FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

NYC Mayor Bloomberg, a billionaire businessman, just endorsed Obama.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Romney wanted to see an auto industry refit which essentially screwed labor . . . both re current wages, and in-place pensions. He's used to screwing people that way from his days at Bain, when he had to in order to save his on bacon, so it would be business as usual.

The man would gag a maggot.

People are scared to death of these guys becuse they've demonstrated what they've capable of .. . and the identities of theRomney hangers-on, and the major donors, tell the observant all they need to know.

 

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And therein lies the biggest problem - we won't elect people who tell the truth about the situation we are in, are honest about where we are at in this country and are honest about what it will take to get things moving in the right direction.

Instead, we vote for sound byte guys who use talking points to make us feel better.

I lost all hope in mainstream politicians a few years back when our esteemed governor Fast Eddie Rendell -- who I actually sort of liked despite what a shady character he was because he was pragmatic and took a solutions approach to issues and attempted to be fiscally responsible -- backed down to the teacher's unions, who of course, his party needs to win this state.

But Fast Eddie was the one guy who had the cache, the popularity and the power to pull off what he himself proposed -- consolidation of schools and elimination of something like 30 percent of our school districts in this state.

He laid it out, it made sense, it made fiscal sense, it made geographic sense, it made sense from the fact that our population has declined significantly in the past 30 years and continues to trend downward.

But it was loudly shouted down before it became anything more than an idea and he backed away from it because the teachers unions and whining liberal educators in academia flexed their muscles and in this state, a Dem can't win without them in his pocket.

But a Dem is the only one who has a chance to make a change like this without the "he hates children and education" charges being thrown around.

This was a great disappointment to me, it is something that needed to - and still needs to - happen but it never will.

Instead we will continue to have far too many of these tiny school districts with very little tax base, very little ability to sustain itself, shrinking population of students and wonder why we are broke.

Of course, the education in many of those schools suck, those kids have no prayer once they get to college and those schools can't offer the opportunities of bigger schools, but hey it is the Republican meanies, not the teachers unions, who hate children and education..... :

And that is just one example of many of how the Democrats and Republicans don't really want to solve problems nor do they have the courage to solve problems, they just care about winning elections and staying in power and they need each other to keep this monopoly on our government alive.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Yes, yes - and what a ringing endorsement it was. Let's listen in.....

“If the 1994 or 2003 version of Mitt Romney were running for president, I may well have voted for him because, like so many other independents, I have found the past four years to be, in a word, disappointing,” Bloomberg writes.

And he accuses Obama of embracing “a divisive populist agenda focused more on redistributing income than creating it.”

But, he says, Romney has “reversed course” on all of his “sensible positions.”

Yep, gee, sounds to me like he is extremely excited about the prospects of four more years of Obama's version of America....

This endorsement here only strengthens both of my points - that Obama has been a bad President but his opponent is one of the weakest candidates we have ever had.

Thank you, Mayor Bloomberg.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

It's not that he endorsed Obama, it's that he endorsed Obama because of climate change.

Even though Obama has been silent on climate change for just about his entire administration (and disappointingly so from a liberal perspective), we know where the GOP stands on the issue. Denial will no longer stand.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

That's because "Climate Change" is not a real issue. It is a fabricated issue and it is a straw man that doesn't exist.

Well, unless you buy this nonsense that somehow using aerosol spray cans is the reason our summers last longer these days.....

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

I am going to stem the tide of Climate Change today by using stick deodorant instead of spray!!!!

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Red herring. The chances you use any kind of deodorant at all are less than 5 percent. Which explains why you think prostitute/stripper deregulation should be a key plank on any platform.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

And there Zagoshe proves he is the real "FUCKTARD" here.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Yes, yes, because man is responsible for changing the climate and global warming.

That's kookacracy and it is a bunch of silliness peddled by liberal pinheads who hate capitalism and who hate progress, fucktard.

But hey you keep believing that we are responsible for changing the climate because we drive too many cars if it makes you sleep at night, fucktard.

This is one of the most ridiculous non-issues ever peddled by the lunatic fringe.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

No I'm in favor of prostitutes because they are the one set of professionals in this country who are not taxed for using their skill set to make money.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

So the polar icecaps are melting and cover less than half the area they did in 1980 because .......? What is your theory?