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Posts Made By: David White

September 16, 2012 01:58 PM Forum: Politics

Mitt: The middle class is $200,000-250,000

Posted By David White
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0718/What-does-it-mean-to-be-middle-class

It would seem both Romney and Obama have a different view of what is middle income in the US.

September 18, 2012 09:05 PM Forum: Politics

Better Than Bush...

Posted By David White
Of course the Bush Administration didn't create the same amount of jobs as Obama, unemployment averaged around 5.3%. It's a ridiculous argument to compare the 2 administrations.
The real comparison would be with Reagan and Obama due to economic crisis. Reagan had higher unemployment and inflation than Obama, yet performed far better.

Obama just isn't doing a very good job.

September 23, 2012 04:16 AM Forum: Politics

Jesse Ventura's Point

Posted By David White
Rod Kaufman said:

Jesse Ventura had a good point tonight on his CNN interview. Where was former president Bush and vice president Cheney during the Republican convention? Ventura claims the Republicans don't want people reminded of what got us into the mess we have in the first place. Dems didn't have any problem bringing Clinton on for Obama, why not Bush for Romney?

Because Bush wasn't a poplar President when he left office. Claiming Bush got into this mess by himself is a little simplistic at best.

September 23, 2012 07:30 AM Forum: Politics

No wonder

Posted By David White
Tony Aguire said:

It all makes sense now... Romney has no loyalty to America because we are a foreign country to him...

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09/21/mitt-romney-calls-usa-a-foreign-country-in-his-tax-returns


I thought after Geithner was nominated by Obama, paying ones taxes wasn't supposed to be an issue to hold high public office anymore, part of the change thing. I can't image putting USA in the incorrect box would be frowned upon, when one doesn't have to pay the tax to begin with according to this administration.

September 30, 2012 04:40 AM Forum: Politics

GOP Voter "Irregularities"

Posted By David White
Rod Kaufman said:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-voter-registration-20120929,0,5690240.story
Geez...

And they were fired by the RNC. But lucky for Stragetic Allied Consulting, ACORN is looking for a company with their skills.

September 30, 2012 04:14 PM Forum: Politics

It's Bush's fault

Posted By David White
Jim Johnson said:

http://news.yahoo.com/biden-blames-bush-administration-deficit-184436550--abc-news-politics.html

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire...

Biden blaming Bush for the deficit while ignoring the current government's big addition to it. Biden also claims that Obama's economic plan will make enormous cuts in the deficit and has already cut it by 1 trillion dollars. Politicians lie because they might find people ignorant enough to believe their BS and get some votes.

http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-candidates-deficit-plans-dont-add-150403612--finance.html

Both candidates seem to be making promises to reduce the deficit that don't quite add up.

Jim J

I wonder when Obama will decide he's the president. Clearly, after almost 4 years, Biden doesn't believe it.

October 7, 2012 08:56 PM Forum: Politics

Should the US fund PBS/CPB?

Posted By David White
Jim Johnson said:

http://www.janson.com/media/2010/12/13/pbs-audience-demographics/

I was surprised that we subsidize CPB/PBS to the tune of $445M for 2013. To me that is no penny ante amount. Why should we subsidize public television? The demographics confirm what I knew from experience - much of PBS/NPR's audience are college educated and making a nice income. With the advent of cable, satellite, Internet, etc. the need for public broadcasting is over. If any shows on PBS have a good following, they will be picked up by the plethora of cable channels. PBS is no longer the only source of documentaries and nature programming. CBS, ABC and NBC can fill the need for liberal news. Let PBS accept advertising. Though I do appreciate PBS bringing me Monty Python.

What say you? I bet I can guess the right-wing's stance but what about you moderates and liberals?

Jim J

We are over 16 trillion dollars in debt and we're clearly are going to have to make cuts to pay for it. Doesn't it make sense to get rid of the stuff we don't need, like TV programming, before we start on the stuff that we do need. PBS has/had some great stuff. But it was originally funded when we had a total of 3 choices of channels to watch. The question is, why are paying for it with tax dollars, when it can join the rest of the over 200+ channels available? It's not like it couldn't survive without federal funding.

If democrats can't live without TV, what the heck will they agree to cut? Clearly, PBS is small amount of money in the big picture, but cutting the entire defense budget won't solve the problem either. I barely watch TV as it is and I can't remember the last time I watched PBS.

October 8, 2012 09:02 PM Forum: Politics

Obamanomics A Failure, Minorities Hardest Hit

Posted By David White
As Charles Barkley said, "Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they're still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn't do much for them."

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