Posts Made By: Luca Grella

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will execute the Office of President of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God"

the constitution says this:
"Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."


I can't recall the President Obama advocating the construction of any mosque. He never said should...


The way the poll is presented is really disrespectful
not only to the President Obama but also to the truth.

All above choices imply faith. Atheism included.

If God exists I am happy for him

Atheism cannot exist without religion. It seems to me that it is just a bunch of people
mad at religion..

"the only time I think I am wrong is when everybody else agrees with me."
Oscar Wilde

It depends on the bias

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=President+Obama&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=sub

Maybe this is the only time I would tend to agree with astromart.
The picture is an historical document that depicts the absurd horror.

Horribile visu horribile dictu .

Luke Leege said:

:S

By spending less then it The way to create jobs is not by penalizing businesses with higher taxes to cover out of control spending. Even Castro figured that out.[/quote]

The way to create jobs is to create value and export it.
If you just cut taxes you only inflate the asset market

Even Greenspan figured that out.

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That is quite a naive statement considering that tax cuts have been in place for the
last 10 years and that obviously did not happen.

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They have not been minimal since they raised the deficit by about 600 billions U$ with a negligible effect on
job creation.

<<< You should know that our current issues were caused by certain banks making loans to certain segments of our population that could not pay them back, and had no intention of doing so.>>>

The financial crisis was initiated by Lehman Brothers , Citibank and Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac, who sliced and repackaged
doubtful mortgages into securities that were
subsequently traded in wall street.
The securitization got the mortgages off the lender's books and brought in more cash that was then used to
finance other mortgages and so on. This could be sustained only by constantly supplying mortgages to the securitization machine which then led to the practice of predatory lending and subprime market to support the scheme.

Do you really think that "certain segments of the population" could have triggered a
planetary financial crisis of the banking and insurance system ?
There is no excuse to ignore the real cause of this mess. The information is out there.




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The economy does not feed on itself, it is impossible to grow the economy without creating value through investment
and balancing the trade deficit.
What you are describing is a self perpetuating autarchic system that constantly redistributes a declining wealth.
It is more complicated than what you suggest.