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“Suddenly, the tone changed: Saunders, finishing his speech, began to kick the chair, threw it, and yelled “Dirty Harry, make my day! We’re gonna kick ass in November!”
Imagine how the press would have treated this if it had occurred in Tampa.
It is always difficult running as opposition against a communist controlled press corps(e)
They’re bleeding out, and they know it. These shouts of ‘Nazis!’ & ‘Racists!’ will only turn out to be the final wound, self-inflicted.
It is ironic that a socialist would use a socialist party as an insult.
🙂
Next thing you know they’ll be calling them Ku Klux Klan’ers and Communists.
No matter the age, they still act like little children throwing tantrums.
“No matter the age, they still act like little children throwing tantrums.”
This is because they have not progressed beyond the intellectual and philosophical mental age of a spoiled three year old child or less. They want what they want NOW and mommy and/or daddy (aka the productive few) must provide it instantly or else they will yell, scream, and break things. Unfortunately, they have found themselves in control of the guns of government and are more than willing to use them to get their way. It is irrelevant to them that what they want is self contradictory and that the methods they use has repeatedly been shown to be destructive of civilization. They insist that unleashing the naked force of government can make anything happen. Then, if that doesn’t work, they think all they need to fulfill their irrational whims is still more power and freedom to use the naked force of government. Repeat and rinse until the next world war or dark ages descends upon us.
They are all in serious need of a long period of quiet time out along with a stiff dose of tough love and a very stern NO! that they cannot evade.
Did you read the truth about Romney and Bain Capital in Rolling Stone?
Did you read the truth about Obama in the National Enquirer?
Obama sucks too but I see socialism as a smaller problem than a fascist corporatocracy.
Obama supporter
Gon, do you know which way corporatists such as Soros and Buffet lean?
Gon says:
September 4, 2012 at 5:32 pm
‘Obama sucks too but I see socialism as a smaller problem than a fascist corporatocracy.’
You forgot: ‘…RACIST, facist corporatocracy.’ Now you’re a good robot.
Rolling Stone is a liberal rag… I wouldn’t expect them to be totally honest…
Not even about “packages”.
Did you read about all the millions Unions have invested in Bain?
Gon
You are such a clone of left wing politics.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had more civility all the way around and politicians willing to deal with one another to solve problems?
That is impossible when half the population believes it is their right to steal money from the other half.
Soneone has to pay for roads, bridges, schools, the miliary, levees, some reasonable degree of public safety, etc. Some things need to be done that are not always profitable for the private sector. Also, can the private sector always provide full employment? If not, somone needs to step in and provide work and/or a safety net. Either that or hoards of starving, homeless people roaming the streets, which is to no one’s benefit.
Under stress, people will generally go and get a job. Take their handouts away, and they will start acting like human beings.
The first public hospital in America was planned and financed by Benjamin Franklin, who said that the best way to help the poor is to make them ‘uncomfortable’ in their poverty.
Welfare is slavery.
Yep….gotta be careful ’bout using those ‘safety nets’. Nets generally are designed to catch and HOLD something from escaping. Making them bigger, like we are currently, maybe not such a good idea…
Here is a radical notion. Is there ever going to be a point where computers or computer driven machines will be able to provide most of the goods and services that are required by our society? If so, the idea of full employment will be outmoded. Then what? Someone will have to figure out a way to distribute goods and services. Won’t it look something like socialism?
If the computers/machines have the power to destroy you if you feel your requirements might vary somewhat from their definition, then, yes, that will look like socialism.
Under stress, people will also riot. Unless they are unarmed pussies.
Well, sure, armed robbery is always easier than unarmed robbery.
“Well, sure, armed robbery is always easier than unarmed robbery.”
That is why government is so good at it. They have more and bigger arms and are more than willing to use them to take what they want. If you don’t think so, just try NOT paying your taxes.
Back in the day, when people still maintained some semblance of dignity and accepting welfare was tantamount to admitting you were a bum, people would work at any job to feed themselves and their families. Now, they feel entitled to take someone else’s money without a second thought. There is no longer any shame. Women brag about being unwed mothers, people have no qualms about getting food stamps even when they don’t need them. They always somehow seem to drive late-model SUVS.
Supply-side economics and the trickle down effect at full swing:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/06/washington-vs-the-middle-class/
• Forty-five million Americans (one in seven) are on food stamps.
• One in seven is unemployed or underemployed.
• The percentage of those out of work defined as long-term unemployed is the highest (42%) since the Great Depression.
• 54% of college graduates younger than 25 are unemployed or underemployed.
• 47% of Americans receive some form of government assistance.
• Employment-to-population ratio for 25- to 54-year-olds is now 75.7%, lower than when the recession “ended” in June 2009.
• There are 7.7 million fewer full-time workers now than before the recession, and 3.3 million more part-time workers.
• Eight million people have left the labor force since the recession “ended” — adding those back in would put the unemployment rate at 12% instead of 8.2%.
• The number of unemployed looking for work for at least 27 weeks jumped 310,000 in May, the sharpest increase in a year.
• Just 14% of high-school graduates believe they will have a more successful financial future than their parents.
• The male unemployment rate for ages 16 to 19 is 27%; for ages 20 to 24, it is 13%.
• Because of structural problems such as negative home equity (which keeps people from moving for work) and skills erosion (from long-term unemployment), UBS economists estimate that the economy’s natural unemployment rate has increased from 5.7% before the recession to 8.6% now. This acts as a speed limit on potential economic growth.
• Between 2007 and 2010, median family net worth fell nearly 40%, while median inflation-adjusted incomes before taxes fell nearly 8%.
Ya can partly blame that on over regulations, some on the education bubble too.
How about blaming it Greenspan et. al. who thought that lowering the interest rates was a panacea to every problem + the idiotic deregulation of Wall-Street (these moran though that financial markets can “self-regulate”- how did that turn out again?)
Ya see that is where people can think fer them selves and are not just book smart.
I said nothing about Greenspan, and it sucks to be him I guess, 😆
So what was it ye were hoping fer here?
@Gon says: September 5, 2012 at 6:21 am
Um, that is socialism, not Supply Side Economics. Obama hates SSE, but LOVES socialism.
All one needs to know about Ritholtz can be found here, in his own words…
“Barry Ritholtz Says:
June 17th, 2012 at 6:11 am
I dislike the Democrats, I detest the Republicans.
The Democrats are merely inept — it doesn’t take much to criticize their haplessness. The GOP’s disdain for science, reality, evolution, etc. warrants my full fury.”
The word NAZI is an acronym for the German works “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.” Nazism is a type of Fascism, Fascism being a derivative of Socialism in which the state controls but does not own the means of production. Mussolini said the proper description of Fascist economics is Corporatism, but for Mussolini and Hitler, the state controlled businesses, not the other way around. “Corporatism” is actually where business goals are forced to align with the government’s goals. It does not mean business controls the government.
What does this all tell us? Mostly that the people who like to throw the words “Nazi,” “Fascist,” or “Corporatist” around don’t have any idea what they are talking about or what those words actually mean.
For more on Hitler and socialism, see “Hitler Speaks” written by a former confidant. There’s also a discussion of the book in “The Lost Literature of Socialism” by George Watson.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-china-reid-solar-idUSBRE87U06D20120831
By Marcus Stern
WASHINGTON | Fri Aug 31, 2012 5:06am EDT
(Reuters) – U.S. Senator Harry Reid recognized nine years ago that connections between his official duties and the lobbying activities of his relatives could lead to ethical questions.
In 2003, the Nevada Democrat publicly banned relatives from lobbying him or his staff after newspaper reports showed that Nevada industries and institutions routinely turned to Reid’s sons or son-in-law for representation.
Now, questions surrounding family ties are flaring again in Nevada around the Senate majority leader. He and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.
Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.
Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the non-partisan advocacy group Public Citizen, said the senator is dealing with “an iffy ethical landscape” because of the family connections and should recuse himself from the project. “Is this just happening because … it benefits the Reid family, or did Harry Reid actually believe in this?” Holman said.
The senator has supported numerous clean energy projects in Nevada. Rory Reid cites energy as one of his specialty areas at the law firm.
The two Reids deny discussing the ENN project.
“I have never discussed the project with my father or his staff,” said Rory Reid. Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for the senator, said he had not discussed the project with his son.
The Langfang, China-based ENN Energy Group hopes to build what would be the largest solar energy complex in America. The site chosen with Rory Reid’s guidance is in tiny Laughlin, Nevada, a gambling town of 7,300 along the Colorado River, 90 miles south of Las Vegas.
County officials have said that they were so thrilled to recruit a company to the area, with the prospect of thousands of new local jobs, that they were eager to negotiate.
ENN is headed by Chinese energy tycoon Wang Yusuo, who made a fortune estimated by Forbes at $2.2 billion distributing natural gas in China. Wang escorted Reid and a delegation of nine other U.S. senators on a tour of the company’s clean energy operations in Langfang, and Reid featured Wang as a speaker at his 4th annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas last year.
NEVADA’S LARGEST LAW FIRM
To advance the Nevada project, ENN retained the state’s largest and most prestigious law firm – Lionel Sawyer & Collins, where Rory Reid works. It is headed by Richard Bryan, a former Nevada attorney general, governor and member of the U.S. Senate.
Rory Reid faced a one-year cooling off period from lobbying the Clark County commission after leaving his post in January 2011, and Bryan took the lead on ENN’s negotiations with the county.
Since the one-year ban expired, Rory Reid has been ENN’s primary representative before the county, according to Steve Sisolak, the board’s vice chairman.
Rory Reid acknowledged representing ENN at both the county and state levels since January. He declined to discuss the project otherwise.
Two months after Harry Reid’s China trip, Lionel Sawyer registered ENN Mohave Energy LLC as an American subsidiary of the Chinese company. The firm negotiated with the county to buy the land rather than lease it, as the county’s staff had recommended.
In December, Clark County commissioners voted unanimously to sell up to 9,000 acres of public land to the subsidiary at pennies on the dollar.
The deal spurred local controversy. Separate appraisals valued the land at $29.6 million and $38.6 million. The commission agreed to sell it to ENN for $4.5 million.
The county did build in certain conditions before the project could begin, including milestones for jobs creation and investment. ENN also must assure the county that it has a power company willing to commit to buying energy from the solar farm. But in the eight months since the commissioners approved the deal, no utility has signed a power purchase agreement.
However, Harry Reid stepped up again.
The Democrat recently used an online discussion related to his annual energy summit for an as-yet unsuccessful effort to pressure Nevada’s largest power company, NV Energy, to sign up as ENN’s first customer.
In the July 30 discussion, Reid said the project “would start tomorrow if NV Energy would purchase the power.” The utility controls “95 percent of all of the electricity that is produced in Nevada and they should go along with this.” Reid’s online comments were first reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The power company responded by saying it had exceeded its minimum renewable energy requirements both last year and this year, though it would consider buying power from ENN in the future. A spokesman for NV Energy declined to discuss the matter further.
Bryan, the head of the law firm, did not return repeated phone calls and emails.
An official with ENN in Langfang did not respond to emails.
In 2007, after a controversy over the number of lawmaker relatives engaged in lobbying, Congress passed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, sharply restricting the lobbying activities of close relatives of members of Congress.
The law only applies to registered lobbyists and Rory Reid is not registered as a federal lobbyist in Washington or a state lobbyist in Nevada, according to records in both jurisdictions.
(Reporting By Marcus Stern; Editing by Marilyn W. Thompson, Martin Howell)
Pathetic.
If you haven’t read “Throw Them All Out” by Peter Schweizer, you should read it.