Albert Einstein taught us ... well, at least he tried ...
you can not solve problems with the same thinking as caused the problems.
The Economic Mess we are in today was caused by Republican 
/Big Business
thinking (mantra to their laisez faire, oligarchic "sacred cow" Masters )
Cutting Taxes, DeRegulate business, Diluting Regulatory Enforcement, and Slashing & Burning the Federal Budget (phony austerity).
And, what do the Republicans promise if given back the LEVERS OF POWER?
They promise ... MORE OF THE SAME .
Doing more of the same WILL NOT fix the problems.
Doing more of the same will only make matters worse.
As for needing a business person in The White House?
Been There. Done That. BUSH-CHENEY , and we know what that got US.
As for "A Conservative we can trust"? Really? REALLY?!?
Yea right.
Not as far as I could throw The Statue of Liberty with the wind at my back.
Texas State Politics: Several Republican Candidates are bragging how THEY balance the State Budget without raising our taxes. THEY did it by cutting $8,000,000,000 ($8 Billion) from State School Funding. $8 Billion, about what Texans have paid in the form of a voluntary school tax throught LOTTO Texas over the passed 20 years (LOTTO Texas was started in 1992). What took 20 years to collect, voluntarily, THEY swept away in about 20 minuets. I do not consider that good, just, or proper ... especially considering it was the Republicans who screwed up the State Budget in the first place by giving Big Tax Cuts to Big Business and The Rich.Passed time to muck out the stables.
"There are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effects . . . And of what kind are the men that will strive this profitable preeminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will be not the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits."
Benjamin Franklin (at the Constitutional Convention of 1787)
Barely 25% of the eligible voters bothered to go to the Polls in November 2010.
If you are bothered / concerned / troubled by the actions being taken by the current Republican Statehouses and Legislatures and The US House of Representatives , and you didn't vote, it is your own fault.
The Agents of Ambition & Avarice (The Oligarchs)
along with their Goons , hacks , flacks and lackeys ), are winning.
Disgruntled Henchmen (Thugs) and deranged Minions (Ruffians) running amok.
Pushing and being pushed to emotional extremes by targeted negative ideological propaganda (whether openly or anonymously funded) with little or no understand.
Tyrants and petty tyrants .
For a time Arrogance and Stupidity Reign with Reckless Abandon.
Rhetoric matters. What you say, and how you say it, counts.
If you use (or cause to be used) the rhetoric of violence, and such violence comes to pass, you are accountable to some measure. You must take into account the deluded and damaged who watch, listen and read. And, that includes standing around Bull Shitting with family and friends, neighbors and strangers.
Between August 2007 and March 2009, the Federal Reserve System loaned the Financial Industry (Large Banks & Brokerage Houses) $7.77 TRILLION ($7,770,000,000,000.00). They did not inform The Congress of this action. The FED says all the money has been repaid, but we have to take their word for it, because since 1913 (when it was formed) it had never allowed a outside audit of its activities. And, the Banks and Brokerage Houses reaped a $13 Billion profit off the loans.
bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/Where did The FED find $7.77 TRILLION? BLUE SMOKE & MIRRORS?
That's what backs the US Economy, Blue Smoke & Mirrors?
Phony Money for a Phony Economy. So you had a problem with the $700 Billion ($700,000,000,000.00) TARP? So you had a problem with the $1.2 TRILLION "Stimulus Package"? Why no pitchforks and torches in the streets? Why no TEA PARTY Rallies this time? |
In this country (The USA), and many others, you can/may believe whatever you want. That's not true/fact in a lot of other places (not openly, anyway). However, if you insist upon arguing or pushing your TRUTH ... then have your FACTS & EVIDENCE straight.
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