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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2012 10:47:23 GMT 10
Hehehe.....it's like having a romote control with an ON SWITCH for Buzzy-boy.
One push of that ON SWITCH and Buzzy-boy leaps into action like a demeted Jack-in-the-Box!
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Post by garfield on Jan 1, 2013 10:12:29 GMT 10
Either way they've still got the obama cliff to worry about.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 12:58:00 GMT 10
They'll cock it up.
And then....ooooover the fiscal cliff the sepos will go.
And it will then be entertainment time.
I can't wait!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 13:49:39 GMT 10
Nah....it's all Buzzy-boy's fault.
He has been wanting it for years.
He has been obssessed with it for years.
Ever hear of the old saying, “be careful what you wish for”?
Well you are about to get what you have been wishing for over the past decade or so.
Mr Doom & Gloom is finally going to reach his heaven and watch the sky fall on his head.
Funny shit, eh?
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Post by garfield on Jan 1, 2013 14:19:49 GMT 10
And it will then be entertainment time. I can't wait!! [/size] [/quote] You really are a brain cavity half full type of person aren't you numbnuts.
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Post by pim on Jan 2, 2013 10:13:02 GMT 10
Basically the Republicans have given up on ever being a party of government. They have allowed themselves to become the dysfunctional nihilistic element in the US political culture. Whatever deal the Democrats have cobbled together is only temporary and in two months they've got to go through this whole brinkmanship charade again. This is no way to run the biggest economy in the world. And before KTJ comes a-spamming with his usual tedious c & p's and mantra-chanting, I'd just point out that it isn't the economic potential of the US that's at issue here. The US could trade their way out of their economic woes with a decent and predictable (and wise!) political environment. It's US politics that's the problem. I've often in the past said I admire the US constitution, and I still do. But just this once I have to say that if the US were Australia this impasse could be resolved by a PM going to the GG to dissolve both houses of parliament and go for a DD election. They need a circuit breaker. Somehow these Tea Party politicians need to be sidelined as irrelevant. www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/01/fiscal-cliff-dysfunctional-republican-nihilism
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Post by garfield on Jan 2, 2013 20:50:53 GMT 10
Those rich pricks that work two jobs and seventy hours a week so that they can be rich pricks are enough to give you the shits hey earl, its about time they had their ill gotten gains removed and given to fat lazy welfare slobs and crack addicts that have never worked a day in their life. After all its not like they reinvest all their wealth and create more jobs is it?, no they just hide it all under the bed
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Post by garfield on Jan 2, 2013 21:34:48 GMT 10
Only the mafia and drug syndicates put their money in the Caymans
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2013 2:08:31 GMT 10
Only the mafia and drug syndicates put their money in the Caymans And those rich-pricks who sponge off ordinary taxpayers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2013 15:16:42 GMT 10
the real impact will hit about April That's EXCELLENT NEWS!
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Post by garfield on Jan 3, 2013 16:58:43 GMT 10
Kiwi at home waiting for the fiscal collapse ...
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Post by fat on Jan 3, 2013 18:54:12 GMT 10
Oh how grown up that is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 0:50:25 GMT 10
From the Los Angeles Times....Derelict 112th Congress sets new record for low achievementBy DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM - Friday, January 03, 2012THE 112th Congress worked hard on just one thing: competing to be known as the most worthless, incompetent, do-nothing gathering of lawmakers in the nation’s history. These political underachievers may well have guaranteed themselves that dubious distinction by what they did and did not do Tuesday night.
In theory, our senators and representatives are elected to promote the best interests of the people who elect them. In practice, a great deal of the elected officials’ time is spent serving the interests of the people who paid for the campaigns that got them elected. But in the past, even the most bought-and-paid-for members of Congress found ways to come together and do the right thing in times of national crisis.
The 112th Congress, though, manufactured an artificial crisis while failing to provide timely aid to people suffering from the devastation of a crisis that is all too real.
The manufactured crisis was the "fiscal cliff." In 2012, after damaging the nation’s credit by playing politics with the debt ceiling and nearly letting the government default on its debts, Congress set a time bomb for itself — big tax hikes and draconian budget cuts timed to kick in after the stroke of midnight on January 1st, 2013. This was supposed to focus everyone’s attention so that they would come up with a serious, bipartisan plan for reducing the ever-growing federal deficit.
We all know how that went. Nothing got done for most of the year, then weeks of squabbling and brinksmanship ensued following the November election. Only after the deadline arrived Tuesday was a bill passed that blocked most of the tax increases and delayed reconsideration of the budget cuts for two months.
In other words, Congress could summon the will to do only the very easiest thing: preserve George W. Bush-era tax cuts for about 99.5% of Americans while letting taxes rise a little for households earning more than $450,000 annually. Everything else — all the hard choices — got kicked down the road to the next Congress, thereby guaranteeing another fiscal freakout just weeks from now when the debt ceiling has to be raised again.
It does not have to be like this. There have been countless budget battles in the past, but those occurred in Congresses where compromise, horse-trading and centrist impulses pushed tough debates toward a final resolution. In today’s polarized political world, ideology trumps intelligence, especially in the House Republican Caucus. A perfect example of this was Tuesday’s second failure to serve the public.
Following the vote on the fiscal cliff deal, it was expected that the House would vote on a Senate bill directing $60 billion in emergency aid to the victims of Superstorm Sandy. The people in storm-ravaged New Jersey and New York have waited for assistance many weeks longer than past hurricane victims in several Southern states ever had to wait, but House Speaker John A. Boehner canceled the vote.
A lot of outraged Northeastern congressmen and senators wanted to know why. The answer? Right-wing anti-tax groups, including the Club for Growth and the Heritage Foundation, have been challenging the aid package, demanding that it be balanced with cuts to other programs. They also claimed the measure had been laden with pork, though the examples of extraneous spending were few. So the tea party ideologues in the House GOP gave the aid deal a thumbs down.
New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie went ballistic. In a statement issued Wednesday with New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, he said: "This failure to come to the aid of Americans following a severe and devastating natural disaster is unprecedented. The fact that days continue to go by while people suffer, families are out of their homes, and men and women remain jobless and struggling during these harsh winter months is a dereliction of duty. When American citizens are in need we come to their aid. That tradition was abandoned in the House last night.”
Since the 112th Congress goes out of business today, the process for delivering storm aid will have to be restarted in the new Congress. Unfortunately, voters did too little to alter the congressional roster in the fall election. Thus it is not cynicism but mere logic that would suggest the new 113th Congress is already primed to set its own low benchmark for dismal achievement.www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-derelict-congress-20130102,0,366752.story
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 11:03:04 GMT 10
From the Los Angeles Times....Conservatives complain, but ‘fiscal cliff’ deal was a win for themBy DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM - Friday, January 04, 2013Tea party conservatives feel betrayed by “fiscal cliff” deal. — Cartoon: David Horsey/Los Angeles Times/January 03, 2013.WITH all the moaning coming from the Tea Party Express and its loyalists in the House Republican caucus, you would think conservatives had lost everything, including their virtue, in the "fiscal cliff" parlay with President Obama, because taxes are going up on the wealthy. However, if they could just get past their prudish sensibility about backroom compromises, they might recognize that their side actually did rather well in the dead-of-night deal-making.
Yes, Democrats can claim some good results in the last-minute bargain that was struck to avoid the immediate across-the-board tax hikes and budget cuts that were set to begin on Jan. 1. The George W. Bush-era tax cuts for people making more than $400,000 a year were eliminated and capital gains taxes and estate taxes were raised, providing new revenue sources that Democrats insist are necessary. Those are significant wins for the president and his party, and forcing Republicans to let these higher tax brackets go through is a satisfying symbolic victory.
But the mandarin of the anti-tax movement, Grover Norquist, is coming out of this showdown with a big smile on his face, which should make Democrats wonder if their "victory" is a bit of an illusion.
Norquist has kept Republicans in line for years by making them take his pledge to never, ever raise taxes. On this deal, though, he gave them a pass. In fact, he expressed support for the final deal. Why? Because, as he points out, it gives Republicans what they have claimed to want ever since they implemented the tax cuts a decade ago: permanence. Not for everybody — the top 2% of Americans will be paying more — but 98% of taxpayers now have their tax breaks locked in.
Weirdly, Democrats are cheering about this while Republicans are complaining. Ten years ago, Democrats insisted on making the tax cuts temporary because they said the revenue loss would be so huge it would send the deficit soaring. Republicans at the time expressed faith in the unproven idea that tax cuts were such a boost to the economy that they paid for themselves.
Now, that unproven idea has been proved wrong, but that did not keep Obama from making most of the tax cuts permanent, as Republicans desired all along. Brazenly, many Republicans are now the ones saying these tax cuts for the middle class need to be paid for with budget cuts, lest they balloon the deficit. They will take that argument into the next phase of the budget battle, and they will argue, additionally, that, because Democrats already got the revenue they demanded, it is time for big spending cuts to bring down the deficits and debt.
Many liberals are insisting that Obama settled too quickly and, now that he has used up his advantage on taxes without making a broader deal that pinned down what will and will not happen with spending reductions, the Republicans have gained the upper hand. The president insists that he will hang tough and will not let the other side force changes in Medicare and Social Security funding by using the looming deadline to raise the debt ceiling as leverage.
The fiscal cliff fight was just the opening round in a bigger budget slugfest that will play out over the next two months. Conservatives may think their bloodied lip is a sign they lost that first round, but, in truth, they may already be ahead on points.www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-conservatives-complain-20130103,0,2498245.story
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2013 19:07:05 GMT 10
From the Los Angeles Times....Deficit-deluded tea party Republicans love the sequester schemeBy DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM - Wednesday, February 27, 2013THE delusions of Tea Party Republicans are about to create a lot of misery for America. The "sequester" — the drastic set of budget cuts formerly known as the "fiscal cliff" — seems very likely to go into effect at the end of this week due in no small part to the fact that hyper-conservative lawmakers, such as Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, actually think it's a pretty swell idea.
Their obsessive and mistaken belief that the federal deficit is the greatest threat to the republic is leading them to block any compromise with Democrats that would delay or repeal the looming budget reductions.
They want government to get smaller and smaller, even if the cuts will come too quickly and slash too indiscriminately. The supreme absurdity of their position is that this could so damage the American economy that federal revenue will drop and deficit reduction will become even harder to achieve.
The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.
In an 18th century world or in the fiction of Ayn Rand that might have worked, but the reality is different. The United States became the world's biggest economy in the post-World War II years for many reasons, but one big reason is that government played a pivotal role.
Government built infrastructure like the interstate highway system, paid for crucial research and development, ran the space program, supported a massive military and played referee in the financial realm so that those who wanted to rig the system could not do it as easily as they had in the 1920s.
When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons. Government can, indeed, be part of the problem sometimes, but it cannot be left out of any solution to the challenges of our complex modern economy.
Pete Peterson, President Nixon’s secretary of Commerce, has campaigned for years against rising deficits and has earned the ire of liberals who think his insistence on restructuring Social Security and Medicare is too extreme and unnecessary. Yet, even Peterson, in an interview on public radio's "Marketplace" on Tuesday, said many of his fellow Republicans are crazy to think the sequester cuts are a smart idea.
Peterson said the deficit problem is long-term and must be dealt with comprehensively through spending reductions, entitlement reforms and revenue increases, a.k.a. taxes.
What should not happen, Peterson insisted, is a governmental retreat from investing in America’s economic future through funding of things such as education, infrastructure and basic scientific research. Of course, to the Tea Party Republicans, such talk is heresy.
There is one other fallacy that anti-government conservatives cling to, and they talk about it so much that they have convinced most of the people in the country it is true. That fallacious premise is that President Obama has done nothing to reduce the federal deficit. In fact, the deficit has shrunk as a percentage of GDP every year since Obama took office. Check the numbers. Look it up. We are actually on the right track!
But that will not last long if hundreds of thousands of government workers are furloughed, if military bases are closed, if the air traffic control system is disrupted or if many other important government services are crippled. That will start happening on Friday when the sequester kicks in. If it does, we will have a bunch of deluded deficit hawks to thank for it.www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-deficit-deluded-20130226,0,2959440.story
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2013 20:15:15 GMT 10
Smate....those Tea Party Republicans sure are neanderthal idiots alright.
Just like Buzzy-boy!
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