energy production. Obama is what's stopping energy production

    Banning oil drilling in the Gulf

    Rejecting Keystone pipeline

    Hindering coal production

    Banning drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

    not drilling in ANWR

    Blocking drilling in Utah

    Blocking oil production in Ohio

    Blocking drilling in the Arctic Ocean

    but by all means tell me about how Obama says he wants to invest my money in technology he thinks important.....
     
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  8. RedRedemption

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    New energy does not equal drilling for more oil.
     
  9. tallanvor

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    I am right there with you which is why I found Sweet Lou's response so confusing. I said 'encourage energy production' and he responded with some junk about energy technology and told me I am wrong.
     
  10. Dubious

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    And they call Obama's Hope and Change followers naive. If you aren't the 1% you won't be better off.
     
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  11. tallanvor

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    Maybe, but we don't know for sure, unlike Obama who everyone knows for sure is an empty suit and a SCOAMF (Obama is now a known commodity).

    The point was, you said Romney had no plan (a la Obama 2008) and that's incorrect. He has a plan.
     
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    Romney as president would be a RINO with a blank check from Congress. Out of control spending has always resulted when any party has control of Congress and White House. RomneyCare(ObamaCare's original name) will spread even farther, without any challenge from the Republicans.
     
  13. Dubious

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    So is he an empty suit or a dictator?
    (All of that is such mindless crap)

    He's a pragmatic centrist severely limited by a massively funded hard right opposition. All the "sky is falling" socialism crap because he wants mandated health insurance so more people get minimal health care is a bogus claim considering the history of this nation. We already have social security, unemployment deductions, medicare, the post office, corp of engineers, FEMA...
    to say we aren't already socialist is just a joke.That's what government is.
     
  14. Sweet Lou 4 2

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    google "grand bargain" and gov't default. Obama proposed a $4 trillion dollar deficit reduction, most of it spending cuts. House rejected it.

    Keystone pipeline won't affect oil production in u.s. and it will be in years. Natural gas is an area he has been supporting and it has grown massively. He's pushed for higher mph, solar, and wind...all future tech that will help the energy crisis, not just postpone it for a few years. Oil companies have plenty of fields they can drill on. They want to use the others so they can keep their own fields as a reserve. They want high prices as they make money on high prices. You are buying into talking points not reality.

    There's plenty of fields that the oil companies can use. ANWR isn't the issue. It's why oil companies just don't tap their existing fields?
     
  15. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    oh lawd, how many times do we have to remind the wingers that energy production has increased under obama. and with higher standards in fuel efficiency, importing oil from canada, we are not held hostage to the idiot regimes in the middle east. oil is a global commodity.

    companies are sitting on record cash and profits with fewer workers they have no incentive to hire.
     
  16. tallanvor

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    that's not because of Obama


    Obama be lying to you as usual
     
  17. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    so what? what does this matter, oil production has increased.
     
  18. tallanvor

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    Well the claim by Romney is that Obama is hindering job growth by hindering energy production. This information suggests (not proves) that is correct. Oil production on federal land went down 14% last year.
     
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    Because oil production is up IN SPITE of govt interference....not because of the govt (led by Obama) helping.

    THAT'S why it matters.

    Imagine what helping a burgeoning oil industry would do for this country. Look no further than North Dakota to see.

    All the govt (which he has led for 3.5 years) needs to do is help that industry rather than block it.

    Its really not that hard to understand.
     
  20. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    gov't is not interfering by not offering more land. apperently they don't need it.
     

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