Posts Made By: Dave Wagner

david elosser said:

Year 2006: Haitian national Kesler Dufrene is jailed for 5 years for burglery as a twice convicted felon and nearly a dozen arrests. Because of his crimes, an immigration judge orders Dufrene deported back to Haiti.

2010: Obama orders tempory halt to deportations to Haiti.

October 2010: Dufrene is realeased from custody because of above Obama order, and a 2001 Supreme Court ruling.

January 2011: Dufrene murders a 15-year-old girl and two others.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/22/2602909/immigration-authorities-released.html

"ICE did not say how many convicted criminals like Dufrene were put back on the streets during the moratorium."

David E

It should, would, and could be Obama's "Willie Horton" moment, except for one minor detail... any guessers?

Rod Kaufman said:

Obama hit one out of the park tonight in his state of the union speech. One of the best I've ever heard.

Apparently you love complete retreads of previously failed ideas...

He's an utter failure, admit it.

And a cheapskate fraud, to boot.

Darian Rachal said:

Quite often I hear people I know around here, who do not like Obama, telling me they are concerned that he will be reelected. I suspect that they are listening to too much of the "news" and allowing it to influence their thinking.

The one thing that gives me reason to believe that he will not be reelected is the manner in which he achieved the Democrat nomination and presidential election. It seems that many people have forgotten the euphoria that existed among his supporters; the people who thought he'd 'take care' of their mortgage, car payments, gasoline, etc.. Somehow this "historic" event was going to change America and the world for the better; very similar to when David Dinkins was elected mayor of NYC. People were fainting at his rallies. He attended a music festival in Europe and the media treated it as if the "Second Coming" had occurred. I recall Roman columns were constructed for one of his events.

Well, it's been three years and no doubt many of his followers are very disappointed. Of course you have the trained monkeys that will vote for him because he's a Democrat, but I suspect that many of the people that were caught up in the euphoria of the moment have no incentive to expend the effort to go to the polls and cast a vote for him.

Of course, these are just my thoughts and I may be mistaken; time will tell. I really do not think it matters who the Republicans nominate. Hopefully by next January, Obama will simply enter the 'trash bin of history'.

$5 to $6 a gallon oil this summer and fall will defeat Obama.

The RNC can save a ton of money and just play Palin videos from the 2008 campaign: "Drill Baby, Drill", and then interspose with all the actions Obummer has taken to NOT increase production... his pandering and lies to the contrary...

It's always been about the economy, and always will be, and nobody, NOBODY, gets away with $5-6 per gallon gasoline... not for any reason

Oh, and in case you didn't see, it's looking likely (per Gallup) that February's Unemployment rate will be back UP to 9% or above...

Russ Carroll said:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304537904577277242682364690.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

"Many Americans fear the federal fiscal train wreck will turn us into Greece. But, barring major change, they need look no further than California to see what this future portends. Relying on ever-higher taxes to fund payments to an outsized population of benefit recipients is a recipe for exporting prosperity. That is one California trend that other states emulate at their peril."


"Now, the bill is coming due. After running a $5 billion deficit last year and another likely deficit this year, Gov. Jerry Brown's budget increases spending next year by $7 billion and finances the higher spending with income and sales-tax hikes. Specifically, he's proposing a November ballot initiative raising the state's top income tax rate to 12.3%, making it the nation's highest, and raising the basic state sales tax rate, already the nation's highest, to 7.75% from 7.25%."

"No wonder many Silicon Valley CEOs say they won't expand in California because of high taxes and burdensome regulation. And no wonder net migration has recently reversed, with hundreds of thousands of workers and their families leaving the state in search of better opportunities."


CA....RIP.

This is your state - on and run by - liberals...

Any questions?

Rod Kaufman said:

The problem:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/18/news/economy/gas-prices-aaa/index.htm?hpt=hp_t1
Again, we're talking short term solutions here.
Take a look at the video in the link of Richardson's thoughts on it.
My take:
1. Tap the strategic oil reserve. We've got enough of it to do it and justify it due to the impact on an economy recovering from a great recession.
2. Temporarily reduce oil exports from our country to others based upon prioritizing the need.
3. Escort oil tankers with multinational task force to remove the threat of a closure of the strait of Hormuz.
4. Temporarily reduce the tax on gas at a national and state level.
5. Increase the gas guzzler tax on large vehicles like pickups and SUVs and use it to offset the difference on lost revenues due to the reduction of gas tax.
6. The Saudis have already stated they will increase oil flow if Iran goes to war. Diplomatic efforts need to begin that process now.
7. Lower the cost of public transportation in the short term until the current crisis has eased.
8. Stop the practice of "zoning" wherein regional gas prices are fixed per area.
9. Stagger the shut down cycles for oil refineries for maintenance so they don't all shut down at the same interval.
10. Curtail oil market speculation now before it kills the economy.
Any other ideas other than it's Obama's fault?

Here's a few you didn't mention:

1. Open *all* restricted public lands (ANWR, etc.) to drilling immediately (with appropriate environmental safeguards *and* with stipulations on the costs of any environment damages to be borne by those producing...
2. Reinstate shallow, and deep water permitting (down by double digit percentages last 3 years), same provisos
3. Approve Keystone pipeline immediately
4. Loosen regulations (incent?) interstate construction of natural gas pipelines (so we can create an infrastructure that could actually support 50 state adoption of LNG powered vehicles). We have sufficient, proven, reserves to run our country for a very long time, but regulations over the last 50 years means that many (most) areas have no direct access to LNG/NG

In disagreement with your ideas, Do NOT:
1. Tap strategic reserve. Lowering prices short term defines tactical, not Strategic. It's Strategic if, for example, nuclear war decimated the mid-east... as but one example

2. Increase, not decrease our oil exports. Increasing them increases global supply driving worldwide prices down. It also has the nice benefit of bringing an *income* to our currently $600Bn out of balance, balance of trade, which would hugely help our economy (not to mention reduce our indebtedness to, say, China, among others

3. You cannot legislate *any* type of price controls; all they do is cause supply to shrink, increasing prices and creating shortages... Anyone remember the set of idiots to try that? (Hint it was both republicans and democrats - from Nixon to Carter)... same goes for trying to "curtailment of speculation".. doesn't (can't) work.

4. Eliminate *all* federal mandates for various fuel types/cut-overs by date/region; this is ridiculous and creates all sorts of well-documented unnatural disruptions in the market.

And your point with this post?

Businesses MOVE production for many reasons:

1) better talent
2) closer to supplies
3) lower costs
4) less regulation

Story makes perfect sense to me...

But what do I know, I've worked in the dreaded private sector all my life from the age of 16?

Rod Kaufman said:

10 million on Obama and Bush:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/04/british-peer-accused-of-offering-bounty-on-obama-bush/1#.T4zA6NmP-I4
More:
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=266317
Where's all this bounty stuff coming from anyway?

I think he got the idea from Farrakhan and the US: Nation of Islam...

Just another example of the "Peaceful Religion of Islam" I guess...

Tony Aguire said:

Not much talk about education in this forum...Here is one that hopefully light the fires


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/student-loan-forgiveness-act-2012-hansen-clarke_n_1415910.html


On the one hand, I think the idea of helping out teachers with heavy loans is conceptually a step in the right direction...The whole package seems a little bit to much of a givaway to garner votes from a certain demographic...

politics as usual :S

No more bailouts! Bailouts and pandering to special interest with taxpayers money is what got us *into* this freaking mess...

You don't give coke-addicts more coke to cure them.

I paid all my loans, and self paid my education. (Father died when I was 17).

They can pay their own way. Screw em.

Biden is dumber than a bag of rocks

It was even better than I had hoped for!

Best was listening to that lib/prog protester literally crying! ("it's the end of Democracy!")... LOL


Twit... it *was* the triumph *of* representative democracy.

One state down, forty something to go, and then the big one: the Feds!

TEA 2012!

OMG 2012!