DISQUS

AMERICAblog: While we were paying for Iraq, bailouts for Wall Street and tax cuts...

  • constantcomment · 1 year ago
    death to the greedy fascists. . capitalism without social responsibility is tantamount to facism.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    what do we need water for anyway?

    "let them drink Diet Coke."

    /snark
  • tofubo · 1 year ago
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    I am surprised that the polls (to date) are as close as they are for McCain and Obama in lieu of what has been going on in this country. I know, I know, the General election hasn't really begun yet, BUT with everything the Republicans have done to this nation and with all of the destruction they have left in their path, you would think that even John McCain would have positively laughable polling numbers.

    What on earth is with the citizenry of this country? Don't people realize that if they vote in a Republican, much less another neo-con, they will get the same or WORSE?

    grumble, grumble...
  • FunMe · 1 year ago
    Everyone, RepubliCON and Democrats, who continues to support the disastrous Iraq war while caring less about We The People is UN-AMERICAN period.
  • Joshau Norton · 1 year ago
    Like Upton Sinclair once said:

    "Fascism is capitalism plus murder.",

    Pretty much describes the current ideology of the Repig party.
  • angryspittle · 1 year ago
    There are two types of Republican voters, millionaires and suckers.
  • Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago
    Obama/Biden '08

    Crocker, in an impossible political position -- give the correct answer and humiliate the Bush administration; give the administration's answer and look like a fool -- dodged as much as he could. Then Biden forced him down. Crocker: "I would therefore pick Al Qaeda on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border."
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/8/16713/15...
  • Tomm · 1 year ago
    If the bridges crumble that will mean Californians will have to stay right where they are and this pleases me to no ends!! :)

    Let them crumble
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Tomm 7 minutes ago,

    Tis so charming of you to wish such harm to so many other people in this country. You must be what the Republicans refer to as their version of a Patriot, eh?
  • MarxMarvelous · 1 year ago
    Unfortunate? How about traitorous behavior towards the the American people who gave them control of the legislature? The Dems have enabled the execuative branch since 2006. Don't you get it? They're two sides of the same coin, working for the same people.
  • Andrew · 1 year ago
    We can continue to bemoan, but if one were to go back into the not too distant future, you might begin to understand where our tax dollars really go. Anyone remember the Grace commission during the Reagan administration?
    "100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government."
    -Grace Commission report submitted to President Ronald Reagan - January 15, 1984. it's kind of funny that Orwell chose the date 1984, but the fact remaines that the American people have been screwed by both parties since the federal reserve and the I.R.S. were created in 1913.
    Ronald Reagan was promptly shot after he dared to criticize the Fed, on the same day
    that the Pope was shot. After recovering, he changed his mind and praised the Fed. About seven US Presidents have been assassinated for not cooperating with the Transatlantic Banking Dynasties. (They Are: William Henry Harrison, poisoned, in 1841, Zachary Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and John F. Kennedy 1963; #7 if FDR's poisoning is counted).
    Most of us feel sick when we realize that Not one dime of IRS money goes to the US Gov't, according to Reagan's Grace Commission: it all goes to pay interest on a bogus debt to the Private Federal Reserve (FED), just to allow paper money to circulate as "Federal Reserve Notes". The Federal Reserve is a private Corporation eventually owned by the Rockefellers and Rothschilds Dynasties through intermediary agents, designed to suck the capital dry from the U.S., as the Rothschilds do in Europe.
    The final report of the 1984 Grace Commission, convened under President Ronald Reagan, quietly admitted that none of the funds they collect from federal income taxes goes to pay for any federal government services. The Grace Commission found that those funds were being used to pay for interest on the federal debt, and income transfer payments to beneficiaries of entitlement programs like federal pension plans.
    These comments were presented at the Close of the Citizens' Truth-In-Taxation Hearing.Washington D.C., February 27-28, 2002: IRS is a Trust
    http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm> Headquartered in Puerto Rico Not a Federal Agency The IRS is technically not an "agency" of the federal government, as that term is defined in the Freedom of http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/5/552.html
    Information Act and in the Administrative http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/5/551.html
    Procedures Act. The governments of the federal territories are expressly excluded from the definition of "agency" in those Acts of Congress. See 5 U.S.C. 551 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/5/551.html (1)(C). All evidence indicates that they are a money laundry, extortion racket, and conspiracy to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1951.html> and 1961
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1961.html et seq. They appear to be laundering huge sums of money into foreign banks, mostly in Europe, and quite possibly into the vatican. See the national policy on money laundering at 31 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/31/5341.html> U.S.C. 5341 .
  • jr · 1 year ago
    Cons think they'll be raptured before the interest payments come do on their "deficits don't matter" 13 figure debts
  • RoxanneJekot · 1 year ago
    Suggestion.........why not require spending in Iraq to be matched dollar for dollar at home?

    Seriously, if we're gonna give pallets of money to Iraq, we can spend some at home too, yes?
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    Tomm 9 minutes ago
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    Actually Tomm, with the loss of federal funding it is becoming more and more dependent on individual states to fund infrastructure. The diverse and valuable resources of California put us WAY ahead of the curve than most states though we will pass the increased costs onto other states.

    Even with our own woes, we are far, far ahead most flyover shitholes and the south. Cheers.