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[PoliticalChic]

tldr.....

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Too silly.

Lacks adult understanding of the world.

 

[Bonzi]

okay this is a political forum, will stay on topic:

 

[Bonzi]

tldr.....

View attachment 86772

Too silly.

Lacks adult understanding of the world.

yeah well I can't argue that. Life is to short to be mature....

 

[Bonzi]

 

[Dragonlady]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

"Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists,.."

Imagine how much better your posts would be if you actually knew anything.

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
Ronaldus Maximus


Watch:

"Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. (November 13, 1929 – March 19, 2014) was an American pastorwho headed the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an independent church based in Topeka, Kansas. Phelps attained notoriety primarily from his vehemently anti-gay activism and hispicketing of funerals of homosexuals and soldiers.

Phelps was a disbarred lawyer, founder of the Phelps Chartered law firm, and a former civil rights activist. He sought public office four times as a member of the Democratic Party. "
Fred Phelps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



So....ready to admit you're a moron?

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

" The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy,...."

Really?

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.

George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan

Reaganomics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



And the tax cuts of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 stimulated economic growth. “As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,[1] similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid.” http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm

“As inflation came down and as more and more of the tax cuts from the 1981 Act went into effect, the economic began a strong and sustained pattern of growth.” http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

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Ready to admit you're a moron?

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

"Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field."

So.....why is there progreessive income taxation

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

"Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field."

So why is there a graduated income tax?


"Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students."
I got in on my own.
How'd you like the Robert Fiance School of Cosmetology?


"And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".
I don't have those accouterments.
And, yes, affirmative action that gives access to those with more melanin are, by definition, discriminatory.

dis·crim·i·na·to·ry
dəˈskrimənəˌtôrē/
adjective

1. making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
   "discriminatory employment practices"
   synonyms: prejudicial, biased, prejudiced, preferential, unfair, unjust, invidious, inequitable, weighted,one-sided, partisan; More

" For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions

.... a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race is worth. She points to the first column.

African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.

“Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”

The last column draws gasps.

Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.

“Do Asians need higher test scores? Is it harder for Asians to get into college? The answer is yes,”....."
For Asian Americans a changing landscape on college admissions - LA Times


So....ready to admit you're a bigoted moron?

 

[NYcarbineer]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

"Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field."

So.....why is there progreessive income taxation

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

"Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field."

So why is there a graduated income tax?


"Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students."
I got in on my own.
How'd you like the Robert Fiance School of Cosmetology?


"And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".
I don't have those accouterments.
And, yes, affirmative action that gives access to those with more melanin are, by definition, discriminatory.

dis·crim·i·na·to·ry
dəˈskrimənəˌtôrē/
adjective

1. making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
   "discriminatory employment practices"
   synonyms: prejudicial, biased, prejudiced, preferential, unfair, unjust, invidious, inequitable, weighted,one-sided, partisan; More

" For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions

.... a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant's race is worth. She points to the first column.

African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.

“Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”

The last column draws gasps.

Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.

“Do Asians need higher test scores? Is it harder for Asians to get into college? The answer is yes,”....."
For Asian Americans a changing landscape on college admissions - LA Times


So....ready to admit you're a bigoted moron?

The progressive income tax is a level playing field. Do you realize that the tax rate in the lowest bracket is the same for billionaires as it is for people whose only income is in the lowest bracket?

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

I posted "What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…"

You punted with this: "More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals."

You, being a moron, makes this like shooting fish in a barrel.

Watch:


“The Death of Feminism,” by Phyllis Chesler

1. "Academic feminists who received tenure, promotion, and funding, tended to be pro-abortion, pro-pornography (anti-censorship), pro-prostitution (pro-sex workers), pro-surrogacy, and anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, and anti-American…proponents of simplistic gender-neutrality (women and men are exactly the same) or essentialist: men and women are completely different, and women are better. They are loyal to their careers and their cliques, not to the truth. [In their writing, they] have pretended that brilliance and originality can best be conveyed in a secret, Mandarin language that absolutely no one, including themselves, can possibly understand…and this obfuscation of language has been employed to hide a considerable lack of brilliance and originality and to avoid the consequences of making oneself clear."


Now are you ready to admit you're a moron?????

 

[NYcarbineer]

Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.

“Do Asians need higher test scores? Is it harder for Asians to get into college? The answer is yes,”....."
For Asian Americans a changing landscape on college admissions - LA Times


So....ready to admit you're a bigoted moron?

Is that why you, as an Asian, can't find a job?

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

"Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history."

Now you're a lying moron.

Perhaps you should pick up a newspaper once in a while....


1. "...take-home pay for many American workers has effectively fallen since the economic recovery began in 2009, according to a new study by an advocacy group that is to be released on Thursday.
The declines were greatest for the lowest-paid workers in sectors where hiring has been strong — home health care, food preparation and retailing — even though wages were already below average to begin with in those service industries.
“Stagnant wages are a problem for everyone at this point, but the imbalance in the economy has become more pronounced since the recession,”..."http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/b...rkers-see-biggest-drop-in-paychecks.html?_r=0


2. "....US hourly wages have not only not increased for the past 7 years, but for thevast majority of the labor force continue to decline,.... just the month of August will be enough to provide the Trump - and every other - campaign with enough soundbites and pivot points to last it for weeks on end: namely, that in August a whopping 698,000 native-born Americans lost their job. This drop was offset by 204,000 foreign-born Americans, who got a job in the month of August. .... since December 2007, according to the Household Survey, only 790,000 native born American jobs have been added. Contrast that with the 2.1 million foreign-born Americans who have found a job over the same time period..." 698K Native-Born Americans Lost Their Job In August: Why This Suddenly Is The Most Important Jobs Chart | Zero Hedge


3. October 2015: "Payrolls Disaster: Only 142K Jobs Added In September With Zero Wage Growth; August Revised Much Lower" Payrolls Disaster: Only 142K Jobs Added In September With Zero Wage Growth; August Revised Much Lower | Zero Hedge




4. "Obamacare health insurance co-ops surged past the $1 billion mark in losses this week, making history of sorts.The insolvencies, totaling $1.36 billion, mean that the co-ops have burned through more than half of the original $2 billion appropriated in 2010 for the program under the Affordable Care Act. The funds were loaned to the start-up co-ops in 2012 and were to be repaid in 15 years, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages Obamacare.
...13 of the 23 federally-financed Obamacare co-ops have officially failed in only two years. Most are in the process of default as insurance regulators attempt to pay customer’s medical bills, cover medical providers and pay other creditors.
Obamacare Co-Op Mess Causes $1.3 Billion In Losses


5. "Obama Administration Announces 144 Big Regulations Right Before Thanksgiving
This is a new record, beating the previous high of 136 set by President Obama this spring."
Obama Administration Announces 144 Big Regulations Right Before Thanksgiving


6. "...ObamaCare experiment costing taxpayers $2.4 billionis failing. The co-ops were founded on the idealistic belief that community members could band together to create health insurance companies that would be member-driven, service-oriented, and would not have to answer to shareholders or turn a profit."
400,000 Citizens To Lose Health Insurance (Again) Because Of Obamacare Co-Op Failures



7. "The U.S. expanded at a 2.2% rate through the first nine months of the year, and the economy is projected to grow at a similar pace in the fourth quarter that ends on Dec. 31. If so, the economy will have failed to reach 3% growth for the 10th straight year, marking the slowest stretch since the end of World War II.
Historically the economy has expanded at a 3.3% rate." U.S. economy set to grow less than 3% for the 10th straight year


8. "Congress has now cleared the way for federal debt to pass $20 trillion by the end of the president’s second term. President Obama said the new budget deal will be paid for in a “balanced” and “responsible” way, but on the day the deal was signed, the federal debt jumped $339 billion—a third of a trillion dollars in one day."Societywatch


9. The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2015 is 0.8 percent on January 8, down from 1.0 percent on January 6. The forecast for the contribution of inventory investment to fourth-quarter real GDP growth declined 0.2 percentage points to -0.8 percentage points after this morning's wholesale trade report from the U.S. Census Bureau.GDPNow


10. "Retail Sales in U.S. Decrease to End Weakest Year Since 2009 Sales at U.S. retailers declined in December to wrap the weakest year since 2009, raising concern about the momentum in consumer spending heading into 2016. The 0.1 percent drop matched the median forecast of 84 economists surveyed by Bloomberg and followed a 0.4 percent gain in November, Commerce Department figures showed Friday in Washington. For all of 2015, purchases climbed 2.1 percent, the smallest advance of the current economic expansion." Retail Sales in U.S. Decrease to End Weakest Year Since 2009



11. " The federal government heavily subsidizes higher education through a complex system of grants and loans. While the programs are great for colleges — they have enabled an astronomical increase in tuition — they contain few measures holding the institutions accountable to their students. As a result, only 59 percent of students graduate from four-year colleges and universities within six years. Those lucky enough to graduate face another hurdle: 44 percent of recent college graduates occupy jobs which do not require a college degree. Taken together, these numbers suggest that only one-third of college enrollees emerge from the system with both a degree and a relevant job." What "Free" College Can't Fix | Preston Cooper

12. Obama is the first President never to have had a year of 3% or better economic growth: "... annual growth during Obama’s “recovery” has never topped 3%. By comparison, it never fell below 3% during the Reagan recovery. And in the nine years following the 1990-91 recession, GDP grew faster than 3% in all but two. Heck, even Jimmy Carter had some strong growth years." President Obama's Growth Gap Hits $1.31 Trillion

a. "The years since 2007 have been a macroeconomic disaster for the United States of a magnitude unprecedented since the Great Depression." Obama: Always Wrong, Never In Doubt

b. ".... first president since Hoover to never have a single year above 3% GDP growth." Obama economy is 'amazing,' says hedge fund billionaire



13. According to the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom, an annual publication by The Heritage Foundation, America’s economic freedom has tumbled. With losses of economic freedom in eight of the past nine years, the U.S. has tied its worst score ever, wiping out a decade of progress. Since early 2009:

· Government spending has exploded, amounting to $29,867 per household in 2015.

· The national debt has risen to $125,000 for every tax filing household in America—a total over $18 trillion.

· The government takeover of health care is raising prices and disrupting markets.

· Bailouts and new government regulations have increased uncertainty, stifling investment and job creation. America’s Economic Freedom Has Rapidly Declined Under Obama

14 "Despite the unemployment rate being at an eight-year low (4.9 percent as of January 2016), the number of people on food stamps remains near an all-time high which was 47,636,000 in 2013.

Why the disparity in the numbers? Well, the unemployment rate does not take into account people who are not in, or have dropped out of, the workforce altogether.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in January of this year that approximately 94 million Americans are not participating in the workforce.

We now have a country based on government dependence." Food Stamp Users Near Record High Despite Low Unemployment Rate

15. "CHICAGO (Reuters) - Predominantly African-American neighborhoods in Chicago have seen poverty rise and services diminish even as the nation's third largest city has become less racially segregated,.... black areas are seeing economic stagnation or decline,.... mostly black areas have lost health clinics, social service agencies and other areas of support..." Exclusive: Poverty up, services diminished in Chicago's black neighborhoods - study


16. "Employers added more workers in February than projected but wages unexpectedly declined, dashing hopes that reduced slack in the labor market was starting to benefit all Americans..... Average hourly earnings dropped by 0.1 percent from the prior month, the first decline since December 2014 the Labor Department’s figures showed. Worker pay increased 2.2 percent over the 12 months ended in February, less than the 2.5 percent forecast in the Bloomberg survey. Wage growth has been hovering just above 2 percent year-over-year on average since the current expansion began in mid-2009." Payrolls in U.S. Surge While Wages Drop in Mixed Jobs Report

17. New Obama regulation will deprive middle class investors of access to financial information. "...the controversial pending Department of Labor regulation that would impose new restrictions on a vast swath of financial professionals... a newreport for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, similar restrictions in Great Britain have caused a “guidance gap” in which brokers have largely stopped serving customers with assets less than £150,000 ($240,000).... Such limits on financial discussion may seem to violate the First Amendment..." How Fiduciary Rule May Censor Financial Broadcasters Like Dave Ramsey

“this Obama rule will kill the Middle Class and below ability to access personal advice.”

18. "U.S. retail sales dropped in February and the prior month’s gain was revised to a decline, calling into question the narrative that bigger gains in consumer spending would propel economic growth at the start of 2016. The 0.1 percent decline in purchases followed a revised 0.4 percent January decrease, Commerce Department figures showed Tuesday.... “We’re seeing higher rents, higher healthcare expenses,.... Retail sales excluding autos fell 0.1 percent after a 0.4 percent decrease in January, according to Tuesday’s report." Retail Sales in U.S. Decline After January Revised Down

19. "That basic math is why middle class incomes have been in decline under Obama. The Census Bureau reports that since Obama became President 7 years ago, real median household income has fallen by $1,300 a year. Heritage Foundation Chief Economist Steve Moore explained in testimony before the Ways and Means Committee, “At 2 percent growth the economy doesn’t spin off enough jobs to increase wages, and tax revenues grow much too slowly to balance the budget.”

The recession officially ended more than 6 years ago. Wages and incomes have always grown in recoveries, not declined. Moreover, the American historical record is the deeper the recession, the stronger the recovery. The economy is supposed to boom in a recovery to catch up with its long term economic growth trendline. But over 6 years after the recession ended, that still has not happened. Instead, what we have gotten under President Obama is the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression." http://limittaxes.org/2016/02/realizing-the-super-bowl-of-american-economic-growth/

20. "8 More Obamacare Co-ops Will Probably Shut Down

12 of the 23 taxpayer funded non-profit co-ops created under the Affordable Care Act were shuttered, and the largest of them is under investigation.

Records obtained by Richard Pollack of the Daily Caller indicate another 8 co-ops might be on their way out this year:
'...there’s not a turnaround in sight. The same problems that plagued them before are continuing,”
8 More Obamacare Co-ops Will Probably Shut Down

21. the United States had lost its once-enormous global lead in middle-class pay, based on international income surveys over the last three decades. After-tax median income in Canada appears to have been higher last year than the same measure in this country. The poor in Canada and much of western Europe earn more than the poor here. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/u...dgety-boys-and-a-sputtering-economy.html?_r=0

22. Middle aged people laid off and unable to find work are taking another way out. They're killing themselves. Suicide rates are soaring, according to federal data released last week. Especially in economically depressed states and job-starved upstate New York. People in need of work are twice as likely to take their own lives as employed people, and people fired in their forties and fifties find it hardest to get hired again.

That makes boosting economic growth a life- and- death issue. But you wouldn't know it listening to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. President Obama whitewashes reality, claiming the "American economy is pretty darn good right now."

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/soaring-suicides-emerge/89558/


23. "U.S. Economy Expands to 0.5% Pace, Weakest in Two Years
The U.S. economy expanded in the first quarter at the slowest pace in two years ....Gross domestic product rose at a 0.5 percent annualized rate after a 1.4 percent fourth-quarter advance, Commerce Department data showed Thursday. The increase was less than the 0.7 percent median projection in a Bloomberg survey and marked the third straight disappointing start to a year." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...in-first-quarter-at-slowest-pace-in-two-years

24. "Nearly one in six young men (between the ages of 18-34) in the U.S. were either jobless or incarcerated in 2014, according to a new government report. It details a striking amount of male alienation that has been on the rise since the 1980s.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), out of the 38 million young men in the U.S. in 2014, 16 percent were jobless (5 million or 13 percent) or incarcerated (1 million or 3 percent). The share of young men without a job or in prison has increased substantially since 1980, when just 11 percent of young men fit into either category." http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...early-1-6-young-men-u-s-jobless-incarcerated/

25. "Stocks fall as inflation hits 3-year high
...consumers prices at the consumer level for items ranging from toilet tissue to gasoline rose 0.4% last month, slightly above the 0.3% estimate but its strongest monthly gain in more than three years." http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/05/17/stocks-dow-tuesday/84481164/

26. "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy created the fewest number of jobs in more than five years in May as employment in the manufacturing and construction sectors fell sharply, suggesting a deterioration in the labor market ...Nonfarm payrolls increased by only 38,000 jobs last month, the smallest gain since September 2010, the Labor Department said on Friday. Underscoring the report's weakness, employers hired 59,000 fewer workers in March and April than previously reported. While the unemployment rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 4.7 percent in May, the lowest since November 2007, that was in part due to people dropping out of the labor force." https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-job-gains-may-likely-dented-verizon-strike-043534655--business.html


27. "Then came the jobs numbers. Employers added 38,000 jobs in May, the weakest performance since September 2010. Revisions to previous payroll data showed employers added a combined 59,000 fewer jobs in April and March than previously reported. That brought average monthly job growth in the past three months to 116,000, a sharp slowdown from the average growth of 219,000 over the prior 12 months.

One economist dubbed it “an unqualified dud.”

by Erik Holm"
Recap: Janet Yellen on Economy, Monetary Policy

28. White House Cuts Economic Growth Forecasts
Budget office sees 1.9% growth in 2016, 2.5% in 2017 http://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-cuts-economic-growth-forecasts-1468601249



"OBAMA: Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...conomy_is_in_decline_is_peddling_fiction.html


Just one more failure by this tin-pot dictator, the titular head of the LGBT movement, to impose policies that will injure the American people.

Obama's Foreign Policy Hit Parate!
1. "(CNSNews.com) – White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday the Obama administration’s foreign policies in a number of areas have enhanced the world’s “tranquility” – a word that raised eyebrows as reporters pointed to situations in Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine and the South China Sea." WH We ve Substantially Improved the Tranquility of the Global Community CNS News


2. "Leaders of the five BRICS nations plan to create a development bank in a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias. The bank would use $50 billion of seed capital shared equally between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa but would undoubtedly be dominated by China. It would be the first institution of the informal forum started in 2009 amid the economic meltdown to chart a new and more equitable world economic order."
Watch Out World Bank Here Comes the BRICS Bank

a. "When Barack Obama took office, he pledged a new overture to the world’s emerging powers. Today each of the Brics – Brazil, Russia, India,Chinaand South Africa – is at loggerheads with America, or worse."http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6077675c-c4c4-11e3-8dd4-00144feabdc0.html#axzz37ecJQGho



3. [August 18, 2011].... [Obama} called Thursday for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign, after months of his violent crackdown on protesters. The rhetorical escalation was backed by new U.S. sanctions designed to undermine Assad’s ability to finance his military operation..... culminated months of calibrated diplomacy that has included three rounds of sanctions and a gradual policy shift toward regime change in a nation long at odds with U.S. policy in the Middle East." Assad must go Obama says - The Washington Post

4. "Russia 'to reopen Cold War Cuban listening post used to spy on America' Moscow-based daily Kommersant claimed Russia and Cuba have struck a deal 'in principle' after President Vladimir Putin visited the island last week.

Citing several sources within Russian authorities, the respected daily wrote: 'The agreements were finalised while President Vladimir Putin visited Havana last Friday."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ning-post-used-spy-America.html#ixzz37gIcOgZu


5. When the Egyptian people declined to be governed by the 7th century savages, the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama had a fit:
"The U.S. government has decided privately to act as if the military takeover of Egypt was a coup, temporarily suspending most forms of military aid, despite deciding not to announce publicly a coup determination one way or the other, according to a leading U.S. senator.
In the latest example of its poorly understood Egypt policy, the Obama administration has decided to temporarily suspend the disbursement of most direct military aid, the delivery of weapons to the Egyptian military, and some forms of economic aid to the Egyptiangovernment while it conducts a broad review of the relationship."
Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt - The Daily Beast



6. "Putin Poised to Retaliate Against Obama by Trashing Iran Deal
Now that the U.S.-Russia relationship has broken down, Moscow could throw a wrench into the teetering nuclear negotiations with Iran.

But if Putin decides that retaliating against the U.S. and ruining Obama’s foreign policy legacy is more important than sealing a pact with Iran, the whole thing could unravel.... Yet this time around, Obama is willing to accept an agreement from Iraq’s foreign ministry on U.S. forces in Iraq without a vote of Iraq’s parliament. .... We basically need a piece of paper from them,” another U.S. official involved in the negotiations told The Daily Beast. The official didn’t explain why the parliamentary vote, so crucial three years ago, was no longer needed.." Putin Poised to Retaliate Against Obama by Trashing Iran Deal - The Daily Beast



7. "ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he no longer holds "direct" telephone conversations with U.S. President Barak Obama, suggesting a rift between the leaders who were once close." Turkish PM says he Obama no longer talk directly - Yahoo News

8. Underestimated the "Islamic State, IS" "The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,”Obama told the New Yorker, referring to ISIS.
“I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”


9. Obama made another huge mistake in refusing to negotiate an agreement to leave US troops in Iraq.
This is the source of the problem with ISIS: they're there because we weren't.
"Obama's 2012 Debate Boast: I Didn't Want to Leave Any Troops in Iraq
Obama then denied that he ever supported a status of forces agreement that would have left troops in Iraq:

MR. ROMNEY: [W]ith regards to Iraq, you and I agreed, I believe, that there should have been a status of forces agreement. Did you —

PRESIDENT OBAMA: That's not true.

MR. ROMNEY: Oh, you didn't — you didn't want a status of forces agreement?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: No, but what I — what I would not have done is left 10,000 troops in Iraq that would tie us down. That certainly would not help us in the Middle East.

"Here's one thing I've learned as commander in chief," Obama said at the end of the exchange. "You've got to be clear, both to our allies and our enemies, about where you stand and what you mean

Obama s 2012 Debate Boast I Didn t Want to Leave Any Troops in Iraq The Weekly Standard

a. "This month, Colin Kahl, the senior Pentagon official in charge of Iraq policy at the time, explained why the White House insisted on Iraq’s parliament approving the changes to the SOFA.

He wrote inPolitico Magazinethat in 2011 Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, “told U.S. negotiators that he was willing to sign an executive memorandum of understanding that included these legal protections.

Yet this time around, Obama is willing to accept an agreement from Iraq’s foreign ministry on U.S. forces in Iraq without a vote of Iraq’s parliament. “We believe we need a separate set of assurances from the Iraqis,” one senior U.S. defense official told The Daily Beast on Sunday. This official said this would likely be an agreement or exchange of diplomatic notes from the Iraq’s foreign ministry. “We basically need a piece of paper from them,” another U.S. official involved in the negotiations told The Daily Beast. The official didn’t explain why the parliamentary vote, so crucial three years ago, was no longer needed.”

Obama Does a U-Turn on Immunity for U.S. Troops in Iraq - The Daily Beast

Obama rejected it.




10. "Turkey will refuse to allow a US-led coalition to attack jihadists in neighbouring Iraq and Syria from its air bases, nor will it take part in combat operations against militants, a government official told AFP" Thursdayhttp://Breaking TURKEY REFUSES OBAMA REQUEST to Use Its Airbases to Fight ISIS The Gateway Pundit




So.....once again....I'm correct, Obama and you are failures.

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11. "First and foremost, I want the American people to know that our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low. We’ve been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn’t get on a plane for the United States. In the unlikely event that someone with Ebola does reach our shores, we’ve taken new measures so that we’re prepared here at home. " http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...ebola-outbreak-here-extremely-low_808405.html

a. "U.S. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/03/nurses-unprepared-ebola_n_5926828.html
b. "After first Ebola case, red flags emerge that U.S. unprepared for pandemic" http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/30/after-first-ebola-case-fears-turn-us-pandemic-prep/
12. “Obama is the weakest of U.S. presidents, he had humiliating defeats in the region. Under him the Islamic awakening happened,” Younesi said in a Farsi language interview with Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. “Americans witnessed their greatest defeats in Obama’s era: Terrorism expanded, [the] U.S. had huge defeats under Obama [and] that is why they want to compromise with Iran,” Younesi said.

The criticism of Obama echoes comments made recently by other world leaders and even former members of the president’s own staff, such as Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/top-iranian-official-obama-is-the-weakest-of-u-s-presidents/

13. "Shock U.S. Army admission: Obama freed Taliban ‘psychopath’ in Bergdahl trade"The Obama administration released Fazl and four other Taliban commanders May 31 from the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ded-for-bowe-bergdahl-a-danger/#ixzz3Q2RT6ki2
"Breaking: Bowe Bergdahl To Be Charged With Desertion…Update: Attorney Has Received Charges But WH Delaying Notice To Public…Update: Senior Defense Officials Confirm">Breaking: Bowe Bergdahl To Be Charged With Desertion…Update: Attorney Has Received Charges But WH Delaying Notice To Public…Update:Senior Defense Officials Confirm" http://weaselzippers.us/212260-breaking-report-that-bergdahl-to-be-charged-with-desertion/
14. "GUMMING UP THE WORKS: Obama blasted for chewing gum during visit with Indian prime minister
Obama, who has been caught before munching on gum during high-profile political events, was taken to task by the country’s largest newspaper after he was spotted taking a piece out of his mouth during the annual Republic Day parade."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-blasted-chewing-gum-visit-indian-pm-article-1.2092456


15. "Obama White House Declares Muslim Brotherhood Is Not a Terrorist Organizationhttp://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonte...es-muslim-brotherhood-is-not-a-terrorist.aspx
a. "The Muslim Brotherhood called for “a long, uncompromising jihad” in Egypt just days after a delegation of the Islamist group’s key leaders and allies met with the State Department, according to an official statement released this week.

Just days after a delegation that included two top Brotherhood leaders was hosted at the State Department, the organization released an official statement calling on its supporters to “prepare” for jihad, according to an independent translation of the statement first posted on Tuesday." http://freebeacon.com/national-secu...ting-with-muslim-brotherhood-aligned-leaders/


16. "The threat from radical Islam has at least doubled in the past decade while Washington refuses to even admit the enemy exists, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said Sunday.

Pointing to a map showing the spread of violent Islamic extremism stretching across the Middle East and northern Africa, Flynn said, "Ten years ago I was drawing that map and there's only two or three dots on it. Today, what you're seeing on a map like that is a doubling of the enemy … a doubling or more."
http://www.Newsmax.com/Newsfront/Michael-Flynn-ISIS-doubled-spread/2015/02/08/id/623473/#ixzz3RHuxGbBb


17."Irran’s Supreme leader Ali Khamenei called for “Death to America” on Saturday, a day after President Barack Obama appealed to Iran to seize a “historic opportunity” for a nuclear deal and a better future, and as US Secretary of State John Kerry claimed substantial progress toward an accord."
Khamenei calls 'Death to America' as Kerry hails progress on nuke deal | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/khamen...ry-hails-progress-on-nuke-deal/#ixzz3V9SRGder


18. "Not since the 1960s — and perhaps going back even further — has there been a time when so many Arab states and factions were engaged in so many wars, in quite such confusing configurations, said Frederic Wehrey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “It’s so dangerous,” he said." http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...4e7b5c-d417-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html

19. "It would be one thing had the president brought in a successful test anywhere. But his — and Secretary of State Clinton’s — “reset” with Russia has been greeted with aggression from President Putin and his camarilla. The “pivot” to Asia has turned into a palsied pirouette and been unmasked as cover for fading from the Middle East. The redlines in Syria have been erased. Libya, Yemen, Venezuela are wrecks. Afghanistan is teetering to the Taliban, while Mr. Obama’s withdrawal has left Iraq at the mercy of Iran and the Islamic State." http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-obama-doctrine/89118/
20. There is now no discernible U.S. strategy in Iraq. The administration claims to support the Baghdad government of Haider al-Abadi, who replaced Maliki, but it gives al-Abadi practically no support. It won’t commit ground forces or mount a serious aerial offensive and is reduced to encouraging Iran to chase ISIS into Syria.


This policy can only lead to greater bloodshed in Syria, while delivering all Iraq apart from Kurdistan to the militant Islamic and soon to be nuclear-armed theocracy of Iran. ... Obama rounded up some allies to fight ISIS but has essentially handed the war off to Iran, America’s and the West’s greatest enemy in the Middle East."
Incredulity Among Allies Greets U.S. Policy After Years of Folly - The New York Sun


21. WASHINGTON—In reaching a historic agreement to restrain Iran’s nuclear program, President Barack Obama effectively shredded the foreign-policy playbook that had guided the U.S. for three decades....Obama also may have created a more unstable Middle East and, in the process, torn apart longtime U.S. ties with traditional allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-iran-deal-breaks-from-past-1436868053


22. " The president has convinced himself that the open-ended appeasement of Iran will replicate the Nixon-Kissinger triumph with China. But they made no concessions to the Chinese: They agreed that there was one China but that Taiwan would not be reunited with the mainland by force, and it has not been.

Mr. Obama is handing Iraq to Iran as he gives Iran a green light to nuclear weapons,at the latest in ten years, as he unblocks $150 billion that has been frozen, without even getting a reduction in rhetorical abuse from Tehran. Tom Friedman of the New York Times infamously called it a “doctrine,” in the sense of the Stimson or Truman or Nixon doctrines.

But insipidity, irresolution, and obfuscation do not constitute a doctrine.

America’s traditional allies have lost all respect for [Obama's] foreign-policy-making...


As the U.S. cranks up to another presidential election, and rhetoric echoes loudly around the country about “the greatest nation in human history” (certainly a fair description in many respects), Americans should be aware of how the country is perceived by foreigners. .... it has almost become, as President Nixon warned, “a pitiful, helpless giant.”
Incredulity Among Allies Greets U.S. Policy After Years of Folly - The New York Sun


"...insipidity, irresolution, and obfuscation do not constitute a doctrine."



And the Obama legacy: America as “a pitiful, helpless giant.”



And....after the above list of Obama's gaffes, flubs, missteps, and outright incompetence......


23. "Russia and Nato 'actively preparing for war'
Rival war games by Russian armed forces and Nato represent greatest build up of military tension in Europe since Cold War, warns think tank"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ssia-and-Nato-actively-preparing-for-war.html


24.." Five Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, marking the first time the U.S. military has seen them in the area.

The officials have been tracking the movements in recent days of three Chinese combat ships, a replenishment vessel and an amphibious landing ship after observing them moving toward the Aleutian Islands, which are split between U.S. and Russian control.

.... the Chinese naval movements, which came as President Barack Obama was visiting Alaska and the Arctic region on a three-day trip to address climate change." http://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-watches-as-chinese-navy-ships-sail-in-bering-sea-1441216258

25. "Remember Obama Mocking Romney Over Russia Concerns? ‘The 1980s Are Now Calling to Ask for Their Foreign Policy Back... First Sarah Palin was proven right about her Russia-invading-Ukraine prediction she made — and got mocked for — in 2008.

Now it’s Mitt Romney’s turn to take a bow for having “clear eyes” on Russia’s future threat potential." http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...calling-to-ask-for-their-foreign-policy-back/


26. This was published the day after the ISIS attack on Paris:
"Kevin (not only is this) an ISIS attack, but its coordinated at a level to take a large loss of life. This is the nightmare scenario we are constantly having to be prepared for from radicalized Islam… But we knew ISIS was a threat a year before the president ever called them the JV team. And we have to kill them before they kill us.”

Run the tape back to that morning on a nationally televised morning show, President Obama, “ISIL has been contained.” Run the tape back to President Obama’s statement immediately following the attacks in Paris, “We must stop those who do these crimes.” (You know… crimes… like the cat-burglars.)

Was there any reason why the president never mentioned Islam in his statement following the Paris attacks?

The president couldn’t wait to gloat over the kill shot of bin Laden (who was really mostly out of the picture by the time we finally got him.) He couldn’t wait to golf when Jihadi John had beheaded an American journalist. He couldn’t wait to goof on the families of our service men who lost their lives in Benghazi. And he was back to gloating when they believed they got the jihadi beheader this week." http://townhall.com/columnists/kevi...5/how-obama-contained-isis-n2080961/page/full


27. "America is about to accept9000 Syrian Muslims, refugees of the brutal war between the Assad regime and its Sunni opposition, which includes ISIS, Al Qaeda, and various other militias. That number is predictedto increase each year.

There are no Christian refugees that will be admitted.

...the Department of State is adhering with all the rigidity of a Soviet era bureaucracy to the rule that only people at risk from massacres launched by the regime qualify for refugee status. The rapes of Christian women and the butchery of Christian children do not count. " No room in America for Christian refugees




28. "It is clearly evident that President Barack Obama and his administration care little about reality but will push ahead with their ideological agenda.

Here we are just days after a horrific Islamic terror attack in Paris and what is the Obama administration response? They release five Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United Arab Emirates." http://www.allenbwest.com/2015/11/complete-madness-as-paris-mourns-obama-just-did-the-unthinkable/


29. "Not radical Muslim terrorism, not an unsecured border, not an ever-growing federal debt that now exceeds $18 trillion, not the fact that 109 million live in households on federal welfare programs. These are not the greatest threats facing us today."

"No challenge--no challenge--poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change," President Obama declared in his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.



30. "Ex-Guantanamo detainee now an al Qaeda leader in Yemen His personal relationship with Osama bin Laden and time in American detention make him an especially high-profile spokesman. A leaked Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) threat assessment and other declassified files documented Qosi’s extensive al Qaeda dossier. In the threat assessment, dated Nov. 15, 2007, US intelligence analysts described Qosi as a “high” risk to the US and its allies." http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...-detainee-now-an-al-qaeda-leader-in-yemen.php

31. "A House Armed Services Committee report set to be released Thursday accuses the Obama administration of misleading Congress and violating federal law during a controversial prisoner exchange.The report compiled by the GOP majority charges that the administration did so when it bypassed Congress in negotiating the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was being held in Afghanistan. They suggested that the White House had put politics and expediency ahead of proper procedure in making the deal." https://pjmedia.com/trending/2015/1...a-violated-federal-law-with-bergdahl-exchange


32. "Obama admin. sent taxpayer money to campaign to oust Netanyahu The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday.
Some $350,000 was sent....

.... regularly deleted emails with large attachments — a striking violation of open-records laws for a department already reeling from former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s handling of official government records." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/


46. Obama backs down:

"...July 6, President Barack Obama announced he would keep 8,400 troops in Afghanistan past the end of his presidency. Then, he announced on July 11 that he would send 560 additional troops to Iraq, adopting a strategy of U.S. engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan his critics have been advocating since he took office in 2008.. ....the Taliban merely waited out the U.S. 18 month deadline. Obama pivoted away from active U.S. engagement in Afghanistan towards a reduced presence that focused on drone strikes....In Iraq, exactly what his critics said would happen ended up happening."

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/16/o...ign-policy-critics-in-one-week/#ixzz4EhbAMj4D"
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/16/o...ign-policy-critics-in-one-week/#ixzz4EhZOHXjJ

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

"You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom."

As with every other topic, you have no clue as to what conservatives are.

Quick lesson:

1) Conservatives believe that there are moral truths, right and wrong, and that these truths are permanent. The result of infracting these truths will be atrocities and social disaster. Liberals believe in a privatization of morality so complete that no code of conduct is generally accepted, practically to the point of ‘do what you can get away with’. These beliefs are aimed at the gratification of appetites and exhibit anarchistic impulses.


2) Conservatives believe that custom and tradition result in individuals living in peace. Law is custom and precedent. Liberals are destroyers of custom and convention. To a conservative, change should be gradual, as the new society is often inferior to the old. We build on the ideas and experience of our ancestors. The species is wiser than the individual (Burke).


3) Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away, since remedies are usually not simple. Plato said that prudence is the mark of the statesman. There should be a balance between permanence and change, while liberals see ‘progress’ as some mythical direction for society.


4) Conservatives believe in the principle of variety, while liberal perspectives result in a narrowing uniformity. Conservatives believe in choice of healthcare, education, religion, and various other areas. Under conservative principles, there will be differences in class, material condition and other inequalities. Equality will be of opportunity, not necessarily of result. The only uniformity will be before the law. Society will not be perfect. Consider the results of the rule of ideologues of the last century.


5) Freedom and property are linked. Private property results in a more stable and productive society. Private property and retaining the fruits of one’s labor has been proven successful from the Puritan’s Bradford, to the Stakhanovite Revolution!


6) Conservatives believe in voluntary community and charity, based on duties to each other, with the assumption that each person must do whatever he could to avoid requiring assistance, as opposed to involuntary collectivism, as in “let the government do it..” Burke's understanding that the "little platoon" - family, neighborhood, professional organizations etc - is the "first principle" of society has been consistently identified as providing the necessary inspiration for conservativism. And explains why conservatives give more to charity than liberals.


7) Conservatives view people as both good and bad, and for this reason believe on restraints on power, as in checks and balances, while liberals see power as a force for good, as long as the power is in their hands.


8) Liberals and Conservatives differ in the way to proceed. For Conservatives, data informs policy. (“More Guns, Less Crime” and “Mass murderers apparently can’t read, since they are constantly shooting up ‘gun-free zones.’”- Coulter) We use Conservative principles to the best of our ability, but when confronting new and original venues, we believe in testing, and analysis of the results of the tests. For liberals, feeling passes for knowing; it is based on emotion often to the exclusion of thinking.


9) Conservatives view results differently from Liberals. Liberals respond to success and material wealth with envy and hostility, encourage class warfare and an attempt to obviate any chance that it might happen again. The exception is when it is a Liberal with the wealth. Conservatives see success as the validation and culmination of the application of Conservative principles, most prominently Liberty.


10) Since Liberals see their view as a higher calling that that of Conservatives, they mistakenly believe that it is entirely appropriate for then to use, not logic, facts, nor accepted debating techniques, but ad hominem attacks on the physical appearance, personal history, or imaginary mental defects. Notice how the Liberal replaces intellect with emotion. This is, no doubt, based on a medieval concept of recognizing witches and demons. In fact, Liberals attempt to deal with opponents in similar fashion: recall Clarence Thomas’ “High Tech Lynching.”



Understand the above and you may be a bit less of a moron.



But...still a moron.

 

[PoliticalChic]

There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....

1. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
2. The minute you envy another, your happiness is injured,and breeds unhappiness. Religious folks tend to be happy with what they have. Thus Marx hated that view because the Utopia had to be here and now…
3. Government must be limited in scope Madison: laws must be simple clear few. Must be understood by all: otherwise it is government by experts, bureaucrats and technocrats. a. Sure enough, Liberals snap to attention when they hear 'studies show....'
4. Unlimited opportunity can only come with limited government.
5. What leftism has done to every profession is to put leftism above being good at the task…
   a. Famine under communist rule in the USSR is a perfect example.
   
   6. The danger is not a man like Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting the office of the presidency to a man like Barack Obama
   
   7. The mind of the Liberal: Whatever they imagine, they believe must be imposed.
   
   8. For Liberals, wishful thinking substitutes for an understanding of reality…thus…the view of the Arab Spring as a good thing…and overthrowing of Mubarak in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood
   
   9. We want liberty…but mistakenly say democracy…you can have democracy but deprive people of liberty (see Egypt)
   
   10. If the desire is for a ‘level playing field,’ how to explain progressive income tax?

1. Well that's a lie. The right is WRONG. The results of their wrong-headed thinking can be found in the decline of the American Middle Class that began with the Reagan changes to the tax code. Until Reagan changed the basic economy, their middle and working class had savings, increasing income, and a high level of financial security. Since Reagan changed the tax code, money has flowed steadily to the top, at the expense of the middle and working class.

Republicans have been in a fit of anger since Nixon resigned. They have been so focused on taking down a Democrat President in the same way. It hasn't happened. But over 150 members of Reagan's administration were arrested for selling arms to the Contras and running an illegal war that Congress knew nothing about.

When they have been in power, every Republican President has started a war for no good reason. It has drained the economy and the US, which used to boast the best infrastructure in the world, is starting to fall apart as successive Republican Presidents have squandered the resources of the nation on foreign wars which have done nothing for your image abroad.

2. Your religious rightwingers are certainly not happy with what they have. They want everyone to be Christian, to have the right to inflict their religious beliefs on the rest of the population. Take your Westborough Baptists, for example. They don't seem like happy people. Nor do the religious right-wingers protesting abortion clinics. Those people want to take away the right of women to make decisions about their families, based on their beliefs. No one is forcing these religious people to have abortions that they believe are wrong. There is clear evidence that God doesn't think every fetus is sacred, since 1/3 of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion, but if we interfere with "God's plan", it's murder. No it's not, it's religious bullying.

3. This is word salad. Meaningless. What does laws being "simple and clear" have to do with "limited government". But since YOU brought up limited government, please explain how it is that the size of the government payroll, and the number of government employees always swells under Republicans, and declines under Democrats? The SIZE of government, something you conservatives are always going on about, increased under Reagan, and under W. W created a whole new (unfunded) government department - Homeland Security, which has since been responsible for some of the biggest government boondoggles since it's inception, including the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.

4. Bullshit. Unlimited opportunity comes from a level playing field. If I'm a small manufacturer who can't afford to offshore my manufacturing, I'm going to lose out to large multinationals who can go to Third World Countries with lax pollution standards, and slave wages. People have ceased to matter to the elites. Populations are just faceless mobs to be manipulated and used. But not given a fair chance.

Ivy league universities have a "legacy" policy for students. You really think that W got into Princeton because of his marks? If his Daddy hadn't been a Princeton graduate, W would have attended State college. Celebrities like Natalie Portman or Brook Shields can go anywhere they want, but unless you are a legacy, you're in competition with every kid with aspirations of going to Princeton, for the remaining spaces. Being rich and making a big donation can get your kid in though.

And you people have the balls to claim that programs which move minorities to the front of the line are "discriminatory".

5. More word salad. Sounds profound but it's meaningless babble. For starters, "leftism" hasn't done anything to professions or professionals. Your example of Stalin in the USSR is poorly chosen. What do the principals and view of left wing politics have to do with a famine under an authoritarian dictator of a failed form for government? Why, when discussing left wing politics in a North American democracy, do you bring up authoritarian dictators in the USSR all? There is nothing relevant in such a comparison.

6. Obama has reduced the deficit, increased unemployment, overseen the recovery of the housing market, the auto industry and stock market, killed Bin Laden, and conducted foreign policy such that the world is now closer to being at peace than at any time in its history. If Obama was a white Republican, you'd be canonizing him. Obama is no danger to the US. The danger is that you would vilify such a man because of the party he represents, or the colour of his skin.

7. Another conservative myth, and really more indicative of conservatives than liberals. Conservatives want to police women's washrooms, have the right to discriminate against others on "religious" grounds, refuse women their consititutational right to privacy with her doctor by imposing unnecessary and expensive tests and indoctrination regard her decision to terminate a pregnancy. How much time and money does it cost these women to conform with waiting periods, mandatory counselling, and unnecessary ulta-sounds? These are impositions of freedom loving conservatives. Conservatives talk the talk, but it's liberals who keep pushing for minority rights. This whole election of Donald Trump is about angry white guys pushing back.

8. You don't want liberty. You want conservatism, which is, by its very nature, the opposite of freedom. Conservatives don't want gays to have the freedom to marry, adopt or have families. They want to discriminate against those who are different - gays, Muslims, people who aren't white. They don't want women to have the right to chose. Anything that really does mean "freedom", conservatives oppose. "Conserve" the status quo is right in their names.

This conservative backlash which resulted in the nomination of Donald Trump is exactly the type of right-wing reactionary conservative response one would expect to the recent freedoms for gays, blacks and Muslims and the perceived loss of power of white men.

9. A level playing field and a progressive tax are similar how? Why is a level playing field such an scary prospect to you. If you're getting ahead due to your education and abilities, why aren't you happy with that? Could it be perhaps that you know that's an illusion. It's an old boys network and an old white boys network at that. Looking at the whiter than white Republican Party, it's easy to see why they're afraid of the Democrats. It's because they're not all white men. They're not all men either. I know PC needs a daddy to tell her what to think, but the rest of us can do fine making up our own minds.

PeeCee,

1. When you are made to look the silly fool you are, why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?
2. Instead of dithering on for eight paragraphs about northern Europe, why don't you simply apply YOUR no. 7 "random truth" to the problem Americans have with the EpiPen FACTS?
3. "..PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

"why do you always ask "You're a government school grad.."?

Because an answer in the affirmative explains the indoctrination.


".PoliticlChic is never wrong." “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” Voltaire

As you were unable to dispute my post re: socialism is admitted failure, your Voltaire quote certainly doesn't apply.

But...you have helped verify rules 1 and 2:
Rule #1: PoliticalChic is never wrong.
Rule #2 See rule #1.

Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's.

Socialism is a howlinig success. I know, living in that socialist hellhole, Canada, which provides cradle to the grave social programs AND manages to enjoy a standard of living second to none, while the US continues to decline in education, health care, infrastructure, and further into poverty.

"Let me guess - you were home schooled by a someone who was terrifed at a left wing march back in the 60's."

Actually...no, I wasn't.
I just went to far better schools than you.



"Socialism is a howlinig success."
Really?

Then why not name the Democrat Party what it is...the Socialist Party.

You know why.

Socialism is no different in aims and aspirations than communism.
You fear folks figuring that out....that's why you flip-flopped the names Red State and Blue State.


So...we agree?
You're a moron, and will change your avi to "MoronLady" post haste???


Excellent.

 

[PoliticalChic]

So far I have provided 130 'Random Truths,' adherence to which would make for an informed outlook and a successful life.

Today, another ten undeniable statements meant to explain what is right and what is wrong.
There are so many conservative commentators, and conversations, that have contributed to these truths....you may recognize some of your words, as well.....
See if you can disagree with any of these ten


131. Society must help the indigent, not the irresponsible. Something, some personal improvement, some dividend for society should be expected.

"Since productive activity not making any economic sense because of the work disincentives of the welfare plantation, other kinds of activities proliferate: drug and alcohol abuse, crime, recreational sex, illegitimacy, and family breakup are the new social norms, as does the culture of violence." Peter Ferrara, “America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb,” chapter five.




132. Public largesse, generosity, welfare, is as difficult an addiction to break as heroin. A close look at plans indicates that it is meant to buy votes rather than improve the human condition.

"81% of people receiving public housing benefits vote Democratic – and that’s just the tip of the handout iceberg."
81% of people receiving public housing benefits vote Democratic – and that’s just the tip of the handout iceberg

 

[PoliticalChic]

133. Many who are anti-religion demand to be convinced that God exists.
A more productive avenue is to ask an atheist:
does he hope he is right, or hope he is wrong.


134. Government Healthcare will always fail: take private companies out of healthcare, and there will never be cost containment. Housing market, the same.

The answer is the free market. It is not perfect; it is simply better than state control. It is the one that has to respond quickly and effectively to dissatisfaction and to demand.In the free market, if a product or service does not please, it is discontinued. Compare that to government persistence and expansion of programs that proven to have failed decades ago: farm subsidies, aid to Africa, busing, etc.

The unspoken and unrecognized assumption is that there exists some mechanism that can distribute goods and services. The only such mechanism is, and must be, the totalitarian state.
a. To believe this, one must accept that there exists some equation by which the state can fairly and honestly control human exchange. Here we go: increasing taxes to increase programs to increase happiness to allow equality…all of which ends up in dictatorship.
David Mamet, 'The Secret Knowledge"

 

[danielpalos]

Why do women claim to want equality in the non-porn sector, but have no qualms practicing inequality, in the porn sector?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Why do women claim to want equality in the non-porn sector, but have no qualms practicing inequality, in the porn sector?

Here's a plan....how about you get lost?

 

[danielpalos]

Why do women claim to want equality in the non-porn sector, but have no qualms practicing inequality, in the porn sector?

Here's a plan....how about you get lost?

this is what i mean; you have not been "porning me", so this is the non-porn sector as far as I am concerned; and your fallacious response, really is worthless for argumentation purposes, in the non-porn sector. why complain about "earning what you are worth", in the non-porn sector?

 

[PoliticalChic]

135. Liberals feel entitled to use any unfair methods and double standards against conservatives because they claim the other side isn't just wrong, but they are evil.
Yet.....
...in order to be moral, one must hate evil. The Left doesn't hate evil...it hates inequality.
As Dennis Prager has written, the Left has been far more interested in fighting material inequality than tyranny, which is why Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc., tend to have the support of Leftists around the world.
Hence, Leftism is not a moral worldview.



136. Freedom of choice for Liberals only seems to apply to drugs, sex, and other people's money.