Al Gore would've been a better president than G.W. Bush. Agree or disagree?
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We all remember what a failure and laughing stock Dubya was.
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findthelight2000 2012/06/17 04:37:31agree
+12If Al Gore had won, I don't think the US would be in nearly as economically bad a shape as we are in now.
I am glad they did not hate us when they were attacking us, it could have been so much worse if they had done it with hate.
But then the Islamic terrs bombed the London tube as a demonstration of love and affection, right.
In 632, Mohammad sent the Islamic armies out to slay the infidel and conquer the world for allah. They continued their conquest until Tours in 732 when they were defeated by Charles Martel. During the same time period, they had taken most of the Byzantine Empire, toppled the Persian Empire, conquered half of India, and taken part of China. This period of conquest exceeded anything the Romans had done. The only time the Moslems have behaved themselves is following massive and catastrophic defeats. They cried about their losses at Tours for over 800 years and stopped then because they were kicked out of Spain. They still cry about the loss of Spain. Lepanto (1571) was another catastrophic and massive defeat and their loss prevented the re-invasion of Spain.
Catastrophic losses at Vienna, 1529 & 1683, prevent the conquest of Europe from the East.
Your thinking will have you spending most of your life in an Islamic Republic and dying in an Islamic Republic. Don't worry, you don't have to move.
"Because They Hate". - Bridgette Gavbriel. actforamerica.org. She may have a UK site.
She was a Lebanese Christian who spent her youth in a bomb shelter to prevent being killed by Islamic terr artillery fire. 24/7/365 artillery fire. It is a good book.
"Infidel" -Ayann Hirsi Ali.
She was a Somali girl who grew up as a refugee in Saudia Arabia and Kenya.
She escaped in the Netherlands on her way to an arranged marriage in Canada.
She obtained an education, was elected to the Parliament and later lost her Dutch citizenship because of fear of Islamic violence. She had renounced Islam and was placed under a fatwa of death and now lives in hiding. Probably in the US or Canada.
Ayann's book is not for the faint hearted. She has had a tough life.
Both books are easy to read for someone your age. I recommend both.
If you want a real tough book to read?
"The Looming Towers: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9-11".
- Lawrence Wright.
And maybe if Gore was president and Bin Laden still managed to pull off 9/11, maybe he would have taken the offer from the Taliban of Bin Laden when it was given to him and tried him in a neutral country. It would have avoided the 10 years of hell this country and the middle east has been put through. Not to mention the expense of 2 wars.
From Think Progress Dec 16, 2011
this talking point is much more fiction than fact. For starters, as USA Today noted, “Gingrich was in office for only two of those budget years (fiscal 1998 and 1999). But he continues to claim credit for two balanced budgets that were passed after he left office (fiscal 2000 and 2001).” Furthermore, as Citizens for Tax Justice’s Bob McIntyre wrote, it was actually the 1993 budget, which all Republicans opposed, that laid the groundwork for the balanced budgets that occurred under President Bill Clinton:
Gingrich to...
And maybe if Gore was president and Bin Laden still managed to pull off 9/11, maybe he would have taken the offer from the Taliban of Bin Laden when it was given to him and tried him in a neutral country. It would have avoided the 10 years of hell this country and the middle east has been put through. Not to mention the expense of 2 wars.
From Think Progress Dec 16, 2011
this talking point is much more fiction than fact. For starters, as USA Today noted, “Gingrich was in office for only two of those budget years (fiscal 1998 and 1999). But he continues to claim credit for two balanced budgets that were passed after he left office (fiscal 2000 and 2001).” Furthermore, as Citizens for Tax Justice’s Bob McIntyre wrote, it was actually the 1993 budget, which all Republicans opposed, that laid the groundwork for the balanced budgets that occurred under President Bill Clinton:
Gingrich told anyone who would listen that Clinton’s 1993 tax increase would destroy the economy, but just the opposite happened.
Center for American Progress Director for Tax and Budget Policy Michael Linden has actually found that legislation passed by Gingrich’s House Republicans made the budget picture worse in the 90s, not better. “Gingrich and his Republican Congress had nothing at all to do with balancing the budget in 1998. In fact, the net effect of their efforts was to make the fiscal situation slightly worse,” Linden noted. But that hasn’t stopped Gingrich from trotting out the fact that budgets were balanced while he was Speaker in an attempt to bolster his fiscal bona fides.
AS FOR THE CLAIM ON GINGRICH, HE WAS THE BULLY WE NEEDED TO HALT THE LIBERAL CRAP BEFORE IT CONSUMED OUR BUDGET LIKE IT HAS FOR OBAMA.
AND THE TALIBAN OFFER OF OSAMA, REALLY????WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM, IT WAS CLINTON THAT COULDN'T PULL THE TRIGGER ON OSAMA WHEN HE WAS STILL IN YEMEN .
I can pull the Gingrich quotes from anywhere, they were just all together in that article on Think Progress. I know that website is a little too factual for you conservatives... but it was convienient.
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them..
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes,WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.
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Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them..
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes,WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.
They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.....
The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. The House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace
545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because
they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power..
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it......... Is up to you. This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax..
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it
get there!!!
GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!