TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Apr 27, 2012 12:14:42 GMT -5
($1 trillion out of the economy on the tax cuts alone). Either you meant to type "budget" or "deficit" instead of "economy" or I have no idea how that sentence makes sense |
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Post by kchoya on Apr 27, 2012 12:24:09 GMT -5
($1 trillion out of the economy on the tax cuts alone). Either you meant to type "budget" or "deficit" instead of "economy" or I have no idea how that sentence makes sense It makes sense if you look at from the ideology that the government taking less from the taxpayers is bad and contributes nothing to the economy, and if the government had abolished those evil tax cuts and gobbled up that $1T the economy would have benefitted. |
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Post by Guest on Apr 27, 2012 12:35:58 GMT -5
It is far more likely that the government would have spent the money on projects that have created jobs, when what happened is that the Bush tax cuts often got dumped into savings accounts and were not used to create any economic benefit outside of savings. While it is easy to take a calculator and figure out the cost of Obama stimulus per job created (and it probably is startling), one has to ask what the cost has been of the Bush tax cuts per job created. Some estimates place that north of 300K per job.
By taking one path instead of another, the opportunity costs of the Bush tax cuts are startling - and I have heard 1T bandied about for that but who knows. Obama deserves criticism for giving in to this kind of tax policy, and I consider it to be one of his failings as President.
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Post by kchoya on Apr 27, 2012 12:58:13 GMT -5
It is far more likely that the government would have spent the money on projects that have created jobs, when what happened is that the Bush tax cuts often got dumped into savings accounts and were not used to create any economic benefit outside of savings. While it is easy to take a calculator and figure out the cost of Obama stimulus per job created (and it probably is startling), one has to ask what the cost has been of the Bush tax cuts per job created. Some estimates place that north of 300K per job. By taking one path instead of another, the opportunity costs of the Bush tax cuts are startling - and I have heard 1T bandied about for that but who knows. Obama deserves criticism for giving in to this kind of tax policy, and I consider it to be one of his failings as President. Not one of Obama's failings: getting Osama. Romney would not have done that. |
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Post by kchoya on Apr 29, 2012 10:06:47 GMT -5
Obama, meet football. Football, meet Obama.
Spike.
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Post by Guest on Apr 29, 2012 20:48:54 GMT -5
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Post by kchoya on Apr 30, 2012 12:50:34 GMT -5
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Post by Elvado on May 2, 2012 20:16:35 GMT -5
With the recent revelation that the President created a "composite" girlfriend for his autobiography, does anyone else wonder what else about his personal history is an exercise in creative license? This might explain the sealing of all educational records.
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 2, 2012 21:39:16 GMT -5
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Post by ksf42001 on May 3, 2012 5:15:07 GMT -5
With the recent revelation that the President created a "composite" girlfriend for his autobiography, does anyone else wonder what else about his personal history is an exercise in creative license? This might explain the sealing of all educational records. How is it a "revelation" when he wrote that he used composites in the book's introduction? |
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Post by Elvado on May 3, 2012 5:36:36 GMT -5
He was just confronted with the fabrication of a girlfriend and copped to "composing" her. You duck the essential question which is what else in his locked away personal history is an exercise in such creative license.
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Post by ksf42001 on May 3, 2012 6:35:01 GMT -5
He was just confronted with the fabrication of a girlfriend and copped to "composing" her. You duck the essential question which is what else in his locked away personal history is an exercise in such creative license. He "copped" to compositing characters in the book itself 17 years ago, forgive me if I could care less that we now know who one of the composite characters is. I'm sorry I can't feel the same level of outrage here that you do... |
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Post by Elvado on May 3, 2012 6:56:24 GMT -5
You could care less? Simple rules of grammar dictate that you do in fact care.
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Post by ksf42001 on May 3, 2012 7:21:31 GMT -5
You could care less? Simple rules of grammar dictate that you do in fact care. grow up |
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Post by Elvado on May 3, 2012 7:36:19 GMT -5
Speak proper English. Perhaps are you using a "composite" language?
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Post by ksf42001 on May 3, 2012 7:52:41 GMT -5
I am currently in a graduate program which is 90% non-native english speakers. I just asked one of my classmates how they would respond to your "advice". His response - "I would tell him thank you for your correction and then I'd tell the troll to go Edited himself". I like that, so I thought I'd pass it along...
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Post by Elvado on May 3, 2012 8:11:04 GMT -5
Good to know that vulgarity is in your lexicon.
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Post by ksf42001 on May 3, 2012 8:35:05 GMT -5
Good to know that vulgarity is in your lexicon. Gotta teach the foreign kids the important words first... |
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Post by Elvado on May 3, 2012 8:40:54 GMT -5
on this we can agree...
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Post by Guest on May 3, 2012 16:48:41 GMT -5
What to make of this situation concerning the Chinese activist and our embassy? Thus far, it has put our candidates on almost the opposite sides of the spectrum than what we might expect. Congressional Republicans and Romney appear to be taking a stand in favor of humanitarian intervention, seemingly closer to what Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter might have done. And, Obama's response (or lack thereof) appears to be dictated more by power politics.
All told, it won't be a campaign issue next week unless it blows up, but an interesting snapshot nonetheless. Just as Obama is not different from Bush on many foreign policy issues, I don't think Romney would be all that different, but this incident suggests that Romney might be closer to the Obama that the liberals wanted in 2008.
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