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24 hours from doomsday; Is your food storage up to snuff?
Topic Started: Mar 1 2013, 03:24 AM (1,111 Views)
Brewster
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Banandangees
Mar 1 2013, 11:34 PM
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Bob Woodward famously slammed the president after he (Obama) suggested, at the Newport News shipyard in Virginia, that maintenance of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln would be delayed. Before that he'd warned work might have to be slowed or stopped on the USS Truman. Mr. Woodward, on MSNBC: "So we now have the president going out [saying] 'Because of this piece of paper and this agreement, I can't do what I need to do to protect the country.' That's a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time."


Even some in the Lib media are beginning to see "the madness."
And how is Woodward expecting the maintenance work to be paid?
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OK guys, I woke up and the sky was still in place. Did you survive the night too?
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Pat
Mar 1 2013, 11:47 PM
OK guys, I woke up and the sky was still in place. Did you survive the night too?
Yep, and I still have my freedoms that Obama was supposed to take away.
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Mar 1 2013, 11:47 PM
OK guys, I woke up and the sky was still in place. Did you survive the night too?
Check the corners on that sky, Pat.

There's probably 3% missing somewhere.

If the TPartiers get their way, the next chunk will be much bigger.
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Everyone has been wondering how the public will react when the sequester kicks in. The American people are in the position of hostages who'll have to decide who the hostage-taker is. People will get mad at either the president or the Republicans in Congress. That anger will force one side to rethink or back down. Or maybe the public will get mad at both.

The White House is, as always, confident of its strategy: Scare people as much as possible and let the media take care of the rest. Maybe there will be a lot to report, maybe not, but either way the sobbing child wanting to go to Head Start and the anxious FAA bureaucrat worried about airplane maintenance will be found. This will surely have power.

And in truth, the sequester's impact may be bad. Rep. Maxine Waters of California, a 22-year House veteran and ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, this week warned of "over 170 million jobs that could be lost." That's actually more jobs than America has, and it's little comfort to say, "But she's a famous idiot," because Washington is actually full of famous idiots who are making serious decisions about how the sequester cuts are to be applied.
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If the sequester brings chaos and discomfort, it's certainly possible the Republicans will be blamed. But it's just as possible President Obama will be. Not because the sequester idea came from his White House—that probably doesn't interest anybody outside Washington—but because a) he's the president, and presidents are expected to take care of things and work out agreements, not "force the moment to its crisis," and b) he's the chief executive of the federal government, and therefore capable of directing agencies to make sure all cuts are in wholly nonessential offices. I was thinking the other day of the General Services Administration scandal—the red-carpet retreat in Vegas, the toasts, the shows, all paid for by taxpayers. Maybe the president could start there.
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There is still lots of fat that needs trimmed from all forms of government spending. One big obstacle in my opinion, is the penchant by most for embracing freebies.

Case in point, I just read an article where this guy is bemoaning the fact that Philly gave him an honest and legal assessment of his property. No big deal right? Well apparently he and others in the neighborhood, or city as a whole, have been skating for years upon years. His fair assessed value is $116,000 but up until now it was assessed at $12,000. And as a result he has been paying less than his fair share all these years.

Now that the trough is drying up, people get to pay more directly for their services, which in my opinion is long overdue. Now citizens can attend meetings of the city council where spending decisions are made, and question whether the fat is worth the pain. I was always taught that in life there are no free lunches, but that has not been the case for many. they freeload off the rest of us.
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Too bad you guys did not elect Romney,
the country would have been out of debt by now!
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Mar 2 2013, 01:01 AM
There is still lots of fat that needs trimmed from all forms of government spending. One big obstacle in my opinion, is the penchant by most for embracing freebies.

Case in point, I just read an article where this guy is bemoaning the fact that Philly gave him an honest and legal assessment of his property. No big deal right? Well apparently he and others in the neighborhood, or city as a whole, have been skating for years upon years. His fair assessed value is $116,000 but up until now it was assessed at $12,000. And as a result he has been paying less than his fair share all these years.

Now that the trough is drying up, people get to pay more directly for their services, which in my opinion is long overdue. Now citizens can attend meetings of the city council where spending decisions are made, and question whether the fat is worth the pain. I was always taught that in life there are no free lunches, but that has not been the case for many. they freeload off the rest of us.
Like the rich guys, who take advantage of loopholes and lower tax rates to freeload off the rest of us.
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