The top ten reasons not to vote Republican in the midterms

[OnePercenter]

The Democrats and Barack Obama have screwed over Middle Class Americans more in the last six years than at any time in memory! Step back from the progressive "rhetoric" and look at what's really happened to the Middle Class under Barry! It's been brutal. Every time I hear Barack Obama start talking about how he's got the Middle Class's back I can only shake my head in disbelief that at this point anyone can hear that and not laugh.

Try Republicans, corporate America, and wall street.

 

[OnePercenter]

But it can afford to be drawn and quartered by the Democrats?

Like raising minimum wage.

 

[OnePercenter]

Their "fair share" is their share of the cost of those services. It doesn't include paying the bills of millions of welfare parasites and government job holders. (but I repeat myself)

I wrote 'share'. You don't feel that corporations should pay their share?

 

[bripat9643]

But it can afford to be drawn and quartered by the Democrats?

Like raising minimum wage.

Yes, like that.

 

[bripat9643]

Their "fair share" is their share of the cost of those services. It doesn't include paying the bills of millions of welfare parasites and government job holders. (but I repeat myself)

I wrote 'share'. You don't feel that corporations should pay their share?

They already pay far more than their fair share. They pay excise taxes on gasoline plus taxes on trucks. They pay for their sewage and water. They pay property taxes to that support local schools and the police.

What aren't they already paying for?

 

[OnePercenter]

Voting for a Democrat would be worse than throwing your vote away. It's the equivalent of drinking strychnine.

That's you non-factual opinion.

You started this post with a non-factual opinion.
That piece was about political opinion from the left and it is not factual.

I'm sure that if my OP was non-factual you'd have presented a different view. But you didn't.

 

[OnePercenter]

You could say a hundred rational reasons to not vote republican but they will still get elected thanks to Fox News propaganda and reliable Americam stupidity.

Amazing stupidity on this board by RWN's, brings a whole new meaning to 'shooting ones self in the foot.'

 

[Billy000]

You could say a hundred rational reasons to not vote republican but they will still get elected thanks to Fox News propaganda and reliable Americam stupidity.

They get elected because not everyone is a tick on the ass of society. Some of us actually have to work and pay taxes.

God you people are so simple minded. Your blanket generalizations are not only nauseating but unfounded. Twice as many private jobs were created in Obama's first term than both of Bush's. I personally have a full time job with benefits. Any liberal I know has been to college and has a job.

 

[OnePercenter]

US companies are taxed on over-seas income because US companies buy products to sell in the US and deduct the cost of the sale on monies that they never paid tax.

We're the only major economy to tax our corporations on earnings in other jurisdictions.
It's a bad idea. It raises a tiny amount of revenue.

Differed is what you get when your POS MAC-PRO doesn't like your voice program. Should be deferred.

What deferred income?

Who's income is off-shore?

You're whining about Berkshire, so how much of their earnings are from offshore?

Taxing overseas income prevents companies from cheating. I've already presented that.

What is deferred income? Look it up.

I'm not whining about Berkshire, merely making an example.

 

[bripat9643]

You could say a hundred rational reasons to not vote republican but they will still get elected thanks to Fox News propaganda and reliable Americam stupidity.

They get elected because not everyone is a tick on the ass of society. Some of us actually have to work and pay taxes.

God you people are so simple minded. Your blanket generalizations are not only nauseating but unfounded. Twice as many private jobs were created in Obama's first term than both of Bush's. I personally have a full time job with benefits. Any liberal I know has been to college and has a job.

You just made a huge generalization about people who vote Republican, but then you have a hissy fit when someone returns the favor? That is so beautifully liberal!

Working for the government is not a job. It's just the right to collect a government check.

 

[bripat9643]

US companies are taxed on over-seas income because US companies buy products to sell in the US and deduct the cost of the sale on monies that they never paid tax.

We're the only major economy to tax our corporations on earnings in other jurisdictions.
It's a bad idea. It raises a tiny amount of revenue.

Differed is what you get when your POS MAC-PRO doesn't like your voice program. Should be deferred.

What deferred income?

Who's income is off-shore?

You're whining about Berkshire, so how much of their earnings are from offshore?

Taxing overseas income prevents companies from cheating. I've already presented that.

What is deferred income? Look it up.

I'm not whining about Berkshire, merely making an example.

How does following the law constitute "cheating?"

 

[OnePercenter]

Republicans: They don’t do anything

The 113th Congress remains on track to be the least productive in modern history. Just 142 public bills have been enacted into law in the current session, down from the 906 the 80th “Do-Nothing” Congress passed in 1947-48. At this same point in the last Congress, which set the record for the fewest bills passed into public law in the modern era, 151 bills had made it into law.

 

[OnePercenter]

US companies are taxed on over-seas income because US companies buy products to sell in the US and deduct the cost of the sale on monies that they never paid tax.

We're the only major economy to tax our corporations on earnings in other jurisdictions.
It's a bad idea. It raises a tiny amount of revenue.

Differed is what you get when your POS MAC-PRO doesn't like your voice program. Should be deferred.

What deferred income?

Who's income is off-shore?

You're whining about Berkshire, so how much of their earnings are from offshore?

Taxing overseas income prevents companies from cheating. I've already presented that.

What is deferred income? Look it up.

I'm not whining about Berkshire, merely making an example.

How does following the law constitute "cheating?"

I didn't write that....try again.

 

[bripat9643]

Republicans: They don’t do anything

The 113th Congress remains on track to be the least productive in modern history. Just 142 public bills have been enacted into law in the current session, down from the 906 the 80th “Do-Nothing” Congress passed in 1947-48. At this same point in the last Congress, which set the record for the fewest bills passed into public law in the modern era, 151 bills had made it into law.

Good. The less Congress does, the better. Your property and your money are never safe while Congress is in session.

Why anyone would believe shear volume of legislation is a way to measure the quality of Congress escapes me.

 

[bripat9643]

US companies are taxed on over-seas income because US companies buy products to sell in the US and deduct the cost of the sale on monies that they never paid tax.

We're the only major economy to tax our corporations on earnings in other jurisdictions.
It's a bad idea. It raises a tiny amount of revenue.

Differed is what you get when your POS MAC-PRO doesn't like your voice program. Should be deferred.

What deferred income?

Who's income is off-shore?

You're whining about Berkshire, so how much of their earnings are from offshore?

Taxing overseas income prevents companies from cheating. I've already presented that.

What is deferred income? Look it up.

I'm not whining about Berkshire, merely making an example.

How does following the law constitute "cheating?"

I didn't write that....try again.

Yes, that's exactly what you wrote, or do you claim corporations are breaking the law when they don't pay U.S. taxes on their overseas operations?

 

[Billy000]

You could say a hundred rational reasons to not vote republican but they will still get elected thanks to Fox News propaganda and reliable Americam stupidity.

They get elected because not everyone is a tick on the ass of society. Some of us actually have to work and pay taxes.

God you people are so simple minded. Your blanket generalizations are not only nauseating but unfounded. Twice as many private jobs were created in Obama's first term than both of Bush's. I personally have a full time job with benefits. Any liberal I know has been to college and has a job.

You just made a huge generalization about people who vote Republican, but then you have a hissy fit when someone returns the favor? That is so beautifully liberal!

Working for the government is not a job. It's just the right to collect a government check.

I'm not suggesting every republican is stupid (most are however), but the republican ideology is based in stupidity. Your party has done NOTHING for everyday Americans yet you continue to vote for them. Clearly that is stupid.

Are you suggesting I have a government job? Um I don't....

Moron.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Any third party screws up the middle classes livelihood.

The Republicans and Democrats have already beat them to it.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same result. Continuing to support the Republicans and Democrats who have fucked up our nation, likely beyond repair, is the epitome of asshattery.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'm not suggesting every republican is stupid (most are however), but the republican ideology is based in stupidity.

You'll never see the irony of that statement coming out of your mouth.

 

[Billy000]

I'm not suggesting every republican is stupid (most are however), but the republican ideology is based in stupidity.

You'll never see the irony of that statement coming out of your mouth.

If I'm wrong, tell me. What have republicans of today ever done for everyday Americans?

 

[Listening]

They shouldn’t be there in the first place

This Republican House has the least public mandate of any Congress in history. In the 2012 elections, the Republicans won 234 seats to the Democrats 201. But the Democrats won 48.8% of the popular vote, to the Republican’s 47.6%. The Democrat’s vote tally was nearly one-and-a-half-million higher. There is no precedent for this, not even close – never has the legitimate preference of the voters been so distorted.

If the Democrats had won – because they got the most votes – the Tea Party would be far less influential. There would have been no debt ceiling crisis, roiling markets and shaking consumer confidence, and no government shutdown lasting sixteen days.

With the Senate having passed a bi-partisan Immigration bill with more than two-thirds of the chamber voting yea, the house would, by now, have followed suit, with a final bill coming out of conference, bound for the president’s desk.

They don’t realize we get it already

The Republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal or defund Obamacare.

“They have been obsessed with repealing the Affordable Care Act,” President Obama told a Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington. “You know what they say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free. We get it.”

No one likes them

The lowest point in the average of the polls that Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat-led House ever reached was 17%, as Obamacare was being passed. Generally speaking, the Democrats mainly stayed above 20%. Hardly amazing, but worthwhile remembering, given what was to come. The Republican controlled House has been by far the most disliked in modern history. An associated Press poll from the last week of September had them at 7%. It’s not just the least popular Congress, though: It’s also, according to Gallup, the least popular institution of any kind ever recorded.

They don’t do anything

The 113th Congress remains on track to be the least productive in modern history. Just 142 public bills have been enacted into law in the current session, down from the 906 the 80th “Do-Nothing” Congress passed in 1947-48. At this same point in the last Congress, which set the record for the fewest bills passed into public law in the modern era, 151 bills had made it into law.

They don’t represent society

Backers of Rep. Steve Southerland threw the Florida Republican a men-only fundraiser earlier this year. The invitation came complete with instructions that attendees should “tell the missus not to wait up” because “the after dinner whiskey and cigars will be smooth and the issues to discuss are many.”

In 1950, 98% of House Democrats and 97% of House Republicans were white men. In the 64 years since, that share has fallen 51 points for Democrats, but only 8 points for Republicans. Today, 89% of House Republicans are white men, compared to just 47% of House Democrats. On election night 2012, Democrats took pride in the fact that, for the first time ever, women and minorities would compose a majority — 53% — of their caucus. Meanwhile, the share of women and minorities in the GOP House conference went down, from 14% to 11%.

They’re too into Israel

Recent polls make it clear that, in the U.S., the strongest support for Israel’s right-wing policies now comes not from Jews, but from Republicans. Around the time of the Gaza conflict, Pew reported that the share of Republicans who sympathize more with Israel had risen from 68% to 73%, far larger than the proportion of Democrats.

Republican love for Israel knows almost no bounds, stemming, perhaps, from an absolutist trait in the conservative worldview. Israel is the Middle East’s only “good guy,” surrounded by a sea of “bad guys.”

In 2013, Israel’s GDP was $291.3 billion. The U.S. has subsidized about 25% of the tiny country’s annual defense budget in recent years; and U.S. military aid is roughly 1% of Israel’s economy. Yet the Republicans still complain that the Obama administration hasn’t been sufficiently supportive. For all their unwavering loyalty, however, it is really strange that, after the surprise defeat of Eric Cantor, there are now exactly zero Jewish Republicans in the House.

Their outreach to the Black community still faces hurdles

“To a significant extent, the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism. And that’s unfortunate,” Democrat Steve Israel said recently on CNN.

“I couldn’t be consistent with myself and my core beliefs, and stay with a party that was so unfriendly toward the African-American president,” former Florida governor Charlie Crist said in an interview.“I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.”

“The reason why Fox News and the GOP attract people like Cliven Bundy, Ted Nugent, and George Zimmerman is because they have spent the entire Obama years using racial divides as a political weapon,” Bill Maher argued earlier this year, later going on to argue that Fox News called the New Black Panthers scary, but portrayed white militia members as heroes.

An interesting proxy for measuring racial prejudice is a person’s views on interracial dating and marriage. The Pew Research Center has been polling on this question for 25 years. In 2012, 18 percent of Republicans disapproved of blacks and whites dating each other.

They’ve wasted a huge amount of money

The Republicans have cost the taxpayer, directly and in terms of hindered economic potential, a huge amount since taking over the House.

The lawsuit against the president will cost up to $350,000, billed at a rate of $500 per hour.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that the House Republican’s prolonged showdown with the administration over the raising of the debt ceiling, a procedure, up till then largely a formality, increased government borrowing costs by $1.3 billion.

Standard & Poors estimated that the Republican-initiated shutdown, which lasted just over two weeks, cost $1.5 billion per day, and took a total of $24 billion out of the U.S. economy.

Almost continuously, since 2012, the Republican controlled House has been investigating Benghazi. “The Department has devoted thousands of man-hours to responding to the numerous and often repetitive congressional requests regarding Benghazi,” Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs Elizabeth King said in a letter to Congress. That estimate included “time devoted to approximately 50 congressional hearings, briefings, and interviews which the Department has led or participated in.”

In May, the Republicans formed a special committee to re investigate Benghazi – the budget is $5,650,000 – bigger than the budgets for the committees on Veteran’s affairs, Intelligence and the budget itself.

When House Republicans voted to appoint a special counsel for the IRS investigation, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin responded by saying, “The IRS has spent more than $14 million in taxpayer money accommodating Republican requests, turning over more than 600,000 pages of documents, none of which substantiate the GOP’s wild attempt from the get-go to tar the administration.”

Its amazing that a fiscally conservative party has contrived to spend or waste this much money. Would anyone seriously suggest most of it had been well spent?

They can’t get their story straight

Despite having actually issued fewer executive orders than most of his predecessors, the Republicans have accused the President of being aggressively unilateral. In June, Republican Speaker John Boehner criticised the President’s use of executive orders, saying Congress must act to avoid Obama from acting like a “king.”

When Boehner was forced to cancel a vote on his border legislation after he didn’t have enough votes to pass it, he then issued a press release demanding that Obama act alone to secure the border. “There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action, to secure our borders…” The logic being that it is not okay for Obama to take executive action unless the House is paralyzed by Republican infighting.

They’re going backwards in their thinking

Fewer Republicans today than in 2009 believe in evolution, according to a Pew poll last year. The poll showed that less than half – 43 percent – of those who identify with the Republican Party say they believe humans have evolved over time, plunging from 54 percent four years ago. Forty-eight percent say they believe “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time,” up from 39 percent in 2009. According to a recent National Science Foundation study, only 28 percent of conservative Republicans believe that humans evolved from earlier species. The fact these statistics are going backwards, in the twenty-first century, is amazing.

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Nobody likes them !

They'll improve in the senate and possibly win it.

But nobody likes them.

I think One-Perencter has his head up his ass.

...and there you have it!