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Wolfpack
Hasty decisions make without sober consideration is what caused this problem to begin with. Usurping the Constitution is not the way to handle this issue. The government cannot target selected individuals for retribution. Besides, BO and the Democrats in Congress that so want to express their "outrage" through government coercion are the same people that pro-actively inserted legislation into the recent "porkulus" bill to allow them to have the bonuses. They were not upset about the bonuses then - now they are because they were caught helping out their major political donors.
I don't think anyone in a failing business should get a bonus - why Obama, Geithner, and Dodd believe they do is pure political payback for the dollars given to the Democrat's during the last campaign.
Posted in: Republicans put brakes on to tax AIG bonuses
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Wolfpack
KISS returns to Japan - awesome! Where is Gene Simmons?
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Wolfpack
President Obama's administration worked this whole deal out with the Senate. It was their idea to allow the bonuses and specifically put it in the stimulus bill. The stimulus was rushed through and no one in Congress was given time to read it. Well, if the public found out about the AIG bonuses then it would have caused an unroar. No, Obama is not 'really' outraged. He and his people specifically asked for the bonus provision. This is all an act.
Posted in: White House, Congress knew AIG was planning to pay bonuses
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Wolfpack
Yeah - he chooses to do everything now and he isn't going to pay for any of it.
Posted in: Obama asks Americans not to expect too much from gov't; appears on Jay Leno show
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Wolfpack
I bet this is one of those 5000 meter "marathons". In Japan, any event that involves running more than 3 feet is called a marathon for some reason. Oshikiri is in good form; her knees look just fine to me.
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Wolfpack
I guess Obama was serious when he said that he wanted to re-negotiate NAFTA.
Posted in: Mexico retaliates with tariffs on 90 U.S. products
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Wolfpack
There should not have been a bailout in the first place. However, since the government volunteered to give them a huge bag of money, the company was able to stay in business and is therefore obligated to pay these huge bonuses due to contracts made with certain employees. It's no wonder that AIG needed a government bailout - they agreed to give out big bonuses whether or not the company succeeded or not. Obama voted for the bailout - right? Why didn't he think of this kind of thing before he voted for it. This is the kind of mess that occurs when government gets involved in the private sector. Now, what is Obama going to do - break a legal contract because it's politically embarrassing? Embarrassment is not grounds for violating a contract. If the company went out of business, then yeah - the contracts would have been voided. But since Obama and just about everyone else in Congress voted to save AIG from bankruptcy, the stupid contracts must be honored. Seriously folks, governments should let companies like this go out of business.
Posted in: Obama berates AIG and vows to try to block bonuses
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Wolfpack
If Pakistan or Afghanistan go down the tube - it will be because of Obama. Too many Liberals don't want to take responsibility for anything and periodically relapse into BDS (Bush-derangement syndrome) and forget that Bush isn't president anymore. During certain parts of the recent presidential campaign, Obama got all hawkish and suggested that he would attack Pakistan if he had to. If he decides to do so, I bet the Left will be all gung-ho for war all of the sudden.
Posted in: Bomb kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
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Wolfpack
spudman: He got what he could? His job was to find out who leaked a CIA agents name to the press. He knew that before his investigation began. No one disputes that Armitage - not Libby or Cheney - leaked the name. He should have closed up shop right then. Dude, it's more like you are being brainwashed by too many hours on MoveOn.org. I am no fan of Bush's big government spending on domestic boondoggles like prescription drugs and the banks, but he was right on the big issues of national security. Not only did he have to fight the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but our own Democrat's that back-stabbed of our military and the flat-out untruths propagated by the Liberal-leaning press on so many matters when things became difficult in Iraq. The Plame matter was just part and parcel of that whole 'vast Left-wing conspiracy' - to paraphrase a well known wife of purjurer.
Posted in: Cheney: Obama's detainee policies make U.S. less safe
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Wolfpack
Obama talked down the economy to get elected. He talked it down some more to scare Americans into passing his huge porkulous spending bills and socialist agenda. Now he is talking up the economy to get re-elected. Whether or not people have a job or the nation goes bankrupt is beside the point.
Posted in: White House says economy is sound despite 'mess'
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Wolfpack
Cheney is right of course. Fitzgerald went after Bush and Cheney to make a name for himself and instead got Libby on a a technicality unrelated to the matter he was investigating in the first place. Libby was found guilty of perjury about a crime he didn't commit. Fitzgerald knew who the crime was committed by before his investigation started but he did not pursue charges against the real culprit - Richard Armitage. That is pretty much proof that he was only interested in a political jihad against Bush or Cheney. Libby was caught in the cross-fire of an overzealous and politically motivated prosecutor and a politically motivated Liberal press. These hate-mongers wanted Bush or Cheney so badly that they whipped themselves up into a raging frenzy of bile and righteousness. I just have one question, when will Armitage be pilloried and 'frog-marched' in front of CNN's camera's for his crime? Answer: Not going to happen - the Left like Armitage.
Posted in: Cheney: Obama's detainee policies make U.S. less safe
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Wolfpack
Hakujinsensei - you make many good points about how the world got to it's present situation. There is no alternative to capitalism that will lift people out of poverty. All you have to do is look at China and North Korea to see the potential of free markets over statism/socialism. Heavy Keynesian stimulous programs like the US, China, and much of the rest of the insudtrialized world is currently engaged in are a dead-end in the long run. The small, short term economic gain of government spending is eventually swamped by rising inflation, interest rates, and the burden on future productivity imposed by the taxes required to manage such large levels of debt over many years. Restrained government spending and high levels of growth are the only way out of this mess; this is only possible under free market capitalism. European (Obama) socialism just will not generate growth. Add to that the inability of socilists (or anyone else for that matter) to reduce government spending and you are looking at a looming financial armagaddon that will cause even more social upheaval. We are heading down a dead-end street.
Posted in: The world is floundering
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Wolfpack
“I think that not just the Chinese government, but every investor, can have absolute confidence in the soundness of investments in the United States,”
Wow - this statement is clearly detached from reality. Only a few weeks ago President Obama was warning the Congress of a looming catastrophe if they didn't pass is porkulus package. This guy is schizoid! Bush said something similar before the crash last Fall and was crucified for it. I suspect we will not hear a peep from the mainstream press on this stupid statement. Obama needs to get out of his bubble in Washington and see what is happening to the retirement investments of his fellow Americans.
Posted in: Obama says U.S. economy sound; reassures investors
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Wolfpack
This 'outfit' is a good example of what happens when people without a meaningful occupation become detached from reality and do stupid things. Actual event theme: "Taste-less".
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Wolfpack
Obama will have created more debt in less than two years than Bush had in eight. By the time his term ends, he will have accrued more debt than the total of all debt accumulated by all previous presidents. Skepticism is definately in order. The Obama administration is a bunch keystone cops when it comes to economics. His administration still can't come up with a financial recovery plan. He is clueless. All he knows how to do is run for office. Now that he has reached the highest office he can possibly attain, he doesn't know what to do.
Posted in: Obama confronts Democrats' skepticism on economic plans
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Wolfpack
Obama is intent on establishing clear lines of communication so that he may clearly and adamitly state his intention to surrender whenever Yang demands it. Obama will continue to be pushed and prodded until he shows some backbone - so far, I'm not encouraged.
Posted in: Obama calls for more military talks with China
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Wolfpack
If an Iraqi threw a shoe at Obama, Liberals whould be demanding life in prison for assualting the chosen one. I seriously doubt that Obama would be as nimble as Bush in avoiding the jihad shoe...
Posted in: Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years
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Wolfpack
Ambassadors of Cute? Geez!
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Wolfpack
Don't worry, Mosul will be fine. President Obama will talk to the terrorists and the brillance of his logic and reasoning will end the violence in time for American forces to return home based on his political schedule; not the situation on the ground in Mosul.
Posted in: Time running out for U.S. troops in violent Mosul
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Wolfpack
Question: Who in their right mind would believe what a released Jihadist says.
Answer: Democrats of course. Well, at least that was before Obama was elected.
Posted in: Guantanamo worse since Obama's election: ex-detainee