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jwhop
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posted November 07, 2010 09:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message

So, after suffering the worst electoral defeat in several generations, His O'Bomberness has departed the 57 States...along with a reported 30+ US warships, 5,000 or so hangers on and general suck-ups, 30 or so US aircraft and a reported $200 Million dollar a day budget.

Along the way, coconuts will be plucked from the palm trees lest one fall on the head of His O'Bomberness's already bruised head severely sore from being thoroughly beaten by citizens of the Realm who said "STOP SPENDING"!

In response, His O'Bomberness took over and rented the entire Taj Mahal Hotel to house the 5000 hangers-on and suck-ups and directed that a one kilometer long air conditioned above ground tunnel be constructed so he could visit a local landmark in comfort...at the expense of citizens of the 57 States.

The stated purpose of this opulent spending trip by His O'Bomberness is to put citizens of the 57 States back to work but more than one 57 State citizen thinks it will only put citizens of India to work.

Across the land of the 57 States, citizens are crossing their fingers that His O'Bomberness will defect. Keep the warships, we'll build more and put our own citizens to work; keep the airplanes, we'll build more and put our own citizens to work; keep the limos, the clothes and the Teleprompters; keep the 5000 hangers-on and suck-ups which we can do without.

Across the land of the 57 States, citizens are chanting...Defect! Defect! Defect!

November 06, 2010
Tales from 57 States: His Obamaness Flees the Joust
Lee Cary

In the Bi-quadrennial Jousting Tournament during the 2nd year of the reign of His Obamaness as POTUS of the Realm of 57 States, after many among the Knights of the Donkey Clan emptied their saddles in their battles with the Knights of the Elephant Clan, His Obamaness did what other POTI did in times of trouble. When the going got tough, the POTUS got going...abroad.

And so it came to pass that His Obamaness, before departing, stood before the gathered members of the Town Crier Guild who dwelled in the White Palace, and said, "What we have here, is a failure to communicate." His words brought to mind the late thespian Strother Martin, but I digress.

His Obamaness said, "Alas, the Knights of the Donkey Clan were hindered by having short horses, heckling from the angry crowd, and former POTUS Bush the Younger loosened their steeds' harnesses when their attention was diverted by the heckling. But," His Obamaness added, "the bamboo lances with which I armed them were not, as some have claimed, the problem." Lady Obamaness said, "The loss does not reflect badly on Himself; it's all about too much trans fat in their diets. Let them eat cake."

When he, His Obamaness, said these things, the serfs of the Realm looked at each other with furrowed eyebrows. Even a few among the Town Criers wondered in their minds, inclined to accept all that His Obamaness said as being demigod oracles, if Himself had been smoking behind the White Palace when the Joust occurred. One citizen, who heralded from the Land of Cal-lee-four-nya, was heard to ask, "What's the Dude smokin'? We want some!" "Dude" was a nickname that Jonathan Stewart, a popular street jester, had given to His Obamaness. Oops, another digression. Sorry.

It came to pass, then, that after Himself had explained why the Donkey Clan got stomped by the rampaging Elephants, that His Obamaness set out to visit the Land of Curry and other places in the Far East.

His travelling entourage was a sight to behold. It included many, large, flying dragons. A legion of soldiers and men of the sea. His personal bodyguards, who numbered in the scores. Lords and Ladies of the Ruling Class. So many Town Criers that the people of the Realm wondered who would spin the news in their absence. Cooks, chamber maids, carriage drivers, stevedores, butlers, tailors, cobblers, physicians, blacksmiths...and a few members of the Service Employees International Union sent to seek out their union brothers and sisters in Curryland.

So many from within the District of the White Palace left with His Obamaness that some said they heard a great sucking sound out-of-town when they left. But in a district full of myth, that was just one more.

And so the great trek of His Obamaness to the Land of Curry began...with much fanfare and high anticipation that commerce and goodwill would come to the Realm of 57 States because of His far-ranging travels.

As for the cost of all this to the people of the Realm, the one they called Helicopter Ben said, "What's to worry. It's free. I'll just print more money."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/tales_from_57_states_his_obama_1.html

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posted November 07, 2010 12:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for katatonic     Edit/Delete Message
the reporter of this reported 30+ US warships, 5,000 or so hangers on and general suck-ups, 30 or so US aircraft and a reported $200 Million dollar a day budget

has already been called out and admitted he was repeating hearsay that has NO supporting evidence.

the rest is, obviously, fantasy satire.

we wouldn't want to admit that things are looking up in the economy until we can claim it is because the republicans are back, now would we?


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posted November 07, 2010 12:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
"THINGS", are not looking up in His O'Bomberness's economy. The phony yardstick..a false ruler if ever there was one..."jobs 'saved' or created" has no basis in fact...unless jobs created in government or jobs saved in state, county and city government AND jobs saved by dumping almost a TRILLION dollars into those public entities...and their employee unions.

His O'Bomberness will not say how much this junket is costing American taxpayers...at a time when Americans are chanting "STOP THE SPENDING".

Coconuts are/were being plucked off palm trees to protect the head of His O'Bomberness.

A one kilometer above ground air conditioned tunnel for His O'Bomberness was planned and that fact has been in the press.

The 200 MILLION dollar a day figure was relayed from India. Undoubtedly by someone who knew what things cost and extrapolated the total amount.

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posted November 07, 2010 03:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
Bomb-proof tunnel with air conditioning: Obama's security go to extraordinary measures for his tour of the Gandhi museum
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:08 PM on 6th November, 2010

*American warships to patrol off Mumbai during visit

*Coconuts removed from trees as a precaution

*250 U.S. business executives with Obama on 'biggest ever trade mission'

*$200million Asia trip cost denied but the President will have huge entourage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326962/Obamas-India-visit-security-erect-bomb-proof-tunnel-Gandhi-museum.html

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posted November 07, 2010 04:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for katatonic     Edit/Delete Message
for 200 million dollars a day you could BUY india, jwhop, do you know what people call a living wage there? it wouldn't buy you dinner at the steakhouse!

and i see you don't believe me about the daily mail since you keep quoting it. why don't you just pick up the enquirer and make your decisions and predictions from that?

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posted November 07, 2010 04:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
His O'Bomberness could end this $200 million cost per day talk by simply telling America what his foreign party is costing American taxpayers.

So far, his O'Bomberness has refused to tell us.

And katatonic, haven't I told you the NY Times, Washington Post, Move On, Puffington Post, MSNBC and the rest of the droolers who gave His O'Bomberness a pass without vetting are totally unreliable as sources for factual news?

Yet, you..and others continue to post their drivel here.

The Guardian couldn't possibly be worst than the best of those.

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posted November 07, 2010 05:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for katatonic     Edit/Delete Message
who mentioned the guardian? in any case there is a difference between a paper that admits its bias (since EVERYONE has some bias) and one that pretends fiction and photoshop stories are FACTs.

you would like NewsOftheWorld...they don't bother to check facts at all, despite all the money it has cost them over the years!

in any case the 300,000 jobs ADDED to the economy in sept and october is a figure i heard on the conservative station and even HE admitted it was a good thing...and managed to imply it was because the republicans were on their way in at the time...

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posted November 07, 2010 08:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message
Katatonic:

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we wouldn't want to admit that things are looking up in the economy until we can claim it is because the republicans are back, now would we?

your beans are in fine form t'day!

I propose that 2M a day sortie was flown knowing the response. JW gets off on the reaction.

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i know ... i keep picturing a gitmo employee, anything for the reaction, whether it is truthful or not.

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posted November 08, 2010 08:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
300,000 jobs created by His O'Bomberness in Sept and Oct katatonic?

Are you still getting your news from comic books?

Ummm, Sept and Oct; so called "good news", just in time for the November 2nd elections.

"The number of unemployed persons, at 14.8 million, was little changed in October. The unemployment rate remained at 9.6 percent and has been essentially unchanged since May."

Hot flash, unemployment numbers are frequently "revised" when the quarterly numbers are tabulated and published...just like the numbers for economic growth or contraction.

Whatever they're doing over at NewsOftheWorld must have rubbed off on you. Your so called facts are as unreliable as those you criticize...including the Guardian which you have criticized in the past when they ran stories which knocked the halo off your little leftist icon His O'Bomberness.

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November 07, 2010
Tales from 57 States: His Obamaness Addresses the Currylanders
Lee Cary

Now it came to pass that when His Obamaness spoke before the gathered ruling class of Curryland, two former circus performers of diminutive stature stood, one at His left and one at His right side. And, as He prepared to speak, each of the vertically-challenged held up, in unison, high above his low head, a scroll on which were written the demigod-like oracles that Himself would speak to the Curryland leaders.

Seeing this, many Currylanders learned, for the first time, that His Obamaness, who had appeared from across the sea to be speaking to the People of the Realm of 57 States from his heart, was actually reading words held above the heads of the two men of diminutive stature, one at his right...and, well, you know where.

Alas, it was at that very moment that some Currylanders first realized that His Obamaness spoke not from the heart, but from His prepared scrolls held high by...well, you know who. And so it came to pass that the Currylanders understood why, when speaking, His head turned from side-to-side, seldom looking forward. For he looked, left and then right, not to grace all with his oracles, but so that he could read from both scrolls, and just seem to be speaking to the peasants and serfs.

This was back in the days when many said, foolishly, that perception was more important than reality. Until, that is, Master Yoda taught us that, "Through experience, reality aligns, it does, with perception. And then, young Jedi, wisdom dawns, it does." Yoda, by the way, never held up a scroll for someone else to read, nor would he. But I digress.

Unaccustomed to seeing such a thing, some Currylanders said, "Oh, yes, that is indeed odd." While others remarked, "He is like the wind-up dolls made in the next kingdom over, in the Land of the Panda, that turn their heads from side-to-side, too, and say, ‘Hello, my name is Lucy. What is your name? Please change my diaper.'"

As His Obamaness glided through Curryland, shielded within a phalanx of strong bodyguards and adoring Town Criers from many nations, he smiled and waved to the Currylanders from side-to-side, yet the two men of diminutive stature where nowhere to be seen. Some said, "Behold, His Obamaness waves and smiles without assistance!"

In Curryland there are many with wealth, but there were also many with little to eat, who, when seeing a rich stranger, would beg for sustenance. It was of such unfortunates that Himself often spoke when he said, "We are our brothers' keepers."

As Hisownself's wondrous caravan glided through Curryland, the unfortunates were kept away from His presence. But that was to be expected, since all knew that His Obamaness had a half-brother named George living in a hut in the land called Kenya, which, like Curryland, was also a place once ruled by the people called Limeys because, as they sailed their ships across oceans and conquered peoples, they used slices of limes to flavor their foul-tasting Dos Equis beer and avoid scurvy.

His Obamaness harbored ill-will toward the Limeys, but that's a tale for another day.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/tales_from_57_states_his_obama_2.html

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Don't look now but His O'Bomberness is down with outsourcing American jobs to India.

I know I must be mistaken but isn't one of the wheezing, whining gripes of leftists...outsourcing American jobs. Now I remember. Yes it is! Yes it is! Yes it is!

Oh, but not when His O'Bomberness is down with it. Turns out all that is just screeching, wheezing, shrieking leftist rhetoric.

"The stated purpose of this opulent spending trip by His O'Bomberness is to put citizens of the 57 States back to work but more than one 57 State citizen thinks it will only put citizens of India to work."

Harley-Davidson to build bikes in India
November 04, 2010
By Sara Sidner, CNN

The iconic American motorcycle brand, Harley-Davidson, has announced plans to build an assembly plant in India.Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle brand with a cult-like following, has announced it has chosen to build its second assembly plant ever outside the United States in India.

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-04/world/india.bikes_1_india-market-harley-davidsons-haryana?_s=PM:WORLD

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posted November 08, 2010 09:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message
There you go again, posting from your favorite blog like a tool, with seemingly limitless credulity.

ACORN, Climategate, Vince Foster, Whitewater, Sherrod and much much more on the credulity meter.

When the right wing noise machine has a new scandal to float it is best to believe it false until proven otherwise. True in this case as well.

Remember the 2M a day scandal that you posted yesterday without fact checking? Ahhh yesterday sooo long ago. FOXY buried that story quickly, nearly 24 hrs before you posted it.

&

CNN posting Harley? from your own link:

quote:
What we are doing is made in USA, assembled in India, which will have a positive job effect back home which is why we are driving this investment as quickly as we are," Anoop Prakash managing director for Harley Davidson India told CNN.

I would like to see his 'positive effect figures' myself.

Which Obama has little to do with BTW, you can thank Ronnie- Clinton and Bush1&2 for the loosening of restrictions in that area with NAFTA


and Curry-landers? I find that offensive, personally.

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posted November 08, 2010 10:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
Outsourcing jobs from America to put Indians or anyone else to work is still...OUTSOURCING American jobs. That's something leftist rail against...unless their little leftist twit O'Bomber is down with it.

Bad when Bush does it...Good when His O'Bomberness does it.

Hypocrisy reigns supreme on the radical American left...right along with lying for their political ideology.

So, this Harley plant is India will put Indians to work assembling bikes...and transporting them. It will also put an army of Indian construction workers to work as well...in all the construction trades. At the same time, construction workers in all trades are unemployed all across America.

Ummm, that Harley guy..or guys went with O'Bomber as part of his "bring jobs home to America" campaign.

BTW, I didn't report that $200 million per day figure.

"along with a reported 30+ US warships, 5,000 or so hangers on and general suck-ups, 30 or so US aircraft and a reported $200 Million dollar a day budget."

Notice the word reported now?

Which means I didn't vouch for that number or any of the rest of the reported information.

Still, His O'Bomberness could have and should have told the American people just how much his lavish foreign junket is costing the American people...especially since His O'Bomberness and his Socialist comrades in Congress got their heads handed to themselves for not listening to American voters who were saying and continue to say "STOP SPENDING".

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jwhop i don't know if you have ever had employees but i work with a woman who has been working towards running her business without SPENDING for years. the result? the business has been going down, slowly but surely, to the point where it is now doing about 1/12th the volume it did 5 years ago. and still she is looking to cut expenses. she appears to be trying to hatch a business plan that puts those who do the work in position to PAY HER to do her business.

you can't completely stop spending if you want your business to grow or even stay afloat. who ever said STOP THE SPENDING just wants everything at a standstill. or ALL the money coming in and none going out. does not compute.

the only thing that keeps me in relation to this woman is the relationships i have built up with many of her customers. i work for myself. and if she thinks i am going to pay her for the privilege, well, the economy is not so bad that i can't put myself someplace else.

the harleys are, as your posts state, MADE IN AMERICA. unlike so many of our products that are not only assembled in china but made in china under the umbrella of american company names...so while the india deal is a compromise, it is a step back toward american manufacturing which has been stalled lately. i'm not going to pass judgment on this indian trip since i don't know enough about it to stand on my knowledge. but i don't think parody/fantasy/satire is an acceptable source of information on which to judge it either.

and nice one, falling back on the word reported after you have been told twice that that report has been RESCINDED DUE TO LACK OF ACTUAL EVIDENCE. though the "reporter" went ahead and blurted it out he had only hearsay to go on.

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posted November 08, 2010 01:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
No one in business spends on anything beyond his/her ability to absorb the costs from their business activity/income...or borrows money to spend beyond their ability to repay.

Those who have done so are no longer in business.

Pee-Lousy and Reid, since January 2007, have been in control of the Congress. His O'Bomberness has been infesting the White House since January 2009. Between them they've spent 5 TRILLION DOLLARS America couldn't take out of federal tax receipts/income and every penny of that 5 TRILLION has been added to the National Debt, which will have to be repaid...with interest by our children and grandchildren..if that's even possible.

They were told in no uncertain terms to STOP SPENDING by those in business who have to run their businesses as businesses and run their households by balancing their budgets...or go under or into bankruptcy.

It was time to throw the Socialist demoscat bums out. A good start was made on November 2nd. November 2012 looms on Socialist demoscat bums horizons...including His O'Bomberness....if they don't defect first.

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i agree with you about the outsourcing, though when it comes tied to a deal that produces jobs here it is not quite so bad as, say, farming levis out to manufacture in china, full stop.

as i said i don't know enough to argue about india yet. but i have been saying all along that if anything obama is playing both sides of the game. he is no leftist, and this is just one more instance where the CORPORATISTS are gaining most of the benefits.

it was not okay when bush did it and will not be okay for obama either. but compared to bush obama has created little outsourcing. do you know how many companies moved their manufacturing AND assembly out during the bush years? you think that has nothing to do with the state of the job market?

i disagree about businesses spending "not a penny more than they have to"...henry ford made a point of REWARDING his workers and built a great, almost mythically great, american company on that policy. many high quality workers in all fields, inventors, scientists, engineers, etc etc, immigrated here - where they stood a chance of making a lot more money - in decades past.

but a business that refuses to advertise even locally is cutting off its nose to spite its face. part of the drop in the place i work at is due to people watching their budgets like hawks, but just as much is due to a move that included no publicity to redirect people. a year later we are meeting people who have used us for years and ACCIDENTALLY discovered we weren't out of business but just around the corner. due to an ad that went out purely due to a misunderstanding and was not paid for. the advertiser took it on herself to ship it despite the owners' insistence that she had never agreed to pay for it. the rest of the business followed the majority of the practitioners who walked when it became obvious that payment on time was not a priority "upstairs"... and now it is nigh impossible to get anyone new in to a place where getting paid is a "bonus".

this is a tiny business (now, once it was a small business with a quarter-million turnover per year).

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posted November 08, 2010 06:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message
Do you know why those corporations moved manufacturing out of America katatonic?

Perhaps you should ask Pee-Lousy, ask the so called enviornmentalists, ask the entrenched bureauracy in the EPA, ask the demoscats in the California state government, ask the governor of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other cesspits of over-regulation.

They all had a hand in making doing business in America unprofitable.

Basic business katatonic.

Businesses are willing to take risk with their capital....to make a profit.

CEOs have a duty to produce profits..which drives stock prices up...for their stockholders. They also have a duty to make a profit from which bond holders and creditors can be paid.

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yes i know and conscience has no place in business, right? you don't think the tax breaks they got for moving overseas contributed to their decisions? the fact that not only could they relocate to places with low or no minimum wages - translate slave labour - and and no regulations - and GET PAID TO DO IT - is reason enough to bring the US down? because, my friend, that is what they are doing.

in any case most of those big companies did their outsource moves before the democrats came into power, in the FIRST HALF of bush's tenure. and the billions (trillions when interest comes into play) borrowed from china BY BUSH dwarf any spending obama has done. obama's deficit is 200 BILLION LESS than bush's last budget. and the war debt was not ever properly accounted for either.

how is it good business to destroy your consumer base? it's not. it's plain asinine and if you don't see it good night to you and yours.

business has functioned perfectly well in MORE regulated environments than the one we have had since "trickle down" economics caused large numbers to salaam to the bosses. oh let's give them whatever they need to stop their pity party. never mind that the 50 years between the late 30s and mid 80s were the BOOM years for america. who was in power then? were taxes lower? those wonderful 50s, when the rich paid 90% on the top tier weren't exactly sluggish for business, were they?

how do you explain that the richest in this country now control, what is it? 40 trillion dollars' wealth? they are MAKING HAY SUNSHINE and have got you feeling sorry for them and all their shackles. WHAT FRIGGIN SHACKLES??? they have made a killing while you were sobbing that they were being squeezed.

do you mean insistence that they raise their livestock in a clean and safe manner? that they pay at least 6 bucks an hour to their workers? that they deduct our taxes from our checks? that they know what they're doing when they dig for oil BEFORE a disaster happens? what are these crippling regulations and why don't countries with much HEAVIER regulations just lay down and die instead of being more stable and healthier than we are now?

you are asleep at the wheel jwhop. sorry bout that. and obama, who went in there trying to carve a few deals for the working and middle classes, is now acting like someone with his gonads in a vise but you keep calling him a socialist in the face of all the evidence.

i look forward to how feisty sarah palin will be when it's our way or the highway, and your kids' lives...

but you know, you've done a great job. i hope you enjoy the newly segregated south, the GMO food that is all you can get in the store...and all the rest of the paradise for business you are trying to erect.

just remember it is not the small businesses you are saving. it is those who can afford to BUY THEM OUT. and when every store is a chain store, every restaurant is fast food - because that is the bottom line feeder in that industry - and you catch on fire lighting your pipe after a drink of water, do a little jig for me sweetie.

government doesn't appear to be in control anymore and YOU are moaning that they try to get some back before its all over. the corporate state has just about got us all in the noose and you want to give them more.

they are not just businesses, madeira. they are a breed apart. and now they want to take over your social security money. maybe you have your own private pension sorted out. lots do not. because they never made enough on that extravagant wage to put anything away.

i really don't understand why you're not on your way to somalia or somewhere else that is kinder to business. in fact i don't understand why big business is not setting up there... maybe because the govt won't protect THEM from the pirates?

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That's a dead horse argument with me katatonic.

I'm on record here...several times..for telling corporations:

Make it here, sell it here...and there.
Make it there, sell it there.

I would impose a 25% exise tax on American Corporation produced goods from abroad AND a 25% exise tax on goods from nations which make it difficult or impossible to sell products produced in America in their nations AND a 25% exise tax on nation's goods...like China which play games with their currency exchange rates to make their goods more competitive with American produced goods.

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but you don't want obama to legislate something very similar. because it has his name on it? or what? when this very tactic was proposed you and the other fantasy bloggers decried it as bad for business.

an excise tax is still a tax, jwhop. what is the difference between what the republicans stonewalled and what you propose? it seems the ONLY difference is that it was put forward by the democrats. as is true with a lot of the other things republicans said NO to.

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posted November 11, 2010 12:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AbsintheDragonfly     Edit/Delete Message
How is it 57 states?

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posted November 11, 2010 07:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message
Well Abs, to quote the Prez:

"It is wonderful to be back in Oregon," Obama said. "Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."


Imagine that

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

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katatonic
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posted November 11, 2010 08:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for katatonic     Edit/Delete Message
fancy the president having a sense of humour! probably that is unconstitutional as well, innit? or just plain over the heads of some listeners. PMK!!

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posted November 11, 2010 08:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message
Sense of humor??

You must mean his "sense of humor" in laughing off this gaffe?

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